The Times of Israel blogged about Thursday’s events as they unfolded.
Israel’s National Security Council warns Israelis to avoid non-essential travel to Nigeria and calls on Nigerian citizens to cut short their visits.
The notice cites the development of threats of terrorist attacks in the country, specifically in the capital, Abuja.
Israel’s warning follows warnings issued in recent days across the United States and the United Kingdom.
The UN’s open-ended Commission of Inquiry on Israel and the Palestinians would investigate Israel’s apartheid in the Palestinian territories.
UN researcher Navi Pillay calls apartheid a “manifestation of occupation. “
“We’re focusing on the root of the cause, which is the occupation, and that’s at the root,” Pillay said.
“We’ll get there. That’s the good looks of this open mandate, it provides us with the action box.
Panel member Miloon Kothari said of apartheid: “We will get there because we have many years and many to watch. “
“We believe that a comprehensive vision is needed, so we want to take a look at the disorders of colonialism,” says Kothari.
“Apartheid itself is a very useful paradigm, so we have another approach, but we will definitely achieve it. “
The commission is the first to have an indefinite mandate from the U. N. human rights body, and critics say such a permanent review shows an anti-Israel bias within the 47-member council.
Supporters of the commission as a way to be aware of the injustices suffered by Palestinians during decades of Israeli rule.
Israel has said in the past that it will not cooperate with the commission, saying its members “have continuously taken public and hostile positions opposed to Israel on the very issue they are called upon to investigate” independently and independently.
The most recent ballot from public broadcaster Kan ahead of the Nov. 1 election indicates that Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc will be just short of the 120-seat majority in the Knesset.
The ballot was also a rebound for the left-wing Labor and Meretz parties, which were just above the electoral threshold on past ballots.
The Likud ballot 31 seats, with Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid moment of 24.
Devout far-right Zionism continues and is expected to be the third largest party, with 14 seats.
The Party of National Unity won 11 seats; Shas, 8; United Torah Judaism, 7; Israel Beitenou, 7; work, 6; Merets, 5; Ra’am, 4; and Hadash Ta’al, at 4.
These effects give Netanyahu’s bloc 60 seats.
The anti-Netanyahu coalition has 56, and Hadash-Taal, who has said she will not join a coalition, holds the remaining four seats.
Arab nationalist Balad and Ayelet Shaked’s Jewish Home failed to cross the threshold, with 2. 2% and 2% of the vote, respectively.
The survey was conducted with another 1,301 people and has a margin of error of 2. 7%.
Seven members of the Nablus-based “Lion’s Den” terrorist organization have handed over protective custody of the Palestinian Authority since last night, Channel Twelfth reports, adding two of the organization’s fos.
This leaves two high-ranking members of the organization still in the city giant, others have been killed or arrested in recent days in Israel.
The report says the organization has been present in 120 attacks to date.
It adds that the PA will also pay NIS 70,000 ($20,000) for the weapon delivered.
He notes, however, that there are still dozens of armed men in Nablus who pose a risk to Israeli targets.
Labor Party Merav Michaeli accuses opposition Benjamin Netanyahu of being complicit in the political assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Michaeli, speaking at a convention ahead of Saturday night’s memorial rite marking 27 years since Rabin’s assassination, also singled out Zionist MK Itamar Ben Gvir.
“Yitzhak Rabin killed in a political assassination. He murdered in a political assassination with the cooperation of Benjamin Netanyahu and Ben Gvir at the time, with the symbol of his Cadillac,” he said.
Ben Gvir first came to public attention when he filmed as a teenager bragging about stealing an emblem from Rabin’s car.
“They gave us for their car, and we’re going to succeed in it too,” he boasted a while before Rabin’s assassination.
Netanyahu has been continually accused of being the incitement that led to Rabin’s assassination.
Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995 by Yigal Amir, an extremist Jew who opposed the Oslo Accords and handed over parts of the West Bank to the Palestinians as part of the historic peace agreement.
In the weeks leading up to the assassination, Netanyahu, then leader of the opposition, and other senior Likud officials attended a right-wing political rally in Jerusalem where protesters called Rabin a “traitor,” “murderer” and “Nazi” for signing a peace deal with the Palestinians earlier this year.
