Court yet to finally rule on legality of protest against ending isolation for children; Yaffa Ben-David denies pressure from health official or outcry; only 50% of kids in school

In series of interviews, Bennett accuses his predecessor of 'spreading chaos, hysteria and a lack of faith' in ruling coalition, claims Israel doing best in the world on COVID

Effectiveness against hospitalization also around 90%, dropping slightly 10 weeks after receipt of third vaccine dose

960,500 people tested positive in 2021, compared to 1,160,000 this month so far; PM announces immediate addition of 45 more hospital beds in intensive care wards

Education official says new quarantine rules will make schools safest places in the country, while teachers union chief says planned walkout was 'protest,' not labor action

Ariel Rokach speaks to ToI minutes after yet another patient dies; Israel’s hospitals will cope, he says, but doctors are being pushed to their limits, emotionally and physically

Health Ministry DG gives go-ahead for extra doses, which will also be available to carers of those at-risk due to medical conditions and others with high risk of exposure to virus

Bennett and ministers back program designed to keep schools open, despite sky-high infection rates and experts flagging pediatric hospitalizations

UAE-funded shipment of Russia's Sputnik V is largest single batch of vaccines to arrive in Palestinian coastal enclave; cargo arrives via border crossing with Egypt

Health chiefs to meet with PM; head of Pediatricians Association says he's 'raising a red flag' over plan set to begin Thursday; 888 COVID patients in serious condition