The Times of Israel records Saturday’s occasions as they occur.
New statistics from the Ministry of Health show that 1140 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in Shabbat, bringing the number of infections from the start of the pandemic to 101856.
The ministry reported 10 more deaths, bringing the death toll to 819.
Of the 22,393 active cases, another 398 people are in severe condition, adding up to 119 with insufficient ventilation. Another 177 people are in moderate condition and the rest have mild or nonexistent symptoms.
The ministry says 27,112 tests were conducted yesterday.
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s party will issue an invoice extending Monday night’s deadline to approve a 100-day state budget, according to the Twelfth Channel, delaying the option of new elections.
Likud agreed to vote on the invoice as part of a compromise submitted through Derech Eretz MK Zvi Hauser, who will see it according to Kakhol’s components washing on a budget until the end of a hundred days, according to the chain.
The parties also agreed to form a committee to assess how senior officials are elected, the report says. No appointments will be made until the committee has reached its conclusions.
In addition, Likud and Kakhol lavan reportedly agreed to focus on the fight against coronavirus and the influenza pandemic during the winter, as well as possible security threats at the northern and southern borders.
Police arrested a suspect in connection with an alleged group rape of a 16-year-old woman at Eilat’s Red Sea hotel.
It’s time for the suspect’s arrest and the fourth since the investigation began.
“The police will today ask to enlarge the pre-trial detention of one of the minors who was arrested and tomorrow will bring the moment in pre-trial detention (hearing),” said a policeman.
Demonstrators gather at the prime minister’s home in Jerusalem and near Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in the coastal city of Caesarea in the face of protests opposing the prime minister tonight.
In Jerusalem, a few hundred protesters began marching from the Bridge of Agreements to the Prime Minister’s residence, despite the police’s refusal to allow the march.
There are a lot of police in the community and police have parked water cannons near the city front and near the Supreme Court, according to the Haaretz.
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White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a U.S. delegation to Israel and several Gulf states early next month on the Walla news website.
Kushner will be accompanied by Avi Berkowitz, US President Donald Trump’s peace envoy, the report says. National security adviser Robert O’Brien and Brian Hook, Iran’s pointer to the U.S., are also expected to sign up for the trip.
The announcement to the region follows the standardization agreement negotiated by the United States between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Precautionary sirens in the south were activated through a “failed [rocket] launch” through Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, to the military, indicating that the projectile landed in the strip.
The site of rocket chimneys comes amid increased tensions at the border that have noticed normal premeditated fires and rocket chimney sites from Gaza, as well as Israel’s nightly retaliation in the Hamas-led enclave.
Balloon incendiary devices introduced from Gaza have so far triggered 35 fires in the south, according to public broadcaster Kan.
NEW YORK – The world is now taking a dark step towards the coronavirus with 800,000 deaths shown and nearly 23 million cases shown.
That’s according to a Johns Hopkins University account. Governments have tried to balance public fitness with economic fitness.
Officials that genuine numbers are much higher due to lack of evidence and reporting. In the United States, the country with the highest infections, fitness officials estimate that there may be only 10 times as many cases than the confirmed 5.6 million. The United States also leads the world in terms of deaths, with more than 175,000 people.
The news comes when South Korea, once regarded as a good fortune story by the coronavirus, bans giant gatherings, shuts down nightclubs and churches, and bans professional sports enthusiasts to stop the viral resurgence. Germany, which also first slowed down the virus, now reports a peak of more than 2,000 cases in 4 months. Schools reopened two weeks ago, and at least 41 schools reported this week that students or teachers were infected.
In the United States, schools have begun to reopen, with coronavirus outbreaks causing closures, quarantines, and anxiety among parents.
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Rocket warning sirens sound on the border of Gaza, the city of Sderot and near the city of Ibim.
The IDF says that’s the problem.
Demonstrators are expected to gather in Jerusalem and tonight oppose Prime Minister Netanyahu as part of the ongoing protests over the prime minister’s political trial over corruption fees and control of the coronavirus pandemic.
