The Times of Israel is blogging about Monday’s developments as they unfold.
Saudi state television said the final verdicts were broadcast in the case of Washington Post columnist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi after his circle of relatives announced pardons that saved five other people from the execution.
The Criminal Court of Riyadh has definitive verdicts that oppose 8 people.
The court ordered a maximum sentence of 20 years for five years, one sentenced to 10 years and two to seven years in Array.
The trial was widely criticized by human rights teams and an independent UN investigator, who noted that senior officials or suspected of ordering the killing were not convicted.The independence of the court has also been questioned.
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The government is expanding existing fitness regulations for workplaces until October 5, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Regulations, which also require workplaces with more than 10 workers to designate a user guilty of fitness issues, are:
1.Keep a distance of two meters between workers as much as possible
2. Maintain hygiene and masks
3.Assignment of disinfection devices or appliances transmitted between employees
4. Schedule workers on duty, as much as possible
5. Temperatures at the entrance
6.The office will be seated in normal positions two meters from each other or separated through a barrier, as much as possible
7.Eating and drinking will be done in employees’ rooms, possible
8.The employer will arrive at the paintings of the house as much as possible.
9.Elevators will not be occupied at more than 50% of their capacity.
10.For work in the workplace, assemblies shall be carried out with more workers than the number of workers allowed through the restriction of meetings, up to 50 persons, provided that the worker guilty of coronavirus matters certifies that the assembly simply cannot be held online and as long as the food is not served.
The High Court agreed to hear a petition filed through the parties to the conflict of the proposed structure of an energy waste incineration plant in Maale Adumim, West Bank, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
The project, nicknamed the Good Samaritan, has already moved to the initial level of the tender.
Opponents must convince the court that the civil administration’s ruling, governing Maale Adumim, not to rezonize the site, reserved years ago for landfill, means that the public opposes the plan.
They have a new zoning plan for an incinerator that will allow local citizens to make their reviews clear before a resolution is taken.
The government and civilian leadership argued in vain that the petition was not heard because the assignment was at an “too early” stage.
The Minister of Environmental Protection, Gila Gamliel, has frozen plans for energy waste conversion plants within Israel’s borders, but in the West Bank, to review waste policy in general.
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German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he has come out of an induced coma and is reacting.
Navalny, a fierce, high-profile critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was transferred to Germany on 22 August, two days after fallen ill on a domestic flight to Russia.-he was a nerve agent, which led the German government last week to ask Russia to investigate the case.
The Berlin Charity Hospital says Navalny’s condition has improved, allowing doctors to finish the medically induced coma and relieve him of mechanical ventilation.He notes that he responds to speech, but “the long-term consequences of severe poisoning cannot yet be ruled out.”
He has been in a coma in Berlin since being transferred to Germany for treatment.
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The tsar of the virus, Ronni Gamzu, apologizes for his comments opposed to the ultra-Orthodox rabbi Chaim Kanievsky.
Kanievsky reportedly told ultra-Orthodox scholars not to get tested for coronavirus, prompting a rebuke from Gamzu, who warned that he was endangering public health.
Haredi Mishpacha mag later reported that the rabbi was not referring to general policy, but to express cases about academics who had been evaluated two weeks earlier and had since maintained remote examination “capsules”.However, there were conflicting reports on the subject, with several media outlets adding Channel 12 and Walla News, which caused officials close to the rabbi to confirm his rejection of the evidence without offering warnings.
Gamzu told Channel 12: “I regret the false impression resulting from the sesathed publication of Rabbi Kanievsky’s comments, which I respect and admire, and I said.”
“I reviewed it and it turns out that Rabbi Kanievsky never instructed not to be reviewed, however, it was a resolution that was based on the recommendation of several rabbis for express instances of yeshiva scholars in closed pills that had already passed the coronavirus tests, in accordance with the policies explained in advance,” he said.
Gamzu’s comments opposed to Kanievsky provoked a wave of complaints among the Haredim, as well as requests for his resignation.
Night curfews in 40 highly infected towns and villages will begin tonight after the government does not finish a list of locations on time, Channel 12 reports.
The government passed the resolution on Sunday night, which must come into force tonight.
On Monday, the EU expressed “deep fear and sorrow” at Belgrade’s promise to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, overembled the resumption of serbia-Kosovo talks.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti will meet in Brussels for a momentary circular of face-to-face talks negotiated by the EU on differences two decades after wartime clashes.
The assembly follows a high-profile white space summit where Vucic and Hoti signed appropriate statements on measures for economic relations and, in the case of Serbia, pleding to move their embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The EU is still committed to the two-state solution in which Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel and a long-term Palestinian state, and its own diplomatic project is in Tel Aviv.
