The Times of Israel released Wednesday’s advances as they unfolded.
Two days before Israel enters a three-week blockade, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein warns that time will be needed for infections.
“I tell you honestly, whoever thinks the stage will be encouraging in two weeks is wrong,” Edelstein told the Ynet news site. “We’ll be dealing with those restrictions for a while and, as I said, we can just adjust them more. “
The minister of health also advocates the government’s resolve to close schools a day earlier, on Thursday.
He says tens of thousands of others have been quarantined and thousands have become inflamed in school-related cases, which opened only two weeks ago.
The Knesset rejects a proposal through opposition Yamina MK Bezalel Smotrich to form a commission of inquiry into alleged conflicts of interest through judges and prosecutors.
Only six legislators vote in favour of and oppose the candidacy.
Some coalition parties, Likud and Unified Tora Judaism, are skipping the vote.
Hurricane Sally is hitting the southern coast of the United States, to the National Hurricane Center, hitting Gulf Shores, Alabama.
The Category 2 storm, with sustained winds of up to 165 kilometers consistent with one hour, will likely cause “catastrophic and fatal flooding” in coastal areas, according to the Miami-based center.
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The High Court authorizes the Ministry of Environmental Protection to delay the response to a request for recycling of bottles and cans of beverages.
Since 2001, when the government passed the Beverage Packaging Deposit Act, a refundable amount of NIS 30 30 agorot ($0. 09) has been added to the charge of all glass and plastic beverages and bottles containing one hundred milliliters (3. 4 liquid ounces) to 1. 5 litres. . (1. 6 litres) of drink. The goal is to inspire the public to return used boxes to points of sale, from where they are shipped for recycling.
But larger bottles were exempted, largely due to the tension of ultra-Orthodox equipment and beverage manufacturers.
In December 2019, in response to a petition filed through Adam Teva V’Din, the High Court gave the predecessor of the Minister of Environmental Protection, Gila Gamliel, Minister Ze’ev Elkin, until June 2020, why the Deposit Act deserves not to apply to bottles of more than 1. 5 Elkin asked the court to postpone the reaction period , but on Wednesday the court extended the deadline until October 18.
Gamliel told the Knesset economic committee on Monday that he needed a month to succeed in a resolution that he hoped all parties would continue to live on.
– Sue Surkes
The Hamas terrorist said a founder of his West Bank branch, Ahmad Abu Erra, died of COVID-19.
Abu Erra spent several years in Israeli prisons and was deported to Lebanon after his release, according to the terrorist group.
The Jerusalem Temple Mount will be closed from Friday after an increase in coronavirus cases, says the authority administered by the city’s Muslim saint.
As the virus accumulated in Israel and the West Bank, the Waqf government held an emergency assembly with fitness officials.
Waqf members will “suspend access to the faithful from Friday afternoon (September 18) for an era of 3 weeks. “
“We expect citizens to perform this procedure to maintain their fitness and well-being,” Waqf member Hatem Abdel Qader told AFP.
The closure coincides with a three-week blockade imposed through Israel, which controls entrances to the complex.
The call to prayer will continue in Jerusalem’s Old City, Qader says, while Waqf workers will be able to pray on the site.
The Waqf closed the complex at the beginning of the pandemic in March, when radical closures disrupted devout life in a way noted in centuries.
The Israeli government reported nearly 167,000 cases of coronavirus, with 1,147 deaths.
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The Israeli delegation in Washington for the signing of the peace treaties will be forced to enter in about 40 days, despite attempts to convince fitness officials to renounce the demand, according to the Haaretz.
The report says that Israeli officials, adding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have sought to be absolutely exempt from quarantine. Government policy calls for returning from heavily inflamed countries, adding the United States, to self-isolate for two weeks.
Health has given a shortened era of isolation.
“There were screams, but everyone will stay home until Monday,” an anonymous fitness official told Haaretz.
Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, were not dressed in masks in their meeting with U. S. President Donald Trump, and the prime minister also did not cover his face at the signing ceremony.
Palestinians are now registering 963 new instances of the new coronavirus, bringing their total number of instances to a record 12520 active instances, to the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health.
Health officials check 662 new instances among Palestinians in the West Bank, with the largest known hot spots in Hebron and Ramallah; however, the instances are expanding into controlled spaces through the Palestinian Authority, with dozens of new instances shown in major Palestinian cities such as Nablus. and Jenin.
Another 207 have been shown in Israel-controlled East Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority.
