The Times of Israel published Monday’s progress as they unfolded.
President Reuven Rivlin invited the crown prince of the emirate of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to Israel.
The invitation comes days after the announcement of a historic agreement between Israel and the Gulf country on the status quo of diplomatic relations.
Rivlin issued the invitation in an Arabic letter, in which he expressed hope that the peace agreement “will help build and strengthen acceptance as true between us and regional nations, an acceptance as true that will promote understanding, advance the region, bring economic prosperity and development, and a solid source for those living in the Middle East.”
– Raphael Ahren (@RaphaelAhren) 17 August 2020
“I take this opportunity to invite His Highness to Israel and Jerusalem and be our guest of honor,” Rivlin wrote.
Ari Harow, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former workplace boss, who testified to the state and testified against the prime minister, has been accused of fraud and failure to accept as a true component of a state deal that will save him a criminal conviction.
Harow, who testified in the so-called 1000 and 2000 cases about Netanyahu, is expected to be fined 700,000 shekels and six months of network service for allegedly promoting his foreign consulting firm in a fictitious manner.
Shortly after resigning as netanyahu’s office leader in 2010, Harow, an American, founded the consulting firm 3H Global. After his return as Head of Netanyahu’s Office in 2014, he claimed to have severed all ties to the company, but concealed an ongoing connection, according to the indictment. According to the company’s website, the company was created “to help governments, NGOs and businesses.”
China has not reported new cases of coronavirus first spread in a month, while dual outbreaks on opposite sides of the country have declined.
The National Health Commission reports 22 imported instances in the last 24 hours. China has noticed a slight increase in the number of inflamed people who arrived in the last 8 days.
The health government has reported a total of 84,849 cases and 4,634 deaths since the start of the pandemic. China does not come with other people who test positive but do not have symptoms in their official case count.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is running to identify direct flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates as a result of the standardization agreement.
“Lately we are running to allow direct flights over Saudi Arabia between Tel Aviv and Dubai. This will replace the air of Israel and the Israeli economy,” Netanyahu says.
He predicted an influx of mutual tourism.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin will meet to discuss “diplomatic and regional developments,” according to a statement.
The assembly comes immediately after the announcement of the agreement with the United Arab Emirates, as a political crisis over the state budget that threatens to send Israel to its fourth national election in less than two years.
Police that Kiryat Motzkin Mayor Haim Tzuri stand trial on a series of corruption charges.
Investigators say they have amassed evidence that Tzuri and some of its affiliates accepted bribes, fraud and abuse of trust, obstructed justice, and committed privacy violations.
Among the allegations, the police allege that the mayor collected data on the personal political tastes of the population to ensure their re-election.
“The joint investigation revealed that for years [the suspects] have used the Kiryat Motzkin residents’ database, which runs through the city and includes data on the entire population of the city, to advance the mayor’s election campaign,” police said.
In addition, the public budget was suspected to update the city’s database for Tzuri’s political needs. In addition, the accumulated data on the political perspectives of the city population in the database of the city corridor and, therefore, according to suspicion, the right to privacy of the violated population.”
The new coronavirus has killed at least another 770429 people since the outbreak began in China last December, according to a official resource count compiled through AFP at 11:00 GMT on Monday.
At least 21,719,870 cases of coronavirus have been reported in 196 countries and territories. Of these, at least 13,399,500 are recovering now.
The counts, the knowledge gathered through national government AFP and World Health Organization (WHO) data, are likely to reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.
Many countries control symptomatic or high-gravity cases.
On Sunday, there were 4,222 new deaths and 225,457 new cases worldwide. According to the most recent reports, the countries with the highest number of new deaths were India with 941 new deaths, followed by Brazil with 620 and the United States with 596.
The United States is the worst hit country with 170,052 deaths from 5,404,115 cases. At least 1,833,067 more people have been declared recovered.
