Israel turns to Lebanon through international elements and offers assistance in the wake of the blast in Beirut.

Following Beirut explosion, head of Galilee hospital begs Lebanese, Hezbollah, leaders: 'Put aside politics, we want to help those injured.'

The Irgun HaGanim HaPratim, which represents private daycare centers and preschools across Israel, called Wednesday for harsher punishments against daycare workers who abuse children."There need to be more significant sanctions in the law and higher fines," the group said.

Britain's banking system is facing major losses in 2020, with the banking firms Barclays, Standard Chartered, Lloyds, NatWest Group, and HSBC facing double-digit declines, ranging between 42% to 55%, Reuters reported Wednesday.The British economy as a whole is expected to shrink 11.5% this year, due to the government restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic.Other factors contributing to the worse-than-expected losses for banks are low interest rates by the central bank and uncertainty regarding the future of the UK's post-Brexit trade relationship with the European Union.

Health Ministry reports two coronavirus deaths since Tuesday night, but no rise in number of patients In ventilators.

Yaffa Ben-David, chief of Israel's teachers' union, told the Knesset's Education, Culture, and Sports Committee Wednesday morning that the Health Ministry's directives for the new school year will be impossible to implement."The back-to-school plan released by the Education Ministry is very vague and all-encompassing. I'm worried about the public pressure In the Health Ministry, which changes its decisions all the time, and the Ines who suffer from this are the teachers and the students.""Many teachers and students were infected, and if you're going to claim that there aren't any infections, we'd like you to bring some proof.""We want another person [in the classroom] to help in grades 1 and 2. In addition, we need to reduce the subjects taught, because during this period it is impossible to teach all of the subjects. To that end, give full autonomy to school administrators to decide what to teach and who will be added to reinforce the system. Don't impose programs In the administrators and tell them to follow them, that's not autonomy. The Health Ministry is giving clear directives, but they are impossible to implement, and then afterwards they say that educators aren't competent. How in God's name can you maintain a distance of six feet and ensure that the kids are wearing masks all day long?"

At least 73 people were killed and 3,700 people were injured in the massive explosion which shook Beirut In Tuesday.

The Lebanese channel OTV reported In Tuesday, based In sources close to Hezbollah, that there is no truth to the reports of an Israeli attack In weapons in the port of Beirut.The Al Arabiya network reported earlier that the explosion in the port of Beirut took place in a Hezbollah weapons depot.