The Times of Israel released Tuesday’s occasions as they unfolded.
An inter-ministerial committee of general administrators will be established to discuss the long-term of Haifa Bay and its heavy and polluting industry, according to Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pending government approval.
The committee, which will be led by Prime Minister Ronen Peretz’s Chief of Staff, will be tasked with presenting his findings within 90 days. He’ll do it in petrochemical plants.
“The crisis in Lebanon shows that there is no room for the heavyweights in the center of a metropolitan area,” Gamliel says.
Avi Simhon, head of the National Economic Council, which advises the Prime Minister, said in June that Bazán oil refineries that have long polluted the coastal city of Haifa and largely explained their horizon, will have to close within five years. and replaced through a modern, green, high-tech residential center.
– Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns Palestinian terrorist teams in the Gaza Strip amid an accumulation of incendiary balloon launches to Israel and suggests that Iran is connected with arson attacks.
“I need to tell every satellite in Iran, especially gaza, that the terror of balloons will be expensive. We won’t help that,” he said on a stopover at Hatzor Air Force Base.
The Department of Energy is calling on the National Council to reduce the plan by more than half its plans for new gas plants.
The stations that the ministry requests to remove from the list of planners are Mevo’ot Gilboa (Gilboa Foothills) south of the northern city of Afula, Sagi 2000, west of Afula, Zvaim near Beit She’an in the north of the Jordan Valley, and Hartuv in the Beit Shemesh area, northwest of Jerusalem.
The combination of these 4 stations is 4,860 MW.
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said they can be removed from the time table because Israel is now building its renewed energy targets, basically with solar energy.
With updated plans to load more than 12,000 MW of renewable energy capacity into the power formula, plus 2,200 MW of garage, until 2030, planners will need to ensure that 4,000 MW can potentially be put available, with the purpose that only 1,400 MW are. will have to be used.
In June, Steinitz raised the electricity target from renewable resources from 17 to 30% until the end of the decade, and the remaining 70% comes from herbal gas.
– Sue Surkes
Defense Secretary Benny Gantz will undergo orthopedic back surgery tonight at Sheba Medical Center, according to his office.
“This is an injury that the Defense Minister has been dragging for many years since his military service as a paratrooper commander, and in recent months the stage has worsened,” said one from his office.
President Reuven Rivlin strongly opposes the option of new elections amid a stalemate over the state budget that could send Israelis to the polls for the fourth time since April 2019.
“I will not repeat the warnings you know well. I will only say this, as a citizen of this country: it is not possible. There is no way for us to continue dealing with this as if it were a logical choice as long as our dead count,” said one from Rivlin’s workplace, who quoted him in an assembly with Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel, supposedly referring to those who died. COVID-19.
The President adds: “If you take us there, you elected representatives of any party, if you take us to this terrible nadir, you will give a hard, painful and unforgivable blow to this country. Protect yourself from this, stay well opposed to that.
Rivlin made statements in an assembly with Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel, in which they announced a new letter to protect press freedom and the protection of journalists.
“In the context of the pointed public debate, we also see a defamatory and violent speech, a toxic environment that has reached cases, serious cases, assaults on journalists,” rivlin says. “It is not right-wing or left-wing, from one political side or another. Silence, defamation, adjustment of accounts or, on the contrary, harnessing the strength of the media to create an environment that does not allow discussion, and to give rise to biased criticisms that lack diversity, are serious acts ».
The Kakhol Lavan component of Defense Minister Benny Gantz has said he will not take part in a plenary vote on an opposition bill that would prevent a Knesset member accused of forming a government, which would prevent Prime Minister Netanyahu from forming a coalition.
“Our principled position on the factor has replaced and will change, but for now it’s just an effort to undermine the stability of the entire political system,” Kakhol lavan said in a statement.
Kakhol lavan spoke in favor of the legislative proposal before agreeing to form a government with Netanyahu after an unfinished election in March, the third in more than a year. Kakhol Lavan and Netanyahu’s Likud now disagree on the passage of a state budget and face a 25 August deadline to approve one or more new elections.
“In the midst of one of the most serious crises in the history of the country, we decided to do everything imaginable to save them from an election that will cause an economic crisis in the economy and tear Israeli society apart,” says Gantz’s party.
