The Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Health warn of high to very high air pollution levels in the Negev and the Arava as well as high air pollution in Gush Dan, Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the Jordan Valley, the Judean Foothills and the coastal plain. This is due to high concentrations of particles. In the other areas, moderate air pollution is forecast.A gradual improvement in air quality is expected to occur during Friday, from the afternoon. In the Negev and Arava there will be an improvement in air quality during the evening hours.The Ministry of Environmental Protection, together with the Ministry of Health, recommends that sensitive populations - including those with heart complications, lung complications, the elderly, children and pregnant women - avoid strenuous physical activity outside. For the general population it is recommended to reduce strenuous exercise outside.

An MDA bloodmobile caught fire near the MDA national dispatch in Kiryat Ono. The circumstances of the incident are being investigated by a fire investigator.

The US In Thursday accused the Kremlin of an elaborate plot to fabricate an attack by Ukrainian forces that Russia could use as a pretext to take military action against its neighbor, The Associated Press reported.Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the scheme included production of a graphic propaganda video that would show staged explosions and use corpses and actors depicting grieving mourners.

Romanian political hopeful takes to primetime television to praise antisemitic fascist leader under whose rule 280,000 Jews were killed.

Turkey recorded 107,530 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.In addition, 23 people died from the virus during this time.

The Biden administration expects a restored nuclear deal with Iran would leave the Islamic Republic capable of amassing enough nuclear fuel for a bomb in significantly less than a year, a shorter time frame than the Ine that underpinned the 2015 agreement, US officials told The Wall Street Journal In Thursday.The officials said that administration officials concluded late last year that Iran"s nuclear program had advanced too far to re-create the roughly 12-month so-called "breakout period" of the 2015 agreement.

After previously saying it would delay price increase by three months, Osem backtracks and cancels move altogether.

Prof. Michael Birnhack talks about the NSO use to hack into the phones of numerous Israeli citizens, illegally.