Palestinian Authority Interior Ministry spokesman Ghassan Nimr said the Palestinian Authority would not rule out returning to lockdown if infections continued to increase, but said such measures “have not yet been proposed. “
In Gaza, the fitness government is experiencing 94 new infections, bringing the total number of active coronavirus cases in the coastal enclave to 1728. Sixteen Gazans have been killed by the virus since the pandemic began in March.
Hamas officials warn that Gaza’s fragile fitness formula can be exceeded if the number of active instances exceeds 2,000.
– Aaron Boxerman
More than a thousand Japanese Jewish pilgrims, children, are concentrated on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border after Kiev was denied access due to restrictions on coronaviruses, according to both countries.
Tens of thousands of Jewish Jews every New Year Jew to the city of Uman in central Ukraine to make a stop at the tomb of Rabbi Nahman, the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement.
This year, the Jewish New Year is celebrated from September 18th to 20th.
The pilgrims left this year even though the governments of Ukraine and Israel last month asked the Hasidic Jews not to move to Uman, a city of 80,000 inhabitants.
Kiev has banned foreigners from entering the country until the end of September due to an increase in coronavirus infections.
A spokesman for Ukraine’s border guards, Andriy Demchenko, AFP who “there are about 1,000 people” at the border crossing.
The Belarusian Border Guard Service said another 1,064 people had tried to cross since Monday, adding 242 children.
He says he provides food and hot shops, while pilgrims have complained that they are left bloodless and hungry outdoors.
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The world economy is doing as badly as expected, especially in the United States and China, but it has suffered an unprecedented decline due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a foreign control body.
The Organization for Economic Co-operating and Development says in a report that gross domestic product is expected to fall by 4. 5% this year, less than the 6% decline it predicted in June.
The economy is expected to recover and grow by 5% next year, according to the organization.
However, the OECD notes that its outlook is “subject to great uncertainty” as the pandemic continues and assumes that “sporadic local outbreaks will continue” and that a vaccine will not be available until the end of 2021.
The OECD has revised its forecast for the US economy, expecting a contraction of 3. 8% this year instead of a 7. 3% drop in the previous forecast.
China is expected to be the only country in organizing the 20 hardest economies to grow this year, through 1. 8%, rather than a projected decline in the past of 2. 6%.
The OECD has its forecasts for India, Mexico and South Africa.
The Paris-based organization, which advises evolved countries on economic policy, urges governments not to raise taxes or cut spending next year “to maintain confidence and restrict uncertainty. “We’ll have to maintain the fiscal and financial economy, he says.
Ap
The new coronavirus has killed at least another 936095 people since the outbreak began in China last December, according to an official resource count compiled through AFP at 11:00 GMT on Wednesday.
At least 29,633,590 cases of coronavirus were reported. Of these, at least 19,787,400 are now recovered.
Counts, knowledge collected 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 maximum severity cases.
As of Tuesday, 6,257 new deaths and 296,401 new instances were recorded worldwide. According to the most recent reports, the countries with the highest number of new deaths were India with 1,290 new deaths, followed by the United States with 1,250 and Brazil with 1,113.
The United States is the most affected country with 195,961 deaths out of 6,606,674 cases. At least 2,495,127 others have been declared recovered.
After the United States, the countries most affected are Brazil with 133,119 deaths of 4,382,263 Array India with 82,066 deaths of 5,020,359 Array Mexico with 71,678 deaths out of 676,487 and the United Kingdom with 41,664 deaths from 374,228 Array
The country with the number of deaths relative to its population is Peru with 94 deaths consisting of 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Belgium with 86, Spain 64, Bolivia 64 and Chile with 63.
China, Hong Kong and Macau have so far reported 85,214 cases (12 new cases since Tuesday), adding 4,634 deaths and 80,437 cures.
Latin America and the Caribbean has 314,495 deaths of 8,403,067 Array Europe 222,734 deaths of 4,614,184 infections, United States and Canada 205,187 deaths out of 6,745,229 Array Asia 118,964 deaths out of 6,749,832 Array Middle East 40. 832771 deaths of 1,722,231 Array Africa 33,066 deaths of 1,368,342 and Oceania 878 deaths out of 30,713
Due to corrections through the national government or the late publication of the data, the figures updated in the last 24 hours may not accurately correspond to the previous day’s figures.
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The teenage accomplice to the 2015 murder of a circle of Palestinian relatives in the West Bank is sentenced to 3. 5 years in prison.
The suspect, whose call cannot be published because he was a minor at the time of the incident, reached a plea agreement with the state prosecutor’s workplace last May, in which he admitted to making plans for the fireplace at Dawabsha’s house.
According to the conviction, prime suspect Amiram Ben Uliel and the teenage couple had planned to carry out a car attack on Palestinians in revenge for a car shootout a few days earlier in which Israeli civilian Malachy Rosenfeld had died, but the younger couple did not. appear in time at the re-meeting point in July 2015, at which Ben Uliel triggered the incendiary bomb attack.
