“I couldn’t just sit there and continue to argue and see they’re not changing their minds,” Haskel told the Post about the marathon discussions on the bill taking place in the Knesset. After three days on the road and over 80 kilometers on foot, Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel (New Hope) spoke to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday about her march this week in protest of the government’s haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft bill, which she said endangers Israel’s future.

By Sneha S K and Sriparna Roy (Reuters) -Shah Capital, Novavax's second-largest shareholder, is pressing the biotech's board to pursue strategic changes,​ including a potential sale, and warned it could launch a proxy fight if no progress ‌is made in the next four months. In a second letter to Novavax's board in less than a month, shared exclusively with ‌Reuters on Wednesday, Shah Capital said it has become "increasingly disenchanted" with the company's weak COVID-19 vaccine sales.

A left-wing critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sergei Udaltsov, was sentenced to six years in a penal colony and convicted of justifying terrorism by a Moscow court on Thursday. The sentence fell one year short of the seven years sought by the public prosecutor's office.