The Times of Israel publishes Friday’s occasions as they unfold.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey could suspend diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates after a historic agreement between Israel and Abu Dhabi.
“I gave an order to the foreign minister. I said we could suspend diplomatic relations with the Abu Dhabi leadership or withdraw our ambassador,” Erdogan told reporters.
In that agreement, Israel undertook to suspend its planned annexation of parts of the West Bank in exchange for normalization with the United Arab Emirates.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanks several Arab countries and leaders for publicly supporting Israel’s normalization pact with the United Arab Emirates announced yesterday.
“I thank the Egyptian President [Abdel-Fattah] el-Sissi and the governments of Oman and Bahrain for the historic peace treaty between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, which expands the circle of peace and will gain advantages for all. Region,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
Israel has concluded a peace agreement with Egypt since 1979, and Oman and Bahrain would be the countries that would signal standardization agreements with the Jewish state.
The government approves a unified restriction on public space meetings, which takes effect on Sundays at 2 p.m.
The measure comes after ultra-Orthodox ministers criticized the other synagogue and restaurant remedy.
According to the new rules, meetings in the spaces are limited to 30 people.
In indoor spaces of less than 80 square meters (860 square feet), meetings are limited to ten other people. In larger spaces, another 20 people are allowed.
In any place that is a place of worship or a restaurant, larger meetings will be allowed as long as there is no more than one user consistent with 7 square meters (75 square feet).
These will be the regulations of all public spaces that have been forced to close.
The new regulations were approved through members of the so-called cupboard panel on coronavirus in a vote, the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Health said in a joint statement.
The European Union welcomes the agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to identify relations and reaffirmed its support for a two-state peace agreement in the Middle East.
“Standardization will also have advantages. This is for them and for regional stability. The two countries are our partners,” EU foreign policy spokeswoman Nabila Massrali told the press.
“And, of course, as an EU, you know very well that we are committed to a two-state solution. And, of course, we are in a position to paint on the resumption of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.”
The agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, announced Thursday through US President Donald Trump, is only the third such agreement that Israel has reached with an Arab country and raised the possibility of agreements with other pro-Western Gulf states.
In the document, Israel pledged to suspend its planned annexation of giant portions of the West Bank, a concession well received by European governments and some pro-Western Arab governments as a condiment for hopes for peace.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, tweeted: “Suspension of annexation is a step in the right direction, the plans will have to be abandoned altogether now. The EU expects the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to resume in two -State solution based on parameters agreed around the world. »
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Spain says it is closing nightclubs and banning smoking on the streets social estrangement, as it intensifies restrictions to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.
Health Minister Salvador Illa unveiled a number of new measures to be implemented across the country after the country fought an outbreak of the disease, with nearly 3,000 new cases reported on Thursday.
To stop the spread of COVID-19, nightclubs, nightclubs and ballrooms will be closed, restaurants and bars must close at 1 a.m., without allowing new visitors from midnight.
The ban on smoking in the street, which is in line with the recommendations of the World Health Organization, is already in two of the 17 autonomous regions of Spain, Galicia and the Canary Islands.
In nursing homes, visitors will be and all new citizens will have to be tested for the virus at the time of admission.
The regional government will need to conduct tests on exposed population teams and in the areas most affected by the disease, but the Ministry of Health has given a timetable for these measures to take effect.
A total of 28,605 other people have been killed by COVID-19 in Spain, which declared a state of emergency between 14 March and 21 June, allowing the central government to impose national restrictions.
With the lifting of the state of emergency, the autonomy of the regional authorities was restored.
The Department of Health had to negotiate with them to impose the new measures at the level.
Spain has a population of 47 million and has an infection rate of 110 cases consistent with 100,000 inhabitants than in European countries.
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Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich (Kakhol lavan) spoke by phone with members of the UAE Jewish network in what she said is the first public verbal exchange between an Israeli government official and Jewish leaders in the Gulf country.
IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi told the leaders of municipalities near the Gaza Strip that he believed the release of incendiary balloons from the coastal enclave would be avoided in the coming days thanks to measures taken through the military.
On Friday, the other day when Israeli camps surrounding the Gaza Strip were set on fire through incendiary artifacts.
U.S. President Donald Trump has written to his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, about the case of journalist Austin Tice, who has been absent since 2012, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.
“The U.S. government has continually tried to hire Syrian officials to call for the release of Austin,” Pompeo said on the eighth anniversary of Tice’s disappearance.
“President Trump wrote to Bashar al-Assad in March for a direct dialogue.”
