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00:06:32 ◀︎ The leading US expert infectious diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, predicted Wednesday the country will meet its goal of a coronavirus vaccine by year"s end and was unmoved by the prospect that China would get there first.While there are no guarantees, "I feel good about the projected timetable," Fauci told Reuters in an interview.
00:23:29 ◀︎ Help us fulfill a dream for the special needs community
00:45:05 ◀︎ What does the future hold for Jews around the world?
01:08:50 ◀︎ A wave of tweets in what appears to be a massive hacking swept through Twitter Wednesday and used to solicit bitcoin donations, Reuters reported.More than half a dozen high-profile accounts were hacked, including the accounts of US presidential candidate Joe Biden, billionaire Bill Gates, and rapper Kanye West, among others.
01:42:43 ◀︎ A stun grenade was thrown at a business in Bat Yam Wednesday night. There were no injuries.Police say the incident is criminally-related.
02:14:36 ◀︎ Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has again tested positive for coronavirus, he told reporters Wednesday in Brasilia, according to Reuters.Bolsonaro told reporters last week that he had tested positive for COVID-19. Since catching the virus, the President has said he remains in good health and he would resume his normal work schedule if he tested negative this week.
02:46:34 ◀︎ What is really behind the mysterious explosions in Iran?
03:13:57 ◀︎ Hamas denies arresting senior members of the organization
03:37:46 ◀︎ Twitter Wednesday took the extraordinary step of preventing at least some verified accounts from publishing messages altogether in the wake of the massive hacking of several high-profile accounts.Twitter said in a statement that users "may be unable to tweet or reset your password while we review and address this incident."
04:20:40 ◀︎ The British Labour party is poised to make a formal apology to anti-Semitism whistleblowers as part of a settlement designed to draw a line under allegations made during the Jeremy Corbyn era, the Guardian reported Wednesday.The whistleblowers sued the party for defamation in the wake of a BBC Panorama investigation last year which revealed that members of Corbyn's inner circle had interfered with investigations into anti-Semitism in the party.
04:50:09 ◀︎ The mob rules, but not on your front lawn!
05:03:33 ◀︎ When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday evening unveiled a plan to give citizens a monetary grant as part of efforts to deal with the coronavirus crisis, he likely did not expect to win the support of Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg.Zandberg expressed confidence in Netanyahu's plan, saying, "The grant is the right thing to do and making it universal is the right thing to do. It will give families money to spend in a shrinking economy and in businesses that need it."
05:27:30 ◀︎ Dutch government inspectors have said they would fine a store selling wine from Hebron that is labeled as made in Israel, JTA reported Wednesday.The warning came during a July 10 inspection of the Israel Products Center, an importer and retail outfit run by pro-Israel group Christians for Israel.
05:51:25 ◀︎ Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday he is calling for an "international campaign" for the immediate release of a terrorist imprisoned in Israel who is suffering from both cancer and the novel coronavirus, Times of Israel reports.The terrorist, Kamal Abu Wa'er, tested positive for coronavirus earlier this week.
06:00:39 ◀︎ Turkey: Seven security personnel killed in plane crash
06:13:01 ◀︎ Twitter announced its official account that the hacking of several high-profile accounts is believed "to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.""We know they used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet their behalf. We"re looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more here as we have it," the company added."Internally, we"ve taken significant steps to limit access to internal systems and tools while our investigation is going. More updates to come as our investigation continues."
06:15:18 ◀︎ About 20 gravestones in a cemetery in southern France were vandalized with swastikas and the words "Death to Jews" and "Death to the French", JTA reported Wednesday.The graffiti was discovered in the Gruissan municipal cemetery in the Aude region Sunday, according to the report.
