The Times of Israel publishes Tuesday’s news as it unfolds.
Pfizer executives expressed some careful optimism about the possibility of offering a coronavirus vaccine in 2020, as the pharmaceutical company reported a decline in third trimester gains due to disruptions in fitness care that reduced demand for medications.
Pfizer’s executive leader, Albert Bourla, said the pharmaceutical giant could get about 40 million doses in the US. But it’s not the first time Until 2020 if clinical trials go a long way and regulators approve a vaccine.
“If all goes well, we will be able to distribute the first number of doses,” Bourla says, referring to a US government contract. But it’s not the first time For Pfizer to deliver 40 million doses until the end of this year and one hundred million doses until the end of this year. March 2021.
But Bourla says the company has yet to meet the key criteria to compare the effectiveness of the vaccine. Pfizer said in the past that he might have knowledge in October.
Bourla says the company plans to register an emergency use authorization application for its COVID-19 vaccine in the third week of November, more or less in line with previous schedules.
When asked if it was “positive,” the vaccine would work, Bourla said, “I’m not positive, a vaccine will work. I’m cautiously sure the vaccine will work. “
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit said he will file an indictment at the time against Likud MP Haim Katz, awaiting a hearing, as he suspects he has paid millions of shekels in taxes he owes for the rental bills he earned in several apartments.
Katz, who already faces fraud and abuse-of-trust rates, is alleged to have a hidden source of income totaling 2. 2 million shekels (about $650,000) for 12 years.
Responding to the accusations, Katz said, “I hope that after the hearing we will leave all the false accusations that oppose me and that this will be the end of this persecution. “
In addition, he claims that “the tax factor has been disproportionate. No other Israeli citizen has been charged in the circumstances. I am sure [justice] will come to light. “
In February, Katz granted parliamentary immunity to protect he himself from past accusations of fraud and abuse of trust, based on accusations that he had complexed a corporate bond repayment bill through a monetary representative who was a close friend and monetary adviser to him.
Mandelblit suggested that the High Court of Justice revoke the decision and allow the former Social Welfare Minister to be prosecuted.
Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel’s largest city, which has consistently recorded the number of coronavirus infections in the country, announces that two departments established to treat coronavirus patients will close after more than six months.
“Today is a special day,” tweeted Professor Dror Mevorach, head of medicine at the hospital.
“I am definitive the two coronaviruses that have been open for about six or seven months. There are fewer than 30 patients with coronavirus and two will remain open to treat them. I am pleased to close the departments and also thank them for the constant efforts. “of the [doctor] team that enlisted.
“I’m still realistic about the fact that we may have to reopen them, but in the meantime, we can be a little happy. “
A ruling in Georgia dismisses the lawsuit filed by the daughter of a Holocaust survivor in “Borat 2”.
Judith Dim Evans’ daughter said her mother, who teaches the main character about the Holocaust in the film, was “horrified and upset” when she was informed after filming that Sacha Baron Cohen’s film was a comedy. Evans’ daughter sought the scene to be cut from the film. film, which debuted at Amazon Studios on Friday.
Evans died before this year.
Cohen and Amazon said Evans was inspired by the film’s scathing taste, that he encourages other unknown people to do things in front of the camera, right after the filming of the scene, and that he signed a form of resignation that allowed the use of his scene.
Cohen devotes much of his new film to mocking anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, and recalls the film to Evans, which he did with none of his previous films.
JTA
Lately, there are 12586 active cases of coronavirus in Israel out of a total of 311622 carriers shown since the onset of the epidemic, the Ministry of Health said in its evening summary.
This number includes 836 diagnosed cases and 480 detected so far.
The ministry says the number of critical patients is 464, 19 less than this morning, of which 196 are on respirators; of all other active cases, 123 are in moderate condition and the rest have mild or non-existent symptoms.
The death toll is 2463, more than this morning.
The Ministry of Health adds that today 26,172 tests have been carried out for the virus, with a positivity rate of 1. 8% for the effects gained today.
