The Times of Israel is recording Thursday’s occasions as they occur.
Rambam Medical Center in Haifa and Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva are preparing underground wards for coronaviruses to prepare for a imaginable leap of COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization, Ynet news website reports.
The underground rambam facility, which is located in the hospital car park, will first have 110 beds and can accommodate 770 people.
A member of the hospital said the facility will start operating next week, and patients at their existing coronavirus facilities are expected to be transferred there.
The online news page says Beilinson’s new 206-bed ward is expected to begin receiving patients from the north, where the hospital’s capacity is less to accommodate COVID-19 patients.
MOSCOW – Colleagues of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say a bottle of water with a touch of the nerve agent that Novichok discovered in his hotel room after he poisoned himself.
Navalny became ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow on 20 August and was flown to Germany, where he remained in an induced coma for more than two weeks while being treated with an antidote. Members of his team have accused the Kremlin of being concerned about poisoning, accusations that Russian officials have vehemently denied.
The Kremlin has given in to calls from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other leaders to answer questions about the poisoning, urging Germany to provide evidence of its poisoning.
On Tuesday, Navalny posted an image of himself from his bed at the Berlin Charity Hospital, hugged through his wife and children. “I still can’t do anything on my own, but I controlled myself to breathe all day,” he added in the message.
A video posted on Navalny’s Instagram shows his team running into his hotel room in Tomsk before leaving town and collapsing on a flight back to Moscow.
Navalny’s Instagram said they returned to the room an hour after he became ill, accompanied by a lawyer and packed the bottles and other pieces for additional inspection.
“Two weeks later, a German lab discovered an indication of Novichok in a bottle of Tomsk’s hotel room,” they say. “And then three other labs that took samples of Alexei showed he was poisoned. Now we understand: he did it before he left,” his room to move to the airport.
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The number of patients with COVID-19 in a serious condition has returned to a new record, and the number of coronavirus cases since the onset of the pandemic amounted to 172322.
According to the Ministry of Health, there are 45,488 active cases, with another 579 people in serious condition.
The death toll is 1,163, up from 1,165 reported last night. The ministry doesn’t have the discrepancy.
The Ministry of Health said there have been 1069 new ones since midnight, after 4546 were shown yesterday.
Kiev, Ukraine – Hundreds of Hasidic Jews are still concentrating on the border with Ukraine, and some say they had no purpose of leaving, even though Kiev refused to enter for coronavirus reasons and Israel suggested that they return.
Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews to the central Ukrainian city of Ulaanch, which falls from 18 to 20 September this year, every new Jewish year to make a stop at the tomb of Rabbi Nahman, the founder of the Wroclaw Hasysidic movement.
The believers left for Ouman this year even though the governments of Ukraine and Israel last month had suggested that they should not do so because of the pandemic.
Speaking to the AFP from the Ukraine-Belarus border, one of the ultra-Orthodox pilgrims, Itsik Cohen, said believers awaited divine intervention.
“I hope and pray that they will open the borders, that we may have the privilege of being with our rabbi, God willing,” said Cohen, an Israeli Wroclaw Hasid of Jerusalem.
“We in God, and God willing, will have to do all we can to show our determination, at the last minute.
The Ukrainian government says the stage hasn’t changed since Monday, when crowds of believers began piling up on Ukraine’s closed border and pilgrims were still refusing to leave.
“Dance, sing, pray,” said Ukrainian border guard spokesman Andriy Demchenko, AFP.
He says some 1,000 pilgrims stay between the border crossings of Belarus and Ukraine, while more people are in Belarus.
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LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warns that the government will have to impose stricter measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 and “protect” Christmas holidays as the government prepares to introduce more difficult measures in the north-east of England.
Johnson’s comments are amid reports that the government is imposing 10 p. m. curfew in pubs and restaurants in reaction to a recent accumulation of cases shown of coronavirus. Local officials have now called for more restrictions to save you a stricter closure later.
Johnson writes in an article published in The Sun newspaper that the only way to make sure the country can enjoy the winter break “is to be difficult now. “
He says he “will avoid the thrust, avoid overturning, avoid the camel’s moment of blow, flatten the moment of blow. “
Over the next two days, opposition lawmakers had criticized Johnson’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis and accused his government of not having a coherent plan to deal with a momentary wave of the pandemic. The scarcity of testing capacity is of particular concern, and the citizens of the country complain that they were unable to make appointments for testing or to be referred to test centres from their homes.