06:49:03 ◀︎ Focusing on the Holy Temple and getting ready to rebuild
07:28:34 ◀︎ According to an article in the Haaretz newspaper, Israel is currently preparing a secret list of decision-makers and military and security personnel who are at risk of being arrested abroad if the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague authorizes the opening of investigations into those supposedly guilty of war crimes committed in Judea and Samaria.The report alleges that there are already between 200 and 300 people the list, and not all of them have been informed of the fact.Israel is being especially secretive regarding the list's compilation, out of fear that its publication could endanger those included it, as the ICC could understand the existence of the list as a tacit admission that the people listed are indeed suspected of "war crimes." If legal steps are taken by the Court, Israel will consider requesting those the list to avoid traveling abroad, in order to prevent a situation arising where the government becomes embroiled in efforts to extricate them from legal cases to be tried at The Hague.
07:33:08 ◀︎ In an interview Galei Tzahal this morning, Avi Edri, head of the Union of Transport Workers, explained the rationale behind his willingness to sign an agreement with El Al without involving a representative of the company's pilots."This issue was too big for the pilots' committee," Edri said. "On the e hand, I understand them, but at the end of the day we had no choice the matter, and this was the adult and responsible course of action to take," he said.
07:35:25 ◀︎ Interviewed Galei Tzahal this morning, the governor of the Bank of Israel, Professor Amir Yaron, expressed sharp criticism of the Prime Minister's plan to hand out grants to all Israeli citizens."It's more important to help those who are genuinely in need of the money," he said. "There are better and more effective ways of meeting people's needs."Yaron added that, "I ly heard about the plan via the media."
07:42:13 ◀︎ According to a report in Kan News, members of the Nachshon Brigade (of the Prisons Service) have said that detainees being transferred to courts have been purposely coughing them in order to try and infect them with the coronavirus.They are recommending that prisoners being held before their indictment not be taken to court for hearings remand extension rather, they can watch the hearing from a distance if it takes place nearby.A spokesman from the judiciary responded that holding hearings at locations near the jails was not a realistic proposition.
07:47:56 ◀︎ Minister of the Economy Amir Peretz was interviewed Reshet Bet and asked to comment Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's plan to give grants to all Israeli citizens."They didn't consult with anyone," Peretz said. "The discussion the matter was held Sunday, and we have yet to see if the plan actually materializes. What we should be doing is prioritizing cases, and naturally I have no objection to any plan that is to the benefit of Israeli citizens."Peretz was then asked if he had confidence in the Prime Minister, to which he responded, "We are members of a government that none of us actually likes."
07:50:11 ◀︎ Tehran University Professor: 'Schism between State and people'
07:51:19 ◀︎ According to a United States State Department Bulletin dated July 15 (yesterday), the US administration is planning to impose visa restrictions a number of employees working for Chinese companies deemed to be supporters of human rights abuses."Today, the State Department is imposing visa restrictions certain employees of Chinese technology companies that provide material support to regimes engaging in human rights abuses globally," the statement reads."Companies impacted by today"s action include Huawei, an arm of the CCP"s surveillance state that censors political dissidents and enables mass internment camps in Xinjiang and the indentured servitude of its population shipped all over China. Certain Huawei employees provide material support to the CCP regime that commits human rights abuses."Telecommunications companies around the world should consider themselves notice: If they are doing business with Huawei, they are doing business with human rights abusers."
07:55:51 ◀︎ New daily high of confirmed virus cases in US - 67,600 new cases
08:04:59 ◀︎ Coalition head MK Miki Zohar was interviewed Reshet Bet and asked to comment the government's latest plan to give grants to all Israeli citizens, announced yesterday."The idea behind the plan is primarily to boost the economy," Zohar said. "At the end of the day, the six billion shekels that we plan to give Israeli citizens will end up invested in Israeli businesses."Zohar was then asked whether the plan was simple electioneering, attempting to curry favor in the eyes of voters. "Absolutely not," he responded. "The Prime Minister and the Finance Minister are working to find solutions. All coalition members should be supporting measures that are designed to benefit Israeli citizens, and anyone who decides not to support the plan will have to do some explaining to those who will end up disappointed if the plan falls through."
08:07:14 ◀︎ We must move beyond the hyperbole and focus what the latest science tells us.
