The Times of Israel released Thursday’s occasions as they unfolded.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several ministers who would bet on the imposition of a national closure are meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli virus tsar Ronni Gamzu before a full assembly of the so-called coronavirus cabinet.
According to the Ynet news website, Gazmu told ministers that the closure of the upcoming Rosh Hashaná festival “is a necessity. “
The cornavirus closet is scheduled to meet this afternoon.
Russia condemns the US. U. S. senior Russian officials may have been behind opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s poisoning.
The 44-year-old anti-corruption lawyer and activist became ill last month after boarding a plane and being treated in Siberia before a medical evacuation to Germany, where doctors said he had been poisoned.
“Any direct or indirect suggestion that Russian officials were concerned in this case is unacceptable,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, responding to claims through U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that senior Russian officials probably ordered the poisoning of the Kremlin’s chief critic. nerve agent Novichok.
“I think other people around the world see this kind of activity for what it is,” Pompeo said in a radio interview On Wednesday.
Peskov said Russia had “an ability to locate the reasons for what happened” to Navalny.
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The State Department has unofficially shown Congress that Republican superdele Prime Minister Sheldon Adelson is a client of the U. S. ambassador’s israel official, a Congressional assistant told The Associated Press.
Lawmakers in the House and Senate are now if the agreement complied with regulations.
The U. S. embassy in Israel announced the deal this week, a sale that aims to cement the debatable move of President Donald Trump’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but the embassy refused to identify the customer or reveal the value of the sale of the huge beachfront resort in Thezliya’s exclusive Tel Aviv Suburb.
The Israeli business newspaper Globes knew the client as Adelson, a staunch supporter of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and claimed that the value exceeds $80 million, making it the most expensive residential real estate transaction in Israel’s history. casino billionaire tycoon, did not respond to messages in search of comments.
An assistant congressman said the State Department had shown public reports of the sale to Adelson. The assistant says the “most important question” now is how much will be paid through U. S. taxpayers as long as Friedman remains in the position. talk about personal information.
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The so-called coronavirus cabinet, made up of ministers and government officials, is recently gathering in Jerusalem to discuss the option of enforcing a national closure of the Rosh Hashaná festival next week.
Visiting relatives of a Bedouin instructor shot dead by the police in 2017, Economy Minister Amir Peretz apologizes on behalf of the government for calling him a terrorist and promises to form a team that will pay the family’s compensation.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly apologized Tuesday night for the Israeli government’s statement that Yaqoub Abu al-Qia’an, shot dead by police during the demolition of his home, was a terrorist. prosecutors in various cases, adding this one, to avoid tarnishing their names the investigation into Netanyahu.
Peretz said he welcomed Netanyahu’s apology, as well as that of President Reuven Rivlin, but distanced himself from accusations through the prime minister that police and prosecutors had called Abu al-Qia’an a terrorist to harm Netanyahu.
“They’re two very different things, and we’re not going to have to let them bond, because that’s only going to hurt the message,” Peretz said. “This incident will be used to foster coexistence and mutual popularity between the total Israeli society and the Arab network in general, and the Bedouin network in particular. “
The Asian football club cancels this year’s AFC Cup due to the coronavirus pandemic, and also announces delays in Champions League matches in what it has described as “difficult times” for the sport.
The Asian Football Confederation was hoping to revive its long-delayed Cup festival next month in 4 host countries, but after an executive committee assembly, it denounced the plans.
“These are difficult times for everyone connected to football, and to the game in general,” says AFC President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa.
Officials also said that some Champions League matches, the region’s flagship tournament, which resumes next week in Qatar, would be delayed.
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Coronavirus tsar Ronni Gamzu allegedly advised government ministers to introduce a number of large-scale restrictions into the next era of the Jewish festival in an effort to stop the spread of the virus.
According to recommendations recently submitted to the so-called coronavirus firm, Israelis would be limited to their apartment city for the festival – Rosh Hashaná, Yom Kippur and the first and last days of Sucot – from the day before the next day. Public meetings in cities would also be banned.
Throughout the period, which runs from next week to the first 10 days of October, there would be no school across the country and advertising would be limited to 30-50%, according to the report.
In addition, for two weeks after the holiday period, fourth graders and minors attended school and public meetings would be limited in some cities.
