The Times of Israel records Monday’s occasions as they occur.
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut expresses her “deep sadness” for the justice of U. S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
In a statement, Hayut That Ginsburg “was a revolutionary jurist and an inspiration to lawyers around the world. “
Pointing to the Ginsburg scale in Israel in 2018, Hayut said a lunch with the judges of Ginsburg and the Supreme Court of Israel beyond provided “the same unforgettable. “
“A really wonderful user is a user whose paintings reach a lot of audiences and go through generations and groups,” he says. “I have no doubt that the legacy of this wonderful woman and judge, and the culmination of her paintings, will remain with us for many generations to come. “
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves the closet meeting and tells ministers that it is by “a call of national importance. “
Notably, a similar scene happened in August, some time before the announcement by Israel and the United Arab Emirates, which later revealed that he had had a phone call with the de facto leader of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed Bin Zayed.
EU foreign ministers cannot agree on sanctions opposing the political crisis in Belarus, despite the request for support from opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
The former Soviet republic has been shaken by unprecedented protests against President Alexander Lukashenko since he returned to force in the controversial Elections on August 9 and introduced a brutal crackdown.
Tikhanovskaya met with the EU foreign ministers in Brussels and suggested that they sanction Lukashenko but, despite repeated statements condemning the veteran strongman and caution against the measures, after more than six weeks, the block has not yet acted.
Cyprus, which has smart relations with Russia, Lukashenko’s main supporter, has blocked the EU agreement on measures opposing Belarus, insisting that the sanctions that oppose Turkey over a dispute over drilling for maritime fuel they must be agreed at the same time.
“While there is a transparent willingness to adopt these sanctions, this was not imaginable today because the unanimity required has not been achieved,” EU diplomatic leader Josep Borrell told the press after hosting the talks.
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Defense Minister Benny Gantz travels to Washington to discuss with his U. S. counterpart how to maintain the qualitative merit of Israel’s military in the Middle East following its historic standardization agreement with the United Arab Emirates.
Since the agreement was announced last month, the United Arab Emirates has not hidden its preference for acquiring F-35 fighter jets and other complex U. S. -made weapons. Israel is America’s only best friend in the Middle East to possess the poacher.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first voiced his opposition to the sale of the planes to any other country in the region, including an Arab country at peace with Israel, but has since softened its line by saying it will accept as true. with the United States to honor their commitment to ensuring that Israel’s military has merit in the region.
Gantz’s workplace has announced that it will meet with U. S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and other senior Pentagon officials. He said there would be “meetings to discuss Israel’s continuing qualitative advantage, foreign policy towards Iran and the strategy to prevent its expansion and anchoring in the Middle East, as well as discuss defense cooperation and public procurement. “
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The prime minister is eriza at the harsh complaint of one of his aides who was accused of breaking his quarantine after being seen Sunday night in a protest against the prime minister in Jerusalem.
“Now, all of a sudden, he wakes up in the case of a man, ” he said in a closet meeting.
“Anyone who breaks quarantine pays a fine, but there is no selective application. Jews, Arabs, left, right, I believe that everyone follows the orders of the Ministry of Health and that they are respectable and applied equally.
The cabinet analyses the relief of the salaries of ministers and members of the Knesset, due to the economic difficulties created by the pandemic.
Ministers are a relief from the transitoryness of 10-20%.
Several Likud ministers, Transport Minister Miri Regev, Minister of Public Security Amir Ohana and Regional Cooperation Minister Ofir Akunis recommend that the salaries of senior judicial officials should also be reduced.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz responds that the government “does not mobilize judges. “
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s framework will rest this week in the Supreme Court, with provisions to allow public viewing despite the coronavirus pandemic.
Ginsburg’s coffin will be presented to the public on Wednesday and Thursday under the porch at the most sensitive of iconic steps in front of the building. A personal rite will be held in court on Wednesday morning.
Ginsburg will be buried next week at Arlington National Cemetery as part of a service, the court said.
Justice died Friday at the age of 87.
Congress made similar arrangements for an open-air public screening at the Capitol after the death of Representative John Lewis in July.
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The United States says it is imposing sanctions on Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s UN authority, which is widely discussed.
