The Times of Israel records Sunday’s occasions as they unfold.
An incendiary balloon was discovered in a personal garden in the southern city of Beersheba, police said.
Officers and a sapper were called in and neutralized the alleged explosive device, introduced through terrorists in the Gaza Strip, according to police.
No injuries or property were reported.
The Israeli delegation to the United Arab Emirates before the signing of the standardization agreement would depart this week amid disagreements over its composition, with Hebrew media reported.
“There is still no date for the departure of the delegation,” a senior Israeli official said quoting Walla News.
Disagreements seem to have to do with public credits than with the fund.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs the delegation to be led by the National Security Council, which belongs to the prime minister’s office. Meanwhile, Benny Gantz’s Kakhol washer needs the Foreign Office to run it. Chancellor Gabi Ashkenazi is from Kakhol Lavan.
The company will be notified of the agreement on Tuesday, Walla reports.
After the launch of direct phone calls between previous countries in the day, the next standardization steps to be discussed will be cross-country flights and mutual travel.
Meanwhile, public broadcaster Kan reports that Bahrain intends to wait for the official signing of the agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates before pronouncing its own normalization with the Jewish state.
Another Channel Thirteen ballot shows greater effects for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud than Channel 12 ballot
According to Channel 13, Likud gets 33 seats in the Knesset, Yesh Atid-Telem gets 20, Yamina gets 19, set gets 12, Kakhol lavan gets 10, Yisrael Beytenu and Shas get 7 each, United Torah gets 6 and so on. Meretz does.
The Netanyahu block won 65 seats, more than in the latest high-rate polls.
An opinion ballot broadcast across Channel 12 shows that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu benefits from the UAE standardization agreement if elections are called.
An election poll through the Knesset says Likud gets 30 seats, right Yamina gets 18 and opposition Yesh Atid-Telem 16.
The joint list has 15, Kakhol wash through Benny Gantz 12, United Torah Judaism and Yisrael Beytenu 8 each, Shas 7 and Meretz 6.
Netanyahu’s party bloc won a narrow majority of 63, while the center-left won 49, with Liberman in the middle.
Netanyahu is more likely to be prime minister than Gantz (43% to 16%), opposition leader Yair Lapid (46% to 22%) and Yamina’s leader, Naftali Bennett (39% to 24%).
A large majority see the agreement with the United Arab Emirates as a good fortune for Netanyahu, while only 13% is a failure for him.
Most Israelis dissatisfied with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey published through Channel 12.
65% are disappointed with control of Netanyahu’s economy, while 34% think it’s been good.
The ballot shows that 49% oppose the imposition of a general blockade while 43% of the movement.
The Ministry of Health reports 482 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, however, the small number appears to be the result of fewer tests over the weekend, not a genuine decrease in infections.
Only 8748 effects were returned on Saturday, of which 8.7% were positive, according to the data.
The number of shown is 92,680, of which 23,491 are active.
There are six new deaths for a total of 685.
The severe cases are 382, of which 112 correspond to fans. Another 183 are in a moderate state and the rest have or have no symptoms.
Likud representatives from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kakhol lavan from Defense Minister Benny Gantz will meet tonight to check on the budget crisis, which will provoke elections if not held in nine days, public broadcaster Kan reports.
Netanyahu insists on adopting a one-year budget (which would in practice only cover the rest of 2020) even though the coalition agreement requires a two-year budget (covering the remainder of 2020 and the 2021 total), as needed. through Blue and White.
It is idea that the real challenge to be solved is whether Gantz will be prime minister in November 2021, because the lack of approval of the budget is the only transparent situation that can provoke an election without Gantz automatically adjusting to the transitional prime minister. If a budget is approved until the end of 2021, nothing will save Gantz from being appointed prime minister in November 2021.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sends a message of condolence to US President Donald Trump for the death of his younger brother, Robert Trump.
In a tweet, Netanyahu noted that he also lost a brother, Yoni Netanyahu, who was killed in the 1970s in an operation to rescue Israeli hostages in Entebbe, Uganda.
– Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) 16 August 2020
The Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, tweeted in some way.
– גנץ – Benny Gantz (@gantzbe) 16 August 2020
The Palestinians called for the Arab League and the Islamic Cooperation Organization to emergency to reject the standardization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, but gained no reaction from either agency, Said Senior Palestinian Authority official Saeb Erekat.
He said he had written to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain asking them to pressure the United Arab Emirates to cancel the agreement.
