The Times of Israel published Sunday’s events as they unfolded.
In a speech in a rite that marked the replacement of the head of the army’s National Front Command, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi said an army reaction opposing Iran’s nuclear program is a “moral legal responsibility and a national security order. “
“Preparing the home front for war is a task that must be accelerated in the coming years, especially in view of the possibility that we must act in the face of the nuclear threat,” Kohavi said.
“The IDF continues to vigorously prepare for an attack on Iran and will have to prepare for any and all advances and scenarios,” he said.
Kohavi claims that “the preparation of a military option opposed to Iran’s nuclear program is an ethical legal responsibility and a national security order,” adding that such preparation is “central” to the IDF arrangements and includes “a number of operational plans, the allocation of many resources, the acquisition of adequate weapons, intelligence and training.
A Channel Thirteen ballot shows that if far-right MP Itamar Ben-Gvir takes the lead from the devoted Zionist party of the current leader, MP Bezalel Smotrich, the party will win thirteen seats in the next election, out of the 10 planned under Smotrich.
The 3 more seats would replace the political map and give Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu 60 seats in his bloc of right-wing parties, one less than the majority.
With Smotrich expected to win just 10 seats, Netanyahu would have five seats in his bloc, according to the poll. Netanyahu’s Likud should win 34 seats, followed by Yesh Atid with 22, Blue and White/New Hope 12, Religious Zionism 10, Shas 8, United Torah Judaism 7, Joint List 6, Labor 6, Yisrael Beytenu 6, Meretz five and Raam 4.
The Yamina party now led through Ayelet Shaked so as not to cross the electoral threshold to access the Knesset.
Israeli television polls are unreliable, but they still advise politicians’ decision-making. The survey, conducted by Professor Camille Fox, sampled 703 respondents with a margin of error of 3. 8%.
Defense Secretary Benny Gantz meets with the head of U. S. Central Command. UU. , Michael Erik Kurilla.
“In my first meeting with Commander General Kurilla of CENTCOM, I highlighted the unprecedented defense relationship between Israel and the United States, as evidenced by the history of POTUS. I also highlighted CENTCOM’S IMPORTANT ROLE in maintaining regional peace and stability,” Gantz said on Twitter.
“Our discussion focused on the progression of regional challenges, adding Iran’s destabilizing activities through proxies and on maritime dominance. We also cover opportunities to deepen ties with the military and facilitate cooperation with regional partners,” he added.
Earlier, Kurilla greeted through army leader Aviv Kohavi.
“The joint interests of the United States and Israel and the continuing situations of security demands in the Middle East are a main explanation for the close cooperation between the US military and the Israeli army,” Kohavi said.
“In this context, we are advancing a state-of-the-art defense plan that will give a broad and precise operational reaction to the threats in the area,” he added.
The Ministry of Health’s online page is experiencing disorder and reports recommend that it was attacked through Iraqi hackers.
The site is recently available to Israeli users, but from time to time it is available to foreigners.
Three other people who have returned have been identified as carriers of the coronavirus’ new SUBvariant BA. 2. 75, the Health Ministry said.
One returned from India and both from France.
The variant is thought to be highly contagious, it is unclear whether it is more harmful than past mutations.
Barak Meshulam, the police officer killed this morning in a bomb attack in central Israel in a high-speed chase, is buried in his hometown of Kfar Saba.
Hundreds of others attended the funeral. His mother praised him, calling him “the salt of the earth. “
“My murdered son,” he cries.
His widow, Ariela, says she “will say every day what a father you were. You are my life, you are a hero. “
– ynet עדכוני (@ynetalerts) July 17, 2022
Back in Washington after his first trip to the Middle East, after visiting Israel and Saudi Arabia, U. S. President Joe Biden tweets that the U. S. will “continue Israel’s integration into the region,” as well as “efforts to negotiate a lasting peace between Israel’s and the Palestinian people. “
– President Biden (@POTUS) July 17, 2022
Prime Minister Lapid says he has told Treasury officials to come up with immediate proposals to avoid price increases on subsidized bread.
Lapid says he wants to stop the price hike altogether and has given officials three days to submit their proposals.
On Friday, giant distribution giants agreed to freeze bread costs, following a request for a pardon from Economy Minister Orna Barbivai.
Bread products with regulated or limited values come with sliced and uns sliced black and white bread, as well as challah. ($2. 45), which will take effect today.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the value of bread is the result of a global food crisis related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which is a major exporter of wheat.
