The Times of Israel released Thursday’s occasions as they occurred.
The Israeli government arrested a East Jerusalem who, according to Shin Bet security services, had spied on Hezbollah.
Last month, the Shin Bet arrested Yasmin Jaber, a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem who works for the National Library of the Hebrew University, for running for the Lebanese terrorist group.
The Shin Bet states that Jaber recruited at a foreign “youth conference” in Lebanon in 2015, which Hezbollah took advantage of to locate and recruit Israeli Arabs as agents.
Since being recruited through the Lebanese terrorist group, Jaber has communicated with his Hezbollah manager with secret messages on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, according to Shin Bet.
“This shin Bet investigation . . . is the product of a long intelligence operation to locate suspects of being recruited through Hezbollah. This is a step in last year’s counter-terrorism efforts opposed to the Quds force and Hezbollah’s attempts to recruit Israeli Arabs. “a senior Shin Bet official said in a statement.
Earlier this year, Shin Bet accused Beirut Hamoud, an Israeli Arab living in Lebanon, of running to recruit Israeli citizens as agents of iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah. Hamoud denied the allegations and said he had just met old friends of his.
The Shin Bet an indictment against Jaber will be published in the next few days.
– Aaron Boxerman
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Israel and Dubai diamond exchanges announce that they have reached an agreement to bring trade to life, just days after Israel signed historic agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at Home Blanche to normalize their relations.
With agreements negotiated across the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Israel are publishing their quiet economic relations for the first time. The United Arab Emirates announced last month the end of its boycott of Israel, allowing industry between the oil-rich United Arab Emirates and Israel. Already, Emirati and Israeli banks and study companies have rushed to point out agreements.
Once the world’s most giant diamond sales hub, Israel remains a leading leader in the giant diamond industry and is home to a booming high-tech sector. Dubai, a regional monetary center, is also home to an emerging diamond industry. from an export industry from $3. 6 billion in 2003 to $23 billion in 2019.
The Israel Diamond Exchange will open one in Dubai, while the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, a loose economic zone, will be installed in Ramat Gan, Israel, the base of the Israeli inventory exchange.
Ahmed Bin Sulayem, director of DMCC and president of Dubai Diamond Exchange, said he is excited about the economic benefits for both sides and said the deal will “attract business to the emirate and encourage regional and foreign industry in this gem. “
Yoram Dvash, director of the Israel Diamond Exchange, praises Dubai’s economic zones and “practical” conditions.
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LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warns that the government will have to impose more difficult measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 and “protect” Christmas holidays as the government prepares to introduce more difficult measures in the north-east of England.
Johnson’s comments are amid reports that the government is 22 hours late. Curfew in pubs and restaurants in reaction to a recent accumulation of shown cases of coronavirus. Local officials have now called for more restrictions to avoid stricter closure later.
Johnson writes in an article published in The Sun newspaper that the only way to make sure the country can enjoy the winter break “is to be difficult now. “
He says “avoid the thrust, avoid the tip, avoid the camel’s moment hump, flatten the hump for now. “
Over the past two days, opposition lawmakers have criticized Johnson’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis and accused his government of not having a coherent plan to deal with a wave of the pandemic at the moment. complaining that they have not been making an appointment for checks or being referred to control centres away from their homes.
Widespread testing is thought to be essential for the spread of the virus, as it allows other inflamed people to isolate themselves while helping fitness officials identify hot spots and insinuate other inflamed people.
Daily infection rates have reached degrees not noticed since last May, forcing the UK government to set limits on public meetings.
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Kiev, Ukraine – Hundreds of Hasidic Jews are still concentrating on the border with Ukraine, and some say they had no purpose of leaving, even though Kiev refused to enter for coronavirus reasons and Israel suggested that they return.
Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews to the central Ukrainian city of Ulaanch, which falls from 18 to 20 September this year, every new Jewish year to make a stop at the tomb of Rabbi Nahman, the founder of the Wroclaw Hasysidic movement.
