The Times of Israel published Thursday’s occasions as they unfolded.
Iran claims to have seized a shipment from the United Arab Emirates and summoned the envoy from the United Arab Emirates after two of its fishermen were shot in an incident in the Gulf.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the ship seized Monday after the Coast Guard of the United Arab Emirates “opened fire on several Iranian fishing boats Array …resulting in the deaths of two fishermen,” he added that he had called the UAE business rate to protest.
– AFP
Devices with incendiary balloons introduced from the Gaza Strip have 16 chimneys in the south since the morning, according to chimney and rescue service.
One of the firefighters indicated that most of the fires were small and did not represent any danger.
LONDON – The European workplace of the World Health Organization said it had started talks with Russia to verify and obtain more data on the coronavirus vaccine that Russia obtained last week before the vaccine passed the complex tests needed to prove its effectiveness.
Catherine Smallwood, WHO’s emergency official in Europe, said that “this fear we have about protection and efficacy relates in particular to the Russian vaccine, but all vaccines are in development.”
It acknowledges that the WHO is taking a “push approach” to drive the progression of coronavirus vaccines, but states that “it is not about cutting costs in terms of protection or efficacy.”
Smallwood says WHO has begun “direct discussions” with Russia and that WHO officials have shared “the steps and data that will be needed for WHO to conduct assessments.”
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Police are preparing to leave an open-air protest camp blank from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official apartment in Jerusalem before a demonstration planned tonight through supporters of the prime minister.
The protesters, who have called for Netanyahu’s resignation on charges of corruption and management of the coronavirus pandemic, reject police situations to leave blank and say they do not aim to leave without a fight, according to Haaretz.
Talks are reportedly taking place between the parties to reach an agreement.
Regular protests opposing Netanyahu have taken a stand in recent months outside the prime minister’s residence, with the highest stake on Saturday nights.
Eight protesters calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resignation chained themselves to a fence outside his official apartment in Jerusalem.
Police said thousands of pro-Netanyahu protesters would be in central Jerusalem this afternoon and asked protesters in an anti-Netanyahu camp to leave, which they refuse to do, or to be forced by force.
Former Shin Bet director Carmi Gilon, who joined the anti-Netanyahu protest today, says he is in a position to be arrested, allowing the camp to be dispersed.
– Aaron Boxerman
Border police show a video of the new laser formula “Lahav Gold” intercepting incendiary elements transported through balloons introduced into Israel from the Gaza Strip.
Yesterday, the formula shot down 32 balloons with incendiary objects and explosives.A border police source reportedly told public broadcaster Kan that the formula had an intercept rate of 90%.
– August 20, @kann_news, 2020
Police began forcing anti-Netanyahu protesters outside the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem so that a demonstration through right-wing Netanyahu supporters can take a position there later in the day.Some of the protesters appear to have been arrested.
Police say it has closed parts of gaza streets, Arlozorov and Keren HaYesod, such as the Paris Circle, so that the demonstration may take place in Netanyahu’s favour.Agron and King George streets are also expected to be closed due to the number of protesters.increases at night.
Former Shin Bet director Carmi Gilon married retired brigadier General Amir Haskel and refused to leave.
“We tried to communicate with the police, we listened to each other, but there was no progress,” Gilon told the Times of Israel.”I am in a position to be arrested to protect my right to protest, which is a sacred right.”to me.”
Amir Haskel told the Times of Israel that police had told them in the past that they would not have to leave, so the pro-Netanyahu demonstration could take place.The pro-Netanyahu protest camp has never been invited to do so, protests opposed to the prime minister.
“This is a clash between your right to protest and our right to protest.It’s his right, like ours,” Haskel says. We’ve been protesting here for over two months.Have we ever asked the [pro-Netanyahu protesters] to pick up their tents here?»
In a statement, Jerusalem police said they were “evacuating” the anti-Netanyahu protest tent, but that they were “simply moving it several meters so that the other demonstration could take place.”Police said they had informed protesters that the anti-Netanyahu protest The tent can be rebuilt from the beginning of protesters supporting the prime minister.
“Israeli police decisions are purely professional.They aim to maintain the protection of protesters and prevent friction between the parties as much as possible,” police said.
– Aaron Boxerman
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit urges prosecutors to prepare to record a request for the High Court of Justice to hold a hearing on its ruling to prohibit the army from demolishing the space of a Palestinian accused of killing an Israeli soldier.
An official from the Ministry of Justice said the application would be filed with the High Court in the coming days.
