Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked arrived Wednesday night to offer condolences to Jonathan Pollard in Jerusalem."Esther loved you very much. In my name and in Esther's name - we trust you to lead the State of Israel," Pollard told Shaked.

Several Neo-Nazis accused of attacking a University of Central Florida Jewish student in Orlando over the weekend will face charges.

Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, at a demonstration of rabbis against Minister Matan Kahana's conversion reforms, quoted Tzohar chairman Rabbi David Stav as saying that it is permissible to convert someone who does not accept the yoke of the commandments. However, Rabbi Stav never said anything to that effect.The original quote, which Rabbi Stav said in 2008 at a conference of the Israel Democracy Institute, reads as follows: "If a person says I am traditional, but he is really willing to be traditional, I accept him. Like the friend, the traditional friend, who comes to a synagogue and can make a kiddush In Shabbat."However, Rabbi Stav was not giving his own opinion, but stating what he had heard from another rabbi from a community which suffers from intermarriage, and later in the same speech Rabbi Stav clarified that he believes that conversions should be based In the acceptance of the commandments.

Finance Ministry says Minister Avigdor Liberman "takes any attempt to harm the State of Israel by imposing a boycott seriously" after Amnesty International publishes report accusing Israel of genocide.

Senator Ron Johnson invites group of top medical experts to give different perspective In pandemic response at US Senate.

The Knesset plenum approved in a preliminary reading the bill for the unification of the the emergency medical call centers of MK Idit Silman, and a similar proposal by MK Moshe Gafni. 37 Knesset members supported the bill without opponents and the proposal will be forwarded to the Knesset Health Committee.

Three Palestinian Arabs have been seriously injured in a traffic accident In Road 505 in Samaria. Fire and rescue forces are working to rescue those trapped in the vehicle

The Home Front Command's emergency preparedness exercise will take place tomorrow in the city of Kiryat Bialik. As part of the exercise, an alarm will be activated at 10:05 and 18:05, throughout the city of Kiryat Bialik and alerts will be sent through the Home Front Command app.Residents are asked to practice moving to the protected areas and verify their readiness for emergencies.If a real alert is activated, residents will hear an identical alarm. More information can be found at the Home Front Command Center at 104, via WhatsApp text messages at 052-9104104, at the National Portal at http://oref.org.il.