After the United States, the countries most affected are Brazil with 107852 deaths of 3340197 Array Mexico with 56757 deaths of 522162 Indian Array with 50921 deaths of 2647663 and the United Kingdom with 41366 deaths from 318484 Array
The country with the number of deaths relative to its population is Belgium with 86 deaths consisting of 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Peru (80), Spain 61, United Kingdom 61 and Italy 59.
China – Hong Kong and Macau – has so far reported 84,849 cases (22 new cases since Sunday), adding 4,634 deaths and 79,603 cures.
Latin America and the Caribbean in general 241679 deaths of 6176016 Europe 210592 deaths of 3526872 infections, United States and Canada 179115 deaths of 5526154 Arrangement in Asia 80568 deaths of 4,013,085 Arrangement in the Middle East 32,393 Deaths of 1,331,036 Settlement in Africa 25628 deaths of 1,120,910 and Oceania 454 deaths of 25,798
Due to corrections through the national government or late publication of data, the updated figures in the last 24 hours may not fit the previous day’s accounts.
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Lebanon is facing a buildup of coronavirus cases after a devastating explosion in Beirut’s port this month killed dozens of others and wounded thousands, prompting the medical government to request a two-week closure to check for the pandemic.
The number of viruses is expected to increase after the August 4 explosion of nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate stored at the port. About 180 others died, more than 6,000 were injured and a quarter of a million were left in homes that were not worth for life. The explosion hit the city’s hospitals and also severely broke two that played a key role in handling virus cases.
Prior to the outbreak, medical officials had warned of the risks of overcrowding in hospitals after the explosion, at funerals or while others were searching the rubble. Protests and protests also erupted after the explosion when the Lebanese expressed their anger at the ruling elegance and decades of maladministration.
On Sunday, Lebanon recorded 439 new cases of viruses and six deaths. New infections bring to 8881 the total number of cases in the small country of more than five million, where COVID-19 killed about 103 people.
Health Minister Hamad Hassan warns that the actual figure may be much higher. After a meeting On Monday with medical officials demanding another two-week closure, he suggested that each and every one wear a mask, saying that the virus has spread to each and every village in Lebanon.
“It’s a matter of life and death,” Hassan says, adding that soon public and private hospitals may no longer be able to house more patients.
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Opposition leader Yair Lapid criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his comments after the economy was the biggest contraction in more than four decades due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Netanyahu responded to the horrific new economic figures by saying, “This is very clever economic news.” It’s not just impartial, it’s dangerous. A prime minister a crisis denies that the crisis exists. He denies reality. Nero plays the violin while Rome burns,” Lapid said in his weekly yesh Atid-Telem faction assembly.
“I don’t know if there will be elections in November, but I know there will be an economic crisis in November. Companies will go bankrupt, other people won’t pay the mortgage, they’ll lose their homes. The other young man, people will get up and leave. The numbers are terrifying. 30,000 companies have already collapsed. By the end of the year, that figure will rise to 70,000. Unemployment is at a record level. The coronavirus crisis has hit everywhere, but figures like this don’t exist anywhere else.”
An investigation of the Israeli economy via Channel 12 on Sunday night indicated that Israel’s position is greater than that of the United States and some European countries, but worse than many others.
Lapid continues: “Compare those figures with Finland, New Zealand, Greece, Germany. Everyone has bigger numbers because there’s a difference: in all those countries, there’s a government that works and makes the right decisions. Here, the government failed, Netanyahu failed … The government has only stopped working, it has ceased to recognize reality.”
Lapid back asked Netanyahu to resign, saying it is possible that the prime minister simply did not direct his trial for corruption, fraud and abuse of trust to the country.
“Netanyahu has lost the economy and we will pay the price. During a crisis, a prime minister has to make complicated decisions, that’s the job. Netanyahu cannot make complicated decisions because of his legal status, not in a government of 36 ministers and not when he is constantly on his way to new elections. Your solution is denial, but it is not a solution. The user who caused the crash cannot fix it. Netanyahu will have to resign. It’s not too past because of the solution of this problem, but time is running out,” he says.