Earlier this month, the court barred the Israel Defense Forces from demolishing the space of Nazmi Abu Bakr, who is accused of killing 21-year-old Sergeant Amit Ben-Ygal, throwing a brick at him while the soldier was taking part in an operation in Yabed village in the West Bank.
The resolution to request another hearing comes after ben-Ygal’s politicians and family circle criticize the resolution.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz welcomed Mandelblit’s decision.
“The demolition of houses as a deterrent is a tool in the war on terror and I hope that the High Court will approve the application and take the position of the security establishment,” Gantz tweeted.
The border guard, who was wounded in a knife attack this week, is being discharged from the surgical room where he was treated at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem on Mount Scopus, according to the hospital.
“The condition of the guard is good. He’s recovering from his injury and it looks like he’ll be back in action quickly,” the hospital said.
The border police officer was stabbed in the chest Monday night in the capital’s Old City, and his assailant was shot at the site.
– Judah Ari Gross
President Reuven Rivlin has held talks in recent days with coalition party leaders, adding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz in an effort to save him additional elections, the president said.
Rivlin met with Netanyahu and UTJ leader (United Tor Judaism) Yaakov Litzman, and spoke by phone with Gantz, Shas Aryeh Deri leader and UN 2 leader Moshe Gafni, according to the statement.
He told politicians that “it is unthinkable that the adoption of the state budget will lead us to a fourth election.”
“While compliance with the agreements is important, while budget approval is in fact the only impediment on the way to avoiding elections, all coalition leaders will have to commit to allowing their adoption,” Rivlin said.
“Public trust in their elected representatives will triumph at an incredibly low point in the run-up to a new election,” the representative added.”After 3 election cycles in less than a year, citizens feel deceived and fearful.
“If we are doomed to move on to any other election, we want to make sure that we pass there transparently, with the public understanding the precise reason.We will have to not allow the budget to be the reason,” Rivlin said, referring to widespread suspicions that Netanyahu would be interested in the election to avoid having to hand over the post of prime minister to Gantz in November 2021.
Police forced former Shin Bet leader Carmi Gillon and retired Air Force General Amir Haskel by force while cleaning an open-air anti-Netanyahu protest camp in the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem.
LONDON – The brother of a suicide bomber who killed 22 other people at an Ariana Grande concert in the British city of Manchester is imprisoned for life for playing “an integral part” of the attack.
Hashem Abedi, 23, was convicted of murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to cause explosions in a trial that ended in March following one of the worst terrorist attacks on British soil.
The bomb attack encouraged by the Jihadist group Islamic State, led by his 22-year-old brother Salman, exploded among a crowd of young people coming out of the concert at manchester Arena.
The youngest victim only 8 years old. Others included parents who had come to pick up their children.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the attack in north-west England “a horrible and cowardly act of violence between young people and families.”
“Those who have been taken from us will never be forgotten, nor will the minds of the other people in Manchester who piled up to send a transparent message to the world that terrorists will never prevail,” he said in a statement.
In court, Judge Jeremy Baker said Abedi would spend a minimum of 55 years in a crime for betting “an integral part” of the prepublished attack.
But he said Abedi may simply not be sentenced to life in prison, making sure he will never be released, because he was under the age of 21 at the time of the crimes.
– AFP
Anwar Gargash, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates, said the ongoing agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalize diplomacy will facilitate Abu Dhabi’s acquisition of F-35 poaches in the United States.
“The F-35, United Arab Emirates has already indicated that it sought out the F-35 six years ago.It’s already on the table. We have valid demands that exist and we will have to obtain them.It is not, in my opinion, that we deserve to obtain them and the total concept of a state of belligerence or war with Israel, so I think it deserves to be easier.But the F-35, as I said, is a request we made six years ago.”Gargash said in an interview with the Washington-based Atlantic Council.
– Aaron Boxerman
NEW YORK – Former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested for defrauding donors along with 3 other donors as part of an online fundraising program “We Build The Wall.”
Fees are contained in an uns sealed in federal court.
Federal prosecutors allege Bannon and three other people “organized a plan to defraud thousands of donors” as part of an online collective funding crusade that raised more than $25 million to build a wall along the southern U.S. border.
A phone in Bannon’s lawyer’s workplace went unanswered this morning and Bannon’s spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.
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BRUSSELS – Belgium is surprised after the appearance of a video featuring a Slovak guy violently caught by airport police in photographs reminiscent of George Floyd’s fate in the United States.
CCTV images, noticed through AFP, date back to February 2018, when Jozef Chovanec took off from a plane in Charleroi, Belgium, after refusing to show his price ticket when boarding.
