The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday’s events as they unfolded.
King Hussein’s (Allenby) passage between Jordan and the Israeli-controlled West Bank faces an “unprecedented” number of travelers, a Jordanian official said, accusing the Israeli government of overcrowding in the process.
There are a number of crossings between Israel and Jordan, which signed a peace treaty in 1994.
Palestinians can use the King Hussein (Allenby) crossing in the West Bank.
“What is happening now is an unprecedented increase in the number of travelers in previous years,” the bridge’s security chief, Col. Raafat Maaytah, told AFP.
He cited reasons such as the increase in the number of travelers with the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions, the recent Muslim pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and the holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Maaytah said the number of passengers seeking to cross from Jordan is “around 6,000 to 7,000” per day, adding that the Israeli government only allowed access to some “4,000 to 4,500” passengers, leaving some stranded.
Israel, the Palestinians and Washington announced U. S. President Joe Biden’s stopover in the region last week that the United States would provide assistance to allow the crossing to remain open 24 hours a day, following Moroccan mediation on the issue.
The media reported that extended hours are expected to take from September.
In the waiting room of the King Hussein Bridge building, where the verification and passport procedures are managed, it was noticed that about 350 passengers were waiting their turn to board the buses to cross to the other side.
According to Jordanian authorities, the King Hussein Bridge has welcomed more than a million travelers since the beginning of the year.
Transport Minister Merav Michaeli participates in a liberation event through her “Zahav Kav” card office that allows free public transport to the country for other people over the age of 75.
“Israeli society owes a debt to its elders, to the founding generation,” he said on the occasion at the Rishon Lezion central bus station.
“I am pleased that today’s smart news will help to particularly lessen the burden of life we all face right now. Starting today, those over 75 can have their grandchildren for free, spend free grocery shopping, go to the doctor for free. “You can move on to exhibitions, movies, plays, and get there via public transport, for free,” Adds Michaeli.
Israeli Navy Chief David Salama welcomed Hellenic Navy Chief Stylianos Petrakis to the Haifa naval base, according to the army.
“Petrakis met with senior Israeli military officials to discuss continuing and strengthening cooperation and joint training between the two navies in the region,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
He also reported on a “variety of issues” through the leader of naval operations and the commander of a missile ship, the IDF added.
According to the IDF, Petrakis concluded his report with a stopover at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.
Anti-Semitism has been militarised across the right and left camps within the British Labour Party under the leadership of Jeremy Corthroughn, according to a leaked report published in the British media.
The 138-page report by Queen Martin Forde’s lawyer found that deep mistrust and factional differences distracted both sides of the party, hampering their ability to confront anti-Semitism in their ranks and build effective opposition in elections, the Guardian reports.
Forde accused Corbyn’s supporters of believing the accusations of anti-Semitism were exaggerated, while the former leader’s warring parties saw the challenge “as a way to attack him. “
“So instead of facing the overriding desire to confront the deeply serious challenge of anti-Semitism in the party, either faction treated it as a fractional weapon,” Forde concludes.
British Labour President Keir Starmer, who succeeded Corthroughn, called for the investigation in April 2020, after an 860-page leaked report concluded that no existing or former staff members were “motivated by anti-Semitic intentions” and would not have uncovered “any evidence”. that court cases of anti-Semitism be dealt with from another reporting bureaucracy.
The survey said there is a lack of “robust processes, systems, training, education and effective line management” and claimed to have uncovered “abundant evidence of an environment of hyperfractions prevailing at Party headquarters” towards Corbyn that “affected the process quickly and effectively”. “. Resolute processing of disciplinary complaints.
However, Forde’s report argued that the challenge is also foreseen in the former opposition leader’s office, as supporters believed the allegations of anti-Semitism were conceived “simply as an attack on the leader and his faction. “
“Simply put, the faction believed that the other had ‘started’ regarding the obstructionist habit and that they only responded in the same way. “
Defense Secretary Benny Gantz will fly to the United States early Wednesday to attend the Aspen Security Conference, he said.
Gantz will meet with the U. S. national security adviser. USA Jake Sullivan, CIA Director Bill Burns, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Rep. Ruben Gallego and Sen. Joni Ernst.
