The Times of Israel publishes Wednesday’s occasions as they unfold.
Two Bratslav Hasidim in Uman a coronavirus before the celebrations of Rosh Hashaná in the Ukrainian city, reports Channel 12.
Ukraine and Israel fear that the celebrations of the city’s ultra-Orthodox network could lead to a great infection.
A woman questioned for several hours today on suspicion of sexual harassment against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, for a tweet in which she referred to her own joy at sexual harassment on social media, Haaretz reports.
After the Netanyahus complained last month that a Twitter user had risked raping Sara, Iris Boker wrote, “It’s a challenge similar to the risk of a bachelor’s rape.Wait for Bibi, whether it’s from an entire Arab village or From Sudanese immigrants…. After the rape, it’s imaginable to fix her terrible face as a disgruntled divorcee.And the insult, at all times comes Array..” Who’s going to touch you, you bastard?”
It is transparent that Boker indexed the threats she herself had gained in the past.
“I was quoted for asking me about so much crap, ” he told Haaretz.”All I wanted to say was that Netanyahu finally remembers talking about rape threats, after all we left-wing women have suffered on the Internet from [his supporters].But when he’s his wife, he suddenly gets horrified.”
The Kremlin said Russia is in a position to cooperate fully with Germany in the case of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after Berlin proved that he had been poisoned by a nerve agent.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: “In general, we verify that we are in a position and have an interest in fully cooperating and exchanging knowledge on this issue with Germany.”
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Ministry of Health figures show that 2901 cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed in the last 24 hours (between 19:00 on Tuesday and 19:00 on Wednesday), a new record, with the existing number of cases in 121023, of which 22836 are active cases..
Eight other people have died since midnight, bringing the national death toll to 969.
Of the patients, 422 are in severe condition (126 in fans), 159 are in moderate condition and the others have or have no symptoms.
Meanwhile, the Twelfth Chain reports that more cities will be designated as “red”, meaning that their infection rate is very high and leads to stricter population constraints.The new red cities expected are Bnei Brak, Nazareth and Elad.
Yair Lapid DEPUTY Ofer Shelah told affiliates that Yesh Atid needed a change, Walla reports, after Shelah challenged Lapid to a leadership career.
“Yesh Atid, led through Yair Lapid, is in a dead end, both electorally and politically,” Shelah said.”Yesh Atid wants a replacement in leadership, statements, and leadership.”
Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine, Yoel Leon, video the city of Ouman today to review arrangements for Rosh Hashaná’s celebrations on the Jewish pilgrimage under the limitations of the coronavirus, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
The ministry said Leon had met with the local governor, mayor, police officers and leaders of bratslav’s Hasidic sect in the city. The ambassador and governor agreed to keep in touch with the unrest endured by the festivities, which attract thousands of people.Israelis every year.
This year, many prevented travel to Ulaman, as Ukraine closed its doors to foreigners this weekend.
Leon said he had asked the government to “decisively deal with incidents of anti-Semitism.”
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is in Beirut for a week who will see him reunite with Palestinian factions on developing cooperation between his enemy Israel and Arab states.
Haniyeh’s visit, the first to Lebanon in 27 years, follows the announcement on 13 August that the Jewish state normalized relations with the United Arab Emirates.
Tomorrow, the Hamas leader will meet with representatives of Palestinian factions in infrequent talks on how to respond to such agreements and a Middle East peace plan announced through Washington this year, said the representative of the terrorist group in Lebanon, Ali Baraka.
The one at the Palestinian Embassy in Beirut will coincide with talks in Ramallah between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and representatives of Palestinian factions.
Thursday’s joint talks in Ramallah and Beirut aim to expand “a unified Palestinian strategy to deal with patterns of normalization …and reject plans to annex the West Bank as “The Trump Agreement of the Century,” Baraka says.
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Before challenging party leader Yesh Atid, Yair Lapid, in a previous number one on the day, the member of parliament for the Ofer Shelah party split to shape his own political party, Channel 12 reports.