Finance Minister Israel Katz and Treasury officials told the coronavirus closet that they opposed the imposition of a national closure because of the damage it would do to the economy, the Twelfth Canal reports.
Ministers are meeting lately to discuss the restrictions that will be imposed at upcoming Jewish festivals.
Yisrael Beytenu president Avigdor Liberman and party MPs Yevgeny Soba and Oded Forer are quarantined until 22 September due to their previous meeting this week with Shomrom Regional Council leader Yossi Dagan, who was diagnosed with coronavirus.
The medical journal Lancet said it had asked the authors of a study on a possible Russian COVID-19 vaccine for an explanation after examining their studies.
Russia announced last month that its vaccine, called “Sputnik V” in honor of the Soviet-era satellite first introduced to the area in 1957, had already obtained approval, which has raised doubts among Western scientists about the lack of protection data, warning that acting too temporarily on a vaccine can be dangerous.
Russian researchers published the effects of their essays last week on The Lancet, which their studies had been reviewed through a variety of colleagues.
He said the vaccine had been “safe and tolerated” among a few dozen volunteers.
However, an open letter signed this week through more than 30 experts in Europe cast doubt on the results, noting “possible inconsistencies of knowledge”.
The researchers knew that what they were saying gave the impression of being a series of duplicates in the figures presented and concluded that it was “very unlikely” that the knowledge examined was correct.
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United Nations calls for a rapid “leap forward” in prosperity recovery programmes and investment coronavirus.
“Either we are united or we will be convicted,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said at an ACT-Accelerator virtual meeting, calling the virus “the number one security risk. “
Guterres is urging countries to locate $15 billion over the next 3 months to fund the ACT-Accelerator programme, a global vaccine study and a remedy collaboration led through the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO).
“We want a leap forward in investment to increase the chances of a global solution to move the world, paint and thrive again,” he says.
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At least 20 coronavirus patients are known to have attended anti-government protests the following month, the fitness ministry said, it is not known whether they felt inflamed in the rallies or transmitted the virus to other protesters, Kan’s audience reports.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s allies have continually called for weekly mass meetings, in some cases involving more than 10,000 people, to be banned or at least severely limited because of fears that they may be just a hive of viral infections.
The first official figures on patients inflamed with the virus known to have attended the protests revealed that at least 20 were in anti-government demonstrations in the following month and at least 55 in the subsequent 3 months, the Kan report said, noting that the figures are partial statistics.
The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union advises governments to ban kosher and halal slaughter.
Gerard Hogan’s recommendation is “a vital progression that may sound the death sentence for attempts to ban sheajá in the European Union,” Hans Knoop, spokesman for the Forum of Jewish Organizations of Belgium, told the Jewish Telegraph Agency, using the Hebrew word for ritual killing.
Shechitah, which is made up of slaughtering the animal with a very sharp knife, and the Muslim variant, Dbiha, save the animal from stun before slaughter. Animal welfare activists track down this cruelty. Opponents of Muslim immigration and the Jewish presence in Europe also protest against ritual slaughter, raising arguments in favor of animal welfare.
The Luxembourg-based court “should conclude that Member States may adopt rules” Array . . . for a ban on the slaughter of unstuned animals,” Hogan said, in response to a trial last year of several Jewish teams in Belgium after two of the 3 autonomous states that make up the Federal Kingdom of Belgium banned unstuned slaughter.
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Israel’s Defense Forces are completing wonderful training in the West Bank simulating a kidnapping and outbreak of violence across the region, a situation similar to the one that preceded the Gaza War in 2014.
Troops from 4 Regional Brigades in the West Bank, Air Force, Military Intelligence, Remote Treatment Corps, Shin Bet security and Israeli police participated in the three-day exercise, according to the army.
“The forces practiced a situation of escalation [of violence] after a kidnapping, making an effort to locate and release the captives, the resources of the General Staff and examine the methods of interagency execution,” the IDF said in a statement.
During the training, the IDF carried out a series of arrest raids around the city of Hebron, arresting dozens of Hamas operatives. This training is the fourth wonderful training of its kind conducted through the IDF Chief of Staff, Aviv Kohavi.
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Screenwriter Ronald Harwood, who won an Oscar in 2003 for “The Pianist,” passed away.
