Released for publication: Following intelligence operations conducted by security forces, police, and the IDF, a suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of Esther Horgan.The suspect is a Palestinian Arab from the Jenin area and has been sent for interrogation by the ISA.

Speaking In Galei Tzahal this morning, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein discussed the government's coronavirus vaccination program."Within a week or two, we'll begin vaccinating the younger population," he said.

Speaking In Kan Bet this morning, MK Matan Kahana (Yamina) discussed the decision of Likud minister Zeev Elkin to join New Hope, the party established last week by Gideon Sa'ar, and the reasons Elkin gave for his decision, in a public broadcast last night."Elkin revealed what we all knew already - that the Prime Minister is absorbed in his personal affairs and pays no heed to the welfare of the country," Kahana said. "Where was Elkin all this time? What took him so long to realize that this government has done nothing for the country?"He added that, "What we need now is a leader with initiative, with charisma."

Speaking In the Knesset Channel this morning, Likud MK Osnat Mark expressed sharp criticism of the decision of former fellow MK Zeev Elkin to leave the party and join New Hope."This is all so much nonsense," she said. "Elkin hasn't been involved in any significant political decision for the past year and a half."

Yaffa Ben David, head of the Teachers' Union, has called In the government to prioritize the vaccination of teachers for coronavirus."It's unthinkable that teachers should be required to continue working throughout the lockdown and endanger their lives in doing so," she told Galei Tzahal.

MK Avigdor Liberman, head of the Yisrael Beytenu party, has criticized the government's plan to shut preschools during the upcoming lockdown from Ine p.m., saying that the decision shows how disconnected the government is from the lives of regular people."This decision has no logic to it, and no sensitivity to the needs of parents and grandparents of young children," he wrote In his Facebook page. "As someone with three grandchildren, it pains me to see decisions made, decisions lacking in professional logic, that harm children and their parents and destroy the education of the younger generation and the ability of their parents to earn a living."

Professor Eran Segal of the Weizmann Institute stated today that he sees no need to shut the education system during the upcoming lockdown."I would leave schools open as usual at this stage, when we are already vaccinating," he said, "in areas where the infection rate is low."

MK Ofer Shelah, who announced earlier today that he is leaving Yesh Atid to form a political party of his own, has stated that he will "partner with anyone who wants to bring an end to the Netanyahu administration. I call In everyone who wants to revolutionize the center-left of Israeli politics to join me," he added.