He also took part in a demonstration in Ra’anana as protesters carried a fake coffin.
Netanyahu has refuted accusations that he ignored the inflammatory rhetoric that led to Rabin’s killing and called the tariffs a form of “political assassination. “
Reacting to Michaeli’s comments, resources close to Netanyahu told Channel 12 that she “does everything she can to cross the threshold of the Knesset. Nothing is sacred to her, not even Rabin. She is seeking to delegitimize the entire right-wing camp. “
Amid the ongoing backlash to Kanye West’s anti-Semitic comments, CNN reports that the rapper has a long-standing fascination with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
“He praised Hitler in saying how amazing it is that he can muster so much strength and talked about all the wonderful things he and the Nazi Party had done for the German people,” said a business executive who worked with West.
The network quotes four other people as saying West, who is now named Ye, wanted to call his 2018 album “Hitler. “
Prime Minister Yair Lapid meets with US mediator Amos Hochstein in Jerusalem hours after the Israeli-Lebanese maritime agreement was reached.
Lapid thanked him for his efforts and said the deal would not have been imaginable without him and the help of U. S. President Joe Biden, “who has been there for us the whole time. “
“This is a historic agreement that strengthens Israel’s security and economy and will bring stability to the region,” Lapid said.
Lapid says the deal allows Israel to be Europe’s top fuel supplier at a time when the world desperately wants it.
MK Moshe Gafni of Torah Yahadut said Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu sought to form a coalition with the Islamist Ra’am party after the last election.
Netanyahu has been widely reported to have conducted extensive negotiations with Ra’am President Mansour Abbas and continues to deny that he sought to form a government.
“I, Netanyahu, sought help from outside, not from a coalition,” Gafni told the Walla news site.
Gafni says Netanyahu wanted to use Ra’am as a safety net, but devout far-right Zionist leader Bezalel Smotrich “said no. “
Gafni says he believes Smotrich made a mistake and, in the end, had a “very bad” government that included left-wing parties and Ra’am within the coalition.
Gafni indicated that he would make such a move in the future, noting that “parliamentary paintings include cooperation with Arab parties. “
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the next decade will be the “most dangerous” since the end of World War II, while accusing the West of global domination.
“Ahead is probably the most dangerous, unpredictable and, at the same time, maximum decade since the end of World War II,” Putin told members of the annual Valdai discussion club, adding that the situation is “to some extent revolutionary. “”
The Ukrainian offensive is a component of “tectonic adjustments throughout the global order,” Putin says.
“The old era of undivided domination of the West in global affairs is coming to an end. The unipolar world is a thing of the past,” he says.
“We are on a border,” he added.
Putin adds that the West is capable of “ruling humanity alone,” but “is desperately seeking to do so. “
Israeli and Lebanese officials describe a tense but emotional rite to ratify the maritime boundary agreement in which representatives of the two enemy states sat at the same table but spoke.
A Reuters reporter, speaking of an official from the Lebanese city of Naqurah, said the two delegations were sitting around a small table with U. S. mediator Amos Hochstein and a U. N. delegation.
Israelis and Lebanese did not speak to each other, but at the end of the ceremony, Hochstein said: “We have a maritime border. Congratulations!” And everyone applauded, the report says.
Aliza Bin-Noun, political director of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, told Army Radio that while everyone was together in the tent at the UN base and sitting at a square table, she may simply not interact with the Lebanese. There is no opportunity to speak, she said.
Still, she says it’s a “very emotional” rite for her, noting that she grew up in Nahariya, on Israel’s northern border, and that for her Lebanon meant katyusha rockets and threats from the Hezbollah terror group, not foreign deals.
He points out that the agreement is not a peace agreement, it is nevertheless an agreement between states and suggests that it can serve as a precedent for progress between Israel and other countries with which Israel has no ties.
Russia’s ambassador to Israel, Anatoly Viktorov, said Israel does not care about Moscow’s developing ties with Iran.
