The Times of Israel reported on Saturday’s occasions as they unfolded.
Protesters gather in places across Israel for weekly protests opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his accusation of corruption and control of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The protests, whose epicenter is outdoors in the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem, are now in week 38.
EL CAIRO – A Franco-Norwegian archaeological team has discovered new Christian ruins in egypt’s western desert, revealing monastic life in the region in the 5th century A. . C D. , according to Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities.
“The Franco-Norwegian project discovered its third excavation crusade at the site of Tal Ganoub Qasr al-Agouz in the Bahariya oasis, several basalt buildings, others excavated in the rock bed and some in dust bricks,” he said in a statement.
The complex consists of “six spaces containing the ruins of 3 churches and monk cells”, whose “painted walls and symbols with Coptic connotations,” says Osama Talaat, head of Islamic, Coptic and Jewish antiquities of the ministry.
The head of the mission, Victor Ghica, said that in 2020 “19 structures and a church excavated in the rock” were discovered, according to the statement.
The walls of the church were with “religious inscriptions” and biblical passages in Greek, which revealed “the nature of monastic life in the area,” Ghica says.
This evidently showed that the priests had been there since the 5th century A. C addition.
The remote site, located in the desert southwest of the capital, Cairo, occupied from the 4th to the 8th century, with a peak of activity most likely around the 5th and 6th centuries, according to the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, in mission rate. .
Cairo has announced several new primary archaeological discoveries in recent months in the hope of boosting tourism, a domain that has been hit, from a 2011 uprising to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Palestinian Authority condemns the Czech Republic for opening an embassy in Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the resolution “a flagrant attack on other Palestinians and their rights, a flagrant violation of foreign law” and said it would undermine the peace process, according to Reuters.
An Israeli man’s car was bombed with stones after entering the Isawiyah community of East Jerusalem.
The guy suffered minor injuries and was cared for on site, according to Hebrew media. The photos show his broken rear windshield.
The police are for those who throw stones.
– 13 March 2021 (@kann_news
MOSCOW – Russian police arrest some 200 opposition politicians and municipal deputies at a convention in Moscow as the government squeezes its floor on the Kremlin’s complaint before parliamentary elections.
A police raid on an opposition convention on the municipal election bid comes after President Vladimir Putin’s main critic, Alexei Navalny, was jailed for two and a half years last month and more than 10,000 protesters arrested across the country.
While Russian police dispel opposition protests, mass arrests of municipal deputies at a convention in Moscow are unprecedented.
Participants from more than 50 Russian regions gathered to discuss September’s parliamentary and local elections at a forum organized through a mission supported by prominent Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Forty minutes after the conference began, police interrupted the occasion and arrested the participants.
“The ENTERO forum of Russian municipal deputies has been arrested in Moscow!”Khodorkovsky on Twitter, calling the arrests “unconstitutional. “
Several well-known opposition figures, including Yashin, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Yulia Galyamina, Yevgeny Roizman and Andrei Pivovarov, as well as journalists, were arrested.
“A very symbolic ending to a short forum: police van deputies and masked cops twist people’s arms,” Yashin said on Facebook.
Moscow police said in a statement that some 200 more people had been arrested.
Many convention participants were dressed in masks, while some were members of an organization whose paintings had been declared “undesirable,” according to police.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz has said he will be his modeling spouse, Yair Lapid, if the party leader, Yesh Atid, can form a government after the March 23 election.
The two men ran as a member of the Kakhol Lavan alliance in the 3 elections between April 2019 and March 2020, but Lapid broke up with Gantz over his resolve to sign a government led by Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Addressing Channel Thirteen news, Gantz also resisted calls from centre-left factions to leave the race for fear that his Kakhol lavan party would not be able to cross the electoral threshold, which he planned to cross smoothly.
Prime Minister Netanyahu denies signing a secret contract with his wife Sara to give him a voice over security appointments.
“They’re lies and they’re unfounded,” he said in an interview with Channel Thirteen News.
Netanyahu says he does not aim to fire Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit after the next election.
“I don’t do business with him at all, ” he told the news of the Thirteenth Channel.
He says his trial on corruption charges will not be his ability to serve as prime minister and says he can’t try to avoid the trial.
Netanyahu also says he will not settle for a rotating agreement with Yamina leader Naftali Bennett, who will see either of them leave their posts as prime minister.
The Ministry of Health reports that 2386 new coronaviruses were shown yesterday.
With 409 more cases since midnight, the number of infections since the onset of the pandemic amounts to 817,680.
