The Times of Israel records Sunday occasions as they occur.
Finance Minister Israel Katz is in retaliation for the head of the department, Shaul Meridor, after the latter announced his resignation in protest at the government’s economic policies.
Katz accuses Meridor of acting for “narrow political interests” and of publicly criticizing his economic policy. He said Meridor’s resignation was a “fair and binding decision,” while promising to appoint a replacement soon.
Shaul Meridor resigns as head of the Treasury Budget Department in protest at the government’s economic policies in months.
“I can’t lend a hand to poor conduct taking place in recent months, which all Israeli citizens will pay a heavy price for in the coming years,” Meridor writes in a letter to Finance Ministry Israel Katz, according to the Walla news site.
He decries a decision-making process influenced by “narrow interests” and the “blatant contempt for staff work,” alleging the ministry’s financial tool box has been trampled on.
Meridor recently criticized Katz and Prime Minister Netanyahu for their plan to cut checks to all Israeli adults, regardless of source of income or if they have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Qatar’s envoy and head of the Qatar Committee for Gaza Reconstruction, Mohammad al-Emadi, said he is in contact with “all parties” to repair the calm between Hamas and Israel, said those efforts continue.
Tensions have emerged between Hamas and Israel in recent weeks. Groups in Gaza have introduced balloons and rockets to Israel, while the Israeli army has carried out repeated overnight airstrikes in response. Israel has also imposed heavy restrictions on the crossing of the Kerem Shalom industry between Israel and Gaza, adding a fuel ban.
Al-Emadi has been in Israel and the Gaza Strip for several days, in a component to verify to mediate between Hamas and Israel.
“[Al-Emadi] insists on continuing the continued efforts and contacts of the State of Qatar to reach quiet agreements between the parties,” the Qatar Committee for The Reconstruction of Gaza said in a statement.
“Ambassador al-Emadi wanted his efforts and talks to culminate in the conclusion of a truce agreement between all parties to provide the basic pillars of a general, non-violent life for the rest of Gaza’s people, who live in incredibly complicated situations. , “the aggregate.
— Aaron Boxerman
Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi meet with a delegation from Trump management led by Jared Kushner to discuss the standardization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Iran.
Gantz welcomes the agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and says he believes other countries will also identify ties to the Jewish state in the near future, according to a member of his office. He says the Palestinians, who have denounced the United Arab Emirates for the agreement, deserve to return to the negotiating table.
The statement says Gantz also discussed with the US officials how to work together to ensure Israel’s military superiority in the region, in apparent reference to America’s possible sale of F-35 stealth fighters to the UAE, and how to counter Iran and prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
A 60-year-old man is seriously injured after falling onto the tracks at a train station in Haifa.
Magen David Adom’s ambulance service said the guy was treated at the scene by paramedics before being taken to Rambam Medical Center in the city.
The Ashkelon Magistrate’s Court releases five minors suspected of involvement in the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in the Red Sea resort town of Eilat to house arrest.
Police, who oppose the suspects, asked the court to suspend the measure.
“They were worried about rape. Their position is in jail, not at home,” police resources cited on Channel 12 said.
Previously, the police had stated that it intended to qualify six other people in the case.
Only 21% of fines were paid for alleged violations of the Ministry of Health’s coronavirus rules, according to figures through the Ynet news website.
Citing official statistics, the report said that 42,342 fines totalling about 17 million shekels ($5.2 million) of the 196,319 fines totaling millions of shekels ($29.4 million) imposed so far had been paid Thursday.
Of the fines that were paid, only 45% were paid within the 90-day period required by law, according to the news site.
MINSK, Belarus — Tens of thousands of Belarus protesters join an opposition rally in Minsk today in the latest mass protest against the re-election of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, AFP reporters at the scene and local media report.
Despite a strong presence by security forces, which prevented many other people from reaching the main crowd, the protesters filled the center of the Belarusian capital with crowds waving the opposition’s red and white flag and shouting “Go away.”
Police have made arrests since the start of the demonstration in the early afternoon, but do not use tear fuel or rubber bullets as they did in past demonstrations to protest the election of August 9, which the opposition said was rigged.
Many protesters show symptoms mocking the veteran leader on his 66th birthday, some with a coffin decorated with a cockroach.
Others confront the police and yell at them to step aside.
Images of demonstrations in cities, such as Brest and Grodno, are circulating through the opposition.
On the last two Sundays, around 100,000 more people marched through the streets of Minsk, defying an official ban.