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh expresses solidarity with the Emirati people, following the Palestinians’ scathing complaint over the United Arab Emirates’ normalization agreement with Israel.
He tweeted: “The other people in the United Arab Emirates are our other people. The flag of the United Arab Emirates is an Arab flag. Our rejection of standardization does not mean our respect for our other people in the United Arab Emirates.”
– Dr. Mohammad Shtayyeh. (@DrShtayyeh) 17 August 2020
His comment comes after Palestinians trampled on uaE flags and lit a poster of their de facto leader in protest at the agreement.
Since this morning, firefighters have fought four fires in the Eshkol of southern Israel.
Most wildfires were “small and safe” for firefighters.
They are investigating whether the fires occurred through airborne incendiary devices sent from the Gaza Strip, in response to the accumulation of such incidents.
A security guard at the Qalandiya checkpoint who shot a deaf Palestinian in the leg on Monday morning was arrested for questioning, according to reports.
The Palestinian, who is more than 60, entered a car-only domain when he passed through the Jerusalem domain, one of the West Bank’s busiest checkpoints, and heard him be asked to leave, police said.
After the fact, border police decided that the guy had not paid attention to the guards because he had hearing problems and speaks, a police spokesman said.
The Palestinian was transferred to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem for treatment, a hospital spokesman said.
Israel’s assistant director of fitness told lawmakers that a framework would be presented for tourists to enter the country from low-infection countries until the end of the month.
News may only mean the beginning of a recovery from a pandemic-induced collapse that has gripped the tourism industry since March.
“By the end of the month, there will be a framework for tourists to enter ‘controlled capsules’ [small groups] of ‘green’ countries, or countries with low contagion rates, said the Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Health, Itamar. Grotto, to the Knesset Control Board on Monday.
The Department of Health will offer more key points to the public at a press convention scheduled for Monday night, according to the ministry.
The so-called closet of the most sensitive coronavirus ministers will meet on Thursday to discuss regulations on meetings, after a parliamentary panel refused to make larger government regulations for 28 days.
Deputy Shas Yaakov Asher, who heads the Justice, Law and Constitution Committee, limits the new cabinet fitness regulations to one week, from the 4 weeks requested through the government.
He says the government wants public clarity about regulations and the overall strategy.
“The public can no longer wait for the plan of the virus’s tsar, Professor Ronni Gamzu, and as a result, the regulations are approved for a week,” asher says.
Yesterday, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein sought to replace coronavirus regulations that restrict the use of restaurants and places of worship. Edelstein needs to restrict attendance to 20 other people inside and 30 outside, as long as everyone maintains a social distance. Small restaurants can also serve 20 other people inside, Channel 12 reports.
Edelstein plans to submit the proposal for approval today.
On Friday, the so-called coronavirus cabinet approved new restrictions on disorder in indoor spaces, while easing other boundaries opposed to clutter in spaces.
The new regulations, which came into force on Sunday afternoon, restrict assistance to another 10 people for enclosed spaces of less than 80 square meters.
Egyptian mediators are in the Gaza Strip to check tensions and avoid a new cross-border confrontation between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas.
The terrorist group, which took Gaza from rival Palestinian forces in 2007, said the three Egyptian general intelligence envoys headed directly to meetings with Hamas officials after entering the territory.
The pressure comes as hostilities erupted along the Gaza-Israel border after months of calm due in part to the profession of leaders on both sides through the coronavirus crisis.
Over the next week, teams of Palestinian youth affiliated with Hamas have lit incendiary balloons in Israel, setting fire to swathes of farmland. Israel, which holds Hamas accountable for the violence emanating from the territory, responded with airstrikes on Hamas army sites, banned Gazan fishermen from going to sea and closed the territory’s main industrial crossing.
– Agencies
An incendiary balloon device introduced from the Gaza Strip is suspected of lit a small outdoor fireplace in a kindergarten in the southern city of Sderot.
