The Times of Israel records Tuesday’s occasions as they occur.
The Greek Orthodox Church of the United States says it is asking United Nations experts to force Turkey to adhere to the cultural heritage of Orthodox Christianity after the Turkish government’s conversion of Istanbul’s famous Hagia Sophia from museum to mosque.
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America said it suggested to UN special rapporteurs on cultural rights, minority rights, freedom of faith and ideals to hold Turkey accountable “for its policies planned to erase the cultural heritage of Orthodox Christians. “
To a time when he received praise from the Muslim faithful and widespread foreign opposition, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree in July that turned Hagia Sophia into a Muslim prayer house. cathedrals in Christianity and a mosque for centuries, as well as a museum for 86 years.
Erdogan announced last month the resolve to turn the Church of the Holy Savior into Chora, the Byzantine-era church in Istanbul, into a mosque as well.
“By unilaterally converting the status, design and naming of these UNESCO sites, which are of specific importance to Orthodox Christians, Turkey is violating its obligations under foreign law to maintain cultural heritage and respect the political, cultural and Orthodox Christian freedoms in Turkey and abroad,” Christina Hioureas said , attorney of the Archdiocese of America, to the Associated Press in a statement sent by email.
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese “expects the foreign tension of the United Nations, its agencies – UNESCO – and its member states to motivate Turkey to oppose its resolve to convert [World Heritage sites] into mosques. “
– AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to address the 75th United Nations General Assembly in a pre-recorded video message shortly after 12:15 p. m. EST, 7:15 p. m. Israel time.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said the government would lift its lockout restrictions.
“Tomorrow we’ll get to the coronavirus closet with transparent plans,” he told the press. “We will not repeat the mistakes of the past. We will reopen the economy with caution. “
After the first blockade, the government temporarily eased restrictions, prompting cases of coronavirus.
A bipartisan congressional organization announces the launch of an inter-parliamentary working group to combat anti-Semitism.
“While social media posts don’t prevent foreign borders, members of national legislatures in the United States, Australia, Canada, Israel, and the United Kingdom have combined across party lines to shape the coalition,” said Ted Deutch, a member of the Democratic House, he said in a statement.
Deutch will join the working group through Florida Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz, along with Chris Smith and Mario Diaz-Balart of the Republican Party. From outside the United States, Kakhol lavan MP Michal Cotler-Wunsh will constitute Israel, MPs Anthony Housefather and Marty Mortantz will constitute Canada, MPs Josh Burns and Dave Sharma will constitute Australia and MPs Andrew Percy and Alex Sobel will form the United Kingdom.
Deutch said the objectives of the working group would be to “establish coherent messages and policies from parliaments and legislatures around the world to empower social media platforms, adding Twitter, TikTok, Facebook and Google. “
– Jacob Magid
Several incidents related to the anti-Semitic hate speech occurred in Scandinavia over the weekend in what the World Jewish Congress says is a coordinated neo-Nazi in Yom Kippur.
Most incidents in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland on Sunday and Monday involve the flow of anti-Semitic pamphlets, in the form of small signs near Jewish network buildings. There was no violence in any of the incidents.
“In the Northern Region, a city about 70 miles southwest of The Swedish capital of Stockholm, a handful of men from the Nordic Resistance Movement stopped in front of the local Yom Kippur synagogue with flags from their movement,” the Jewish Central Council said. in a statement The Empty Synagogue at that time.
“Jews circumcise their little ones so that rabbis can suck blood from newborns’ penises and, according to the Talmud, can have sex with young people from the age of 3,” said one of the posters noticed at the event.
The World Jewish Congress noting that the effort was “a series of coordinated movements in Yom Kippur aimed at Jews” calls on nations to remain in Finland’s leadership earlier this year “and act temporarily to ban the Nordic Resistance Movement and get rid of its violent propaganda. of our streets.
JTA
The University of Illinois student government includes a call for the disinversion of corporations doing business with Israel as a component of a solution in the Black Lives Matter movement.
The university’s Office of Student Affairs condemns the non-binding resolution, which passed last week from 22 to 11 with seven abstentions.