A video emerged of a police officer in the northern city of Tibeiades confronting teenagers who were dressed in masks, without himself.
Sunday’s incident turned into a violent confrontation, and the policeman noticed that one of the teenagers was being mistreated while wondering why he didn’t have a mask.
In the video, a teenager who records asks the officer, “Why don’t you have a mask?”The cop responds with “get out of here”. He ends up putting on a mask before appearing to attack the user filming, then tries to avoid another and push him into the team’s car.
– והקריות (@haifakrayot) 26 October 2020
According to police, the teenagers threw stones at the policeman and “when he tried to arrest one of them, the stone dam intensified. The young man fled with those of his teammates who continued to throw stones and curse the team. “
They say one of the teenagers was later taken in for questioning.
But police said the officer was also fined for not wearing a mask.
Lately, the use of the mask is mandatory in all public spaces, as Israel tries to escape a wave of national blockade of the moment. The fine for doing so is NIS 500 ($150).
A Turkish court sentences a worker from the local U. S. consulate to more than five years in prison for assisting in a motion that Ankara says orchestrated a failed 2016 coup d’eer.
State news firm Anadolu said Nazmi Mete Canturk, a Turkish citizen who worked at the Istanbul consulate as a security guard, was sentenced to five years, two months and 15 days.
But one diplomat told the AFP that Canturk will remain on the loose pending an appeal.
Another employee, Metin Topuz, a Turkish citizen working as a liaison officer for the U. S. Drug Control Administration (DEA) in Istanbul, was sentenced to nearly nine years at the same rates in June.
Canturk and Topuz convicted of having ties to the American Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen and his movement, which Ankara has declared illegal as a “terrorist” organization.
Both men denied the fees in their trials.
The persecution of the two men strained relations between NATO allies Ankara and Washington, which were already strained due to problems, adding to America’s failure to extradite Gulen to Turkey.
Gulen vehemently denies any connection to the attempted coup.
– AFP
BERLIN – Inspectors from the UN atomic control body have shown that Iran has begun building an underground centrifugal meeting plant after the previous one exploded in Tehran, a sabotage attack over the summer, the firm’s director told The Associated Press.
Iran also continues to store larger amounts of low-enriched uranium, but seems to possess enough to produce a weapon, Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told AP in an interview in Berlin.
Following the July explosion at the Natanz nuclear center, Tehran said it would build a new and safer design in the region’s mountains. Natanz satellite photographs analyzed through experts have not yet shown any apparent design symptoms in central Isfahan province. Iran.
“They started, but it’s not over,” Grossi says, “it’s a long process. “
It won’t give additional details, saying it’s confidential information. Iran’s project to the United Nations does not respond to a request for comment.
Natanz is home to the country’s main uranium enrichment facility. In their long underground corridors, centrifuges temporarily rotate gaseous uranium hexafluoride to enrich uranium.
Ap
A senior Hamas official, Mousa Abu Marzouk, announces that he has tested for coronavirus.
“The effects of the check showed that I was infected, I’m in good health, thank God,” Abu Marzouk, who heads the terrorist group’s foreign affairs department, wrote on Twitter.
Abu Marzouk is the newest of a number of senior Palestinian officials who have become inflamed with the virus in recent weeks. Hamas Vice President Salih al-Arouri was diagnosed with the new coronavirus this month before fully recovering.
The negotiating leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Saeb Erekat, remains at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem in critical but solid condition after headaches caused by his coronavirus infection this month. for the virus in more than two weeks.
Abu Marzouk recently visited Cairo with a delegation with several other important Figures from Hamas, adding Gaza’s deputy leader, Khalil al-Hayya. At the time of publication, there is no official update on whether they were being tested or quarantined.
– Aaron Boxerman
Dozens of companies are receiving letters from the tax administration, it is not easy to pay the advances they earned in the government grants that were distributed to them during the coronavirus crisis, according to Channel 13.