As in recent weeks, the protests will be in the Prime Minister’s apartment in Jerusalem. Smaller demonstrations are also expected in front of Netanyahu’s personal home in the coastal city of Caesarea, as well as on roads, intersections and viaducts across the country.
In Jerusalem, protesters attempted to march from the agreement bridge at the front to the paris Square in front of the minister’s residence, but police refused to approve the march, saying it would interfere with the residents’ traffic and habits. Police proposed several alternatives, but they were rejected.
“We will not let them suppress the protests. We’ll walk with you or without you. Their role is to protect us, our role is to protect a country that is collapsing,” the organizers said of the occasion in a quote through Walla. news website.
In the run-up to the imaginable new elections, Meretz MEP Tamar Zandberg is asking the Kakhol Lavan party to abandon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and form an election government, saying there is a majority in the Knesset to do so.
“The center-left block has a majority [of] 61 in the existing Knesset. All you want is for Kakhol to lavan to vote on Monday in favor of constructive distrust [vote] … and there’s a government that approves a budget and be to deal with citizenship and not with itself, without election or racism,” she wrote on Twitter.
Despite Zandberg’s assertion, there does not appear to be a majority in the Knesset for this decision, as Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel and mp Zvi Hauser of Kakhol Lavan’s Derech Eretz faction, which would be necessary, have ruled in the past with the Arabs. majority party to form a government without Netanyahu.
Israel warns of an ecological crisis in southern Israel as wastewater from the Gaza Strip crosses the border.
Officials allege that today’s flight is an act planned through Palestinians in the Hamas-led gang.
“In recent days, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have threatened that if there was no fuel for wastewater turbines in the strip, they would close and everything would pass to Israel. Apparently, they went through the threat,” said one official, according to Ynet’s news website.
Residents of southern Israel, near the northern component of Gaza, report a strong smell of sewage.
Israeli officials are concerned that if sewerage facilities in Gaza resume operations, the scenario will worsen more and thousands of cubic meters of sewage will flood the region.
The wastewater treatment plant that stopped operating treats the wastewater of the Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun communities in Gaza in northern Gaza. After preventing operations, sewage was redirected to the Hanoun Riverbed, which crosses the border and connects to the Shikma River in southern Israel.
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish air and naval forces are conducting joint training in the Aegean Sea, the country’s Defense Ministry said amid tensions with neighboring Greece over oil discoveries.
F-16 fighter jets participated together with warships to “strengthen, maintain and operationally operationally operate joint operations between forces,” the ministry tweeted.
The announcement came as NATO members Turkey and Greece are facing off in the eastern Mediterranean Sea over gas and oil exploration and a day after Turkey declared significant gas discoveries in the Black Sea.
Two weeks ago, Turkey sent a study ship escorted through a warship to conduct surveys in waters where Greece claims exclusive rights on the underlying seabed. Athens responded by sending its own warships to the region and putting its army on alert. France has also sent warships and planes to join training with Greek forces.
Greek officials said the United Arab Emirates will also send fighter jets to the island of Crete in southern Greece for joint education next week.
Relations between Greece and Turkey have been strained. The two have reached the breaking point of the war three times since the mid-1970s, once adding the rights to explore to drill in the Aegean Sea separating the two countries.
France’s relations with Turkey are strained by Ankara’s involvement in Libya’s civil war. The United Arab Emirates is a staunch rival of Turkey in a broader struggle for political Islam, while Abu Dhabi and Ankara are rival factions in Libya.
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New statistics from the Ministry of Health show that 1,140 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in Shabbat, bringing the number of infections from the start of the pandemic to 101856.
The ministry reported 10 more deaths, bringing the death toll to 819.
Of the 22,393 active cases, another 398 people are in severe condition, adding up to 119 with insufficient ventilation. Another 177 people are in moderate condition and the rest have mild or nonexistent symptoms.
The ministry says 27,112 tests were conducted yesterday.