“It is regrettable that a solution presented to the organization tonight was designed to force academics opposing Israel’s disinversion efforts to vote against aid for the Black Lives Matter movement,” the Office of Student Affairs said in a document signed by Chancellor Robert Jones and five vice-chancellors.
“This solution includes several topics that we can agree on, however, a basic price of this establishment is inclusion, and this solution includes language that we cannot and do not need to support,” he continued.
JTA
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls for “responsible leadership” in a message to mark the death of one millionth in the world of COVID-19.
“Our world has reached an agonizing milestone: the loss of a million lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Guterres said in the statement.
“It’s an astonishing figure. And we still don’t see an end to the virus, the loss of jobs, the interruption of education, the turmoil of our lives,” he continues.
The global “can succeed over this challenge,” Guterres says.
“But we’ll have to be informed of the mistakes. Responsible leadership is important. Science topics. Issues of cooperation, and incorrect information kills,” he warns.
While anger remains the main one in many countries because of social estating measures, Gutteres urges others to stay on course.
“Keep a physical distance. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. A vaccine should be affordable for everyone,” he says.
– AFP
In his next address to the United Nations General Assembly, Benjamin Netanyahu “will amaze Nasrallah with new revelations,” the prime minister said.
Speaking around 12:30 p. m. EST, or 7:30 p. m. Israel time, the prime minister will reveal a new secret about Hezbollah’s activities in Lebanon, a diplomatic official told reporters.
The Indian Serum Institute, the world’s largest vaccine producer, said it would produce two hundred million doses of coronavirus vaccines for upcoming countries.
By August, GAVI Vaccine Alliance had reached an agreement with the bill
This collaboration provides initial capital to the Serum Institute so that once an effective vaccine opposed to COVID-19 is approved, the company can produce large-scale mass injections starting in the first part of 2021.
The Serum Institute has signed production agreements for AstraZeneca and Novovax candidate vaccines. GAVI leads an overseas vaccine plan for low-income countries.
Ap
Armenia claims that a Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down one of its SU-25 fighter jets after taking off from Azerbaijan amid violent clashes in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
“An Armenian SU-25 plane shot down via a Turkish F-16 fighter jet . . . that it stole from Azerbaijani territory,” Armenian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan wrote on Facebook, adding that “the Armenian pilot he died heroically. “
– AFP
French police arrested 29 other people in a capture operation targeting a terrorist financing network for jihadist terrorists in Syria, prosecutors said.
The network, which has been active since 2019, basically operated through the acquisition of cryptocurrency coupons whose references were given to jihadist contacts in Syria and then credited to bitcoin accounts, the anti-terror prosecutor’s workplace said in a statement. .
This way of moving the budget marks a break with past strategies known through French anti-terrorism financing and money laundering services, which basically concerned currency guarantees, he said.
“Constant monitoring of these networks has led terrorist organizations to seek more opacity using cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin,” he said.
– Agencies
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates reiterates his country’s “strong demand” for the creation of a Palestinian state on pre-1967 lines with the capital of East Jerusalem.
UaE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, speaking in a pre-recorded video message, credited the merit of having completed Israel’s plan to annex parts of the West Bank by accepting normalization with the Jewish state.
He hoped that the “historic peace agreement” with Jerusalem would lead to the resumption of israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
“The call to the status quo of an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with applicable foreign resolutions and arab and foreign consensus, will remain a demand from the company,” says Al Nahyan.
“My country has made persistent efforts using all diplomatic channels to assert our general rejection of the annexation of Palestinian territory, and we have warned that it will have an effect everywhere and on the security of the region. “
– Raphaël Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the national blockade aimed at reducing the spread of coronavirus in Israel would likely last “more than a month. “
“And it may take a lot longer,” he adds in a Facebook Live video.
Lately the blockade is expected to take place on October 11, 3 weeks after its introduction.
“I urge all citizens to respect the rules, without exception. We’ll talk about preparing the physical care formula tonight,” Netanyahu said of the closet assembly scheduled for coronavirus.
“People do not perceive the strength of masks. Carrying them internally saves [lives] and wants it done,” he says.
