The Times of Israel released Sunday’s occasions as they unfolded.
An El Al aircraft carrying a joint delegation from the United States and Israel lands in Bahrain, making the first nonstop passenger flight from Israel to the Gulf Kingdom.
The Israeli delegation was about to point out a number of bilateral agreements with Bahrain and an officially diplomatic communiqué of relations between Jerusalem and Manama.
– King Kais – קייס (kaisos1987) October 18, 2020
A senior PLO official, Saeb Erekat, who was recently diagnosed with COVID-19, is transferred to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem after his condition deteriorated, the Twelfth Canal reported.
Erekat was taken to the Israeli hospital through Magen David Adom paramedics escorted by IDF soldiers, according to the network.
Erekat, 65, has long been the main Palestinian negotiator in peace talks with Israel and is threatened by the coronavirus after surviving a mild attack on the center in 2012 and a lung transplant in 2017 after years of suffer from pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that cures the disease. lungs and impairs their ability to circulate oxygen.
EL CAIRO – The Egyptian government released a comic book that worked for a popular satirical television screen after more than two years in a crime without trial, a human rights lawyer said today.
Lawyer Mokhtar Mounir said Shady Abu Zaid was released last night from a Cairo police station, but as a component of his release conditions, he will have to show up at a police station twice a week.
His sister, Roula Abu Zaid, showed the news in a Facebook post and shared a photo of brothers and friends at his home after his release.
Police arrested Abu Zaid in May 2018 after plainclothes security officers raided his home in Cairo. He accused him of joining a banned group, referring to the banned Muslim Brotherhood and spreading false news.
Earlier this month, a court ordered his probation after exceeding two years allowed for pre-trial detention.
Abu Zaid worked in front of the camera for a satirical program presented through a puppet named Abla Fahita, whose display has since been canceled. Prior to his arrest, he also produced an exhibition called “The Rich Content”, which was very popular on social media.
In 2016, he sparked a controversy over distributing balloons made with inflated condoms to police on the fifth anniversary of the 2011 uprising that overthrew former President Hosni Mubarak and aimed to reform the state’s muscle security apparatus.
Abu Zaid was one of many government-critical bars in Egypt amid a year-old crackdown through President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s government against the media. More than 60 hounds are in criminals in Egypt, according to the International Press Institute. ranked among the worst hound jailers in the world.
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Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani welcomes the joint delegation of the United States and Israel in Bahrain.
“Today we seized this historic opportunity in the White House last month,” Al-Zayani said, referring to last month’s signing rite of the Israel-Bahrain peace declaration and the Abraham Accords.
He called for a “genuine and lasting peace that safeguards the rights of the peoples of the Middle East,” and said that commitment and cooperation are the ultimate tactics effective in achieving this.
“Today, we are laying the groundwork through which we can achieve this goal, a practical framework to promote our bilateral cooperation and our ongoing partnership with the United States of America,” Al-Zayani said.
He added: “I hope that this scale will mark some other step forward on the road to a indeed peaceful, safe, solid and disgustingly rich Middle East. “
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who heads the U. S. delegation, said he is pleased to be back in Bahrain for this “very, very important opportunity. “
Israeli national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat opens his speech in Arabic.
“Israel is achieving original peace with the people of Bahrain. Together, we will replace the truth of the region with the advantages of our nations. God willing, we will soon welcome you to Israel,” he said.
Turning to Hebrew, Ben-Shabat notes that the Knesset approved the peace treaty between Israel and the United Arab Emirates three days ago and said that this delegation, like the previous one in the United Arab Emirates, had flown nonstop from Tel Aviv and hoped that this direction would be a normal direction in the near future. He thanked the king of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa for making peace.
“In a sense, today closes the circle of Bahrain’s role in achieving peace,” Ben-Shabbat said, possibly referring to last year’s Peace for Prosperity convention in Manama.
He quotes the e-book of Genesis: “Be the soft and the gentle. And the Lord saw that he was good. We bring the gentle and expand the good. “
He says bahrain and Israel have many things that are not unusual: or are small in territory and population, but have a pioneering spirit.
– Raphael Ahren and Michael Bachner
Speaking to reporters about Israel’s flight to Bahrain, U. S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the White House and Israel’s Foreign Ministry were executing standardization agreements with more Arab countries.
“We hope we can announce it soon,” he says.
Michael Bachner
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denies any political attention in the government’s resolve to alleviate the national blockade of the coronavirus virus, after criticizing the resolve to reopen kindergartens and kindergartens in viral spots, all of which are predominantly ultra-Orthodox.