Firefighters were called to the scene and temporarily turned off the fireplace in a plastic cabinet outside the school.
“There was no damage to kindergarten. The fireplace is located outside the building doors. It’s a small chimney that goes out through a team,” said a spokesman for the chimney branch.
Firefighter and rescue investigators are running to check the cause of the fire, the spokesman said.
– Judah Ari Gross
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, makes an official complaint to the United Nations Security Council about what Israel says is a failed attack through the terrorist organization Hezbollah against Israeli troops along the Lebanese border.
In his complaint, Erdan alleges that Hezbollah’s motive was armed with an Array50-caliber sniper rifle, which was recovered from the scene, as well as army latticework.
According to the IDF, on July 27, a 3-member Hezbollah mobile company entered the domain of Mount Dov, also known as Shebaa Farms, a disputed domain along the Israeli-controlled border. The Israel Defense Forces monitored the mobile as it crossed the border with Israeli territory, at which point floor troops, as well as planes, opened fire on suspicious agents, sending them back to Lebanese territory, unsharmed.
Erdan includes a map that he says shows the cell route, in the most sensitive part of a rocky hill covered with trees, reaching a few dozen meters of internal Israeli territory, about three hundred meters from the IDF outpost in Gladiola.
– Judah Ari Gross
Hamas will attend a joint assembly of Palestinian leaders on Wednesday to discuss the Israeli-Emirati standardization agreement, a senior Hamas official told the Anadolu News Agency.
“Hamas won an invitation from PLO Central Committee member Azzam al-Ahmad as well as the Fatah Central Committee. The invitation accepted,” Yousef says.
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said earlier in the day that the assembly would also deal with “a number of problems similar to our causes.”
Yousef says the names of the Hamas delegation leaders will be later tonight.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad also said it won an invitation to participate in the joint meeting, but has not yet announced whether it will attend.
The last time the two Gaza-based terrorist teams were invited to finalize a joint primary convention of Palestinian leaders in May, when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced an end to security coordination with Israel because of Israel’s plan to annex parts of the West. Bank. No organization showed up.
Previous announcements of Hamas-Fatah’s reconciliation to cooperate in opposition to the planned annexation (the two factions have split since a bloody civil war in 2007) did not appear to bear fruit and a joint demonstration in Gaza with which Abbas intended to speak never materialized.
– Aaron Boxerman
Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi met with his Oman counterpart Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah amid the growing hypothesis that the sultanate could simply sign for the United Arab Emirates to forge ties with Israel, according to Hebrew reports.
The two discussed the standardization agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, announced Thursday, while Oman’s minister expressed his favor of the renewal of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and a broader Arab-Israeli peace.
Oman Foreign Minister Yousef bin Alawi spoke by phone with his Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi today, Oman’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“The Sultanate’s company and support position have obviously expressed themselves in the desire for a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East, as well as in the desire to resume negotiations on the peace procedure and respond to the valid demands of the other Palestinian. people to identify their independent status with East Jerusalem as their capital. This is in line with the Arab position, ” he said.
Oman’s Foreign Ministry said bin Alawi met with Fatah’s Secretary General Jibril Rajoub, “in which the Palestinian leader expressed his appreciation and security for the sultanate’s role, as well as for his balanced and sensible policy on Arab issues, whose Palestinian cause is primarily Palestinian. Array »
A member of the Sunni-dominated Gulf Cooperation Council but with a special relationship with Iran, Oman has served as a mediator and peacemaker among conflicting forces in the region.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry showed the appeal.
– Aaron Boxerman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin meet at the president’s apartment in Jerusalem, in talks on the agreement with the United Arab Emirates.
“I need to congratulate you, President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed on a wonderful achievement that can bring an incredible replacement in the history of the Middle East and in the history of other Israelis and other Jewish people,” Rivlin said at the beginning of the meeting.