Harwood died on Tuesday for herbal reasons at his home in Sussex, England, at the age of 85.
He has also been nominated for an Oscar for his screenplays for “The Dresser” and “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”. The South African venue was named Queen Elizabeth Knight in 2010.
“The Pianist”, founded from a memory of the Holocaust through the Polish Jewish pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, a survivor. The critically acclaimed film also won the Oscar for Adrien Brody for Best Actor and Roman Polanski for Best Director.
Harwood, who was born Ronald Horwitz, moved from Cape Town to London in 1951 to pursue a career on stage and replaced his surname after moving to Britain, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Kosher chef Shalom Yehudiel of The Humble Toast in Teaneck, New Jersey, is expected to participate in “Chopped,” a competitive cooking exhibition on the Food Network.
“When they approached me, I called my rabbi to consult me,” Yehudiel told NorthJersey. com. “I run a kosher restaurant, so I don’t need to say yes if I can’t cook kosher. “
The restaurant’s menu includes classic Jewish deli dishes such as potatoes and a pastrami sandwich with rye, as well as more fashionable additions such as a truffle burger or cheeseburger (with vegan cheese, of course).
Hash applicants prepare a three course meal but will have to use a variety of express ingredients in each course. Mysterious ingredients can cause a mess in kosher competition who will not eat safe ingredients or mix meat and milk.
Yehudiel will be the last competitor on display to have a mashgiach, a kosher supervisor, certifying that its ingredients are kosher. Rachel Goldzal of Staten Island, New York, won the contest in 2018 at the age of 12. Manufacturers worked with Rachel to make sure all ingredients were kosher and provided her with all new cooking utensils, according to Orthodox newscast Vos Iz Neias.
The episode starring Yehudiel will air at nine p. m. September 22.
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The United Arab Emirates says coronavirus cases have quintuple more than a month ago and warn citizens to adhere to measures designed to combat the disease.
The case count reached 930 on Thursday, said Farida al-Hosani, spokesman for the fitness sector in the Emirates, up from 179 August 10.
“This is the number recorded in 4 months,” he said at a televised conference. “Those who violate existing preventive measures, whether an individual, department stores or restaurants, will be responsible. “
Hosani said 12% of cases concerned citizens returning to the United Arab Emirates from abroad, even though they obtained negative evidence from their destination country, which is a condition of entry.
The other cases referred to other people who were inflamed as a result of social events, contacts, or other meetings.
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Morocco has dismantled a mobile phone affiliated with the Islamic State organization planning suicide bombings, police said, adding that explosive belts were seised and five men arrested.
The five “extremists”, 29 to 43 years old, were arrested during simultaneous operations at locations in Tangier and the Rabat region, according to morocco’s Central Office for Judicial Investigations.
Explosive belts, 3 kilograms (6. 6 pounds) of ammonium nitrate, electronics and knives were seized in raids on the suspects’ homes and businesses, according to the office.
The alleged mobile leader “had planned with his accomplices to aim explosives and belts at delicate facilities and sites to destabilize . . . kingdom,” he adds.
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Israel’s Defense Forces verify that a small drone crashed while performing “routine operations” along the Lebanese border.
The Lebanese army claims to have shot down the drone. This is not shown through the IDF.
The army says there is no threat that data can be taken from the plane.
The IDF refused to comment on the Lebanese army’s assertion that the drone was flying about two hundred yards north of the border.
The incident comes amid persistent tensions along the border, as the terrorist organization Hezbollah promised revenge for the death of one of its fighters in an airstrike in Syria in July that was widely attributed to Israel.
Israel announces that it will start offering direct flights from Ben Gurion Airport in Abu Dhabi, probably to make it the first Israeli airline to cater to tourists from the Jewish state to the United Arab Emirates.
The airline said it would start with consistent flights, which will take three and a half hours and charge $300 per trip, immediately pending final approval from Israeli and Emirati authorities.
The Ministry of Health announces that a total of 4015 new instances of coronavirus have been registered since last night, a new record and the first time the instances surpassed the 4000 mark.
The ministry said the death toll from the virus had increased from 22 to 1,075, also a new daily record.
In total, there were 144,267 coronaviruses in Israel.
The number of patients in severe condition greater than 488, 143 with fans, which is a record.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli hospital chiefs have pleaded with the cabinet, called coronavirus, to take drastic and swift action to stop higher infection rates before medical centers become overwhelmed.
