The Times of Israel reported on Thursday’s occasions as they unfolded.
The Knesset is celebrating a commemorative rite to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin through a Jewish extremist.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked taunts from lawmakers after claiming there were calls to assassinate him and his family.
“Twenty-five years after Rabin’s assassination, there is an incentive to assassinate the prime minister and his family, and hardly anyone says anything,” Netanyahu said, mocking some lawmakers who listen. “We will not have to settle for incitement from anyone. Side, any community. Not the Jews, not the Arabs, not the rulers.
The Prime Minister also said that political violence should be condemned everywhere.
“We will have to condemn all the destructive effects of incitement and strongly condemn the real manifestations of political violence in any field. A flurry of gunfire wasn’t and won’t be a replacement for an urn,” Netanyahu says.
“Democracy is based on the fact that the media is not the subject of a single voice,” the Prime Minister continues. “It’s the greatness of social media. They make a vital contribution to democracy, but even then there will not have to be incitement to murder and violence anywhere. An atmosphere of silence for parties to political conflict is also a danger to a relaxed society.
The guard dog Ir Amim reports that 2020 has already set a new annual record in the number of demolitions of Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem, with 129 demolished between January and October.
Since the supervisory body began collecting knowledge in 2000, the previous record was in 2016, when 123 homes were demolished in the year.
The municipality stated that it was simply enforcing legislation that opposes the illegal structure. Palestinian citizens of the capital have long said that they do not yet have an option to build illegally, as few structures are allowed in their neighborhoods.
According to Ir Amim, detailed plans for more than 21,000 housing sets in Jerusalem were advanced in 2019, but less than 8% were in Palestinian neighborhoods, even though Palestinians account for 38% of the capital’s population.
“The death toll from space demolitions that occur in particular at the time of the coronavirus crisis shows the government’s priority: even a pandemic prevents it from emitting and causing space demolitions,” said Aviv Tatarsky, an Ir Amim researcher. in a prayer.
– Aaron Boxerman
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A Saudi man stabs and wounds a guard at the French consulate in the city of Jiddah, the government says, as France urges its kingdom’s citizens to be “on high alert. “
The Saudi news firm did not provide an immediate reason for the attack in the Red Sea port city, however, this comes amid increased tension after an aggressor beheaded a French school teacher who appeared in caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad for a course on freedom of expression. they were published through Charlie Hebdo and quoted through the men who shot dead at the newspaper’s editorial assembly in 2015.
The report through the Saudi News Agency, which mentions police spokesman Major Mohammed al-Ghamdi, says the diplomatic security working group was able to arrest the Saudi. The guard was transferred to a hospital for treatment, according to the agency.
The report is not detailed. A issued through the French embassy in Riyadh reflected the main points of the news agency’s report, saying the diplomatic project condemned the “unjustified” attack.
“We call on our compatriots in Saudi Arabia to be on high alert,” he said.
In Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s holiest sites, there have been complaints from France even more deaf than in other countries. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry said the kingdom “rejects any attempt to link Islam and terrorism, and denounces the prophet’s offensive caricatures. “the clerics also condemned the cartoons, but also cited the prophet’s “mercy, justice, tolerance. “Another prominent sheikh asked Muslims not to overreact.
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London.
Keir Starmer, who has been leading the party since April, says he accepts the report in its entirety and will put the recommendations into effect immediately.
“This is a day of misfortune for the Labour Party. We have let down the Jewish people, our members, our supporters and the British public,” he added.
– AFP
Israel and Italy have reached an agreement for Rome to provide the Jewish state with doses of a coronavirus vaccine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
The agreement reached when Chancellor Gabi Ashkenazi welcomes his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio for talks in Jerusalem.
“I thank the Italian government for its agreement to move doses of a coronavirus vaccine to Israel and I hope that we can renew cross-country tourism soon,” Ashkenazi said in a statement from his office.
Italian biotech company ReiThera has recently unveiled a COVID-19 vaccine.
Ashkenazi and Di Maio signed cooperation agreements on education and culture.
Dozens of Israeli Arabs demonstrate outdoors at the French embassy in Tel Aviv to protest against statements by French President Emmanuel Macron that protect the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Macron made his comments after the beheading of French instructor Samuel Paty through an 18-year-old Muslim extremist angry about paty’s use of cartoons in a loose speech class.
Visual representations of Muhammad are strictly prohibited in schools of maximum Islamic law.
The demonstration in Tel Aviv organized through the Islamic Movement. The leader of the Movement, Hamad Abu Daabis, can be noticed among the protesters, as well as Joint List deputies Mansour Abbas, Walid Taha and Saeed al-Kharumi.
