The Times of Israel publishes Sunday news as it unfolds.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said an “act of sabotage” caused an explosion at the Natanz nuclear facility last month, according to Iranian al-Alam television.
The July 2 explosion, attributed through foreign means to Israel or the United States, which some experts say was particularly delayed in Iran’s nuclear program, broke a centrifuge meeting and progression plant.
Iranian news broke last month named a suspect who, according to the government, caused the explosion.
According to a report through “Didban Iran”, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps concluded that the instigator of the explosion Ershad Karimi, a contractor on the site that owns a company, MEHR, that supplies precision measuring equipment.
According to a New York Times report, the maximum explosion is likely to be the result of a bomb placed at the facility, potentially on a strategic fuel line. The report does not rule out the option that used a cyberattack to cause a malfunction that caused the explosion.
The explosion component of a series of mysterious explosions at Iranian strategic sites in recent weeks, which have been widely attributed to Washington or Jerusalem, or both.
Amid a developing coalition crisis that appears to be on the verge of pushing Israel into a fourth election since last April, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will face the country tonight.
A from his workplace convenes a press convention at 8:30 p.m., just one hour before a key Knesset commission votes on a move that could give the troubled coalition a break.
At the heart of the ongoing crisis is whether the government adopts a budget that includes 2021, as stipulated in the coalition agreement and supported through the Kakhol lavan party, or a budget that only covers the rest of 2020, as insisted in Netanyahu’s Likud. Bringing up the uncertainty caused by the pandemic.
As things stand, adopting a state budget until the end of the day will trigger automatic elections.
However, Likud and Kakhol lavan discussed the terms of a compromise agreement that would pose the immediate risk of new elections by extending the deadline for adopting a state budget to one hundred days.
So far, there has been little indication that there is an agreement in sight before nine o’clock at night. The Knesset Finance Committee votes on the compromise measure.
Firefighters and rescues say that at least 28 fires have been fires so far through incendiary devices with balloons introduced today in southern Israel from the Gaza Strip.
He said most of the fires were minor and caused damage.
Opposition MP and former IDF staff Moshe Ya’elon de Yesh Atid-Telem recommends that police read an e-book on Nazi war crimes after a night of fighting between officials and protesters, shooting chimneys of the police and the Minister of Public Security.
During an opposing demonstration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu near his official apartment in Jerusalem on Saturday night, in which Yaalon was present, scuffle erupted when police forcibly evicted protesters from the demonstration site.
Officials said the demonstration was illegal due to night noise violations for local residents.
In one incident, a senior police officer appeared to have assaulted at least two protesters in a filmed incident, prompting the conviction of politicians and triggering a police investigation.
Today, Ya’alon wrote on Twitter that Jerusalem police read the 1990 e-book “Fulfilling Orders” through left-wing Israeli historian Yigal Elam. The e-book explores Adolf Hitler’s orders to devote war crimes against Jews.
Public Security Minister Amir Ohana of Netanyahu’s Likud party, in reaction to Yaalon’s tweet, called for “inciting the police.”
“The comparison between those who threaten their lives 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the peace and security of the citizens of Israel and the ‘execution of orders’ in Nazi Germany. Shame on you,” Ohana writes.
Israeli police also responded to Yaalon on their official Twitter account, writing: “Such statements are a direct continuation of the frantic explosion against Israeli police officers, demonstrations and online, and for the time being through an elected official who is meant to serve as an example to voters.
“Your implicit advice and comparison are invalid and unacceptable, and we proposed that Ms. Ya’alon run from such comparisons with those established by law, order and security.”
– Luke Tress contributed.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to stop sudan and Bahrain in the coming days, according to the State Department, in a region that was already scheduled to arrive with stops in Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Sudan is one of the countries that is reportedly about to point to a standardization with Israel as it pointed out with the United Arab Emirates.