He also reiterated his call on the government to adopt a budget until 2021, as agreed with Likud as a component of the coalition agreement between the components.
Netanyahu, on the other hand, has asked for a budget covering only the rest of the year, and says it’s due to the coronavirus pandemic.
If a budget is not approved or a short-term budget is approved, Netanyahu may run for new elections without having to cede the office of prime minister to Gantz as a component of his power-sharing agreement, which leads to the assumption that he is forcing the budget crisis. as a political ploy.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip – Egypt reopens for the first time in months the main crossing point for Gaza passengers for thousands of Palestinians stranded at either border due to the coronavirus crisis.
Gazans who have Egyptian passports, foreign passports and patients seeking remedy abroad must leave the Rafah crossing at its opening for three days, Hamas’s internal ministry in Gaza said. Another 500 people are expected to depart today, the first time the crossing allows departures from March.
The Palestinians were stranded in Egypt and allowed to return home, the ministry added. Arrival traffic was closed from May.
Gaza appears to have controlled to involve the pandemic – in component due to an Israeli-Egyptian blockade that severely restricts movement within and outside the territory. Israel and Egypt imposed the blockade after the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas took to Gaza in 2007.
Gaza reported 81 cases of coronavirus, but all cases were from others who were in mandatory quarantine centers established through Hamas to return to the territory. No cases of network transmission have been reported within Gaza.
To prepare for the return of thousands of Palestinians to Rafah, Hamas has opened other isolation facilities in the Gaza Strip.
Israel and Hamas are staunch enemies who have fought 3 wars and skirmishes since 2007. Earlier today, Israel closed its only industrial crossing with Gaza in reaction to balloons loaded with explosives launched through Palestinians into Israel. The balloons caused dozens of fires on Israeli farmland near Gaza.
Israel has stated that the Kerem Shalom crossing will be closed until there is more ice, but that the passage of fuel, food and humanitarian items will be affected.
– Agencies
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said Israel had planned talks with Russia about the coronavirus vaccine that Moscow approved for use earlier in the day, despite considerations for its safety.
“If we are convinced that this is a serious product, we will also review to begin negotiations,” Edelstein says on a scale at an N95 mask production plant in Sderot.
Edelstein notes that Israel has signed origin agreements with Moderna and Arcturus Therapeutics in the United States for vaccines that are using and is largely following reports on the progression of inoculation.
Israel announced last week that it would begin human trials of a vaccine developed through the Ministry of Defense’s Secret Institute of Biological Research in Ness Ziona in mid-October.
GENEVA – The World Health Organization says any WHO seal of approval on a COVID-19 vaccine candidate would require a rigorous review of protection data, after Russia announced that it had a vaccine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia was the first country to approve a vaccine that provides “sustainable immunity” against the new coronavirus.
“We are in close contact with the Russian fitness government and discussions are taking place regarding an imaginable WHO prequalification of the vaccine,” UN fitness firm spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told journalists in Geneva at an online press conference.
“The prequalification of any vaccine includes a rigorous review and all required protection and efficacy data,” says Jasarevic.
The Russian Sputnik V vaccine was developed through the Gamaleya Research Institute in coordination with the country’s Ministry of Defense.
A total of 165 vaccine applicants are being developed worldwide, according to the latest WHO survey published on 31 July.
Of these, 139 are still in preclinical evaluation, while the remaining 26 are in the other human testing stages, six of which are the most advanced, having reached Phase 3 of the clinical evaluation.
Gamaleya’s Russian-produced candidate, which is one of 26 human-tested candidates, is listed as In Phase 1.
– AFP
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s economic adviser, Professor Avi Simhon, told a Knesset committee that the budget of Israel’s herbal fuel housing that is intended to invest through a wealthy of interest deserves to be invested in the progression of infrastructure in Israel, a measure that would require a change of law.
Rejecting MPs’ claims that this would lead the Knesset to abuse funds, Simhon, head of the National Economic Council, says he is confident that MPs will present the right place.
Simhon says he disagrees with his S PREDECESSOR at the NEC, Professor Eugene Kandel, about making an investment in the overseas budget so as not to flood the Israeli economy with dollars. Now, with the decline in fuel costs and forecasts that only 40 billion shekels ($11.76 billion) will be in the wealth fund until 2030, the time has come to replace management and replace the law, Simhon says.
