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Politics and Knesset

An interview with New Hope leader Gideon Sa’ar.
An interview with Yamina leader Naftali Bennett.
The aid is an advance payment on tickets for airline security personnel posted at airports and will cover their travel for the next 20 years.
National Coronavirus Project Coordinator Nachman Ash says the decision is likely to bring the country closer to a new wave of morbidity.
Eighty-two percent of the country’s 101 official beaches have been returned to usable condition, says Israel’s Environmental Protection ministry.
To date, Israel has spent $789.5 million on COVID-19 vaccines.
Until then, work on your bucket list. Or, as Sara Salansky, a senior official in Israel’s Ministry of Tourism, says: Our slogan is “Dream now, travel later.”
Prague’s move is “a blatant attack on the Palestinian people and their rights,” says the P.A. Foreign Ministry • “East Jerusalem is occupied land under international law,” claims the Arab League secretary-general.
Among those making aliyah are 893 children, 70 babies, 250 young adults, and 35 individuals age 70 years or older.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised both countries for acting to open official entities in Jerusalem, saying Israel appreciates “them helping us on the international stage, as true friends do.”
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said the official embassy remains in Tel Aviv; the development, however, indicates the Eastern European country’s tacit acceptance of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Having seen it all during his 30 years in politics, Aryeh Deri shares his predictions as to what the March 23 election has in store for Israel.