“For nearly two years, corrupt officials in Tehran have been competing with Venezuela’s illegitimate regime to forget about the UN arms embargo,” U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters. “
Pompeo says U. S. President Donald Trump has issued an executive order “which is a tough new tool for the UN arms embargo. “
The Trump administration argues that it is implementing a U. N. arms embargo that Iran has violated, adding an attack on Saudi oil facilities, but he is a UN solution that blessed a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran negotiated through former President Barack Obama and from which he withdrew.
The legal argument rejected by virtually every nation in the UN Security Council, adding US allies.
– AFP
The company is meeting to discuss the ongoing blockade and assistance to companies affected by the closure.
During the meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a mockery directed at the head of the Knesset’s coronavirus committee, MP Yifat Shasha-Biton, saying, “Anyone who has ignored the instructions, or worse diluted them in the Knesset, do not ask how they have been infected. increased. “
Saudi Arabia is publishing new main points on how it plans to allow Muslims to return to Islam’s holiest site in Mecca for year-round hajj, which has been suspended in the past seven months due to coronavirus.
Hajj Minister Muhammad Benten said the kingdom will launch an online app that will allow citizens, citizens of Saudi Arabia and visitors to electronically request and book an express date and time when they can make the pilgrimage, known as “umra,” to avoid overcrowding and social distance. Guidelines.
The minister, speaking in a virtual seminar, did not say when the pilgrimage would resume or how many other people would be allowed to do so at the same time.
Saudi Arabia began today to ease some restrictions on foreign flights for the first time in six months.
– AP
The Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality has announced that it is launching a pilot mapping of smart electric roads that can qualify cars as public buses while driving.
The generation comes from an Israeli company, ElectReon, which already has a vehicle that runs along the 4. 1-kilometer (2. 5-mile) road between the airport and Visthrough city centre on The Island of Gotland in Sweden, including 1. 6 kilometers (one mile). long-way electric and used via an electric bus and a heavy electric truck.
The Tel Aviv driver, who will start in a few months, will see a 600-meter (just under 2,000-foot) recharge segment built under the two-kilometre (1. 25-mile) bus line between Tel Aviv University Station and Klatzkin Terminal. in Ramat. Aviv. The vehicle will be an electric bus with a special battery.
If the pilot is successful, more roads with underground technology will be provided. The municipality plans to explore the addition of modes of transport of choice to electric roads, such as distribution trucks and personal and autonomous vehicles.
– with Sue Surkes
Born out of the devastation of World War II to save long-term generations from the scourge of conflict, the United Nations officially celebrates its 75th anniversary today with a call through Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to maintain the longest era in the history of armyless fashion among the world’s toughest nations.
The UN leader said at the largely virtual commemoration that “it took two global wars, millions of deaths, and the horrors of the Holocaust for world leaders to focus on foreign cooperation and the rule of law,” and that dedication has produced results.
“A third global war was averted, which so many others feared,” Guterres said. “This is a major achievement that Member States can be proud of, and that we will all have to try to preserve. “
His call comes at a turning point in history, as the United Nations navigates a polarized world facing a pandemic, regional conflicts, a shrinking economy and developing inequality.
“A climate disaster looms, biodiversity collapses, poverty increases, hatred spreads, geopolitical tensions intensify, nuclear weapons are on high alert,” he warns, and technologies have opened up new massive opportunities”but have also exposed new threats. “
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The total number of instances of Israel consistent with capital has exceeded that of the United States, according to the most recent knowledge of Johns Hopkins University, which tracks global coronavirus figures.
As of September 20, Israel had 2,115. 1 cases consisting of 100,000 inhabitants, while the United States had 2,079. 9.
Israel remains countries like Brazil and Peru in its number of capital-consistent instances.
The country is one of the countries with the highest number of capital-consistent cases for days, and this is now also beginning to manifest itself in general numbers.
Defense Secretary Benny Gantz is ordering the army to prepare to establish a box hospital for coronavirus cases as hospitals overflow across the country, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
“Gantz has ordered arrangements to build an army cash hospital involving about two hundred beds,” the ministry said.
It does not specify when the hospital will be finished and able to settle for patients.
At least two primary hospitals in Israel, Assuta Hospital in Ashdod and Shaare Zedek in Jerusalem, announced that they can no longer settle for coronavirus cases due to an increase in infections.
