The Times of Israel published Sunday’s news as they unfolded.
The Israeli government has negotiated the sale of spyware manufactured through the Israeli company NSO Group to the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf countries, Haaretz reports.
According to the report, there has been a large value of millions of dollar sales in recent years to the Gulf countries. According to the report, these nations are controlled through a special branch within NSO which is the company’s ultimate success.
“A product sold in Europe for $10 million, you can in the Gulf 10 times more,” Haaretz quoted to a source.
The report indicates that NSO Group has contracts with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and the emirates Abu Dhabi and Ras al Khaimah. He says the company uses codes to designate those countries: calls from car brands that share a first letter with the country’s call, so that, for example, Saudi Arabia is designated as Subaru, Jordan is called Jaguar and Bahrain is BMW.
The company’s Pegasus software allows agents to take a phone through the WhatsApp app, surreptitiously register their cameras and handsets from remote servers and absorb non-public knowledge and geolocations.
WhatsApp is suing NSO Group, according to Facebook’s own messaging service to conduct cyberespionage in news, human rights activists and others. Among the accounts allegedly attacked were those of senior officials, hounds and human rights activists from around the world.
The spyware was implicated in the horrific murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was dismembered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in a 2018 incident that was also related to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
– Agencies have contributed
Iran says a week a week coming up through the head of the UN atomic surveillance company in Tehran has nothing to do with a US push to impose so-called “recovery” sanctions on Iran.
Iran’s official IRNA news firm quotes Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Kazem Gharibadadi, saying this week’s scale “is not similar to the recovery mechanism or the US demand.”
Gharibabadi says IAEA leader Rafael Grossi is “part of Iran’s invitation.”
“We do not allow others to manage Iran,” he said, adding that Iran’s confidence in the IAEA has “undermined in recent months.”
He expressed the hope that Grossi would build trust. “It is vital to assure Tehran that the company will move on the basis of impartiality, independence and professionalism,” says Gharibabadi.
The IAEA said Saturday that Grossi would go to Tehran to pressure the Iranian government to access sites where the country allegedly stored or used undeclared nuclear materials.
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A sentence is extending the arrest of a guy suspected of being involved in an alleged group rape at the southern Beach Hotel in Eilat that surprised the nation, according to Walla.
Previously, police arrested seven other suspects, in addition to the two juveniles arrested in the first place.
According to suspicion, up to 30 men involved.
Israeli actor Moshe Ivgy, who was sentenced last month to six months of network service and a fine for indecent assault, looks good on the sentence and his conviction.
The state asked for 15 months for Ivgy and the women’s organizations deplored the sentence as a disgrace.
First, he was accused of harassing six women who worked with him on filming, television shows and plays.
The women told the Walla news site about personal essays in which Ivgy was forced to do so, insisting on unnecessary repetitions of intimate scenes and kissing them against her will.
Fees opposed to Ivgy were filed in 2018, and prosecutors claimed to have discovered enough evidence that he exploited his prestige to devote indecent acts and sexual harassment 4 in 2012 and 2013, some of them in the workplace.
He had been charged with four counts of indecent assault and three counts of sexual harassment, but the Haifa District Court convicted Ivgy on a charge of indecent attack and presented inadequate evidence to acquit him for the other charges.
Israel’s ambassador to the United States told the Dubai-based Saudi news network Al Arabiya, which expects the Arab country to signal a normalization agreement with Israel in the coming weeks.
“There are several countries where there are opportunities [for peace],” Dermer said in the interview, which took place on Friday and was broadcast today. “I do not mean this specific country or not, however, there are several countries and we hope to see some other progress very, very, soon, in the coming weeks and months.”
Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on 13 August that they would identify full diplomacy as a component of a US-negotiated agreement that required Israel to halt its plans to annex parts of the West Bank.
The historic agreement was a key foreign policy victory for U.S. President Donald Trump in his quest for re-election and reflected a conversionable Middle East in which shared considerations about Iran far outweighed classic Arabic for Palestinians.
