The Times of Israel records Tuesday’s occasions as they occur.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – An explosion targeted a convoy of the US-led coalition in Iraq and did not cause casualties, a few hours after a newly formed organization of Shia militants falsely claimed to have bombed a similar convoy on the Iraq-Kuwait border, according to the US military.
The little-known ashab al-Kahf organization said in a statement that it destroyed “equipment and cars belonging to the American enemy” during a bombing at a border post south of the Iraqi city of Basra.
The organization then released an 11-second video that he said showed the explosion, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant organizations. The blurry video shows what gave the impression of being an explosion and lighting fixtures off, however, The Associated Press may simply not find out the video.
The Iraqi and Kuwaiti army has denied any attack. U.S. Army Colonel Myles B. Caggins III also dismissed the claim.
“That’s probably wrong, ” said Caggins to AP. “It’s a total fabrication.”
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Prime Minister Netanyahu said he had sent a letter to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit accusing him of ignoring alleged threats to the minister and his family.
“Your futility in the calls to kill me and my circle of relatives and the threats of rape that oppose my wife are nothing short of blatously allowing our blood to be shed,” Netanyahu wrote in the letter, according to a statement.
He also states: “We have noticed the speed of lighting with which it deals with claims of alleged damage, even the smallest, to its affiliates or to the rest of the people in his office.”
Netanyahu recently reported a reported accumulation of threats against him on social media, some of which later turned out to have been posted through fake Facebook accounts. His court cases coincided with the ongoing protests opposing him for his corruption and control fees for the coronavirus pandemic. There have also been threats and even violence against anti-Netanyahu protesters, some of whom have been convicted through the Prime Minister.
Netanyahu and his allies also criticized Mandelblit, who was elected by the prime minister as attorney general, for accusing him of a series of corruption cases.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoun described the closure of Gaza’s industrial crossing with Israel as a competitive action and crime by which the Jewish state “bears all the consequences and repercussions.”
Barhoum appears to be threatening the aftermath of the closure of Kerem Shalom, which Israel has closed after waves of balloons were introduced into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip in recent days.
“It is the right of our other people in Gaza to express a state of anger and make their voices heard in the world that has not moved a finger on the continuation of this suffering,” Barhoum says.
Barhoum states that “the use of equipment and bureaucracy to fight a state of anger” is a herbal outcome of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
– Aaron Boxerman
The Israel Defense Forces deny Palestinian media reports that Israel fired on a Palestinian youth organization in the al-Bureij camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.
The alleged incident, first reported through Hamas-linked Safa News, comes amid emerging tensions between Israel and Gaza in recent days. Dozens of balloons were introduced from Gaza and Israel responded by attacking Hamas positions and ending the Kerem Shalom industry crossing.
– Aaron Boxerman
A public swimming pool that runs through the jerusalem township hung a sign last week that the lifeguard on duty that day was not Jewish, the Haaretz newspaper reports.
The Zipori pool sign replaced an old lady who said “today there’s a lifeguard (goy) a lifeguard [woman],” according to the paper.
The pool responds that there are many ultra-Orthodox Jewish women swimming there for whom the lifeguard faith is important.
Sami Amsalem, the pool manager, said he was unaware of the signal and ordered it to come out when he realized it.
– nir hasson (@nirhasson) 10 August 2020
TAIPAI, Taiwan – U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar says it’s more vital to have an effective coronavirus vaccine than to be the first to produce a vaccine.
Azar, a stopover in Taiwan, was asked through ABC what his idea of Russia’s announcement that he had become the first country to sign a vaccine against the virus.
He says: “The purpose is not to be the first to receive a vaccine. The purpose is to have an effective vaccine for other Americans and the rest of the world.”
He says it is having transparent knowledge about the vaccine to achieve its protection and effectiveness. It also notes that the United States has six vaccines in progress under the Operation Warp Speed initiative.
The United States has the number of deaths and instances worldwide, with more than 163,000 deaths and more than five million instances.
Meanwhile, the White House suggests that Kellyanne Conway expressed skepticism about evidence subsidizing Russia’s claim that she had developed a COVID-19 vaccine.
“The American criteria are so strict,” Conway says on Fox and Friends on Fox.
“Our FDA in our country sets the criteria and what I perceive from the Russia announcement is that we are from where we are from.”
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Israel now has more reported cases of coronavirus than China, where the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to a Worldometer account.
There have been 85,354 cases in Israel since the start of the pandemic, to 84,712 in China.
Although it has reported more contagions, Israel is far from China in terms of deaths, with 619 compared to 4,634 shown across Beijing.
Devices with incendiary balloons introduced from the Gaza Strip have at least 20 fires in southern Israel today, according to Hebrew media.
The crownvirus’s tsar, Ronni Gamzu, warns that companies will shut down if they do not impose restrictions on meetings designed to curb the spread of COVID-19.
“A company that exceeds the collection limit is a company that will close,” he said at a briefing.