Gantz also ordered the army to anticipate the possible need for more reinforcements for the police, if the closure is tighter.
– Aaron Boxerman
The Rabbinical Tzohar Organization welcomes the court’s ruling that will allow Malka Leifer to be extradited to Australia, where his alleged sexual abuse offences were committed.
Rabbi David Stav, president of Tzohar, who met with the whistleblowers, the Ehrlich sisters, and spoke on his behalf several times, said: “Efforts to keep Malka Leifer in Israel and away from an Australian court were nothing less than a desecration. “and a stain on our country’s reputation for justice, so we can all hope that it will now be held accountable for its alleged actions.
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, who as director of the Tzohar Center for Jewish Ethics has also written extensively on the case, said: “Israel will never have to become a safe haven for sexual abusers. We will have to act in partnership with all other nations to bring these criminals to justice. Nothing less would be gross negligence and a breach of our national duty to act morally and ethically. “
– Jacob Magid
Iran’s ideal leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the Islamic Republic’s war between 1980 and 1988 with Iraq showed that the country can protect itself without addressing existing circumstances.
“Trying for 8 years, doing everything possible and yet getting nothing, is there a bigger victory for Iran?”Khamenei said, in reference to Iraq.
Khamenei made the statements in a video televised with army commanders and the most sensible war veterans across the country, delivered earlier in “Holy Defense” week marking the anniversary of the war.
“Holy Defense has shown that aggression in this country is very costly,” he said.
– AFP
The High Court of Justice has ordered disciplinary action against Safed’s chief rabbi, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, for a series of offensive remarks he has made in the afterlife about Arabs and LGBT people.
The resolution follows a petition filed through several rights teams in 2016 opposed to Eliyahu.
The judges discovered that former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked was “extremely unreasonable” in her resolve not to take action against Eliyahu at the time.
Ministry of Agriculture officials report that they stopped an attempt to smuggle 11 puppies from Pomerania to Israel via Ben Gurion Airport.
The cubs were found pressed on two arrivals from Belarus. They’ve been taken to a vet for examination and sent back to their point of origin.
The passenger who tried to smuggle the bags they took for questioning.
A similar attempt to smuggle Pomerans into the country was thwarted in January.
Abu Dhabi, the conservative capital of the United Arab Emirates, is getting rid of its licensing formula for drinkers after Dubai continually feels comfortable with its own regulations to increase sales and tourism amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The emirate’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the new regulations in a circular dated last week to distributors and liquor stores, but took up the resolution elsewhere.
Previously, Americans needed a permit to buy, send, or have alcohol at home, but the new regulations seem to set a 21-year age limit and require drinkers to consume drinks inside personal homes or other permitted spaces such as bars.
“Residents and tourists will be able to buy and own alcohol in authorized retail stores, and drink in tourist and hotel establishments, clubs and independent outlets,” says the circular.
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The Israel Defense Forces will send many more frames as coronavirus touch markers in the coming days, according to the IDF spokesman.
The army says six hundred normal infantrymen will be diverted from their general positions, as well as dozens of reservists.
Thousands of Home Front Command infantrymen deployed across the country last week with local government to handle the pandemic. Soldiers are guilty of direct locking; instead, they conduct tests, quarantine hotels, and distribute food.
– Aaron Boxerman
The prosecutor’s workplace said he had shut down opposing two Maccabi Tel Aviv footballers suspected of child rape in their sex with minors.
Omer Atzili and Dor Micha played for the Israel national team.
It had already been reported that the opposing instances of the two, who had been suspended from the team while the investigation was ongoing, would probably be closed. Players’ affiliates in the past told Haaretz newspaper that women showed up at age 17. adding that they had text messages that proved it.
Israel’s Employment Service says another 41,924 people have registered as unemployed since Thursday, a day before Israel’s new national closure came into force.
It also reports 4,650 who repainted this period.
The Ynet news site reports that more than 100,000 others have been licensed since it began closing on Friday, and the numbers are expected to rise.
There have been 779,737 unemployed people in the employment department lately.
Several members of a fatah separatist motion related to Fatah’s former security leader, Mohammad Dahlan, were arrested Monday in the West Bank through Palestinian Authority security forces, his faction said in a statement.
