• Update on the situation in Israel
• RECOMMENDED READING: The facts about Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria by Dr. Yechiel M. Leiter
• VIDEO: Applying Israeli Law in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley / Shiloh Policy Forum
  
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• All the Israeli media focus on the continuing rise of coronavirus cases. This morning new restrictions on public movement will begin in the city of Elad and several neighbourhoods in Tiberias and last for a week, after their designation as “restricted areas” by a special ministerial committee because of the surge in the confirmed coronavirus cases there. The Health Ministry announced last night that 459 new cases had been recorded in the previous day. Forty are in serious condition, among whom 27 are on ventilators. The number of people who have died of the coronavirus has risen to 308. Since the start of the week, 814 new patients have been diagnosed across the country. The rate of infection in the past 24 hours is the highest daily rate since April 22.
  

• Kan Radio News reports that Syria has accused Israel of carrying out several several airstrikes last nights which killed two Syrian soldiers and five members of pro-Iranian militias.
• All the Israeli media report on the Finance Committee’s decision yesterday to grant Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to receive a retroactive exemption from taxes that he paid between 2009 and 2017, for the costs [that were borne by the state] of maintaining his private home in Caesarea and the upgraded state car that was issued to him by the state. The Prime Minister’s Office asserted that Netanyahu paid income tax for payments, services and benefits that he had received in those years by virtue of his role as prime minister, whereas previous premiers had been exempted from paying taxes. According to a report in Ma’ariv, Netanyahu is expected to receive an estimated £140,000 windfall as a result. Members of the opposition were severely critical of the decision to grant the tax exemption.

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