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Legally, so long as the website doesn’t claim to be the official site, they technically have a right to charge you whatever they want for a service you should be getting for free or for a small fee. If the website you are using wants to charge you money before 1 January, or asks you for more than 25 NIS after 1 January then it is a sign that you are not on the official ETA site and you will be charged inflated amounts.
Below is the screenshot of what my friend almost fell for… They are charging 251 NIS for a 4 day processing and over 500 NIS for a rush job!

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Reform UK now has more members than the Conservative Party and is “the real opposition” according to Nigel Farage, while Kemi Badenoch has called his numbers “fake”.

According to a digital counter on the party’s website, Reform UK had gone past 131,690 members – the amount the Conservative Party declared before its leadership election in the autumn – just before midday on Boxing Day.

Mr Farage, party leader and MP for Clacton-on-Sea, hailed the “historic moment” and said on X: “The youngest political party in British politics has just overtaken the oldest political party in the world. Reform UK are now the real opposition.”

But Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accused the party of issuing misleading figures: “Manipulating your own supporters at Xmas eh, Nigel?. It’s not real. It’s a fake… [the website has been] coded to tick up automatically.”

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The Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed killing 38 people was downed by a Russian air defence system, according to four Reuters sources.

The Embraer 190 passenger jet was en route from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus on Wednesday when it changed course.

It crashed around two miles from Aktau in Kazakhstan while making an attempt to land after flying east across the Caspian Sea, killing 38 people and injuring all of the other 29 survivors.

The aircraft had diverted from an area of Russia in which Moscow has used air defence systems against Ukrainian drone strikes in recent months.

Mobile phone footage circulating online appeared to show the plane making a steep descent before smashing into the ground in a fireball.

Other footage showed part of its fuselage ripped away from the wings and the rest of the aircraft lying upside in the grass.

People can be heard praying as oxygen masks are lowered in the plane’s cabin in footage filmed by a passenger before the plane went down.

A missile attack originating from Yemen briefly disrupted operations at Ben Gurion Airport Fridaymorning, halting the arrival of flights for around 30 minutes.

According to media reports, four flights from Europe were instructed to delay their approach and remain away from the airport as a safety precaution.

The attack, attributed to the Houthi rebels, triggered alerts across central Israel, sending millions of residents rushing to bomb shelters in the middle of the night.

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that the missile was intercepted outside Israeli airspace, and the alarms were sounded to warn of potential falling debris. The Magen David Adom ambulance service reported 18 people injured as they hurried to shelters, with two individuals suffering from acute anxiety.

Despite the initial fears, there have been no immediate reports of casualties from the missile strike.

Explosions were heard across central Israel, including as far as Yerushalayim, shortly after the sirens went off.

This missile attack marks the fifth time in the past week that alarms have sounded in central Israel, following a pattern of Houthi missile strikes.

Israeli warplanes struck Houthi forces in Yemen Thursday in response to repeated ballistic missile and drone attacks on Israel which have ramped up in recent weeks, the military said.

The strikes — a mission that some 25 jets took part in, including refueling, cargo and intelligence-gathering planes — followed days of increasingly bellicose threats from Israeli leaders vowing to decimate the Iran-backed terror group after near-daily attacks.

Following Thursday’s strikes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz promised to keep pounding the group and “hunt down” its leaders.

“We are determined to cut off this terror arm of the Iranian axis of evil. We will persist in this until we complete the job,” Netanyahu said in a pre-recorded statement.

The Israel Defense Forces said that during the sortie, fighter jets struck Houthi targets along Yemen’s western coast and deeper within the country.

The targets included “infrastructure used by the Houthi terror regime for its military activities” at Sanaa International Airport, and the Hezyaz power plant just outside the Houthi-controlled capital. Planes also hit infrastructure at the Hodeida, Salif and Ras Qantib ports on the coast, including another power plant.

“These infrastructures were used by the Houthi terror regime to transfer Iranian weapons to the region and for the entry of senior Iranian officials,” the IDF said.

The Houthi-controlled Saba news agency said that six people were killed in the strikes — three at the airport and three in Hodeida — while 40 others were wounded in the attacks.

Ministers in the right-wing government react with fury to the attorney general’s decision to call for an investigation into Sara Netanyahu on charges that she improperly interfered with her husband’s corruption trial, reiterating their call for the attorney general to be fired.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir says that “those who chase after ministers in the government and their families in a political manner cannot continue to serve as the attorney general,” adding that the issue of firing her — a move he has been pushing for months — did not come up in the recent cabinet meeting “for various weird reasons.”

Justice Minister Yariv Levin slams the State Attorney’s Office for “opening investigations due to television gossip,” deriding the attorney general for “extreme selective enforcement of the law — which is a crime.”

The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said he was at Yemen’s Sanaa airport when it was hit by Israeli air strikes.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was about to board a flight from Sanaa with UN and WHO staff when “the airport came under aerial bombardmen.

One of our plane’s crew members was injured,” he added. “At least two people were reported killed at the airport.

“The air traffic control tower, the departure lounge – just a few meters from where we were – and the runway were damaged.”

Meanwhile, Israel’s military said it had hit multiple targets linked to the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen on Thursday – including Sanaa International Airport and three ports along the western coast.

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