The Times of Israel released Thursday’s advances as they unfolded.
A key suspect in the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old woman in Eilat this month denies committing a crime.
Before a hearing in the case, the guy told reporters in court that he had tried to attack the victim and had never assaulted her.
“The fact will be revealed, ” he said. You’ll listen to me a lot. We will respond in an orderly manner. “
The suspect is one of 14 arrested so in the case that shook the country.
Russian police announce an initial investigation into the cases of illness of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who fell into a coma last week after alleged poisoning and under increasing pressure from Western officials to investigate.
According to a report by a Siberian branch of the Russian Interior Ministry, Siberian investigators worked to “establish all cases of the incident,” conduct forensic studies, and gather evidence “possibly of probative value. “
Navalny, an opposition politician and corruption investigator who is one of President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics, fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia last Thursday and was transferred to a hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk after the plane made an emergency landing.
Over the weekend, he was transferred to a charity hospital in Berlin, where doctors discovered signs of “cholinesarase inhibitors” in his system. But the hospital in the German capital has not yet known an express substance.
His allies insist that he was intentionally poisoned and say it was the Kremlin, accusations that officials have denounced as “empty noise. “
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UN-backed talks on a new charter for Syria will resume today in Geneva after the Swiss fitness government gave the green light even though 4 delegates tested positive for COVID-19.
Talks, aimed at rewriting the country’s war-torn constitution, were suspended almost as soon as they began on Monday, when the effects of the check arrived.
UN envoy Geir Pedersen, who leads the interim talks between representatives of President Bashar Assad’s government, the opposition and civil society, expressed hope that they can pave the way for a broader political process.
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Hamas-led Ministry of Health in Gaza is sending coronavirus figures to the Gaza Strip.
To date, there have been 138 contagions in the territory, adding up to 63 active cases, and three other people died. Meanwhile, another 2269 people are quarantined.
For more than seven months, The Gazan authorities have largely prevented the spread of the virus, subjecting thousands of arrivals to the band to serious quarantine measures: at least 21 days in fitness facilities, particularly designated by the Hamas Ministry of Health for this purpose.
But in recent days, the government has detected the first cases within the community, which led Hamas to claim a lockout on Monday that is still in force.
A wider epidemic can simply overwhelm the suffering health care formula in the densely populated strip, home to some 2 million Palestinians.
Next week’s weekly cabinet assembly has been cancelled again, for a moment in a row. Authorities say Sunday’s assembly was cancelled due to the next stopover of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner.
This week’s assembly was canceled amid a coalition crisis over the state budget, which has since been temporarily resolved due to the postponement of the budget deadline. Another assembly three weeks ago was also cancelled due to coalition tensions.
Israel’s national airline, El Al, will make the first official flight to Abu Dhabi via an Israeli airline, according to Hebrew media.
The report is not yet officially confirmed. According to Reuters, the government has tendered the flight, but it is doubtful that El Al has selected it.
It would be the company’s first advertising flight in months, after most of its operations were closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The flight will feature Israeli and U. S. delegations, as well as Chief White House Adviser Jared Kushner, to engage in dialogue with Emirati officials.
U. S. President Donald Trump has said he would ask for a “drug test” for him and Joe Biden before the first presidential debate, but he shows no evidence of his suspicions about his Democratic opponent.
Trump said in an interview with the Washington Examiner that he had been intrigued by Biden’s functionality as the number one Democratic campaign.
The president has no concrete proof of his claims, but, he says, “All I can tell you is that I’m pretty smart about that.
“I’ve seen him in debates with everyone else,” Trump said, referring to other Democratic presidential candidates. Biden “almost incompetent, even incompetent and opposed to Bernie, is normal,” Trump continued. How’s it going?
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Germany’s foreign minister is calling for an end to army training in the eastern Mediterranean to ease tensions and create situations for NATO allies, Greece and Turkey, to face a dispute over energy exploration rights on the high seas.