In late July, the Israel Tax Authority told the committee, created to oversee the creation of the sovereign wealth fund, which hoped that the bills of all corporations generating gas, oil and a diversity of other herbal resources would succeed in two hundred billion shekels. ($59 billion) only until 2064, and will only be raised between $12 billion and $13.4 billion by 2030.
– Sue Surkes
The crownvirus’s tsar, Ronni Gamzu, warns that companies will shut down if they do not impose restrictions on meetings designed to curb the spread of COVID-19.
“A company that exceeds the collection limit is a company that will close,” he said at a briefing.
Gamzu also warns that continued breaches of the ceilings at the rallies can lead to a new blockade. However, it emphasizes that you are looking for such a measure.
“A lockup is part of a million unemployed people,” Gamzu says.
He also expressed fear of declining detection degrees and implored the public to be tested, a precaution of “hidden morbidity.”
Arson balloon devices introduced from the Gaza Strip have at least 20 fires in southern Israel today, according to Hebrew media.
Israel now has more reported cases of coronavirus than China, where the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to a Worldometer account.
There have been 85,354 cases in Israel since the start of the pandemic, to 84,712 in China.
Although it has reported more contagions, Israel is far from China in terms of deaths, with 619 compared to 4,634 shown across Beijing.
TAIPAI, Taiwan – U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar says it’s more vital to have an effective coronavirus vaccine than to be the first to produce a vaccine.
Azar, a stopover in Taiwan, was asked via ABC what idea it had from Russia’s announcement that it had become the first country to sign a vaccine against the virus.
He says: “The purpose is not to be the first to receive a vaccine. The purpose is to have an effective vaccine for other Americans and the rest of the world.”
He says it is having transparent knowledge about the vaccine to achieve its protection and effectiveness. It also notes that the United States has six vaccines in progress under the Operation Warp Speed initiative.
The United States has the number of deaths and instances in the world, with more than 163,000 deaths and more than five million instances.
Meanwhile, the White House suggests that Kellyanne Conway expressed skepticism about the evidence that subsidized Russia’s claim that it had developed a COVID-19 vaccine.
“The American criteria are so strict,” Conway says on Fox and Friends on Fox.
“Our FDA in our country sets the criteria and what I perceive from the Russia announcement is that we are from where we are from.”
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A public swimming pool that runs through the jerusalem township hung a sign last week that the lifeguard on duty that day was not Jewish, the Haaretz newspaper reports.
The Zipori pool sign replaced an old lady who said “today there’s a lifeguard (goy) a lifeguard [woman],” according to the paper.
The pool responds that there are many ultra-Orthodox Jewish women swimming there for whom the lifeguard faith is important.
Sami Amsalem, the pool manager, said he was unaware of the signal and ordered it removed when he noticed it.
– nir hasson (@nirhasson) 10 August 2020
The Israel Defense Forces deny Palestinian media reports that Israel fired on a Palestinian youth organization in the al-Bureij camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.
The alleged incident, first reported through Hamas-linked Safa News, comes amid emerging tensions between Israel and Gaza in recent days. Dozens of balloons were introduced from Gaza and Israel responded by attacking Hamas positions and ending the crossing of the Kerem Shalom industry.
– Aaron Boxerman
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoun described the closure of Gaza’s industrial crossing with Israel as a competitive action and crime by which the Jewish state “bears all the consequences and repercussions.”
Barhoum appears to be threatening the aftermath of the closure of Kerem Shalom, which Israel has closed after waves of balloons were introduced into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip in recent days.
“It is the right of our other people in Gaza to express a state of anger and make their voices heard in the world that has not moved a finger on the continuation of this suffering,” Barhoum says.
Barhoum says that “the use of equipment and bureaucracy to fight a state of anger” is the natural result of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
– Aaron Boxerman
Prime Minister Netanyahu says he sent a letter to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit accusing him of ignoring alleged threats against the minister and his family.
“His futility in calls to kill me and my circle of relatives and the threats of rape that oppose my wife is nothing but to allow scandalously to shed our blood,” Netanyahu wrote in the letter, according to a statement.
He also states: “We have noticed the speed of lighting with which it handles each and every claim of alleged damage, even the smallest, to its affiliates or the rest of the people in his office.”
