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The left-wing Labor and the center-left Yesh Atid parties are mulling mass resignations from the Knesset to protest passage of the government’s judicial reform plan, and in the hopes of disrupting the completion of the legislative process. Rumors circulated Monday evening, following the Knesset vote backing two key measures of the judicial reform plan, that the Yesh Atid party is currently considering terminating its own representation in the Knesset via a mass resignation. MK Elazar Stern (Yesh Atid) confirmed that the party is indeed weighing such an option. Speaking with Galei Tzahal Tuesday morning, Stern said Yesh Atid is considering...

Corona Commissioner Prof. Nachman Ash on Sunday said that the possibility that those who received the Covid-19 vaccine “get infected more than others” was being monitored. Speaking to Galei Tzahal, Ash assessed that the vaccination of children with the Covid-19 vaccine would commence “in the coming weeks,” following Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA. “There are two stages that must be passed: One is the approval of the FDA, the other is the approval of the committee here in Israel. As with the [other] vaccines I assess we will receive those two permits in the coming weeks and will start...