The Times of Israel released Monday’s advances as they unfolded.
Iran says it is more likely to sell weapons than to buy them, after pronouncing an end to a long-standing UN embargo on traditional weapons.
Tehran says the ban imposed more than a decade ago was lifted “automatically” yesterday, based on the terms of a 2015 historic nuclear deal with global powers, from which the United States withdrew.
“Before becoming a customer in the arms market, Iran has the capacity to supply” countries, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told the press.
“Of course, Iran is like the United States, whose president seeks to sell deadly weapons to massacre the Yemeni people,” he adds, referring to American weapons purchased through Saudi Arabia, which leads an army coalition in Yemen, subsidized by opposing combat. Houthi rebels for Tehran.
Lifting the embargo on Iran to buy and sell army equipment, adding tanks, armored vehicles, fighter jets, helicopters and heavy artillery.
According to Khatibzadeh, Iran will “act responsiblely” and sell arms to countries “on the basis of their own calculations. “
The arms embargo on Iran that will begin to expire gradually from 18 October, under the UN solution enshrining the 2015 nuclear agreement.
However, Washington argued that arms sales to Iran would still violate UN resolutions and threatened to impose sanctions on those interested in such agreements.
U. S. President Donald Trump withdrew his country from the nuclear deal and began unilaterally imposing economic sanctions on Iran in 2018.
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Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announces that he will conduct an unscrupulous investigation against the Minister of Environmental Protection Gila Gamliel following reports that he lied to epidemiological investigators about the failure to close after contracting the coronavirus.
“There is no basis for an accusation of false information, ” said Mandelblit in a statement. “The effects show that he has cooperated fully and genuine facts. “
Breaking coronavirus restrictions from home can be punished with a fine, however, researchers looking for misleading contacts or knowingly spreading the virus can result in strong separate penalties.
The announcement came after Gamliel’s epidemiological investigation indicated that he had lied to Ministry of Health officials investigating how he had become inflamed with coronavirus. Numerous reports in the Hebrew media alleged that the minister had intentionally deceived the investigators, telling them that Yom Kippur’s time had passed. holiday praying in a Synagogue in Tel Aviv when, in fact, he had violated the rules of confinement and had traveled to the northern city of Tibeiades.
Intercity buses will resume operations on weekends, with the lock raised, according to Hebrew media.
Trains, however, will run from Sunday to Thursday.
Buses will continue to service passengers up to 50% of their capacity, according to fitness regulations, according to reports.
The United Nations says it will buy one billion syringes worldwide by the end of 2021, which will be used to administer any long-term coronavirus vaccine.
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, has announced plans to unload 520 million syringes from its warehouses by the end of the year to initial materials to pre-vaccine countries.
“The world will want as many syringes as a dose of vaccine,” UNICEF said in a statement.
UNICEF says it is also buying five million protective boxes for used syringes.
The number of cases shown of international coronavirus exceeded 40 million on Monday, according to an AFP count with official sources, more than 1. 1 million international deaths have been recorded.
“Vaccinating those who oppose COVID-19 around the world will be one of the largest corporations in human history, and we will have to act as temporarily as vaccines can occur,” said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
“By the end of the year, we will already have more than one billion previously placed syringes in which they can be placed temporarily and economically. “
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China accuses the United States of “arms trafficking” and “interfering” in countries’ affairs after Washington threatened to impose sanctions on any country that benefits from the end of the UN ban on arms sales to Iran.
U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned that he opposes any weapon for the Islamic Republic after Tehran said that a former UN embargo opposing such agreements had expired.
China’s Foreign Ministry said Pompeo’s statements are “totally unjustifiable. “
“It is the United States that sells weapons and ammunition everywhere, uses the army industry to serve geopolitical interests, and even brazenly interferes in the internal affairs of countries,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told the press.
When asked if China would now sell arms to Iran, Zhao did not deal with the problem, but said Beijing would “manage the army industry in accordance with its army export policy and obligations. “
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Iran is recording its worst day of new deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with 337 deaths recorded Monday.
This grim level represents an increase from the previous record of 279 deaths in a day without getting married.
Deaths have soared in recent weeks as the government struggles to involve the spread of the virus months after the onset of the pandemic.
The Islamic Republic has experienced the worst epidemic in the Middle East with a death toll of more than 30,000 this week and has resisted a general blockade to save its devastated economy, already weakened by unprecedented US sanctions.
Today, the death toll is soaring, eclipsing the highs set in March amid the worst of its epidemic.
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A woman in her 30s discovered dead in her Haifa home with stab wounds to the upper body.
His 28-year-old partner was arrested by police in the northern town after raising suspicions about not dressing in a mask.