“I got a response from the Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs assuring me that Saudi Arabia’s position is for a comprehensive peace agreement on a two-state solution,” Erekat said, noting that Bahrain “has not yet answered me.”
Saudi Arabia, a regional heavyweight, visibly silent on the agreement, without an official reaction emerging from Riyadh.
– AFP
The agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalize relations will end the two-state solution, the “extremists” and undermine the “possibility of peace,” Palestinian negotiating leader Saeb Erekat said.
The fractured Palestinian leadership, from the Palestinian Authority led through Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank to the Islamist terrorist Hamas in the Gaza Strip, is united in opposition to the agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel announced Thursday through US President Donald Trump.
“In fact, I think this step is a killer for the two-state solution,” Erekat says.
He argues that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have incentives to commit to a viable Palestinian state “if he believes Arab countries will align themselves to make peace with him.”
At a convention with foreign journalists, Erekat said that “people like Netanyahu and the extremists in Israel, the two-state solution is irrelevant.”
Meanwhile, “the extremists in my way (they say)”, we have told them all the time: the two states are off the table,” he adds.
Erekat condemns the deal as a “desperate attempt” by Trump to achieve foreign policy success.
– with AFP
The chief leaders of the settlers smeared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one of whom accused him of adopting the “rhetoric of the left.”
It occurs in reaction to Netanyahu’s rejection of the right-wing complaint of the standardization agreement with the United Arab Emirates and the suspension of plans to annex parts of the West Bank.
“The same other people who are now telling me to apply sovereignty [in the West Bank] told me several months ago that we will have not to apply sovereignty because it will lead a Palestinian state,” the prime minister told army radio. “It’s not serious.”
These in exasperated Yossi Dagan, the head of the Samaria Regional Council.
In a statement, Dagan Netanyahu “shamefully failed to deliver on his core promise in three election cycles that gave him victory.”
Now, he adds, the prime minister “adds an insult to the wound and adopts the rhetoric of the left by blaming the settlers’ motion for everything.”
“Netanyahu used the leaders of the settlers and then abandoned us,” Dagan accuses. “The Prime Minister has deceived us and deceived the Israeli public.”
Yisrael Gantz, head of Binyamin Regional Council, accused Netanyahu of “deceiving the public” and said the prime minister had promised “the sovereignty of a Palestinian state.”
“If his goal had been to announce the annexation with a Palestinian state, it is smart that he has disarmed it and it is smart that we fight it, but it is a shame that he did not tell the Israeli public,” Gantz says. “Don’t check to introduce us now as extremists.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview on army radio that the existing government “is ideal” and that without the coronavirus crisis, it would have collapsed.
“Sometimes I place a government within a government,” Says Centrist Kakhol’s Laning Party, Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
The vast majority of Israelis prefer standardization with the United Arab Emirates to the annexation of parts of the West Bank, according to a twelfth channel survey.
However, while 76.7% of respondents say they prefer the Abu Dhabi deal, 61.4% – 50% of them on the right – says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu broke his promise to his constituents by abandoning the plan for the early annexation of the Jordan Valley and Israel. Settlements.
According to the survey, 16.5% prefer annexation to the agreement with the United Arab Emirates.
It is also that 85.8% will substitute their vote as a result of the agreement. Only 7.5% said it affected their vote, adding 10% of right-wing voters.
The survey conducted today through the direct Polls organization among 545 respondents representing Israel’s adult population, with a margin of error of 4.4%.
A high-ranking ultra-Orthodox non-secular leader taken to a hospital ward by coronavirus, 11 days after his grandson’s massive wedding in violation of estrangement regulations sounded the alarm, the Hebrew media report.
Yissachar Dov Rokeach, 72, rabbi of the Belz Hasidic dynasty, was reportedly transferred to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.
However, the average doctor has trouble denying that he was taken to hospital.
Israel’s new ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, joins a refrain from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s allies, saying Israel has cancelled its planned annexation to the West Bank, as officials from the United Arab Emirates and the White House have said.
“The application of sovereignty is misplaced and will be back on the agenda,” Erdan, until recently a senior official of Netanyahu’s Likud party, told public broadcaster Kan.
The United Arab Emirates called Iran’s business in the country for a Band-Aid, after Tehran said it would hold Abu Dhabi accountable if “something happened” in the Persian Gulf, official news firm WAM reported, according to Al-Arabiya.
The UAE Foreign Ministry called a speech through Iranian President Hassan Rohani on the “unacceptable and inciting” factor, according to the report.