The report states that the letters, sent today, require sums of up to thousands of shekels according to the company, which adds interest.
One of the reasons given through the corporate tax government is that it was discovered that the advances covered all the amounts to which they were eligible in 2020.
Faced with complaints, the tax authority told Channel 13 that only corporations that qualified for the grants were asked to return the money and noted that commercial homeowners could appeal the decisions in their case.
The Ministry of Health urges a coronavirus test before categories 1 to 4 reopen in Israeli schools on Sunday.
In a brief on its Telegram channel, the ministry notes that teachers who undergo tests do not have to go to quarantine, unlike those who are tested because they have symptoms or came into contact with a proven carrier.
South African Jews celebrated this week what they say is the first time a man has been convicted of anti-Semitism in his country in two Twitter posts.
On Friday, the Randburg Magistrates Court found that Matome Letsoalo was guilty of insulting crime, a crime explained as “illegal and deliberate violation of the dignity or privacy of the person”, for two tweets addressed to the Council of Jewish Deputies of South Africa (SAJBD).
“This is the first criminal verdict in an anti-Semitism case in South Africa,” the organization said in a statement.
The sentence is expected to be broadcast on Friday.
In June 2018, Letsoalo tweeted, “@SAJBD The #Holocauste will be like a picnic when we’re done with all of you Zionist bastards. “them all, with photographs of those who suffered the Holocaust and a swastika.
In a momentary tweet, Letsoalo, a twentysomething guy from Polokwane in the north of the country, wrote that SAJBD “must be decimated. “We have Scandinavian rats, fake Jews, Zionist bastards running our economy. “
The SAJBD then filed a complaint against him, which led Twitter to the account. This week, the Jewish Coordination Group praised the Court’s verdict as a justification for its efforts.
“This result sends a blunt message that threatening and hateful attacks against our network will not be tolerated and that SAJBD will do everything possible to bring the culprits to justice, no matter how long it takes,” said the group’s president, Wendy Kahn. Said.
– Raphael Ahren
Israel will approve the structure of Jewish settlers’ houses in a delicate territory of the West Bank city of Hebron for the first time since 2002, said anti-occupation organization Peace Now.
He condemns what he calls “pressing” approvals before next week’s U. S. presidential election when Donald Trump confronts Democratic challenger Joseph Biden, who sees settlements as illegal.
Peace Now, which traces the structure of the agreement in the West Bank, says the Israeli army government has smoothed the structure of 31 sets of settler housing “in central Hebron. “
The israeli army’s signing for civil affairs in the West Bank, COGAT, has taken steps to approve new sets of settler housing in central Hebron in 2017.
Peace Now and the municipality of Hebron challenged the trial in court.
In 2018, it allocated more than 21 million shekels ($6. 2 million) to the project, according to Peace Now.
The Jerusalem District Court had told the state that the assignment might not continue until the legal challenge is resolved, with a hearing scheduled for January 31, Peace Now said.
But the Israeli government told the court Sunday that they would factor the permits within a week, the non-governmental organization said.
“The state hastened to factor the building permit even though the court explicitly made the decision that the paintings deserve not to begin before . . . audience,” says Peace Now.
– AFP
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, the new Israeli tsar on the coronavirus, Nachman Ash, to succeed in his new role.
“I thank you for your willingness to take on this challenging role,” says Edelstein on a stopover at Ziv Medical Center in the northern city of Safed.
It also referred to the signing’s decision to allow the reopening of businesses that can only serve one consumer at a time, starting on Sunday.
“Many other people who were unsustained for weeks, and I’m talking about cosmetologists, personal tutors, driving teachers, etc. , will return to work,” he said, according to Channel 12.
Edelstein urges Israelis to adhere to the rules, especially regarding social distancing and wearing masks, so that the country will have to re-enforce the blocking regulations that have already been lifted.
“As you can see, the number [of infections] doesn’t increase as it did at the beginning,” he says. “We are looking in fear and looking to get out of the lock gradually to a third lock. “
ATHENS, Greece – The Greek government says it will expand trade, power and army partnerships with Israel and other countries in the region to counter what it considers the hostile policy of neighboring Turkey.
