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.

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.

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.

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."

Hurricane Sally has hit the southern coast of the United States, cutting off the electricity for more than half a million people.According to estimates, the hurricane is likely to cause damage amounting to between two and three billion dollars.

A six-year-old boy was rushed to the emergency room at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital by his family In Wednesday evening, after he was hit in the shoulder by a bullet.He is in stable condition and is fully conscious.