According to a report in Yediot Aharonot, Prime Minister Netanyahu has reached out to former Health Ministry director-general Moshe Bar Siman Tov in recent days, seeking to persuade him to replace the government's coronavirus project manager, Prof. Ronni Gamzu, when the latter leaves his position at the end of October.Bar Siman Tov would bring a considerable amount of experience to the role as he served as director-general during the "first wave" of the coronavirus.This is not the first time that Bar Siman Tov has been offered the job the previous time, he turned down the offer. Responding to news of the renewed offer, Bar Siman Tov confirmed that the government "approaches me from time to time and I offer my opinion, but so far, no concrete offer has been made."

Speaking In Reshet Bet this morning, MK Shlomo Karhi (Likud) said that the country was already in election mode and had been for some time."This government is going nowhere," he said. "We're not going to get the budget passed, and by December at the latest the government is going to break down."

Demonstrators from "Black Flags" movement interrupt live broadcast by Channel 20, which is identified with the right.

The Knesset plenum In Tuesday evening approved the increase of the budget framework for 2020, in order to finance the coronavirus economic plan in the amount of 2.5 billion shekels.66 MKs supported the proposal, compared to 19 who opposed it.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah In Tuesday said Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was lying when he said during his speech to the UN General Assembly that Hezbollah is storing missiles in the neighborhood of Janah near the Beirut airport."A short while ago, the enemy"s prime minister spoke directly in a speech at the United Nations, saying things in order to incite the Lebanese people against Hezbollah, as usual," said Nasrallah, according to Reuters.

Amid the coronavirus lockdown, Jerusalem's iconic Mahane Yehuda open-air market has become a 'ghost town'.

North Korea has the coronavirus "under safe and stable control," its UN ambassador, Kim Song, told the United Nations General Assembly In Tuesday."Thanks to the far-sighted leadership of the government of the DPRK &hellip the anti-epidemic situation in our country is now under safe and stable control," said Kim.

Former vice president and his wife paid $299,346 in federal income taxes for 2019.