Heiko Maas’ comments come when EU foreign ministers will meet in Berlin to convince GREECE, an EU member, and its neighbour Turkey to withdraw from the breaking point of the conflict.
Maas insists on the desire to “create situations that allow Turkey and Greece to resolve their disorders directly with others. “
“The precondition for these talks is for ongoing maneuvers in the eastern Mediterranean to come to an end,” he said. “Every aspect can make its contribution to this and thus create a space for diplomatic talks, as it is certain that the parties will not sit at the table if warships face the eastern Mediterranean. “
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German car portion manufacturer Continental shows that it played a key role in the Nazi war effort and used thousands of slaves in World War II.
Continental, the world’s largest rubber manufacturer at the time, supplied the Nazi war device as the horrors of the Holocaust unfolded.
Historian Paul Erker, who was commissioned through the corporation to study his relationship with the Nazis, says he has a “pillar of National Socialist weaponry and the war economy. “
The company used about 10,000 forced workers in its factories during the war, according to Erker’s 800-page report, adding prisoners from concentration camps, in what it called “inhumane” conditions.
The review shows that “Continental is a vital component of Hitler’s war machine,” says the company’s executive leader, Elmar Degenhart.
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A female doctor filed a complaint against a well-known rabbi, accusing her of sexually assaulting her, the Twelfth Canal reports.
The woman told police that she had come to see the rabbi to get a blessing, during the meeting, he asked her to take off her blouse and bra because she needed to read about her, she hesitated but did, how she touched her. breathing heavily and congratulating her on her breasts.
The woman said she felt in poor health and humiliated by the encounter.
Earlier in the day, acting police chief Motti Cohen told senior police officials that he remains the acting police leader at the moment, according to reports in Walla and Maariv.
“Due to the political scenario Array . . . it turns out that no permanent commissioner will be appointed to the police in the near future,” he told district commanders. “I will continue to lead the police as interim leader until another resolution is made. “. “
The factor in the appointments of senior law enforcement officials is one of the problems at the center of the coalition clash between Likud and kakhol lavan parties, the latter largely blocking the former’s attempts to impose more on appointments.
Amid repeated election campaigns and government infighting, Israel has been permanent police commissioner since December 2018 and a permanent prosecutor since December 2019.
Balloons with incendiary artifacts from the Gaza Strip began at least 15 fires in southern Israel the day, according to firefighters.
According to chimney and rescue services, the chimneys were relatively small, were temporarily shut down through firefighters and did not pose a risk to neighboring communities. Chimneys occurred in spaces without delay around the Gaza border, in the Hof Ashkelon, Sha ‘ar spaces of Hanegev and Eshkol.
Fire inspectors decided that all chimneys were caused by incendiary devices with balloons, according to the chimney department.
– Judah Ari Gross
The Russian military blames U. S. troops for the Russian and U. S. army car collision in northeastern Syria.
U. S. officials said a Russian vehicle had side-cleaned a U. S. soft armored military vehicle, injuring four Americans, while two Russian helicopters flew overhead, one 20 meters (70 feet) from the U. S. vehicle.
U. S. National Security Council spokesman John Ullyot accused the Russian military of “dangerous and callous actions” that violated conflict-elimination protocols between the two countries.
In today’s statement, Russia’s Ministry of Defense, the Russian army, had informed the US-led coalition of the leadership of a Russian army police convoy.
“Despite this, in violation of existing agreements, US troops tried to block the Russian patrol,” the ministry said in a statement. “In response, the Russian army police have taken steps to prevent an incident from him and continue to bring up his task. “
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Rabbi Shai Ohayon’s sister, killed in an obvious terrorist attack in Petah Tikva, blamed a dull reaction to terrorism over her brother’s death.
