The Times of Israel records Saturday occasions as they occur.
Hundreds of protesters on Tel Aviv’s Allenby Street.
According to Haaretz journalist Bar Peleg, militants are surrounded by police and arrests are made through the civilian-clad crowd.
A video from there shows a protester who opposes a police vehicle during his arrest, while police watch to prevent a photographer from documenting the scene.
– קציר (@ItamarKatzir) 3 October 2020
There is no official information about the number of other people arrested and what charges.
Riots are reported in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim community as police review closing rules.
A video shows a crowd of other people attacking police cars and throwing objects at them, but they were not reported injured.
– Yossi Eli (@Yossi_eli) October 3, 2020
Another video shows the chaos in the neighborhood, with a dumpster in the chimney in the middle of a main intersection.
– Nir Hasson (@nirhasson) October 3, 2020
Tel Aviv police will disperse a giant organization of protesters to walk down Allenby Street in the city.
A live broadcast by activist Orly Bar-Lev shows police and protesters fighting outside at the popular Carmel market as police prevent protesters from continuing on the streets.
The crowd seems to be hundreds, any social esttachment.
הצעדה כעת באלנביחלק ג !!!!
Gold-ly Barlev, באוקטובר 2020
Police said they fined two yeshivas in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak for organizing “forbidden meetings” during the coronavirus lockdown.
In an ieshiva, the director imposed a fine of 5,000 shekels. An incalculable number of other people accumulated there were also fined. The Hebrew media reports that the facility is the prestigious ieshiva of Ponevezh.
A video shared on social media before tonight showed a few dozen people praying there.
– – (Freyisrael1) October 3, 2020
Updated Ministry of Health figures show the number of coronavirus cases recorded in Israel since the pandemic began to increase to 264,443, of which 2,232 have been recorded so far.
The ministry says 7,024 were reported yesterday.
The death toll is 1682, with 22 from midnight.
There are 840 other people in serious condition, 224 of whom are on respirators and 320 in moderate condition. The remaining 71,509 active cases in general are mild or asymptomatic.
According to the Ministry of Health, 22533 tests were conducted today at 10:35 p. m. The test grades drop over the weekend and this Shabbat coincided with the first night of the Sucot holiday.
Yesh Atid’s MP Ofer Shelah said he would convene an assembly of the Knesset State Control Committee tonight on police conduct at protests against Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, tweeting that it “crosses the moderate border. “
His tweet comes amid reports of clashes between police and protesters in the city, with a Haaretz journalist sharing a video appearing on motorcycles beating the protesters.
– Bar Peleg (@bar_peleg) October 3, 2020
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai was slightly wounded in protests against Netanyahu in tonight’s seaside town.
Tel Aviv municipality says Huldei was injured by a “police shot,” according to the Ynet news website. A photo shows blood from a cut on the arm.
The mayor had visited the demonstration in Habima Square, where dozens of others were reportedly arrested for quarrels between protesters and police.
– Itay Blumental (@ItayBlumental) October 3, 2020
Tonight, police convicted a lot of anti-Netanyahu protesters in Tel Aviv of alleged violations of new emergency regulations restricting protests.
Police said before paying the fines, she said, “Good night to you all. Hold the capsules, keep your distance and wear masks. We’ll make the app. “
Meanwhile, dozens of protesters were reportedly arrested for fights with police in Habima Square in the city.
In parallel to the demonstration in Habima Square, crowds of protesters marched down Dizengoff Street.
U. S. President Donald Trump said he “feels good” and expressed gratitude for fitness professionals who treated him for COVID-19 in a military hospital.
Trump tweets: “Doctors, nurses and ALL of the GREAT Walter Reed Medical Center, and other similar establishments that have joined them, are INCROYABLES. “
He said, “With your help, I feel good!”
This happens when White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Trump went through a “very troubling” era and that the next 48 hours will be very important to his care.
Trump doctors painted a positive picture of the president’s physical condition at a convention at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, but the briefing generated more questions than he answered.
The White House said Trump will stay in the hospital for “a few days” and will continue to run in the hospital’s presidential suite, which is supplied to allow him to fulfill his official duties.
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– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 3, 2020
Police say he arrested a guy for wondering about an alleged attack tonight on an anti-Netanyahu protester in northern Pardes Hanna city.
The suspect is a 25-year-old resident of Pardes Hanna, to the police.
Protesters reported that the protester had his hand damaged by the alleged assault.
BAKOU, Azerbaijan – Armenia and Azerbaijan say the heavy fighting continues in the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, and Azerbaijani President says his troops have taken a village.