The prosecutor had asked the court not to sentence the couple to more than five and a half years in prison.
The sentence will deduct the time the teen has already been behind bars: about two and a half years.
The fire in the Duma, one of the greatest brutal acts of Jewish terror in recent years, claimed the lives of Sa’ad and Riham Dawabsha and their 18-month-old son Ali. Five-year-old Ahmed, the only survivor of the war. Attack.
Ben Uliel earlier this week sentenced to three life sentences.
An Italian lawmaker nominated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the Nobel Peace Prize for normalizing Israel with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, according to Channel 13.
U. S. President Donald Trump has been nominated for an award for negotiating the agreements.
Appointments can be made through a small organization and organizations, adding national legislators, heads of state and some foreign institutions. In 2020, the committee won 318 Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize, of which 211 are and 107 are organizations.
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Ukraine’s presidency accuses Belarus of escalating tensions along its shared border after Kiev banned more than 1,000 Japanese Jewish pilgrims from entering due to restrictions related to coronaviruses.
“We call on the Belarusian government to avoid creating more tensions on the border,” a statement said, accusing Belarus of giving pilgrims false hopes that they would be allowed into Ukraine.
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The U. S. federal government has not been able to do so. But it’s not the first time It presents a far-reaching plan to make COVID-19 vaccines lower for all Americans, even though the polls show strong skepticism across the country.
In a report to Congress and an accompanying “playbook” for states and localities, federal fitness agencies and the Department of Defense define complex plans for a vaccination crusade that is scheduled to begin gradually in January or perhaps late. this year, ultimately landing any American who needs a hit. The Pentagon is concerned about vaccine distribution, however civilian fitness personnel will be the one to donate the vaccines.
The crusade is “much larger and more complex than seasonal influenza or vaccine responses related to previous outbreaks,” says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s state manual.
Among the highlights:
For maximum vaccines, other people will want two doses, spaced 21 to 28 days apart. Double-dose vaccines come from the same drug manufacturer. There may be only several vaccines from other approved and available brands.
Vaccination of the American population will not be a race, but a marathon. Initially, the source of available vaccines may be limited and the concentrate will be on protective fitness workers, other essential workers and others from vulnerable groups. The National Academy of Medicine follows the priorities of the first phase, a moment and a third phase would make further vaccination across the country.
The vaccine itself will be released and out-of-pocket patients will not be billed by the vaccine administration, thanks to the billions of dollars in public investment approved by Congress and allocated through the Trump administration.
States and local communities will want to expand express plans to source and distribute vaccines locally, some of which will require special handling, such as refrigeration or freezing. States and cities have one month to submit their plans.
Some of the key parts of the federal plan have already been discussed, but Wednesday’s reports try to put key main points in a comprehensive framework. The distribution is under the auspices of Operation Warp Speed, a White House-backed initiative to make sure millions of doses are in a position to be sent once a vaccine has obtained emergency use approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Several formulations are being completed.
Ap
UNRWA, the UN firm for Palestinian refugees, is in the midst of a currency crisis that could force it to isolate themselves from an already impoverished population of more than five million people, the firm’s director said.
Philippe Lazzarini also warns in an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut that the spread of coronavirus, an economic crisis in Lebanon and a massive budget deficit for UNRWA are exacerbating despair among Palestinian refugees, some of whom will flee the country. Mediterranean country in migrant boats.
UNRWA’s monetary crisis was triggered by the loss of all U. S. investment, its largest donor, in 2018. The United States gave UNRWA $360 million in 2017, but only $60 million in 2018, and nothing last year or so far this year.
U. S. President Donald Trump said in January 2018 that Palestinians will have to resume peace talks with Israel for U. S. help, and has since presented a plan for the confrontation that was rejected through the Palestinians.
“I believe that ceasing our activities in a context where there is such a point of despair, such a point of despair, can only fuel the feeling that Palestinian refugees are being abandoned by the foreign community,” said Lazzarini, who took in March.
Lazzarini says supporting UNRWA “is one of the most productive investments for the stability of the region at a time of ordinary unpredictability and volatility. “
“We can’t let the stage get worse in a very volatile region,” he says.
The Trump administration, along with Israel, accuses UNRWA of perpetuating the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation by extending the prestige of refugees to millions of descendants of Palestinians who fled or were forced to leave their homes in today’s Israel when the Jewish state was created in 1948, which would restrict the prestige of refugees to refugees of origin alone. Fix as is the norm for the world’s maximum refugee populations
– AP, with you staff
An infamous Russian neo-Nazi who carried out self-defense attacks on homosexuals, suspected paedophiles and drug traffickers has been discovered dead in prison, investigators say.