– Aaron Boxerman
PARIS – France has raised its alert at the national point after a guy with a knife killed three other people in a church in the city of Nice in the third obvious jihadist attack in just over a month.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex said today’s attack, in which at least one victim was slit, was “as cowardly as it was barbaric” and told Parliament that he had to take Vigipirate’s security alert formula to the highest level, an “emergency attack. “Level.
– AFP
Israeli and Lebanese negotiators are concluding a moment of talks on the maritime border, according to the Israeli government.
Negotiations, negotiated through the United States and the United Nations, are taking place at UNIFIL headquarters in the southern Lebanon city of Naqoura.
The parties met yesterday.
– Ofir Gendelman (@ofirgendelman) October 29, 2020
President Reuven Rivlin condemns a fatal knife attack in the French city of Nice and expresses his condolences to the families of the victims.
“Our center is with France,” he wrote on Twitter, in French for “our center is with France. “
– Reuven Rivlin (@PresidentRuvi) October 29, 2020
ISTANBUL – Turkey strongly condemns today’s “wild” knife attack in Nice, which left 3 other people dead and provides “solidarity,” despite a diplomatic regime dispute with France.
“We strongly condemn today’s attack inside the Church of Our Lady of Nice,” said one from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while expressing his condolences to the relatives of the victims.
– AFP
The Labour Party has suspended its former leader Jeremy Corbyn following the publication of a report accusing the Government of anti-Semitic discrimination in its ranks.
“Despite his comments today and not withdrawing them afterwards, the Labour Party suspended Jeremy Corthroughn pending the investigation. He also took the whip off the Parliamentary Labour Party,” a party spokesman said through Sky News.
It is not transparent without delay which comments it refers to, however, Corbyn issued a pre-report reaction.
“An anti-Semitic is an extra anti-Semitic, but the scale of the challenge has also been dramatically overestimated for political reasons through our parties to the party’s internal and external conflict, as well as through many of the media. The mix has harmed the Jews and will never be repeated,” Corthroughn said.
My follow-up to the publication of the EHRC report: “Anti-Semitism is certainly abhorrent, false and responsible . . .
Posted through Jeremy Corthroughn on Thursday, October 29, 2020
TEHERAN, Iran – Coronavirus infections in Iran have set a record of more than 8,000 new cases, according to official figures, after two consecutive days of record pandemic deaths.
The most recent figure of 8,293 infections in a 24-hour era far exceeds the highest number recorded in the past two days before the 6,968 people who tested positive.
The virus has also claimed 399 more deaths in the most affected country in the Middle East, the ministry of fitness said, bringing the total number of patients to 34,113.
Yesterday, Iran reported a record death toll of 415 in a 24-hour period, 69 more than Tuesday’s death toll, which is also a daily record.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani warned last week that his country is facing “a bigger wave of this virus and we will have to fight it. “
The numbers have been popping up since September.
In the 8 months after the first in Iran, a total of 596,941 COVID-19 infections were confirmed.
– AFP
U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces that “effective immediately,” Jerusalem-born U. S. citizens must now sign in Israel as their country of birth on their passports.
In a statement, Pompeo said the policy replaces “consistent” with the city’s popularity as Israel’s capital by U. S. President Donald Trump and the resolve to move the U. S. embassy there, but under pressure that the administration is not taking a position on Jerusalem’s borders.
Islamists have declared war on France, a senior French Jewish official said after the attacks, adding the killing of 3 other people today at a church in Nice.
Gil Taieb, vice president of the CRIF coordination organization of French Jewish communities, commented on the open-air knife attack at Notre-Dame Church in the Mediterranean coastal city.
“The Islamists are warning us!” Taieb wrote on Twitter: “We are a united Islamist barbarism. “
The incidents are due to protests in the Muslim world that oppose a radical anti-Islam action plan promoted by French President Emmanuel Macron, which includes banning schooling in the homes of underground Islamist schools and restricting foreign investment for places of worship, Macron said.
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PARIS – A guy armed with a long knife was arrested today in the town of Lyon in southeastern France while looking to board a tram, a source close to the investigation told the AFP.
The suspect, an Afghan citizen in his 20s wearing classic Afghan clothing, had already been denounced to French intelligence, the source said.
– AFP
Defense Minister Benny Gantz praises an agreement signed with the United States last week, ensuring that Israel has the functions to deal with the threats it faces, a stopover through the United States Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, today.