The believers left for Ouman this year even though the governments of Ukraine and Israel last month had suggested that they should not do so because of the pandemic.
Speaking to the AFP from the Ukraine-Belarus border, one of the ultra-Orthodox pilgrims, Itsik Cohen, said believers awaited divine intervention.
“I hope and pray that they will open the borders, so that we may have the privilege of being with our rabbi, God willing,” said Cohen, an Israeli Wroclaw Hasid of Jerusalem.
“We in God, and God willing, will have to do all we can to show our determination at the last minute.
The Ukrainian government says the scene has not changed since Monday, when crowds of believers began to gather at Ukraine’s closed border and pilgrims still refused to leave.
“Dance, sing, pray,” said Ukrainian border guard spokesman Andriy Demchenko, AFP.
He says some 1,000 pilgrims stay between the border crossings of Belarus and Ukraine, while more people are in Belarus.
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The number of patients with COVID-19 in a serious condition has returned to a new record, and the number of coronavirus cases since the onset of the pandemic amounted to 172322.
According to the Ministry of Health, there are 45,488 active cases, with another 579 people in serious condition.
The death toll is 1,163, up from 1,165 reported last night. The branch does not show the discrepancy.
The Ministry of Health said there have been 1069 new ones since midnight, after 4546 were shown yesterday.
MOSCOW – Colleagues of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say a bottle of water containing an indication of the nerve agent that Novichok discovered in his hotel room after he poisoned him.
Navalny became ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow on 20 August and was transferred to Germany, where he remained in an induced coma for more than two weeks while being treated with an antidote. Members of his team have accused the Kremlin of being concerned. poisoning, accusations that Russian officials have vehemently denied.
The Kremlin has given in to calls from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other leaders to answer questions about the poisoning, urging Germany to provide evidence of its poisoning.
On Tuesday, Navalny posted a photo of himself from his bed at the Berlin Charity Hospital, hugged through his wife and children. “I still can’t do anything on my own, but I controlled myself to breathe all day,” he added in the message.
A video posted on Navalny’s Instagram shows his team running into his hotel room in Tomsk before leaving town and collapsing on a flight back to Moscow.
Navalny’s Instagram said they returned to the room an hour after he became ill, accompanied by a lawyer, and packed the bottles and other parts for further inspection.
“Two weeks later, a German lab discovered an indication of Novichok in a bottle of Tomsk’s hotel room,” they say. “And then three other labs that took samples of Alexei showed that he had poisoned. Now we understand: he did it before he left his room to move to the airport.
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Rambam Medical Center in Haifa and Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva are preparing for underground coronavirus facilities to prepare for a imaginable leap of COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization, the Ynet news website reports.
The underground rambam facility, which is located in the hospital car park, will first have 110 beds and can accommodate 770 people.
A member of the hospital said the facility will start operating next week, and patients at their existing coronavirus facilities are expected to be transferred there.
The online news page says Beilinson’s new 206-bed room is expected to begin receiving patients from the north, where the hospital’s capacity is lower to accommodate patients with COVID-19.
BEIRUT – Lebanon’s largest criminal is dealing with an alarming outbreak of coronavirus, as many inmates refuse to take preventive measures or undergo tests under the impression that the capture of the virus may expedite its release as a component of a so-called general amnesty. The leading medical officer warns the union.
More than two hundred of Roumieh’s 3,000 inmates have tested positive in recent days, Sharaf Abu Sharaf, president of Lebanon’s College of Physicians, told The Associated Press.
The epidemic in east Beirut crime, known for its overcrowding, comes at a time when Lebanon is experiencing a sharp increase in coronavirus cases and deaths. The families of some detainees have suggested that the State grant amnesty to some detainees in order to allow the virus to spread to the country’s criminal population.
“Overcrowding is the criminal’s biggest challenge,” Abu Sharaf said, adding that the 223 inmates who tested positive were quarantined in a separate construction of the criminal complex. He said the vast majority of detainees had minor or non-existent symptoms and a few had been taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Some observers say the spread of the virus in Lebanon is being used to pressure the government to enter into force a general amnesty for prisoners.