Maxim Martsinkevich, nicknamed “Tesak” or axe of war, is serving a 10-year sentence for attacking others he considered drug dealers.
He led teams of far-right youth and posed with swastikas.
He is the most productive known for a self-defense crusade called “Occupy Pedophilia” that targeted gay men, attracted them to meetings with teenagers, and then filmed attacks against them, adding urine spray.
He also led a crusade against suspected drug traffickers.
“The prisoner’s body was discovered in the morning,” said the Investigative Committee of the Chelyabinsk region of the Urals, where he was arrested, in one that showed the main points in the media but did not call Martsinkevich directly.
“According to initial information, the guy left a note before his death,” the investigators said, adding that they are examining the circumstances.
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A pharmaceutical company says the partial effects of an examination testing the antibody of a drug show that this can help patients with mild COVID-19 sick not have to be hospitalized, a purpose that no existing coronavirus drug has been able to achieve.
Eli Lilly announced the findings in a press release, but they were published or reviewed through independent scientists.
The drug did not achieve the main objective of the study, which was to decrease the number of patients inflamed with the virus after 11 days, amid the 3 doses tested. However, examine participants as much as possible, including those who won placebo therapy. , had eliminated the virus at the time, so it is now too late to make a judgment about this potential benefit, the company said.
Other evidence that the drug reduced the virus before and the effects are an encouraging “principle test” as this and other studies continue, Lilly said.
The company said it would talk about the next steps imaginable with regulators, but that it was too early to speculate that such interim effects may lead to stocks for early use.
“I feel very encouraged” through the results, says Dr. Myron Cohen, virologist at the University of North Carolina. He played no role in Lilly’s study, but is helping direct antibody studies for a public-private studies organization formed through the federal government to speed up testing of those drugs.
“It turns out it shows what we think,” said that these drugs would be beneficial,” he said.
Antibodies are proteins that the framework produces when an infection occurs; adhere to a virus and contribute to its elimination. Survivors’ blood is tested as a remedy for patients with COVID-19 because it contains such antibodies, however, the strength and types of antibodies vary by donor, and this on a giant scale is not practical.
The drugs Lilly and other corporations are testing are concentrated versions of express antibodies that oppose coronavirus in laboratory and animal tests, and can be manufactured in giant standardized doses.
They are tested to treat newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients in the hope of preventing serious illness or death, and to verify that they do not become infected in high-risk people, such as retirement home citizens and fitness workers.
Wednesday’s effects came across 450 other people on a mid-term test that tests an antibody developed jointly through Indianapolis-based Lilly and Canadian company AbCellera, in others whose coVID-19 symptoms are not severe enough to justify hospitalization. and has been tested in 3 doses. Neither patients nor their doctors knew which patients had won the drug or placebo infusions.
Ap
Lebanese politicians did not meet a 15-day deadline to shape a crisis cabinet, many of them remaining at a s certain point where the political faction obtains the key portfolio of the Ministry of Finance.
The deadline set as a component of a French initiative through President Emmanuel Macron that emphasized Lebanon’s leaders to shape a cabinet of experts capable of implementing urgent reforms to pull the country out of a devastating economic and monetary crisis.
The crisis was aggravated by the August 4 explosion in Beirut Harbor, caused by the explosion of thousands of tons of ammonium nitrates, which killed about two hundred more people, injured thousands of people and caused billions of dollars of losses.
The French leader called his initiative, which includes a roadmap and a timetable for reforms, “the last of this system”.
While they first committed to the plan and appointed a new appointed prime minister who promised to create a closet in two weeks, Lebanese politicians were unable to meet the deadline due to divisions over the initiative itself and how government training takes place. away from the same old consultations and horses of investors between political factions.
Ap
Defense Minister Benny Gantz said he had ordered the army to send another 500 infantrymen from the Israel Defense Forces to impose a national blockade starting Friday.
Reinforcements raise the total number of culprits for enforcing the closure to 1000.
Damascus retaliates against Donald Trump and compares the United States to a “scoundrel” state or a “terrorist group” after the US president said he was seeking to assassinate his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad.
“Trump’s admission to such an extent confirms that the U. S. administration is a rebellious state,” the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement through the state news agency SANA.
“He’s applying the same tactics as terrorist teams, like murder and murder,” he said, a day after Trump made the comments on the Fox morning screen
U. S. President Jim Mattis had opposed Assad’s assassination in 2017.
“I’d have to get him out. I had it all set,” Trump said.