Gamzu also warns that continued breaches of the ceilings at the rallies can lead to a new blockade. However, it emphasizes that you are looking for such a measure.
“A lockout is part of a million unemployed people,” Gamzu says.
He also expressed fear of declining detection degrees and implored the public to be tested, a precaution of “hidden morbidity.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s economic adviser, Professor Avi Simhon, told a Knesset committee that the budget for Israel’s herbal fuel provision that is intended to be invested through an interest-earning sovereign wealth fund deserves to be invested in the progression of infrastructure in Israel, a move that would require a change of law.
Rejecting MPs’ claims that this would lead the Knesset to abuse funds, Simhon, head of the National Economic Council, says he is confident that MPs will act in the right place.
Simhon says he disagrees with his PREDECESSOR at the NEC, Professor Eugene Kandel, about making a budget investment abroad so as not to flood the Israeli economy with dollars. Now, with the decline in fuel costs and forecasts that only 40 billion shekels ($11.76 billion) will be in the wealth fund until 2030, the time has come to replace management and replace the law, Simhon says.
In late July, the Israel Tax Authority told the committee, created to oversee the creation of the sovereign wealth fund, which hoped that the bills of all corporations generating gas, oil and a diversity of other herbal resources would succeed in two hundred billion shekels. ($59 billion) only until 2064, and will only be raised between $12 billion and $13.4 billion by 2030.
– Sue Surkes
GENEVA – The World Health Organization says any WHO seal of approval on a COVID-19 vaccine candidate would require a rigorous review of protection data, after Russia announced that it had a vaccine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia was the first country to approve a vaccine that provides “sustainable immunity” against the new coronavirus.
“We are in close contact with the Russian fitness government and discussions are underway on an imaginable WHO prequalification for the vaccine,” UN fitness firm spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told journalists in Geneva at an online press conference.
“The prequalification of any vaccine includes a rigorous review and all required protection and efficacy data,” says Jasarevic.
The Russian Sputnik V vaccine was developed through the Gamaleya Research Institute in coordination with the country’s Ministry of Defense.
A total of 165 vaccine applicants are being developed worldwide, according to the latest WHO survey published on 31 July.
Of these, 139 are still in preclinical evaluation, while the remaining 26 are in the other human testing stages, six of which are the most advanced, having reached Phase 3 of clinical evaluation.
Gamaleya’s Russian-produced candidate, which is one of 26 human-tested candidates, is listed as In Phase 1.
– AFP
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said Israel had planned talks with Russia about the coronavirus vaccine that Moscow approved for use earlier in the day, despite considerations for its safety.
“If we are convinced that this is a serious product, we will also review to begin negotiations,” Edelstein says on a scale at an N95 mask production plant in Sderot.
Edelstein notes that Israel has signed origin agreements with Moderna and Arcturus Therapeutics in the United States for vaccines that use and heavily monitor reports on the progression of inoculation.
Israel announced last week that it would begin human trials of a vaccine developed through the Ministry of Defense’s Secret Institute of Biological Research in Ness Ziona in mid-October.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip – Egypt reopens Gaza’s main passenger crossing point for thousands of Palestinians stranded at either border due to the coronavirus crisis for the first time in months.
Gazans who have Egyptian passports, foreign passports and patients seeking remedy abroad should leave rafah crossing at its opening for three days, Hamas’s internal ministry in Gaza said. Another 500 people are expected to leave today, the first time the crossing allows departures from March.
Palestinians were stranded in Egypt and allowed to return to their homes, the ministry added. Arrival traffic was closed from May.
Gaza appears to have controlled the pandemic, in component due to an Israeli-Egyptian blockade that severely restricts movement within and outside the territory. Israel and Egypt imposed the blockade after the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas took to Gaza in 2007.
Gaza reported 81 cases of coronavirus, but all cases were from others who were in mandatory quarantine centers established through Hamas to return to the territory. No cases of network transmission have been reported within Gaza.
To prepare for the return of thousands of Palestinians to Rafah, Hamas has opened more isolation centers in the Gaza Strip.
Israel and Hamas are staunch enemies who have fought 3 wars and skirmishes since 2007. Earlier today, Israel closed its only industrial crossing with Gaza in reaction to balloons loaded with explosives launched through Palestinians into Israel. The balloons caused dozens of fires on Israeli farmland near Gaza.
Israel has stated that the Kerem Shalom crossing will be closed until there is more ice, but that the passage of fuel, food and humanitarian items will be affected.
– Agencies
The Kakhol Lavan component of Defense Minister Benny Gantz has said he will not take part in a plenary vote on an opposition bill that would prevent a Knesset member accused of forming a government, which would prevent Prime Minister Netanyahu from forming a coalition.
“Our principled position on the factor has replaced and will change, but for now it’s just an effort to undermine the stability of the entire political system,” Kakhol lavan said in a statement.