Greece, Israel and Cyprus, all of whom disagree with Turkey over the power borders of the eastern Mediterranean, come together to promote defense and power cooperation.
They are committed to expanding cooperation.
“Our region does not date back to the 19th century,” Greek Chancellor Nikos Dendias said after an assembly in Athens with his counterparts from Israel and Cyprus, Gabi Ashkenazi and Nikos Christodoulides.
Cooperation projects come with an interconnection of the planned electricity grid between Israel, Cyprus and the Greek island of Crete via an underwater cable until the end of 2023.
Tensions in the region have soared since the summer, after Turkey extended its maritime oil and fuel missions to waters where Greece claims jurisdiction.
Ankara argues that it has been largely excluded from regional energy exploration, insisting that the Greek islands off its sea coast do not allocate maritime space for advertising exploitation.
Ap
Tens of thousands of protesters march in Bangladesh’s capital, the largest demonstration against France since President Emmanuel Macron defended the cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Muslims around the world reacted furiously to Macron’s defense of the right to mock faith after the murder of a French schoolteacher who showed his scholars caricatures of the prophet.
Protesters in Dhaka set fire to Macron’s effigy at the march, attended by 40,000 people, according to police.
Hundreds of armed officials use a barbed barricade to prevent protesters from dispersing violence before they can access the French embassy in Bangladesh’s capital.
The event, organized through Islami Andolon Bangladesh (IAB), one of the largest Islamist parties in the country, begins at the country’s largest mosque, which has approximately 90% Muslims.
“Boycott French products,” protesters shout, calling for Macron’s punishment.
Ataur Rahman, a member of Islami Andolon, said at the demonstration at baitul Mukarram National Mosque: “Macron is one of the few leaders who worships Satan. “
Rahman asked the Bangladeshi government to “evict” the French ambassador, while another protest leader, Hasan Jamal, said activists would “demolish all the bricks in this building” if the envoy did not order him out.
“France is the enemy of the Muslims. Who make them up are also our enemies,” says Nesar Uddin, a young leader of the group.
Even after the demonstration was stopped, protesters marched through other streets chanting “Boycott france” and “Macron will pay a maximum price. “
– AFP
It ended with the old, with what . . . Old. The Pensioners’ Party, which experienced a wave of discontent to mark a surprise in the 2006 election, is making plans to return, reports the Sister of the Times of Israel in Hebrew, Zman.
The exclusive report states that the initiative is led by former Knesset member and Mossad leader Danny Yatom, journalist Peerli Shahar and others.
Reconstituted plans to enlist a list of high-level names, adding retired Israeli-American basketball star Tal Brody and singer Yehoram Gaon.
Academic Avi Bitzur, who is also among the leaders of the initiative, told Zman that the party will be based on the fate of the elderly after the coronavirus pandemic.
“The time has come, especially after the coronavirus disaster, for retirees to gain all the political influence [they need], just like the Haredim,” he says.
“This is the way to fight all the tragedies that have happened in retirement homes, so that these things do not happen again, so that thousands of innocent people are not executed. “
Speculation has revolved around the fact that new elections will be held in the first part of next year, at a likely insurmountable severing point between ruler Likud and Kakhol lavan over the state budget.
PARIS – France is reinforcing security at sites as the interior minister says the country faces a “very high” threat of terrorist threats amid emerging geopolitical tensions following the beheading of an instructor who showed off his elegant caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
French diplomats seek to quell anger in Turkey and Arab countries amid protests against France and calls to boycott French products in reaction to President Emmanuel Macron’s strong stance against Islamism following the beheading of 16 October. Muslim-majority countries are angry about their defense of the caricatures of prophets that sacrilegious.
