Netanyahu wasted a huge amount of money on developing an Israeli COVID vaccine at a lab unsuited for the job – and it failed anyway.

The plans aim to increase flexibility and are supported by teachers organizations, but were criticized by parents' and sutdents' organizations.

Lapid claims that Netanyahu is attempting to appoint an ally as the head of Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics in order to gain control of the data.

"Everything we warned of is happening," Yesh Atid MK and former senior police official Yoav Segalovitz said.

Putin, interviewed on Russian television, also said European leaders had been browbeaten into losing their sense of sovereignty and independence.

Police and emergency forces are still looking for a second person who is still missing.

Protests across the world have two words frequenting signs and chants; "shame" and "democracy" appeared repetitively. 

Rubenstein made his comments against the backdrop of an attempted terror blast on a bus in his West Bank settlement.