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The Times of Israel has been blogging about Thursday’s events as they unfold.
One of the two men who were arrested in the case of the disappearance of haredi teenager Moshe Klinerman is unconditionally released through the police.
Police revealed earlier this week that two suspects had been arrested in the case more than four months after Klinerman, 16, was last seen in Mount Meron. Earlier that day, police named one of the suspects as Solomon Abramov, 35, of Jerusalem, who is still in custody.
Klinerman, 16, was last seen on March 25 at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on Mount Meron. Despite months of studies and public calls from his parents, no trace of him has been found.
WASHINGTON — The United States hopes the governments of Israel and Russia can succeed in a deal that “preserves the ability of Jews from Russia to Israel,” a State Department spokesman told The Times of Israel.
Asked to comment on Russian efforts to ban the Jewish Agency over allegations that it is illegally collecting data from Russian citizens, the spokesman said the State Department is aware of and tracking the issue.
The merger this week of MPs Ayelet Shaked and New Hope Yoaz Hendel and Zvi Hauser of Yamina will push the new ones above the electoral threshold, according to a new ballot through the Twelfth Channel.
Yamina voted below the electoral threshold in unreliable but influential Israeli election polls. Earlier this week, he joined Hendel and changed the faction’s name to “Zionist Spirit. “
The survey conducted through Mano Geva and iPanel today with 503 respondents and a margin of error of 4. 4%.
The ballot shows Likud getting 33 seats, Yesh Atid 23, Blue and White – New Hope 11, Zionism 9, Shas 8, United Torah Judaism 7, Joint List 6, Meretz 5, Labor 5, Yisrael Beytenu 5, Spirit Zionist four and Rama four.
Neither the unwavering bloc before opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu nor his conflicting parties can form a smooth government. The Zionist spirit has ruled out sitting down with Netanyahu, but has promised to provide him with the last seats he wants to form a narrow right-wing coalition. .
The ballot also shows that if Zionism is split in two, and Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich run separately, they will get 7 and four seats respectively.
WASHINGTON – Ten progressive Democrats are holding a news conference on Capitol Hill with relatives of Shireen Abu Akleh, calling on Biden’s management to open an independent investigation into the killing of the Palestinian-American journalist.
Rep. Andre Carson, who introduced a law requiring the U. S. government toThe U. S. Press releases an investigation into the May 11 incident, calls the killing an “attack on the fourth estate, freedom of the press” and says Israel is in favor.
Even after death, dehumanization stops,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib said, referring to the beating of Israeli policemen who opposed Palestinian porters at Abu Akleh’s funeral.
He points out that the popular procedure is for the U. S. government toThe U. S. government investigates the killing of U. S. citizens and deplores the fact that the policy has not been maintained in abu Akleh’s case.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling on U. S. President Joe Biden to meet with Abu Akleh in Washington at the invitation of Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Addressing the circle of relatives at the press conference, Rep. Ilhan Omar added, “I hope you know that you have allies in Washington who may not allow your death to be in vain. “
The State Department announced last month that while the IDF was likely his assassination, ballistic investigation revealed that the bullet was too broken to succeed in a definitive conclusion. In addition, after analyzing the investigation of the Palestinian Authority and Israel on the matter, the U. S. government is not involved in the investigation of the Palestinian Authority and Israel. that Abu Akleh had not been deliberately killed.
Two Israelis were found dead as a result of a turn of the traffic fate in the Sinai desert the day before, the Foreign Ministry showed.
Five other Israelis were slightly injured by a twist of fate in Sinai’s Nuweiba domain and were taken to Israel for treatment.
Three other people are killed in a turn of the traffic destination on Highway 6 near Kiryat Gat, according to first responders.
According to Magen David Adom, a boy and a woguy in his 40s and another boy in his 30s were pronounced dead at the scene as a result of a twist of fate between two vehicles.
Israeli police are revealing the call of one of the two men arrested in connection with the disappearance of teenager Haredi Moshe Klinerman.
Solomon Abramov, 35, of Jerusalem, is one of the suspects recently arrested, a court reveals, all other major points of the case remain under gag order.
Klinerman, 16, was last seen on March 25 at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on Mount Meron. Months later, there was little progress in the case and no trace of it was found.
Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett discusses a rare meeting with Mossad leader David Barnea, categorically and flatly denying a Haaretz report claiming that his former adviser, Shimrit Meir, leaked classified data about a covert operation.
Bennett and Barnea deny that they ever suspected Meir leaking data or investigating such a leak. Instead, they say, they were all coordinated and worked together to release the data for “necessary operational reasons. “
They call the Haaretz article “complete nonsense” and say Meir, who harshly criticized Bennett after he left, only operated in a completely professional manner and in coordination with Bennett.