– AFP
DAMASCUS, Syria – Syrian President Bashar Assad has problems with a decree appointing a new wardrobe that converts so-called “sovereign” portfolio chiefs, days after confirming Hussein Arnous as the country’s prime minister.
The decree, published on the presidency’s social media, helps keep the holders of the ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Interior, Economy and Data in office, but adjusts the rate of 12 other ministerial portfolios, the ministries added. finance, power and the public. Bless you.
The government of 29 ministers, which includes 3 ministers, is the fifth to be formed since the civil war in Syria began in 2011.
This comes at a time when Syria is grappling with a serious economic crisis, a growing coronavirus epidemic and ongoing violence in the north of the country.
The government’s official mandate will expire next July on the date of the presidential election, after which he will continue to serve as a parent until a presidential decree appointing a new cabinet is issued, according to the constitution.
Assad on Tuesday appointed Arnous as minister after being appointed interim minister in June ahead of last month’s parliamentary elections.
Arnous, an engineer who was minister of water resources, replaced Imad Khamis after being fired more than two months ago.
Khamis led the government for four years and the presidency gave no official explanation as to why his political trial, however, followed a wave of opposition to the government over its handling of an economic crisis that had plunged Syrians tired of the war into poverty.
A new wave of U.S. sanctions on Syria that came into force in June has raised fears of a deeper economic crisis.
– AFP
The Israel Airline Pilots Association publishes a map of the planned direction of Israel’s first passenger flight to the United Arab Emirates, and it appears that the El Al plane will pass over Saudi airspace when it travels to Abu Dhabi tomorrow.
On his Twitter account, the pilots’ union emphasizes that management remains final “and, according to our wisdom, has still been approved through the Saudis.”
President Reuven Rivlin welcomes Jared Kushner and other senior Trump administration officials for an assembly on his official in Jerusalem.
The president also says he hopes the agreement will build trust with the Palestinians, who have denounced the UAE over the deal.
Kushner and the U.S. delegation previously met with Prime Minister Netanyahu and are expected to speak later in the day with Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi.
Starting tomorrow, Israel will allow tens of thousands of Palestinians to work daily between the West Bank and Israel, the army’s liaison with the Palestinians says, after several months of abnormal restrictions due to coronavirus.
During the pandemic, Palestinians running in Israel largely were unable to enter the country, on several occasions tens of thousands of employees were allowed to enter on the condition that they remain in Israel for several weeks in a row.
Some 70,000 Palestinians are painting legally in Israel, according to the painters’ rights organization, Kav LaOved. Tens of thousands more illegally cross the border fence into paintings on the Green Line.
– Aaron Boxerman
In a call to the convention, ministers agreed to enlarge the existing state of emergency due to the coronavirus, and Israel proceeded to have one of the rates of new infections in the world.
A group of the Prime Minister’s Office says ministers will ask the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee to definitively approve the extension of the state of emergency until November 7, before the expiry of September 6.
The resolution adopted through ministers cites “the fact that there is still a genuine threat of a widespread outbreak of coronavirus and significant harm to public health” as an explanation of why the state of emergency will need to be extended.
Israel Electric Corporation reports record levels of electricity consumption amid a wave of storm heat across the country
According to the CIS, 14089 megawatts were generated at 2:33 p.m., breaking the past of 13854 established this year on May 20.
The word “peace” in English, Hebrew and Arabic painted on the El Al plane which will make the first passenger flight announcement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, after the two countries agreed to normalize diplomatic relations.
According to the Twelfth Channel, Saudi Arabia has El Al legal to use its airspace when the plan arrives from Ben Gurion Airport in Abu Dhabi, although there is no official confirmation of this.
Firefighters report that 3 fires began the day in southern Israel through incendiary devices with balloons introduced from the Gaza Strip, a significant drop in recent days.
This time yesterday, eight fires were reported through incendiary balloons.
The minimum air-fired fires are not known without delay, although before the day palestinian media reported on a imaginable progress in the ceasefire negotiations between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas in force in Gaza.
According to the chimney and rescue services, the 3 chimneys are located in the Eshkol area, east of southern Gaza. They are small and do not pose a threat to neighboring communities.
– Judah Ari Gross
The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health said there were 536 new cases of the new coronavirus among Palestinians: 460 in the West Bank, 40 in East Jerusalem and 36 in the Gaza Strip. Approximately 13% of the tests tested positive, well above the World Health Organization’s 5% threshold for virus control.
