The Times of Israel records Saturday occasions as they occur.
WASHINGTON – U. S. President Donald Trump on Saturday rejected Senator Ben Sasse on Twitter, calling the Nebraska senator “responsibility for the Republican Party and a disgrace” to the state.
The president’s attack on Twitter comes after Sasse told the electorate Wednesday on a phone on the city corridor that Trump had “flirted with white supremacists,” had mocked evangelical Christians in person and “kissed the buttocks of dictators. “
Sasse, who is running for a time in a reliable red state and is considered a potential presidential candidate for 2024, made the comments in reaction to a question about why he was willing to publicly criticize a president of his own party. criticized Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and said Trump’s circle of relatives had treated the presidency “as a business opportunity. “
Trump tweeted that Sasse is “the least effective of our 53 Republican senators, and one who doesn’t have what it takes to be amazing. “
Trump’s diatribe continues the day when he compares Sasse to former U. S. Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee and Jeff Flake of Arizona, who left the Senate after a combative appointment with the president. Trump suggests that Republicans deserve to perhaps place “a new and more viable candidate. “?”
Trump raised Nebraska through 25 issues in 2016.
Sasse “said the same thing to Nebraskans who continually told the president directly in the Oval Office,” spokesman James Wegmann said today in a statement. “Ben aims to protect the Republican majority in the Senate, and he would probably not waste a bachelor minute on tweets. “
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Defense Minister Benny Gantz also called on the ultra-Orthodox public to adhere to regulations on the virus, but did not directly mention Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky’s ordinance that Haredim children’s schools deserve to reopen despite the continued ban.
“There can’t be two states here. No organization or user in Israel is above the law, no one,” he tweeted.
Gantz asks Haredi leaders to ask their fans to adhere to the guidelines, mentioning pikuach nefesh, the Jewish imperative to save lives.
He explains that the maximum number of Israelis, adding Haredim’s maximum, followed the rules.
Netanyahu is being questioned about Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky’s decision to order Haredi children’s schools to reopen tomorrow, despite the continued ban.
He says that “the public and the Haredi leaders” adhere to the regulations and do not reopen the schools, but does not comply directly with Kanievsky’s order and does not mention his name.
He says that police officers should not be sent to all schools that open in violation of the law, amid complaints that the police are blind-eyed to lock-up violations in predominantly ultra-Orthodox areas.
Prime Minister Netanyahu advocates the government’s imposition of a national blockade on exorbitant rates of coronavirus infection, at a press convention before restrictions begin to rise tomorrow.
“We are leaving [the blockade] this time cautiously,” he said, after the government criticized the temporary lifting of previous restrictions this year after the initial blockade.
He called on the ultra-Orthodox Jews to adhere to the regulations of the virus, after a rabbi leader said that Haredi children’s schools would reopen as they remained prohibited.
Party leader Yamina Naftali Bennett is currently hospitalized at Sheba Medical Center on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
“The medical procedure he underwent is a continuation of the same remedy he underwent during the following week,” his workplace said in a Hebrew quote.
He says he’s been suffering from back pain since serving as a recruit in the Israeli army.
On Tuesday, his workplace said he was hospitalized after experiencing neck pain. Bennett addressed the Knesset on Thursday in a plenary consultation on the Israel-UAE standardization agreement.
Police arrest three other people suspected of spraying pepper spray on anti-Netanyahu protesters in Haifa tonight.
Police, suspects, citizens of the Kiryat Yam suburb of about 20 years old, had “evidence linking them” to the incident in their car.
Organizers say they had more than 15,000 participants at tonight’s anti-Netanyahu demonstration in Jerusalem’s Paris Square.
Others leave the surrounding streets en masse as crowds of protesters stretch from Keren Hayesod Street to the Great Synagogue on King George Street.
While police barricades allow protesters to walk away socially, most are heavily clustered near Balfour Street, near Paris Square.
– Aaron Boxerman
Thousands of protesters gather in Jerusalem’s Paris Square to call on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign from the first primary demonstrations near the prime minister’s official apartment in weeks.
“Sheheyanu!” protester Meir Moscovitch said, invoking a Hebrew prayer for favorable occasions. “We were out for 3 weeks and now we’re back to ask for honesty – left, right, honesty. “
Large-scale protests have been opposed to Netanyahu for 17 weeks, and major protests are located near the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem. In the more than 3 weeks, there have been relatively few protesters in Paris Square, as a debatable emergency. measures restricting demonstrations have led to smaller demonstrations across the country in line with closure.
Yesh Atid-Telem MP Moshe Ya’alon and Joint List MP Ofer Cassif are noticed taking selfies among the protesters. The small social estating is evident, the top protesters seem to be wearing masks.