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Thousands of police officers are expected to deploy across Israel before a three-week close that begins at 2 p. m. , hours before Rosh Hashana begins.
Police will be assisted through tons of infantrymen for closing measures, which remain in force through Succot.
Police say it will enforce virus regulations and restrict the blockade.
Three Palestinians, one man and two, were shot dead “a few yards” from an Israeli checkpoint northeast of Bethlehem, Palestinian Authority police spokesman Louay Irzeiqat said.
According to police release, four other people in an undaught vehicle arrested the Three Palestinians and shot them dead.
Irzeiqat says the identity of the attackers is unknown and that Palestinian Authority authorities are mobilizing in the region to investigate.
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Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, a Rosh Hashana satisfied his country’s Jewish network and Jews around the world.
“At the time of the new year, I wish the Iranians happiness, and indeed everyone, the Jews and, above all, health,” he wrote on Twitter.
Despite normal calls from Iranian leaders for the destruction of Israel, Zarif and senior officials of the Islamic Republic have sent greetings to Rosh Hashaná in recent years.
Some 100,000 Jews lived in Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, yet since then that number has fallen below 10,000, at most they have fled the country.
In his tweet, Zarif also discusses Israel’s standardization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which were signed as part of the US-backed Abraham Agreements.
“The youth of Adam, Abraham, and Moses are brothers and sisters who deserve to live in true democratic peace, in an industrial agreement,” he says.
The youth of Adam, Abraham, and Moses are brothers and sisters who deserve to live in true democratic peace, not an industrial agreement. Our proposal is the #Referendum.
Shana Tova! pic. twitter. com/aHA8FCKiFs
– Javad Zarif (@JZarif) September 17, 2020
The prohibition of production for the export of kosher and halal meat to Poland is an option for the country’s parliament.
An amendment to the Animal Protection Bill submitted through the Committee on Agriculture omits the proposed ban on the invoice filed last week through the failure of law and justice, wPolityce. pl.
Kosiniak-Kamysz of the Polish People’s Party warned in a commission debate that banning the production of halal and kosher meat for export will charge the Polish economy $1. 8 billion.
The amended bill ends animal husbandry for the fur industry, bans the use of circus animals, and strengthens oversight of animal shelters.
Animal welfare activists oppose the slaughter of animals for kosher and halal meat because it prevents you from being surprised before the animals are slaughtered. Proponents of the practice reject claims that it is ruthless, saying it causes a quick and humane death for the animal.
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The U. S. Treasury Department announces opposing sanctions on two people based in Lebanon and one person for their alleged ties to the Hezbollah terrorist group.
The Treasury appointed Arch Consulting and Meamar Construction and said Sultan Khalifah As’ad, a member of Hezbollah’s Executive Board, had ties to the two companies.
According to a statement, the two corporations worked with a former Lebanese minister to impose U. S. sanctions to win lucrative government contracts and then increase the profits they made in those tenders to Hezbollah’s Executive Board.
The aforementioned as’ad was one of the founders of Meamar and Arch was recorded in the call of a Lebanon-backed politician.
“Thanks to the exploitation of the Lebanese economy through Hezballah and the manipulation of corrupt Lebanese officials, related to the terrorist organization, they are awarded government contracts,” said Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
He added: “The United States remains committed to attacking Hezballah and his supporters by corrupting Lebanese resources to enrich their leaders, while Lebanese others suffer from insufficient services. “
Prime Minister Netanyahu has summoned the coronavirus tsar, Professor Ronni Gamzu, to an urgent assembly to discuss an additional three-week blockade adjustment that will take effect in the afternoon, the Twelfth Canal reports.
Un consulted reports imply that Netanyahu summoned the assembly because he became involved in the public’s reaction to closure and considered the edition approved by ministers to be too flawed.
They approved the blockade measures on Sunday, hours before Netanyahu left for Washington to signal standardization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
Because of the meeting, a press convention that Gamzu delayed to give.
