The Times of Israel published Monday’s progress as they unfolded.
At the beginning of a weekly assembly of the so-called Coronavirus Cabinet, a forum of ministers dealing with the pandemic, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “the bad news” is that Israel’s per capita morbidity rate is one of the world’s. .
“The good news is that in the last two weeks or so it has stalled” in relation to infection rates, he said.
But the disease can continue to rise “to figures we might not be able to handle,” he adds.
“In parallel with the creation of the ability to cut transmission chains, we want the number of patients.”
The World Health Organization says there may never be a quick fix for the new coronavirus, despite the rush to notice effective vaccines.
“There is no quick fix at this time and there will probably never be,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a virtual press convention in Geneva.
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Facebook claims to have permanently banned the French comic Dieudonné, a convicted anti-Semite, from its platform and Instagram for content that mocked those who suffered the Holocaust.
He said some of his messages used “dehumanizing terms opposed to Jews.”
“In accordance with our policy on Americans and harmful organizations, we have definitively banned Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala from Facebook and Instagram,” the company said in a statement, its full name.
The comedian, named Dieudonné, cut off his YouTube channel for reasons in June through parent company Google.
The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism praises the ban as a “great victory” and says Dieudonné’s messages “cause abundant and irreparable harm to young people.”
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More than a quarter of Israelis are not adequately exposed to the risk of missile strikes, according to a new report by state comptroller Matanyahu Engelman.
Some 2.6 million Israelis, or 28 percent of the population, do not have a good enough shelter in the event of missile strikes near their homes, the report says, adding another 50,000 people living up to nine kilometers (5.6 miles) from the volatile north. Border.
The report notes that thousands of rockets and missiles threaten Israel beyond its borders.
In his most recent report, the state comptroller said that the allocation to build a new Prime Minister’s workplace in Jerusalem that would also serve as the Official Apartment of the Israeli Leader has suffered setbacks and an expanding budget due to poor plan development and management. And it’s on. at the breaking point of the total cancellation.
The estimated allocation cost has almost doubled from NIS 650 million ($190 million) to NIS$1.2 billion ($350 million), according to the report, with a lack of communication and forgetfulness among planners and managers of the allocation, resulting in many delays and stalled progress.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid said Israel needed only one coronavirus tsar, but also a tsar of the economy.
“We are in the midst of the biggest economic crisis in three decades. There has been such a control flaw in the country’s history,” said Lapid, head of Yesh Atid-Telem, at the start of the weekly faction meeting.
“A government of 36 ministers and 16 deputy ministers will solve the economic crisis, only make the scenario worse,” he says.
Lapid says: “The rate of company closures in Israel is that of the world. It’s not speech, it’s data. Difficult figures. Businesses are collapsing. Event rooms, culture, restaurants, shops.”
Hezbollah’s secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, will deliver a speech Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. discussing “the latest political developments,” Hezbollah’s al-Manar television reports.
Nasrallah’s speech comes from emerging tensions on Israel’s northern border. On Monday, the Israeli army said it had thwarted Hezbollah to send a team of fighters to Mount Dov’s Israeli-controlled territory, also known as Shebaa Farms, to carry out an attack. According to the army, Hezbollah’s motive crossed the border a few yards before the IDF thwarted the operation.
The IDF has shied away from killing the men, firing in their direction to force them to flee.
Hezbollah denies that the alleged operation took place, calling the IDF’s story “absolutely false to generate illusory and false victories.”
Another incident occurred last night, when four other people entered Israeli territory from Syria and placed improvised explosive contraptions inside an unmanned Israel Defense Forces outpost along the Syrian border, the IDF said, Israel has not yet blamed Hezbollah for the operation.
Soldiers and planes opened fire on the 4 suspects, some of whom were armed, killing them all, the IDF said.
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Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, Yair, told Israel Airwaves radio that his father entertained and had fun with the protests unfolding against him.
He was his father of the vanquished leader of the Likud Menachem Begin, who resigned amid large protests opposed to his handling of the 1982 Lebanon War.
“My father is a strong man. It makes him laugh,” Netanyahu said. “He sees what we all see, those monsters in protests, makes him laugh, as entertainment. I show you some excerpts from the manifestations … it entertains him and even gives him strength.
At least 29 other people were killed in a raid on an Afghan criminal reported through the Islamic State group, authorities said.
Fighting continues to infural criminals in the eastern city of Jalalabad, where some 1,700 is and Taliban detainees are being held.
