The Times of Israel livestreamed Wednesday’s events as they unfolded.
Tremors are being felt in northern Israel in what appears to be a minor earthquake centered in Lebanon.
Israel’s Energy Ministry said that shortly before nine o’clock at night local time, an earthquake was felt in the north and its origin was being investigated. He then added that the quake registered a magnitude of 3. 9 on the Richter scale and centered in Lebanon at about 123 km. north of Majdal Shams.
Lebanese media report that citizens are suffering from the country’s earthquakes.
Several small earthquakes have been felt in Israel over the past two days since an earthquake devastated Turkey and Syria early Monday.
Labour MP Gilad Kariv said the government’s plan to radically reform the judiciary is the most productive gift imaginable to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
“If there is a gift to the BDS movement, it is the destructive reform it is carrying out in front of the judicial system,” Kariv said from the Knesset rostrum. Democratic state is an oxymoron, it’s [because of] their plans. “
Quebec police, a bus driver who crashed his vehicle into a daycare center the day before, killing two children, did so intentionally but they don’t know why, they say.
“We think it’s planned but we don’t know why,” said Pierre Brochet, police chief in Laval, a Montreal suburb.
The 51-year-old driver, who was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, had no criminal record, he added.
Russia says it will respond if Britain sends fighter jets to Ukraine, warning of escalation.
“Russia will find a reaction to any hostile measures taken by the British,” Moscow’s embassy in London said in a statement to Russian news agencies.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met yesterday in London with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as King Charles.
The Israeli military informs the circle of relatives of Alqam Khayri, a 21-year-old Palestinian terrorist who murdered seven others in Jerusalem last month, that his house is doomed to be demolished.
On January 27, Khayri fired in the neighborhood of Neve Yaakov, killing Asher Natan, 14, Eli, 48, Natali Mizrahi, 45, Ilya Sosansky, 26, Rafael Ben Eliyahu, 56, Irina Korolova, 59, and Shaul. Hai, 68. .
Khayri was shot dead by police officers while fleeing.
In the days after the attack, Israeli police sealed Khayri’s home in the capital’s A-Tur neighborhood.
His circle of relatives is now officially informed of the army’s goal of razing his home, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
As part of its policy, Israel demolishes the homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out deadly terror attacks. Khayri’s circle of relatives can still appeal the decision to raze the space to Israel’s High Court of Justice. But such attempts rarely succeed, although in some cases. The court could limit the demolition order to only the parts of the space used by the terrorist.
Dozens of foreign economists, in addition to several Nobel laureates, sent an open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in opposition to his government’s proposal to radically reform the judiciary.
“A strong and independent judiciary is one component of a formula of checks and balances,” they write. “Undermining it would be negative not only for democracy, but also for prosperity and economic growth.
The signatories come with 11 Nobel laureates, plus MIT’s Peter Diamond, Harvard’s Oliver Hart, Stanford’s Paul Milgrom and Columbia’s Edmund Phelps.
A giant Israel Defense Forces aid delegation in Turkey arrives in the southeast of the country to identify a cash hospital to treat victims of the devastating earthquake.
According to the IDF, 15 air force cargo planes transported loads of tons of aircraft and 230 participants to set up the hospital in the coming hours.
The IDF already has some 150 search and rescue experts on the ground running to rescue civilians trapped in the rubble.
The hospital will be built near where search and rescue groups operate in the town of Kahramanmaraş, also known as Marash.
MARASH, Turkey (AP) — A 15-year-old woman is rescued from a collapsed building by Israeli and local rescuers.
She boarded a waiting ambulance and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Israeli rescue groups have already pulled another 4 survivors from collapsed buildings in southeastern Turkey.
A bill to repeal the clauses of the 2005 disengagement law that led to the evacuation of all settlements in Gaza and 4 settlements in the northern West Bank will be put to a vote through a key committee on Sunday and, if passed, sent to the Knesset for approval. next legislative steps.
The bill is critical to the government’s purpose of legalizing the illegal Homesh outpost, one of the settlements evacuated by the Disconnection Act, which has since been illegally rebuilt and evacuated several times.
The legislative push comes after U. S. Secretary of StateUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Israeli leaders to “suspend” moves such as the structure of the deal to increase tensions with the Palestinians.
The bill, introduced through Likud MK Yuli Edelstein and, in the last Knesset through Minister of National Missions Orit Strock of the Religious Zionism Party, would repeal the clauses of the disengagement law that prohibit Israelis from living in the place where the 4 Homesh settlements are located. Ganim, Kadim and Sar-Nur used to stand.