“Mattis didn’t need to. Matt’s an exaggerated general and I let him go.
Trump contemplates the possibility of assassinating Assad after the Syrian president allegedly launched a chemical attack on civilians.
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Two left-wing Jewish teams accuse Donald Trump’s presidential crusade of anti-Semitism for an ad featuring Bernie Sanders holding Joe Biden as a puppet.
According to screenshots posted on Twitter, Biden swings like a yarn puppet wrapped in Sanders’ hands with the legend “Joe Biden: The Radical Left Puppet”. Sanders, who challenged Biden left-wing in the Democratic presidential primary, is Jewish.
IfNotNow and Bend the Arc claim that the ad perpetuates the anti-Semitic stereotype that Jews unduly move the threads of the world. The accusation that Biden is a far-left puppet is not unusual among Trump supporters, who use photographs of Sanders to illustrate the plot.
“There is a long and harmful history of Jews as scapegoats as omnipotent puppeteers,” Bend the Arc tweeted. “Trump is this anti-Semitic lie to sow concern and division. “
The history of anti-Semitic cartoons has included photographs of Jews as puppeteers. In a 2018 tweet about another cartoon, the Anti-Defamation League wrote, “Even if no anti-Semitic innuendo is foremen expected, calling a Jew a puppeteer who manipulates national occasions perpetuates the #antiSemitic.
Trump also accused Biden of being the puppet of non-Jews. A Trump ad with a similar May theme reads: “Joe Biden: The Chinese Puppet” and features a video of Chinese Prime Minister Xi Jinping declaring Biden and moving his mouth like that of a ventriloquist mannequin.
JTA
In an attempt at overcrowding in Israeli hospitals and accommodating more coronavirus patients, the Ministry of Health announces that 140 patients hospitalized by COVID-19 in 8 hospitals in the northern region and Jerusalem will be transferred to hospitals in the center of the country.
Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva and Soroka Hospital in Beersheba all welcome patients to the ministry.
Patient movement will take place from Friday.
Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch is urging Israelis to comply with blocking rules, warning that virus levels are getting out of hand.
He told the Twelfth Channel in an interview that “if in the end the Israelis seek tactics to thwart and breach [the lock], then we will succeed in our mission. “
“I hope and hope that the public will realize the importance of the moment, that we are attacking a number of viruses that are about to be out of control,” he says.
He says the government “won’t make the mistake we made after the first shutdown” and will lift all restrictions.
Kisch says the rest of the regulations will have the number of infections in 3 weeks.
President Reuven Rivlin will offer a special response tonight at 8:10 p. m. about virus rates and the next shutdown, according to your office.
U. S. President Donald Trump, who is going to convince the electorate that his challenger Joe Biden will inspire violent crimes, retwated a fake video Wednesday that he intended to show the Democrat betting a rap song against the police with raw words.
In the video, which Twitter later described as a “half-manipulated,” Biden steads on a podium, pulls out his mobile phone and tells the audience, “I have one thing to say. “
He then appears to play the 1988 protest song by N. W. A. , the police, and dances with a smile.
After a few seconds, he jokes, “If I had the opinion of one of those people, I would be, I would be elected president by acclamation. “
“China drools,” Trump wrote on the retweet.
The challenge is that Biden didn’t play the N. W. A. Song.
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Iran is urging the UN court to hear its attempt to overturn U. S. nuclear sanctions, saying they are destroying Iran’s economy and “ruining millions of lives. “
The International Court of Justice (CIJ) in The Hague is listening to Tehran and Washington’s arguments this week before deciding that it has jurisdiction over the case.
Iran dragged the United States into the ICJ in 2018 when President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of a landmark deal restricting Iran’s nuclear program and reimposed sanctions.
Tehran’s representative, Hamidreza Oloumiyazdi, told the court through a video convention that sanctions constituted a “flagrant violation” of a 1955 “friendship treaty” between Iran and the United States.
“U. S. measures and the underlying policy of maximum tension take into account the very foundation of foreign law,” says Oloumiyazdi.
He said sanctions were causing “difficulties and suffering,” adding a record drop in Iranian trade, nearly doubling food costs, and “serious” effects on the fitness system.
“All it is now for the U. S. administration is that its actions manage to destroy the Iranian economy and ruin the lives of millions of Iranians,” Oloumiyazdi adds.
The United States suggested that the CIJ dismiss the case on Monday, saying that sanctions have nothing to do with the Friendship Treaty, which predated the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and the breakdown of ties between the two countries.
He argued that the sanctions were due to Iran posing a “serious threat” to foreign security.