The fighting that began on 27 September is among the worst to have affected Nagorno-Karabakh and its stage since the end of a war in 1994 that left the Azerbaijani region under the control of local forces of Armenian descent.
Armenian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanian said intense fighting “took positions across the front line” and that Armenian forces had shot down three aircraft.
Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense denies that the planes have been shot down and says a corps of Armenian workers bombed civilian territory. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said his country’s army had “seized the flag” in the village of Madagiz.
Nagorno-Karabakh officials said more than 150 infantrymen had been killed until now. The Azerbaijani government gave the main points of its military losses, but said 19 civilians had been killed and another 55 wounded.
Nagorno-Karabakh was an autonomous region designated in Azerbaijan as the Soviet era; he claimed independence from Azerbaijan in 1991, some 3 months before the collapse of the Soviet Union. A large-scale war that broke out in 1992 killed some 30,000 people.
At the end of the war in 1994, Armenian forces occupied not only Nagorno-Karabakh, but also living spaces outside the official borders of the territory, adding Madagiz, the village Azerbaijan claimed to have taken on Saturday.
Several UN Security Council resolutions have for the elimination of these areas, which Armenian forces have ignored.
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Police arrested three protesters for demonstrating near the home of Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi in Kfar Saba, police said in a statement.
Police allege protesters were “violating public order and fitness restrictions,” he elaborated.
In the past, the police had prohibited protesters from gathering next to Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn’s space in Hod HaSharon.
– Aaron Boxerman
Police learned of the number of anti-Netanyahu demonstrations held tonight throughout Israel, according to Channel 12.
While thousands of people took part in the protests despite a new debatable law restricting protests, the network’s police correspondent, Moshe Nussbaum, said the law “seems to have the opposite effect. “
Under the new law, protesters are prohibited from demonstrating more than a mile from their homes and must comply with social estrement guidelines.
A user familiar with Donald Trump’s fitness said the U. S. president won an oxygen supplement at the White House before being hospitalized.
The user is not legal to speak publicly and speaks with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The revelation follows a news convention through Trump’s doctors at which they refused to verify that the president had been oxygen-free after his diagnosis of COVID-19 on Thursday. I’d just say Trump doesn’t take oxygen in the hospital.
Doctors said Trump was fine and his symptoms were declining, however, the user said the president’s condition was “very worrying,” but that Trump had taken a step forward since he arrived at the hospital.
First lady Melania Trump has also been tested for the coronavirus and is recovering at home.
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TEHERAN, Iran – Franco-Iranian educator Fariba Adelkhah was released from a criminal and is lately in Tehran on an electronic bracelet, her lawyer told the AFP.
Adelkhah’ came out with an electronic bracelet. He is now with his circle of relatives in Tehran,” said attorney Saeed Dehghan, adding that “we hope this provisional release will be final. “
– AFP
The army has said it will return the infantry soldiers it lent to Israeli police to enforce the national blockade, after criticizing the fact that troops were being used ineffectively and, in some cases, to end political protests.
Instead, the police will be through the border guards. Israel’s Defense Forces will upgrade border police on security missions in the West Bank.
– Judah Ari Gross
Senate Republicans have canceled legislative work until October 19, as the coronavirus invades its ranks and lawmakers ask for full evidence on Capitol Hill.
But Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement that confirmation hearings by Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett are still ongoing.
One by one, U. S. President Donald Trump and a number of Republican lawmakers fell for the virus that hit more than 208,000 Americans.
Over the following week, many politicians who tested positive have witnessed occasions when few people wore masks and mingled in the corridors and tunnels of the Capitol complex.
Since the morning, Trump, Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Mike Lee of Utah and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin have announced that they have tested positive.
The Senate was scheduled to meet this week before its confirmation procedure for Barrett. McConnell said the hearings, which are scheduled to begin on October 12, were “full steam. “
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Between 150 and 200 others spoke out against Prime Minister Netanyahu outdoors in his official apartment in Jerusalem, according to estimates by the Hebrew media.
The prime minister’s apartment has been in the midst of ongoing protests opposed to Netanyahu over his corruption charge and management of the coronavirus pandemic, attracting 10,000 to 20,000 protesters each week. The demonstration in Netanyahu’s apartment now has a limit of 2,000 protesters, who will have to keep socially remote “groups” from 20 people.
Protesters are prohibited from traveling more than a mile from their homes.
Police are checking the directions of protesters in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square as part of a new emergency that prohibits Israelis from demonstrating more than a mile from their homes.
Most protesters seem to be staying away from each other, it is not transparent that they remain in “groups” of 20 people.
Meanwhile, a woman taking part in a protest against Netanyahu in Tel Aviv has been hospitalized after being assaulted.