“These things happen because there is no [enough] punishment,” Hagit Yudkovich told reporters. “Our country, when it comes to the protection of its citizens, is involved in other issues. “
He adds that his brother Shai “was the purest thing, who faced his guilt the worst. “
Meanwhile, the pre-trial detention of the murder suspect, Khalil Abd al-Khaliq Dweikat, 46, lasted five days earlier. Dweikat, a Palestinian father of six young people from the Nablus region, had no history of terrorist activities, said the Shin Bet. .
THE UN Envoy for the Middle East, Nickolai Mladenov, expresses his condolences to the rabbi’s circle of relatives killed yesterday in an alleged terrorist attack.
“My deepest condolences to the circle of relatives of Rabbi #ShaiOhayon, who was killed in a knife attack near Petach Tikva in Israel,” he tweeted.
“Violence can never be the answer and will have to be condemned anyway. “
Border police evacuate a new illegal outpost reminiscent of an Israeli stabbed yesterday by a Palestinian aggressor.
An organization of 3 families and a handful of teenagers set up the overnight outpost on a remote hill in the West Bank between the Palestinian villages of Sinjil and Abwein, north of Ramallah. They called the site “Maale Shai” after Rabbi Shai Ohayon, 39. , who was stabbed to death in the Tel Aviv suburb of Petah Tikva.
The settlers, some of whom reportedly responded violently to eviction, locked in and above the buildings.
“The settlers oppose leaving the premises. Border police troops physically withdraw objectors,” border guards say.
According to police, one of the settlers staying at the outpost returned several times after being evicted and was “arrested for going crazy and for physical violence opposed to the troops. “
The evacuation video shows teenagers climbing on the roof of a prefabricated hangar to be dispersed.
– August @ariel_elharar_ 27, 2020
The settlers claim that a police officer punched a teenager in the face of the incident.
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A survey conducted through the Central Bureau of Statistics shows that one in five corporations (19%) said he wouldn’t do it for another three months under existing market conditions.
Meanwhile, 79% reported a drop of at least 25% in their income in August.
The survey shows that 11. 5% have lost their jobs since the start of the coronavirus crisis, while 6. 4% are currently on un pay leave.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that around 800 entrepreneurs participated in a video convention for those interested in industry relations with the United Arab Emirates.
At the conference, they learned about several applicable topics, such as adding permissions, submissions, investments, distribution channels, and more.
Foreign Ministry Director General Alon Ushpiz said the new standardization agreement with the United Arab Emirates has “huge benefits for trade, finance, investment and innovation for both countries and for the entire region. “
Police said they had settled the case of the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old woman in Eilat and knew the 17 suspects in the case; so far, only 14 have been arrested.
Eleven suspects are detained and three have been released on restrictive terms. Four are adults and the other minors.
“The victim’s testimony was found to be reliable and backed by evidence,” police said.
Authorities say they have been able to put the schedule together and investigators have reached all the suspects in the case and hope to conclude the investigation in the coming days.
Earlier in the day, one of the suspects admitted filming the incident, said he himself did not participate in the event.
The terrorist organization Hamas says efforts to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip have failed, according to the Lebanese television channel al-Mayadeen, affiliated with Hezbollah.
A source of the organization says that Qatar’s envoy, Mohammed al-Emadi, has left the territory and that the failure of an agreement is due to Israel’s insistence on “calmness in exchange for calm” that “calms down in exchange for the end of the war. “blockade “in the Gaza Strip.
He added that “the next few hours will see messages to the Israeli profession of youth teams on the ground. He says that “the profession reads those messages before things change and become something broader than that. “
In an interview with the radio of the previous army in the day, the tsar of the coronavirus, Professor Ronni Gamzu, expressed his frustration with the government, as he faces a strong complaint about efforts to prevent him from a mass pilgrimage to Uman in Ukraine for Rosh Hashaná’s vacation.
“Sometimes I think about entrusting the paintings to someone else,” Gamzu said.
“After all that has happened, are you looking to organize plans for Uman?” asked Gamzu, perplexed. He lamented the “obsessive care” given to the factor and cited a report that “the coalition president [Knesset] is doing his best” to allow it to move forward. “I need you to make efforts to reduce disease rates,” Gamzu said. I would like to see those who have [main] roles and decision makers pressure all sectors of society [to reduce morbidity] rather than deal with theft.