Widespread testing is thought to be essential for the spread of the virus, as it allows other inflamed people to isolate themselves while helping fitness officials identify hot spots and insinuate other inflamed people.
Daily infection rates have reached levels that have not been noticed since last May, forcing the UK government to impose limits on public meetings.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Israel and Dubai diamond exchanges announce that they have reached an agreement to bring trade to life, just days after Israel signed historic agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at Home Blanche to normalize their relations.
With agreements negotiated across the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Israel are making their non-violent economic relations public for the first time. The United Arab Emirates announced the end of its boycott of Israel last month, allowing industry to stand between the rich, oil-rich Emirates and Israel. Emirati and Israeli banks and study companies have already rushed to point out agreements.
Once the world’s most giant diamond sales hub, Israel remains a leading leader in the giant diamond industry and is home to a booming high-tech sector. Dubai, a regional monetary center, is also home to an emerging diamond industry. from an export industry from $3. 6 billion in 2003 to $23 billion in 2019.
The Israel Diamond Exchange will open one in Dubai, while the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, a loose economic zone, will be installed in Ramat Gan, Israel, the base of the Israeli inventory exchange.
Ahmed Bin Sulayem, director of DMCC and president of Dubai Diamond Exchange, said he is excited about the economic benefits for both sides and said the deal will “attract business to the emirate and encourage regional and foreign industry in this gem. “
Yoram Dvash, director of Israeli diamond exchange, praises Dubai’s flexible economic zones and “practical” conditions.
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The Israeli government arrested a East Jerusalem who, according to Shin Bet security services, had spied on Hezbollah.
Last month, the Shin Bet arrested Yasmin Jaber, a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem who works for the National Library of the Hebrew University, for running for the Lebanese terrorist group.
The Shin Bet states that Jaber recruited at a foreign “youth conference” in Lebanon in 2015, which Hezbollah took advantage of to locate and recruit Israeli Arabs as agents.
Since being recruited through the Lebanese terrorist group, Jaber has communicated with his official Hezbollah secret messages on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, according to Shin Bet.
“This shin Bet investigation . . . is the product of a long intelligence operation to locate suspects of being recruited through Hezbollah. This is a step in last year’s counter-terrorism efforts opposed to the Quds force and Hezbollah’s attempts to recruit Israeli Arabs. “a senior Shin Bet official said in a statement.
Earlier this year, Shin Bet accused Beirut Hamoud, an Israeli Arab living in Lebanon, of running to recruit Israeli citizens as members of Iran’s Iran-backed terrorist organization, Hezbollah. Hamoud denied the allegations and said he had just met old friends of his.
The Shin Bet an indictment against Jaber will be published in the coming days.
– Aaron Boxerman
Kiev, Ukraine – Hundreds of Hasidic Jews are still concentrating on the border with Ukraine, and some say they had no purpose of leaving, even though Kiev refused to enter for coronavirus reasons and Israel suggested that they return.
Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews to the central Ukrainian city of Ulaanch, which falls from 18 to 20 September this year, every new Jewish year to make a stop at the tomb of Rabbi Nahman, the founder of the Wroclaw Hasysidic movement.
The believers left for Uman this year even though the governments of Ukraine and Israel last month suggested that they should not do so because of the pandemic.
Speaking to the AFP from the Ukraine-Belarus border, one of the ultra-Orthodox pilgrims, Itsik Cohen, said believers awaited divine intervention.
“I am waiting and praying that they will open the borders, so that we may have the privilege of being with our rabbi, God willing,” said Cohen, an Israeli Wroclaw Hasid of Jerusalem.
“We in God, and God willing, will have to do all we can to show our determination at the last minute.
The Ukrainian government says the stage hasn’t changed since Monday, when crowds of believers began piling up on Ukraine’s closed border and pilgrims were still refusing to leave.
“Dance, sing, pray,” said Ukrainian border guard spokesman Andriy Demchenko, AFP.
He says some 1,000 pilgrims stay between the border crossings of Belarus and Ukraine, while more people are in Belarus.
– AFP