A senior official in Ine of the Gulf states says that the "Negev Summit" that will take place tomorrow (Sunday) in Israel in Israel is a positive development that the world needs to pay attention to. "This is a significant message to Iran," the senior official commented.

The Ministry of Health reports that 11,663 positive results were received out of 58,199 COVID-19 tests performed over the past day. The number of patients in critical condition is In a declining trend and stands at 290, 123 of them In respirators. The death toll stands at 10,460.

Russian troops are no longer in full control of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson after a counter-attack by Ukrainian forces, a senior US Defense Department official said Friday, according to NBC News.Russian forces captured Kherson in the first week of its invasion, the first major city to be captured after invading the country last month.(Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically In all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)

A menorah at the entrance to the Drobitsky Yar memorial complex in Ukraine sustained damage In Saturday following artillery shelling by the Russian armed forces, the United Jewish Community of Ukraine reported In Telegram.

Chinese state media In Saturday quoted Deputy Director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China Hu Zhenjiang as confirming that all 141 passengers and crew In the China Eastern plane which crashed earlier this week had died.

Historic meeting to take place in kibbutz Sde Boker, where former PM David Ben-Gurion lived and retired.

A young resident of Shefar'am was killed earlier today in a forklift rollover.

A 13-year-old boy was seriously injured in a car accident near Kfar Kanna.