Washington officially terminated the Frifinishship Treaty in late 2018 after the CIJ ordered it to ease sanctions on humanitarian assets as an emergency measure while the entire trial is being prosecuted.
A ruling on the jurisdiction of the CIJ, which was put in position after World War II to adjudicate disputes between nations, can take only several months, while a final resolution would take years.
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The owners of several Tel Aviv bars have called their businesses synagogues, protesting the government’s lockdown plans that will prevent all bars and restaurants from operating the closure, while allowing dozens of people to participate in prayers. in synagogues across the country during major festivals.
The Twelfth Canal reports on two Tel Aviv establishments, Kiton and Shishko, which have presented symptoms that point to them as places of worship. The report notes that the two bars lately treat the act as an act of protest and satire and do not plan insurgents opposed to government restrictions at this time – nor do they dismiss it altogether.
Elad Dor, owner of Shishko, told the net, “Do you think it’s moderate to be able to bring another hundred people to a synagogue, and I, who have a place to eat for three hundred other people, can’t let even 30 other people in?Does it make sense to you?
“And is it moderate that supermarkets don’t hold rallies? And retail convenience outlets can open, and they said the Mahane Yehuda [Jerusalem] market could just open? Leave me alone. “
A report from the National Bank of Canada last week indicates that Israel is not doing well in an overall rating of the number of virus cases consistent with the day consistent with millions of people.
The data, based on figures from Johns Hopkins University, give the Jewish state more than twice as many cases consisting of one million inhabitants than the country highest ranked at the time, Spain (435. 6 vs. 208. 3).
Israel is also high in its daily death rating in the last 7 days consistent with millions of inhabitants, he says, taking fourth place in Mexico, Brazil and the United States.
More than a thousand nurses are known to have died internationally from COVID-19, according to the International Council of Nurses, adding that the actual figure is likely to be much higher.
The ICN describes the scenario as “catastrophic” and criticizes governments for not doing enough to protect frontline fitness personnel from the new coronavirus pandemic.
The Geneva Federation brings together more than 130 National Nursing Associations (ANI), representing more than 20 million nurses worldwide.
An ICD survey found that in countries where separate knowledge was available for nurses, more than 1,000 had died as a result of respiratory diseases.
“As of August 14, the cumulative number of COVID-19 deaths reported among nurses in 44 countries was 1,097,” CIE said in a report.
“Since our dataset covers 44 countries where nurse deaths have been recorded, the ICC estimates that this number particularly underestimates the situation. “
According to the most recent figures, there had been 351 COVID-19-related deaths among nurses in Brazil as of August 11, the figure in the knowledge set, and 212 in Mexico.
Moving away from nurses, human rights organization Amnesty International said on 3 September that at least 7,000 people in physical condition of all kinds had died internationally after contracting COVID-19.
The IAD report indicates that there is not yet a systematic global register of nurses and other fitness personnel who have died from the disease.
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The U. S. Department of Justice has accused five Chinese citizens of hacking targeting more than a hundred corporations and establishments in the United States and elsewhere, adding social media and video game corporations, as well as universities and telecommunications providers, officials said.
The five fugitive defendants, although prosecutors say two Bad Businessmen accused of conspiring with alleged hackers to benefit from attacks on video game companies were arrested in the country this week and face extradition.
The accusations announced Wednesday are part of a broader effort through the Trump administration to denounce China’s cybercrime. In July, prosecutors accused hackers of working with the Chinese government to target corporations that are preparing coronavirus vaccines and borrowing a heap of millions of dollars in intellectual assets and secrets from the corporation industry around the world.
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The Islamic Waqf retracted its resolve to close the Al-Aqsa Mosque to prevent it from spreading the coronavirus, saying that Israel intended to allow Jews to continue climbing the Temple Mount, according to a report by the Official Palestinian Authority’s WAFA news agency.
The Temple Mount, one of the holiest places in the world for the 3 Abrahamic religions, has long been a focus of Israeli-Palestinian violence. The domain is administered through the Islamic Waqf, affiliated with the Jordanian authorities; Israel, however, maintains site security.
One source of the Waqf told WAFA: “After knowing that the occupying government intended to open Mughrabi’s door and close the closure so that settlers could simply typhoon in the mosque, we made the decision to keep the doors of the blessed Al-Aqsa mosque open.
“In case the police by profession respect this decision, the mosque will remain open to the faithful,” the source said.
Israeli police may not be able to be contacted for comment.
– Aaron Boxerman
Defense Minister Benny Gantz is threatening Hamas after a burst of rockets launched from Gaza into Israel on Tuesday night.