General Salim Safiyya and Fatah Revolutionary Council member Haytham al-Halabi were arrested, along with “several of his comrades,” according to Dahlan’s democratic reformist motion. AP security did not respond promptly to a request for feedback.
Palestinian Authority officials have publicly accused Dahlan of being concerned about recent decisions across the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to openly identify with Israel. Dahlan has lived in Abu Dhabi since fleeing the West Bank in 2011 and is known to be close to Crown Prince Muhammad bin Zayed. .
Although Dahlan has little research in the West Bank and Gaza, he is widely known as a possible candidate to update the palestinian Authority’s elder president, Mahmoud Abbas, and is seen as a political rival to the leader of the Palestinian Authority.
Last week, Israel Hayom incorrectly published that U. S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said he was “considering” attacking Dahlan at the head of the Palestinian leadership. He then corrected Friedman as follows: “We are not looking to create Palestinian leaders. “
Palestinian officials from all policy areas ignored the correction and issued a number of condemnations of what was originally attributed to Friedman. Dhalan issued a denial of any involvement: “No one has yet been born who can impose his will [on the Palestinians]. “
– Aaron Boxerman
The Director General of the Ministry of Health, Chezy Levy, warned hospital officials in a letter that the country is “in an emergency time” and asked them to avoid all non-urgent surgeries.
It also asks them to exercise more in coronavirus services, while severe cases are expected to increase.
He called the existing era “one of the most confusing in the history of the health care system” and suggested that hospital leaders behave in a responsible manner.
Political tension is rising in Europe for governments to deal with the growing number of coronavirus cases without resorting to a spring blockade that would affect the continent’s economies.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez meets with Madrid region president Isabel Díaz Ayuso to coordinate a more powerful reaction to outbreaks as the country struggles to involve a momentary wave of the virus.
Britain’s most sensible medical and clinical advisers are offering the public an assessment that invites reflection of the COVID-19 pandemic as the government prepares to announce new measures for emerging infection rates.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is also meeting with members of her “coronavirus cabinet” to discuss measures to save her a moment.
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Lebanese Prime Minister Mustapha Adib is urging competitive political forces to mobilize and form an independent government that is desperate to save the crisis-affected country.
Adib is under pressure to shape a new wardrobe as soon as imaginable so that the new government can launch a series of makeovers necessary to unlock billions of dollars in foreign aid.
Lebanon plunged into its worst economic crisis in decades and fighting the new coronavirus pandemic, even before one of the world’s largest non-nuclear explosions in Beirut Harbor last month.
“Any delay will worsen and exacerbate the crisis,” Adib said in a statement.
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Iran’s nuclear company chief says the historic 2015 agreement between Tehran and world powers on its country’s atomic agenda has been complicated since america’s unilateral withdrawal, but it still stands.
Ali Akbar Salehi told delegates at an International Atomic Energy Agency convention in Vienna that the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, “caught up in a scenario near a dead end” since President Donald Trump released the U. S. 2018.
The agreement provides economic incentives to Iran in exchange for limits on its nuclear program. The other global powers in the agreement (France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia) have fought to compensate for the sanctions imposed by the United States.
Iran has damaged the restrictions set out in the agreement on the amount of uranium it can enrich, the purity it can enrich it to, and other constraints to push those countries to do more.
Salehi, speaking in a video speech, said it is of “paramount importance” that these countries find a solution to “the difficulties caused by America’s illegal withdrawal from the agreement. “
“There is still broad agreement within the foreign network that JCPOA will have to be preserved,” he says.
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Defense Secretary Benny Gantz is ordering the army to prepare to establish a box hospital for coronavirus cases as hospitals overflow across the country, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
“Gantz ordered arrangements to build an army cash hospital involving about two hundred beds,” the ministry said.
It does not specify when the hospital will be finished and able to settle for patients.
At least two primary hospitals in Israel, Assuta Hospital in Ashdod and Shaare Zedek in Jerusalem, announced that they may no longer settle for coronavirus cases due to a strong buildup of infections.
Gantz also ordered the army to anticipate the possible need for more reinforcements for the police, if the lockdown is stricter.
– Aaron Boxerman