The Times of Israel released Wednesday’s occasions as they unfolded.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publishes his first public reaction to the alleged far-right attacks on protesters demonstrating in Tel Aviv opposing the prime minister and his police minister.
“The investigation into the Tel Aviv incident is ongoing. I hope the police find out the fact and bring the culprits to justice. There is no place for violence for any reason,” he wrote on Facebook.
He adds: “In the same measure there’s no room for incitement or threats of murder — explicitly or implicitly — against me and members of my family, including the embarrassing threat of a crucifixion today in Tel Aviv.”
“One of them, Yair Lapid, similar to [former Prime Minister] Ehud Barak, even encourages an organization of anarchists whose goal is to disturb peace and undermine the foundations of Israeli society,” Netanyahu said, adding that violence or incitement to any kind will have to be condemned.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid applauded Prime Minister Netanyahu for saying he supported the “anarchists” taking part in the protests opposing the minister.
“Netanyahu, we’re not afraid of you anymore. Yes, I inspire the protesters. Yes, Yesh Atid’s supporters are part of the protests. Yes, we will continue to fight the hatred and virulence that you spread until we evict you from Balfour, Lapid wrote on Twitter, referring to the street of Jerusalem where the prime minister’s street is located.
Tehran, Iran – Iran’s paramilitary revolutionary guards have introduced underground ballistic missiles as a component of a training involving a mock-up of aircraft carriers in the Strait of Hormuz, state television reports.
This is the most recent obstacle in a training that saw two U.S. bases temporarily on liberation alert.
Photographs of drones captured through the Guard show two missiles exploding from covered positions in what gives the impression of being a desert plateau in central Iran, with debris flying through the air in its wake.
The launches took position today, said General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Guard aerospace division. He told state television that this was the first time the Guard had done this, it is known that the paramilitary force has vast underground bases that hide its arsenal of ballistic missiles.
In addition, drones attacked the bridge of the fake carrier, according to state television reports. The station does not transmit photographs of launches or drone strikes, nor does it identify the missiles used in the exercise.
However, the training obviously intended to send a message to the United States.
A semi-official news firm near the Guard posted a graphic overnight that photographed the symbol of an American coffin-shaped aircraft carrier with a cross on it, with a legend quoting the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, promising revenge against the United States. States. attack on a drone that killed a senior Iranian general in January.
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The ultra-Orthodox Shas party is expressing itself in favor of the whip of the Miki Zohar coalition, who is facing a growing complaint from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud members.
“Members of the Shas faction, coalition president and Likud faction leader Miki Zohar, who is making vital paintings in the Knesset to stabilize the coalition and for the general public,” Shas said in a statement. “We paint in coordination and harmony and will continue to act in a combination to promote legislation that is vital to the entire Israeli public.”
After Zohar announced disciplinary action opposed to several Likud lawmakers for allegedly violating coalition discipline, several party members criticized him and apparently collected signatures to overthrow him as faction leader and coalition whip, an effort Netanyahu has launched. Zohar, a staunch supporter of the prime minister, also recently argued with several Likud lawmakers.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz alleges that last night’s attacks on anti-Netanyahu protesters in Tel Aviv were paintings of “organized criminal gangs” and says he will make paintings for perpetrators of violence to be punished.
“Yesterday a line was crossed when citizens exercising their right to protest were attacked through criminal gangs,” he said in a statement.
Gantz promises to ensure that the right to protest is not limited and declares that violence will have to be publicly denounced.
“In fact, democracy is subject to controls on crime; a government is controlled in times like these,” he says. “I intended to convene a government assembly on violent occasions and actively paint with the Israeli police to make sure the facts were dealt with… and that those who sow unjustified hatred, incitement and harm to citizens will be punished.”
Police arrested 3 suspects in connection with yesterday’s attacks in Tel Aviv on protesters demonstrating Prime Minister Netanyahu and his police minister.
All three are taken to the police station for questioning, according to a quote through the news website Walla.
After alleged far-right attacks on anti-Netanyahu protesters in Tel Aviv last night, President Reuven Rivlin warns of political violence.
