The Times of Israel blogged about Wednesday’s events as they unfolded.
Palestinian media are publishing images purporting to show the moment of a shooting near the Ofra deal in the West Bank the day before.
The video shows the attacker, Mujahed al-Najjar, next to his vehicle and firing towards an army post in the area.
Al-Najjar fled the scene and killed the infantrymen after a brief chase.
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Peruvian President Pedro Castillo dissolves the National Congress and calls for new legislative elections, Congress rejects the decree and votes to update it with the vice presidency.
Castillo had tried to punch lawmakers as they prepared to debate a third impeachment attempt. The Ombudsman’s Office called it a coup d’état.
Lawmakers then voted 101-6 with 10 abstentions to remove Castillo for “permanent ethical incapacity. “
A man dies while undergoing cardiac catheterization at a hospital in Petah Tikva due to a technical malfunction.
According to Beilinson Hospital, the imaging device used to assist the doctor, the catheter stopped working while the procedure was being performed.
The hospital says doctors tried to resuscitate the 78-year-old patient, but he died.
“The medical team is disappointed and surprised by this complicated and rare incident, and is trying to digest it and recover,” a representative for Beilinson said.
Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir, who is expected to be the next national security minister, is trying to interfere with the Israeli police even before he is sworn in.
After an informed fight with Israel’s police chief, Kobi Shabtai, Ben Gvir sent a letter to Attorney General Gali Barhav-Miara asking him to spare Shabtai from advancing in senior appointments before Ben Gvir took office.
In the letter, Ben Gvir complains of “problematic conduct” within the outgoing Ministry of Public Security, which he says seeks to deliver a “fait accompli” once he takes office.
Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with lawmakers from his Likud party to take up their posts in the next government.
Netanyahu’s spokesman denies reports that some jobs have already been promised to some lawmakers, that at the moment the Likud leader “only listens and listens to Likud deputies. “
Makor Rishon reporter reports that Likud deputy Yoav Gallant, who is said to aspire to be defense minister, left his assembly “with a broad smile,” saying it was “one of the most productive assemblies I’ve ever had. “
Likud deputies have publicly and privately criticized in recent days the number of leadership posts given to other parties in the coalition in the long run, as well as promises to divide some ministries in a way that will leave even less authority for the Likud.
Religious Zionist MP Ofir Sofer, who has been selected for the next Minister of Immigration and Integration, said the Return Act deserves to be amended.
“It turns out that the Law of Return wants to be corrected somehow,” Sofer told Army Radio about the law that determines who can get Israeli citizenship.
Sofer says he will first have to take over as minister “and be informed of all the main points: I know the issues, but when I examine them in depth, I can approach them differently. “
Asked about the debatable “grandparents clause,” in which anyone with a Jewish grandparent can obtain Israeli citizenship, Sofer says it’s “very complicated” and says he’s going to want a “grace period” to examine it further.
The devout parties in the new government (Shas, Torah Judaism, Otzma Yehudit, Noam, and devout Zionism) are striving extensively to rescind the “grandson clause” and thereby restrict immigration to other people born to Jewish parents, not those with a Jewish grandparent. .
Such a replacement is definitely seen by those who want to restrict the number of immigrants who are not Jewish under the orthodox interpretation of Jewish law, which recognizes only matrilineal descent.
A prominent national devout rabbi appears to reject rape allegations that oppose those of some other prominent devoted community leader, but seems to recommend that he be “hanged” if the tariffs turn out to be true.
Rabbi Zvi Tau, 85, founder of the far-right anti-LGBT political party Noam, has been accused through several women of sexual abuse and rape for decades, two of which have been made public so far.
Rabbi Chaim Druckman, the non-secular adviser to Zionist leader Bezalel Smotrich, calls accusations opposing Tau “gossip. “
“People like to talk. They are for things of the last century,” Druckman said in an interview with Kan Public Radio. “Go to the police. The police will take care of that,” he adds.
Pressed to find out what will happen if the charges are true, Druckman says: “He’s going to have to be hanged. . . He’s going to have to act like you do in a reality like that.
White House officials reportedly held an assembly last week to discuss how to deal with Israel’s expected far-right government in the long term.
According to the Axios report, a forum within the National Security Council known as the “committee of deputies” met to discuss how to interact with the new coalition, which is expected to come with several extremist ministers.
The civil servants’ organization has taken a final decision on the matter.
An official familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel that the US ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, is lately making no plans to meet with Itamar Ben Gvir, the leader of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party that Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has selected for the next national security minister.