Speaking to public broadcaster Kan, Viktorov said he “wants to promise that Russia opposes Israel and that Russia takes into account, as in other cases, Israel’s security sensitivities. “
Iran has provided Russia with a large number of drones in recent months to use in the fight against Ukraine and also plans ballistic missiles.
“Our relations with Tehran are anti-Israel,” he said, but assured that they will continue.
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau said the woman who mistakenly had a fetus implanted that was not genetically hers, and who gave birth to a daughter yesterday, is the mother under Jewish law.
In a letter in response to a query on the issue, Lau argued that in such situations, the woman carrying the baby is the mother and not the biological egg donor, reports news site Srugim.
Lau’s position also seems to apply to all cases of surrogacy.
Your opinion on him has no legal value.
The mistake occurred fertility remedies at the Assuta Medical Center in Rishon Lezion, which has not yet made a decision on the biological parents.
The new ones said they planned to raise the baby as their own and called for genetic testing to be stopped, fearing others would claim the child.
However, Lau said it was vital that the biological parents be tracked to avoid a long-term case where the child could accidentally marry a sibling.
A law on the maritime boundary between Israel and Lebanon enters into force.
The agreement was signed by Lebanese President Michel Aoun in Beirut and Prime Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem, and went into effect after the documents were handed over to mediators at a rite at a UN base on the border.
Israel is represented through Energy Minister Karin Elharar. The exchange of letters took place at the base in the southern Lebanese city of Naqura in the presence of US mediator Amos Hochstein and UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka.
Both sides passed their letters to Hochstein, who verified that they were and signed the agreement. The Israeli and Lebanese delegations did not interact, Channel Twelfth reports.
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The head of an Israeli bank gave the impression today at a forum of Saudi investors and praised the “incredible” opportunities in the kingdom, a sign of the business community’s interest in seeing diplomatic relations between former foes.
Samer Haj-Yehia, Arab-Israeli chairman of Bank Leumi since 2019, was on his way to the Future Investment Initiative, a three-day convention held in the Saudi capital and known as “Davos in the desert. “
“The opportunities are incredible and the FinTech industry in particular is booming,” he said at a panel discussion.
“You see, the economy is very healthy, unlike other economies in the world, and the long-term outlook is very positive,” he adds, pointing to capital in oil-rich Saudi Arabia and the adoption through young populations of “very complex mobiles. “Technology.
His comments stick to the wild hypothesis about long-term bilateral relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, which U. S. officials pushed ahead of President Joe Biden’s trip to Jeddah in July.
Saudi Arabia recognizes Israel and adhered to the Abraham Accords negotiated through the United States in 2020, in which the Jewish state identified ties with two of the kingdom’s neighbors, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
The Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah will end an “exceptional” mobilization opposed to Israel after threatening to strike for months, its leader Hassan Nasrallah said after Lebanon and Israel reached an agreement on the maritime border.
“All the special measures and mobilization carried out through resistance for several months are now declared over,” Nasrallah said in a televised address, calling the deal “a wonderful victory for Lebanon. “
Defense Minister Benny Gantz is holding talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the presidency of Ankara.
Gantz is accompanied by his Turkish counterpart, Hulusi Akar, with whom he met yesterday to discuss the renewal of military ties between the countries.
Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece, “The Girl with a Pearl Earring,” is the latest artwork led by activists of the time at a protest at The Hague’s Mauritshuis Museum. The valuable paintings would not have been damaged.
A video posted on Twitter showed a guy pouring a box of what appeared to be tomatoes over another guy who then tried to stick his head into the world-famous painting.
Dutch broadcaster NOS reports that the Mauritshuis Museum said the painting had been damaged.
One of the men, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Just stop the oil,” shouts: “How do you feel when you see something beautiful and priceless probably destroyed before your eyes?Feeling outraged? Well, that’s what it feels like to see the planet being destroyed before our eyes. “
He goes on to say that the image is through a glass when a museum guest shouts, “Shame on you!”
– The Dominion Post (@PostDominion) October 27, 2022
The museum did not return calls or emails seeking comment. The Hague police said they had arrested 3 other people for “public violence against property” but gave no details.
There will be about 196,000 new eligible voters in the upcoming elections, the Central Bureau of Statistics announces.