“If Hamas continues to fire, last night’s retaliation will be the tip of the iceberg,” Gantz said, referring to Israeli retaliatory raids in the Gaza Strip after more than a dozen rockets were fired.
The Israeli delegation to Washington, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, landed in Tel Aviv following the historic signing of the peace agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in the White House.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on arrival in Tel Aviv that new peace agreements are coming between Israel and the states of the region, following the signing of standardization agreements in Washington with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
“We will bring in more peace agreements, but there is no doubt that we already have a massive revolution,” Netanyahu said, according to public channel Kan. “He is intelligent to Israel, intelligent to the region, intelligent to mankind. little thing. “
The government is applying to the High Court of Justice, asking for more time to legislate a contentious bill about ultra-Orthodox recruitment into the military that has been at the center of several coalition crises.
The state cites the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in its implementation, as well as pressing situations that demand security facing the country and diplomatic advances that, it says, make the bill law right now.
This is the seventh time you’ve requested an extension, Channel 12 reports.
Earlier versions of the bill were rejected through the High Court as unconstitutional in a multi-year saga.
The Ministry of Health has recorded more coronavirus deaths since this morning, bringing the national death toll to 1. 3.
He says 2,547 new cases have been diagnosed since then and 5,494 showed up yesterday.
Tests continue to increase, with 57,251 conducted on Tuesday. Almost 10% (9. 8%) of the evidence returned yesterday.
Of the 45,145 active cases, 551 are in serious condition, adding 137 fans, another 235 are in moderate condition, the others with mild or non-existent symptoms.
He said the vast majority of cases shown (4,579) were outdoor spaces marked “red” due to their higher infection rates, indicating that the epidemic has spread across the country.
Mossad leader Yossi Cohen, who played a key role in negotiating peace agreements between Israel and the Gulf states, cautiously predicted that the rite of white space could soon take positions to mark peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
In a rare interview, he told the Twelfth Channel “that there are Gulf countries and Gulf outdoor countries” that they can make peace with Israel.
“I think there may be a scenario like this,” he said when asked directly if Saudi Arabia could be a part of it, “I hope so. “
He laughed and said, “I ask you to answer this,” when asked if he had met with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman.
Coronavirus tsar Ronni Gamzu attributes the sharp increase in cases across the country to the opening of schools on September 1.
According to Channel 12, Gamzu reportedly told a closed-door assembly that while young people are less likely to infect others, those over the age of 10 temporarily spread the disease.
“A 10-year-old boy infects others as an adult,” he said.
He says the next blockage will be effective in reducing infection rates, if it closes schools.
President Reuven Rivlin apologizes to the Israelis for the failure of the government’s reaction to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I know, we haven’t done enough as leaders to deserve your attention. They trusted us and we let them down,” he said in a speech to the nation.
Rivlin says he understands the “disappointment” and “anxiety” Israelis feel about the upcoming shutdown and its conflicting rules.
“I sense and I need to do that,” he says.
He apologizes for his non-public violations of the closing of the Easter final, for which he apologized in the past, as well as for Israeli politicians.
“You have paid a very high price . . . Our synagogues closed on Easter Day. The mosques were closed in Ramadan. To this day, my center is saddened by grieving families who did not make the graves of their loved ones on Remembrance Day. “
“And now, my Fellow Israelis, we are back obliged to pay the price. It’s a maximum price. “
“And from here I mean the government of Israel – its leaders, ministers, and advisers: accepting others as true is worthless. We will have to do everything we can to repair the personal, medical and economic confidence of our citizens. This is a possibility at the moment and we will have to capture it because we will not have, I’m afraid, a third.
It urges Israelis to blame express communities for the pandemic, a reference to epidemics in densely populated Arab and ultra-Orthodox communities.
“We will triumphant with poisonous and sharp accusations. Only together. We were destined to live together, as a percentage of the smart and difficult years, to build and expand this land,” he says.
“My Fellow Israelis, you cannot defeat the coronavirus alone, yet no one can beat it without you. Me in our other people. Me in our ability to prevail. I would like to ask you to do so in the ability of our other friends to succeed. It’s time to stick to the instructions, take care of you and those you enjoyed, join in helping those around you in need. Because we don’t have another land, we don’t have another country, we don’t have other people and we don’t have any other means.
U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insists the U. S. will implement the new “UN. “sanctions on Iran starting next week, despite an overwhelming consensus that Washington is off limits.
“America will do what it does. He will make his component within the framework of his daily work to achieve peace, this time in the Middle East,” Pompeo said at a joint press conference with British Chancellor Dominic Raab.
“We’ll do whatever we want to get those sanctions applied,” he said.