Netanyahu recently reported an alleged accumulation of threats against him on social media, some of which later turned out to have been posted via fake Facebook accounts. His court cases coincided with the ongoing protests opposing him for his corruption and control fees for the coronavirus pandemic. There have also been threats and even violence against anti-Netanyahu protesters, some of whom have been convicted through the Prime Minister.
Netanyahu and his allies also criticized Mandelblit, who was the prime minister’s selection as attorney general, for accusing him of a series of corruption cases.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – An explosion targeted a convoy of the US-led coalition in Iraq and did not cause casualties, a few hours after a newly formed organization of Shia militants falsely claimed to have bombed a similar convoy on the Iraq-Kuwait border, according to the US military.
The little-known Ashab al-Kahf organization said overnight that it had destroyed “equipment and cars belonging to the American enemy” in a shelling of a border post south of the Iraqi city of Basra.
The organization then released an 11-second video that he said showed the explosion, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant organizations. The blurry video shows what gave the impression of being an explosion and lighting fixtures off, however, The Associated Press may simply not know the video.
The Iraqi and Kuwaiti army has denied any attack. U.S. Army Colonel Myles B. Caggins III also dismissed the claim.
“That’s probably wrong, ” said Caggins to AP. “It’s a total fabrication.”
Ap
A Lebanese blogger calls Israel a “cancer” after the Times of Israel published an article about a video she made criticizing Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, as worse for Lebanon than for Israel in the wake of the fatal Beirut harbour explosion.
“When we criticize nassrallah, it’s a Lebanese internal debate. But one thing is obvious, the Lebanese will be united around those resistant to any Israeli attack!” Dima Sadek wrote on Twitter.
He adds: “Israel is one and the formula of Israeli apartheid is a disgrace!”
– Dima (@DimaSadek) 10 August 2020
Sadek’s complaint against Hezbollah following the August 4 explosion at the port of Beirut went viral amid Lebanese demands for a political replacement in the country.
Sadek, until last year a presenter on a popular political communication screen before being fired for criticizing Hezbollah, visited Twitter on Friday, where he has more than 621,000 followers, and the video hits Hezbollah as worse than the enemy across the border.
Friday’s video to the organization’s head, Hassan Nasrallah, after his speech in which he denies allegations that Hezbollah is guilty of the port explosion.
“I need to tell you one thing: if you can answer this question for the Lebanese people, then I swear to you that we will all bow before you. I’ll bow to you if you can answer that question,” he said in the video. “What has Israel done opposing us to be worse than you? I don’t know what he’s going to do.”
Sadek’s video had been more than 715,000 times on Monday.
The video led to media interviews. An interview, published Monday in The Italian Republic, had the headline: “Israel is an enemy, but Hezbollah has made it worse.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron about last week’s big explosion at Beirut harbour, according to his office.
“The prime minister congratulated President Macron on his demonstration of leadership in the Lebanon factor and expressed Israel’s willingness to provide humanitarian assistance,” the prime minister said in a statement.
During the call, Netanyahu called for the removal of Hezbollah missiles and explosive tissues from populated spaces to “avoid such errors in the port of Beirut,” according to the statement.
“The prime minister has made it clear that if Hezbollah believes he can create the crisis in Lebanon by creating a crisis with Israel, it is a grave mistake,” the statement said.
Yesh Atid-Telem’s deputy, Moshe Ya’alon, accuses Prime Minister Netanyahu of “inciting” Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit after the prime minister sent a vigorous letter to the AG accusing him of not taking threats against him and his circle of relatives seriously.
“Your trick is transparent: you know that the Shin Bet is guilty for your protection and [if there is] a slight suspicion that you are threatened, all mandatory measures are taken. There is no one but you in Israel, ‘Already’ alon tweeted.
Ya’alon, a former Likud defense minister, told Netanyahu to “leave the attorney general [and] avoid betting on the victim,” while asking him to resign because of the prime minister’s corruption charge.
Devices with incendiary balloons introduced from the Gaza Strip have about 60 fires in southern Israel, according to Estimates through Hebrew media.
Public broadcaster Kan transmits photographs of a laser formula for intercepting balloons that have been deployed near the Gaza border.
– August @kann_news, 2020
BEIRUT – The death toll from the explosion in Beirut on 4 August has risen to 171, a spokesman for Lebanon’s Ministry of Fitness told the AFP.