At an envoy at a ministerial committee meeting, Netanyahu said the Israeli tsar of the coronavirus “Professor Gamzu and the heads of hospitals arrived at the coronavirus workplace today and waved a red flag. “
“They said the number of serious patients in Israel is still relatively small, it can be replaced in an instant, so hospitals won’t be able to treat them and there will be many serious [cases] and many deaths,” he said. shortly after the Ministry of Health announced that Israel had noticed more than 4,000 new cases in the last 24 hours.
“They say action will have to be taken,” Netanyahu continues, “but we will have to act with caution, not carelessly, so it takes many hours, and on the other hand [we have to make a decision] early enough that we can all prepare for the holidays.
Norway on Thursday arrested a suspect related to a 1982 attack on a Jewish community in Paris that left six other people dead and 22 injured, awaiting a ruling on his extradition to France, a court said.
Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed, who has lived in Norway since 1991 and is a citizen in 1997, is being held in an Oslo court after being arrested on Wednesday following a request for extradition from France.
On August 9, 1982, an organization, 3 men according to the European arrest warrant issued across France, threw a grenade at the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in a traditionally Jewish neighborhood in Paris, then opened an internal chimney of the status quo and passers-by.
The attack was attributed to the Abu Nidal organization, which separated from the Palestinian militant organization Fatah.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara will reportedly travel next week to the rite of signing the Israel-United Arab Emirates Standardization Agreement in Washington on a personal plane, separated from the rest of the Israeli delegation and the press.
His workplace says he’s at the contagion of COVID-19.
While the delegation will fly on a general chartered aircraft, the Prime Minister and his wife will fly out of concern of contracting coronavirus in flight, the Thirteenth Canal reports.
The Prime Minister’s Office denies that the resolution raises prices for taxpayers.
“The Prime Minister is cutting the touch as much as you can imagine because of the outbreak and the flight to Washington is a complex operation that includes pills to prevent infection in flight or in the United States. The addition of the personal flight will not increase prices as the tender for the general delegation’s aircraft will be open to other airlines,” the PMO said in a statement.
Tehran, Iran – Iran’s currency is falling to its lowest recorded level against the dollar and has noticed a 30% drop since June amid severe U. S. sanctions imposed on Tehran.
Exchange offices exchange 262,000 Iranian riyars for a dollar. The rial had traded between $256,000 and $1 on Thursday, and markets were closed at the beginning of the weekend in Iran.
The rial went from an exchange rate of 200,000 at the end of June. Iran’s currency, 32,000 riyars, matched the dollar at the time of Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
The currency recovered for some time after U. S. President Donald Trump’s resolution more than two years ago to pull the United States out of the nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions on the crippling industry that oppose Iran.
Sanctions have a sharp drop in oil exports from Iran, the country’s main source of income.
Yesterday, Iran’s central bank director, Abdolnasser Hemmati, said the government was doing everything it could for the foreign exchange market scenario.
Iranian officials have warned exporters for months to repay their foreign source of income or threaten to revoke their export licences, and the central bank has warned that it will publish the names of the infringers.
In June, the central bank reported that Iranian corporations export more than $40 billion of non-oil products a year, and officials say that about 50% of that amount remains abroad.
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LONDON – Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca said he had resumed a COVID-19 vaccine test after getting the go-ahead from British regulators, after a break in which a British volunteer became ill.
“Clinical trials of the AstraZeneca Oxford coronavirus vaccine, AZD1222, resumed in the UK after confirmation through the Medicines Health Regulatory Authority (MHRA) that it should do so,” the company said in a statement.
AstraZeneca announced wednesday that he had “voluntarily suspended” his vaccine test, developed throughout Oxford University, after the volunteer developed an unexplained disease.
An independent safety review committee has been set up, which the company and the World Health Organization have described as a step in the regime.
The committee “concluded its investigations and advised MHRA to resume trials in the UK,” AstraZeneca said.
The AstraZeneca vaccine candidate is one of the world’s applicants lately in phase 3 human trials.
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The so-called coronavirus cabinet, made up of ministers and government officials, is recently gathering in Jerusalem to discuss the option of enforcing a national closure of the Rosh Hashaná festival next week.