The spitting occurred after the United Arab Emirates announced a normalization with Israel.
An Israeli airline has asked for permission to arrive at Dubai airport, which may take effect within a few months.
Uri Sirkis, Israel’s chief executive, showed it in an interview with public broadcaster Kan.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to reject the statement through the United Arab Emirates and the United States that, in exchange for the standardization agreement with Abu Dhabi, Israel withdrew plans to annex the West Bank from the table.
“It’s not like someone gave me a selection and told me that between sovereignty or normalization,” Netanyahu told army radio Netanyahu.
“Just as no one thought it would bring a peace agreement, it would also bring sovereignty [declaration in parts of the West Bank],” he adds.
Netanyahu insisted that the annexation had only been frozen, UAE adviser and the White House, Jared Kushner, said the resolution was now irrelevant.
Earlier in the day, Finance Minister Israel Katz of the ruler Likud took the rejection further and said the annexation had already been postponed, unrelated to the UAE agreement.
The United Arab Emirates “just needed an alibi for relations with Israel,” Katz told the public Channel Kan this morning.
The Israel Rescue and Fire Service said there have been 17 wildfires in the last 12 hours. now in the western region of Negev, through incendiary balloons introduced from the Gaza Strip.
About 80 dunams (19.7 acres) burned and flames were concentrated around the forests near the kibbutzim of Kissufim, Be’eri and Ein Hashlosha, according to firefighters.
Gaza-based terrorist teams have introduced explosive balloons from Gaza in recent days, causing a large number of wildfires and provoking retaliatory measures through Israel.
Last night, they introduced rockets to Israel, some of which were intercepted through the Iron Dome. In response, the Israeli Air Force took action opposed to Hamas’ targets and closed Gaza’s main industrial crossing, with the exception of humanitarian aid.
The Gaza power plant will close on Tuesday, the Hamas-led Gaza Energy Authority said in a statement. The diesel-powered station, which Israel has banned from entering the strip, after explosive balloon loads were introduced from Gaza into Israeli territory.
The force plants about one-third of the electricity in the Gaza Strip, according to figures provided through the Quartet; the rest is provided through the Israel Electric Corporation.
Power outages are a normal feature of life in the Gaza Strip, where electricity can only be held between 10 and 12 hours a day, a deficit of 50%. The Gaza Energy Authority estimates that the electricity deficit will increase by up to 75% without the Gaza power plant.
Gaza-based terrorist teams have introduced explosive balloons from Gaza in recent days. Last night, they introduced rockets to Israel, some of which were intercepted through the Iron Dome. In response, the Israeli Air Force took action opposed to Hamas’ targets and closed Gaza’s main industrial crossing, with the exception of humanitarian aid.
After clashes between Gazans and Israeli forces near the border fence last night, COGAT announced that Israel also ended the Gaza fishing area.
– Aaron Boxerman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that he hopes “other countries” will normalize relations with Israel after the agreement with the United Arab Emirates, and that this will eventually lead to peace with the Palestinians as well.
“This is a historic step that promotes peace with the Arab world, and will eventually promote peace – a real, safe and supervised peace – also with the Palestinians,” Netanyahu said.
A 25-year-old Turk stabbed his 30-year-old friend in Tel Aviv and then stabbed himself, The Hebrew media reports.
It is said to be in a moderate condition, while the type is severely injured.
The couple is a foreign resident of the Neve Sha’anan neighborhood. The suspicion is that the violence provoked an argument between them in a local park.
Paramedics took the two to the hospital and police said there was no violence between them.
Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen said that after the standardization agreement with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman and Sudan may be the following to signal agreements. There are rumors that all 3 are on a complex level of those conversations.
“As a result of this agreement, more agreements will come, either with more Gulf countries or with the Muslim countries of Africa,” Cohen told military radio, according to a translation by news firm Reuters.
“I think Bahrain and Oman are on the agenda. In addition, in my assessment, there is a possibility that there may be a peace agreement with other African countries, the largest of them, Sudan, in the coming year,” he adds. .
The director general of the Ministry of Health, Chezy Levy, signed an order allowing travelers from 20 countries to enter Israel any quarantine, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
All countries are considered “green”, meaning they have low rates of coronavirus infection.
These are Austria, Great Britain, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, New Zealand and Slovenia.
The order is retroactive, which means that whoever has arrived from one of these countries in the last 14 days and is quarantined no longer wants to do so.
The isolation exemption is only in effect if the user has visited any country other than the “green” countries.