“We have not accepted any adjustment to the plan presented through [health] experts and strongly reject accusations of political considerations. There were no such considerations,” he said at the beginning of the firm’s weekly assembly in a video broadcast through his office.
He defended the resolution to adopt a progressive multi-step plan to lift the blockade and called on all Israelis to adhere to the restrictions still in place. He insists that a “seat” will be maintained around the “red” cities, which have infection rates.
“I call on the public to make it adhere to the rules. Many adhere to them, but there is also a giant population that does,” he says.
Ynet’s news says that one of his reporters and a cameraman were attacked through yeshiva scholars in Beitar Illit’s ultra-Orthodox agreement.
After the cameraman began recording, one of the Haredi scholars began to curse him and journalist Elisha Ben Kimon, and then an academic organization began pressing and spitting on them, the news site said.
Ben Kimon files an application with the police.
“As a journalist, I am the story. He doesn’t denounce her, he denounces the attacks. The truth that journalists are attacked without thinking . . . it’s a phenomenon that wants to be eradicated,” he says.
Recently, there have been a number of attacks on hounds covering violations of virus restrictions in ultra-Orthodox areas.
Ministers are approving a proposal requiring that at least 50 per cent of high-level public service posts be filled by women, to Channel 12.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz said he will take “all measures” to prevent Iran from obtaining new weapons when the U. N. arms embargo on the country ends, following the failure of the US attempt to enlarge it.
“With the expiration of the arms embargo opposed to Iran today, we will have to be more powerful and more determined than ever. Iran has never been an Israeli problem, but above all a global and regional problem,” Gantz said. in a prayer.
“As Minister of Defense, I will continue to take all necessary measures, in combination with our old and new components, to save them Iranian expansion and armament. All countries will be components of this vital effort,” he says.
– Judah Ari Gross
French Jewish teams have asked their followers to register today in a rally in memory of the instructor who was killed on Friday after showing cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad to his students.
The reminiscence demonstration of Samuel Paty, who was beheaded outdoors at the school where he worked through an 18-year-old Chechen refugee who gave the impression that he had been motivated through videos on social media, aims to safeguard freedom of expression. But Jewish teams say it also draws attention to the risk of Islamic terrorism in France.
CRIF, the organization of the umbrellos angeles of the French Jewish communities, called on its followers to attend the demonstration at the Plos angelesce of the Republique angels of Paris, where “the angels of the attacks of the angelsmist of Islos” is mentioned. The same goes for the National Office of Vigils Angelesnce opposed to anti-Semitism
“Islamist horror and Islamist terror have once returned to France,” says the anti-Semitism monitoring group, which called for the expulsion of Islamist terrorism suspects from France. inside. “
JTA
The Employment Service reports that more than 260,000 people have been added to unemployment lists since September 17, a day before the start of a week-long blockade that began to rise this morning.
Since then, 261,624 new job applicants have registered with the Employment Service, of which 228,122 have received unscathed leave.
To date, a total of 980,370 Israelis are unemployed, nearly a quarter of the workforce amounting to about four million, of which 628. 3 four are on leave.
During the first outbreak of the virus in the spring, service unemployment figures rose to more than 23%, while another 800,000 people temporarily lost their jobs during Israel’s initial closure.
As the epidemic subsided, some others had to return to work, but later, with the infection outbreak, the government imposed new restrictions and the unemployment rate rose again.
PARIS – Thousands more gather today in central Paris to pay tribute to the instructor who was beheaded two days ago for publishing his scholarly caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Posters of protesters in the air pointing out “No to totalitarianism of thought” and “I am a teacher” reminiscent of victim Samuel Paty.
– AFP
Far-right MP Bezalel Smotrich opposes Israel’s resolution of senior PLO official Saeb Erekat in an Israeli hospital.
“The fact that we provide humanitarian medical remedy to our enemies without requiring humanitarian reciprocity in the form of a return of the bodies of Hadar [Goldin] and Oron [Shaul] and the release of the captive citizens of Hamas is immoral and illogical, “Tweete Smotrich, member of the Yamina party.
He added: “At this point, there is nothing between Gaza and Ramallah. “
Erekat, the leading Palestinian peace negotiator, is aligned with the Palestinian Authority, founded in Ramallah, West Bank. Fatah, the political party that dominates the Palestinian Authority, is a rival of Hamas and expelled from the Gaza Strip in 2007 through the terrorist Islamist group.
Blue and white MP Michal Cotler-Wunsh echoes Smotrich.
