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The Israeli Tourism Ministry says it’s working on a plan to allow individual vaccinated visitors to enter the country starting next month.
KKL-JNF announces the development of a brand-new Global Center for Combating the Climate Crisis.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu traded barbs on Israel’s handling of COVID-19, Iran and terrorism.
The meeting, only the second by a high-level Israeli official with the P.A. leader since Israel’s new government took office, was authorized by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, says Meretz.
The mission is for the economy to “stay as open as possible,” through “wide-scale testing, vaccinations, booster shots and personal responsibility by citizens,” says Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
High Court Justice Noam Sohlberg took the government to task for procrastinating with regard to the illegal Bedouin outpost, warning in his ruling that “it is not possible to stall indefinitely.”
The Israeli premier has taken Israel from first to last place in the global fight against COVID-19 and caved in to U.S. pressure on Iran, says the Likud Party.
An agreement penned a year ago has encountered growing opposition from environmentalist groups and Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection.
British Labour Party councillor Sam Gorst claimed in a statement that he was being bullied and that his record “stands for itself.”
“I know it will not be easy, but we have a moral obligation to bring the children back to school,” says Israeli Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton.
Most of the funds will go to ecological rehabilitation; Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry must now come up with an action plan within 60 days.
Israel’s Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej argues that as past Israeli leaders dealt directly with late PLO leader Yasser Arafat , the government should do the same with Hamas.