Kuwaiti state media report the death of Kuwait’s head of state, Emir Sabah Al Sabah, after months of public fear of his health.
“It is wonderful and that we tell the Kuwaiti people, Arab and Islamic nations and friendly peoples of the world the death of His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait, who has died to the Lord,” the Royal Court of Kuwait said in a statement.
Emir Sabah died at the age of 91.
It was the emirate of the Persian Gulf for 14 years after ascending to the throne in 2006.
– Aaron Boxerman
Italian Carabinieri arrest a foreign fighter after sending her and her 4 youths back to Italy from a camp for other displaced people in Kurdish-controlled territory.
The woman, Alice Brignoli, traveled in 2015 with her husband of Moroccan origin, Mohamed Koraichi, and their 3 young children by car from their home north of Milan to territory controlled by the Islamic State. Another child born in Syria.
The children, who are now 11, 8, 6 and 4 years old, are in foster care pending a ruling from an Italian juvenile court. Authorities say Brignoli will be tried on charges related to terrorism.
Ap
The Israel Defense Forces have said they will not open their firing levels or Route 10 highway along the Egyptian border to Sukkot festival hikers this year in the interests of the ongoing coronavirus lockdown.
The military regularly opens its educational spaces and roads to visitors to Sukkot and the Easter festival in the spring, but it will not be this year due to pandemic restrictions.
The Israeli military will continue to conduct training at those firing levels and warn hikers to leave the area.
“We have to enter those spaces is a fatal risk,” the army said.
– Judah Ari Gross
Beersheba District Court is allowing the name of a guy who allegedly stabbed his wife causing him serious injury, overturning a decreasing court ruling a few days earlier that gave the suspect anonymity to maintain his reputation while the case is being investigated.
Aviad Moshe, 45, is accused of stabbing his wife, Shira, 20 times and hitting her with a roller before this month on the eve of Rosh Hashaná’s party at his home in the south of the city of Mitzpe Ramon, in the presence of his two-year-old boy.
There was a public outing after the Beersheba Magistrates Court ruled Friday in a hearing to enlarge Moshe’s pre-trial detention that his identity remains hidden, and Judge George Amorai accepted his argument that he would be allowed to remain anonymous.
The head of the Coronavirus Working Group of the Israel Defense Forces, Brigadier General Nissan Davidi, is forced to quarantine the army after coming into contact with a carrier of the disease.
“It will continue with your program as much as possible,” says the IDF.
According to the army, last week, Davidi contacted a reservist who then tested the coronavirus.
“Brick. General Davidi feels good, has no symptoms and will soon be examined,” the IDF said.
– Judah Ari Gross
President Reuven Rivlin responds on Twitter to anti-Semitic graffiti that was sprayed on a Jew’s car in Bristol, UK, during the Yom Kippur festival:
– Reuven Rivlin (@PresidentRuvi) 29 September 2020
Qatar reportedly called on U. S. management officials to interfere with attempts to advance talks to return the bodies of Israeli infantrymen and two recently detained live Israelis through Hamas.
Kan News reports that the United States has not yet responded to the request. The media said they did not know whether the proposal made at Hamas’s request or that he knew, or whether it was an independent initiative of Qatar.
Hamas recently retains the bodies of IDF Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, killed in the 2014 war, as well as civilians Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, two Israelis who entered Gaza on their own.
According to Kan, Palestinian resources say Qatar is interested in advancing stalled negotiations at the expense of Egypt, which has led the case without making much progress.
Despite Qatar’s offer, Hamas would still ask Israel to carry security prisoners as a component of a comprehensive agreement, adding prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment.
A Hamas source quoted through Kan said the terrorist organization had “proposed that Israel first release patients, minors and female prisoners in exchange for Hamas offering data to Israel on whether its captives and missing persons were alive or dead. “
The number of patients in critical condition with coronavirus exceeds the mark of 800 for the first time, a number cited by fitness officials as the maximum number of Israeli hospitals to cope.
According to figures published through the Ministry of Health, the number of critically ill patients with the virus now stands at 811.