Gantz will also participate in a “fireplaceside chat,” the talk with Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg at 9:45 p. m. Israel time.
“The discussion will be about adjustments in the Middle East, two years after the signing of the Abraham Accords,” his workplace said.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for strengthening “long-term cooperation” with Russia at an assembly with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a statement.
“The long-term cooperation between Iran and Russia is deeply favorable for both countries,” he said, according to his official website, which also notes that both countries are under Western sanctions.
“There are many agreements and contracts between the two countries, in addition to the oil and fuel sector, which will need to be fully monitored and implemented,” Khamenei added.
Turkey expects Russia and Iran to oppose its fights against “terrorists” in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the leaders of the two countries at a summit in Tehran.
“What we expect from Russia and Iran is their support for Turkey in its fight against terrorism,” Erdogan said after weeks of warning that Turkey would possibly soon launch a new army incursion into Syria.
Ra’am President Mansour Abbas is preparing for the party’s upcoming number one election and warns those wishing to run for positions on the Islamist party’s list that he will expect general loyalty to the coalition if the faction makes the decision to rejoin the government, the Twelfth Channel reports.
Abbas has struggled to keep his party’s other 3 lawmakers at bay, with a couple of votes opposed to the coalition in key votes on several occasions. As a result, it hopes to draw up a list of candidates who will be in position in governments. that would possibly have to make questionable decisions regarding the Palestinians, the Twelfth Channel said, explaining that President Ra’am has given applicants express examples of the law that they are expected to support.
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announces he is dropping out of the race for the tenth congressional seat in New York after falling particularly in the polls in recent weeks.
The Democratic number one is expected to take a position in late August, with Rep. Mondaire Jones as the frontrunner.
– Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) July 19, 2022
In an interview with the Twelfth Channel shortly after pronouncing her return to politics, Meretz president Zehava Galon said she was looking for the left-wing party to merge with the less left-wing Labour Party before the next election, saying a joint list would “maximise” its electoral strength.
Labour President Merav Michaeli, who was re-elected as her party’s leader, has so far dismissed the idea, saying Labour will have to act independently and return to being the country’s leader. Michaeli fears that a merger with Meretz will give him the party has too left-wing colors.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Jan. 6 House committee, tested positive for COVID-19, but the panel will still hold its primetime hearing Thursday, according to a panel spokesman.
Thompson, D-Miss. , announced Tuesday that he tested positive for the virus Monday and has mild symptoms. Thompson, 74, said he would self-isolate over the next few days, but on Jan. 6, committee spokesman Tim Mulvey said this summer’s eighth hearing would continue. He did not say whether Thompson will participate virtually.
News of Thompson’s diagnosis comes as the nine-member panel prepares for the hearing, which is expected to focus on what was then the U. S. USA President Donald Trump doing so at the White House on January 6, 2021, for several hours as his supporters stormed the Capitol and disrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory. Two White House aides who resigned without delay afterward are expected to testify, according to a user familiar with the scheduling of the hearing.
Matthew Pottinger, a former deputy national security adviser, and Sarah Matthews, a former deputy press secretary, are expected to testify, according to the person, who is not legal to speak about the case publicly and requested anonymity.
Previous hearings detailed the chaos at the White House, and attendees and others begged the president to tell the rioters to leave the Capitol. saying while the violence was unfolding.
Lawmakers on the nine-member panel said the hearing would offer the most compelling evidence to date of Trump’s “dereliction of duty” that day, and witnesses will detail his failure to detain the crowd.
Russian President Vladimir Putin thanks Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for mediating negotiations on Ukraine’s grain export, saying there is progress.
“I want to thank him for his mediation efforts,” Putin told Erdogan at an assembly in Tehran in comments posted through the Kremlin.
“Thanks to your mediation, we have moved forward,” Putin said. Not all the problems have been solved yet, but the fact that there is movement is already good. “
A defense official told The Times of Israel that the dagger that wounded a man close to Ramot in Jerusalem had permission to enter Israel.
The official says he brought the BMC permit, granted to high-ranking Palestinian businessmen, as reported through several Hebrew-language media outlets.
By contrast, the attacker’s brother is licensed by BMC, he says.
