Channel 12 News reports Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu offered former Health Ministry Director Moshe Bar-Siman Tov fifth place In the Likud list.

Survey finds Likud winning plurality of seats, but anti-Netanyahu coalition winning more seats than pro-Netanyahu coaltiion.

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein admitted that the third lockdown is quite loose."The closure is Swiss cheese. Dr. Sharon Elroi rightly said, 'Don't call it a closure,'" Edelstein said in an interview with Galei Tzahal.

Yamina chairman proposes easing of regulations In starting new businesses as Israel pulls out of COVID crisis.

The Likud constitution committee approved the Prime Minister's request to cancel the primaries and allow him to nominate candidates In the list for the next Knesset.The places to be saved are: 5, 26, 30, 38 and 40.The decision requires further approval from the Likud secretariat.

Kupat Holim Leumit CEO Chaim Fernandez accused the hospitals of not taking care to prioritize at-risk populations to receive COVID-19 vaccines."We need to make sure that also in hospitals they vaccinate people who have been defined as priority in the first population. Unfortunately, in recent days we have heard a great deal of evidence that this is not the case. Hospitals do not always adhere to priority groups," Fernandez said in an interview.

During a visit to a vaccine clinic in Kiryat Arba, shouts of protest were shouted at Health Minister Yuli Edelstein over the death of Ahuvya Sandak, Kan News reported.Some people shouted at him, "Police kill - Commission of Inquiry now."

2,692 Israelis tested COVID-19 positive since midnight 1,046 are hospitalized across the country, 622 of them in critical condition.162 are connected to ventilators. The official death toll since the outbreak is 3,307.