Three-quarters of American Jews intend to vote for Joe Biden in a poll.
The U. S. Jewish Committee vote found 1,334 American Jews over the age of 18 about their political preferences. The telephone survey conducted from September 9 to October 4, he said, the margin of error is 4. 2%.
It shows that 75% say they will vote for Biden and 22% for Trump. Support for Trump or Biden is largely linked to a devout affiliation.
The AJC says: “Trump is through 74% of Orthodox, 23% of Conservatives, 20% of reformers, 3% of reconstructors and 14% of secular Jews. Biden is the selection of 18% of Orthodox, 72% of conservatives, 78% of reformers, 93% of reconstructors and 83% of secular Jews.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid denounces Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for failing to comply with physical fitness violations in the ultra-Orthodox community. Netanyahu and the haredi parties are close political allies.
“After his trial, Netanyahu is fleeing a confrontation with the ultra-Orthodox parties. He wants it, that’s how it is for them. This hurts everyone, but first and foremostic it harms the ultra-Orthodox population. The state has a duty to oppose those who break the law,” Lapid says.
“If I were prime minister today, a school establishment that adheres to regulations would be fined 5,000 shekels, but fined 100,000 shekels. The next step would be to cut off your investment, a partial investment, all that. The school that does comply with the law will get a penny from the state. He opposes the ultra-Orthodox, he’s in favor of the ultra-Orthodox. It’ll save their lives.
“They are no longer a small organization in Mea Shearim, it is one million more people and if the regulations do not apply to one million more people, they do not apply to anyone. Israel can’t,” Lapid adds.
French police are raiding radical Islamist teams three days after the beheading of an instructor who showed his scholars satirical caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
The raids come a day after tens of thousands of people took part in demonstrations across the country to honor Professor Samuel Paty and protect freedom of expression, adding that the right to show caricatures across many Muslims is insulting.
Gerald Darmanin says the attack on Islamist networks was designed to send a message that the “enemies of the Republic” would not enjoy “a minute’s respite. “
Sources close to the operation told the AFP that those attacked in the police operation were known to police for radical preaching or hate speech on social media.
Darmanin said the government will also harden the organizations’ ties to Islamist networks, the high-level anti-Islamophobia collective.
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Two Emirati ministers will be part of the delegation that will arrive in Jerusalem, reports army radio.
UAE officials will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Israel Katz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz, speaking at an assembly of Kakhol’s faction lavan, said the ultra-Orthodox will have to pay attention to the rules of the government’s pandemic, after many Haredi schools brazenly defied the rules and went over.
“Learning the Torá and its studies are things that are vital to the other people of Israel, I don’t minimize that at all, yet there can’t be a law for each other,” Gantz says. dialogue, for paying attention. We will have to pay attention to their needs, but we cannot settle for anarchy”.
Gantz addresses the coalition crisis around the 2021 budget by declaring: “If there is no budget, we will go to elections. “
Netanyahu is widely believed to be the budget crisis that will lead to early elections, thus avoiding the transfer of force to Gantz next year as a component of its coalition agreement.
A technical challenge is blamed for suspicions that Likud Minister Gila Gamliel, whom the coronavirus lied to touch the trackers on his whereabouts, according to Channel 13.
According to the network, Gamliel honestly told a Ministry of Health touch tracker over the phone that he was in Tibeiades in Yom Kippur, which in his hometown of Tel Aviv, but the form automatically filled his answer with his hometown.
The ministry is investigating the fault that affected past epidemiological probes, he said.
A woman in her 60s was discovered dead at her home in the southern city of Beer Sheva from a head injury.
Her husband discovered him on the roof of the building, considering suicide, raising suspicions of his wife’s murder, according to the Ynet news website. Police escorted the man from the roof and sent him for medical treatment, according to the report.
This is the time of the alleged murder of a woman through her husband in a day, having discovered the woman’s body earlier in Haifa.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the government would intensify law enforcement against fitness offenders, but added that it expected disagreements with ultra-Orthodox leaders through “dialogue. “
“We will make the application, tighten the locks and take all the mandatory measures. I hope we can do it through dialogue,” Netanyahu said at the Likud weekly faction assembly.
“There is also a decrease [of cases] among the Haredi public. It’s harder out there. There are more people there, they don’t have Zoom,” he continued.
“We called for the cooperation of the Haredi network and its leaders,” Netanyahu said, urging the Israelis to “put politics aside” to defeat the virus.
The Israel Defense Forces are fully prepared to manage and operate in a chemical weapons attack, according to a new report through the state comptroller.
The State Comptroller’s Office observes a series of disorders in the combat troops to fight in situations of chemical attack, as well as in the education and maintenance of military units in particular designed to respond to atomic, biological and chemical attacks. -called ABC battalions.
