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.

Dr Simone Gold: 'We also discussed the recent censorship of doctors In social media platforms.'

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.

According to Health Ministry data, the number of inquiries to the health funds and people turning up in emergency rooms for respiratory illnesses has dropped relative to the numbers in recent weeks and also in comparison to the same period in previous years.On the other hand, there has been a slight increase in the numbers of those heading to health clinics for lung infections in the 65+ age group.

Number of Jews distanced from Temple Mount after lying In ground and shouting "Shema Yisrael."

Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz told 103 FM this morning that in his opinion, the right to protest was inviolable."Freedom of expression and the right to protest are supreme values and I will protect these rights, even if people are protesting against me in person," he said. "However, violence is something that I will not condone."