On Friday, the number of cases among Palestinians reached a record 724 cases in line with the day in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
Approximately part of the new infections (255 cases) have been detected in Hebron governorate, which remains the focus of the epidemic in the West Bank. In the latter stages of the wave of moments in the West Bank, only a few dozen cases occurred outdoors in Hebron governorate. But today, almost part of the cases are spreading to other parts of the West Bank, adding more than 1,000 in Ramallah-El Bireh governorate.
– Aaron Boxerman
Defense Minister Benny Gantz said his Kakhol Lavan party’s ministers would make the plan of “signal lights” of crown tsar Ronni Gamzu to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gantz sits with Gamzu before an assembly of the so-called coronavirus cabinet, when the plan is approved after a vote to adopt it, it has been delayed several times.
Kakhol Lavan’s boss told Gamzu that the Ministry of Defence is preparing to space on The Israelis returning from Ouman to Rosh Hashanah in special hotels for the coronavirus, “according to the framework that will be agreed between [Gamzu] and the team of ministers.”
Gamzu expressed opposition to allowing the Israelis to go to Ouman for Rosh Hashanah, warning that those returning from Ukraine can simply spread the virus to Israel. Ukraine announced last week that it would close its borders to non-citizens in September.
The efforts to prevent the pilgrimage to Uman, where the grave site of venerated Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav is located, have angered members of the Hasidic sect and some of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox allies.
U.S. national security adviser Robert O’Brien, speaking to Netanyahu and Kushner as a joint appearance, said Israel’s security remains a “top priority” in the White House and promotes U.S. Middle Eastern policy under U.S. President Donald Trump.
He said the long-term of Israel and the Arab countries “has never been brighter” and expressed the hope that the Jewish state would soon identify diplomatic relations with other states in the region, following the standardization agreement between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi.
“God bless Israel and God bless the United States of America,” O’Brien says.
Speaking after O’Brien, Jared Kushner said the conclusion of the agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates “is a long and winding road.” Advances like this, he says, don’t “happen often” and don’t “happen easily.”
Kushner lists a number of pro-Israel management policies, adding Jerusalem’s popularity as Israel’s capital and Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and also promotes the assassination of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and U.S. movements in the region.
He said the publication of Trump’s peace proposal was the “big breakthrough” that led to the agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. “There will be many more to come.”
He says the president has “written a script for a new Middle East,” from his first presidency to Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Rome. “It has reversed 20 years of poor effects in the Middle East” and laid the foundation for progress.
“Many others have described the state of the Middle East as desperate,” Kushner recalls, but in recent weeks “I have felt a new sense of optimism. Array… The level is now in a position for even more [chords],” says Array
He adds: “Four years ago, my father-in-law [Trump] asked me to paint about peace in the Middle East. I gave it my all. There are still many paintings to be done, but Abraham’s agreement [with the United Arab Emirates] is a big step forward. Participating in the creation of the [normalization agreement], and I say this as the grandson of two Holocaust survivors, means more to me and my circle of relatives than I will ever be. We will continue to seek peace between Israel, the biblical homeland of the Jewish people, and their Arab and Muslim neighbors, and I have never been so positive about peace.
Finally, Kushner said, the president asked him to emphasize how proud he is “of the bond he has been about to re-establish between the United States and Israel.”
Netanyahu says it is a “special pleasure” to welcome the delegation before traveling with Israeli officials on the first passenger advertising flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Palestinian leaders have strongly criticized the United Arab Emirates for accepting normalization with Israel.
Praising Trump’s peace proposal, Netanyahu says no Jew or Palestinian will have to leave their homes, that Israel will be able to annex West Bank areas and maintain security west of the Jordan Valley.
He says the Palestinians, when they realize that their veto has dissipated, “will struggle to stay out of the peace community.”
On Iran, Netanyahu praised Trump’s leadership for opposing Tehran’s “war machine” and fleeing the nuclear deal restricting Iran’s nuclear program.
BERLIN – Senior German officials condemn attempts by far-right demonstrators and others to provoke a typhoon in the construction of parliament following a protest against the country’s pandemic restrictions.
Hundreds of people, some with the German Reich flag of 1871-1918 and other far-right banners, broke a security fence in front of the Reichstag last night, but were intercepted by police and forcibly evicted.
“The Reich flags and right-wing extremist provocations against the German Bundestag are an unbearable attack on the center of our democracy,” German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said today. “We’ll never settle for that.”
Steinmer said others have the right to express their anger at restrictions on coronaviruses and to them publicly, adding demonstrations.