Tor’s United Judaism MP Yaakov Asher, head of the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, told lawmakers that the government had agreed to movement restrictions at the next close.
Asher said that at the meeting, the government would approve the extent of the distance that Israelis can travel from their homes for non-essential activities of 500 meters to 1 kilometer.
WASHINGTON – Two U. S. senators write to Polish President Andrzej Duda to express their fear of an increase in what they call anti-Semitic rhetoric, and mention one of their own statements.
The letter sent through Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada and Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma on several facts points to the close defense between the United States and Poland and suggests that a failure in combat opposing anti-Semitism and the return of the Holocaust may simply obstruct the expansion of the relationship.
Much of the rhetoric discussed in the letter, which was published yesterday, has to do with the debate in Poland on Holocaust restitution, which has become a challenge to the recent presidential crusade when Duda, a member of the ruling Law and Justice party, was re-elected.
“We are alarmed by the development of anti-Semitic discourse in Poland and the scapegoat of the Jewish community, which go against the unusual values of our nations,” the letter says. “Specifically, the 2020 presidential crusade in Poland, the Law and the Justice party and state television sold anti-Semitic tropes and a barely veiled demagoguery. “
He cites a series of insinuations that Duda’s rival in the election, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, in the wallet of Jews who were urgent on the issue of restitution.
Among them a July 9 Communiqué via Duda.
“I will never send an invoice that says we will treat the legacy of other people in an ethnic organization more favorably than others,” he said.
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Police are releasing a map that appears in the country where the checkpoints will be located when the three-week holiday closure takes effect in the afternoon.
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The stricter restrictions that Prime Minister Netanyahu is pushing to introduce as a component of the next festive closure will be deliberated through the government until Monday, after the completion of Rosh Hashaná, according to Channel 12.
The tsar of the coronavirus, Professor Ronni Gamzu, said Israel still had no option to perform a three-week blockade from the afternoon due to the maximum infection rate in Israel.
Gamzu warns that the virus only spreads further if Israelis follow the lockout measures.
“We’re going to disaster in ourselves,” he said at a press conference.
He also said restrictions were lifted too temporarily after the initial blockade, prompting the virus to resurface, and that the right equipment was not in a position to impose more radical restrictions.
Gamzu is speaking after the meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu to plan for further tightening of the closing measures that should begin in the afternoon.
Prime Minister Netanyahu and the tsar of the coronavirus, Professor Ronni Gamzu, did not take a quick resolution to tighten the next closure at their assembly tonight to the Hebrew media.
BERLIN – Germany is offering 22 million euros ($ 26 million) for the security of synagogues and other Jewish sites across the country following an anti-Semitic attack last year.
The government has pledged to strengthen security after a right-wing extremist attempted to enter a synagogue in the eastern city of Halle on Judaism’s holiest day, Yom Kippur, killing two passers-by after they could not enter.
The failed attempt to carry out a bloodshed has sounded alarms in Germany, which has sought to protect its Jewish population in reaction to the genocide of 6 million Jews in the Nazi era.
“The Jewish network can count on the German government to do everything imaginable to ensure its mandatory protection,” said Interior Minister Horst Seehofer. “We are aware of our responsibility. “
The head of the German Central Council of Jews, Josef Schuster, said the new budget would be for Jewish communities suffering from the monetary burden of security measures.
“The attack on Halle shows us (shows) radically that Jewish life desires great protection,” he says.
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Prime Minister Netanyahu will give a televised “public update” at 8:45 p. m. , according to his office, before a three-week blockade that will begin in the afternoon and last for the next vacation.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and Finance Minister Israel Katz will make statements.
The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee approves the extent of the distance that Israelis will be allowed to travel from their homes in the next 500 meters to 1,000 meters of blockade.
The workplace of the so-called coronavirus has pointed to a “national civilian emergency” due to fears that the accumulation of COVID-19 cases may simply overwhelm the fitness formula when it is summoned tonight, the Thirteenth Channel reports.
The network says the statement, in which the National Security Council is pressing, would give the police and security broad powers and allow the government to save them from rallies and demonstrations.
During the meeting, ministers obtained forecasts for a significant increase in deaths and the number of patients in serious condition in the coming weeks.
Prime Minister Netanyahu is protecting the three-week blockade, which must be taken tomorrow.
“Lockdown is important, it’s mandatory and in this lockdown we’ll be united,” he said on a television from his official residence.
Netanyahu said a new plan to deal with the economic consequences of employer closure measures will be later tonight.
He promotes initial control of the pandemic by the government and says that other countries besides Israel, which has one of the highest infection rates in the world, in line with capital, are also reintroducing restrictions.
“We’ve done everything we can to balance fitness with economic needs,” he says.
The prime minister said that due to existing infection rates, “there may be no other option” yet to tighten the blockade and swears that he will not hesitate to do so if necessary.
Other countries will also face the resolve to re-lock themselves up at the national level, “and in my opinion, most of them will still have no choice to do so,” Netanyahu says.
He notes that the Israeli fitness formula “raised the red flag last week” and notes that there has been a strong build-up in serious cases.
He denies that the lockdown consultations were frictional.
“I wouldn’t impose the lock if it wasn’t Array,” he stresses, “and I won’t hesitate to tighten the restrictions if it wasn’t Array. “
“My legal duty and duty as Prime Minister is not only with your fitness, but also with your life,” he says, noting, “There is a limit to what fitness care groups can do (before the formula overflows). “
He urges the public, “Wear mask and meetings” and says it will be mandatory until there is a vaccine. “The more this is done, the less strict measures are needed. These two steps are more vital than any measure we impose.
Regarding a vaccine, Netanyahu says it “will take a few more months . . . it will take time . . . but it’s in sight. “
“We will defeat the coronavirus,” he says, “but we will defeat the virus if we act together. “
Speaking after Netanyahu, Finance Minister Israel Katz announced a series of measures for Americans and companies affected by government restrictions to involve the coronavirus.
He said he would push for a proposal to cut the salaries of ministers and knesset members.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said the three-week blockade that will take effect in the afternoon “is not enough,” arguing that maximum rates of new infections require more restrictions.
Professor Ronni Gamzu, the coronavirus czar, did not participate in the televised remarks to the public tonight.
Reports imply that Gamzu will not participate after a tense assembly tonight with Prime Minister Netanyahu on the three-week close, which is expected to begin tomorrow, in which neither was reportedly subject to the effectiveness of the closure.
Netanyahu, however, denied in his comments that consultations on the lockout were difficult.
While Netanyahu has called for sweeping measures to involve the pandemic, Gamzu has expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of far-reaching restrictions to slow the spread of the virus.
MOSCOW – Colleagues of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say a bottle of water containing an indication of the nerve agent that Novichok discovered in his hotel room after he poisoned him.
Navalny became ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow on 20 August and was transferred to Germany, where he remained in an induced coma for more than two weeks while being treated with an antidote. Members of his team have accused the Kremlin of being concerned. poisoning, accusations that Russian officials have vehemently denied.
The Kremlin has given in to calls from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other leaders to answer questions about the poisoning, urging Germany to provide evidence of its poisoning.
On Tuesday, Navalny posted a photo of himself from his bed at the Berlin Charity Hospital, hugged through his wife and children. “I still can’t do anything on my own, but I controlled myself to breathe all day,” he added in the message.
A video posted on Navalny’s Instagram shows his team running into his hotel room in Tomsk before leaving town and collapsing on a flight back to Moscow.
Navalny’s Instagram said they returned to the room an hour after he became ill, accompanied by a lawyer and packed the bottles and other pieces for additional inspection.
“Two weeks later, a German lab discovered an indication of Novichok in a bottle of Tomsk’s hotel room,” they say. “And then, three other labs that took samples of Alexei showed he was poisoned. Now we understand: he did it before leaving his room to move to the airport.
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