“I need the government to perceive that it wants to mobilize. Those in [leadership] roles have to make difficult decisions. Array. . . coronavirus thrives in countries where decision-making is too political, and my task is to avoid it.
Police say the evacuation of the illegal outpost “Maale Shai” in the West Bank has ended.
They claim that border police forcively evacuated settlers who refused to leave and barricaded themselves in the place. A user was arrested after returning to the site several times and attacking the officers.
An officer was injured in a violent confrontation with several troublemakers, authorities said. After the evacuation, seven illegal buildings on the site were demolished.
Outraged by the Israeli government’s efforts to prevent the annual pilgrimage to Uman, Bratslav’s Hasidic sect says it will never support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel’s Bratslav secretariat says the government “has shown that devout citizens are second-rate citizens and can be fought through each and every media. “While “protesting, flying, and congregating in hotels and restaurants is fine,” for those who wish to travel for devoted purposes, they “will do their best to thwart and denigrate, rather than running in combination in a plan that will allow Hasidim to travel. “
He said: “We never go to Benjamin Netanyahu or whatever party he is. Anyone who respects Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav deserves to do all they can to ensure the loss of those who fought for the rights of believers. “
The High Court of Justice says the government will have to stop the structure at mitzpe Kramim’s outpost in the West Bank and evacuate all illegally built houses within 3 years, overturning previous judicial and government decisions on the matter.
The court said the deadline was intended to allow the government to provide all citizens with good enough housing.
In a 2-1 decision, the judges said, “Much of the duty of the difficult and painful final results for the citizens of Mitzpe Kramim rests with the government and the conduct of those responsible. “
Right-wing leaders are dismayed, with Yamina MP Ayelet Shaked calling the resolution “cursed” and promising it, and Likud Coalition President Miki Zohar saying, “When it comes to demolishing Jewish homes, the High Court wastes no time. “
The courts ruled that Mitzpe Kramim’s houses were built on personal Palestinian lands, but in 2018, the Jerusalem District Court gave the green light to the houses and raised a policy known as “market regulation,” which is based on the concept that they were built in intelligent religion because their officials did not know that the land belonged to personal interests.
Russian President Vladimir Putin promises an army for besieged Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, while calling for a non-violent solution to the unrest and protests that erupted after a disputed election.
EU ambassadors to the capital Minsk denounce the crackdown on the opposition after the presidential election, in which Lukashenko, 65, declared overwhelming re-election, with about 80% of the vote.
The Belarusian man’s strong man with Putin had deteriorated before the August 9 election because Minsk had refused closer integration with Russia, and had even claimed that Moscow had sent mercenaries across the border to organize riots.
But Putin now promises an army for Belarus and says Russia has established a reserve organization for law enforcement officials to deploy if the stage deteriorates after the vote.
“It will only be used if the stage becomes uncontrollable,” Putin says, unless “extremist elements . . . are starting to burn down cars, houses and banks, and start seizeding administrative buildings. “
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U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo committed a “flagrant violation” of the Hatch Act by delivering a video recorded from Israel to the Republican National Convention, according to a complaint filed through two law professors with the State Department inspector general.
Former secretaries of state endeavoured in partisan political activity, i. e. in the nominating conventions of the administrations they served. Pompeo’s speech violated the 1939 law, which limits the combination of political and government affairs, according to the complaint filed Wednesday night.
During the speech, which was filmed as a diplomatic project that uses Old Jerusalem as a backdrop, Pompeo praised President Donald Trump’s foreign policy and also celebrated the relocation of the U. S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a particularly important factor for white evangelicals who are a very important voter bloc for Trump.