U.S. and Israeli officials have warned that more Arab countries could soon stick to the leadership of the United Arab Emirates, and it was noted that Bahrain and Oman are the closest to concluding such agreements.
– Agencies have contributed
A Jordanian ruling has ordered the release of the thirteen elected members of the union council of teachers who were arrested a month ago for alleged corruption, according to a judicial source.
The government shut down the union and arrested its leaders on July 25 after campaigning for higher wages in the indebted kingdom, whose economy is reeling from the coronavirus pandemic.
The government also imposed an order of silence opposed to the publication of the main points of the prosecutor’s investigation into the case.
The professors’ association’s lawyer, Bassam Freihat, confirms the 13, adding the incumbent holder of the Nasser Nawasreh union.
The lawyer told the AFP that they had completed an era of one month of legal detention on bail through the justice system.
“The court also made the decision to release several teachers who had been arrested in demonstrations” before and after the arrest of their leaders, Freihat said.
Neither the court source nor the lawyer is in a position to give additional main points or to say whether the other thirteen people will face additional legal action.
– AFP
The Ministry of Environmental Protection reports that the use of plastic bags in primary retail chains fell by 74% last year from last year, saving 22,000 tons of plastic.
A law requiring primary food stores to rate 10 agorot (three cents) implemented as of January 1, 2017.
However, small supermarkets, pharmacies and many other outlets still offer loose plastic bags. When asked if the branch envisaged expanding the law, a spokeswoman said it had no comment.
– Sue Surkes
Two suspected explosive devices were discovered in southern Israel after they were allegedly airlifted to Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, as such balloon attacks continued on the day, according to officials from the Eshkol region.
“A device discovered next to a playground and another in a tree. In both cases, a police sapper called. There were no injuries or injuries,” Eshkol’s spokesman said.
Throughout the day, dozens of balloons were introduced with explosives and incendiary devices from the Strip to southern Israel, causing at least 11 fires, authorities said.
According to the chimney and rescue services, chimneys have been reported in the areas of Sha’ar Hanegev, Eshkol, Hof Ashkelon and Sderot.
The branch of the chimney said that most of the chimneys were small and did not pose a risk to neighboring communities.
– Judah Ari Gross
A senior police officer told the Twelfth Channel that police had evidence of a teenage woman’s account that she was raped in an organization in Eilat through 30 men.
The official said the rape lasted “a long time,” according to the report, and that the police had “sensitive” evidence that they would reveal at this time.
According to the testimony in the case, there may be video footage of the assault.
“We have 11 arrests because they are suspected of being involved in the rape,” the source said. “The more time passes, the more reliable the girl’s testimony seems.”
Although the official did not reveal precisely how many police men had taken part in the breach, he noted that the number of suspects was “certainly double-digit.”
But, he adds, “even one would have been too much.”
Encouraged by the alleged gang rape of a teenage girl in Eilat, Israelis will hold demonstrations across the country tonight to protest against violence against women.
The rally will take place in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square at 8 p.m.
The protests will stick to a brief stop-up of previous-day paintings through dozens of shops and state and municipal agencies, also to protest against rape and opposing violence in general.
The midday strike, which lasts about an hour, aims to “protest against the development of violence against women and women in Israel, and lack of sufficient punishment,” says bonot Alternative.
One of the event’s organizers, Ariel Peleg, told the AFP that at least 30 organizations and companies, municipalities and Microsoft Israel participated in the midday vigil.
– With AFP
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to stop sudan and Bahrain in the coming days, according to the State Department, in a region that was already scheduled for stopovers in Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Sudan is one of the countries that is reportedly about to point to a standardization with Israel as it pointed out with the United Arab Emirates.
The State Department said that during its stopover in Sudan, Pompeo will “express its assistance in deepening relations between Sudan and Israel.”