“I would like it to be transparent, respecting the violent advances of the last day: the murder of a protester protesting in the State of Israel and the murder of an Israeli prime minister are an imaginary scenario,” Rivlin said in a statement. “Unfortunately for our democracy, if a man raises his hand against his brother.”
He added: “The expression of condemnation has a lip-sync speech. Each conviction is attacked through a question of why he did not condemn on another occasion and the essence is absolutely trampled.”
In reporting yesterday’s attacks, Rivlin asked the police to bring the culprits to justice, while condemning threats against Prime Minister Netanyahu and his family.
“We don’t have the ability to rule out any threats. Our lifestyle depends on that,” he says.
Knesset members pass a law on the payment of all formulas advocated by Prime Minister Netanyahu to revive the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Before the law was passed at the time and the third plenary reading, the National Insurance Institute said Israeli adults with young people would start receiving checks on Sunday. All other Israelis over the age of 18 will receive their invoices at an unspecified later date.
Under the plan, single adults will get a one-time payment of NIS 750 ($218). Couples with young children will get 500 NIS ($146) for their first 4 children, with another three hundred NIS ($87) from the fifth child.
Netanyahu and Finance Minister Israel Katz first announced that invoices would be sent to all Israeli adults. However, after the plan was criticized for failing to connect the bills to the revenue source or if someone was financially injured due to government restrictions to involve the virus, it was agreed to exclude those earning NIS 640,000 (about $186,000) according to the year. Subsidies were also limited first to 3 children, but Katz agreed to accumulate controls for giant families after tension from ultra-Orthodox and Arab lawmakers.
Finance Minister Israel Katz is in assembly and Defense Minister Benny Gantz cannot move toward an era agreement in which the new budget will drag on after today’s assembly, public broadcaster Kan reports.
“[We come] in the election,” said a concerned in the assembly cited through the broadcaster.
New elections will begin, the fourth since April 2019, if a budget is not followed before 25 August.
Gantz met earlier in the day with Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, to discuss the budget. Deri allegedly suggested Gantz make a compromise with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party and said Shas would make any successful deal.
“This is unacceptable. There is a coalition agreement and it will have to be respected,” Gantz told Deri, according to Kan.
While Kakhol Lavan’s components in Gantz and Likud agreed to vote on a budget that will run until 2021 as a component of their agreement to shape a government, the latter now insists on a budget that extends only until the end of this year. Netanyahu cited the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic for this position, adopting a short-term budget can allow it to dissolve the government without having to cede the office of prime minister to Gantz as agreed in the coalition agreement.
The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal through Malka Leifer’s lawyers who oppose a decreasing court ruling that found that the former high school principal, wanted in Australia on 74 counts of child sexual abuse, has compatibility for an extradition hearing.
The three-judge panel accepted the defense’s request at the beginning of the hearing that the hearing be held behind closed doors and that Leifer be allowed to return to his cell, and then pay attention via videoconference.
No date has been given to the date on which the ideal framework will resolve the resource.
The Jerusalem District Court, which found that it had compatibility for an extradition hearing last week, will rule on the matter on 21 September.
– Jacob Magid
“Despite all the disagreements, there is no such thing and there will be no kosher certification for violence and the case will be treated as seriously as possible,” wrote Ohana, a colleague of Netanyahu’s Likud on Twitter.
He added: “The welfare, security and freedom of all Israeli citizens, regardless of their political views, is of paramount importance and will be strictly preserved through the Israeli police.”
Yesterday’s demonstration in Tel Aviv began outside Ohana’s space after it was heard on a recording broadcast on Israeli television urging police to take strong action against the ongoing protests opposing Netanyahu outdoors of the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem.
Twitter has permanently banned British rapper Wiley after tweeting a series of anti-Semitic messages a week.
The social media company also apologizes for taking action against Wiley previously.
“Let’s be clear: hateful behavior surely has no position on our service and we strongly condemn anti-Semitism,” said a Twitter spokesman cited by the Guardian. “We regret that we have progressed faster and continue to evaluate the stage internally. We deeply respect the considerations shared through Jewish network paintings and online security advocates, and will continue to work heavily with the government, NGOs, civil society partners and our industry. companions to fight anti-Semitism on Twitter.