Justin Bieber’s Aug. 31 concert in Tel Aviv is back, according to Rolling Stone magazine, which reports that the pop singer will restart his world tour thanks to a quick recovery from Ramsay Hunt syndrome.
Beiber halted his “Justice” tour last month after pronouncing the diagnosis of the rare virus, which affected nerves on his face.
Heat waves like the one choking Western Europe are more common and the trend is expected to continue at least into the 2060s, according to the United Nations.
The existing heatwave serves as a wake-up call for countries that are releasing more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to the UN World Meteorological Organization.
“They are becoming more and more common and this negative trend will continue. . . at least until the 2060s, regardless of our good fortune in climate mitigation efforts,” WMO chief Petteri Taalas told a news convention in Geneva.
“Thanks to climate change, we have to break records. . . In the future, those kinds of heat waves will be normal and we will see even more powerful extremes. “
“Emissions continue to grow and therefore it is not certain that we will peak in the 2060s if we do not oppose this evolution of emissions growth, especially in the major Asian countries that are the largest emitters. “
Prime Minister Yair Lapid praises the action of a photographer from the Ynet news site who at the scene of the knife attack at Ramot Junction in Jerusalem the day before and controlled shooting the attacker to prevent further casualties.
“I wish a speedy recovery for [the man] injured in the stabbing in Jerusalem. I congratulate photographer Ynet who acted decisively at the scene to neutralize the terrorist and avoid injuring others,” Lapid said in a statement.
“We will not allow terrorism to raise its head and disrupt the regime of our lives. We will settle accounts with anyone who tries to harm innocent civilians. “
One Iranian said many in his country feel Israel operates freely in Tehran and is seamlessly targeting security operations.
In a report published Tuesday in the UK’s Financial Times, an official cited only as a “reformist politician” said that “it is as if Israel has established a large-scale organisation in Tehran and freely manages its operations. “
He adds: “Israel obviously points to Iran’s ‘high security’ symbol to tarnish its greatness in the eyes of the people. “
A series of assassinations and attacks in Iran have been attributed to Israel in recent months, Jerusalem rarely, if ever, is publicly credited for such operations. But in a rare interview last week, and even infrequent comments about Israeli activity in Iran, National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata said Israel had “done a lot in Iran over the past year. “
The day before Prime Minister Yair Lapid posted images of the prime minister flying over the disputed Karish fuel box in a not-so-subtle message to Lebanon, which has engaged in direct talks with Jerusalem over the site and a maritime border.
Shortly after pronouncing his candidacy to assume the leadership of the left-wing Meretz party, Zehava Galon met with Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
According to a spokesperson for Galon, she tells Lapid that she is involved in the “change bloc” of her leadership.
Israel Defense Forces leader Aviv Kohavi concludes the day of the moment of his official trip to Morocco, the first for an Israeli army leader.
Kohavi visited the mausoleum of King Muhammad V, where he laid a wreath on behalf of the IDF and Israel and signed the guest e-book on site, for the army.
In addition to his meeting with Moroccan Defense Minister Abdellatif Loudiyi and the head of the Royal Armed Forces Belkhir El Farouk, Kohavi is meeting with the head of the Moroccan intelligence directorate, Brahim Hassani.
“The meetings discussed opportunities for army cooperation, whether in training and training, as well as in the operational and intelligence fields,” the IDF said in a statement.
“The officials pointed to the ancient and cultural ties between the two nations and their common interests in the Middle East,” he added.
The EU will come up with exceptions in its tough sanctions against Moscow that would unlock the assets of Russian banks related to the food and fertilizer trade, according to a document.
Member countries “want it to be very transparent that there is nothing in the sanctions that delays the shipment of grain out of Russia or Ukraine,” an EU diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The legal war between Elon Musk and Twitter begins, as the social media company tries to force the entrepreneur to comply with its $44 billion purchase agreement.
The first hearing will focus on Twitter’s efforts to set a trial date for September in a case that has a lot at stake for both sides.
According to police, the alleged assailant who injured an Israeli on a bus near the Ramot crossing in Jerusalem is a Palestinian in his forties.