Tice, an independent photojournalist running for Agence France-Presse, McClatchy News, The Washington Post, CBS and other news organizations when he disappeared after being arrested at a checkpoint near Damascus on August 14, 2012.
Tice, who was 31 at the time of his capture, gave the impression that he was blindfolded in the custody of an unidentified organization of armed men in a video a month later.
Since then, there has been no official data on whether he is alive or dead.
In March, Trump said the United States had written a letter to Damascus officials, without specifying that he himself had written to Assad, whom Washington needs to destitute from power.
At the time, Trump said he didn’t know if Tice was still alive.
“No one doubts the president’s commitment to bringing home all U.S. citizens held hostage or unfairly held abroad,” Pompeo said.
“Nowhere is this more powerful than in the case of Austin Tice.”
Pompeo said he and Trump hoped there would “be no need for another like this in a year.”
“The liberation of Austin Tice and his return home are far behind. We will do everything we can to achieve this goal,” he added.
A year ago, the U.S. government said it thought Tice was still alive.
His mother, Debra Tice, said in January that he had “credible information” about it, giving details.
In 2018, the U.S. government announced a $1 million eulogy to lead to his recovery.
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India welcomes the standardization agreement announced between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
A spokesman for Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told reporters that his boss had won a phone call from UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, informing him of the standardization agreement. The spokesman said India’s foreign minister “deeply appreciated the update.
“India continues its classic Palestinian cause. We look forward to seeing an immediate resumption of direct negotiations to find a two-state solution,” he added.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the head of the National Security Council, Meir Ben-Shabbat, to coordinate arrangements for talks with the United Arab Emirates following the announcement of standardization yesterday, the PMO said.
Once again, the Chancellery of Gabi Ashkenazi (Kakhol lavan) is excluded from a factor that would be a component of its portfolio.
Iran’s foreign minister sent letters to his Lebanese counterpart and Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, congratulating them “on the anniversary of the country’s victory in its 33-day war against Israeli aggressors.”
It turns out it refers to the end of the Second Lebanon War in 2006, which many analysts say ended inconclusively with a ceasefire.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is calling for an extension of the UN arms embargo that opposes Iran, it would be “crazy” to let it expire.
Opposition to the VETO powers of the UN Security Council, China and Russia is expected to block a solution to widen the blockade beyond October.
Pompeo reiterated on a stopover in Vienna that Iran deserves not to be allowed to buy and sell arms, and called the Islamic Republic “the largest state sponsoring terrorism in the world.”
“I mean it’s crazy … We urge everyone to join us” to prolong the arms embargo, he said.
As things stand, gun sanctions are expected to be phased out from October, a Security Council solution that approves a 2015 Iran agreement with global powers to restrict their ability to expand a nuclear bomb, in exchange for easing industry barriers.
The historic agreement has been tense since the United States withdrew in 2018.
While Washington has reimposed crippling sanctions, Tehran has stepped up its nuclear weapon since last year.
Pompeo urges Tehran to provide “full and prompt cooperation” with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which monitors Iran’s compliance with the nuclear agreement.
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A boar that went viral after stealing a nudist’s computer near a lake in the German capital of Berlin last week could be the target of a local sacrifice, an official said.
Photos of the female boar and her two cubs have been shared thousands of times on social media after a naked bather took it dishonorable to chase them to retrieve their computer bag.
But Berlin Forestry Office spokesman Marc Franusch told the AFP that wild boar and their young children could be slaughtered when the hunting season begins in October.
They wouldn’t be shot because it’s not the right time of year, Franusch said, but the company will control them.
“If there are specific risks to humans or animals in places such as the Teufelssee bathing area (lake), appropriate measures should be taken to avoid such hazards,” he says.
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Wild boars are slaughtered through licensed hunters in Berlin and the rest of Germany to decrease their numbers and fight diseases such as African swine fever.
They venture into residential spaces in search of food, as they gave the impression of being the case in last week’s incident, and are known to attack humans.
“Many of us were scared, but the boars were calm,” wrote Adele Landauer, a Berlin-based life coach who took the photos and shared them on Instagram last week.
“After eating a pizza in the backpack of a guy who was swimming in the lake, they were looking for dessert. They found this yellow bag and took it away.
Franusch suggested visitors to the lake leave food or debris, as this would only inspire the creatures.
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The Jewish for Joe organization to elect Joe Biden as the next president of the United States announces that its products from the Hebrew Crusade have been put up for sale.
Products include “Joe Biden for President” buttons, bumper stickers, T-shirts, symptoms and yarmulkes, all in Hebrew.
