Israel’s FM Yair Lapid warned that Israel will face intense campaigns to label it an apartheid state in 2022. Here is how to fight it. Op-ed.

18,780 new cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in the past day. 172 patients are critically ill and 49 are In respirators. The death toll stands at 8259.

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz commented In Yair Golan's statement that Israeli residents of the Samaria town of Homesh were "subhuman", calling it "An unnecessary statement."

Hundreds are expected to demonstrate tomorrow (Sunday) tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m. in front of the cabinet meeting.The demonstration will take place in the protest tent set up last Thursday during the cabinet meeting with the participation of the heads of the Judea and Samaria regional councils, residents of the town of Homesh, and the general public *The demonstration in protest of the demolition of the Homesh, the intention to demolish the yeshiva, as well as a protest against the Electricity Law and the failure to legitimize new towns, will take place under the heading "Nationalists, end your silence!"

Rabbi Aviad Gutman, Rabbi of the Knesset and head of the Kashrut sector, has announced that he has been diagnosed with COVID-19. He was last in the Knesset building In Wednesday.

IDF troops thwarted a drug smuggling attempt worth 2,000,000 NIS along the Egyptian border.Overnight, IDF observation troops spotted a number of suspects attempting to smuggle drugs from Egypt into Israeli territory. IDF troops operating to thwart the smuggling attempt confiscated approximately 100 kilograms of drugs that were transferred to the Israeli Police for further processing.

A 22-year-old Israeli was killed during a violent protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, In Friday, Israel's Foreign MInistry announced.The Ministry is in contact with the family and working to transfer the body to Israel for burial.

The Likud's MK Haim Katz In Saturday tested positive for COVID-19. He is feeling well and will enter quarantine as per the guidelines.