“The basic precept of reciprocity requires humanitarian by humanitarian!Medical aid will have to be reciprocal with the return of four Israelis held in #Gaza for more than 6 years, in violation of foreign law,” he wrote on Twitter.
In addition to the bodies of the IDF Goldin and Shaul, who died in the Gaza War in 2014, Hamas is said to retain Israeli citizens Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who voluntarily entered the Strip, but whose families say they suffer from intellectual problems. fitness issues.
The basic precept of reciprocity requires: humanitarian by humanitarian!Medical care will have to be reciprocal with the return of four Israelis detained #Gaza for more than 6 years, in violation of foreign law.
– מיכל קוטלר-וונש | Michal Cotler-Wunsh (@CotlerWunsh) October 18, 2020
MINSK, Belarus – Belarusian police arrest more than a hundred people as thousands march against strongman Alexander Lukashenko, defying police threats to open fire.
“So far, more than a hundred have been arrested in Minsk,” Belarusian Interior Ministry spokeswoman Olga Chemodanova told AFP.
– AFP
The Ministry of Transport has agreed with the United Arab Emirates 28 passenger flights from Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, following the Israeli-Emirati Standardization Agreement.
The agreement is expected to be signed through Prime Minister Netanyahu in a rite at Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday, Ynet reports.
Hebrew media reports that flights are expected to begin in the coming weeks.
WASHINGTON – U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said arms sales to Iran would violate UN resolutions and lead to sanctions, after Tehran said the UN arms industry embargo against the Islamic Republic had expired.
“The United States is ready to use its national government to sanction any user or entity that materially contributes to the supply, sale or transfer of traditional weapons to or from Iran,” Pompeo said in a statement.
“Any country seeking peace and stability in the Middle East and supporting the counter-terrorism combat chorus of any arms deal with Iran. “
The embargo on the sale of traditional weapons to Iran will begin to expire gradually from 18 October under the UN solution confirming the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers.
Tehran, who can now buy weapons from Russia, China and elsewhere, praised the expiration as a diplomatic victory over his arch-enemy, the United States, who had tried indefinitely to freeze arms sales.
U. S. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal in 2018 and began unilaterally imposing sanctions on Iran.
Pompeo states that “for more than 10 years, countries have refrained from promoting arms to Iran under UN measures. Any country that now demands prohibition situations will obviously decide to fuel confrontation and tension to herald peace and security. “
– AFP
The first Convention of the People’s Initiative for Standardization with Israel is being held today in Sudan, another sign that the Sudanese transitional government will possibly enter into relations with Israel.
The United States is alleged to have insisted that Sudan normalize with Israel in exchange for Khartoum’s removal from the State Department’s list of states that are terrorists. Sudan’s presence on the list subjects it to crippling economic sanctions and limits the impoverished country’s access to external credit.
“Normalization means simply making our own with our countries, adding Israel, normal. since the 1960s, Sudan has been imprisoned for certain ideological concepts,” says Najm al-Din Adam Abdullah, who runs the nascent organization.
Sudan has had strained ties to the Jewish state for a long time. In 1967, Arab states accumulated in Khartoum to announce a policy that would be like “The Three No”: no peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel, no normalization with Israel.
“We believe that Sudan has remained in the same position since the Three Us, and has been unable to move forward,” Abdullah says, adding that “such a date with Israel has greatly charged us. That put us on the list of states that terrorism. “.
“Israel’s taboo . . . has left Sudan a prisoner of history,” he concludes.
An earlier attempt to hold a press convention in favor of standardization was dispersed through the authorities, a member of the Sudan-Israel Friendship Association told the Times of Israel at the time. The fact that the existing convention has been legal to take a position is possibly a sign of developing open relations with Israel through the country’s army leaders.
Sudan has recently been headed through a Transitional Sovereignty Council headed by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who is said to have supported relations with Israel. However, his civilian counterpart, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, was much more hesitant and told reporters in September that a First needed a “deep dialogue” in Sudanese society.
– Aaron Boxerman
– @kann_news October 18, 2020
The Department of Health, Yuli Edelstein, warns of “strong fines” for open schools in violation of closure measures aimed at curbing COVID-19.
Kindergartens and day care centers were able to reopen today after a week-long closing, but all other schools will have to remain closed. Despite this, many ultra-Orthodox schools opened open this morning for government restrictions, adding “red” spaces with the highest infection rates.
“There is no authorization [to reopen]. No one gave permission,” Edelstein said at a news convention at Ariel University in the West Bank. “Anyone who does this [will receive] heavy fines, perhaps even the revocation of [their] license. “and the revocation of the institution’s funding. “
He adds: “We have an undeniable rule: whoever does something wrong, puts the right thing, but doesn’t want to be an example to others. “
Edelstein says he contacted Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit about the option to withhold the budget for violating the restrictions.