On Sunday, U. S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the White House would judge the next administration “by policies and procedures, rather than individual personalities. “
Outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid will hold an urgent assembly to discuss the rise in new COVID cases.
According to the Ministry of Health, 1,615 new COVIDs were presented yesterday, with an existing weekly average of 1,602 consistent with the day.
A week ago, the weekly average of 1,515 instances per day, and a month ago, that figure is 904 instances per day.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid is calling on Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu to condemn Likud MK Shlomo Karhi for alleged homophobic comments he made in the Knesset.
During a heated exchange at the Knesset plenum, Karhi shouted to Yesh Atid MPs Michal Shir and Yorai Lahav-Hertzano that “with you, there are no men or women, you are all ladies, that is your ideology. “
Shir responds, “Do you have anything that opposes the LGBT community?Go out and say it. Karhi yells at Shir and Lahav-Hertzano, “How do I manage with you, as a lady or madam?”
Lahav-Hertzano, who is gay, angrily yells, “You call me M. “
Karhi then said the same thing to Labour MP Gilad Kariv, a reformist rabbi, who retorted: “Don’t call me any way.
Lapid on Netanyahu to “immediately condemn Shlomo Karhi’s primitive and homophobic comments towards MK Lahav-Hertzano. This stain is also on his head and on the entire Likud movement. “
In response, Karhi calls Lapid a “liar and cheater” and claims that he did not ask Lahav-Hertzano, but only directed his inquiry to Shir and Kariv.
Greece’s Foreign Ministry denounces what it calls Turkish war threats, after Turkey’s foreign minister threatened to “take action” against Greece following army training in the Aegean Sea.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said Turkey’s “repeated threats of war” were “totally unacceptable” and noted that Greece respects the United Nations law and law of the sea.
Turkey insists that the deployment of infantrymen or cannons to the eastern Greek islands in the Aegean Sea near its coast violates the islands’ non-military prestige according to foreign law. Greece responds that it will have to protect them against a possible attack through Turkey, noting that Ankara maintains a significant military force on Turkey’s west coast, just off the islands.
Yesterday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that “Greece will have to renounce its violation. Either he backs down from the factor and respects the agreement, or we will do whatever it takes. “
China has set up a secret police station in Israel to monitor political dissidents in the country, according to a new report.
Safeguard Defenders, a Spain-based human rights organization, alleges in a 33-page report that China operates 102 such stations in 53 countries. The report states that the station exists to “harass, threaten, intimidate and force return to China. “for persecution. “
This week’s new report claims that Israel is one of the countries organizing such a Chinese operation, in an unknown location, and mentions a Chinese Communist Party-related news story reporting that “Xu Weisong of the Israeli office” contributed to a montage of paintings by the Nantong Overseas Police.
No other evidence has been provided for the claim that China operates a secret police station in Israel.
Badri Hosseini Khamenei, sister of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declares her a supporter of the ongoing anti-government protests.
“It is now appropriate to state that I oppose my brother’s movements and express my sympathy for all mothers mourning the crimes of the Islamic Republic, from the time of Khomeini to the current era of Ali Khamenei’s despotic caliphate,” she wrote in a letter shared on Twitter through her son. Mahmoud Moradkhani, according to Reuters.
Hosseini Khamenei, who lives in Iran, allegedly wrote that “the Revolutionary Guards and mercenaries deserve to lay down their arms as soon as possible and join others before it is too late. “
The Palestinian gunman who allegedly opened fire at an army post near the Ofra deal was shot dead, an army source said.
The man chased the foot soldiers toward a Palestinian who was near the city after fleeing the scene. Footage posted online shows the man lying on the ground next to a shotgun.
The alleged shooter referred via Palestinian media as Mojahed al-Najjar, formerly imprisoned in Israel.
Earlier, the IDF said the troops were the domain of suspects.
WASHINGTON — America’s secondhand gentleman, Doug Emhoff, laments the “epidemic of hatred” facing the country in his opening remarks at a White House roundtable with Jewish leaders on recent anti-Semitism.
The rally takes place against the backdrop of Kanye West’s pro-Nazi tirade on Infowars last week and his dinner with former President Donald Trump and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes last month.
“Let’s be clear: words matter. People no longer say quiet parts out loud, they shout them,” Emhoff says. “We can’t normalize that. We all have a legal responsibility to condemn such despicable acts. silence. There are none. There are no two sides. Everyone has to oppose it. “
“For me, this is not the end. This is just the beginning of this conversation. And as long as I have this microphone, I will speak out against hatred, bigotry and lies,” said Vice President Kamala Harris’ Jewish husband. “Days like today, I think of Ellis Island. I think of the members of my family circle and I think of the promise of America. May a young man from Brooklyn, whose circle of relatives fled persecution, be here today America’s first moment. gentleman in the White House.
