Israel's education minister fires top official after spat on COVID vaccines in schools

Israel's Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton dismissed the ministry's director general on Sunday. According to sources in the ministry, the two had an ongoing friction over Yigal Slovik's support for administering the coronavirus vaccine in schools, something that the education minister had reservations about. Shasha-Biton wrote on Facebook that 'the coronavirus and the dismissal are unrelated', and her associates said she fired Slovik due to her more general dissatisfaction over his professional performance and not specifically over coronavirus policy.