Netanyahu thanked him by saying, “I really appreciate your support. This is a historic agreement that will gain advantages not only for Israelis and the United Arab Emirates. I think it brings a combination of Arab-Israeli peace, which will ultimately promote peace in general.” But this is in fact a vital and vital turning point.
“Here are two of the most complex countries in the world, and cooperation between us will produce technological and economic opportunities across the board, adding fitness studies and vaccines opposed to the virus, and many other things. It’s wonderful news and thank you very much. much for their support. It’s vital and I think it reflects how each and every Israeli feels, so I should,” Netanyahu added.
The Palestinian-led boycott motion opposed to Israel claims that an organizer of the crusade released without fee through Israel after more than two weeks in detention.
The BDS crusade indicates that Mahmoud Nawajaa is with his back to the West Bank.
“They can’t break us because they can’t weigh a concept or counteract our strategy, despite all the financial, intelligence, political, diplomatic and propaganda resources they’ve invested,” Nawajaa said in a statement.
Israeli security firm Shin Bet said Nawajaa was arrested on July 30 on suspicion of unspecified “security breaches”. He claimed that the suspicions were not similar to his boycott activities. The Shin Bet does not respond without delay to a request for comment.
Last week, dozens of Palestinians demonstrated in the West Bank city of Ramallah to call for the liberation of Nawajaa. The global human rights organization Amnesty International also called Israel “immediately and unconditionally.”
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AACI says it is raising a budget for a virus fund for English-speaking immigrants in Israel who are suffering financially from the pandemic.
“The cash will be a subsidy; However, we will be offering to voluntarily return the cash once they can do so, so that we can continue to help others,” he said in a statement on the project.
The shipment of 4 oil tankers seized through the United States last week to Venezuela is no longer Iranian-owned, Iran’s oil minister said, insisting that the United States has no right to confiscate shipment in foreign waters.
Trump’s management said it seized the shipment of four oil tankers that aimed to send Iranian fuel to Venezuela. The movement component of the intensification of the U.S. highest-tension crusade over Iran and Venezuela, whether they are heavily sanctioned allies.
According to semi-official news agency ISNA, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said oil had “been sold to consumers and payment had been received” for him.
“The United States claimed to have seized Iranian gas, but even though the shipment had been shipped from Iran, neither the ships nor the gas were Iranian,” Zanganeh said.
It does not specify or say who the gas owners were at the time of seizure. But Zanganeh’s statements echo those of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who on Sunday called the United States “Pirates of the Caribbean” in a tweet and said the ships carried items sold. Iran’s ambassador to Venezuela, Hojad Soltani, also said neither the ships nor the oil were Iranian.
“Unfortunately for them, the loot stolen is not that of Iran. Fuel sold F.O.B. Persian Gulf. The shipment and the flag weren’t ours either,” Zarif tweeted.
Iranian officials have called for closer ties between Iran and Venezuela, and Tehran has sent several fuel deliveries to an energy-hungry Venezuela from U.S. sanctions.
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Lebanese customs chief is officially arrested after being on the big explosion in Beirut this month, the national news firm reports.
The research focuses on why some 3,000 tons of explosive ammonium nitrate were stored in the city’s port. The reserve was involved in stock, killing at least 180 other people and injuring 6,000.
Thirty other people are still missing after the August Fourth explosion, which caused damage between $10 billion and $15 billion.
Documents that appeared after the explosion, the most destructive in Lebanon’s history, showed that the government had known for years that 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate were stored in a warehouse in the harbor and knew the dangers.
Judge Fadi Sawwan questioned Customs Chief Badri Daher, who was detained a few days after the explosion, for four and a half hours in the presence of his two lawyers before issuing the arrest warrant, according to the agency. Daher will remain in custody as the investigation continues.
The NNA said that after interviewing Daher, Sawwan went to the scene of the explosion to read about the wounded and will return later to interview Hassan Koraytem, who was the main port official until the day of the explosion.