The Ministry of Health said that 301 new cases of coronavirus have been shown today, bringing the number of infections from the onset of the pandemic to 303,109.
Reports 11 deaths since midnight, bringing the national death toll to 2,209.
Of the 32,805 active cases, 669 people are in severe condition, adding up to 234 with insufficient ventilation, another 213 in moderate state and the rest with mild or non-existent symptoms.
The Ministry of Health reports that 12,033 tests have been carried out today, with a positive rate of 2. 5%.
The Ministry of Health is encouraging Israelis to consume vitamin D, after Israeli researchers said the so-called sun vitamin could be the framework for combating COVID-19 and reducing the threat of hospitalization.
The ministry notes that two tactics for obtaining vitamin D are supplements or the sun, the latter of which Israelis can now gain more advantages, after national lockout measures became easier today.
PARIS – More than 250,000 people have died from the new coronavirus across Europe, according to an AFP count with official sources.
A total of 250,030 deaths of 7,366,028 cases recorded in Europe have been recorded. The five most affected countries account for more than two-thirds of deaths.
Britain suffered 43,646 deaths from 722,409 infections. After Britain, the most affected European countries are Italy with 36,543 deaths, Spain with 33,775, France with 33,392 and Russia with 24,187.
In the last seven days there have been 8,342 deaths in Europe, the weekly balance in the region since mid-May.
The most recent figures occur when several European countries tighten restrictions on the most affected cities and regions in reaction to an increase in the number of cases.
The World Health Organization’s European workplace said Thursday that the growing number of COVID-19 cases in Europe is “very worrying. “
– AFP
Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem confirms that it is treating senior PLO official Saeb Erekat, who is inflamed with COVID-19, after his physical condition has deteriorated.
The hospital says Erekat was taken to the hospital in serious condition and needed oxygen, but that he remains in a serious but solid state, he added.
“Mr. Erekat is receiving a professional remedy at a higher point like all patients with severe coronavirus in Hadassah and staff will do their best to cure him,” hospital leader Zeev Rothstein said in a statement.
Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks by phone with Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani and U. S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin before Israel and Bahrain signal a series of bilateral agreements in a rite in Manama.
Countries will also signal a diplomatic relations agreement.
According to his office, Netanyahu says countries are moving towards peace and welcomes the first previous nonstop direct flight on the day between Israel and Bahrain.
Israel and Bahrain officially state that they have made peace and established official diplomatic relations.
In a rite in Manama, the Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alon Ushpiz, and Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani signed 8 bilateral agreements, adding a “Joint Communiqué on the Status Quo of Diplomatic, Non-Violent and Friendly Relations”.
The agreements provide for the opening of embassies and would not mention the Palestinians.
MOUs signed in canopy spaces such as commercial, agricultural and technological sands
Countries promise not to take hostile action against others and to act against hostile movements across third countries.
The diplomatic agreement is not legally a treaty but rather a “framework agreement,” Israeli officials said, emphasizing that with signature, Israel and Bahrain have officially established diplomatic relations.
Lately it is unclear whether the agreement will be submitted to the Israeli wardrobe and/or the Knesset for approval. It is very likely that Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit will require at least the approval of the agreement through ministers, as it involves several obligations on the part of Israel. .
Moments before the rite of signature, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone with Al-Zayani and U. S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who led the US delegation to Manama who flew with Israeli officials. Netanyahu praised the agreement and the firm’s historic rite as a “giant step” towards peace.
“The prime minister also welcomed Israel’s first flight to Bahrain, which landed today, and said it is a continuation of the progress towards peace,” according to a reading of the call provided through his office.
– Raphael Ahren
– Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) October 18, 2020
Deputy Moshe Gafni, no. 2 of the unified Judaism party of the ruling coalition, told Prime Minister Netanyahu that Haredim would reopen to the order of prominent Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, according to the Hebrew media.
While only kindergartens and day care centers can open thanks to the comfortable lock-off measures that came into force today, a lot of ultra-Orthodox children’s schools have opened defying restrictions.
“We believe no mistake will come from the biggest of its generation [Kanievsky],” Gafni told the Ynet news website.
It was also reported that he discussed with Netanyahu a forward-looking framework that would determine the number of academics in the classroom.
Gafni is a member of the UTJ’s Degel HaTorah subfaction, which represents the non-Hasydic of Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox Judaism, of which Kanievsky is a leader.