Shelah weighed the factor in recent months and discussed the option with various people, but eventually will remain at Yesh Atid, according to the report.
Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden will travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, after a debatable scale through Donald Trump to the city amid new protests against racism and police brutality.
“Vice President Biden will hold a network assembly in Kenosha to bring Americans in combination to heal and deal with the demanding situations we face,” said a member of his team, pronouncing the vacation in the city where a black father, Jacob Blake, was shot.seven times in the back through a white policeman on August 23.
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The World Zionist Organization has announced that it will have permanent representatives in the Jewish network of the United Arab Emirates, its first permanent representatives in any Arab state.
Representatives will run a Jewish day care center, teach categories about Jewish tradition, organize occasions, and open a Hebrew school, WZO said.
“This is a vital milestone in the history of the Zionist movement,” OMZ President Avraham Duvdevani told the media.
“We will continue to paint in each and every sense of the bond between Israel and the Jewish communities in the diaspora.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had been the victim of an “attempted poisoning homicide” and that the goal was to silence him.
Merkel says there are “very serious questions that only the Russian government can answer and will have to answer.”
Germany’s discovery that Alexey Navalny poisoned through nerve agent Novichok shows that only the Russian state can be responsible, said the leader of the opposition leader’s organization.
“Only the state (FSB, GRU) can use Novichok.This is beyond doubt,” Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation, said on Twitter, referring to the army intelligence and internal security services of the FSB.
Navalny, 44, became ill after boarding a plane in Siberia last month and was first seen at a local hospital before being transferred to Berlin for treatment.
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New studies verify that various types of steroids help the survival of COVID-19 patients in critical condition, thus strengthening reasonable and popular medications for care.
Research into the combined effects of seven studies, conducted by the World Health Organization and published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that steroids decrease the death threat in the first month by about a third compared to placebo or the same usual treatment.Care in critical patients who want additional oxygen.
“This result opens up more options” for steroids, says Dr. Martin Landray of Oxford University, who led one of the studies.”The more there are in terms of availability, the better.”
Dr Anthony Gordon of Imperial College London describes the result as a “big step forward,” but adds: “For what those effects are, there is no cure.”
Steroids are cheap, have been and have been widely used for decades.Inflammation decreases, which develops in coronavirus patients when the immune formula overreacts to fight infection.This overreaction damages the lungs and can be fatal.These drugs are not the same type of steroids, that are used or used incorrectly for athletic performance.
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A 30-year-old woman was seriously injured in a fight in southern Tel Aviv.
She ran to Ichilov Medical Center with a head wound and is under sedation, according to medical authorities.
The International Alliance of Christians and Jews claims to have distributed 500 protective vests to social staff and caregivers in communities outside Gaza to protect them during rocket bombardment.
Sderot’s social worker, President Avner, said: “Most of the public is aware of the role social staff play in emergencies or crises.
“I am one of many social staff members who arrive at the rocket scene and talk to patients suffering from anxiety and surprise as they offer help and find out what kind of remedy they need.Just a week ago there were three rockets in one day, and I went to each of the places.
Yael Eckstein, president of IFCJ, adds that aid providers “are forced to react under fire.The protection of such social workers is essential at both the individual and community levels.”
Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi welcomes Saudi Arabia’s resolve to allow flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates over its territory.
“There is no doubt that relations between Israel and the Emirates are already creating a positive replacement for the Middle East, making it safer and more prosperous.”
The Supreme Court has convened an urgent consultation on Sunday to discuss recent progress in the Roman Zadorov case.
Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer told the parties that the court requested “clarification” on the issues, without offering further details to lawyers, the Twelfth Channel reports.
Zadorov, a Ukrainian-Israeli handyman, spent more than a decade in jail for the brutal murder of Tair Rada in 2006, claimed he had been convicted by mistake and called for a retrial for further evidence.