The bloc expects members like Serbia to align with their foreign policy positions.
“In this context, any diplomatic action that can simply call the EU’s unusual position on Jerusalem is a source of great fear and regret,” EU foreign secretary Peter Stano told the press in Brussels.
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Defense Minister Benny Gantz also condemns Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman for asking Israelis to disobey government regulations on viruses.
He called the comment “irresponsible” and suggested that he use the pandemic to consolidate political capital.
“The coronavirus is there to move seats [to the Knesset] [from one party to another] or a means of political change,” Gantz says.
The Gaza Strip saw 182 new coronaviruses today, as a wave of threats to overwhelm the coastal enclave, Gaza’s ministry of fitness said.
Just two weeks ago, Gaza had no coronavirus samples and all newcomers were subjected to 21-day quarantine procedures upon arrival in the Strip.
Today, Gaza has 1,054 instances, with viral access points detected by the band.Hamas has declared a general blockade, but has recently eased restrictions in some less affected spaces to allow others to return to work.daily instances are accelerating.
Experts warn that Gaza’s fitness formula is weak and bruised by repeated wars between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, as well as by a 14-year-old Gaza blockade through Israel and Egypt.Two weeks ago, Gaza had 87 enthusiasts for its 1.8 million inhabitants.
If the number of active instances exceeds 2,000, Hamas fitness officials warned last week, Gaza’s fitness formula could collapse.
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Russia’s foreign minister meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad shortly after landing in the Syrian capital for its first stopover since 2012.
Russia has been a close friend of Assad’s in the devastating nine-year civil war in Syria, offering its government in Damascus significant military, economic and political support. Russian troops have been fighting alongside Syrian government forces since 2015, and President Vladimir Putin has visited the war-torn country twice, adding in January this year.
Sergey Lavrov is in the midst of a serious economic crisis in Syria and the coronavirus pandemic.
The official Syrian newspaper Al-Watan reported that a high-ranking Russian delegation, led by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov, arrived in Syria on Sunday at a joint press convention to be held through Lavrov and Syria’s foreign minister Walid al-Moallem.later monday.
The newspaper quotes Syria’s ambassador to the Russian Federation, Riad Haddad, saying that the visit of the Russian delegation “is of particular importance, given the political and economic problems that will be discussed”, which, in his opinion, included progress in the paintings of a committee responsible for discussing imaginable amendments to the Syrian charter and western sanctions that oppose Syria , as well as counter-terrorism efforts.
Talks between the government, the opposition and civil society delegations resumed in Geneva last month, discussing a new letter imaginable to the war-torn country.THE UN envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, called the talks an “open door” to a definitive solution to the protracted confrontation in Syria.
The pandemic forced the postponement of an earlier assembly in March.
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The United Arab Emirates plans to send an official delegation to Israel on 22 September from the standardization efforts announced last month, Reuters news firm reports.
The report is not shown through the Israeli authorities.
A source cited through the report indicates that Israel will be shown after the announcement of a date for the washington signing rite of the standardization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, probably in mid-September.
An Israeli and American delegation visited Abu Dhabi the week.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein of Likud condemns Yisrael Beytenu’s leader, Avigdor Liberman, for urging Israelis to forget about government regulations on viruses.
“Liberman is playing with fire,” Edelstein tweeted, accusing the opposition of acting “recklessly and irresponsiblely and taking credit for a fragile economic situation and physical fitness.Shame on you.”
Knesset President Yariv Levin remains in Liberman for his comment.
The call is “irresponsible,” says Levin, and “will create anarchy and jeopardize the fitness of all of Israel. It is the opposite of being a public example and leadership.”
Swiss Chancellor Ignazio Cassis said Monday that he had held “fruitful” talks with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on “peace, economic and human rights.”
The Swiss embassy in Tehran deals with Americans in Iran, as ties were cut in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Cassis is expected to meet with President Hassan Rohani as part of a three-day trip to Tehran, celebrating a century of relations between Switzerland and Iran.
“Peace, economic progress and human rights – fruitful with my counterpart,” Cassis wrote on Twitter after the s.
According to the U.S. State Department, Secretary Mike Pompeo had a phone call with Cassis to Tehran, suggesting that discussions on Tehran-Washington relations are troubling.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh denied “speculation” on Monday and said it was a scale delayed due to the new coronavirus outbreak and is “unrelated to Iran and the United States.”
“I am pleased that together we create the Swiss humanitarian channel for the transfer of food and medical supplies to the Iranian people,” Cassis said on Twitter.