At a press convention in Manama after the two countries signed their standardization agreements, Bahrain’s foreign minister Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani expressed hope for “successful bilateral cooperation in all areas” and regional peace, adding two states to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Conflict.
“His Highness [King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa] believes in the importance of strengthening the values of tolerance, coexistence and mutual among other cultures and religions,” says al-Zayani, especially in a region “whose peoples have suffered many conflicts. “. and you fight.
He added: “The Palestinian factor will have to be resolved through direct negotiations between the two sides to succeed in a solution that satisfies both sides and has an effect on a two-state solution, in accordance with the principles of the Arab Peace Initiative and the law. “
Speaking after Israel and Bahrain signed an agreement to normalize relations, Al-Zayani noted that countries also signed a series of memorandums of understanding in areas, adding trade, agricultural and technological sands.
“We greet the Israeli government for its responsiveness to this historic step,” says al-Zayani. “We will work with paintings from foreign networks to achieve peace in the Middle East in the near future. “
U. S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, representing the administration of President Donald Trump, who helped negotiate the deal, talks about the opportunities that can now be learned for both countries.
“It’s a remarkable achievement,” he says. He mentions the first direct El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Manama that brought in the Israeli and American teams. “I can’t wait for this to be the first of many inter-country advertising flights,” Mnuchin says.
Israel’s national security adviser, Meir Ben-Shabbat, praised the agreements as a first step in peace to be forged between Israel and Bahrain, thanked his Bahraini hosts for their warm welcome, and promised that any Bahraini delegation in Israel would receive treatment.
“We started the day with friends and concluded it as members of the family circle, members of Abraham’s family circle,” Ben-Shabbat said, referring to the Abrahamic Agreements signed last month at the White House.
– Aaron Boxerman, Raphael Ahren
The Islamic State jihadist organization is calling on its supporters to target Saudi Arabia for allowing Israel to use its airspace in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
In an engraved speech, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir said jihadists target Westerners in Saudi Arabia and economic goals.
A decisive majority of Israelis say the government’s easing of the national coronavirus blockade is mainly due to political considerations, according to a survey of the twelfth chain.
In total, 63% of respondents say political points are basically guilty of releasing a week’s blockade, while 26% think considerations are basically professional.
When asked if plans to phase out restrictions would save him a third closure, 59% did not think he would, and only 21% said it would be a new national shutdown.
Most Israelis also disapprove of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s handling of the pandemic, and 58% are doing a bad job with the coronavirus.
The U. S. -based Al-Hadath TELEVISION television channel reports that Sudan’s ruling Sovereignty Council is now meeting to discuss “peace with Israel” in exchange for Khartoum’s call being removed from the list of States sponsoring U. S. terrorism.
Sudan’s presence in those subject to the country to crushing economic sanctions.
A similar assembly last Thursday did not result in any further development, to develop tension between the army and civilian sides of Sudan’s transitional government.
– Aaron Boxerman
LAFAYETTE, Indiana – A police recruit in Northwest Indiana is fired less than 24 hours after the branch informed the officer in question in an online neo-Nazi discussion forum.
Lafayette police are opening an investigation into Joseph Zacharek, who was hired in June after being reported on Twitter on Friday night of his imaginable participation in a discussion forum called Iron March in 2016.
The department’s internal affairs department concluded that the data was “accurate and credible,” and Zacharek fired, according to a press release from Chief Patrick Flannelly.
The discussion forum was dissolved in 2017, but its publications were leaked online late last year, according to the Lafayette Journal.
Flannelly told the paper that Zacharek called the station on Friday and admitted that the comments were his, and shot at noon the next day.
“Officer Zacharek’s comments were in line with the spirit of cooperation and inclusion in the network valued through the Lafayette Police Department,” Flannelly said in the statement.
The Zacharek branch had been trained and “had no exposure to the public. “
The branch acknowledges that it did not realize the data before hiring Zacharek, despite having conducted “very thorough and thorough investigations into potential employees”, which includes a review of social media accounts, according to the statement.
Flannelly told the paper that the branch would review its background processes.
Attempts to succeed in Zacharek were unsuccessful. Police Lt. Matt Gard said the branch was unable to provide Zacharek’s tactile information. An indexed number for the Lafayette Police Union is offline. It is not without delay transparent whether Zacharek has a lawyer.
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The Islamic State jihadist organization is calling on its supporters to target Saudi Arabia for allowing Israel to use its airspace for the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
In an engraved speech, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir said jihadists target Westerners in Saudi Arabia and economic goals.