The toll rises to 5,988, with 12 seconds recorded yesterday.
The number of active cases amounts to 35,593, with another 626 people in serious condition, 214 of whom are in fans.
Of the 84,286 made yesterday, 2. 9% produced positive results.
The Lahav 433 National Crime Unit is responsible for investigating allegations of rape and other sexual offences that oppose Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, co-founder and chairman of zakA’s Voluntary Emergency Response Group.
Meshi-Zahav announced that he renounced his role in the organization and renounced the prestigious Israel Prize he won after the allegations were revealed in a report through the Haaretz newspaper.
Meanwhile, Magen’s deputy director for Jewish communities, a nonprofit organization that helped spread the alleged abuses, told public broadcaster Kan that six new court cases opposed to Meshi-Zahav are being reviewed.
A senior position of the Ministry of Health Anonymous told the Thirteenth Channel that Israel’s national immunization crusade had exceeded expectations, noting the decline of new infections and serious cases.
The network also reports that a proposal to implement evidence will be released in two weeks.
One hundred thousand Israelis who won a first coronavirus vaccine did return for the time being to the dose, the Twelfth Chain reports, bringing knowledge from the Ministry of Health.
Ministry officials cited through the network the characteristic of this to two factors: distrust of the effects after the first vaccine and incorrect information about the vaccines.
BEIRUT – The Lebanese currency is falling to a new record level, coming to a collapse amid a deeper economic crisis that has triggered near-daily protests across the small Mediterranean country.
Among the protests, a small demonstration near parliament, where insurrection police fired tear fuel to disperse dozens of young men who threw stones at security forces. Protesters are also looking to break a steel gate leading to the legislature.
Lebanon’s worst economic crisis in decades began in October 2019 and was aggravated by the spread of coronavirus and a large explosion in Beirut in August. The explosion of nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive curtain used in fertilizers, killed 211 other people injured more than 6,000.
In addition to Beirut, there are also demonstrations in the country’s largest cities, Tripoli, Sidón and Tyre, as well as road closures in other parts of Lebanon.
Of the approximately 1,000 Israelis recently hospitalized in coronavirus services, less than 10% have been vaccinated, according to Hebrew media.
None of the patients recently connected to an ECMO device have been fully vaccinated, according to reports.
The Ministry of Health announces that it will allow more fitness and wellness facilities, increasing the country’s vaccination rate and continuing to decrease morbidity.
One ministry said that citizens of these services will now be able to receive two more visitors: visitors must be vaccinated, recovered from COVID-19, or be under the age of 16.
CAIRO – Egypt’s Senate and Parliament reject accusations of human rights violations filed this week through dozens of countries on the United Nations Human Rights Council.
In a rare oral rebuke from Egypt to the Council, 31 countries yesterday issued a joint fear expressing fear of restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly suffered by political opponents, rights defenders and hounds in the North African country.
The Egyptian Senate states that “no lawyer, journalist, human rights lawyer or human rights defender is detained unless it has committed a crime justifying the movements that oppose it, either through a fair trial or impartial investigations through a fully independent judiciary. . “
“The Egyptian state has only used anti-terrorism legislation opposed to those who have already committed terrorist crimes,” he said in an Array criticizing the whole for addressing the problems posed “superficially. “
Meanwhile, the Egyptian parliament suggested that the 31 countries “not identify as the guardians of Egypt” and not “politic politicized human rights issues for political or electoral purposes. “
Using the arguments put forward through President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, lawmakers say that the council “should have taken an objective view of Egypt’s efforts to maintain security and stability not only within but also at the regional level. “
The New Hope party says its supporters were attacked through outdoor Likud activists on a crusade in central Israel.
According to Hebrew media, a New Hope activist was taken in an ambulance after passing out and police were called to the site to protect New Hope leader Gideon Sa’ar, a former Likud minister.
Sa’ar calls the incident “a glimpse of what awaits us as a country if Netanyahu remains a minister,” according to the Ynet news website.
– yuval karni (@YuvalKarni) March 13, 2021
In the most recent violent murder in Arab communities this year, a 30-year-old man was shot dead in the central Arab city of Tira.
The victim was transferred to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, where medical personnel showed his death, according to police, who claim they are investigating the incident.
Tonight, 24 Arabs have been violently killed this year in Israel: 18 Israeli Arab citizens, four Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem and two Palestinians from the West Bank. Three were shot dead by police, while the other 21 were killed inside. community violence.
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