“The joint statement we signed last week means israel will have the equipment it wants to combat competitive and destabilizing forces, making it an even more effective best friend of the United States and creating the situations for peace to thrive,” Gantz said after a setup with Esper.
Gantz refers to a document they signed in Washington last week, reaffirming America’s commitment to maintaining the qualitative advantage of the Israeli military, the technical term for army superiority in the Middle East.
Esper traveled to Israel today for a brief return from India. During his stopover in Israel, Esper visited an Iron Dome missile defense battery that had recently been produced for the U. S. military through defense contractor Rafael. He and Gantz then held an assembly in Tel Aviv. with the Director General of the Ministry of Defense, Amir Eshel, and the Chief of Staff of the Israel Defence Forces, Aviv Kochavi.
“They talked about the imperative of regional security and stability and confronting Iran,” Gantz’s workplace said.
– Judah Ari Gross
French President Emguyuel Macron promises that “France will not abandon our values” after a guy wielding a knife killed three other people in a church in what he called an “Islamist terrorist attack. “
Macron presented his condolences to the country’s Catholics after the murder and suggested to others of all faiths that they should unsern and not “give in to the spirit of division. “
Macron also said it will slowly increase the number of infantrymen deployed in schools and devout sites from about 3,000 lately to 7,000. French churches have been fiercely attacked by extremists in recent years and today’s murders precede All Saints Day.
– Agencies
Opposition leader Yair Lapid joins the convictions of today’s fatal stabbings in Nice, which the French government has described as a terrorist attack.
– – Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) 29 October 2020
The president of the Jewish Agency, Isaac Herzog, who once led the Labour Party, applauded the British Labour Party’s resolution to former leader Jeremy Corbyn following the publication of a report on anti-Semitism in the ranks of the British opposition party.
Herzog says that as a Labour leader, he invited Corbyn to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
“He never answered me as if he had responded to my request as president of the [Jewish] firm to eliminate anti-Semitism in his party. Contempt and lack of response were evident,” Herzog wrote on Twitter.
He added: “Today’s resolution through the Labour Party is a step to eliminate the affliction of hatred and anti-Semitism in a historic and own party in Britain. This is a step for the global total in suppressing the anti-Semitism of game politics. “
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad tweeted that Muslims had the right to “kill millions of Frenchmen” after a fatal attack in Nice, prompting anger and led Twitter to delete its message.
Three other people were killed in a church in the city of southern France after the attacker slit the throats of at least one of them in what the government was the most recent jihadist attack that shook the country.
Soon after, Mahathir, who was Muslim-majority Malaysian prime minister until his government collapsed in February, introduced an ordinary explosion in a series of tweets.
Referring to the beheading of a French instructor who showed scholars caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, Mahathir says he approves of the attack, but freedom of expression comes with “insulting others. “
“Regardless of professed religion, other people kill,” says the frank 95-year-old man, who in the afterlife has provoked controversy over his comments on Jews and the LGBT community.
“The French in their history have killed millions of other people. Many were Muslims. Muslims have the right to be and kill millions of French for the massacres of the past.
But he adds that “in general, Muslims have implemented the ‘eye for an eye’ law. Not the Muslims. The French shouldn’t. “
Mahathir, who has twice been Malaysia’s prime minister for a total of 24 years, said French President Emmanuel Macron “did not prove civilized,” adding that it was “very primitive. “
“The French will have to teach their other people to respect the emotions of others. Since you have blamed all Muslims and the faith of Muslims for what you did through an angry person, Muslims have the right to punish the French.
“The boycott will compensate for the evils committed through the French during all those years. “
He made no direct reference to the Nice attack.
Their comments generated condemnation, and social media users called them “outrageous” and “shameful. “
Twitter first reported its tweet about the murder of “millions of French” as “glorification of violence,” but did not remove it.
However, soon after, the tweet is deleted.
– AFP
Defense Minister Benny Gantz joins Israeli leaders in condemning today’s fatal knife attack in Nice and sends his “sincere condolences” to the French people.
“The French government has the same right and duty as any government to take any kind of terror that harms innocent civilians. Against extremism and terrorism, cooperation between all countries fighting for peace is needed,” Gantz wrote on Twitter.
PARIS – The kind suspected of killing 3 other people in a church in Nice, southern France, is a 21-year-old Tunisian who arrived in Europe just a few weeks ago, according to sources close to the investigation.
The suspect, known as Brahim Aoussaoui, landed last September on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where he was put into viral quarantine through the government before being released with the order to leave Italian territory.