The new figure, higher than 160, comes just one week after the mega explosion that devastated parts of the Lebanese capital, injuring more than 6,000 people and temporarily displacing another 300,000 of their homes.
– AFP
Police ask a user for a social media post that opposes Prime Minister Netanyahu’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, who “could constitute sexual harassment opposed to the prime minister’s wife.”
A police officer said an investigation was launched several days ago after officials became aware of the station. The suspect was questioned today through investigators from the cyber department of the Lahav 433 National Crime Unit and released under restrictive conditions.
Police said their first investigation indicated the message in 2019.
It is not known whether the position in question is the same as that highlighted by Prime Minister Netanyahu in a letter to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit earlier in the day. The timestamp on a screenshot Netanyahu shared from the tweet indicated it 10 hours ago, but it is not known when the screenshot was taken.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit responds to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s statement that threats against the prime minister and his circle of relatives are not taken seriously.
Mandelblit wrote in a letter to Netanyahu that in recent months 29 investigations have been opened for alleged risks and incitement to violence against the prime minister and his family circle. He says all law enforcement officials and the judicial government take seriously any risks that oppose Netanyahu and his circle of relatives.
“Therefore, there is no basis for your claims as if someone is depreciating court cases on you or any member of your circle of relatives,” Mandelblit says.
“Public leaders have a central role and a duty to appease the wind,” he adds in an obvious criticism of Netanyahu.
With an impasse over the state budget threatening to send Israel to new elections, the Twelfth Channel reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling on Defense Minister Benny Gantz to settle for adjustments to the coalition agreement as a condition of not disbanding the government.
According to the report, Netanyahu is calling for elections to be called if the High Court of Justice annuls parts of the coalition agreement after handing over the post of prime minister to Gantz in November 2021. He also called for the annulment of a committee to appoint senior legal officials.
Netanyahu’s Likud and Gantz’s Kakhol lavan are negotiating the issue, he says.
Daphna Liel, of the network, describes the war of words about whether to approve a budget until 2021, as stipulated in the coalition agreement, or one covering only the rest of 2020, as Netanyahu demands, as a secondary to the Prime Minister’s efforts to replace his agreement with Gantz in the existing political crisis.
New Health Ministry figures show 1,766 new coronavirus cases were recorded over the past 24 hours, bringing the number of infections since the pandemic began to 86,147.
The ministry reports three more deaths since this morning, raising the balance to 622.
Of the 25,468 active cases, another 375 people are in severe condition, and 110 are under fans. Another 170 are in a moderate state and the rest have mild or nonexistent symptoms.
The Ministry of Health reports that 23,982 tests were carried out yesterday.
NEW YORK – The New York Holocaust Museum plans to reopen in September.
The Museum of Jewish Heritage: A living Holocaust memorial says that, pending approval from the city and the state, it would open with limited capacity. The museum will be open 3 out of five days a week, with only a quarter of its previous capatown and more cleaning protocols.
New York museums have been closed since March due to the coronavirus pandemic and have not yet been given clearance to reopen through Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The museum also announced that it would expand its popular exhibition on Auschwitz until May 2021. The world’s largest traveling exhibition on the Nazi death camp, more than 700 original Auschwitz artifacts and 400 photographs.
“The quality of our visitors and workers is first and foremost,” the museum’s president and CEO, Jack Kliger, said in a statement. “While other people venture to seek educational reports in public places, museums like ours are specially qualified to welcome them.”
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Kakhol Lavan’s minister, Michael Biton, will update Defense Minister Benny Gantz when he undergoes back surgery later in the evening, to Gantz’s office.
Mossad leader Yossi Cohen met with officials in Qatar to tell them that the Gulf Emirate continues to send budget to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, public broadcaster Kan reports.
The report comes amid a sharp increase in the release of incendiary balloon devices from Gaza to Israel, some of which have been linked to delays in the transfer of aid from Qatar.
New figures from the Ministry of Health show that 1,766 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the number of infections since the onset of the pandemic to 86147.
The ministry reports three more deaths since this morning, raising the balance to 622.
Of the 25,468 active cases, another 375 people are in severe condition, and 110 are under fans. Another 170 are in a moderate state and the rest have mild or nonexistent symptoms.
The Ministry of Health reports that 23,982 tests were carried out yesterday.