The Contraloria report, however, welcomes the army’s efforts to modernize its apparatus used to counter chemical attacks.
The military responds to the report by saying it is aware of the disorders and is taking steps to address known deficiencies in the Counterloy assessment.
“The IDF thanks the State Controller for completing this extensive audit of this critical issue. The IDF is reading the findings of the report and have already begun addressing the issues, either at headquarters and on the floor, after receiving a draft report,” the military said. said in a statement.
The risk of chemical attack has sharpened over the past decade, as Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s regime has continually demonstrated its willingness to use such weapons in its civil war, ingesting fears that it could use them in a confrontation with Israel, which remains technically at war with Damascus.
– Judah Ari Gross
Ministers of the United Arab Emirates have the treaty with Israel to normalize diplomatic relations, the country’s WAM news firm reports.
The cabinet “orders the beginning of constitutional procedures to publish a national ordinance ratifying the Convention”.
Likud MP Miki Zohar, the coalition whip known for his fiercely incendiary statements, told lawmakers that he would now melt his tone.
“When we cross the red lines with things we say against our rivals, I think the public doesn’t like it right now,” he said at a meeting of the Likud faction, referring to the pandemic.
“I, with everyone, will replace this speech because I think it’s a speech that will speak more to the public,” he says. “It’s not simple for me to come here and admit in front of everyone that I’ve done things. “that shouldn’t have been done. “
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects opinion polls about the fall of his Likud party, while Yamina, his right-wing rival Naftali Bennett, is shooting.
“I am concerned about the polls. I never win in polls, only in elections, “Netanyahu said.
He attacked Bennett, who is in the opposition, for voting in favor of a no-confidence vote last week.
“Leave him, be right or not. I think it surprised a lot of people, I was surprised,” Netanyahu said. “Can I perceive voting for the dispersion of the Knesset, but vote for Yair Lapid as prime minister?”
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a treasure trove of ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, the government said.
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in one that archaeologists discovered the collection of colorful and sealed sarcophagus buried more than 2500 years ago in the saqqara necropolis.
Mostafa Waziri, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, says more than coffins have been found.
Archaeologists also discovered colorful and golden statues, according to the ministry. Details of the new discovery will be announced at a press convention in Djoser’s famous stepped pyramid, he said.
Egypt has sought to publicize its archaeological findings in an effort to revive its key tourism sector, which has been greatly affected by the unrest that followed the 2011 uprising and which has also suffered this year the blow of the coronavirus pandemic.
Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly and Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khalid el-Anany visited the domain and inspected the new discovery, which came here just over two weeks after the ministry revealed 59 sealed sarcophagus, usually with mummies inside, in the same saqqarah community. .
Saqqarah is part of the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis, which includes the pyramids of Giza, as well as smaller pyramids in Abu Sir, Dahshur and Abu Ruwaysh. The ruins of Memphis were designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in the 1970s.
The plateau houses at least 11 pyramids, adding the stepped pyramid, as well as plenty of tombs of former officials and other sites ranging from the 1st dynasty (2920-2770 BC) to the Coptic era (395-642).
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A serological survey that one in 11 populations of Bnei Brak carries anti-coronavirus antibodies reports Channel 12.
This figure rises to 14% among Bnei Brak’s other young people.
The survey of 8,637 citizens of Bnei Brak conducted between June and August through the Ministry of Health.
He also discovers that one-fifth of those who tested positive for the virus in the afterlife had no antibodies.
The Twelfth Channel, which brings resources into Sudan, reports that US President Donald Trump is expected to tweet today that Sudan is off the terrorism blacklist, a step that will pave the way for the normalization of ties between Khartoum. and Jerusalem.
The Knesset plenary meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after more than the lawmakers signed a petition to meet on Netanyahu’s “shameful failure to deal with the crisis” of the pandemic.
The Prime Minister will speak at the session.
At first, former Tourism Minister Asaf Zamir of Kakhol lavan, who recently resigned from the government due to his restrictions on anti-Netanyahu protests over closure, attacked the prime minister.
“When you asked for the unit, I called you. This is the last time I called you because there’s no chance you’ll do it yourself,” Zamir says, referring to the Likud and Kakhol unit government lavan.
He begs Netanyahu to approve one by 2021.
Coronavirus tests have dropped by 30% in so-called “red” cities with the highest infection rates in the following week, public broadcaster Kan reports.
That’s five times less than in other parts of the country, he says.
The report, which says it is a knowledge research through the Department of Health, may simply imply that significant relief in numbers is the result of a minimize reduction in testing.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the knesset plenary.
He says that in the maximum number of countries, the leader of the opposition supports the government’s fight against the pandemic.
