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After two court petitions by the environmental group Home Guardians and the intervention of the Interior Ministry’s regional director, the Carmel Beach Regional Authority in northern Israel announces that it will return a $480,000 donation received from the natural gas company Energean Israel.
Energean Israel, a subsidiary of the Greek Energean, owns the franchise to the Karish and Tanin natural gas fields off the Mediterranean coast and is exploring for additional oil and gas in the area. Karish and Tanin are to set to start commercial production next year.
The coastal authority is responsible for monitoring rogue emissions from offshore natural gas production facilities and was initially unwilling to accept the idea that taking a donation from one of the gas companies could potentially cause it a conflict of interest.
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Some 80,000 Israelis have so far signed up with health providers to receive the coronavirus vaccine, Channel 13 news reports.
After vaccines were made available to health care workers today, citizens over the age of 60 can begin getting shots tomorrow.
The Health Ministry is hoping to be able to administer up to 60,000 vaccines a day, when shots are opened to the general public.
Channel 13, however, says that health providers are worried that they will not receive enough vaccines fast enough. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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A meeting of the coronavirus cabinet concludes without making any decisions about whether to apply local restrictions aimed at halting rising infection rates with ministers divided on what limitations should be ordered, how broad they should be, and when to apply them.
On the agenda was limiting commerce, street store operations, markets, reducing public transport by 50 percent, and closing schools in red and orange cities those falling into the top two categories of a color-coding scheme indicating virus infection rates. The education closure would exclude kindergartens and students up to grade 4.
However, ministers failed to agree on what restrictions should be applied and in what format, or when to apply them, according to leaks of the meeting reported by Hebrew media.
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The Shin Bet security service will stop its using its controversial phone surveillance measures to help track down potential coronavirus carriers from January 20, according to the Kan public broadcaster.
The agency will continue to use the measure on those who refuse to cooperate with contact tracing efforts, the report says. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirms he’ll get the coronavirus vaccine on Saturday night, becoming the first Israeli to get inoculated.
He confirms the news in a tweet.
“On Saturday night, I will get the vaccine for the coronavirus. I asked to be first to serve as an example and to persuade you to get vaccinated. By the end of January, we will bring millions of vaccines to Israel. I worked hard to bring them and I ask you please use them,” he tweets. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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