“My sympathy ends where protesters are used through enemies of democracy and political agitators,” he adds.
Police used pepper spray to repel protesters, who had attended a giant demonstration in the capital that same day.
About three hundred other people were arrested outdoors from the Reichstag and after an incident at the Russian embassy, according to police.
Berlin’s most sensible security official, Andreas Geisel, praised three officials who opposed the Reichstag’s open-air protesters alone until reinforcements arrived. Opposition parties criticize the inability of the police to place enough officials in Parliament despite far-right public warnings that they were making plans to verify entry to the building.
Robert Habeck, co-leader of the German Green Party, for a thorough investigation into the incident.
“The fact that the Nazis with imperial flags are waiting for a typhoon in the Bundestag is a reminder of the darkest era in German history,” funke told the media group.
“An incident like Saturday night won’t happen again,” Habeck said. “I hope that The Minister of the Interior (federal), Horst Seehofer, will fight decisively against right-wing extremism at all levels.
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BEIRUT – Lebanese security forces arrested 3 Egyptian men wanted in their home country for participating in an alleged group rape six years ago.
The arrests, reported last night, adhere to an Interpol report for suspects at Egypt’s request.
The case was discovered through a social media account after sexual assault in Egypt. The alleged group rape took place at a five-star hotel in Cairo in 2014, however, news of the attack did not come until July when an Instagram account, the Assault Police, reported the allegations as part of a vigorous crusade #MeToo that swept Egypt this summer.
Last week, Egyptian prosecutors named men as suspects: seven had already left the country after rape allegations went viral in July.
Five of the suspects have arrived in Lebanon, according to a member of the Lebanese internal security forces. At Egypt’s request, 3 were arrested Friday night in the village of Fatqa, north of Beirut, while the other two reportedly left Lebanon.
Two suspects were arrested in Egypt, adding one last week as he tried to flee the country. The location of the suspects is unknown.
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A suspected balloon-borne explosive device that was apparently flown from the Gaza Strip is found in a field in the Sdot Negev Regional Council.
Police firefighters were sent to the scene, to the public station Kan.
A Hasidic Jew who demonstrated in Jerusalem last night opposing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for efforts to save them from a pilgrimage from Rosh Hashanah to Ouman warns the prime minister that “there will be no rest” until they are allowed to go to the Ukrainian city. .
“We want to update Prime Minister Netanyahu there are thousands of Hasidim waiting to reach Uman. There will be no rest. Every day there will be noise and he’ll feel us and hear us,” the protester, identified by his first name Eliyahu, tells Army Radio.
Netanyahu said he was appointing a ministerial team to consider allowing flights to Ouman for the Jewish New Year, days after Ukraine announced that its final borders for all foreign travelers in September.
His announcement came here when an organization of two hundred Hasidic Jews protesting the ban joined a weekly demonstration against Netanyahu outdoors in the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem. Some of the prime minister’s Dodi political allies also opposed the ban.
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, said he is running for a solution that allows hajj to go on to Uman.
“But we have to perceive that we are in an age of epidemic and not even the excellent collection at Uman this year can be positioned in its [normal] format and there will have to be a limited format,” he told the station. . Station.
Only by killing an Israeli soldier will Hezbollah be persuaded that deterrence has been restored, ending tensions on Israel’s northern border, said Lebanese terrorist Hassan Nasrallah.
“I want to be more clear than at any previous time: when Israel kills one of our fighters, we will kill one of your soldiers,” Nasrallah says in a televised speech to mark the holiday of Ashura.
Nasrallah says that Israel is hoping to allow for a simple exchange of fire which would cause material damage on both and end the escalation.
According to Nasrallah, Hezbollah fighters operating along the border fence in recent weeks had refrained from attacking Israeli drones and aircraft while they were killed by an Israeli soldier.
“Israel knows we weren’t there for a device to destroy. We went to get a soldier to kill,” Nasrallah added. Then he hid all his soldiers. Like mice hiding.
“It’s a matter of battlefield. It’s only a matter of time. And we’re in no hurry,” he warns.
– Aaron Boxerman
In a conference call, ministers agree to extend the state of emergency currently in place due to the coronavirus, with Israel continuing to have one of the highest rates of new infections in the world.
A joint statement from the Prime Minister’s Office says ministers will ask the Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee to grant final approval to extending the state of emergency until November 7, ahead of its expiration on September 6.
The decision approved by ministers cites “the fact there is still a real risk of a widespread outbreak of the coronavirus and significant harm to public health” as the reason the state of emergency needs to be extended.