He also denounces the report as a misogynistic “collection of gossip” fueled by “two disgruntled advisers who deserve to have devoted more time to the vital cadres entrusted to them, not jealousy, gossip and infighting. “
Bennett, who is the current interim prime minister and is not running in the next election, has kept a low profile since leaving office.
Benny Begin, recently a member of Parliament for the New Hope Party, announces that he will retire from politics and stand for election on November 1.
Begin, 79, the son of former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, began his political career with Likud in 1988 and then served as a minister.
But last year, he left his longtime political hotbed, Benjamin Netanyahu, and joined Gideon Saar’s New Hope party.
Begin tells Saar that he will continue on a crusade for the party, which recently partnered with Benny Gantz’s Blue and White.
A Lebanese man who crossed the Israeli border near the town of Margaliot on Tuesday was returned to Lebanon, according to the army.
According to the IDF, the suspect detained through civilians before being arrested through soldiers.
The unarmed guy was interrogated and returned to Lebanon near where he entered Israel through the United Nations peacekeeping force, UNIFIL.
French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss human rights issues and “individual cases” with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at a dinner hosted tonight, a senior official said.
“The president will raise the human rights factor as he does on any and all occasions with Mohammed bin Salman,” the aide said on condition of anonymity. “He will communicate about it in a general way, but he will also take the opportunity to evoke specific cases,” he adds.
Asked about the denunciation of the dinner just 4 years after the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, he reiterates France’s long-standing call for the culprits to be “brought to justice. “
The Israel Defense Forces said helicopters took off toward the Egyptian border to evacuate several Israeli tourists injured in a twist of fate in the Sinai Peninsula.
Troops from the elite helicopter search and rescue unit 669 will participate in the efforts, according to the IDF.
Hebrew-language media reports that Egypt has given Israel special permission to fly the helicopters to Egypt, but the IDF says troops will pick up the wounded at the border.
The injured will be taken to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.
Moscow’s former rabbi, who now lives in exile in Israel, warns of “dark clouds on the horizon” for Russian Jews, as ties between the two countries worsen following the war in Ukraine.
Pinchas Goldschmidt, who left Russia in March for opposing the conflict, told reporters that “the Jewish network has been under pressure . . . to blatantly wage war. Our network did not make war.
“It’s worrying” and there are “a lot of dark clouds on the horizon” for Russian Jews, he said, adding that “their safety and future . . . they count on relations between Israel and Russia. “
He said Moscow’s moves opposing the Jewish Agency, among other incidents, have fueled “fear of anti-Semitism,” causing tens of thousands of people to flee to Israel since the war began.
Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata said Israel is in a position to respond to the Russian government’s legal claims opposing the Jewish Agency and make any mandatory changes to allow the organization to continue operating in the country, after today’s initial hearing.
“The Israeli government is offering legal assistance to the Jewish Agency to deal with the allegations made against it through the Russian Ministry of Justice, and I am sure that the matter will be resolved quickly. Although it will require some adjustments, we are ready for it,” says Tamano-Shata.
Earlier in the day, a Moscow district court held its first hearing in the case of the Russian government opposing the Jewish Agency, which encourages Jewish immigration to Israel. Little was raised at today’s hearing, but the ruling has scheduled the actual start of the trial for August 19.
Russian movements in the Kyrovograd region in central Ukraine left five dead and more than two dozen injured, the region’s governor said.
“Twenty-five other people have been transferred to medical services and are receiving care. Five died,” Gov. Andriy Raikovich said in a video on his social media.
He added that the movements reached two hangars around 12:20 p. m. (09:20 GMT).
News firm Interfax-Ukraine quotes Raikovich as saying there are 12 among the injured.
Turkish NBA star and human rights activist Enes Kanter Freedom lands in Tel Aviv to host a basketball camp for people from all walks of life this summer.
Kanter posts a video of his landing near Tel Aviv on his Instagram story.
The basketball player, who is lately a loose agent, is very outspoken about his beliefs, and opposes the NBA’s cooperation with the Chinese government as is customary in his home country of Turkey.
He said in interviews that he deplores the anti-Israel rhetoric he hears in Turkey and from its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Foreign Ministry confirms reports that several Israeli tourists were injured in a twist of fate in Egypt’s Sinai desert.
The ministry says two Israelis are in danger of death. The turn of fate took hold in the Nuweibaa region of Sinai.
The families of those affected have not yet been informed, the ministry said, and asked the media not to provide any identifying information.
Yad Vashem President Dani Dayan strongly criticizes this week’s statements by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban that Hungarians “don’t want to be mestizos. “
“What was done by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is too reminiscent of ideologies related to the terrible atrocities of the Holocaust,” Dayan said in an Array. “The Holocaust teaches us that we will have to deal with these expressions temporarily and directly. “Yad Vashem calls on the Hungarian government to fulfill its stated commitment not to forget the Holocaust and fight anti-Semitism and racism.
