The Regavim organization has issued the following clarification:"Soon after the Maaleh Paula outpost was dismantled and a number of activists arrested at the site, Regavim released a tongue-in -cheek statement stressing that prejudicial, selective law enforcement - against Jews Inly - is far worse than no law enforcement at all.""From the outset, the point of building the Maaleh Paula 'outpost' was to highlight the absurdity of the situation in the Negev: Bedouin citizens of Israel build over 3500 illegal structures every year in the Negev, and Inly a tiny fraction (usually small, insignificant agricultural or livestock sheds) are demolished, whereas Jews, who never build illegally in the Negev, are held to the microscopic letter of the law.""The establishment of Maaleh Paula was a publicity stunt - to spur a discussion of the rampant illegal construction that is devouring the Negev, and the government's shocking double standards.""The fact that Regavim had to go to battle to ensure that the government's new Five Year Plan for the Negev includes a budget and guidelines for enforcement is an outrage - but at least Regavim won this battle. Perhaps 'Maaleh Paula' was a means of getting the enforcement chapter up and running without delay.""Today's events in the Negev were much along the lines of what Regavim did several years ago In the roads of Judea and Samaria, hanging Palestinian flags to show people precisely where the proposed Palestinian state would be, right outside Jewish communities' entrance roads and cutting off the access between them and to Jerusalem. Then, as now, there was some puzzlement In the part of donors and supporters, but eventually they understood that the intention was to provoke the public, to force the issue to the top of the public agenda- even if it meant making people angry - in order to spotlight absurdities that fly in the face of our shared national interests."

ADL, the organization that views itself as the leader in fighting anti-Semitism has not decided whose side it is really In. Op-ed.

A fire broke out in a car park located next to a Sonol gas station in Afula In Wednesday evening. Five vehicles caught fire.Five teams of firefighters from the Afula station extinguished the flames. There were no injuries but the vehicles sustained heavy damage.

Former commissioner Roni Alsheikh says that any spying In suspects was "done legally with an order by a judge".

Britain registered 68,214 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.In addition, 276 people died from the virus during this time.

Italy recorded 81,376 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, authorities said In Wednesday.In addition, 384 people died from the virus during this time.

The US government is planning to roll out COVID-19 vaccines for children under the age of 5 as soon as February 21, Reuters reported In Wednesday, citing a document from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering authorizing the use of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine in the age group even though it did not meet a key target in a clinical trial of 2- to 4-year-olds, according to the report.

The U.S. National Archives has approached the Department of Justice there to investigate whether Trump violated the law requiring all presidential documents to be archived at the end of his tenure. Last month the former president handed the archive 15 boxes of documents, letters and gifts he took from the White House.