Chovanec, who died as a result of the incident, was taken to a cell phone where he is noticeable in moving photographs hitting his head opposite the wall until his face bleeds profusely.
It was later noted that several policemen entered the room to handcuff Chovanec.When this fails to calm him down, they return to hold him, one of them sitting on his chest for 16 minutes.
During this shocking sequence, a female officer is seen on her mobile dancing and making a Nazi salute.
Chovanec was then transferred to the hospital where he died the next day, officially from an attack on the center.
According to her legal team, widow Henrieta Chovancova chose to make the video public against her recommendation because she had been frustrated with the investigation, which has been going on for two years.
“Our consumer sought to show those photographs to the world because he didn’t do it in the offender’s investigation,” says Lennert Dierickx, a member of the legal team led through Ann Van De Steen.
“She felt that the case is not taken seriously,” she adds.
Chovanec’s death was compared to the case of George Floyd, who died in May after a police officer knelt on his neck during his arrest in the United States.
“I’m sad, ” said widow Chovancova to the de Morgen newspaper.
“It makes me feel even more like they’re trying to sweep my husband’s death under the carpet, like garbage that had to disappear,” she says.
The video was first reported through Het Laatse Nieuws, a Belgian newspaper.
– AFP
– DH Sports (@ladh) August 19, 2020
Opposition leader Yair Lapid comments on the forced withdrawal of anti-Netanyahu protesters from an open-air protest camp in the prime minister’s apartment before a demonstration organized tonight through supporters of the prime minister.
This begins by erasing the demonstration of any logical claim and continues with the forced permission of a knesset member, former Shin Bet leader and Brigadier General Amir Haskel.All so Bibi can bring some kids to applaud him.are in a war for democracy, ” tweeted Lapid.
Lapid refers to Deputy Yorai Lahav Hertzanu of his yesh atid party, former Shin Bet leader Carmi Gillon and Haskel, all of whom were forced by the force of the camp.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party minister rebukes police for for forcipeling an opposition parliamentarian from an outdoor protest camp in the prime minister’s official apartment in Jerusalem.
“I have a deep ideological war of words with MK [Yorai Lahav Hertzanu] and his party [Yesh Atid] and, of course, I am not sympathetic to the protests in Balfour.But there is no place for behavior like this through Israeli police towards a member of the Knesset and it is absolutely contrary to the immunity of Knesset members,” Ze’ev Elkin writes on Twitter.
– יובל שגב | Yuval Segev (@Segev_Yuval) August 20, 2020
Police have formed a special investigation service to investigate an alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old woman in Eilat through 30 men.
One policewoman said Deputy Commissioner Yoram Sofer, commander of the Southern District, had conducted a stage assessment with details.
Two suspects in their last 20 years in the northern city of Hadera have been arrested.
According to Channel 12 news, one of the suspects denied being involved.
UNITED NATIONS – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is visiting the United Nations to activate a debatable mechanism to re-impose foreign sanctions on Iran, to a debatable extent threatening the iran nuclear deal.
Pompeo will tell the president of the Security Council, recently Indonesia, at 2 p.m.(9 p.m. Israel time), which the United States activates the so-called snapback procedure, which its European allies are ready to challenge.
The move widens the gap between the United States and other permanent members of the Security Council on Iranian policy, which began when President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal with Tehran in 2018.
The procedure, never used before, comes after the United States suffered a humiliating defeat on the Security Council last week when it was not mobilized in search of a solution to enlarge iran’s traditional arms embargo.
The snapback aims to restore all foreign sanctions opposed to Iran that were lifted as a component of the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran in exchange for its acceptance to expand nuclear weapons.
But it also threatens to torpedo the historic agreement that Britain, France and Germany, along with Russia and China, must save.
Pompeo will also discuss the measure with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres at Guterres’s apartment in New York, an assembly at 2:30 p.m.
The most sensible American diplomat is scheduled to hold a brief press at the United Nations at 3:30 p.m.
– AFP
Prime Minister Netanyahu has reiterated that the government is seeking to avoid re-imposing a padlock to involve the coronavirus, as ministers meet to discuss whether to put the great festivities in place.
“In fact, there is a wonderful effort in this to continue the rehabilitation of the economy,” Netanyahu said at the beginning of an assembly of the so-called coronavirus cabinet, according to the Ynet news website.”In fact, it will be similar to the morbidity situation.”
He also reiterated his call for saving new elections, which can be triggered if no agreement is reached between his Likud party and Kakhol lavan before Monday night’s deadline to approve a budget.
