The night curfew of Purim will take effect tonight at 20:30 and will last until tomorrow at 05:00, and will continue thus every night until Sunday morning.During the curfew, the police will deploy 24 checkpoints In the interurban arteries leading to the cities.

Violent clashes broke out tonight between Palestinian Arabs and IDF forces in Shechem.PA media reported that IDF fighters encountered resistance from local residents while accompanying worshipers to Joseph's tomb.

Police tonight dispersed a "nature party" attended by dozens of people in the Lachish forest that took place in violation of corona restrictions.Fifteen young people were fined and the party organizer was detained for questioning.

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein updated this morning that so far about 4,600,000 people have been vaccinated and yesterday 123,000 were vaccinated.Edelstein criticized the celebrants at the parties in Tel Aviv and said: "Those who celebrate at the contagion parties need to know - a spike in illness will be registered in your name, business closure will be because of you, loss of human life will be In your conscience. Get with it! It's not too late."

The head of the Magen Yisrael headquarters, Tomer Lotan, says that the morbidity situation in the near future will determine whether Israel will seek further reopening of the economy or the renewal of restrictions that have already been lifted."These two weeks are really a big test for all of us. As we see rising indices, it will be more difficult for us to recommend a continued opening," Lotan said in an interview with Galei Tzahal.

An Israeli force arrested a Palestinian Authority police officer with the rank of major last night at his home in a village south of Shechem, Kan reported, citing PA officials.According to the report, the officer is suspected of waving his weapon at an Israeli vehicle in the Huwara area.

Police say they thwarted 31 planned Purim parties that were expected violate corona restrictions.33 suspects were questioned and warned not to carry out the parties.

Moderna announced In Wednesday that it is set to begin testing a new version of its COVID-19 vaccine that was specifically designed to target an emerging variant of the coronavirus that was first reported in South Africa, NBC News reported.The company said that it has shipped doses of its variant-specific booster shot to the US National Institutes of Health for clinical trials. This development is part of Moderna's efforts to counter strains of the coronavirus that are circulating and to get ahead of the constantly mutating virus.