The State Department said that during its stopover in Sudan, Pompeo will “express its assistance in deepening relations between Sudan and Israel.”
He said that in Israel, U.S. Secretary “will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem to discuss regional security issues similar to Iran’s malicious influence and deepen Israel’s relations in the region.”
Encouraged by the alleged gang rape of a teenage girl in Eilat, Israelis will hold demonstrations across the country tonight to protest against violence against women.
The rally will take place in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square at 8 p.m.
The protests will stick to a brief stop-up of previous-day paintings through dozens of shops and state and municipal agencies, also to protest against rape and opposing violence in general.
The midday strike, which lasts about an hour, aims to “protest against the development of violence against women and women in Israel, and lack of sufficient punishment,” says bonot Alternative.
One of the event’s organizers, Ariel Peleg, told the AFP that at least 30 organizations and companies, municipalities and Microsoft Israel participated in the midday vigil.
– With AFP
A senior police officer told the Twelfth Channel that police had evidence of a teenage woman’s account that she was raped in an organization in Eilat through 30 men.
The official said the rape lasted “a long time,” according to the report, and that the police had “sensitive” evidence that they would reveal at this time.
According to the testimony in the case, there may be video footage of the assault.
“We have 11 arrests because they are suspected of being involved in the rape,” the source said. “The more time passes, the more reliable the girl’s testimony seems.”
Although the official did not reveal precisely how many police men had taken part in the breach, he noted that the number of suspects was “certainly double-digit.”
But, he adds, “even one would have been too much.”
Two suspected explosive devices were discovered in southern Israel after they were allegedly airborne to Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, as such balloon attacks continued on the day, according to officials from the Eshkol region.
“A device discovered next to a playground and another in a tree. In both cases, a police sapper called. There were no injuries or injuries,” Eshkol’s spokesman said.
Throughout the day, dozens of balloons were introduced with explosives and incendiary devices from the Strip to southern Israel, causing at least 11 fires, authorities said.
According to the chimney and rescue services, chimneys have been reported in the areas of Sha’ar Hanegev, Eshkol, Hof Ashkelon and Sderot.
The branch of the chimney said that most of the chimneys were small and did not pose a risk to neighboring communities.
– Judah Ari Gross
The Ministry of Environmental Protection reports that the use of plastic bags in primary retail chains fell 74% last year from last year, saving 22,000 tons of plastic.
A law requiring primary food stores to rate 10 agorot (three cents) implemented as of January 1, 2017.
However, small supermarkets, pharmacies and many other outlets still offer loose plastic bags. When asked if the branch envisaged expanding the law, a spokeswoman said it had no comment.
– Sue Surkes
A Jordanian ruling has ordered the release of the thirteen elected members of the union council of teachers who were arrested a month ago for alleged corruption, according to a judicial source.
The government shut down the union and arrested its leaders on July 25 after campaigning for higher wages in the indebted kingdom whose economy is reeling from the coronavirus pandemic.
The government also imposed an order of silence opposed to the publication of the main points of the prosecutor’s investigation into the case.
The lawyer for the arrangement of the masters Bassam Freihat confirms that of the thirteen people, adding the incumbent holder of the Nasser Nawasreh syndicate.
The lawyer told the AFP that they had completed an era of one month of legal detention on bail through the justice system.
“The court also made the decision to release several teachers who had been arrested in demonstrations” before and after the arrest of their leaders, Freihat said.
Neither the court source nor the lawyer is in a position to give additional main points or to say whether the other thirteen people will face additional legal action.
– AFP
Israel’s ambassador to the United States told the Dubai-based Saudi news network Al Arabiya, which expects the Arab country to signal a normalization agreement with Israel in the coming weeks.
“There are several countries where there are opportunities [for peace],” Dermer said in the interview, which took place on Friday and was broadcast today. “I do not mean this specific country or not, however, there are several countries and we hope to see some other progress very, very, soon, in the coming weeks and months.”
Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on 13 August that they would identify full diplomacy as a component of a US-negotiated agreement that required Israel to halt its plans to annex parts of the West Bank.
The historic agreement was a key foreign policy victory for Trump as he sought re-election and reflected a conversioned Middle East in which shared considerations about Iran far outweighed classic Arabic for Palestinians.
U.S. and Israeli officials have warned that more Arab countries could soon stick to the leadership of the United Arab Emirates, and it was noted that Bahrain and Oman are the closest to concluding such agreements.
– Agencies have contributed
Israeli actor Moshe Ivgy, who was sentenced last month to six months of network service and a fine for indecent assault, looks good on the sentence and his conviction.
The state asked for 15 months for Ivgy and the women’s organizations deplored the sentence as a disgrace.
He was first accused of harassing six women who worked with him on filming, television shows and plays.
The women told the Walla news site about personal essays in which Ivgy was forced to do so, insisting on unnecessary repetitions of intimate scenes and kissing them against her will.
Fees opposed to Ivgy were filed in 2018, and prosecutors claimed to have discovered enough evidence that he exploited his prestige to devote indecent acts and sexual harassment 4 in 2012 and 2013, some of them in the workplace.
He had faced four counts of indecent attack and three counts of sexual harassment, however, the Haifa District Court convicted Ivgy on an indecent attack charge and presented inadequate evidence to acquit him for the other charges.
A sentencing extends the arrest of a guy suspected of being involved in an alleged group violation at the southern Eilat beach hotel that surprised the country, according to Walla.
Previously, police arrested seven other suspects, in addition to the two juveniles arrested in the first place.
According to suspicion, up to 30 men involved.
Iran says a week a week coming up through the head of the UN atomic surveillance company in Tehran has nothing to do with a US push to impose so-called “recovery” sanctions on Iran.
Iran’s official IRNA news firm quotes Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Kazem Gharibadadi, saying this week’s scale “is not similar to the recovery mechanism or the US demand.”
Gharibabadi says IAEA leader Rafael Grossi is “part of Iran’s invitation.”
“We do not allow others to manage Iran,” he said, adding that Iran’s confidence in the IAEA has “undermined in recent months.”
He expressed the hope that Grossi would build trust. “It is vital to assure Tehran that the company will move on the basis of impartiality, independence and professionalism,” says Gharibabadi.
The IAEA said Saturday that Grossi would go to Tehran to pressure the Iranian government to access sites where the country allegedly stored or used undeclared nuclear materials.
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The Israeli government has negotiated the sale of spyware manufactured through the Israeli company NSO Group to the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf countries, Haaretz reports.
According to the report, there has been a large value of millions of dollar sales in recent years to the Gulf countries. According to the report, these nations are controlled through a special branch within NSO which is the company’s ultimate success.
“A product sold in Europe for $10 million, you can in the Gulf 10 times more,” Haaretz quoted to a source.
The report indicates that NSO Group has contracts with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and the emirates Abu Dhabi and Ras al Khaimah. He says the company uses codes to designate those countries: calls from car brands that share a first letter with the country’s call, so that, for example, Saudi Arabia is designated as Subaru, Jordan is called Jaguar and Bahrain is BMW.
The company’s Pegasus software allows agents to take a phone well through the WhatsApp app, surreptitiously recording their cameras and handsets from remote servers and absorbing non-public knowledge and geolocations.
WhatsApp is suing NSO Group, according to Facebook’s own messaging service to conduct cyberespionage in news, human rights activists and others. Among the accounts allegedly attacked were those of senior officials, hounds and human rights activists from around the world.
The spyware was implicated in the horrific murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was dismembered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in a 2018 incident that was also related to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
– Agencies have contributed
Firefighters and rescues say that at least 28 fires have been fires so far through incendiary devices with balloons introduced today in southern Israel from the Gaza Strip.
He said most of the fires were minor and caused damage.