Fewer protesters attend tonight’s rally than at the height of the protests in July, yet others continue to arrive and the demonstration officially began until 8:30 p. m.
In a statement, the Black Flags protest organization says many protesters are being held at checkpoints outside Jerusalem.
– Aaron Boxerman,
Educational establishments connected to the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, which represents an electoral base composed mainly of Sephardic Jews, will be closed tomorrow, according to the Twelfth Canal.
Coronavirus Tsar Ronni Gamzu thanks israelis for joining the blockade in the position for the following month, but asks Israelis to continue to follow regulations when restrictions begin to ease tomorrow.
He urges Israelis to meetings such as weddings and parties, warns that they will “take us back temporarily. “
“Wait, ” he said.
Gamzu denies that the resolve to allow the reopening of kindergartens and day care centers in virus houses, all of which are predominantly ultra-Orthodox, is political.
“Opening the school formula in violation of regulations is harmful and opposes the law,” he says, amid reports that a high-ranking Haredi rabbi ordered the reopening of children’s schools despite persistent restrictions.
The so-called coronavirus closet is expected to allow up to 40 other people to attend weddings when it is called this week, according to Channel 12 News, despite considerations that such meetings can lead to new coronavirus outbreaks as Israel begins to crawl. during a one-week blockade.
According to the plan that will have to be approved through ministers, weddings can be organized into two socially remote “capsules”, one for the bride and one for the groom, which can accommodate up to 20 people each, reports the network.
Eminent Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky reportedly ordered haredi children’s schools to go back tomorrow, they are still prohibited from doing so under national blockade measures designed to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Rabbi Kanievsky, himself inflamed by the coronavirus, issued the order after no agreement was reached last week for the reopening of schools, according to the Behadrei Haredim website.
Ask academics to adhere to social estating measures and restrict the number of academics according to the class, according to the Ynet news website.
Kanievsky, a leader of a non-Hasydic Lithuanian branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, ordered reopening the previous week, but then changed course.
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, another prominent network leader, said academics continue to do distance education, the news site adds.
Kindergartens and day care centers, adding viral access points, will be allowed to reopen as a component of a first opposite of the closure, but all other schools must remain closed.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz defends the national lockdown of the coronavirus, which has been in place since September 18, as a “necessary gesture,” before it starts to calm tomorrow.
“There is no choice,” he told the Twelfth Channel in an interview, and mentioned exorbitant infection rates before the blockade came into effect.
It warns that there is a “serious danger” of a resurgence of morbidity as blocking measures begin to rise.
Gantz also says that the aptitude officials who supported the reopening of preschools in “red” spaces with the highest infection rates, following reports that ministers passed the measure due to fears of an ultra-Orthodox “revolt. “
Israeli football star Eran Zahavi says he sits down after Dutch club PSV Eindhoven announced that he had tested positive for coronavirus.
“After escaping this since January, I’m now also for the coronavirus,” Zahavi wrote on Instagram.
It also criticizes the Israeli national team’s testing policy and efforts to prevent the spread of COVID among team members.
“If we got here with a stage where inside this capsule there were 4 other people with whom we were in contact, how lucky there are no others,” says Zahavi, referring to other members of the team who tested positive. .
Zahavi said that despite two negative trials, “I felt something was wrong” and that he felt “weak and tired” in Wednesday’s attack on Slovakia.
“I can only perceive that there is no justification for testing, they can’t save you anything, and we see it in various national groups and [club] groups,” he said.
The Ministry of Health confirms 834 new cases of Shabbat coronavirus, bringing the number of infections from the onset of the pandemic to 302,730.
It also reports 26 more deaths through COVID, bringing the national number to 2167.
The number of patients in serious condition drops to 689, of which 238 are on a respirator and another 210 are in condition. In total, there are 35,212 active cases.
Yesterday, 1469 more people were diagnosed with the virus of 32,914 reviewed, a positive verification rate of 4. 5%. To date, 10,741 controls have been performed and 313 other people have been shown to bring the virus, a positive rate of 3%. Trial rates drop on weekends and holidays.
Small rallies are taking a position throughout Israel from the weekly protests opposed to Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Protesters began meeting outdoors at the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem, where a giant demonstration is scheduled for tonight after the limitation of emergency measures that have prevented Israelis from demonstrating more than a mile from their home. Them.
Police closed several streets close to the demonstration and called on protesters to wear masks and adhere to social estification directives.
“Police reiterate that they are acting to allow demonstrations through all protesters, but will not allow any violation of public order and will act firmly against any attempt to disrupt public order,” one policewoman said.
