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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett schedules emergency meeting with health experts to discuss ways to prevent spread of Omicron • Tourists from seven African countries not to be allowed into Israel • In three days, 15,750 children have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

The special envoy works with the minister of foreign affairs; the minister of Canadian heritage; and the minister of housing, and diversity and inclusion.

Jacob Colchamiro of Short Hills, N.J., placed second in the world, while Nathanael Vinar of Teaneck, N.J., placed sixth. Even middle-school national winner Yechiel Shulman from St. Louis broke the top 16 and participated in the televised Yom Ha’atzmaut competition.

The Ypres city council revoked the permit for the Frontnacht music festival, which was to be held the weekend of Aug. 27-28.

U.S. President Donald Trump has shown himself to be an advocate of regime reform, rather than regime change.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to visit Egypt to hold talks.

Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) is scheduled to speak at a State of Israel’s 76th Independence Day event hosted by the Consulate General of Israel to New England.

The two main obstacles to moving ahead with such relations seem to be public opinion and the Palestinian conflict.

The Alma Center report said they connect entire regions of the country to one another; some tunnels are able to allow pick-up trucks with multi-barrel rocket-launchers to fire, vanish and re-emerge tens of kilometers from the firing point.

Though it’s a watershed mark in the corona pandemic, entry into the country still requires that certain conditions be met.

The High Court is about to hold a hearing on petitions asking it to cancel the “reasonableness law.”

A federal monitor should be appointed to enforce the law.

Even though Israel is now allowing in tourists, “people are still cautious. It will take a few years” before Israel returns to pre-coronavirus numbers, which, in 2019, stood at a whopping 4.5 million tourists, said Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahum.