The Times of Israel publishes Tuesday’s news as it unfolds.
The closet secretary said a so-called coronavirus closet assembly on measures to reopen the economy has been delayed pending the final touch of a series of consultations.
He didn’t say when the meeting, which was scheduled for 3 p. m. today, scheduled to take place, but Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein tried to delay it until Thursday.
The Health Minister says the infection rate is still too high to merit discussions about lifting the blockade.
Direct flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, which are expected to begin in October after a historic standardization agreement, will have to be postponed until January due to coronavirus, an Israeli official said.
The air link announced after the two states signed the agreement at the White House last month aims to open tourism and new commercial enterprises despite the slowdown in COVID-19.
But a momentary blockade in Israel, which now has one of the world’s consistent per capita infection rates, put plans on hold, undermining hopes for immediate gains.
“I feel with COVID that we are running with our hands behind our backs,” Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum told the AFP on a stopover in Dubai, a member of the United Arab Emirates.
“It was intended that there would be direct flights in October, and then Israel stopped. Now, when I contact here and there, we look to January 1,” says Hassan-Nahoum, who is also co-founder of UAE-Israel Business Council.
Despite the delay, Hassan-Nahoum said the tourism sector will be one of the first to gain advantages from the standardization agreement.
The deal took everyone by surprise, so there are few projections from the company, however, it says industry experts estimate between 100,000 and 250,000 visitors a year.
– AFP
Gamzu, the tsar of the coronavirus, says that if the cabinet assembly is postponed until Thursday, the closure should be extended for at least a few days.
“Because everything is very fresh, I suppose I will have a verbal exchange in the coming hours with the Minister of Health and the Prime Minister, and decisions will be made,” he said in Jerusalem.
“I have to listen to what they have to say,” he adds. I’ve still been informed of the postponement of the closet meeting.
“I have a scheduled verbal exchange with the Prime Minister and, of course, if the cabinet assembly is postponed until Thursday, we will have to extend lockdown regulations in a few days. “
Lebanese President Michel Aoun meets with the delegation of Lebanese officials who will start talks on the maritime border with Israel in the morning, according to the official Lebanese national news agency.
Aoun ruled out any option for discussions to lead to additional normalization with the Jewish state. Partly due to memories of a 1982 Israeli invasion and the next 18 years of profession in southern Lebanon, Beirut has long taken a tough stance on relations with Israel. and has banned its citizens from communicating with Israelis.
“President Aoun pushes for these negotiations to be technical and express to the demarcation of maritime borders, and for discussions to be limited to this express issue,” says the LNNA.
“President Aoun expressed the hope that a just solution will be found to protect the sovereign rights of Lebanese,” the Aoun press said in a statement.
– Aaron Boxerman
Eitan Haber, a former journalist and political assistant closest to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, is buried in Tel Aviv.
He died Wednesday at the age of 80 after fighting a serious illness for 3 years. He was the official who issued a poignant announcement of Rabin’s murder death on the night of November 4, 1995.
The funeral, held in accordance with the restrictions of the coronavirus, is attended by a small number of family and friends, as well as former Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, as the daughter of former Haber chief Dalia Rabin-Pelossof.
“We say goodbye to Eitan, a guy who left a mark on everyone who fell,” said Barak, who served under Rabin. “Those who were worldly and those who were not, families struck terror and the other people with damaged hearts whose enjoyed beings were suddenly abducted.
“A humble man, without sharp elbows, with a calm tone who has never risen,” Barak said, according to the Ynet news website. “In those days of incitement and polarization, we have followed the example of Eitan’s actions. “
Lau also mentions the desire for national unity and take Rabin and Haber’s quotes as an example.
“A few days after the news, we are immersed in our memories,” says Lau.
“Twenty-five years have passed [since Rabin’s assassination],” he adds. “We will have to be informed today, especially at a time when the divisions are deep and the lava is bubbling; we will have to be informed from this couple. ” the division, despite the other education, when there is a purpose, the other Jewish people and the Land of Israel will lay down the golden path to eternity.
The World Health Organization said European countries reported more than 700,000 new cases of coronavirus last week, the number since the start of the pandemic.
At a weekly briefing today, WHO says virus instances and weekly deaths in Europe have more than 34% and 16%, respectively. Britain, France, Russia and Spain accounted for more than part of the new instances in the region.
WHO notes that the number of new cases reported in Spain has shown a “significant decrease” compared to recent weeks. But in Poland, WHO says virus cases and deaths have increased by 93% and 104%, respectively, and that the government has tightened check-out restrictions on some other blockade.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this week that the firm understood the frustration felt by others as the pandemic continued, but warned that “there are no shortcuts or magic solutions. “
WHO described the blockade as a “last resort” when countries have no other characteristics and suggested that officials use more specific strategies to prevent the virus.
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A senior Ministry of Energy official is cautiously positive about maritime border talks with Lebanon, which are expected to begin in the morning.
“If the other aspect addresses conversations with a pragmatic approach, I hope we can resolve the dispute and move forward in a short period of time: weeks, months,” the senior official told diplomatic journalists in a briefing, speaking under anonymity. .
“Of course, if the other parties intend to win victory over the ‘Zionist enemy’, then they can continue to celebrate victories as they have for the past 10 years,” he adds ironly, adding that existing Israel. on the precise delimitation of maritime borders takes place over a decade.
The official presses that the talks, which will begin tomorrow at 10 a. m. in a tent at a United Nations base north of the border, deserve not to be in the beginning of a standardization procedure similar to that of the United Arab Emirates. or Bahrain. On the contrary, they focus exclusively on resolving the maritime border dispute to allow either country to start looking for herbal fuel on its side of the border.
– Raphael Ahren
Cabinet ministers told Ynet news that a coronavirus cabinet assembly scheduled for today could be postponed until Thursday amid disagreements over a strategy to reopen the economy as Israel’s closing moment comes to an end.
The report notes that the differences between the other ministries are linked, inter alia, to the reopening of kindergartens and kindergartens, the reopening of haredi yeshivas and the lifting of the one-kilometre limit.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz, responding to the news that the assembly could simply be postponed, said: “The debate over an exit strategy can no longer be postponed. Small businesses continue to collapse and we have to intentionally send young people [to school and kindergarten].
Ronni Gamzu, the government’s coronavirus tsar, seems to agree with the resolve to postpone the meeting.
“I just found out,” he said before giving a briefing in jerusalem municipality. “In any case, there would have been no final decisions today on the flexibility [of blocking conditions], but general lines. “
The cabinet secretary said an assembly of the so-called coronavirus cabinet on measures to reopen the economy has been delayed pending the final touch of a series of consultations.
He didn’t say when the meeting, which was scheduled for 3 p. m. today, scheduled to take place, but Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein tried to delay it until Thursday.
The Health Minister says the infection rate is still too high to merit discussions about lifting the blockade.