Facebook and Instagram yesterday suspended Wiley from their platforms.
Wiley, a pioneer of dirty music, claimed links between the Jewish network and the Ku Klux Klan in offensive tweets and stereotypes driven about Jews and money.
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Of the 34,500 U.S. Army workers in Germany, some 6,400 will be sent home, while some 5,600 will be transferred to other NATO countries.
One of the main targets of the rotation is NATO’s southeastern flank near the Black Sea, Esper says.
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Jerusalem’s Minister of Affairs, Rafi Peretz, will quarantine after the director general of his ministry tested COVID-19.
Prime Minister Netanyahu promises that Israeli adults will begin receiving stimulus bills for the coronavirus next week, after the money grants were approved through the Knesset.
“Israeli citizens, they will reach their bank accounts early next week,” he said in a video statement.
It doesn’t say whether all Israelis over the age of 18 will get the budget next week. The National Insurance Institute said earlier in the day that those with children would start receiving them on Sunday, but those who do not have children will only get them at an unspecified later date.
Netanyahu promoted payments, which have been criticized by economists and senior financial officials as a way to bring the virus-affected economy to life.
“This is a step that will make your task less difficult and move the economy to work,” the prime minister said.
A UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon says it is making an investment in what the Israeli military says is an attempted cross-border attack through Hezbollah terrorists this week.
UNIFIL tweets that Stefano Del Col, the head of the mission, is in contact with the parties “to involve the situation, tensions and maintain the cessation of hostilities” between Israel and Hezbollah.
– UNIFIL (@UNIFIL_) 29 July 2020
ISTANBUL – Turkey’s parliament is approving a debatable bill that gives the government more information about social media, a move criticized by human rights defenders as an attempt to generate online censorship.
The law targets social media with more than one million exclusive visits each day and stipulates that servers containing the knowledge of the Turkish user must be installed locally.
If they refuse to comply, they will face fines and restrictions that will disable the platform.
The invoice presented through the ruler AKP and its nationalist partner, the MHP, which has a majority in parliament, and was approved after an evening marathon.
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“When the march came to the dominance of cinema, an organization of about ten more people dressed in black joined. They began attacking protesters with knives, clubs and glass bottles. I ran to help the wounded, then one of them attacked me. with some kind of sharp object and without delay two others were thrown at me, ” said Shay Sekler to the Haaretz newspaper.
Sekler says he and the protesters ran after the attackers to film them, but were attacked with pepper spray.
“In the Kaplan Street area, I met plaincloth police officers, was covered in blood, and asked for help and they asked me for medical assistance. I didn’t listen,” he said.
– Ben Netzer – נצר (@netzer_ben) 28 July 2020
WASHINGTON – The United States is imposing sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s son, expanding its efforts to block the war-torn regime’s budget.
Hafez al-Assad, 18, named after his grandfather, will not be able to remain active in the United States, the State Department said.
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Kakhol Lavan’s minister, Michael Biton, explains the party’s insistence on adopting a budget until 2021, covering only the rest of the year, as advocated through Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud.
In an interview on army radio, Biton says Netanyahu promised to hand over the post of prime minister to Gantz in November 2021 as a component of the coalition agreement between Kakhol lavan and Likud. While Netanyahu will honor the coalition agreement that a budget will be adopted that covers the entirety of next year, that can ensure that he will meet other commitments he has made, Biton said.
Both said they were in a bar and saw the attacks expand and had no plans to attack other people in advance, Channel 13 reports.
A third suspect arrested earlier in the day denies being informed about the incidents.
WASHINGTON – A national security review through the U.S. government’s social media app, TikTok, is near the finishing touch and will provide advice to the White House this week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.
Mnuchin said the review is underway through the U.S. Foreign Investment Committee, which deals with corporations and acquisitions that affect national security.
“TikTok is reviewed through CFIUS and we will give the president a tip about it this week,” Mnuchin said. “We have a lot of choices.”