There will be a total of about 6. 2 million eligible voters for the Nov. 1 vote, according to CBS, a 3. 3 percent increase since Israel last went to the polls in March 2021.
A Palestinian teenager armed with a knife arrested through police officers in the West Bank city of Hebron, according to police.
According to a Border Police spokesman, the 16-year-old city resident saw through the foot soldiers on the stairs leading to the front of the Tomb of the Patriarchs, known to Muslims as the al-Ibrahimi Mosque.
“Border police troops approached the suspect and in a search, the suspect threw a knife he had hidden,” police said.
The suspect was arrested without a shot, police said, adding that they took him for further questioning.
Police said officials had “prevented an incident that injured our forces or innocent civilians. “
US President Joe Biden welcomes the Israeli-Lebanese maritime agreement to be finalized in a rite of signature at the border.
“I am proud to congratulate Israel and Lebanon for officially reaching their agreement on their long-standing maritime border dispute. Today in Naqurah, Lebanon, both sides took final steps to bring the agreement into force and submitted the final documents to the United Nations. in the presence of the United States,” Biden said in a statement.
“As I said in delivering this historic agreement, it will protect the interests of Israel and Lebanon, and set the bar for a more robust and filthy rich region,” he said, adding that the United States “will continue to serve as a facilitator as the parties paint to fulfill their commitments and put this agreement into effect. “
“This agreement brings us closer to achieving a vision of a safer, more incorporated and filthy rich Middle East, one that brings benefits to all other people in the region,” he said.
The European Central Bank is now triggering a giant eurozone rate hike to combat record inflation, even as considerations about the darkening economic outlook rise.
The ECB raised its 3 policy rates again by 75 basis points, leaving them at 1. 5-2. 25%. The ECB has now raised rates 3 times since July, following in the footsteps of other central banks around the world.
Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is calling for broad unity after the election that includes the largest parties.
Speaking at a cabinet assembly to authorize the maritime deal with Lebanon, Bennett, who is not running in the current election, called on all parties and leaders to remain respectful of each other in the Nov. 1 vote.
“Immediately after the elections, the right thing for the State of Israel is to identify a broad unity government of the largest parties left and right, and then involve all parties that recognize Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. “added. said.
“We have losers in this election. Every other person in Israel can win. Right now, we want unity,” he said.
Such a government is unlikely, with several parties proceeding to deny Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption. He denies the charges.
Apple Music has removed Kanye West’s Essentials playlist amid ongoing fallout over the rapper’s anti-Semitic tirades, the UK’s Daily Mail reports.
The move would be the first through a major streaming service to abandon its music after wasting a series of approvals and partnerships in days.
For weeks, the musician now known as Ye has made anti-Semitic comments in interviews and on social media, a Twitter post earlier this month in which he said he would soon pass “death with 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” an obvious reference to U. S. Defense Preparedness. U. S. A condition scale known as DEFCON. His messages led to his suspension from the platform.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz meets with his Turkish counterpart, Hulusi Akar, in Ankara, meeting with the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
After their meeting, Gantz said “it’s no secret that our relationships have faced challenges,” but that this historic trip, the first in a decade, is a “clear sign of positive developments to come. “
“I am pleased to say that Turkey is one of our five most sensible trading partners. Over the years, our economic ties have strengthened,” Gantz said.
“On the diplomatic front, the return of our ambassadors has given us the floor today. In fact, my visit to Ankara is my third through an Israeli leader in less than a year. The doors have opened and there is a great prospect of cooperation. “in commerce, tourism, industry and more,” he said.
“Turkey and Israel have built modern and complex societies on the basis of history. Our long term is brilliant, but it depends on our usual interest in maintaining security and stability in the region and the world,” he continues.
“I believe much more can be done in combination to diminish the influence of those who destabilize our regions, supporting or wearing down terrorist movements that oppose innocent civilians,” Gantz added.
Gantz highlights Israel’s ties with Turkish rivals Greece and Cyprus, before saying that “in the future, we will have to adopt a solid and positive technique in our relations, maintaining an open dialogue. “
The goal is to renew official defense relations between the two countries.