Police arrest suspects following clashes between an organization of Armenian protesters and Azerbaijani supporters on the main road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Two other people injured in clashes on Highway 1 near Sha’ar Hagai are being transferred for medical treatment, according to Hebrew media.
Armenian protesters, who departed in a convoy from Jerusalem, are demonstrating against the sale of Israeli weapons to Azerbaijan, which has been involved in the struggle with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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PARIS – An 18-year-old Chechen boy accused of beheading an instructor near his school in a suburb of Paris received asylum in France and had no ties to Russia, according to a Russian diplomat.
“This crime has nothing to do with Russia. This user had been living in France for 12 years,” Russian embassy spokesman Sergei Parinov told the official TASS news agency.
– AFP
Suspected decapitation of an outdoor instructor at a school in France has asked street academics to call the victim, a French counter-terrorism prosecutor said.
Ricard said the suspect, a Chechen, shared a photo of the teacher’s frame on Twitter and wrote that he had committed the murder, according to Reuters.
Teacher Samuel Paty recently showed his academics in the Paris suburbs caricatures of Conflans Saint-Honorine from the Muslim prophet Muhammad. French President Emmanuel Macron called the murder an Islamist terrorist attack.
PARIS – Some 20 million French people are preparing to spend their first night under curfew, a move taken by the government after an alarming outbreak of new cases of coronavirus.
At nine o’clock at night until 6 a. m. , curfew came into effect Friday in the Paris region and 8 other major cities, affecting about one-third of the country’s population.
People will want a certificate for legal activities, such as coming and going from work, receiving medical care, visiting a dependent family member, or walking a dog.
Those who fail to comply face a fine of 135 euros ($160), while repeat offenders may face fines of up to 3750 euros ($4400).
Some 12,000 police and gendarmes, in addition to municipal police teams, will be deployed at curfew.
Restorers, for whom the time-of-night component represents a component of billing, complained about this measure.
“Closing at 9 p. m. will have no effect (on the epidemic). They’re attacking him the right way,” said Gérard, manager of a restaurant in Toulouse.
The government has defended the measure as the only way for a lockout, at a time when signs assessing the coronavirus epidemic, such as deaths and hospitalizations, are deteriorating across Europe.
The French fitness government recorded more than 25,000 new cases of coronavirus, with 178 deaths.
The curfew measure, which arrives just before the two-week school holidays, does not include restrictions, which creates hope that many families will flee the cities to the countryside.
It is expected to last at least 4 weeks, but curfew can be prolonged if the outbreak shows no symptoms of slowdown. President Emmanuel Macron has already discussed the date of December 1.
– AFP
Weekly mass demonstrations opposing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were to take a stand tonight, following the end of the questionable emergency measures that have limited the ongoing protests opposed to the minister.
Before major demonstrations, protesters began gathering for smaller demonstrations in locations across the country.
Restrictions on demonstrations, which expired Tuesday night, prevented protesters from traveling more than a mile from their homes to demonstrate and forced them to socially stay “groups” away from 20 people.
With the expiration of emergency measures, a giant rally will be held again in front of the Prime Minister’s apartment in Jerusalem, which amid the protests supports Netanyahu for his accusation of corruption fees and control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Restrictions crushed protests there, which led protesters to make smaller demonstrations across the country.
WASHINGTON – U. S. President Donald Trump on Saturday rejected Senator Ben Sasse on Twitter, calling the Nebraska senator “responsibility for the Republican Party and a disgrace” to the state.
The president’s attack on Twitter comes after Sasse told the electorate Wednesday on a phone on the city corridor that Trump had “flirted with white supremacists,” had mocked evangelical Christians in person and “kissed the buttocks of dictators. “
Sasse, who is running for a time in a reliable red state and is considered a potential presidential candidate for 2024, made the comments in reaction to a question about why he was willing to publicly criticize a president of his own party. criticized Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and said Trump’s circle of relatives had treated the presidency “as a business opportunity. “
Trump tweeted that Sasse is “the least effective of our 53 Republican senators, and one who doesn’t have what it takes to be amazing. “
Trump’s diatribe continues the day as he compares Sasse to former U. S. Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee and Jeff Flake of Arizona, who left the Senate after a combative appointment with the president. Trump suggests that Republicans deserve to perhaps locate “a more viable new candidate. “?”
Trump took Nebraska through 25 issues in 2016.
Sasse “said the same thing to Nebraskans who continually told the president directly in the Oval Office,” spokesman James Wegmann said today in a statement. “Ben aims to protect the Republican majority in the Senate, and he would probably not waste a bachelor minute on tweets. “
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