The director of Bituach Leumi (Social Security), Meir Shpigler, told Galei Tzahal today that the grants authorized by the government this week to be paid out to the majority of citizens in order to assist them during the coronavirus crisis will begin being paid into bank accounts In Sunday."We will be paying out around a million grants per day, until we finish paying everyone who is eligible," he said.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's media adviser, Topaz Lok, responded to rumors that Netanyahu's wife Sara is unwell, insisting that nothing is wrong."She's fine," he told Galei Tzahal. "I'm sure that she'll soon release a clip of her telling everyone that herself."

MK Avigdor Liberman, head of the Yisrael Beytenu party, has launched an attack against the haredi political parties."Instead of concerning themselves with the self-employed and people who have worked all their lives, paid taxes, and served in the army and the reserves, the haredi parties are again attempting to rob the public purse and add millions to the budgets allotted to yeshivas," he wrote In Twitter."Because Netanyahu is afraid of [MK Moshe] Gafni, they'll get their money before anyone else," he claimed.

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The chairman of the Knesset's Labor and Welfare Committee, MK Haim Katz (Likud), told Kan Bet today that having such a large government impedes its ability to deal with the coronavirus crisis."It's a catastrophic situation in which we still don't know how to deal with this epidemic," he said. "This government is ridiculously huge - it's impossible to manage 36 ministers, and so, if we have to head to elections, then we will do so."

France recorded 1,392 new coronavirus cases yesterday, The Guardian reports, the highest daily rise in a month. Health Minister Olivier Veran insisted, however, that France was "not facing a second wave" of the epidemic.France now has a total of 185,196 confirmed cases and 30,238 deaths linked to the virus - the seventh-highest death toll in the world.On the other hand, the number of people in intensive care due to coronavirus-related complications has continued to decline.

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Responding to news that Ine of his clients has been released from police custody (albeit subject to various conditions), following accusations that he attacked a protester at a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Attorney Itamar Ben Gvir said that he is satisfied that this demonstrates that there is Ine law governing both left-wingers and right-wingers."During the hearing, I showed the judges video clips of anarchists beating youths, anarchists damaging a vehicle, and the police commissioner was unable to explain why the anarchist who threw a rock at the youths was released," he said."I am pleased that eventually, my client was released and I call In everyone to turn down the fire. I won't allow youths to be attacked, youths who are the salt of the earth, by people who do nothing but damage and incite," he said.