If it is through the committee, it will be transferred to the Knesset for an initial plenary reading the following week.
At a High Court hearing last month on a petition by local Palestinian landowners to remove the illegal Homesh outpost, the judges expressed doubts about the option of legalizing the settlement, even if the disconnection law were changed, given that it is largely built on personal Palestinian land.
MARASH, Turkey (AP) — Israeli rescuers are about to pull out a 15-year-old woman who has been trapped under the rubble of her family’s building in Marash since Monday.
She is in serious condition but is conscious. Her circle of relatives asked that no photos or videos be taken of her when she is released.
The Israeli army operating in southeastern Turkey after the devastating earthquake helped rescue a 2-year-old boy from the rubble, according to the IDF.
Alon Hominer, one of the Home Front Command’s search and rescue team members, says the engineering operation lasted hours.
“We won a response from Turkish [authorities] that there were sounds of babies crying, and we joined the effort,” Hominer said. He says the baby is healthy and will be taken to the hospital.
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The head of Israel’s Geological Survey giving an interview to public broadcaster Kan when sirens sounded at the institute’s headquarters indicating an earthquake was approaching.
“If you hear this noise, our formula has just recorded an earthquake,” Professor Zohar Gvirtzman said in the live television interview. “I have to check and explain the details with the seismologists here. “
The Geological Survey later said the quake registered a magnitude of 3. 3 on the Richter scale and that no national alert was sent because there was no danger to residents.
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A senior United Nations official is calling on the quake-hit Syrian government to facilitate aid to rebel-held spaces in the northwest, warning that relief stocks will soon run out.
“Let’s put politics aside and let us do our humanitarian work,” the U. N. resident coordinator for Syria, El-Mostafa Benlamlih, told AFP in an interview, warning: “We can’t wait and negotiate. By the time we negotiate, it’s done. ” It’s finished.
The death toll from a major earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria has risen to more than 11,700 as rescuers scramble to rescue survivors trapped in the rubble in the winter cold.
According to officials and doctors, another 9,057 people were killed in Turkey and 2,662 in Syria following Monday’s 7. 8-magnitude quake, bringing the total to 11,719.
Residents across Israel said they felt tremors after a minor quake, amid two days of incidents following a major earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria.
The IDF house front command said the quake measured 3. 3 on the Richter scale and was centered in central Israel. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
Home Front Command says the caution sirens sounded because the tremor posed no danger to residents.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The 20-minute call focuses on expanding cooperation in technology, industry and security, according to Netanyahu’s office.
The two men were said to be close to Netanyahu’s previous rule. During Modi’s stopover in Israel in 2017, the two leaders walked barefoot in the waves, the waves gently pounding the hems of their pants as they spoke, generating iconic images of the couple. Then, the two had drinks and took a ride on a water desalination buggy.
Strategic dating continues to develop, with India taking advantage of the opportunities the Abraham Accords are offering New Delhi in the Middle East and Europe.
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen discussed with his Bulgarian and Romanian counterparts the importance of the EU designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization and preventing Iran’s nuclear program, the Foreign Ministry said.
Along with Bulgaria’s Nikolai Milkov, Cohen is asking Sofia to build her relationship with Israel in foreign forums, adding the IAEA, where he sits on the board of governors. During his call with Romania’s Bogdan Aurescu, Cohen asked Bucharest to push for the IRGC directory. as a terrorist, and Aurescu said he would, according to the Israeli reading.
Aurescu tweeted that the call is “excellent” and that he hopes to expand “political and sectoral cooperation. “
Romania and Israel celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations this year.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with the head of the IDF delegation in Turkey and congratulates him on the team’s efforts.
“He is doing the most humanitarian work and wonderfully honoring the State of Israel, and showing our true face to the world,” Netanyahu told Col. Golan Vach by telephone. “Do everything you can to save lives and stay safe. “
Vach says Israeli rescuers have pulled four other people alive from the rubble and are running for two more right now.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected tonight in Paris, the French presidency said, following his visit to the United Kingdom.
EU officials then expect him to travel to Brussels to meet with EU leaders on a largely symbolic but long-awaited stopover after months of European aid for Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling on allies to supply his country with air power to fight Russia’s invasion in a historic speech to the British parliament.
“I appeal to you and to the world. . . for fighter jets for Ukraine, wings for freedom,” he told lawmakers in the chambers of the British parliament.
An Israeli army cash hospital is expected to be set up tonight to treat earthquake victims in Turkey, officials said.