“This video is a blatant violation of the Hatch Act,” Claire O wrote. Finkelstein and Richard W. Painter, both law professors. ” Secretary Pompeo, at the same time as he was on a diplomatic project for Israel, gave a partisan political speech for a video of the RNC crusade in which he referred to the U. S. Embassy in Israel, saying that a candidate in a partisan election, Donald Trump, gets credits for moving that embassy. “
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Former Jewish House deputy Moti Yogev said the judges of the high court “have sided with the enemies of others and the state” in deciding that the spaces of an illegal outpost will have to be demolished, while the space of a Palestinian who allegedly killed an Israeli soldier will not be.
“We will restrict and balance the anti-national positions of High Court judges. Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria and the Land of Israel will grow stronger, God willing,” Yogev says.
Yamina’s deputy, Matan Kahana, says that “the High Court has the defender of the houses of the terrorists and the destroyer of Jewish homes. The High Court is disconnected, it has lost touch with reality. “
After Bratslav Hasidim threatened to withdraw his for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister told the rabbinine leaders that he was looking for a solution that would allow them to enter Ukraine and make a stopover at ouman’s pilgrimage site, the Twelfth Canal reports.
Previously, many arrivals in Ukraine had positioned themselves at Kiev Airport, arriving before Thursday at midnight deadline to enter the country before it closed its borders to foreigners.
The prime minister tells the rabbis that he is running to allow everyone who has already arrived in Ukraine to enter the country, while responding that more hasidim arrives.
Israeli aptitude strongly opposed the celebrations in Ouman, fearing it would serve as a means of transmission of the coronavirus.
Hundreds of others demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv and Haifa.
In Tel Aviv, protesters plan to march from Rabin Square to Begin Road, but police said they would block the march because it had been coordinated in advance.
So far, the protests have been peaceful.
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The head of the IDF’s Galilee Division said Hezbollah had tried to attack Israel and failed, Ynet reports.
“The day before yesterday, the return caused no harm to our troops in the Manara region,” Brigue said. General Shlomi Binder said in a rite that marked the appointment of a new brigade commander in his division.
“Our message to Hezbollah is transparent and transparent: we will continue to thwart his attempts [to acquire] any achievement. “
Ynet reports that several dozen Bratslav Hasidim who were detained at Ukrainian airports allowed the country to enter the country after the Israeli embassy intervened and applied for his permission.
Ukraine is now stopping flights from Israel in anticipation of plans to prevent foreign arrivals after midnight.
The Department of Health reports six coronavirus deaths, bringing the total to 883.
Since midnight, 1387 new instances have been diagnosed, bringing the total number of instances to 110,186, 21,589 active instances.
Of the patients, 410 are in serious condition, 115 are on ventilators and 170 are in moderate condition, the rest have or do not have symptoms.
Israel’s first flight to the United Arab Emirates will pass through Saudi Arabia, the Twelfth Canal reports, after Riyadh approved the flight route.
Citing senior aviationArray, the network says the basis for Saudi Arabia’s approval is the presence of senior U. S. officials on the flight.
It has been reported that El Al will perform the flight, after several have been considered.
Border police evacuate a new illegal outpost reminiscent of an Israeli stabbed yesterday by a Palestinian aggressor.
An organization of 3 families and a handful of teenagers set up the overnight outpost on a remote hill in the West Bank between the Palestinian villages of Sinjil and Abwein, north of Ramallah. They called the site “Maale Shai” after Rabbi Shai Ohayon, 39. , who was stabbed to death in the Tel Aviv suburb of Petah Tikva.
The settlers, some of whom reportedly responded violently to eviction, locked themselves in and over the buildings.
“The settlers oppose leaving the premises. Border police troops physically withdraw objectors,” border guards say.
According to police, one of the settlers staying at the outpost returned several times after being evicted and was “arrested for going crazy and for physical violence opposed to the troops. “
The evacuation video shows teenagers climbing to the roof of a prefabricated shed to be dispersed.
– August @ariel_elharar_ 27, 2020
The settlers say a police officer punched a teenager in the face of the incident.
– with Judah Ari Gross