Other products come with buttons with the motto – B “H – in them, representing Biden and Harris and also “Baruch Hashem” or ” thanks to GodArray “in Hebrew.
Another button says “Yo-Semite,” on a trolling of the pronunciation of US President Donald Trump’s Yosemite National Park call before this month.
President Vladimir Putin is calling on permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany to convene an emergency summit on Iran in the face of escalating tensions in the Gulf.
China, France, Russia, Britain, the United States, Germany and Iran attend the video summit, kremlin leader said.
“This is an urgent issue,” Putin said in a statement through the Kremlin.
“Discussions at the UN Security Council on the Iranian factor are very strained,” Putin said, adding that Moscow’s ally Iran was targeted by “unfounded accusations.”
“The aim is to expand a plan that would involve a confrontation, an escalation of tensions in the UN Security Council.”
He added that leaders also agree on tactics to ensure some security and confidence in the Gulf region.
Tensions over Iran have risen since 2018, when U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of a multinational agreement on Iran’s nuclear program and re-imposed crippling sanctions on its economy.
Last week US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington would submit a UN Security Council resolution to extend an arms embargo on Iran despite opposition from Russia and China.
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The U.S. Department of Justice confirms that it has seized fuel from four tanker trucks sent through Iran to a crisis-ravaged Venezuela, linking Tehran’s Revolutionary Guards.
“With foreign partners, those seized assets are now in U.S. custody,” said the Justice Department, which estimated the total in more than a million barrels of oil and called it the largest shipment of fuel shipments in Iran.
The ministry issued an arrest warrant last month to send the oil tankers Bella, Bering, Pandi and Luna.
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s younger brother Robert Trump has been hospitalized in New York, according to the White House.
The president is expected to make a stop at his 72-year-old brother’s home at a Manhattan hospital Friday, according to White House spokesman Judd Deere. Trump was already scheduled to make a stopover on his assets in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Friday.
The White House did not fully disclose the main points of why Robert Trump was hospitalized, but officials said he was seriously ill.
Trump “has a lot of dates with his brother, which is very special to him,” Deere said.
Robert Trump, one of the president’s four brothers, recently filed a complaint on behalf of Trump’s circle of relatives seeking to avoid the publication of a revealing e-book through President Mary’s niece, titled “Too Much and Never Enough.”
The president said Mary Trump’s e-book is a violation of a confidentiality agreement he signed as part of a monetary deal he won from the Trump family. Mary is the daughter of the brothers’ older brother, Fred Trump Jr., who fought against alcoholism and died in 1981 at the age of 43.
No circle of family members joined Fred Jr., known as Freddy, in hospital the night he died. The president went to the videos with some other brother.
Robert Trump in the past worked for his older brother in the Trump Organization.
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Bulgaria’s troubled minister has said he will resign if lawmakers approve of his plans to elect a primary national meeting that would approve constitutional amendments to reform the country’s political system.
In a televised confrontation with the nation, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov tries to appease protesters who are not easy from the resignation of his government and Bulgaria’s fiscal leader. Protesters who have been on the streets for a month accuse government officials of mafia ties, corrupt practices and a crackdown on freedom of expression.
Borisov proposes measures to make paintings of the Bulgarian parliament more effective by reducing the number of legislators who sit in the National Assembly from 240 to 120 today, on the subject of all measures taken through the leading prosecutor to stricter liability.
“It’s time to replace the political system, but also to restart the country,” Borisov says.
A two-thirds vote in parliament is needed to convene an election for a special primary national meeting that would include the proposed constitutional amendments. Reaching the threshold turns out to be a complicated task.
Borisov argues that the convening of the legislature would in itself be an act in favour of democracy.
He said he will “resign as prime minister the same day Parliament makes a decision on those elections.”
The initial reaction of some organizers of the demonstration to reject Borisov’s proposals as an attempt to panic to remain in force until the end of his term in March.
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A Muslim woman who worked for a McDonald’s franchise in Maryland says her executives and colleagues sexually harassed her and put her discriminated against after converting to Islam.
Diamond Powell, 28, of Baltimore, thursday sued his former employer, Susdewitt Management LLC of Lanham, Maryland, with attorneys from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group.
Christian graduated from Morgan State University in 2016 when he began applying for the company, which operated two McDonald’s sites at Thurgood Marshall International Airport in Baltimore/Washington. Powell switched to Islam in February 2017 and began working with a hijab, a devoted headdress.