The Islamic State media Amaq said its fighters were the raid, which saw many detainees escape before many were captured.
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The so-called coronavirus closet ended its discussions by making the decisions.
According to reports, the coronavirus’s new tsar, Ronni Gamzu, supported the end of all weekend restrictions on businesses and parks.
Ministers also discussed the possibility of localized closures of infection data.
According to Ynet’s new website, he agreed that Gamzu would produce a detailed proposal on Wednesday in view of the issues raised at the meeting.
Addressing the ongoing conflict of the coalition over the budget, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the beginning of the weekly assembly of Likud factions that a two-year budget, as requested through Kakhol Lavan, and as stipulated in the agreement between the two parties, lead to [economic] edicts and primary cuts. This is the time for the cuts, it’s time to keep moving the budget to people. »
He adds: “The moment demands unity. No one needs elections and there is no explanation for what elections.”
If the coalition fails to approve a budget until August 25, the government will dissolve and new elections will be called.
Kakhol Lavan believes Netanyahu has taken a turn to ask for a one-year budget for the remainder of 2020 to leave the window open for next year’s elections.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that “only a foolish enemy will dare Israel to be willing to respond” to attacks.
Hours after the Israeli army killed four gunmen, he said he crossed the Syrian border to carry out an attack, Gantz said a stopover at the new command center of the IDF Internal Front Command will lead efforts to locate Israel’s contacts: There is no misunderstanding: troops have all the mandatory measures to protect citizens and attack anyone who tries to invade Israeli sovereignty.
Some additional main points of cabinet mounting on the previous coronavirus:
The Prime Minister said that in addition to the general patterns of social estrangement, ministers were considering four major closure teams to combat the most recent coronavirus outbreak. Beyond the prospect of a national closure, which Netanyahu said he hoped he hoped, were the characteristics of 3 more limited closures:
The first ‘local locks in ‘red villages’. There are these towns and there will be discussions with mayors and assistance in each and every possible way, adding for business “in those towns,” he said. The moment ‘night locks: restrict movements from a certain time to the morning’.
The third was the “weekend closures”, ministers are lately considering whether to cancel restrictions over the weekend, as advised by the crownvirus’s tsar, Ronni Gamzu.
Netanyahu added: “This wave is hitting all countries again. Countries that have controlled to [reduce the number] like us and have to reopen, have more or less understood what is going on here.”
The prime minister told his Likud faction that Israel’s planned annexation of West Bank lands was not irrelevant, but belonged to the US administration.
“The application of sovereignty is in Washington. It’s not ruled out, the option still exists,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu had declared his goal to move forward with the annexation, under the auspices of the U.S. peace plan, on July 1, but that date came and went without any motion on the subject, and in recent weeks Netanyahu has remained largely silent. on the subject.
Reports in recent months have indicated that the White House has cooled with the Israeli proposal amid the furious coronavirus pandemic, racial protests, upcoming national elections and considerations.
The world’s largest plane has landed at Ben Gurion International Airport.
The Antonov An-225, built in the 1980s in Soviet Ukraine and the existing one, arrived from the United States with trucks from the U.S. Army. They will be provided with Iron Dome parts for the U.S. Army. They will later be returned to the United States.
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Hundreds of aviation enthusiasts piled up near the airport before the mythical plane arrived to see it land.
Lawyer Boaz Ben Zur joins the team of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Ben Zur in the past represented Israeli-born Hollywood manufacturer Arnon Milchan, one of the key figures in the case of the 1000 opposed to Netanyahu’s case.
Regional Cooperation Minister Ofir Akunis warns that if the Kakhol Lavan party does not have an annual budget as its party wants, Likud will seek to form an election government of 61 deputies without Benny Gantz’s party.
Akunis told army radio: “Everyone will know who led Israel to a fourth election. It’s Gantz’s fault.”
Likud seeks to amend the biennial budget agreed in the past, contrary to the agreement between the parties.
Police arrested a blogger suspected of harassing a witness in case 3000, known as the “submarine case.”
According to police, the man, a “independent journalist,” was arrested this morning. Another woman arrested. They are suspected of breach of privacy, harassment of witnesses and conspiracy to consecrate a crime.
The whistleblower is an official who has “held a leadership position in a branch in the past,” according to police.
“According to his account, an unnamed guy who came to his house. posed as an employee of an intelligence corps,” they say. He continued to show her what he claimed to be an upcoming media report, “to get what he was looking for from her.”
The authorities provided additional main points on the case.