– Ben Netzer נצר (@netzer_ben) October 3, 2020
The Ministry of Health reports 5,063 new cases of Shabbat coronavirus, bringing the number of infections from the onset of the pandemic to 263,983.
The ministry announced 46 more deaths, raising the national number to 1679.
Of the 71,908 active cases, 839 people are in severe condition, adding up to 224 with insufficient ventilation, another 317 in moderate state and the rest with mild or non-existent symptoms.
The Ministry of Health reported that 59,731 tests were conducted yesterday, of which 11. 8% positive.
Apart from 4 countries with much smaller populations (Qatar, Bahrain, Aruba and French Guiana), Israel has the number of instances of COVID-19 consistent with the inhabitant of any country in the world, according to Worldometer data.
BETHESDA, Maryland – U. S. President Donald Trump’s doctor says he’s doing “very well” while spending the weekend in a military hospital for the COVID-19 remedy.
Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley said Trump had been fever-free for 24 hours when he briefed the country on the status of the president from the hospital this morning, who entered after testing positive for coronavirus.
While Conley says the president hasn’t taken oxygen lately, he refuses to say whether the president had ever taken oxygen, despite repeated questions. He says Trump’s symptoms, in addition to coughing and nasal congestion, “are now decreasing and improving. “
“He has exceptionally intelligent morals,” says doctor Sean Dooley.
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CAIRO – According to Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, archaeologists have unearthed dozens of ancient coffins in a necropolis south of Cairo.
Khalid el-Anany says at least 59 sealed sarcophagus were discovered, most of them with mummies inside, which had been buried in 3 wells more than 2,600 years ago.
“I think this is the beginning of a wonderful discovery,” el-Anany said, adding that there are an unknown number of coffins that have not yet been unearthed in the same area.
He speaks at a press convention at the famous staggered pyramid of Zoser in Saqqarah, where the coffins were found. The sarcophagus was exposed and one of them opened in front of the hounds to show the mummy inside. Several foreign diplomats attended the announcement ceremony.
The Saqqara Plateau houses at least 11 pyramids, adding the stepped pyramid, as well as plenty of tombs of former officials and other sites ranging from the First Dynasty (2920 BC-2770 BC) to the Coptic era (395-642).
Mostafa Waziri, general secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, says the first studies show that decorated coffins were made for priests, senior officials and elites of the last Pharaonic era (664-525 BC).
He says archaeologists have also discovered a total of 28 statuettes from Ptah-Soker, the eldest god of the Saqqara necropolis, and a magnificently carved bronze statuette 35 cm high from the god Nefertum, encrusted with valuable stones. priest Badi-Amon, is inscribed at his base, he said.
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PARIS – An investigation was launched after anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered at a kosher food place in the French capital, paris prosecutor’s workplace said.
A video posted on social media via the Union of Jewish Students of France, the place to eat in the 19th arrondissement of Paris with anti-Semitic slogans and swastikas painted on the wall, damaged windows and destroyed tables and chairs.
The investigation was opened by “racist degradations,” prosecutors say.
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, condemns “in the most powerful terms this hateful act of anti-Semitic vandalism. “He expressed on Twitter his “full support” for the Jewish community. “We will tolerate it, ” he said.
Prime Minister Jean Castex also tweeted his “solidarity with our fellow Jews,” sharing his “emotion and outrage. “
“The Republic will be united against hatred and will fight against those who advertise it,” he said.
French police recorded 687 anti-Semitic acts last year, from vandalism to threats of physical attack, an increase of 27% over the past year. Reports of anti-Muslim acts and other racist acts have also increased.
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Many protests against Netanyahu are taking a position throughout Israel after a law was passed this week restricting protests over the blockade of the coronavirus.
New emergency measures prevent Israelis from traveling more than a mile from their homes to demonstrate and force protesters to remain socially remote as “capsules. “Approval of the restrictions stifled weekly outdoor protests in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official apartment in Jerusalem. the Prime Minister’s accusation of corruption and pandemic management.
Along with smaller demonstrations across the country, a few hundred more people piled up in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square.
Black Flags, one of the teams leading the protests opposed to Netanyahu, accuses the government of obsessing over protests than focusing on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
“They silence the public reporting system . . . but we will give up our freedom to make our voices heard,” the organization said on the Walla news website.
Hundreds of protesters on Tel Aviv’s Allenby Street.
According to Haaretz journalist Bar Peleg, militants are surrounded by police and arrests are made through the civilian-clad crowd.
A video from there shows a protester who opposes a police vehicle during his arrest, while police watch to prevent a photographer from documenting the scene.
– קציר (@ItamarKatzir) 3 October 2020
There is no official information about the number of other people arrested and what charges.