An official told him to “take that sweatshirt off” his head, as he said, “You don’t have to wait for God to wake up to pray,” Powell’s federal lawsuit alleges.
Powell has the devoted confidence that he will have to pray five times a day at prescribed times. First, a general manager agreed to Powell’s request to take brief prayer breaks in his shifts, according to his judgment.
“His prayer breaks lasted only a typical rest in the bathroom,” the demand says.
But the general manager forbade Powell from praying on a quiet component of the airport and instead told him to pray in a dirty garage, according to demand. After Powell continued to pray outside the restaurant, the general manager, however, overturned his request to take a break to pray, saying, “God will understand,” according to the demand.
“In doing so, the CEO forced Powell to between continuing his job at McDonald’s or sacrificing his honest and devoted beliefs,” the lawsuit says.
Powell resigned in April 2018. His trial accuses Susdewitt Management of violating the Maryland Fair Employment Practices Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Susdewitt Management owner Isaac Green questioned the “characterizations” of the lawsuit, but said the company reviewed Powell’s allegations and “react accordingly.”
“We are proud of our diverse workforce and have policies in a position to offer a welcoming office and respect the hotels that workers may want for devout reasons,” Green said in a statement through a McDonald’s corporate spokeswoman.
The lawsuit also alleges that Powell sexually harassed her at work, and several managers and colleagues asked her if she was a virgin and a team leader making sexually particular comments.
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The Ministry of Health’s figures on coronavirus published Friday night showed that 1,525 new ones had been shown in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to 91080.
The updated figures were published hours after ministers voted to impose additional restrictions on indoor and space overcrowding in an effort to reduce the rate of relentless infection.
Of the 91,080 instances, 23,450 were active instances, one of 733 instances 24 hours earlier.
The death toll has risen to 665:8 since Friday morning and 14 since Thursday night.
The number of severe cases 375, two less than Friday morning. Of these, 108 were in fans.
158 additional patients were in moderate condition and the remaining patients had or had no symptoms.
The ministry said 28871 coronavirus control effects returned on Thursday, of which 5.9% were positive. The positive streak has declined over the following week, reaching 9.3% on August 8.
“Analysts see the wonderful agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel announced Thursday as a strategic condiment for the UAE’s regional and global position that can put them at the forefront of their tough Saudi neighbor and ally, especially in critical relations with Washington.” writes Reuters’ news firm.
“This resolution positions the United Arab Emirates well if [Joe] Biden is expected to win [the next U.S. presidential election], because it will help make things less difficult with the [US] Congress] And in doing so, it will leave Saudi Arabia defeated and more exposed than ever. Neil Quilliam, associate member of Chatham House and managing director of Azure Strategy, told Reuters. “This will have to be the genuine fear of The Saudi leaders right now, and the most important calculation on how to respond to the UAE -Israel’s resolution.”
But while more excited for Gulf leaders, the concept of standardized ties with Israel remains much less popular on the ground.
The Arab social media hashtag “Gulfis_Against_Normalization” ranks third in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, Reuters reports.
The Wall Street Journal reports that an assessment by the U.S. government concluded that “maintenance work” likely led to the Beirut harbor explosion last week.
The State Department’s assessment found no evidence of an attack on ammonium stash or evidence of unfair play, one user of the case told the Journal.
The evaluation did not specify the type of maintenance paints that led to the explosion, but revealed that this was what started the chimney that ignited ammonium nitrate.
Firefighters and rescue say incendiary balloons introduced through terrorist organizations over The Gaza border have triggered at least 19 fires in southern Israel.
This is the tenth consecutive day of fires, which basically cause damage to weeds and agricultural areas.
The balloons, which bring explosive devices, caused more than a hundred fires in Israel last week.
The IDF has bombed Hamas targets in Gaza for more than 4 nights in reaction to attacks.
Israel has also closed its products throughout the Gaza Strip for all goods, food and humanitarian supplies, and has reduced the permitted fishing dominance in Gaza to force Hamas to break the balloons.
Thursday’s standardization between Israel and the United Arab Emirates has increased tensions in the Palestinian territories, sparking protests in Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank, and a protest by Palestinian leaders.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanks several Arab countries and leaders for publicly supporting Israel’s normalization pact with the United Arab Emirates announced yesterday.
“I thank the Egyptian President [Abdel-Fattah] el-Sissi and the governments of Oman and Bahrain for the historic peace treaty between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, which expands the circle of peace and will gain advantages for all. Region,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
Israel has concluded a peace agreement with Egypt since 1979, and Oman and Bahrain would be the countries that would signal standardization agreements with the Jewish state.