He said that in Israel, U.S. Secretary “will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem to discuss regional security issues similar to Iran’s malicious influence and deepen Israel’s relations in the region.”
Opposition MP and former IDF staff chief Moshe Ya’elon de Yesh Atid-Telem recommends that police read an e-book on Nazi war crimes after a night of clashes between officials and protesters, firing fire from police and the Minister of Public Security.
During an opposing demonstration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu near his official apartment in Jerusalem on Saturday night, in which Yaalon was present, scuffle erupted when police forcibly evicted protesters from the demonstration site.
Officials said the demonstration was illegal due to night noise violations for local residents.
In one incident, a senior police officer appeared to have assaulted at least two protesters in a filmed incident, prompting the conviction of politicians and triggering a police investigation.
Today, Ya’alon wrote on Twitter that Jerusalem police read the 1990 e-book “Fulfilling Orders” through left-wing Israeli historian Yigal Elam. The e-book explores Adolf Hitler’s orders to devote war crimes against Jews.
Public Security Minister Amir Ohana of Netanyahu’s Likud party, in reaction to Yaalon’s tweet, called for “inciting the police.”
“The comparison between those who threaten their lives 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the peace and security of the citizens of Israel and the ‘execution of orders’ in Nazi Germany. Shame on you,” Ohana writes.
Israeli police also responded to Yaalon on their official Twitter account, writing: “Such statements are a direct continuation of the frantic explosion opposed to Israeli police officers, demonstrations and online, and for the time being through an elected official who intends to serve as an example for voters.
“Your implicit advice and comparison are invalid and unacceptable, and we proposed that Ms. Ya’alon run from such comparisons with those established by law, order and security.”
– Luke Tress contributed.
Firefighters and rescues say that at least 28 fires have been fires so far through incendiary devices with balloons introduced today in southern Israel from the Gaza Strip.
He said most of the fires were minor and caused damage.
Amid a developing coalition crisis that appears to be on the verge of pushing Israel into a fourth election since last April, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will face the country tonight.
A from his workplace convenes a press convention at 8:30 p.m., just one hour before a key Knesset commission votes on a move that could give the troubled coalition a break.
At the heart of the ongoing crisis is whether the government adopts a budget that includes 2021, as stipulated in the coalition agreement and supported through the Kakhol lavan party, or a budget that only covers the rest of 2020, as insisted through Netanyahu’s Likud. Bringing up the uncertainty caused by the pandemic.
As things stand, passing a state budget until Monday night will trigger automatic elections.
However, Likud and Kakhol lavan discussed the terms of a compromise agreement that would pose the immediate risk of new elections by extending the deadline for adopting a state budget to one hundred days.
So far, there has been little indication that there is an agreement in sight before nine o’clock at night. The Knesset Finance Committee votes on the compromise measure.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said an “act of sabotage” caused an explosion at the Natanz nuclear facility last month, according to Iranian al-Alam television.
The July 2 explosion, attributed through foreign means to Israel or the United States, which some experts say was particularly delayed in Iran’s nuclear program, broke a centrifuge meeting and progression plant.
Iranian news broke last month named a suspect who, according to the government, caused the explosion.
According to a report through “Didban Iran”, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps concluded that the instigator of the explosion Ershad Karimi, a contractor on the site that owns a company, MEHR, that supplies precision measuring equipment.
According to a New York Times report, the maximum explosion is likely to be the result of a bomb placed at the facility, potentially on a strategic fuel line. The report does not rule out the option that used a cyberattack to cause a malfunction that caused the explosion.
The explosion component of a series of mysterious explosions at Iranian strategic sites in recent weeks, which have been widely attributed to Washington or Jerusalem, or both.
More than 100,000 protesters are not easy to resign from the authoritarian Belarusian president gather in a giant square in the capital and then march into the city, holding the gigantic explosion of dissent that has rocked the country since a disputed presidential election two weeks ago.
