PM-elect Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to avoid giving Defense Ministry to Religious Zionism's MK Bezalel Smotrich, report says.

Nineteen people were killed and six others injured when a bus overturned in north of Cairo, Egypt.

Media outlets in Lebanon report that the energy company Total Energy involved in the maritime border agreement between Israel and Lebanon will begin gas exploration in the area during the year 2023.

Police arrested several residents of Tuba-Zangariyye in their 20s In suspicion of involvement in the theft of ammunition from an IDF base in Israel's north. The stolen items have not yet been located.

Journalist Amit Segal reported to Channel 12 News that sources familiar with the coalition negotiations estimate that the chances are increasing that the security portfolio will remain in Likud's hands and Bezalel Smotrich will receive the Ministry of Finance.

Former PRime Minister Naftali Bennett claims that at no time was the UAL party given billions of shekel for Israel's Arab population.

An electric bicycle rider was moderately injured after skidding out in the Yehoshua Gardens parking lot in Tel Aviv. An MDA team treated him and evacuated him to the Ichilov Hospital.

Seven people were injured in a car accident between a truck and two vehicles In Route 44, near Mishmar HaSheva. MDA teams treated the wounded and evacuated them to the Wolfson, Assaf Harofeh and Sheba hospitals.