The Mayor of Beit Shemesh, Aliza Bloch, visited the scene of the accident in which a 14-year-old boy drowned during a school trip."We hoped to breathe a sigh of relief at the end of this evening, but unfortunately the disaster occurred. The Beit Shemesh municipality will help the family and the community in whatever is required," Bloch said.

Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton (New Hope) is attacking the Ministry of Health and accusing it of inflating the number of verified cases of COVID-19 in order to accelerate the vaccination campaign.According to a report In Channel 12 News In Thursday, Shasha-Biton has been saying in closed conversations at the Ministry of Education that "there are elements in the health system who deliberately perpetuate the hysteria and sow panic in order to speed up the children's immunization project. They inflate the number of tests and the data skyrocket."

A French court In Thursday jailed for 30 years a man who attacked soldiers with machetes outside the world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris in 2017, AFP reports.Judges issued a sentence in line with anti-terror prosecutors' demands for Egyptian citizen Abdalla El Hamahmi, 33, who did not react from behind his coronavirus mask as it was read out to him via an interpreter.

A 14-year-old boy was pulled from a water reservoir in the Beit Shemesh area In Thursday night.Magen David Adom paramedics pronounced him dead. The boy had been In a school trip and had been missing for several hours.Read more

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The Palestinian Authority (PA) "foreign affairs ministry" In Thursday strongly condemned the relocation of the Honduran embassy to Jerusalem, calling it a "blatant violation of international law and clear UN decisions regarding the holy city and its legal and political status.""It is unfortunate that the President of Honduras has decided to be In the wrong side of history and take this hostile step against the Palestinian people, while the occupying force is working to escalate violations of rights against the Palestinian people and implement its racist plan in Jerusalem to establish the occupation and destroy any real opportunity for just and comprehensive peace," said the bureau in a statement.

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The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, called to congratulate the President-elect of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, In his election victory.Qatar's official news agency reported that the two discussed the development of ties between the two countries.