According to the police, the assailant attacked the guy on the bus with a screwdriver on the way, when the bus was leaving the Ramot neighborhood.
The motive force stopped and the passengers fled, according to police. At that very moment, a bystander who saw the incident shot the assailant.
“They pulled me out of the car, I loaded my gun and found out it was a terrorist attack. The assailant came to me, I did not hesitate and I shot him. I heard him pray in Arabic,” Meshi Ben Ami told state channel Kan. Channel.
Jerusalem district commander Doron Turgeman is conducting an on-site assessment for police.
A Hamas terror spokesman praises the earlier knife attack on Jerusalem’s Ramot Junction, calling it an “act of heroism. “
He says the attack is a “natural reaction to the crimes of the profession of the holy sites of Islam and Christianity in Jerusalem. “
“The attack, once again, highlights the failure of attempts to avoid resistance in the occupied West Bank and the city of Jerusalem.
Turkey’s court of justice rules that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has the right to withdraw his country from a European conference against gender-based violence.
Rights teams and Western governments expressed surprise and outrage when Erdogan cancelled Turkey’s club at the Istanbul Convention in an overnight decree last year.
Erdogan’s conflicting political parties have argued that the president has the strength to unilaterally cancel the club in a foreign deal.
Turkey was the first country to flag the conference in 2011 and ratified it by a vote in parliament the following year.
But the administrative court rejected a request to overturn Erdogan’s ruling in a case involving the testimony of prominent lawyers and women’s rights advocates.
The legal reasoning of the court not without delay communicated to the press.
Former British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak is again leading the last vote among Conservative MPs to decide on a new prime minister, while another candidate was eliminated to leave 3 contenders in the race.
Sunak got 118 votes, followed by former Defense Secretary Penny Mordaunt with 92 and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss with 86. Unlikely candidate Kemi Badenoch fell behind with 59 and was eliminated from the competition.
Ambulance service Magen David Adom said a 41-year-old man who stabbed near Ramot Junction is in moderate condition.
He was taken through the MDA to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
The alleged assailant was shot dead, according to news reports.
There is no police comment on the alleged attack.
One civilian, Meshi Ben Ami, told state broadcaster Kan that he shot the alleged assailant when police arrived.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in Iran with the intention of deepening ties with regional heavyweights as part of Moscow’s challenge to the United States and Europe amid its crushing crusade in Ukraine.
At the time abroad only since Russian tanks entered his neighbor in February, Putin is scheduled to hold talks with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the urgent issues facing the region, adding the standoff in Syria and one supported the proposal to resume. Ukraine’s cereal exports to alleviate the global food crisis.
As the West ratchets up sanctions against Russia and the costly crusade drags on, Putin seeks to strengthen ties with Tehran, another target of tough U. S. sanctions and a potential partner of the military and industry. In recent weeks, Russian officials visited an airfield. in central Iran at least twice to read about Tehran’s weapons-capable drones for imaginable use in Ukraine, the White House said.
Iran rolled out a long carpet for Putin at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport, where Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji gave him a warm welcome before being flown in his presidential convoy to the city.
But perhaps most importantly, Tehran gives Putin a chance to have a high-stakes meeting with Erdogan, who has sought to help negotiate talks on a nonviolent settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, as well as support negotiations to unlock Ukrainian grain. across the Black Sea.
Thirteenth Channel reporter Gil Tamari is trending on Twitter in Israel and beyond amid outrage over his resolve to sneak into Mecca, defying the ban on non-Muslims, and broadcasting from the Muslim holy city his stay in Saudi Arabia to cover the GCC 3 summit.
Tamari, one of 3 Israeli press reporters who were allowed to enter the country for the regional conference.
– مفتاح (@keymiftah79) July 18, 2022
Mohammed Saud, a pro-Israel social media activist from Saudi Arabia, tears Tamari apart in a video uploaded to Twitter. video.
The former U. S. ambassador Nikki Haley announces that she will run for president in 2024 in her speech on an occasion organized by Christians United for Israel.
“If this president shows signs of any deal, I’ll make you a promise . . . The next president will shred him, on his first day in office,” he said of U. S. President Joe Biden’s efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal.
