The Times of Israel blogs about Wednesday’s events as they unfold.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid is holding talks with Major Generals Eyal Zamir and Herzi Halevi, the last two candidates for Israel’s next army leader, according to his office.
According to the PMO, Lapid met with the two for an “in-depth verbal exchange and heard them talk about their worldview of security. “
Zamir is a former Deputy Chief of Staff of the IDF and is currently a tank fellow at the Washington Institute, and Halevi is the current Deputy Chief of Staff.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz is expected to make his resolution in the coming weeks, once he splinters his opinion on the matter.
– יאיר לפיד – Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) August 3, 2022
Hadas Klein, a key prosecution witness in Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial, asked Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to interfere with her from a multitude of threats she received.
“It is the legal responsibility of the state to the witnesses and to allow them to testify freely without tension or fear,” the Thirteenth Channel said, citing Klein’s letter.
Klein, an aide to billionaires Arnon Milchan and James Packer, described in his testimony before the Jerusalem District Court the relentless luxury goods demands that former Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife Sara made for years from their bosses.
A senior criminal official told Israel Radio that female guards suffer from widespread sexual harassment and attacks on all of Israel’s criminals.
“The harassment is almost daily, we communicate about sexual crimes, indecencies, verbal abuse and attempts at sexual assault,” said the official, who added that other women who act in the penal system, such as social workers, face other similar situations.
The officer says prisoners feel they have something to lose and are deterred by sanctions, such as new fees or sending them to solitary confinement.
Keren Barak, a lawyer representing a guard who says he raped a security prisoner at Gilboa prison, told a Knesset panel debating the scandal that it was not a remote case.
“A year after the rape, the security prisoner tried to rape a soldier. Don’t say you didn’t know,” he says.
Barak’s consumer claims that she was part of several “pimp” guards through senior criminal officials in an effort to protect criminals.
EU nuclear coordinator Enrique Mora is due to travel to Austria today for talks with the Iranian delegation as both sides seek to salvage the deal on Tehran’s atomic ambitions.
“On my way to Vienna to talk about the full implementation of the JCPOA,” he tweeted, referring to the 2015 deal to save Tehran from a nuclear bomb.
Negotiations between Iran and world powers, which began in late November 2021 to reintegrate Joe Biden’s America into the deal, have stalled since March.
In late June, Qatar held proximity talks between Tehran and Washington in hopes of getting the process back on track, but those talks failed to make much headway.
In a last-ditch effort, EU foreign policy leader Josep Borrell put forward a compromise proposal last Tuesday and called on the parties to settle for a “dangerous nuclear crisis. “
The Anne Frank House Museum publishes an English edition of 3 videos in which an actress, the young Jewish columnist, describes the last six months of her life, from her arrest to her death in a Nazi concentration camp.
The English edition of “Anne Frank – After the Arrest” will be due out on Thursday, 78 years after the day Anne, her parents, her sister and 4 Jews who were hiding with them in a secret annex of an Amsterdam house were arrested. Two non-Jewish assistants were also arrested.
Members of Frank’s circle of relatives hidden in the annex from July 1942 until his arrest in August 1944 and deportation to concentration camps. Only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived.
After the war, Otto had the diary of his deceased teenage daughter published, and it has since been translated into more than 70 languages. The building housing the secret annex became a museum in 1960.
The videos released earlier Thursday were available in Dutch. They continue where the diary ends, describing what happened to Anne and her circle of relatives after their arrest. Eyewitness accounts provided some of the information.
Iran says it will send a delegation to Vienna to resume talks to revive the worn-out 2015 deal on its nuclear program that has stalled since March.
“From the policy of lifting ruthless sanctions against our country, the Iranian negotiating team headed by Ali Bagheri, the islamic republic’s chief negotiator, will depart for Vienna in a few hours,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a statement.
A joint debate is underway through the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and the Public Safety Committee to discuss the Gilboa criminal scandal, in which senior officials are accused of “supporting” female guards to protect criminals.
MPs blame the criminal service for trying to cover up the scenario after bringing in a guard to testify, who told committee members: “This is a position to work. “
MK Orit Strock of the devoted far-right Zionist party deplores the scenario in which “the terrorists are in a position where they are the guards. “
“Our long arm reaches for them and then puts them in a sumptuous kindergarten,” he says. “What happened to the guards is terrible, but everything that happens there is terrible, beyond those facts. “
Infantry women first claimed in 2018 that they had been forced to have close contact with prisoners as a bargaining chip, leading to harassment and assault, but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid is convening the high-level security cabinet to discuss tensions along the border with the Gaza Strip, according to his office.
Lapid receives a report from senior defense officials regarding the scenario in the south, and cabinet members talk about Israel’s existing evidence and the moves it has taken to protect itself from the imminent risk of an Islamic Jihad attack on the border.
“The prime minister continues to get normal updates on the stage in and around the Gaza Strip and holds briefings several times a day,” the prime minister said.
The Prime Minister’s Office adds that ministers got an update on U. S. -led negotiations with Lebanon over a disputed maritime border.
Members of the Auburn Tiger University basketball team make a stop at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem as part of their trip to Israel.
Yad Vashem President Dani Dayan shares with the Alabama team his reports on his visit to the Civil Rights Trail in the southern United States when he was Israel’s consul general in New York.
“Like my adventure following in the footsteps of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. , their trip today to Yad Vashem is an adventure through history,” dayan says.
“The Holocaust is the representation of the lowest point of humanity, at a time when all morality and justice were lost to an ideology that regarded Jews as subhuman. Today we will have to fight hatred and anti-Semitism in all its forms, to ensure that history can never repeat itself.
Auburn University’s NCAA Division I is on a 10-day tour of Israel.
During the trip, they will play 3 matches: the Israel U-20 national team, an Israeli all-star team and the Israel national team.
English Premier League players will no longer kneel before every game next season, restricting the anti-racist gesture to certain matches, one said.
“We have made the decision to choose meaningful moments to kneel the season to highlight our unity in the face of all the bureaucracy of racism, and in doing so we continue to show solidarity for a non-unusual cause,” the club’s captains said in the Premier League. Announcement of the link. website.
The Premier League said it supported the captains’ resolution and would launch anti-racist messages from their crusade “There is no place for racism”, words that are already up the players’ sleeves.
Premier League players began kneeling at the start of each and every game in June 2020, when the season resumed after a Covid lockdown, a month after the murder in the United States of George Floyd.
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling to protest racial injustice in 2016, and the gesture is familiar in a variety of sports since Floyd’s killing by an American police officer.
Two other people who were arrested and later released after a mob attempt in Tel Aviv are tourists from the United Arab Emirates, the Walla news site reports.
The two men were arrested after shots were fired on Dizengoff Street in central Tel Aviv, in what police called a crime-related incident.
They were temporarily released after it became clear they were not involved in the shooting.
An initial investigation revealed that two suspects on a motorcycle shot a third guy who was in a car on the street.
According to police, he is an infamous criminal.
The Speaker of the U. S. House of RepresentativesU. S. Secretary of State Nancy Pelosi will leave Taiwan, completing a debatable milestone to which Beijing has responded with threats and military exercises.
The 82-year-old lawmaker greeted dignitaries waiting at Taipei’s Songshan Airport before boarding a U. S. military plane that took off at 6 p. m. (10:00 GMT), the broadcasts showed.
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