“We do everything we can to save [new] elections and move forward,” Netanyahu said.
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s new ambassador to the United Nations, issued a request for support from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to provoke Iran-opposing “return” sanctions during his stopover at UN headquarters later that day.
“If the members of the Security Council do not comply with the sanctions that will be activated, it will be a fatal blow that will destroy the Council’s ability to serve as global peace and security,” Erdan said.
He added: “The foreign network will have to obey the sanctions that will be brought down and not pave the way for a nuclear weapon for Iran’s murderous regime.”
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump denies that there is a supposedly fraudulent fundraising crusade through his arrested former assistant Steve Bannon.
“I don’t know anything about the project,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office of the White House.
He says it feels “very bad” and it’s “a very sad thing.”
Bannon, a key player in Trump’s 2016 election victory and godfather to the Trump administration’s nationalist ideology, is accused of defrauding others who donated to a $25 million fund believed to have built a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump says he is disconnected from Bannon and “hasn’t dealt with him in a long time, he hasn’t dealt with him at all.”
– AFP
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump and Iraqi Prime Minister met to discuss tactics to deal with Iranian aggression in the region, threats from Islamic State sleeper cells, and the president’s preference to reduce the U.S. military’s footprint in the country.
There are more than 5,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq right now.Last month, the most sensible American general for the Middle East said he believed the United States would have a smaller but more lasting presence in the country. Marine General Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, said after the meeting with Iraq’s new prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who believes Iraqis are receiving U.S. and coalition troops, especially in ongoing combat to prevent IS fighters from re-resusing the country.
McKenzie said how many U.S. infantrymen could stay, but said traditional Iraqi forces were now operating alone.and coalition forces continue to conduct education and counterterrorism operations in addition to Iraqi commandos.Any final decision, he said, would coordinate with the Iraqi government.
U.S.-backed Al-Kadhimi took in May when Baghdad’s relations with Washington were precarious, following the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by the United States in a drone strike at Baghdad airport.
Al-Kadhimi has had to walk the tightrope due to the rivalry between the United States and Iran.When asked if he was bringing messages from Tehran after a recent stopover in that country, al-Kadhimi told The Associated Press before leaving for Washington: “We didn’t play the role of a postman in Iraq.”
The United States recognizes the cultural and devoted ties between Iran and Iraq, but the administration needs to diminish Iran’s destabilizing influence, exercised through pro-Iranian militias, over political and security institutions in Iraq.
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A vote on Professor Ronni Gamzu’s coronavirus tsar’s proposal to involve the COVID-19 pandemic was postponed, after a tense assembly of the so-called coronavirus cabinet, to the Hebrew media.
According to the Ynet news website, ultra-Orthodox ministers Aryeh Deri and Yaakov Litzman opposed the plan, saying it would save him prayers in synagogues.
The Ministry of Health reports six coronavirus deaths, bringing the national number to 795.
According to ministry figures, there have been 868 new instances since midnight, bringing the number of infections from the start of the pandemic to 99,201.
Of the 23,870 active cases, 389 people are in severe condition, adding 114 with insufficient ventilation, another 159 in moderate condition and the rest with mild or non-existent symptoms.
The ministry says 28,391 tests were conducted yesterday.
Prime Minister Netanyahu talks to Jewish leaders in the United Arab Emirates after Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed to normalize diplomatic relations.
“This peace is smart for the State of Israel, smart for the rest of our people and smart for everyone else in the region,” he told them in a call to Zoom.”I hope to make a stop at you this year.”
He released a short video clip of the call, which took place in Hebrew.
Hundreds of others demonstrate in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square and Israel following an alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in Eilat through 30 men.
Demonstrations take position with the banner “we will no longer be silent”.
A hotel owner in Eilat where a 16-year-old woman allegedly raped about 30 men said there is no evidence that the alleged attack took place at her establishment.
Pnina Maman told the Twelfth Channel that she had passed all the photographs from the hotel’s security camera to the police and that no team of 30 appeared.Stressing that the hotel is cooperating with the police, Mom says she has her own children.and that its center goes to the girl.
He also complains that he “embarrassed” the hotel for the alleged violation.
Senior officials from Likud and Kakhol lavan are expressing a little more optimism about reaching an agreement that saves them new elections, the Twelfth Canal reports.
According to the network, the parties are negotiating to get out of the coalition crisis and there still seems to be a chance of reaching an agreement.
The report also says Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud is willing to delay Monday night’s deadline to approve a state budget and has made serious efforts to build a government without Kakhol lavan.
The report comes shortly after Likud said Netanyahu spoke by phone with Defense Minister Benny Gantz, leader of Blue and White.