The French national police have called for greater security in the vicinity of the Feast of the Holy Next Weekend, specifically pointing to online threats from extremists who oppose moderate French Christians and Muslims.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told France-Inter radio that the terrorist risk remains “very high, because we have many internal and external enemies of the country. “
He reiterates his goal of testing the dissolution of Muslim teams that are perceived as sellers of damaging radical prospects or too much foreign funding. In particular, it accuses Turkey and Pakistan of “interference in the internal affairs of France. “
“There is a war that opposes an Islamist ideology. We won’t have to back down,” he said. But he insists that “the Muslim religion has its position in the republic. “
Ap
At least seven academics were killed and dozens more injured in a bomb attack on a Quran examining the elegance at a devout school in northwestern Pakistan, authorities said.
More than 60 other people were midway when the blast broke through the Madrasah in Peshawar, about 170 kilometers (about 100 miles) west of Islamabad, Waqar Azim said, a senior police official said.
“The explosion took place in a seminar of a Koran class. Someone took a bag inside the seminar,” Azim told the AFP.
He added that the user who left the bag left the convention hall before the explosion at the Jamia Zuberia seminary.
Mohammad Ali Gandapur, a senior police official, says that at least seven other people died and more than 50 were injured.
The death toll is shown through Mohammad Asim Khan, a hospital spokesman, who told the AFP that seven bodies and 70 wounded had been transferred to the facility.
“Most of the dead and injured were hit by ball bearings and some suffered severe burns,” he said.
All the dead were men between the 20s and 40s, he says. Teachers and children up to 7 years old are the wounded.
– AFP
The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health reports that 576 new cases of Palestinian coronavirus have been known in the last 24 hours.
According to the Palestinian Authority, there have been 199 cases in the Hamas-led Gaza Strip, the largest accumulation in a non-marriage day since the pandemic hit the coastal enclave last August. An additional 377 cases have been known in the West Bank, controlled through the Palestinian Authority.
The number of daily coronavirus infections has been higher but solid in recent months, basically ranging from 400 to 600 new cases depending on the day.
However, even Palestinian fitness officials have publicly stated that official figures correspond to the truth on the ground. While the West Bank has a population of approximately 3 million Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health conducts only 3,000 to 5,000 tests according to the day. .
The Ministry of Health claims to have carried out 4,212 tests in the last 24 hours, for an overall positivity of 14%.
– Aaron Boxerman
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is suing Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders after anti-Islam published a series of tweets opposed to the Turkish leader, adding one that called him a “terrorist. “
State agency Anadolu said Erdogan’s lawyer today filed an unscrupulous complaint against Wilders with Ankara’s attorney general for “insulting the president,” a crime in Turkey punishable by four years in prison.
Wilders posted an image of Erdogan dressed in a hat resembling a bomb in his head, with the commentary : “terrorist”.
Wilders continued to post tweets about Erdogan this week amid a developing dispute between Turkey and European countries provoked by Erdogan’s scathing comments opposed to French President Emmanuel Macron, adding comments on Macron’s sanity about his position on Islam.
Erdogan has been prosecuting others for alleged insults since taking office in 2014 and thousands of people have been convicted. More than 29,000 other people were prosecuted for insulting Erdogan last year, according to Birgun newspaper.
The complaint against Wilders, whose political career was largely based on his raucous anti-island rhetoric, accuses him of language “that insults the honor and dignity of our president and points to Erdogan’s personality, dignity and reputation,” according to Anadolu.
Wilders, who leads the biggest opposition in the Dutch parliament, ignores the Turkish criminal’s complaint and describes Erdogan as a “loser. “Wilders lived under maximum security for 16 years due to death threats following his anti-islamic rhetoric.
Yesterday, the Turkish newspaper Sabah, near Erdogan, published shots of Wilders and Macron, with the headline: “The two sides of hatred and racism in Europe. “
Ap
Defense Minister Benny Gantz makes a positive note on the prospect of a imaginable peace agreement with Lebanon amid indirect talks on demarcation of the maritime border between the two countries.