After a winter of heavy rain, the water point of the Sea of Galilee marks a record 27 years in August, according to the knowledge of the Israel Water Authority.
The existing water point is 209.39 meters below the point of the sea, the highest since 1993, when the water point in early August 209.01 below the point of the sea.
The water point is lately 59 centimeters below the so-called red line, which is as crowded as the lake can be before it starts flooding surrounding areas.
Two young men nearly drown on the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv.
The two, aged 8 and 4, were taken out of the water and treated by paramedics before being transferred to the hospital.
The 8-year-old girl, in a moderate state, rushed to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, while the 4-year-old boy, who suffered minor injuries, was treated at the site.
Checkpoints in the West Bank will only be opened for one day to allow Palestinian personnel to enter Israel before closing, the Territory Governmental Activities Coordinator (COGAT) announces.
Palestinian staff will be invited to remain in Israel for 3 weeks. Any employee who wishes to return to the West Bank in this era can do so, but will not be able to return, COGAT says.
The restrictions aim to prevent the movement of tens of thousands of employees in any of the instructions through the Green Line, which according to the Palestinian Authority is the main vector of the coronavirus epidemic in the West Bank.
Under a Supreme Court order, employers will have to provide sufficiently good housing for Palestinian staff staying in Israel during the three-week period, although some reports have raised questions about companies’ compliance with this obligation.
Approximately 100,000 Palestinians in the West Bank are legally hired in Israel or in West Bank settlements, according to the Kav LaOved Workers’ Rights Group. They are a giant of the Palestinian economy: between 15 and 20% of Palestinians hired paintings in Israel.
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The Israeli army said troops scanned the domain and discovered a weapon, as well as a bag containing several other bombs in a position to use, following the night security incident along the Syrian border in which the army killed four armed men who crossed the border and planted bombs.
The army says army officers met with the UN in the afternoon to show them the scene of the incident.
The Ministry of Health reports 1,090 new cases of coronavirus since last night, bringing the total number of cases to 74,102, of which 26,005 are active cases.
24 hours, from 7 p.m. ministry. On Sunday, he saw 1,518 new cases.
Eight other people have died since midnight, bringing the death toll to 546.
Of the patients, 331 are in severe condition (99 fans), 139 are in moderate condition and the others have mild symptoms or no symptoms.
To date, 13,670 have been made today.
Police arrested a 70-year-old man on suspicion of inciting hatred, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Police suspect the guy has posted calls of violence against the minister on social media.
He was questioned on bail and released under certain restrictive conditions. The prosecution’s job will be the case in the coming days.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he intends to promptly push for a law to push sanctions against child attackers.
He did this in reaction to public outrage over the most recent case of childcare abuse. Police today arrested the owner of a daycare center in Ramle where four assistants were arrested on suspicion of abusing the young people in their care.
“The mistreatment of helpless young children is an unforgivable crime,” he says. “We will not settle for this … and we’ll fight it with all the equipment at our disposal.”
Syrian media and observers reported on airstrikes by Iranian forces and Iranian-backed militias in the country’s Deir Ezzor region before the day.
The attacks left the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights dead, wounded and destroyed.
“Military cars affiliated with target forces have transported dead and wounded militiamen to Iraq, while Iranian forces [in the region] are now on high alert and are accumulating more troops,” resources told the UK-based control agency.
There’s no indication who led the attacks.
The Ministry of Justice’s Privacy Authority fines Likud for a massive security breach that caused a leak of knowledge in thousands of voters, ministry resources told the Haaretz newspaper.
The appeals claim that the Israeli company that developed the Elector application in the middle of the case will also be fined.
The newspaper says it will be the first time a party has been fined for leaking election data, fines for such problems are relatively low and are unlikely to exceed tens of thousands of shekels.
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri of Shas told the Twelfth Channel he had told Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz: “The other people of Israel will not forgive us if we move on to the election [again].”
He added: “People don’t perceive [the coalition’s infighting] and need to be painted together.”
On the current budget crisis that can lead the government to dissolve until the end of the month if a budget is not approved, Deri says: “I am talking to everyone and I am looking to make compromises. We have to succeed. about that. “
He refuses to say whether his party would like Likud’s position not to be easy with a one-year budget or Kakhol to launder insist on a two-year budget.
The World Health Organization says there may never be a quick fix for the new coronavirus, despite the rush to notice effective vaccines.
“There is no quick fix at this time and there will probably never be,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a virtual press convention in Geneva.
– AFP