Kakhol lavan spoke in favor of the legislative proposal before agreeing to form a government with Netanyahu after an unfinished election in March, the third in more than a year. Kakhol Lavan and Netanyahu’s Likud now disagree on the passage of a state budget and face a deadline of August 25 to pass one or more new elections.
“In the midst of one of the most serious crises in the history of the country, we decided to do everything imaginable to save them from an election that will cause an economic crisis in the economy and tear Israeli society to pieces,” Gantz’s party says.
He also reiterated his call on the government to adopt a budget until 2021, as agreed with Likud as a component of the coalition agreement between the components.
Netanyahu, on the other hand, has asked for a budget covering only the rest of the year, and says it’s due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Failure to approve a budget or approve a short-term budget may allow Netanyahu to run for re-election without having to hand over the post of prime minister to Gantz as a component of his power-sharing agreement, suggesting that he forced the budget crisis. as a political ploy.
President Reuven Rivlin strongly opposes the option of new elections amid a stalemate over the state budget that could send Israelis to the polls for the fourth time since April 2019.
“I will not rephrase the warnings you know well. I will only say this, as a citizen of this country: it is not possible. There is no way for us to continue to treat this as if it were a logical choice while counting our dead,” said one from Rivlin’s workplace who quoted him in an assembly with Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel, supposedly referring to those who died. COVID-19.
The President adds: “If you take us there, you elected representatives of any party, if you take us to this terrible nadir, you will land a hard, painful and unforgivable blow to this country. Protect yourself from this, you oppose it yourself.” .
Rivlin made statements in an assembly with Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel, in which they announced a new letter to protect press freedom and the protection of journalists.
“In the context of the pointed public debate, we also see a defamatory and violent speech, a toxic environment that has reached cases, serious cases, assaults on journalists,” rivlin says. “It is not right or left, from one political field or another. Silence, defamation, adjustment of accounts or, on the contrary, exploit the force of the media to create an environment that does not allow discussion, and to make way for unilateral reviews and lack diversity, are serious acts ».
Defense Minister Benny Gantz will undergo orthopedic back surgery tonight at Sheba Medical Center, according to his office.
“This is an injury that the Defense Minister has been dragging for many years since his military service as a paratrooper commander, and in recent months the stage has worsened,” said one from his office.
The Department of Energy is calling on the National Council to reduce the plan by more than half its plans for new gas plants.
The stations that the ministry is requesting to be removed from the list of planners are Mevo’ot Gilboa (Gilboa Foothills) south of the northern city of Afula, Sagi 2000, west of Afula, Zvaim near Beit She’an in the north of the Jordan Valley and Hartuv in the Beit Shemesh area, northwest of Jerusalem.
The combination of these 4 stations is 4,860 MW.
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said it’s possible that they’ll simply be removed from the time table because Israel is now building its renewed energy targets, basically with solar energy.
With updated plans to load more than 12,000 MW of renewable energy capacity into the power formula, plus 2,200 MW of garage, until 2030, planners will need to ensure that 4,000 MW can potentially be made available, so that only 1,400 MW are available. will have to be used.
In June, Steinitz raised the electricity target from renewable resources from 17 to 30% until the end of the decade, and the remaining 70% came from herbal gas.
– Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns Palestinian terrorist teams in the Gaza Strip amid an accumulation of incendiary balloon launches to Israel and suggests that Iran is connected with arson attacks.
“I need to tell every satellite in Iran, especially in Gaza, that there will be a high price for the terror of the balloons. We won’t help that,” he said on a stopover at Hatzor Air Force Base.
An inter-ministerial committee of general administrators will be established to discuss the long-term of Haifa Bay and its heavy and polluting industry, according to Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pending government approval.
The committee, which will be led by Prime Minister Ronen Peretz’s Chief of Staff, will be tasked with presenting his findings within 90 days. He’ll do it in petrochemical plants.
“The crisis in Lebanon shows that there is no room for the heavyweights in the center of a metropolitan area,” Gamliel says.
Avi Simhon, head of the National Economic Council, which advises the Prime Minister, said in June that Bazán oil refineries that have long polluted the coastal city of Haifa, and have largely explained their horizon, will have to close within five years and replaced through a modern, green, high-tech residential center.
– Sue Surkes
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – An explosion targeted a convoy of the US-led coalition in Iraq and did not cause casualties, a few hours after a newly formed organization of Shia militants falsely claimed to have bombed a similar convoy on the Iraq-Kuwait border, according to the US military.
The little-known ashab al-Kahf organization said in a statement that it destroyed “equipment and cars belonging to the American enemy” during a bombing at a border post south of the Iraqi city of Basra.
The organization then released an 11-second video that he said showed the explosion, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant organizations. The blurry video shows what gave the impression of being an explosion and lighting fixtures off, however, The Associated Press may simply not find out the video.
The Iraqi and Kuwaiti army has denied any attack. U.S. Army Colonel Myles B. Caggins III also dismissed the claim.
“That’s probably wrong, ” said Caggins to AP. “It’s a total fabrication.”
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