“Israeli citizens [need] an operational government that works to save their lives and livelihoods.If you’re content to offer a compromise, we can hold elections.Let’s do everything we can to solve this challenge today,” Netanyahu said in a Likud.Statement.
Some three hundred supporters of Prime Minister Netanyahu demonstrate outdoors in his official apartment in Jerusalem, where the usual protests against him take place.
Police had a collection of up to 3,000 people.
Ahead of the rally, police forcibly removed a sit-in by anti-Netanyahu protesters outside the prime minister’s residence, including former Shin Bet leader Carmi Gillon, a former air force brigadier, deported by the police. , General Amir Haskel and MP Yesh Atid. Yorai Lahav-Hertzanu, who officials forcibly escorted out of the domain when he told them he was a legislator with immunity.
Lahav-Hertzanu’s accusation was convicted through several lawmakers, adding Knesset President Yariv Levin, a best friend of Netanyahu’s Likud.
Levin wrote on Facebook that he had spoken to Lahav-Hertzanu for his “surprise.”
“This is an incident that undermines a Knesset member’s fundamental ability to fulfill his role, which cannot be accepted into a democratic system,” Levin says.
NOERVENICH, Germany – Germany welcomes Israeli army aircraft into its airspace in their first joint fighting trainings on German territory, while the two air forces have welcomed broad cooperation between the two countries.
“It was very moving for us when, one after the other, the first Israeli aircraft arrived here in German airspace,” a German Luftwaffe spokesman told German news firm dpa.
“Today we have a very intense partnership with the Israelis,” spokesman Thorsten Weber said.”We paint a lot together, we paint together, the Germans train in Israel.”
The Pilot of the Israeli Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel O., who does not give his full call in accordance with the regulations of the army branch, says that the exercises, remembered the complicated beyond the Germans and Jews while hunting for the future.
During the Third Reich, Nazi Germany murdered 6 million European Jews and others during the Holocaust.Relations between Israel and Germany were complicated in the first few decades after the war ended, but they have approached over the years.
“I think we all feel it in our hearts, how deep the afterlife is, ” said O.Associated Press.” But we’re long-term and we’re happy to be able to fly together.”
He added that the cooperation of the two air forces is a smart thing for both countries.
Today, Germany is one of Israel’s most powerful supporters.
However, the maximum interactions between the two nations are of deeper symbolic importance because of the horrors of the Holocaust, which ended 75 years ago when Germany surrendered in World War II.
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WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is pronouncing new sanctions against six Syrian military, government and monetary officials as a component of ongoing efforts to save you cash to win the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“We will continue to push against the Assad regime to prevent its attacks on the Syrian people,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, adding that sanctions were scheduled to coincide with the seventh anniversary on Friday of the Assad government’s chemical weapons attack in Guta that killed more than 1,400 Syrians.
The State Department is punishing Yasser Ibrahim, suspected of obstructing a political solution to the Syrian confrontation and its networks across the Middle East and beyond to succeed in the agreements to enrich Assad.
The US Treasury Department is cracking down on the Syrian presidency and the Syrian Baath Party by targeting Assad’s presidential media adviser Luna al-Shibl and Mohamad Amar Saati, a senior Baath Party official. The United States accuses the party leader of facilitating access for university scholars to Assad-backed militias.
Military fadi Saqr, Ghaith Dalah and Samer Ismail were also sanctioned.
In June, Trump’s management increased pressure on Assad, his wife, Asma, and his entourage with new economic sanctions and human rights violations and for blocking an agreement of the bloody nine-year conflict in the country.Last month, the State Department imposed sanctions on Assad’s eldest son, Hafez.
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Several rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, but appear to land in the coastal enclave, according to Hebrew media.
Rockets sound any precautionary sirens in Israeli communities near Gaza.
In the run-up to imaginable new elections, Meretz MP Tamar Zandberg is calling on the Kakhol coalition party to lavan to abandon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and form an election government, saying there is a majority in the Knesset to do so.
“The center-left block has a majority [of] 61 in the existing Knesset.All you want done is for Kakhol to wash up vote for constructive mistrust [vote] on Monday…and there’s a government that approves a budget and be to deal with citizenship and doesn’t get itself, without elections or racism,” she wrote on Twitter.
Despite Zandberg’s assertion, there does not appear to be a majority in the Knesset for this decision, as Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel and MP Zvi Hauser of Kakhol Lavan’s Derech Eretz faction, which would be needed, have ruled in the past with the Arabs.majority party to form a government without Netanyahu.