Zadorov’s lawyers, as well as many members of the public, insist that Zadorov accused of an act he did not commit and that the real killer is a woman whose call is blocked by court order and who suffers from intellectual illness.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces sanctions opposing International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and one of his most sensible aides, who oppose the investigation procedure of U.S. infantrymen for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.
The sanctions come with a freeze on assets in the United States or an issue of U.S. law and target prosecutor Bensouda and the court’s head of jurisdiction, Phakiso Mochochoko.
Pompeo had in the past imposed a ban on Bensouda and other court workers because of his investigation into allegations of torture and other crimes committed through Americans in Afghanistan.
“Today we are taking the plunge, as the ICC continues to target Americans, unfortunately,” he said.
Bensouda is also lately investigating war crimes opposed to Israel and Hamas from incidents in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in years.
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The German claims that tests conducted with samples taken from Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny show the presence of Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok.
Navalny, a corruption politician and researcher who is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics, fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia on August 20 and was transferred to a hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk after an emergency landing of the plane.
He was then transferred to the Berlin Charity Hospital, where doctors said last week that there were indications that he had been poisoned.
Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent, used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain.It is a cholineesterase inhibitor, which is part of the elegance of the ingredients that the doctors of charity originally knew in Navalny.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokeswoman, Steffen Seibert, demanded an explanation from Moscow.According to him, the German government will inform its Partners in the European Union and NATO of the effects and consult its partners “on an appropriate joint response”.
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The cabinet approved a request from Defense Minister Benny Gantz to tighten restrictions on the return of the bodies of the murdered terrorists.
According to one of Gantz, past restrictions involved terrorists who were members of Hamas and other terrorist organizations, however, he asked that all returns of bodies be stopped, unless they were ordinary cases, which were not detailed.
Coronavirus government tsar Ronni Gamzu criticizes Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky’s call for yeshiva academics to conduct tests for school closures and quarantine.
“The rabbi’s comments endanger the ultra-Orthodox public with a persistent infection,” Gamzu says.And this effect can go beyond the Haredi audience, he says.
Without significant replacement in cities with the highest infection rates, Gamzu says, drastic measures may be needed nationwide.
Learn more about Netanyahu-Sissi’s phone call above.A from the Prime Minister’s Office said he thanked the Egyptian President “for Egypt’s help in advancing stability in the region, especially in Gaza, and asked him to continue to lend a hand in the return of our prisoners and disappeared.”
Egypt is seen as a key player in alleviating tensions between Israel and Hamas along the Gaza border, adding the recent outbreak.
“Leaders discussed demanding regional situations and strengthening relations and cooperation in the areas.They welcomed the progression of relations with the United Arab Emirates.”
The victim of an alleged terrorist attack last month, who stabbed a Palestinian several times, said he rose three weeks after the attack.
Refael Levi was stabbed in Rosh Ha’ayin on August 15 at the site of a structure. Initial reports of the stabbings indicated that a fight had occurred, but officials later said he was under investigation as a terrorist attack and that the assailant was a Palestinian who had illegally entered Israel.
“This is my victory,” Refael Levi said on Facebook, The terrorist, possibly convicted, controlled to stab me 28 times and hurt me very, very seriously.I almost lost my life, but I won!
He adds: “Today, 3 weeks later, I get up … That’s my reaction to terrorism and that’s my reaction to the terrorist.They teach their youth to murder and hate, we teach our other people to live and love!”
זה הניצחון שלי! לפני כמעט שבועות נולדתי מחדש, נפצעתי אנוש ע”י מחבל בראש העין (כן זה אני) המחבל יימך שמו הצליח לדקור …
Refael Levi, 2020
While tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz remain high despite the delay in the budget term, and thus the risk of further elections, the weekly cabinet assembly will be canceled on Sunday, by day 5.channel 12 reports.
Closet meeting cancellations, once virtually unknown, have a normal affair in recent weeks amid the crisis within the coalition.