Not long ago, two Israeli Air Force heavy transport planes with hospital cash and officials took off for the affected areas of southeastern Turkey, after an initial team arrived early this morning to scout the area.
Speaking to reporters, the head of the aid delegation, Colonel (Res. ) Golan Vach, said that Israeli groups have had the greatest success so far, with 4 successful rescues and two more in process.
“The Israeli delegation is the largest with the exception of Azerbaijan, which sent 400 people. I think during this night we will get more than 420 people,” Vach said.
“We have carried out a number of rescues so far. I believe that the State [of Israel] and the front command of the house know how to fulfill such responsibilities in a short period of time. The speed with which we arrived on the scene is what led to those effects and I hope we will have more effects soon. “
Vach says that these IDF aid delegations last between nine and 14 days and, in that case, the team is willing to stay in Turkey for that time.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is most likely the origin of the missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, but there is no realistic prospect of prosecuting him or others, investigators say as they announced the investigation will be halted.
Investigators say there are “strong indications” that Putin personally approved the transfer of the missile to pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine in 2014, bringing up intercepted phone calls.
But the investigation is suspended because “all clues have been exhausted” in the downing of the plane, which crashed with the loss of the other 298 people on board.
The announcement comes less than three months after a Dutch court convicted two Russians and a Ukrainian of killing other people aboard MH17, after searching for them in his absence.
MARASH, Turkey (AP) — Israeli army forces are a new concerted effort to beat a man trapped inside a collapsed building in the southern Turkish city of Marash.
After hours of failing to reach the man, who is trapped in an area two meters wide by two meters long by 80 centimeters high on what was once the floor of the building, the search and rescue unit of the IDF National Front Command is trying an ambitious new approach.
Instead of looking to succeed with the type from the side, they will dig underneath the construction and drill from below into the area where it has been stuck since construction collapsed more than two days ago.
The team leader says he has spoken to the man, who is in his fifties and suffers from chest pain and shortness of breath, but has no injuries.
Two staff members of the structure are killed when a wall collapses on them inside a structure at an engineering school in Ashdod, according to police and rescuers.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said paramedics said the two men, in their 50s, died at the scene after failed rescue efforts.
Firefighters and rescuers say they pulled the two men out from under the wall and discovered no one else was trapped inside.
Israeli police had opened an investigation into the incident.
MARASH, Turkey (AP) — Eren sent his wife, children and in-laws to Istanbul after a major earthquake demolished entire neighborhoods in his hometown of Marash, then turned around and returned with recovery efforts.
“I had to help and I couldn’t do it if I worried about the protection of my wife and children,” he told The Times of Israel, speaking in fluent English but with an accent.
Eren, who declined to give his last name, says his circle of relatives lived in a newer component of the city, so they felt the tremor intensely, their house was saved. But that was not the case in the central community where Eren lived and where several friends and acquaintances still live.
“My university professor lived in this building,” he says, pointing to an absolutely collapsed multi-story building. “They think it’s still inside. “
Eren is one of many others living in Marash or just out of school, who are not properly educated but willing to do whatever is asked to help rescuers on their missions.
Some take the paintings themselves, grabbing shovels, pickaxes, hammers and soft-force gear to clear the remains of other people trapped in the rubble. But even with this concerted effort, it will most likely take weeks, if not months, to sort out the rubble.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives in the UK aboard a Royal Air Force at London’s Stansted Airport, north of the capital. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak greets him on the tarmac and tweets a photo of him hugging the Ukrainian leader.
“The UK was one of the first to come to Ukraine’s aid. And today I’m in London to personally thank fellow Britons for their support,” Zelensky said on Instagram.
Zelensky and Sunak pose briefly for photographs in front of the famous black door leading to the British prime minister’s residence. Staff at 10 Downing St. can be heard applauding as the Ukrainian leader enters.
At the start of the leaders’ meeting, Zelensky thanked Britain for its “great performance since the first days of the full-scale invasion. “
Zelensky will then address parliament and meet King Charles III and British Army leaders on his visit.
A protest at Ben Gurion Airport left long lines, delayed flights and stranded passengers.
For several hours, the registration was interrupted as a component of a protest against running situations and what they qualify as breach of contractual obligations. Flights were delayed and passengers had to wait either in the terminal or on board the planes.
The protest is expected to end at 2 p. m. Local time, delays are still expected.
Opposition figure Yair Lapid spoke out Monday in favor of a workers’ strike to protest the government’s judicial reform plan.