Kuwait’s government resources said the country would be the last to normalize with Israel, Reuters news firm reported, bringing up al-Qabas newspaper.
“Kuwait’s position is consistent with its decades-long foreign policy technique for the Palestinian cause, as this is the first Arab problem, and is content with a solution only if that’s what the Palestinians are conforming to,” said one official.
Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry commented on the report.
Bahrain and the Gulf countries, Oman, have welcomed the standardization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and there are symptoms that they will soon stick to this.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry officially showed the opening of the service with the United Arab Emirates and that Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi had met with his Emirati counterpart, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The two ministers “jointly made the decision to identify a direct channel of communication between them, before the signing of the standardization agreement between the two countries, and agreed to meet soon,” he said.
The Israeli army said the object that struck outdoors a space last night in the southern city of Sderot was not a rocket fired from Gaza, as first reported through police, but it was a fragment of an Iron Dome interceptor missile that had been shot down. . Incoming projectile.
“With regard to the report of a rocket attack near a space in Sderot last night, an IDF investigation revealed that it gave the impression of being fragments of an interceptor that had fallen while intercepting rockets fired from the internal Israeli territory of the Gaza Strip,” the army said.
The shrapnel effect slightly injured a 58-year-old man and caused damage to the house, emergency officials said.
– Judah Ari Gross
The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, said Tehran’s connection to the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf will change, following the normalization pact with Israel, according to the Reuters news agency.
“Tehran’s technique towards the United Arab Emirates will change … If something happens in the Persian Gulf region and our national security gets damaged, no matter how small, we will hold the UAE accountable and tolerate it,” Bagheri said.
Mauritania joins several Muslim countries that have welcomed the UNITED Arab Emirates’ resolve to normalize relations with Israel, saying it relies on Abu Dhabi’s “wisdom and judgment,” according to Reuters news agency.
“The United Arab Emirates has absolute sovereignty and general independence in conducting its and assessing the positions it takes in accordance with its national interest and the interests of Arabs and Muslims,” said the United Arab Emirates state news agency, WAM, citing a statement. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mauritania.
Mauritania, a member of the Arab League, maintained complete diplomacy with the Jewish state until its dissolution in 2009, due to Operation Hardened Lead in Gaza.
The new rules on public gatherings, passed on Friday, came into force at 2 p.m.
According to the new rules, meetings in the spaces are limited to 30 people.
In indoor spaces of less than 80 square meters (860 square feet), meetings are limited to 10 other people. In larger spaces, another 20 people are allowed.
In any given that is a place of worship or a restaurant, larger meetings are allowed, provided there is no more than one user of 7 square meters (75 square feet).
These are the regulations of all public spaces that have been forced to close.
The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that the service has begun with Israel.
A ministry spokeswoman said Israel’s foreign minister Gabi Ashkenazi spoke by phone with his Emirati counterpart, Abdullah bin Zayed, to restart direct service.
During the appeal, the two ministers pledged to put the standardization agreement into force, he said.
– Hend Al Otaiba (@hend_mana) 16 August 2020
Telephone service between the United Arab Emirates and Israel is beginning to operate as the two countries open diplomatically as a component of a agreement negotiated across the United States that has forced Israel to freeze its plans to annex parts of the West Bank.
Associated Press journalists in Jerusalem and Dubai were to call themselves from landlines and mobile phones registered with Israeli country code ‘972.
Israel’s Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel praises the UAE government for blocking calls.
“Many economic opportunities will now open up, and these confidence-building measures are a step in selling the interests of both countries,” Hendel said in a statement.
UAE officials did not recognize that the lines had begun operations.
In the United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven sheikhs from the Arabian Peninsula sometimes conveyed a message recorded in Arabic and English, before today, saying that calls to 972 numbers may simply not be connected. The arrival of online calls has allowed others to circumvent the ban, although those calls have also been interrupted.
Some in Israel used Palestinian cell phone numbers with 970 numbers, which those in the United Arab Emirates can simply call.
Meanwhile, Israeli news websites that had in the past been blocked by UAE authorities, adding the Times of Israel, can now be accessed without means to circumvent Internet filtering in the United Arab Emirates.
The connection of the service represents the first concrete signal of the agreement between the Emirati and the Israelis.
– with AP
An incendiary balloon was discovered in a personal garden in the southern city of Beersheba, police said.
Officers and a sapper were called in and neutralized the alleged explosive device, introduced through terrorists in the Gaza Strip, according to police.
No injuries or property were reported.