Also on the occasion will be State Department anti-Semitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt, White House domestic policy adviser Susan Rice and Biden’s senior assistant for public engagement, Keisha Lance Bottoms, as well as representatives from a dozen Jewish organizations.
Time magazine named President Volodymyr Zelensky and “the spirit of Ukraine” as its Person of the Year 2022, for the country’s resistance to the Russian invasion.
“Whether the war over Ukraine fills us with hope or fear, Volodymyr Zelensky has galvanized the world with tactics we haven’t noticed in decades,” wrote Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal.
Troops thwarted a drug smuggling into Israel from Egypt last night, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
According to the IDF, infantrymen seized about 140 kilograms (308 pounds) of an unspecified substance, estimated at NIS 6 million ($1. 7 million) near the border.
No arrests are being made, as the suspects who threw the packages across the border fled to Egypt. Drugs go through the police for investigation.
United Torah Judaism leader MK Yitzchak Goldknopf, the alleged minister of structure and long-term housing in the incoming government, hints that he does not see a housing crisis in the country.
“People tell me about a housing crisis. I don’t know much about the Ministry of Housing so far, so I don’t know if there really is a crisis,” Goldknopf told a convention organized via the Walla news site, adding: “From what I see, there’s structure everywhere. “
Figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics from October suggest that home values last year in Israel rose by 19. 8%, with a 5. 1% increase in the overall living rate (the customer value index) and a 4% increase in wages.
Shots were reportedly fired at an army post near the Ofra deal in the West Bank.
According to the emergency service Rescuers Without Borders, there were no injuries in the reported car shooting.
There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces on the incident, which came amid a surge in gun attacks in the West Bank in recent months.
Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami expresses support for the protest motion sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, calling its main slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” “Magnificent. “
Khatami, a reformist who served as Iran’s president from 1997 to 2005 but was silenced by the status quo for years, speaks out in favor of the movement.
The 79-year-old describes the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom,” the title track heard at the protests, as “a message that shows a movement towards a better future. “
“Freedom and security will not have to be opposed,” he said in a statement quoted by ISNA news agency. “Freedom will not have to be trampled on to maintain security” and “security will not have to be ignored in the call for freedom. “. “
An Afghan man convicted of murder is publicly executed, according to the Taliban, the first confirmation of such a sentence since the return of extremist Islamists to strength.
“The Supreme Court ordered this qisas order to be put into effect at a public gathering of compatriots,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement, referring to “-for-tat” justice in Islamic law.
Likud MK David Bitan suggests that the existing coalition negotiations are a failure and that he is giving too much.
“The Likud negotiations have failed. We’ll be a little explicit,” Bitan told Army Radio. “We’re wasting a lot of wallets, and even the ones we’ve reserved for ourselves don’t make sense. “
Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu continues to work on building his supposed 64-seat coalition with Zionism, Otzma Yehudit, Noam, Shas and Torah Judaism.
Several of the agreements reached so far have included cutting off parts of the Defense Ministry and Education Ministry, portfolios retained by the Likud, to satisfy the other parties without ceding full control.
Bitan told Army Radio that Netanyahu would not ask President Isaac Herzog for a two-week extension, as he is sometimes expected to do, but would temporarily form a coalition and resolve divisions and arguments later.
MK Noam Avi Maoz, the only Knesset member of the extremist anti-LGBT party, sparked outrage with a speech in the Knesset in which he compared the outgoing government to the Hellenists of Hanukkah’s history.
In his speech, Maoz said Hanukkah’s story is “fit for today,” sings parts of the popular holiday song “We Came to Cast Out the Darkness” and notes that the Maccabees had to expel the forces of Hellenistic Jews, who sought to blend Judaism with Greek culture.
“The spirit that the Greeks and Hellenists tried to instill in the rest of the Jewish people is genuine darkness,” Maoz says. “Anyone who tries to harm true Judaism is in the dark. dark. Anyone, with intentional concealment and obfuscation, tries to brainwash the youth of Israel with their agendas, without the parents knowing, is darkness.
Yesh Atid MPs Michal Shir and Labour MP Naama Lazimi are shouting Maoz’s comments from the Knesset plenary.
As part of his coalition deal with Likud, Maoz will be appointed deputy minister and head an authority that will be created for Jewish identity, such as to control extracurricular content in schools, an agreement that has alarmed many.
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