In comments in Austria the day before, Orban claimed that his words had been misinterpreted and that he spoke from a “cultural and civilizational point of view. “
The Israel Prison Service is committed to investigating allegations by an IDF soldier that he raped a Palestinian security prisoner while serving as a guard in Gilboa prison.
“These are serious allegations about something that happened several years ago,” the criminal service said in a statement. “The data is summary secrecy and we will await the police investigation and act on their findings with zero tolerance. “
Earlier that day, an IDF soldier alleged in a crowdfunding crusade that she had been continuously raped by a Palestinian security prisoner while serving as a guard at the prison, in an allegation that is reportedly already being investigated by police.
Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban defends his weekend statements against the creation of “mestizo peoples,” which represented a “cultural and civilizational point of view. “
“Sometimes I speak in a way that can be misinterpreted . . . the position I constitute is a cultural and civilizational point of view,” Orban told reporters at a joint news conference with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, a full-day stopover in neighboring Austria. . .
Nehammer says the factor has been “solved. . . in a friendly and clear manner,” adding that his country “strongly condemned . . . any form of racism or anti-Semitism. “
Two U. S. envoys express dismay at the anti-Semitic comments through a member of a U. N. commission of inquiry into last year’s war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Deborah Lipstadt, the State Department’s anti-Semitism envoy, tweets that Miloon Kothari’s comments are unacceptable.
“It is outrageous that a @UN_HRC designated as a human rights expert on Israel, the West Bank and Gaza has repeated anti-Semitic tropes and questioned Israel’s legitimacy as a member of the UN,” Lipstadt tweeted. of a designated member of a committee of inquiry.
And U. S. Ambassador to the U. N. Human Rights Council Michèle Taylor said the U. S. was outraged by Kothari’s comments.
“We are outraged by the recent anti-Semitic and anti-Israel comments through an IOC member from Israel,” Taylor writes. Israel’s biased remedy.
In a recent podcast interview, Kothari accused a “Jewish lobby” of looking at social media discourse about the commission and questioned whether Israel deserves to be a member of the UN.
Likud MP Miri Regev criticizes the leader of United Torah Judaism, Moshe Gafni, who has said his party is not necessarily 100% unwavering with the right-wing bloc led by opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu.
“With all due respect to what Gafni said, he will do what his rabbinical advisory council tells him,” Regev said in an interview with Ynet. “They know that the nationalist camp is a suitable partner. “
She claims that such comments through Gafni will take over the UTJ seats in the November 1 elections, which will instead pass to far-right MP Itamar Ben-Gvir: “Ben-Gvir takes a bite of the Haredi parties and takes 2-3 seats. of them The user this is Gafni.
This week, Gafni criticized Likud lawmakers for boycotting Knesset committees over the past year, and earlier this month said the UTJ was “neither left nor right,” but the UTJ leader did not explicitly distance himself from Netanyahu.
Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives in neighboring Austria for a day after unleashing a typhoon of grievances with comments opposed to the creation of “mestizo peoples. “
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer vowed to discuss the dispute with Orban and said the Hungarian’s comments last Saturday “of course must be criticized. “
“Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t hesitate to have interaction in direct dialogue,” Nehammer said yesterday.
The International Auschwitz Committee suggested to the European Union, and specifically to Nehammer, that it distance itself from Orban’s “racist overtones. “
Austria is the first EU country to host Orban for talks since serving his fourth consecutive term in April.
An IDF soldier says he raped a Palestinian security prisoner while serving in Gilboa prison.
The anonymous soldier says the army tried to silence her. “Since the rape, my life has been hell. They are trying to silence me,” he said in comments taken through Ynet news about a crowdfunding crusade organized through his lawyer. “Help me spread the truth. “
Reports of IDF female infants being sexually harassed and assaulted in Israeli prisons emerged several years ago, but were then largely abandoned until last year, when an investigation was reopened following new evidence. Earlier this week, Ynet reported that a Palestinian prisoner convicted of terrorism was under police investigation for sexual assault while in bars.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s spokeswoman strongly condemned anti-Semitic comments through a member of the UN Commission of Inquiry into the 11-day war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza last year.
Commission member Miloon Kothari said in a podcast earlier this week that social media efforts to discredit the investigation are “largely controlled through Jews. “
Keren Hajioff, Lapid’s foreign affairs spokeswoman, said that “the foreign network was outraged by Miloon Kothari’s anti-Semitic comments. His racist comments about the Jewish lobthrough who controls the media and his doubts about Israel’s right to exist as a member of the circle. of relatives of nations – echo the darkest days of anti-Semitism.
Hajioff says the commission of inquiry is “the embodiment of hypocrisy” and calls for its dissolution.
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