The IDF's Arabic-language spokesperson, Lt. Col. Avichai Edrei, has accused Hezbollah operative Ali Kjaq of perpetrating the recent rocket attack In Israel's north. "Ali fired the rockets near the border with Israel in civilian clothes. He did so near a Druze village. This is further evidence of the terrorist party's contempt for Lebanese sovereignty and international decisions," he commented.

Police have solved the case of the death of a 46-year-old Nof Hagalil resident who was allegedly murdered by her three sons, residents of Kfar Zarzir in their 20s. They hid her body in the mountainous area in the Jordan region, where she was located after 26 hours of searching.

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, held a round of telephone calls this morning to mayors of Haredi cities to gain their support for a widespread vaccination campaign to be held tomorrow, before the start of the school year. The mayors fully supported the initiative and agreed to send mobile vaccination clinics to make the rounds of their cities.

Minister Shasha-Biton at cabinet meeting calls In gov't to stop threatening citizens with lockdown.

Country currently offering booster shot to people aged 60 and over as Delta variant spreads rapidly; PM praises rush to have third jab, expects half a million to have had it by end of day

Rabbi Eliezer Berland, leader of the Shuvu Banim community, has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and is hospitalized at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.