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White House adviser Jared Kushner said Israel had agreed to continue annexing the West Bank without U.S. consent, which Washington plans to reject for “some time.”
He spoke to reporters days after the announcement of a US-negotiated agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, which will see ties between the two Middle Eastern countries in exchange for Israel postponing its proposed annexation.
“We have built a date of accepting as true with Israel. President Trump has pledged to hold them accountable to him, and Israel has agreed with us that they will not pass without our consent. We do not expect to give our consent. for some time, because for now, the aim will have to be to put this new peace agreement into force. In fact, we need to achieve as much exchange as can be imagined between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and in fact we need Israel to focus on creating new appointments and alliances,” Kushner says.
“This land is a land controlled lately through Israel. They’re Israelis who live there. He’s not going anywhere. There is no urgency to enforce Israeli law. That’s why we think they’ll respect their agreement,” he added.
– with Eric Cortellessa
U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States is “closely monitoring” occasions in Belarus, the former Soviet country where pressure has been exerted on the strongman, Alexander Lukashenko, to resign after a disputed election.
Demonstrations opposed to Lukashenko have faced brutal police repression, and Washington has already asked him to start talks with civil society.
Trump says it’s a “terrible situation, ” adding, “We’ll follow it very closely.”
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The mother of an Israeli journalist who passed out in the air while reporting from the United Arab Emirates, due to a heat stroke, said she panicked and thought she had been assaulted.
“I think he was stabbed,” said Doron Herman, mother of Channel 13, who fainted on a live broadcast on Sunday.
When he won the video on WhatsApp, “I started to throw up,” he told Channel 12.
In a follow-up message on his Facebook page, Herman says he’s fine and yells at his mother.
– שלזינגר (Judash0) 16 August 2020
Later, on the evening news, Herman explains that “the heat is unbearable … I learned my lesson. I drink all day today.”
Police said a “suspicious object” placed in a balloon was being neutralized in the southern city of Netivot, after crossing the border from Gaza.
Firefighters are on site, to the police.
Israel has noticed a build-up of cross-border attacks through airborne incendiary devices, adding balloons, which have caused dozens of wildfires.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offers an interview with Sky News Arabia in Abu Dhabi.
A few days after the announcement of the standardization agreement between Israel and the Emirates, Netanyahu told the network that countries would follow.
The agreement will eventually lead to peace with the Palestinians, he predicts.
The director general of the Ministry of Health, Chezy Levy, confirms that the government is formulating a plan to allow tourists to enter the country, following a several-month ban.
“Lately we are discussing how to open the sky to tourists, adapting to life in the shadow of the coronavirus. It’s not over,” he says.
When asked when non-Israelis will be allowed to return to the country, the Asher Salmon Ministry of Fitness at its foreign branch said the procedure for tourists entering the country will be gradual, to an epidemic.
“The purpose is to be informed [of the past] and reopen the tourism industry,” he told reporters.
As of this week, Israelis from “green” countries, with low infection rates and have not been anywhere else for 14 days, can now enter the country without quarantine or evidence. The lists of “green countries” will be updated every two weeks, says Levy.
Deputy Director-General Itamar Grotto adds that Israelis consult the Ministry of Health’s online page on the fitness policies of their target countries.
Before the flight, travelers must complete a fitness form. If the target status requires verification, it can be done 48 hours in advance, he said. And only priced ticket holders will be able to enter Ben Gurion Airport, Grotto said.
Grotto says quarantine policy is applied on the day of departure, so Israelis who stop in countries classified as “green” whose infection rates soar on their scale will not yet want to isolate themselves when they return.
The Knesset begins its discussion on an invoice to extend the budget term.
The proposal will give the coalition government more time to approve the national budget, thus avoiding elections by allowing it to exceed an approaching deadline in a few days.
The bill, proposed by Derech Deputy Zvi Hauser, will have to pass 3 readings before adjusting to the law, but its long term is doubtful because Likud has not yet committed to it at its time and third reading.