Known by its acronym SHTA, the Swiss channel is a payment mechanism aimed at allowing food, medicine and other humanitarian aid to be sent to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions.
Humanitarian goods are theoretically sanction-free, however, foreign purchases of such materials are almost because banks worry about making mistakes about the United States in doing business with Iran.
The chain created and completed its first transaction before this year.
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Yesh Atid’s leader, Yair Lapid, says he is in a position to take a leadership vote for the first time since the party was founded eight years ago.
But Lapid says the party will only know how that vote will take place next year, after its first conference.
“There will be a vote. I am satisfied, it is time, but we will do it without pressure,” Lapid said, days after his colleague Ofer Shelah called the leadership primaries and said he would run.
“But no one gives me ultimatums. I will not allow trends that have destroyed parties like the Labour Party and Kadima to destroy Yesh Atid as well,” lapid said, referring to the number one battles debatable in other centre-left parties.
Excludes open primaries.
Greece will no longer limit the number of Israeli tourists allowed in the country or restrict them to a handful of cities, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
However, Israeli tourists still want negative control of the coronavirus 72 hours before traveling to Greece.
The announcement comes after Chancellor Gabi Ashkenazi met with his Greek counterpart.
Ashkenazi said the easing of restrictions “is due to close ties” between Athens and Jerusalem.
The announcement comes despite the growing number of virus cases in Israel.
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid will soon announce that he will allow the party to hold public primaries and say a resolution will be made on how to elect the party leader until next year.
He will make the announcement at the faction’s weekly assembly, to the Hebrew reports.
Last week, a prominent Yesh Atid lawmaker said the centrist party had an “urgent” desire to hold leadership primaries, which would be the first since it was founded in 2012 through Lapid.MP Ofer Shelah has announced that it will fight for leadership if the primaries are held before the national election, which many analysts will likely hold in early next year.
Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman urges Israelis to comply with “illegal” government fitness regulations.
“Regulations are illegal, don’t comply, but don’t use an unusual sense,” Liberman said, according to the Hebrew media.
Health and government officials are suffering to finalize a list of 40 villages that will be subject to a curfew in the middle of the night to stop the spread of coronavirus amid heavy repression through municipal leaders, according to public radio reports.
Nightly closings must begin tonight, after being approved through the company on Sunday.
Army radio quotes a fitness officer as saying the list will be sealed at dusk. The 40 cities and towns are the so-called red spaces with the infection rates.
Curfews will be in effect every day between 7 p.m.and five in the morning. Non-essential businesses will close curfew.Schools will be closed at all times.
A homicide rate was filed against a Palestinian in the West Bank for stabbing Rabbi Shai Ohayon to death in the central city of Petah Tikva last month.
Prosecutors are filing hostile homicide charges against Khalil Abd al-Khaliq Dweikat, 46, from the village of Rujeeb in the northern West Bank, before lod District Court.He is also charged with “illegal possession of a knife in cases of an act of terrorism.”
Court documents imply that Dweikat confessed the crime to investigators.Throughout his investigation, the defendant “showed no empathy, regret for eer the victim or his family,” the prosecutors said.
Ohayon, a father of four 39-year-olds.
The Ministry of Education says 172 academics and 62 teachers have COVID-19 since the school year began last week, according to the Walla news website.
Another 4,360 academics and 720 are quarantined.
Security firm Shin Bet claims to have thwarted a Hamas bombing on Bilu Junction in central Israel.
He says an Israeli Arab, Mahmoud Miqdad, 30, was arrested on 15 August for the plot.Miqdad, the son of an Israeli Bedouin mother and a father from Gaza, was able to move freely between Israel and Gaza and was recruited through Hamas to unleash terrorist attacks opposed to the Israelis, he said.
At the end of 2019, Miqdad agreed to launch an attack. The Shin Bet says it then collected intelligence for Hamas, adding data on the location of The Iron Dome anti-missile batteries, and a target.In recent months, he has also been trained in Gaza in bomb making.
He set up the bomb in June and chose his goal: a bus stop at Bilu Junction, he said.
He arrested him before making the attempt and will be charged today for security breaches.
Nine members of his family, in addition to his brother, were also arrested for their imaginable involvement.
Saudi state television said the final verdicts were broadcast in the case of Washington Post columnist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi after his circle of relatives announced pardons that saved five other people from the execution.
The Criminal Court of Riyadh has definitive verdicts that oppose 8 people.
The court ordered a maximum sentence of 20 years for five years, one sentenced to 10 years and two to seven years in Array.
The trial was widely criticized through human rights teams and an independent UN investigator, who noted that senior officials or suspected of ordering the killing were not convicted.The independence of the court has also been questioned.
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