Last month, Pompeo came to the United Nations to announce the “resumption” of sanctions, a 2015 Security Council solution after failed to achieve a larger embargo on traditional arms sales to Iran.
The solution that any player in a nuclear deal with Iran negotiated under former President Barack Obama to re-impose sanctions, which would come into force a month later.
Sanctions are through a “valid UN Security Council resolution,” Pompeo says.
Trump has already imposed extensive unilateral US sanctions opposing Iran, which has had a major impact in the pursuit of reducing the regional influence of the clerical state.
The United Nations has made it transparent that re-imposing UN sanctions, and thirteen of the 15 Security Council countries oppose the US decision.
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In a rare interview with Channel 12, Yossi Cohen, the head of the Mossad intelligence agency, describes the multi-year procedure that led to the status quo of the ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
He says peace agreements with Gulf countries “break Israel’s glass ceiling a little” with Arab states. “There have been years of contacts that have been treated very gently,” he says.
“At the end of the day, it seems that magic works in the blink of an eye, however, the fact is that I’m not acting alone, many other people in my organization have worked on it for years, Cohen says. He says it’s a “good opportunity” to thank the dark Mossad agents who worked on the scenes to get there.
“It’s a dream, it’s a dream,” he says of agreements, “it’s an exciting thing. “
At the White House, “I sat in the audience, looked around and said, “Is this happening?””.
Cohen predicts that other countries will forge and forge ties with Jerusalem, including, perhaps, Saudi Arabia.
Mossad leader and interviewer Dana Weiss also pokes fun at the failed Mossad intelligence operation in Dubai, in which it assassinated Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
Cohen mentions occasions that occurred, “according to foreign reports,” that had to be fixed with Abu Dhabi.
“I guess it’s a safe hotel you haven’t returned to,” Weiss says.
“It may just be,” Cohen replies with a smile.
The White House press official declined to comment on reports that members had tested positive for coronavirus, a day after the historic signing of the peace treaties between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
“I don’t make a percentage of people’s non-public medical information,” Kayleigh McEnany said at a news conference.
“I’ve noticed the stories there, once again, I’m not here to give non-public identities to people. In the past, when discussing a case, that user’s call unfortunately leaked to the media,” he adds.
In Tuesday’s rite, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U. S. President Donald Trump, as well as foreign ministers from Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, none of them wearing face masks. The occasion attracted a lot of people.
The factor arises amid a Twitter report that the White House has been infected.
– Raquel Kr-heb-hl (@Rkrahenbuhl) September 16, 2020
An IDF soldier was moderately wounded before training day, according to the army.
The soldier fell during training in central Israel and was hospitalized.
The incident will be investigated, to the military.
A pharmaceutical company says the partial effects of an examination that tests a drug antibody show that this can help patients with mild COVID-19 sick not have to be hospitalized, a purpose that no existing coronavirus medication has been able to achieve.
Eli Lilly announced the findings in a press release, but they were published or reviewed through independent scientists.
The drug did not achieve the main objective of the study, which was to decrease the number of patients inflamed with the virus after 11 days, amid the 3 doses tested. However, examine participants as much as possible, including those who won placebo therapy. , had eliminated the virus at the time, so it is now too late to make a judgment about this potential benefit, the company said.
Other evidence that the drug reduced the virus before and the effects are an encouraging “principle test” as this and other studies continue, Lilly said.
The company said it would talk about the next steps imaginable with regulators, but that it was too early to speculate that such interim effects may lead to stocks for early use.
“I feel very encouraged” through the results, says Dr. Myron Cohen, virologist at the University of North Carolina. He played no role in Lilly’s study, but is helping direct antibody studies for a public-private studies organization formed through the federal government to speed up testing of those drugs.
“It turns out it shows what we think,” said that these drugs would be beneficial,” he said.
Antibodies are proteins that the framework produces when an infection occurs; adhere to a virus and contribute to its elimination. Survivors’ blood is tested as a remedy for patients with COVID-19 because it contains such antibodies, however, the strength and types of antibodies vary by donor, and this on a giant scale is not practical.
The drugs Lilly and other corporations are testing are concentrated versions of express antibodies that oppose coronavirus in laboratory and animal tests, and can be manufactured in giant standardized doses.
They are tested to treat newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients in the hope of preventing serious illness or death, and to verify that they do not become infected in high-risk people, such as retirement home citizens and fitness workers.
Wednesday’s effects came from 450 other people on a mid-term test that tests an antibody developed jointly through Indianapolis-based Lilly and Canadian company AbCellera, in others with COVID-19 symptoms that were not severe enough to justify hospitalization. and has been tested in 3 doses. Neither patients nor their doctors knew which patients had won the drug or placebo infusions.
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