“I also hear positive voices in Lebanon that would possibly talk about peace and relations with Israel,” he says on a scale in a training session of the Israel Defense Forces on the northern border.
“There are words of welcome,” Gantz adds, Lebanese citizens want to know that Hezbollah, Israel, is their problem, because if Hezbollah attacks the State of Israel, Lebanon will pay the price. “
While Lebanon has reaffirmed that border talks with Israel are a purely technical factor and do not provide any standardization, Lebanese President Michel Aoun’s daughter is provoking outrage in her country over the concept of peace with Israel.
Claudine Aoun, a well-known Lebanese public figure in her own right, commented on the subject last month and has since repeated her comments on national television on several occasions. He tweeted about the factor on Sunday in widely shared and criticized comments in Lebanon. .
“Before we communicate about peace, we will have to demarcate borders and resolve land-like disorders,” he wrote on September 24, referring to the maritime border dispute and several minor land disputes.
Israel also downplayed the importance of border talks, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on 15 October that contacts can lead to a peace agreement.
The football leagues of the United Arab Emirates and Israel have signed a cooperation agreement, the first such agreement between an Arab country and the Jewish state, the clubs announced.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) comes after the United Arab Emirates in September was the first Gulf country to officially identify relations with Israel.
“The terms of the MOU come with joint workshops to talk about tactics to expand the marketing and promotion aspect of competitions, as well as maintaining speed with everything similar to sports and football progression technology, as well as the technical side in the football sector, the UAE Pro League says in a statement.
The announcement comes after Dubai’s Al-Nasr club, one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, first signed an Israeli footballer, Diaa Sabia.
The agreement, signed yesterday, “will contribute to the promotion of peace and cooperation and friendship in a way that serves [football] interests in both countries,” said Abdulla Naser al-Junaibi, president of the UAE Pro League. in a prayer.
Erez Halfon, president of the Israel Professional Football League, praised the deal.
“We hope that soon we will have the opportunity to continue forging collaborations in the [football] area also with our neighbors,” he said, according to the statement.
– AFP
Prosecutors say state-owned Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC), along with five former and current workers in the company, may be tried pending a hearing for their alleged role in an oil spill that devastated a nature reserve in southern Israel. .
Last year, an agreement was reached on an elegant lawsuit that will result in EAPC paying one hundred million shekels ($28 million) in damages following the December 2014 oil spill, considered to be the worst environmental crisis in the country’s history.
According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, some five million litres of crude oil were spilled into a broken EAPC pipeline, causing significant environmental damage to the Arava Desert and Evrona Nature Reserve.
According to a one issued today through the Ministry of Environmental Protection, on December 3, 2014, during the motion paints of a pipe, there was an engineering defect that caused the pipe to break, precipitating the oil spill, which caused damage to about one hundred people. millions of shekels.
It is suspected that the turn of destination is mainly due to the poor implementation of the EAPC’s own regulations, to which is added the lack of a detailed plan of the tables and the lack of coordination between the competent departments of the company.
Pfizer executives expressed some careful optimism about the possibility of offering a coronavirus vaccine in 2020, as the pharmaceutical company reported a decline in third trimester gains due to disruptions in fitness care that reduced demand for medications.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said the drug giant could deliver about 40 million doses to the US. But it’s not the first time Until 2020 if clinical trials go a long way and regulators approve a vaccine.
“If all goes well, we will be able to distribute the first number of doses,” Bourla says, referring to a US government contract. But it’s not the first time For Pfizer to deliver 40 million doses until the end of this year and one hundred million doses until the end of this year. March 2021.
But Bourla says the company has yet to meet the key criteria to compare the effectiveness of the vaccine. Pfizer said in the past that he might have knowledge in October.
Bourla says the company plans to register an emergency use authorization application for its COVID-19 vaccine in the third week of November, more or less in line with previous schedules.
When asked if it was “positive,” the vaccine would work, Bourla said, “I’m not positive, a vaccine will work. I’m cautiously sure the vaccine will work. “