The Emirates airline has received authorization for a runway permit at Ben Gurion airport, Kan News reports.It will begin to operate flights out of Israel in January of next year.

The Supreme Court has granted the government an extension of Ine week to present an outline for a reduction in the permitted number of protesters at a demonstration, to be brought into line with the permitted number of people at communal prayer.The decision follows an appeal lodged this week by several mayors, demanding that the number of those permitted to gather for prayer be adjusted in line with what is allowed at protests.

Police have dispersed guests at three weddings that were held yesterday in Umm al-Fahm and Ar'ara.The weddings' organizers and the owners of the venues were fined NIS 5,000 each.

A spokesperson for the Yesha Council, Elnatan Zecharia, announced In his Twitter account that the number of residents of Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley has reached 470,117 people at the end of 5780.

National Library worker Yasmin Jabbar has been arrested after the Shabak (Internal Security Service) discovered that she had been recruited by Iran to carry out terrorist acts in Israel.Moran Tal worked with Jabbar, a resident of the Old City, in the Arabic Department of the library for several years and reacted to the arrest of her co-worker with astonishment that she was finally apprehended."I cannot explain in words what I am feeling right now," Tal wrote In Twitter. "I worked with this bitch for several years."I followed her In the social networks and I saw total indentification with and glorification of terrorists. I reported this to library security but it would appear that such a case does not wake anyone up until it reaches this point," Tal tweeted."Jabbar was openly repulsive. She refused to speak Hebrew and when she spoke Arabic you could have heard her In the hundredth floor of the building if it was that tall. When rockets fell during the Gaza War, she refused to go with us into the shelters."I showed her social media posts to library security and they were brought to the legal department of the library where it was determined that the posts were within the bounds of freedom of expression and nothing needed to be done about them," Moran added.

Despite the coronavirus and the impeding nationwide lockdown, another new group of French immigrants has arrived in Samaria."Over the last few years Samaria has absorbed more than eighty French families and we are maintaining our record of 100% success. Until now, not a single family has returned to France as opposed to those who have settled in other places," Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan said."Everyone who arrives in Samaria strengthens our presence that began here in biblical times and brings application of sovereignty that much closer," Dagan added.

Corona Czar Roni Gamzu gave a stark appraisal today of the spread of the coronavirus in Israel."All of Israel is painted in red or orange, the disease is spreading," Gamzu said. "The average number of new daily cases has gone up by the hundreds within the last four months, the fasting rising morbidity rate in the world.""We did not build the necessary infrastructure during the first lockdown. Our desire to return to normalcy overcame logic. We existed the lockdown at maximum speed and irresponsibly. We reacted slowly to the second way since we had not developed a comprehensive national strategy in the event it would occur."

National Union party director Yehuda Wald has summarized his party's activities during the past year and also commented In the party's relationship to the wider Yamina faction."We intend to maintain our independence and work to attract new recruits from the full spectrum of Religious Zionism," he said.