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 summoned for asking about so much trash,” he told Haaretz. “All I wanted to say was that, finally, Netanyahu remembers talking about threats of rape, after all that we women of the left have suffered on the Internet from [his supporters]. But when she is his wife, suddenly is horrified. “
The Kremlin says 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 with 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, Channel 12 reports that more cities will be designated as “red”, their infection rate is very high and generates stricter limitations on the population.The new expected red cities 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 at 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 have been banned from accessing Uman, as Ukraine closed its doors to foreigners over the 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 Array standardization patterns …and reject plans for the annexation of the West Bank as “the Trump agreement of the century,” Baraka said.
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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.
The representatives will run a Jewish kindergarten, teach categories on 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 and will have to answer.”
Germany’s discovery that Alexey Navalny poisoned through the Novichok nerve agent shows that only the Russian state can be responsible, said the head 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 patients with COVID-19 in critical condition, thus strengthening reasonable medications as a popular 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 reduce 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 calls the result a “big step forward,” adding, “As impressive as those effects are, it’s a 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 workers who arrive at the rocket site and talk to those suffering from anxiety and shock, while offering them help and figuring out the kind of additional 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 called 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 is accused of an act he did not engage in and that the real killer is a woman whose call is blocked for publication through a court order and who suffers from an 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 politician and corruption investigator who is one of the fiercest critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin, 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 airplane emergency landing ..
He was then transferred to Charité Hospital in Berlin, 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 has approved a request by Defense Minister Benny Gantz to tighten restrictions on the return of the bodies of slain terrorists.
According to a statement from Gantz, previous restrictions had related to terrorists who are members of Hamas and other terror organizations, but he requested that all body returns be stopped except in extraordinary circumstances — 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 the cities with the highest infection rates, Gamzu says, drastic measures may be needed across the country.
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 a terrorist attack most likely last month, who continually stabbed a Palestinian, said he returned 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 win,” Refael Levi said on Facebook. The terrorist, possibly convicted, controlled to stab me 28 times and wounded 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.time, channel 12 Reports.
Cancellations of once virtually unknown closet meetings have a normal issue 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 highest Muslim authority, Al-Azhar, condemns French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s resolve to reprint the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, as the trial opened after the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris.
“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-breaking taboos make him a beacon of free speech for many but a lightning rod of racial insensitivity to others, ushered in Wednesday’s trial by republishing the debatable cartoons that had angered Muslims. Worldwide.
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 Deputy Ofer Shelah, known as a close confidant of leader Yair Lapid, called the primaries and said he would run for leadership.
“In recent days, I have told Yair Lapid that there is an urgent desire to renew the party’s image,” Shelad tweeted earlier.”You have to start with fast primaries … I’m going to run and .’I’ll be pleased that others do too.Without it, we’ll be an option and win.
Yesh Atid was formed through Lapid in 2012 as a vehicle for his political aspirations, and Shelah joined soon after. The party has not had a democratic procedure since its formation, with Lapid deciding his roster for the Knesset. According to party statutes, Lapid will have to serve as leader until the end of the 25th Knesset term (the existing parliament consultation being his 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 positions established towards 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.”
The main spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, Brigadier General 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 publication.
Two of the suspects charged in the act of rape itself are Issi Raphaelov, 28, and Ilizir Meirov, 27, both from Hadera. Two other minors have been charged, but their names have been released.
Seven others are suspected of other crimes, adding indecent acts, encouraging rape, conspiracy to conspire to consecrate a crime and not lend a hand to the alleged 16-year-old victim; they come with six unidentified minors and an adult named Osher Shomo, 19.Noga community near Ashkelon.
Other rates are expected to be set 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 the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, was 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 RevPAR (revenue consistent with available space) to increase significantly in 2021, that occupancy will become general again in 2023, and RevPAR to return to 2019 grades 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.
Israeli emergency service data Magen David Adom shows that antibodies in patients who have recovered from a coronavirus drop rapidly within weeks, reports Ynet news website.
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 be just the result of pattern size, other signs studied, and a plethora of other factors.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintains 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 it supports all measures that will promote regional peace “in a way that preserves the valid rights of other Palestinians and will allow the formation of a 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 de-escalate 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’ll do anything else, ” he said. It will open [the extreme].When you go to Thailand or anywhere else in Asia, you lower schedules and rates.”
In the midst of reports of heaps of scholars of the ieshivá who contracted coronavirus in the last days, a leading rabbi of the ultra-Orthodox network asked scholars not to be tested, to school closures and mass quarantines.
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky cites a “fear of great harm to the Torah” for his order.
According to the Ynet news website, some 800 yeshiva scholars have been discovered by COVID-19 in recent days, leading to thousands of quarantines.
The Supreme Court dismisses Malka Leifer’s appeal opposed to a decreasing court decision 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, saying that none of the arguments put forward through her lawyers indicated that she has 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 Channel 12.
Ukraine and Israel fear that the celebrations of the city’s ultra-Orthodox network could lead to a great infection.