“On Monday, we will all go to Jerusalem to protect and preserve our country,” Lapid said in a video message on social media. “Employers will need to allow all staff who need to pass into Jerusalem to fight for the country, fight for our democracy and say, ‘This is no longer the case. We will not allow them to destroy our democracy. ‘”
Protest organizers, including former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, say dozens of organizations, as well as businesses and civil society groups, have joined the planned strike, which is expected to coincide with a giant outdoor rally in the Knesset.
The British government announces a new circular of sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.
Foreign Minister James Cleverly said new sanctions against the organizations on which Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military is based “will increase economic pressure on Putin, undermining his war strategy for Ukraine to prevail. “
The announcement comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives in Britain, meeting with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and King Charles III.
The death toll from a major earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria has risen to more than 11,200 as rescuers scramble to rescue survivors trapped in the rubble in the winter cold.
According to officials and doctors, another 8,574 people were killed in Turkey and 2,662 in Syria following Monday’s 7. 8-magnitude quake, bringing the total to 11,236.
Syria is making an official appeal to the European Union after the fatal earthquake that struck it and to Turkey on Monday, the bloc’s crisis control commissioner said.
The EU imposed sanctions against Bashar Assad’s regime in 2011 to punish it for its fatal crackdown on protesters.
The European Commission is “encouraged” EU member states to comply with Syria’s request for medical supplies and food, while tracking that any aid “is not diverted” through the sanctioned government in Damascus, Lenarcic said.
The EU delegation in Israel refuses to say whether it will propose moving Israeli humanitarian aid to Syria, but tells The Times of Israel that “the EU has all the viable characteristics to activate more resources that will be deployed in all affected spaces as soon as possible. “”As much as possible.
“We will seek to get more aid to other people, either in parts controlled by the government and not controlled by the government in northern Syria.
Israel Defense Forces delegates have rescued 4 trapped people, adding children, according to deputy project leader Nadav Markman.
He added that the IDF in Turkey is operating 24 hours a day in coordination with the local government following the devastating earthquake.
MARASH, Turkey: Every few minutes, the frenzy of rescue efforts on Haydar Aliyev Boulevard in Marash comes to an abrupt halt and the domain becomes almost completely, strangely silent to allow rescuers to hear better if a user trapped inside a collapsed building responds. .
Once they hear their calls – verbally or, more frequently, hitting the concrete – the roar of heavy-frame vehicles, turbines and screams resumes.
The air is loaded with smoke, blowing into people’s eyes through cold, gusty winds.
In one building, the Israeli army and civilian rescuers try to free a guy trapped under the rubble. To that end, they asked local citizens to break into surrounding cars, almost all in total, to get their cats to lift the concrete slabs. help the rescue effort.
More than two hundred legal advisers from prominent Israeli establishments sign a public letter denouncing the government’s plan to reform the judiciary and supporting Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and other legal officials who oppose it, reports Ynet News.
The letter warns that the proposed law will undermine the independence of the judiciary and the public sector, which are “the pillars of a democratic society. “
“The government’s moves will have unprecedented repercussions on the strength and team spirit of the State of Israel, economic and global aspects,” they write.
Volodymyr Zelensky will stop in the UK today, according to Britain, at the time of the Ukrainian leader abroad since Russian troops invaded his country about a year ago.
London is the stopover announcement to say it will offer fighter jet education to Ukraine as Western allies debate how much military aid Kiev deserves to be delivered amid warnings of a near Russian offensive in the east.
Downing Street reports Zelensky will meet Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and deal with parliament, declaring that the UK is “training fighter pilots and marines” of the Ukrainian armed forces.
“The prime minister will propose the UK’s educational offer for Ukrainian troops, and extend it to fighter jet pilots to ensure that Ukraine can protect its skies in the future,” Sunak’s office said.
Education “will ensure that pilots fly complicated fighter jets according to NATO criteria in the future,” he added.
Sunak “will also offer to initiate an immediate education program for seafarers,” he added.
MARASH, Turkey (AP) — Israeli rescuers are working with Turkish operators to help a user trapped under collapsed construction in the city of Marash, one of the hardest-hit towns in southern Turkey and northern Syria.
The user is believed to be alive, but trapped under layers of concrete floor.
The destruction in Marash is devastating, with entire neighborhoods flattened by tremors. This has put great pressure on rescuers, who have more missions than they can accomplish.
“As a rescuer, the hardest thing is to say no to someone,” said an Israeli paramedic from the United Hatzalah group.
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