TikTok earlier in the day pushed back Facebook’s “malicious attacks” and others that draw attention to Chinese video app connections.
TikTok executive leader Kevin Mayer said the attacks were “disguised as patriotism and designed to end our presence even in America.”
TikTok, which has increased its user base to about one billion, has denied any link with the Chinese government, while critics warn of potential security hazards due to its China-based parent company, ByteDance.
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Statistics published through the Ministry of Health show that on the last day 1943 new cases of coronavirus were recorded, bringing the number of infections from the onset of the pandemic to 67734.
The ministry reports more deaths since this morning, bringing the national death toll to 491.
According to the Ministry of Health, 2,104 coVID-19 were recorded on Tuesday.
Of the 34,521 active cases, another 328 people are in serious condition, 99 of them with fans. Another 148 people are in a moderate condition and others have mild or asymptomatic symptoms.
The ministry says 26,195 tests were conducted yesterday.
“It’s to continue on the existing stage without a budget, and the last thing we want now is elections,” Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party member Katz told the Ynet news website.
While Likud and Kakhol Lavan have agreed to adopt a budget until 2021 as a component of their coalition agreement, the prime minister is now pushing for a budget to be established to cover the rest of the year, raising the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic. This can allow you to call new elections without having to comply with your power-sharing agreement with Kakhol Lavan’s leader, Benny Gantz.
If no budget is followed before 25 August, new elections will be called.
Katz met earlier in the day with Gantz to discuss the budget, but the two failed to reach an agreement.
According to a report through the Twelfth Channel tonight, several prominent economists in Israel warned in a letter that they opposed a short-term budget as Netanyahu put it, saying it will “increase economic uncertainty” and sow confusion in money markets. .
Ynet’s news quotes unselected officials from the Ministry of Finance as saying there is no logic in adopting a budget that is not executed until December.
Hundreds of others demonstrate outside in the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem as part of the ongoing protests opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Protesters read aloud texts read for the fast Tishá B’Av, according to the news website Ynet.
Fasting, which marks the destruction of Jerusalem’s two Jewish temples, began tonight at dusk and ends after dusk.
Greece plans to allow Israeli tourists to enter the country from mid-August despite the maximum rates of coronavirus infection in the Jewish state, reports the Twelfth Channel.
Police prepare for an attempt through the hooligans of far-right football to attack anti-Netanyahu protesters during a night of an outdoor demonstration in the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem, reports public broadcaster Kan
Police arrangements were reported after La Familia, an organization of ultranationalist supporters of Jerusalem’s Beitar Jerusalem football club, asked its members to meet at night at the First Station, an entertainment center about a kilometre from the Prime Minister’s residence.
In a Facebook post yesterday, La Familia said “haters and destroyers of Israel are continuing… to harm every Jewish concept that exists.
“Beware of left-wing rags, the rules of the game have now changed,” he warns.
The Shin Bet reports that a Hamas operative fleeing the Gaza Strip to Israel brought with it valuable data about the terrorist organization for which it is running.
Izz al-Din Hussein, 24, attempted to swim into the Jewish state from Gaza on 28 June amid a circle of family unrest and considerations of “persecution and defamation through senior Hamas officials,” Shin Bet said in a statement.
During his voyage in Israeli waters, Hussein temporarily arrested him through the naval forces that moved him to the Shin Bet for questioning.
During his interrogation, investigators learned that Hussein had enlisted in the wing of the Hamas army in 2013 and had begun racing in air defense in 2018, where he directed the shoulder missile unit, to the Shin Bet.
He was holding an anti-aircraft missile in his space and told to throw it in an Israeli army helicopter if one of them approached his home, to kidnap or kill IDF soldiers, he added.
Hussein charged with “serious security offences” in Beersheba district court, according to Shin Bet.
– with Jacob Magid
WASHINGTON – The United States is imposing sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s son, expanding its efforts to block the war-torn regime’s budget.
Hafez al-Assad, 18, named after his grandfather, will not be able to remain active in the United States, the State Department said.
– AFP