The Knesset's regulatory committee is due to convene at eleven o'clock this morning in order to authorize the provisions of the government's lockdown regulations. The government authorized the lockdown just an hour ago.The committee had been due to convene at half past nine this morning, but the meeting was delayed due to the government's own delay in voting the lockdown into law.

Today: Temperatures will continue to be above the seasonal average in higher areas and the interior of the country, with humid conditions in coastal areas.Friday, Shabbat, Sunday (Rosh Hashanah): Most parts of the country will continue to experience heavy to extreme heatwave conditions.

US President Donald Trump said In Wednesday that two other countries may soon join the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in recognizing Israel."Four or five" other Arab countries "want to come in" and normalize ties with Israel following the deal that was signed In Tuesday at the White House with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, Trump told a news conference.

Photo from flight back to Israel shows PM sleeping In a mattress placed In the floor of the plane, with an open book next to his head.

Hundreds of Jewish pilgrims stuck in Belarus still hoping to be admitted to Ukraine. “It’s unreal what’s going In here."

Speaking In Kan News this morning, Jordanian officials expressed concern that the Palestinian response to this week's signing of peace treaties between Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates, will lead to a deterioration in the security situation.Nonetheless, the officials said that the Palestinians would have to accept the new facts In the ground, as well as the likelihood that additional Arab states would develop closer ties with Israel.

A senior official at the Health Ministry told Kan News this morning that members of the Israeli delegation returning from Washington will be obligated to enter a five-day period of quarantine until epidemiological investigations are concluded, rather than the standard two-week quarantine for any other citizen returning from a country In the "red list."He added that a series of conditions was imposed In delegation members, including senior government officials, relating to their conduct in the United States and their adherence to social distancing measures, among other things, and that if delegation members were found not to have adhered to the conditions, their quarantine period would be extended to two weeks.

The Health Ministry's director-general, Prof. Hezi Levy, told Kan News this morning that he is far from certain that the three-week lockdown due to commence tomorrow will achieve its goals."I doubt that the lockdown will succeed in lowering the infection rate to the levels we want," he said. "That's why it's very likely that the lockdown will have to be extended with even more severe restrictions than those initially imposed."