Today’s demonstration extends to Minsk’s vast 7-hectare (17-acre) independence square. There are no official figures on the length of the crowd, but it turns out that there are 150,000 people or more. The protesters then head for the square of about 2.5 kilometers (1 1.2 miles).
Police made no prompt effort to interrupt the demonstration. Earlier this month, another 7,000 people were arrested, many of them beaten with sticks or rubber bullet wounds, post-Election protests on 9 August, which authorities say gave President Alexander Lukashenko a sixth term.
Protesters claim that the official effects of the elections, in which Lukashenko received 80% of the vote, are fraudulent.
The scale and duration of the protests are unprecedented in Belarus, a 9.5 million more former Soviet republic that Lukashenko has ruled with an iron hand for 26 years.
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The Ministry of Health announces that another 10 people have been killed by coronavirus since midnight, bringing the national death toll to 834.
It puts the total number of infections since the start of the pandemic at 102,380, an increase of 720 since midnight, with 398 severe cases.
The number of patients with the virus is 79,501.
By blaming Netanyahu for the game of birds that he can make Israel move on to some other election, Kakhol lavan asks the president to “regain his spirits and come back to see the country’s intelligence, rather than his own non-public gain.” “
In a statement, he accused Netanyahu of “spitting in the face of the Israeli public.”
An opinion vote on Channel 13 that Netanyahu’s Likud rose to 31 seats when the elections were now held.
It Yesh Atid 19 seats, Yamine 18 and common list (Arabic) 13.
Then came Kakhol Lavan with 11, Yisrael Beitenu 8, Shas 7, United Torah Judaism 7 and Meretz 6.
A traditional distribution of the blocks is right / Orthodox 63, with the Central Arabs left on the 49th and Yisrael Beytenu on the 8 between them.
However, Yamina’s leader, Naftali Bennett, recently said he would not present Netanyahu as prime minister after some other election circular.
Jared Kushner, a father-in-law and senior adviser to President Trump, believes that normalization between Israel and the United Arab Emirates “should increase the likelihood” of Abu Dhabi getting the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
“This is all we’re doing,” Kushner told CNN about the possible arms deal, which raised objections in Israel, and Netanyahu denied accepting it under Israel’s new treaty with the United Arab Emirates.
Last week, UAE Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash told the Atlantic Council that his country’s request to purchase U.S. F-35 stealth bombers was not part of the agreement with Israel, but that the agreement removes “any obstacles” to its acquisition.
For years, the United States has rejected Arab states’ demands to acquire complex American weapons systems, because of an ancient political doctrine involving Israel.
After the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the United States Congress promised to maintain Israel’s “qualitative advantage” of the army in the Middle East through Jerusalem’s position before promoting complex weapons to Jewish state neighbors.
Today, Kushner says Washington will “obviously” take a look at Israel’s “qualitative advantage” before making a decision, “and we’ll do everything according to the right standards, but that’s something the State Department and the U.S. military are for. . “
The Israeli government prevented imports of vehicles from passing through the Erez crossing with the Gaza Strip in reaction to waves of explosive balloons introduced from the territory to Israel.
As a result of the violation of the security stability procedure and the resolution of the closure of the Kerem Shalom industrial crossing, with the exception of humanitarian equipment, it is noted that the importation of vehicles, which has so far taken place through the Erez Pass, has also been halted since today,” a security source told the Times of Israel.
The security source does not verify Gaza reports that Israel allows nothing, food and medical supplies, through crossing points.
In recent weeks, Gaza-based groups have resumed the launch of balloon explosive devices in southern Israel, causing dozens of fires that have caused environmental damage and in the region. Rockets have also been fired several times at Israeli cities and towns.
These attacks have resulted in Israeli movements of daily retaliation opposed to what he claims to be Hamas facilities. Israel also gradually closed the Kerem Shalom industrial crossing and banned Gazan fishermen from demarcated fishing domain to pressure Hamas to repress Gaza-based balloon launchers.