He was greeted with a circular of applause before Haley added, “I’m just saying that a woman is infrequently needed. “
The Israeli military denies that the drones crashed in Lebanon today, after a Hezbollah-affiliated media outlet claimed there was one near the Wazzani River.
Lebanon complains that Israeli surveillance drones are encroaching on its airspace, but the IDF maintains that such incursions are mandatory to track the terror group’s activities.
Still, an army spokesman told The Times of Israel that no army drones crashed in Lebanon and that he is not aware of the incident reported through al-Manar.
An Israeli army drone crashed in Lebanon, in Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar.
The Lebanese media says the drone crashed into the Wazzani River on the border.
An Israel Defense Forces spokesman said the army was reviewing the details.
The alleged incident comes a day after Israeli troops shot down a drone allegedly flying through Hezbollah in Israeli airspace.
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The Israel Defense Forces attack a Hamas post near the Palestinian town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the army.
The attack comes in reaction to a bullet that was fired earlier in the Israeli city of Netiv Haasara.
After days of speculation, former Meretz president Zehava Galon announced she would be returning to politics.
“Meretz comes back, I come back, Meretz comes back,” he says in a video posted on Twitter.
Many Meretz activists had pleaded with the former party leader to back down to revive the party suffering in the polls.
– זהבה גלאון (@zehavagalon) July 19, 2022
Gunfire from the Gaza Strip the previous day hit a locksmith workshop in the south of the town of Netiv Haasara, according to the army.
No one was injured in the incident.
A similar incident occurred last month, when Hamas security forces clashed with Palestinians near Gaza’s northern border.
It is not transparent without delay whether today’s shot is a missed or intentional shot.
Former Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon was questioned by the Israel Securities and Exchange Authority as part of an ongoing investigation into non-bank lending company Unet, of which the top recently served as chairman of the board of directors.
Kahlon is being questioned for about two hours, according to reports, and is suspected of not reporting on the company’s deviations before his resignation last month.
The company has been implicated in a series of scandals over the past year involving repeated asset misrepresentations, which have drawn the attention of authorities.
Kahlon “welcomes the interrogation and cooperates fully with law enforcement officials,” reads a statement issued by Kahlon’s lawyer, Nati Simchoni, on his behalf.
“We are confident that once the investigation is complete, it will certainly turn out that [Kahlon’s] reputation has not been tarnished. No one can refute M’s integrity and ethical path. Kahlon. Il has been a public figure all his life. Thus, his time as president of Unet has also been aimed at attracting the public,” he added.
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with a number of British officials on a layover in London.
Netanyahu is holding talks with Interior Minister Priti Patel and Finance Minister Nadhim Zahawi. Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, attends the meetings.
A Lebanese investigator has ruled with a workers’ security body to raid the Central Bank as part of a moot investigation against the country’s besieged governor.
Judge Ghada Aoun investigated Governor Riad Salameh and charged him in March with illicit enrichment and money laundering.
A handful of European countries, in addition to Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein, are also investigating Salameh for alleged laundering and embezzlement.
Lebanon continues to suffer from a runaway economic crisis that has plunged more than three-quarters of its population into poverty. Many blame Salameh for the crisis, bringing out policies that have sent the national debt and the Lebanese pound up 90% of its value. price opposite to the dollar.
The judge arrives at the Central Bank headquarters in Beirut with the Lebanese state security worker corps and enters the premises to search for Salameh.
Aoun tells the press after leaving the premises that he did not locate Salameh and that he may simply not look for him in the building’s offices and garages. “We won a court order [out],” he says.
Earlier on Tuesday, state security forces raided Salameh’s home, but he was not there.
Acting Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the raid in a statement, calling it an “impulsive” move for an issue in the troubled country.
Israeli army leader Aviv Kohavi is greeted through a Moroccan honor and defense guard this morning, after landing in the North African country yesterday.
Kohavi is the first IDF leader to call in Morocco on an official trip.
He is meeting with Morocco’s Defense Minister Abdellatif Loudiyi and the head of the Royal Armed Forces, Belkhir El Farouk, as well as other senior defense officials.
Earlier, a few dozen people gathered in Rabat to protest Kohavi’s visit, raised banners and burned photographs of the Israeli army leader.
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