“Unfortunately, this is the case in Israel,” he says.
“I think in an emergency, everything will have to come together,” Netanyahu adds.
“Don’t use coronavirus to divide others to get some extra votes in the polls,” he says.
Coronavirus tsar Ronni Gamzu should alleviate blockage restrictions in spaces that were reported in the past as hot spots improve rates of coronavirus infection, according to Hebrew media.
The villages are Rechasim, Modiin Illit, Beitar Illit and the Kiryat Mattesdorf district of Jerusalem, all predominantly ultra-Orthodox neighbourhoods.
While some lockdown regulations were safe throughout the country on Sunday, these spaces remained almost absolutely closed until at least midnight on Wednesday, kindergartens, kindergartens and day care centers were allowed to reopen. Other red spaces come with Bnei Brak south of Jabotinsky Street, Elad and the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Ramat Shlomo, Ramat Eshkol and Maalot Dafna.
A Yisrael Beytenu lawmaker admits to the Knesset that he violated the closure, and joined many politicians in doing the same.
“I have young children, their friends come, what do you think they don’t find?That everybody’s shitting on a criminal? I don’t want a criminal for the stupidity of others,” Deputy Yulia Malinovsky said at an assembly of the Knesset’s Coronavirus Committee.
U. S. President Donald Trump says other people are tired of hearing Dr. Anthony Fauci “and all those idiots” talk about the coronavirus.
Trump has not concealed his impatience with Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease specialist.
In statements to today’s crusade, Trump called Fauci a “disaster,” but said major disorders would be created if he lay down the doctor.
Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus Working Group.
Trump has referred Fauci for his recommendation to dress up in face masks.
Nearly 220,000 Americans have died from the disease through the virus.
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The Ministry of Health has recorded 1,526 new coronaviruses in the last 24 hours, bringing the number of assets to 29567.
Indicates that another 632 people are in severe condition, 246 under fans, another 180 are in moderate condition, others with mild symptoms. The ministry says 3. 5% of the tests tested positive on Monday, like Sunday.
The death toll is 2,260, 51 more than this morning’s figure, the ministry says 14 have died since midnight and the discrepancy is unclear without delay.
Bahrain’s cabinet approves the agreement on the status quo of diplomatic relations with Israel signed by countries in Manama.
During a weekly consultation organized by Deputy Prime Minister Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, ministers were informed of the 8 agreements signed with Israel.
The Cabinet welcomed the agreements and memorandums signed between Bahrain and Israel, noting that they are based on the Kingdom’s vision, under the leadership of HM the King, of peace as a strategic option to advance the Middle East peace and stability procedure. , “according to bahrain’s news agency.
They also aim to promote tolerance, coexistence and openness to religions and cultures in order to identify broader relationships to gain advantages from countries and peoples in the region in order to redouble efforts towards the Palestinian factor in accordance with foreign two-state resolutions. about legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative, the closet said.
– Raphael Ahren
Two U. S. officials demonstrated to Reuters that Washington could remove Sudan from its list of terrorism-sponsoring states in the coming days.
The report states that the parties are working on an agreement that would see Sudan forge ties with Israel in exchange for the US measure.
The Israel Defense Forces are conducting uns specified operations along the Gaza border to “neutralize threats” to Channel 12.
Military activity puts the army on high alert for a imaginable response from Hamas, but locals are told they will have to continue their activities.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz announces that the Israeli Institute of Biological Research will start a vaccine against coronavirus in humans by the end of the month.
After a bleak national laboratory and an assembly with its leader Shmuel Shapira, Gantz shows the call of the vaccine: Brilife, a clothes rack of the Hebrew word for fitness – bri’ut – and life.
“We are at a very vital moment, ” said Gantz. ” Professor Shapira and the whole team did a job. They are at the clinical forefront of the State of Israel and have taken this vaccine to the level at which we can soon obtain trials in humans ».
Shapira says the institute is running a vaccine on February 2 and is almost finished.
“If this procedure succeeds, it will be wonderful news for the State of Israel and for all the nations of the world,” Gantz says.
– Judah Ari Gross
U. S. President Donald Trump has said he will blacklist Sudan from the blacklist of states suffering from terrorism.
This resolution is seen as a pre-existing standardization agreement between Israel and Sudan, similar to those of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, Trump does not mention Israel in his tweet.
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 19, 2020
Coronavirus tests have dropped by 30% in so-called “red” cities with the highest infection rates in the following week, public broadcaster Kan reports.
That’s five times less than in other parts of the country, he says.
The report, which says it is a knowledge research through the Department of Health, may simply imply that significant relief in numbers is the result of a minimize reduction in testing.