He’s in a position to do his first plenary reading tonight.
The Ministry of Health, clarifying some of its quarantine policies, says that travelers who have a connecting flight to a country marked “red” due to their maximum infection rates will want 14 days of quarantine upon returning to Israel if they are gone. the country. Airport.
This is assuming that its origin is one of the “green” countries to which Israel renounced compulsory quarantine this week.
Iran has presented bonuses to the Taliban to attack the United States and the coalition in Afghanistan, as Russia would have done, CNN reports that it mentions U.S. military intelligence.
CNN reports that the U.S. has known bills similar to last year’s six attacks, adding a December attack on an open-air construction of Bagram Air Base near Kabul.
The attack, which CNN says killed two Afghan civilians and wounded four Americans, ended peace talks between the United States and the Taliban.
In a statement, the U.S. Department of Defense verified or denied CNN’s report.
Major Rob Lodewick, a Pentagon spokesman, said he did reveal the main points of internal intelligence discussions.
However, he adds, “it has continually called, both in public and private, for Iran to end its scourge of malicious and destabilizing habits in the Middle East and the world.”
“Iran’s hostile influence seeks to undermine the Afghan peace procedure and encourage continued violence and instability,” he added.
In June, U.S. media reported that the intelligence had made a decision that Russia had submitted bonuses to the Taliban for killing U.S. infantrymen in Afghanistan.
The report was not denied by senior officials and characterized by some as founded on unfinished information.
But it has become a political factor after the White House questioned and U.S. President Donald Trump denied being informed of the allegations.
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Mossad leader Yossi Cohen landed in Abu Dhabi for additional talks on the standardization agreement, Channel thirteen reports.
Cohen has been given a leading role in the negotiations on the agreement, announced the week, which will see Israel and the United Arab Emirates forge diplomatic relations.
A larger Israeli delegation is expected in Abu Dhabi this week.
The Ministry of Health registers 1,597 coVID-19 instances in 24 hours.
Two more deaths have been recorded since morning, raising the death toll since the start of the pandemic to 692.
Of the 23,324 active cases, 399 are in serious condition, 111 of them amateurs. Others 176 are in a moderate state, others with mild or nonexistent symptoms.
According to the ministry, 12,383 tests were conducted yesterday.
The melting of Greenland’s ice sheet has disappeared so it is now irreversible, as snowfall can no longer compensate for ice loss, even if global warming ended today, according to the researchers.
“Greenland’s glaciers have passed a kind of turning point, where the snow that replenishes the ice sheet each year cannot trace ice flowing into the ocean from glaciers,” says one from Ohio State University, where several study authors published August Thirteen in Earth and Environment Communications.
Climate change is having a devastating effect on the world’s glaciers, and melting ice poses a risk to millions of people around the world.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the ice sheet lost about 450 billion tons of ice consistent with the year, which was offset by snowfall, scientists said after analyzing 40 years of data.
But the melting of ice accelerated this century, emerging at 500 billion tons and no longer reconstituted enough in snow.
“Greenland’s ice sheet is losing mass at an accelerated rate in the 21st century, making it the main contributor to sea point rise,” the study says.
While researchers agree that melting ice in Greenland is a concern, not everyone says it has reached a “turning point.”
“We don’t know how much greenhouse fuel concentrations will increase,” says Ruth Mottram, climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute.
The published effects show that “even if we stabilized temperatures (and greenhouse fuel emissions) at existing levels, the ice sheet would continue to melt, but only until the length of the ice sheet is back in balance with the climate.” Mottram said.
Another recent study from the British University of Lincoln concluded that melting ice in Greenland alone is expected to contribute 10 to 12 centimetres to the overall sea point increase to 2100.
The UN IPCC Climate Science Advisory Group said in 2013 that it expects sea grades up to 60 centimetres until the end of the century.
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The coronavirus tsar, Ronni Gamzu, will impose powerful restrictions to stop the spread of the virus in Thursday’s cabinet assembly on coronavirus, Channel 12 reports.