Iran’s ideal leader pardoned or commuted the sentences of more than 2,200 prisoners, some of them sentenced to death, on two Muslim holidays, according to official sources.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “pardoned or commuted the sentences of 2,272 convicts” for the devout holidays of Eid al-Adha and Ghadir, which fall this month, one said on his online page.
The Supreme Leader grants collective pardons on special devout occasions, in coordination with the head of the judiciary.
The justice website, Mizan Online, reports that the prisoners were sentenced to death.
Last week, Muslims around the world celebrated Eid al-Adha, which marks the end of the hajj pilgrimage.
A senior official of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had in his country “the technical functions to make a nuclear bomb. “
Kamal Kharazi, head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, told Al Jazeera: “It’s no secret that we have the technical functions to make a nuclear bomb, we don’t have a resolution to do it. “
He says negotiations to return to the nuclear deal with the United States are complicated by mistrust between the parties.
He says Israel “is in a phase of weakness, and U. S. President Joe Biden will not bring it back to the front. “
It also warns that “targeting our security from neighboring countries will oppose a reaction to those countries and a direct reaction to Israel. “
President Isaac Herzog says he is “very saddened by the death of Officer Barak Meshulam, who was crushed and killed tonight during an operational activity. “
In a statement, Herzog said Israeli police officers “work day and night, and risk their lives, to protect civilians, and we are deeply grateful for that. “
He offers his condolences to Meshulam’s family.
At the weekly cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Yair Lapid said the United States and Israel “necessarily agree” on the need for a credible military vis-à-vis Iran at this time.
“We came here and asked to present a credible military risk from President Biden’s visit,” Lapid said. “We need the basis [of the global power’s negotiations with Iran] to be a credible military risk. What.
He said he had “made it clear to the president and his team that Israel opposes the nutransparent agreement and maintains full freedom of action, diplomatic and operational, in the face of Iran’s nutransparent program. “
He called Biden to Israel a “historic visit, with achievements in diplomacy, security and economics. “
Firefighters are struggling to involve wildfires ravaging France and Spain as Europe withers under an unusually high heatwave that the Madrid government associates with rising mortality.
Two massive fires that have ravaged pine forests for six days south of the town of Bordeaux, in southwestern France, have forced the evacuation of some 14,000 people, many of whom were going to spend their holidays in campsites.
In Spain, firefighters supported through the emergency brigades of the armed forces are looking to extinguish more than 30 fires that are ravaging the country’s forests. Spain’s Ministry of National Defense says “most” of its firefighting aircraft have been deployed. Many spaces have rugged and mountainous terrain that makes it difficult for crews to access the ground.
Drought situations in the Iberian Peninsula have made it especially vulnerable to forest fires, some caused by lightning, others by accident, and even some intentionally, after a warm air mass blew from Africa last week.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sent a letter of thanks to Saudi leaders “for their commitment, solidarity and firmness to our people” at the weekend summit with U. S. President Joe Biden.
According to the Palestinian Authority’s Wafa news agency, Abbas thanked the king and crown prince for “the national rights of our other people and their just cause, underscoring the end of the Israeli occupation of our land and the creation of an independent Palestinian state. “”With East Jerusalem as its capital, and thanks to the brotherly countries participating in the summit for their company and their competent positions towards the Palestinian cause.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid posts a photo of him hanging the so-called Jerusalem Declaration in the closet meeting room in Jerusalem.
The one signed through Lapid and US President Joe Biden during the latter’s stopover last week says Washington will “use every element of its national power” to ensure that Iran never acquires nuclear weapons.
Lapid says he hangs the “in the position intended for the ancients. “
The UAE has sentenced a US citizen and former lawyer of Jamal Khashoggi – the dissident Saudi journalist killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018 – to 3 years in prison for money laundering and tax evasion.
The lawyer, U. S. citizen Asim Ghafoor, will be deported, the UAE’s official WAM news firm reports, specifying when.
The UAE called Ghafoor’s arrest a coordinated move with the United States to “combat transnational crime. “Emirati state media said the US government had asked the UAE to investigate Ghafoor’s alleged tax evasion and suspicious cash transfers to the UAE.
According to police, the 17-year-old Palestinian arrested in the attack on police officer Barak Meshulam the day before is suspected of murder.
He will be brought before an opinion later in the day for an extension of his pre-trial detention.
The funeral of Meshulam, 29, will be held in Kfar Saba at 6 p. m.
Meshulam died early in the morning when he hit a checkpoint through a stolen vehicle that allegedly drove through the Palestinian teenager, suspected of having stolen it in the Tel Aviv area. Police were chasing him when he shot down Meshulam at a checkpoint on Highway 4. near the city of Raanana.
Meshulam married and had two children.
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