Political resources tell the Twelfth Channel that Netanyahu remains with Gantz for his combative speech on voting night to delay the deadline for the state budget.
Egypt’s top Muslim authority, Al-Azhar, condemns French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s resolve to reprint cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, as the trial began in the wake of the 2015 terrorist attack in his Paris office.
“The insistence on the act of criminals republishing these offensive cartoons increases hate speech and ignites the feelings of devoted followers,” the Al-Azhar Observatory Against Extremism said on his Facebook page.
The Al-Azhar Observatory condemns Charlie Hebdo’s reprint of a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad (PSL) “This act incites …
Al-Azhar Observatory for the Fight Against Extremism, 2 – 2020
Charlie Hebdo, whose taste for breaking taboo makes it a beacon of relaxed discourse for many, but a lightning rod of racial insensitivity to others, marked the beginning of Wednesday’s trial by republishing the debatable cartoons that provoked the wrath of Muslims around the world.
Al-Azhar, also the first devout establishment of Sunni Muslims, says the debatable resolution to reprint cartoons is “an unwarranted provocation of the feelings of nearly two billion Muslims in the world.”
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Yesh Atid MK Ofer Shelah, considered a close confidant of party leader Yair Lapid, has called for party primaries and said he will run for leadership.
“In recent days I told Yair Lapid of the urgent need to renew the face of the party,” Shelad tweeted earlier. “It must start with immediate primaries… I will run and will be happy for others to do so as well. Without this we will not be an alternative and we will not win.”
Yesh Atid was formed by Lapid in 2012 as a vehicle for his political aspirations. Shelah joined soon afterwards. The party has had no democratic process since its formation, with Lapid deciding on its roster for the Knesset. According to party statutes Lapid is to serve as its leader until the end of term of the 25th Knesset (with the current sitting of parliament being its 23rd).
Yesh Atid said in an official statement: “We are discussing the matter with the institutions.”
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan said on Twitter that the opening of Saudi airspace to flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates does not replace “the Kingdom’s company and established positions toward the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people.”
He added that Riyadh “appreciates all efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative.”
Israel Defense Forces lead spokesman Hidai Zilberman was quarantined after being exposed to a coronavirus patient.
Zilberman sits down and will continue painting from home as much as possible, according to the military.
The names of several suspects in the group rape of a 16-year-old woman in Eilat last month have been approved for release.
Two of the suspects charged in the rape act itself are Issi Raphaelov, 28, and Ilizir Meirov, 27, both of Hadera.Two other minors have been charged, but their names have been revealed.
Seven others are suspected of other crimes, adding indecent acts, incentive to rape, conspiracy to conspire to consecrate a crime and not lend a hand to the alleged 16-year-old victim; come with six unidentified minors and an adult named Osher Shomo, 19.Noga community near Ashkelon.
Other rates will be opposed to others later.
A U.S. consulting firm targeting the hotel sector predicts that Israeli hotels will return to their pre-pandemic profit levels until 2024.
However, the HVS Israel 2020 hotel market overview report, presented at a webinar organized through Israel’s Ministry of Tourism, was generally positive.
“We are cautiously positive when we have the ability of the Israeli hotel industry to recover at an accelerated rate compared to other countries in the Mediterranean region,” HVS said.”While this crisis is unprecedented and remains deeply uncertain, Israeli hoteliers have exceptional enjoyment of how to thrive in times of uncertainty.”
The report expects the RevPAR metric (revenue consistent with available space) to increase dramatically in 2021, the occupancy to become general again in 2023, and RevPAR to return to grades 2019 through 2024.
“We see that the stage is still fluid; forecasts will possibly be replaced over time and as the recovery rate clears up,” HVS says.
Data from Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom show that antibodies in patients recovering from a coronavirus drop precipitously within weeks, Ynet news site reports.