Ministers will check to delay regulations until the start of the Jewish holidays, Rosh Hashaná, Yom Kippur and Succot, from mid-September to early October for some further blow to the economy, reports.
Restrictions come with restriction of meetings at places of worship next Jewish holidays; Closure of hotels and other tourist attractions during the holidays; Limit the holiday by recommending that Israelis vacation only with their nuclear families.
“It’s not like that, that’s when,” the report says.
The head of the Israeli Air Force, Amikam Norkin, lands in Germany after a two-week air training in the country.
This will be the first time the IAF will participate in a training session in Germany.
Norkin, who flew one of the Gulstream aircraft that participated in the exercise, was escorted to Germany through Luftwaffe commander Ingo Gerhartz.
“On behalf of the German Air Force, it is an honor for me to welcome the Israeli Air Force to German airspace for the first time in history,” Gerhartz said on the radio in Norkin.
Norkin responds that training – the only outdoor IAF training in Israel this year – is a “testimony of [their] strong bonds and mutual commitment” between them.
– Judah Ari Gross
– צבא – August 17, @idfonline 2020
A ministerial panel on the operations of security company Shin Bet accepted opposition leader Yair Lapid’s request to remove him from his guards while he is away from his home, reports the Twelfth Channel.
The security service will no longer accompany Lapid, with a few exceptions, although the security company will keep its space safe.
The resolution may be revoked at your request, he says.
The Twelfth Channel also reports that the 3 highest threatened figures in Israel, on Shin Bet’s knowledge and incitement to online violence, are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Chief Justice Esther Hayut and Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
Hundreds of Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox protesters gather outdoors at the offices of the Kan public broadcaster in Jerusalem to demonstrate against his satirical television show, “HaYehudim Baim” (“The Jews Arrive”), for his description of biblical and devoted figures.
The irreverent and acclaimed exhibition uses sketches of biblical characters to comment on new Israeli and Jewish social, political and political problems.
Protesters denounce the display for mocking and blaspheming.
The Knesset approves at first reading a bill that will give the coalition government more time to approve the national budget, avoiding elections by allowing it to exceed a closing deadline by a few days.
The bill, proposed by Derech’s deputy Zvi Hauser, will have to pass two more readings before adjusting to the law, but its long term is uncertain, as Likud has not yet committed to it at its time and third reading.
The budget deadline is August 25. Under the terms of the invoice, that limit would be extended from one hundred days to December 3. If the invoice or budget is not approved before August 25, the country will go to the polls in what is the fourth vote in less than two years.
Jerusalem police are investigating a possible knife attack near the Lions Gate in the Old City.
The suspect “neutralized” and the incident is under investigation, police said.
– Aaron Boxerman
Hebrew media report that a border police officer was injured in the knife attack in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Some reports say he is injured, while others classify the injury as moderate.
A border police officer was wounded in a knife attack on Jerusalem’s Old City, authorities said.
The assailant shot dead through officials at the scene. His condition is not known without delay.
Doctors say the 19-year-old border guard suffered several gunshot wounds and was moved in a moderate and solid state to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem for treatment.
“We gave him life-saving medical treatment, prevented him from bleeding, killed him and gave him medication, and took him to the hospital in a moderate, solid condition,” Magen doctor David Adom said.
– Judah Ari Gross
Israeli officials, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, will be the next Middle Eastern countries to identify diplomatic relations with Israel after the United Arab Emirates, Channel 13 reports.
The TV report cites sources.
The Jewish state has also received positive signals from Sudan, and Oman officials will also make peace with the Jewish state in the future, the report says.
The Ministry of Health, clarifying some of its quarantine policies, says that travelers who have a connecting flight to a country marked “red” due to their maximum infection rates will want 14 days of quarantine upon returning to Israel if they are gone. the country. Airport.
This is assuming that its origin is one of the “green” countries to which Israel renounced compulsory quarantine this week.