Coronavirus tsar Ronni Gamzu warned last week that the country is reaching “emergency” degrees of severe cases, with 800 as a turning point.
Yesterday, however, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israeli hospitals are in a position to treat some 1,500 patients with severe coronavirus until the end of the week, as Israel’s infection rates continue to rise.
Police said they raided a synagogue in the ultra-Orthodox city of Modi’in Illit in the West Bank and arrested five others for violating ministry of fitness regulations restricting public prayer.
The force said there were “dozens of faithful gathered together, dressed in masks and keeping their social distances. “
They say the demonstration was dispersed and five others in the synagogue were arrested.
Deputy Yaakov Tessler of the unified Judaism of the Ultra-Orthodox Tor and a representative of the Bissidic sect of Vizhnitz yesterday denounced the closure of an occasion organized through the leading rabbi of the group.
Police interrupted the mass demonstration in the predominantly ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, which took a position after the Yom Kippur fast.
Videos of the incident showed police escorting the Rebe de Vizhnitz out of the event, which was allegedly attended by many people.
– 29 September 2020 (@kann_news)
Tessler, speaking to Walla News, said that “the occasion was explained in advance only for yeshivot members who have been in combination for about two months in capsule form. “
He says other people who criticize the ultra-Orthodox network are looking for “incitement and taste. “
“There is a terrible lack of awareness here on the net and in the media about capsule activity,” he says.
Russia urges Turkey to paint to end fatal clashes in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, while Ankara has strongly supported Azerbaijan.
Moscow’s call comes after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked Armenia to end its “occupation” of Nagorno-Karabakh and asked Armenia to leave the territory, which worldwide identifies as a component of Azerbaijan.
“We call on all parties, especially spouses like Turkey, to do everything possible for a ceasefire and return to a non-violent agreement on this confrontation by political and diplomatic means,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the press.
“All statements about any form of army and activity certainly add food to the flames. We categorically oppose that.
Armenia has accused Turkey of sending mercenaries to Azerbaijan, its close ally.
– AFP
The Israeli Institute for Biological Research, a laboratory run by the Israeli Ministry of Defense, would conduct a series of overseas-made coronavirus tests that can provide effects in as little as 30 minutes.
According to army radio, the lab is checking the virus verification kits sent by air from abroad to see if Israel deserves to buy one of them en masse.
The UK Guardian reports that such kits will be deployed worldwide.
There are attempts around the world to reduce check processing times, and the existing minimum would be 90 minutes; However, those checks are sometimes considered a high-end product, basically reserved for hospitals due to their high cost.
In July, Israeli company AID Genomics announced that it had developed a 30-minute coronavirus verification kit and predicted it would be an international detection solution.
Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn of Kakhol Lavan said Likud had “failed” in its efforts to impose limits on protests after the lifting of the existing national coronavirus blockade.
The Greek Orthodox Church of the United States says it is asking United Nations experts to force Turkey to adhere to the cultural heritage of Orthodox Christianity after the Turkish government’s conversion of Istanbul’s famous Hagia Sophia from museum to mosque.
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America said it suggested to UN special rapporteurs on cultural rights, minority rights, freedom of faith and ideals to hold Turkey accountable “for its policies planned to erase the cultural heritage of Orthodox Christians. “
To a time when he received praise from the Muslim faithful and widespread foreign opposition, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree in July that turned Hagia Sophia into a Muslim prayer house. cathedrals in Christianity and a mosque for centuries, as well as a museum for 86 years.
Erdogan announced last month the resolve to turn the Church of the Holy Savior into Chora, the Byzantine-era church in Istanbul, also into a mosque.
“By unilaterally converting the status, design and naming of these UNESCO sites, which are of specific importance to Orthodox Christians, Turkey is violating its obligations under foreign law to maintain cultural heritage and respect the political, cultural and Orthodox Christian freedoms in Turkey and abroad,” said Christina Hioureas, a lawyer at the Archdiocese of America , to the Associated Press in a statement sent by email.
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese “expects the foreign tension of the United Nations, its agencies – UNESCO – and its member states to motivate Turkey to oppose its resolve to convert [World Heritage sites] into mosques. “
– AFP