– Aaron Boxerman
On day 11, Netanyahu said he accepted a compromise offer that would delay the budget term by a hundred days, avoiding new elections.
In a televised press, he said it was obligatory to continue dealing with the coronavirus crisis.
“For the sake of national responsibility, I have tonight to settle for the compromise proposal,” he says. “This proposal allows us without delay to inject cash for the smarts of other Israeli people and the economy; this avoids the need for elections.”
He began his speech through the directory of his accomplishments, saying, “We are in ancient times. Our peace agreement with the United Arab Emirates marks the beginning of a new era of peace in the Middle East.”
Netanyahu points out that he will meet with U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo in Jerusalem and that the two will “discuss peace with more nations,” which he says will come in the near future.
He attributes these advances to his long-term “doctrine,” which he describes as “peace, peace.”
“Peace has many fruits,” he says, bringing out the economic situation linking the coronavirus crisis.
The vote on the compromise agreement, presented by Derech MP Zvi Hauser, is expected to take place in the coming minutes on the Knesset Finance Committee; The proposal is then expected to be sent to the Knesset plenary for final approval.
Netanyahu says avoiding elections is the right thing to do for the country’s well-being. It stresses the imperative to combat the pandemic, while stating that Europe is suffering from a deeper recession and higher unemployment than Israel.
Netanyahu claims it was Kakhol Lavan who caused the crisis he now says he is avoiding.
“This is the time for unity, not elections,” he says. Kakhol lavan will have to “stop the government within the government” which, he says, constantly attacks the Likud.
We will have to “paint in combination” to deal with the demanding situations israel faces, he says, and adds the fight against COVID and its economic benefits, thwarting Iran, strengthening security and concluding new peace agreements. “Let’s unred and paint in combination to achieve those vital goals,” he says.
Netanyahu also urges the right-wing/Orthodox Yamina party to join the government.
In an example of a dysfunctional relationship between him and the party of the rival coalition, he indicated in reaction to a consultation that he had not informed Kakhol Lavan’s leader, Benny Gantz, before the press convention, that he accepted Hauser’s proposal to the election.
Netanyahu is asked about a vote through the thirteenth channel before tonight which, the journalist tells him, shows that 50% of the public thinks he is making decisions based on his non-public and legal interests. “So few,” he marvels, explaining that he thinks he would be superior as the media “are absolutely enlisted in the war that opposes me.” Now, he adds, “they’ll say I don’t need [a choice] for non-public reasons.
In reaction to additional questions, he said he did not aim to avoid a new police commissioner and a new prosecutor in violation of his coalition agreement. And he complains that the public has not been informed that a criminal case has recently been discreetly closed against Kakhol Lavan’s Justice Minister, Avi Nissenkorn. In fact, the ministry said last week that such a case has not even been opened, but the investigation was officially closed in May. If such a case had troubled a right-wing politician, Netanyahu said, he would have been in all media.
Netanyahu is also asked if there will be a crisis in three months and whether he will hand over the post of prime minister to Gantz in November 2021 as promised. He says there’s no need for a crisis if the government is working properly.
Gantz’s Kakhol Lavan party is not yet entirely convinced that Netanyahu is going to say that the electoral crisis is over, the Twelfth Channel reports.
The party will only do so if and when the final vote that postpones a 100-day budget, and thus avoid automatic recourse to elections, it is passed in law some time before midnight on Monday.
Netanyahu said at his press convention that he had heard that Gantz now opposes Hauser’s proposal to delay the budget. Apparently this is one of the comments that still worry Kakhol lavan.
Zvi Hauser of the younger faction Derekh Eretz said, “I am pleased to hear” that Netanyahu had accepted his proposal, but that he had not yet been voted.
Likud coalition president Miki Zohar said Netanyahu’s agreement on the proposal that it “puts Israel’s interests at the forefront” and that all claims to the contrary were a political “throwback.”