He arrived in France in early October, to the fountains.
– AFP
The Gaza Strip has reached a new 2,335 active cases of coronavirus, Hamas-led ministry of fitness said.
According to Hamas fitness authorities, the coastal enclave has shown 276 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, a record. Approximately 13% of coronavirus tests were positive, indicating that other infections are likely to spread undetected.
More than 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. After fourteen years of blockade through Israel and Egypt, in addition to the wars between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group, the Gaza Strip is ill-equipped to deal with an epidemic in its own right.
Hamas officials established 2,000 active cases and 250 cases per day as an upper limit for the virus when new cases of open-air coronavirus designated as quarantine centres began to appear in August. They warned that any infection beyond that could pose a serious risk to the Gaza aile. fitness system.
– Aaron Boxerman
Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he will defy the opposition party’s resolution, calling the resolution a “political intervention. “
The resolution to suspend Corbyn comes after the publication of a report accusing the Labour Party of anti-Semitic discrimination in its ranks. In reaction to the report, Corbyn said the scale of anti-Semitism within the party exaggerated for political reasons.
“I have made it clear that those who deny that there has been an anti-Semitism challenge within the Labor Party are wrong,” he said in a statement on Facebook. “It is also undeniable that a false impression has been created. ” on the number of members accused of anti-Semitism, as polls show: this has been overestimated, not the seriousness of the challenge. “
I will vigorously challenge political intervention to suspend me. I have made it clear that those who deny there . . .
Posted through Jeremy Corthroughn on Thursday, October 29, 2020
WASHINGTON – The United States agreed to sell high-end F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates for the benefit of its popularity of Israel, which could simply adjust the regional balance of power, a lawmaker said.
U. S. President Donald Trump’s administration has unofficially handed over a mandatory notification to Congress about the sale, which can simply “significantly adjust the balance of the army in the Gulf and the advantage of the Israeli army,” said Rep. Eliot Engel, a Democrat who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
According to Reuters, the White House told Congress that it planned to send 50 F-35s to the United Arab Emirates.
– with AFP
Prime Minister Netanyahu made a television before the so-called coronavirus closet was gathered to discuss additional relief measures.
He also defended the resolve to impose a blockade last month amid an increase in the number of new instances of COVID-19, and noted the drop in infection rates.
Netanyahu says the coronavirus will remain “here” until a vaccine develops and even after that.
“We’re doing everything we can to open carefully,” he says.
The prime minister also says he will locate locks in spaces with the highest infection rates. In the past, he had refused to enforce local closures in ultra-Orthodox cities as a result of the repression of Haredi politicians, with whom he is aligned.
UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemns today’s attack on the French tourist in the city of Nice, in which a guy with a knife killed three other people in a church.
Guterres “strongly condemns today’s heinous in the Basilica of Our Lady of Nice,” spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
– AFP
Prime Minister Netanyahu is at a news convention on the Trump administration’s plan to sell F-35 poachers to the United Arab Emirates after the White House informed Congress of the planned sale.
“We all oppose a non-unusual risk and perceive it,” Netanyahu said.
He promorated the agreement signed last week, reiterating America’s commitment to ensure the superiority of Israel’s military in the region. Following the agreement, Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz said they would not oppose the proposed sale to the United Arab Emirates, having promised in the past to object.
U. S. President Donald Trump has turned to Twitter to express his opinion about France after a guy wielding a knife killed three other people in an attack on a church in the town of Nice in southern France.
Trump tweeted: “Our hearts are with the French people. America supports our oldest best friend in this fight. These radical Islamic terrorist attacks will have to be prevented immediately. No country, France or any other, can stand it for long!”
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– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2020
The U. S. Treasury Department announces sanctions on 8 entities similar to the sale and acquisition of Iranian petrochemicals.
Sanctioning corporations, founded in Iran, China and Singapore, are accused of facilitating transactions through Triliance Petrochemical Co. Ltd. , which it sanctioned through the Treasury Department this year.
“The Iranian regime benefits from a global network of entities that facilitate Iran’s petrochemical sector,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. “The United States remains committed to targeting any source of income that the Iranian regime uses to finance terrorist equipment and oppress the Iranian people. “
According to the Treasury, Triliance financed and supported the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is designated throughout the United States as a terrorist group.
Tehran, Iran – Iran condemns the knife attack in the French town of Nice that left 3 dead in a church in a “cycle of provocation and violence” that will have to end.
“We strongly condemn today’s terrorist in #Nice,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted in English.