A delegation of Israeli paratroopers jumped over Bahrain along with infantrymen from the Gulf nation, the United Arab Emirates and the United States to mark two years since the signing of the Abraham Accords.
Senior IDF officers, Major General Itai Veruv, commander of the Depth Corps and Military Colleges, and head of the IDF Infantry and Parachute Corps. General Guy Levy participated in the meetings.
– Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) October 27, 2022
“We engage in strategic talks, analyze conditions and draw up cooperation plans for the future. Two years ago, such an encounter was nothing more than a crazy eye or a dream. The concept that we were going to sit down like this naturally and talk as partners, open up wisdom and create a platform for unthinkable collaboration,” Veruv said in remarks published by the IDF.
The leader of devout Zionism, Bezalel Smotrich, says he is fit to be defense minister in the next government, has only finished abbreviated military service and has no combat experience.
Speaking to the Ynet news site, Smotrich asked about the controversy in recent days over Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s military service and his own limited service, given his ambitions if the right were to shape the next government.
Smotrich says he served 14 months as a fellow enlisted in the General Staff operations department after being drafted at the age of 28.
“I can be defense minister,” the far-right leader said. “My service has me prepared more than many other things. “
“It’s true, I couldn’t be a fighter and I didn’t run up the hills, but I was in the nerve center of the army, at headquarters. In the positions where they sit and manage the army, they make decisions and write operational plans. I played a very important role in him that I can’t and won’t detail,” says Smotrich.
Current Defense Minister Benny Gantz, leader of the IDF general staff, like many of his predecessors. However, there have been several defense ministers without significant military experience.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid welcomes the IDF resolution to approve all-female tank crews.
“I commend the IDF leader for the resolution to start recruiting women as tank operators,” Lapid tweeted.
– יאיר לפיד – Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) October 27, 2022
“Women can do anything and be in each and every role and at each and every decision-making table. We will continue to work to integrate and advertise women in the military, the hard labor market and leadership positions in government,” he said.
Egypt has reached a $3 billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund amid a 15 percent depreciation of the local currency against the dollar, the government said.
The IMF had demanded devaluation as a condition of the loan and the North African country is among the five countries in the world’s maximum default on its external debt, according to the foreign rating agency Moody’s.
The IMF deal is also conditional on reforms that come with additional cuts in subsidies, causing even more suffering to suffering households.
In August, global investment company Goldman Sachs estimated that Egypt would want about $15 billion in financing to pay off its foreign debt, recently estimated at around $150 billion.
Israel has sent a message to Syria stating that it intends to accentuate the movements if Syria continues to facilitate Iranian arms transfers to the region, Saudi Arabia al-Arabiya reports.
Citing anonymous sources, the network claims that Iran is shipping weapons disguised from Syria and Lebanon by air, land and sea.
The report, which mentions the same source, did not specify how or when the Israeli message was conveyed.
The report comes after a third attack in 3 days attributed to Israel.
There was no immediate comment from Israel, which admitted to making many incursions against Iranian-backed teams seeking to gain a foothold in the country over the past decade and arms shipments to the Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah.
On Thursday, the cabinet approved a NIS 4. 5 billion ($1. 27 billion) cut to its 2023 budget to fund a salary deal with teachers.
The new wage agreement, signed in October, will be financed for the remainder of this year through the reserve budget of the Ministry of Education. In 2023, 6. 6% of the department’s budget will finance the agreement.
Iranian security forces shot dead a young man protesting against the death of Mahsa Amini in the western city of Mahabad today, the Hengaw Organization for Huguy Rights said.
“A young Kurd killed by direct gunfire from Iranian security forces,” Hengaw, a Norway-based group, said on Twitter. “This young man shot in the forehead. “
– Amnesty Iran (@AmnestyIran) 27 October 2022
Lebanon’s president denies that a maritime border agreement to be signed later has “political implications,” after Israel said the agreement between the two enemy states amounted to Beirut detecting Israel.
“Demarcating the southern maritime border is a technical painting that has no political implications nor is it contrary to Lebanon’s foreign policy,” Lebanese President Michel Aoun said of the agreement between the two enemy states.
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