Knowledge of MDA also showed that 17% of cured patients produced antibodies at all, Ynet said.
Meanwhile, a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has mixed results: in a study of about 30,000 more people in Iceland, one of the largest to date, researchers found that antibodies can last about 4 months.
Unfortunately, there is no quick explanation for this discrepancy, and this may just be the result of the size of the pattern, other signs studied, and a plethora of other factors.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a verbal exchange with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
According to media reports, the two are discussing the standardization agreement between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi, and Sissi says he supports all measures that will promote regional peace “in a way that preserves the valid rights of other Palestinians and allows the formation of an independent Palestinian state, while maintaining Israel’s security.
Sissi also told Netanyahu that Israel and the Palestinians should remain committed to calm in the Gaza Strip, adding that Egypt will continue its efforts to lessen tensions.
Rabbi Marc Schneier, a New York-based rabbi with close ties to several Gulf states who has long advocated normalization with Israel, welcomes the new Saudi policy that allows flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to fly over its territory.
“Today’s announcement is historic and also marks the beginning of warming between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Israel,” he told the Times of Israel.
“While they are still deeply committed to the Palestinian people, this first step is vital and will have to be celebrated.”
Dassi Erlich, one of Malka Leifer’s alleged victims of sexual abuse, reacted to the Supreme Court’s ruling that she had compatibility for extradition.
“[Six] years and 70 audiences related to Leifer’s intellectual health!We are exalted, in spite of a whole end in sight!”she tweets.” During this tumultuous journey, there were times when it didn’t seem possible.”
“Bring September 21 and an extradition decision!”added, referring to the date set for one on which the Jerusalem District Court would ruled on Leifer’s extradition.
During this tumultuous journey, there were times when it didn’t seem possible!
Bring in September 21 and an extradition decision!
Beyond emotion! #bringleiferback
– Dassi Erlich #bringleiferback (@dassi_erlich) 2 September 2020
If Judge Chana Miriam Lomp of the Jerusalem District Court approves Leifer’s extradition on 21 September, Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn will have to approve the order; however, Nissenkorn’s court ruling and seal of approval can also be appealed to the Supreme Court.
Saudi Arabia will allow flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to pass over its territory when the two countries open their skies in the near future, Riyadh said.
The official Saudi news firm said Saudi Arabia would allow flights to and from the United Arab Emirates to and from the United Arab Emirates to pass its airspace “to all countries.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the decision: “Another breakthrough,” he said.This will reduce flight prices, shorten [flight] time and open up great tourism.It will open our economy.”
“He will do anything else,” he said. It will open [the end] is. When you’re in Thailand or anywhere else in Asia, you cut down on hours and fares. “
Amid reports of scores of yeshiva scholars contracting coronavirus in recent days, a leading rabbi of the ultra-Orthodox network called on scholars not to be tested, to school closures and mass quarantines.
Rabbi Jaim Kanievsky cites a “fear of great damage to the Torá” for his order.
According to the Ynet news website, some 800 yeshiva scholars have been discovered by COVID-19 in recent days, which has led thousands to be quarantined.
The Supreme Court dismisses Malka Leifer’s appeal against a lesser court’s ruling that the alleged serial paedophile has mental compatibility to be extradited to Australia.
This means that Leifer’s own extradition can now be discussed, after dozens of six-year court hearings that dealt with the factor of his intellectual health, which eventually led to a diplomatic break with Canberra.
The judges unanimously rejected Leifer’s appeal and said that none of the arguments put forward through her lawyers indicated that she had no mental compatibility to be tried and extradited.
Leifer is wanted in Australia on more than 70 counts of assaulting women she taught at an Orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne.He fled the country to Israel in 2008.
Two Bratslav Hasidim in Uman a coronavirus before the celebrations of Rosh Hashaná in the Ukrainian city, reports the Twelfth Canal.
Ukraine and Israel fear that the celebrations of the city’s ultra-Orthodox network could lead to a great infection.