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Sources connected to talks between the coalition’s Likud and Blue and White party tell the Ynet news site that they’re optimistic a deal can be reached to avert new elections.
The unnamed sources it is possible to quickly pass a budget that runs through the end of the month and then pass a budget for 2021 by the end of January. The deadline to pass a budget or postpone doing so is Tuesday night.
Both Channel 12 news and the Kan public broadcaster say the agreement would see the deadline to pass a budget further delayed.
Blue and White has insisted a budget that also covers next year be passed, as part of the coalition agreement between the parties, which included a loophole allowing Prime Minister Netanyahu to retain the premiership in the case of new elections.
Netanyahu gets Covid-19 vaccine jab, starting Israel rollout
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The family of Likud MK David Bitan says he remains in serious but stable condition after being hospitalized for COVID-19.
A statement from Bitan’s family says he is still hooked up to an ECMO machine and is communicating with those around him.
“David is being treated with dedication by the Sheba Medical Center team and we would like to thank them,” the family says.
Likud MK David Bitan at the Knesset on January 15, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussil/Flash90) I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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Prime Minister Netanyahu hails the start of the national COVID-19 vaccination campaign as a “very great day” for Israel.
Speaking at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, where he is becoming the first Israeli to receive the vaccine, he pledges millions of doses will arrive by the end of the month and urges all Israelis to be vaccinated.
“I asked to be first to be vaccinated, along with Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, to serve as a personal example and encourage you to get vaccinated,” he says before receiving the vaccine.
Netanyahu says that the return to life as we used to know it begins now. For all those who have been unable “to hug grandpa and grandma,” for all those whose businesses have been closed, “who haven’t been able to go to restaurants or the gym, or to watch soccer or basketball,” the vaccine drive means Israel can start “to reopen, to return to what it was… to normal life. It starts here.”
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After receiving a coronavirus vaccine, Prime Minister Netanyahu says he is feeling “terrific” and Israel can be the first country to beat the COVID-19 pandemic if people get vaccinated.
“I ask you … to go and get vaccinated,” Netanyahu tells reporters at Sheba Medical Center. “We are leaving the darkness of the coronavirus, the start of the journey to a great light.”
He urges Israelis to continue to follow the restrictions: social distancing, frequent hand-washing, and wearing masks.
“If everybody gets vaccinated more quickly, then we’ll restore normal life more quickly and first and foremost the economy,” he says.
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