“This vicious developing circle – hate speech, provocations and violence – will have to be replaced by explaining why and explaining why. We will have to recognize that radicalism fuels more radicalism and that peace cannot be achieved with unpleasant provocation.
Zarif includes a verse from the Qur’aan: “And we do not send thee, (O Mohammad), as mercy for the worlds. “
French President Emmanuel Macron has vigorously defended secular values and the right to mock the murder of a French schoolteacher who showed his elegant caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Yesterday, Iranian President Hassan Rohani warned that insulting the Prophet Muhammad can only inspire “violence and bloodshed. “
– AFP
Defense Secretary Benny Gantz issued a message that gave the impression of facing up to tonight’s announcement that the White House had informed Congress that it would sell stealth F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates.
“The United States remains committed to Israel’s security and its qualitative and technological merit in the Middle East,” Gantz wrote on his Twitter account.
He added: “In my meetings with senior U. S. management officials and Defense Secretary Esper, we have been careful to ensure Israel’s security for decades and to continue to do so. “
The Ministry of Health has reported 384 new cases of coronavirus since midnight, bringing the number of infections since the onset of the pandemic to 313,114.
The ministry says there have been seven deaths since midnight, bringing the death toll to 2,508.
The number of active cases is further reduced to 11,164. There are another 440 people in serious condition, adding 191 below the fans. Another 113 Israelis are in moderate condition and the rest have mild or no symptoms.
According to the ministry, so far 22,465 have been made, of which 1. 7% have tested positive.
Commemorative occasions are being held to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
In Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, where Rabin murdered through a Jewish extremist after attending a rally for peace, 25,000 candles are lit to commemorate the last prime minister.
The leading rabbi of Nice said that all synagogues in the city of southern France would be closed after the fatal knife attack.
“Terrorism does not differ between religions and we all feel threatened,” Daniel Teboul told the Thirteenth Channel. “We have taken the decision to close all schools tomorrow. Synagogues will close and koshers will be alerted. “
The Palestinian Authority condemns the resolution that allows Jerusalem-born Americans to include Israel as their birthright in their passports, said a spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
“Jerusalem This is a busy land, the statements of U. S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo are unacceptable and constitute a flagrant violation of the law,” Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said.
– Aaron Boxerman
The coronavirus company is expected to delayed reopening a store for another week than it allows them to reopen on Sunday, according to Hebrew media.
However, the guest houses will probably be able to open next week, Ynet reports.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden released a tweet commemorating the anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
“I joined the Israelis in honoring Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin z”l, 25 years after his assassination,” Biden said. “He led a life in the service of his country and his safety, and gave his life boldly in search of peace, I was revered for calling him a friend.
– Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 29, 2020
A man in his 40s dies after being seriously wounded in a stab wound in Jerusalem’s Talpiot community.
The police are in favor of the assailant.
We don’t think stabbings are terrorism-related.
The Trump administration plans to use revenue from the sale of confiscated fuel to Iranian oil tankers to gain advantages from those suffering from terrorism, officials said Thursday.
In August, the U. S. military seized 1. 1 million barrels of fuel from 4 Iranian tankers bound for Venezuela. Since then, fuel has been sold and authorities say the proceeds will go to a special fund for those affected by state terrorism.
Cash “will now be used much more than either regime, Iran or Venezuela, could have imagined, because it will provide assistance to those suffering from terrorism rather than perpetrators,” says Elliott Abrams, state department’s special representative for Iran and Venezuela.
“Then it’s a justice that’s poetic and tangible,” he adds.
The United States estimates it will be able to get about $40 million from the sale, said Michael Sherwin, acting federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia.
A separate confiscation report from the Ministry of Justice relates to Iranian missiles that were seized from un governed ships in November and February. Authorities say the shipment was intended for militant teams in Yemen.
In addition to confiscation court cases, management also announced opposing sanctions on various oil in Iran.
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The Gaza Strip has reached a new record of 2,335 active cases of coronavirus, according to the Hamas-led Ministry of Health.
According to Hamas fitness officials, the coastal enclave has shown 276 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, a record. About 13% of coronavirus tests have been positive, indicating that other infections are most likely spreading undetected.
More than 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. After fourteen years of blockade through Israel and Egypt, in addition to the wars between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group, the Gaza Strip is ill-equipped to deal with an epidemic in its own right.
Hamas officials established 2,000 active cases and 250 cases per day as an upper limit for the virus when new cases of open-air coronavirus designated as quarantine centres began to appear in August. They warned that any infection beyond that could pose a serious risk to the Gaza aile. fitness system.
– Aaron Boxerman