Lebanese media are reporting that an unmanned aircraft belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization managed to penetrate Israeli airspace last month, and reported back In an IDF training exercise then taking place in the north.

Prime Minister Netanyahu traveled to Ben Gurion airport this morning to greet the around 400 new immigrants from Ethiopia."This is a very exciting moment for all of us," Netanyahu said. "You waited a long time for this dream to come true. Your arrival here highlights the importance of unity, and we all welcome you with open arms."

Head of Public Health Services Dr. Sharon Alray-Price told Kan Bet this morning that in her opinion, Israel is already at the start of a third wave of the coronavirus epidemic."In the last four weeks, we have tripled the number of infections recorded," she said, adding that, "the rise in the positivity rate is not solely due to asymptomatic cases."

According to the Times of Israel's diplomatic correspondent, Bahrain's Minister of Industry and Commerce Zayed R. Alzayani has promised that Bahrain will not distinguish between Israeli products made within the 1967 border and those from beyond the "Green Line."

Supreme Court Justice and former State Attorney Edna Arbel has expressed her doubts that the current nominee for the position of State Attorney, Amit Eisman, will actually be appointed."I am almost certain that he won't be appointed," Arbel told Kan Bet today. "In this country, with the intense spotlight that we focus In everyone, I doubt that he will be appointed in light of certain statements he is known to have made."

Professor Yinon Ashkenazi, a member of Hebrew University's panel of experts In coronavirus, told Galei Tzahal this morning that the country is in danger of slipping back into deep crisis."If we don't manage to arrest this downward spiral, within two to four weeks we will be seeing worrying numbers of infections," he said. "We'll be right back where we were in September," prior to the country's second lockdown.Ashkenazi added that, "There's no doubt that we are now in the beginning stages of a third wave, and this has come about because we failed to isolate local outbreaks, such as that in Rahat which then spread to Beer Sheva. The same thing is happening now in Jerusalem," he claimed.

Defense Minister and Blue & White party head Benny Gantz is at Ben Gurion airport this morning, participating in the welcome ceremony for around four hundred immigrants from Ethiopia."We still have to learn the lessons of the past and ensure that your experiences of settling in here will be better than others have experienced in the past," Gantz said. "We will be right here, by your sides, to help you complete your immigration process."

Outgoing deputy director-general of the Health Ministry, Prof. Itamar Grotto, told Galei Tzahal this morning that the reason for the current increase in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases is not yet known."I see problems in the reopening of malls, but it's impossible to know for a fact that the pilot plan for reopening a small number of malls is responsible for the current uptick in the number of cases," he said. "We need to focus In other areas first."