08:15:13 ◀︎ In an interview that was livestreamed The Hill, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo downplayed the likelihood of US President Donald Trump holding another summit with the North Korean leader in the near future, given that "material progress" was unlikely to be made at such a meeting.Trump has met with Kim Jong-Un three times already (once in 2018 and twice in 2019), without any concrete results for either side. Speaking later to a private gathering, Pompeo said, "It"s now July. I think that [a summit] is unlikely, but in the event that it was appropriate [and] we thought we could make material progress and the best way to do that was to put President Trump with Chairman Kim to do it, I"m confident that the North Koreans and President Trump would find that in our best interest."
08:20:55 ◀︎ MK Ayelet Shaked (Yamina) was interviewed this morning Galei Tzahal and asked to comment attempts by the Likud party to deny her a position the Knesset's Committee for Judicial Appointments."The Likud worked hard to ensure that I would not be appointed," she said. "The Knesset Speaker called MKs in person, threatening those who refused to come and vote."
08:22:02 ◀︎ Update: 1,758 new coronavirus cases confirmed yesterday
08:25:19 ◀︎ Interviewed 103 FM, Former Minister Chaim Ramon expressed sharp condemnation of many of those protesting against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in recent days."Some of the protesters are demonstrating the same level of hatred and incitement [to violence] that I remember surrounding [former Prime Minister] Yitzhak Rabin," he said. Rabin was ultimately assassinated.
08:31:59 ◀︎ According to a report in Kan News, senior officials in the Health Ministry are weighing the option of imposing a partial lockdown of the country that would apply from evening until morning, and weekends.If a lockdown is decided upon, it will likely apply to the hours between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.
08:34:16 ◀︎ Finance Minister Yisrael Katz told Galei Tzahal this morning that in his estimation, the government will not approve the financial plan outlined by the Prime Minister yesterday, according to which all Israeli citizens would receive a special e-time grant."I think the matter will end up being voted in the Knesset," Katz said.
08:38:54 ◀︎ Director-General of the Health Ministry, Professor Hezi Levy, told Galei Tzahal this morning that he intends to demand a total ban all public gatherings, due to the continued rise in coronavirus transmissions."I will push for stricter regulations at today's discussion," he said. "I want to see all public gatherings stopped, whatever the price we pay for this."
09:00:34 ◀︎ Orange-colored streams flow from disused Russian mine, polluting forest
09:08:27 ◀︎ According to a report published by the Swiss bank UBS, 77% of the world's richest familes (valued average at $1.6 billion each) have seen their investment portfolios "perform in line with, or above, targets during e of the most volatile moments in the history of financial markets."The report, quoted by The Guardian, is referring to the current coronavirus crisis that has led to widespread suffering, but it seems that the virus is not the "great equalizer" many are claiming it to be.
09:15:10 ◀︎ According to a report in the New York Times, the US administration is planning to revoke visas for Chinese Communist party members, a move which could potentially impact close to 100 million people.The report cites four people supposedly well informed the matter, and suggests that the move, if approved, would be similar to the travel ban imposed Muslim-majority countries three years ago which barred people considered to be "detrimental to the interests" of the United States from entering the country.
09:16:18 ◀︎ 1,758 new coronavirus diagnoses in past day
09:17:26 ◀︎ Social workers demonstrating in Jerusalem's Zion Square
09:19:46 ◀︎ First grandson born to Eli Beer, founder of United Hatzalah
09:26:36 ◀︎ MK Dr. Shlomo Karhi (Likud) has rejected criticism directed at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu following the latter's announcement yesterday that he plans to give a second "one-time" grant to every adult Israeli citizen."All these complaints... for some people, whatever you do is wrong," Karhi said. "But these grants really do help people." Karhi added that, "What's perhaps more important is to ensure that the grants to the self-employed and the unemployed are approved when they come before the Knesset next Monday. We still have a lot to fix there."Karhi concluded by noting what the Prime Minister, along with Finance Minister Katz have been saying: "It's better to regret giving too much than too little."
09:27:46 ◀︎ Netanyahu warns against coronavirus 'conspiracy industry'
09:27:46 ◀︎ Bennett's coronavirus committee to hold 2nd meeting today
09:34:36 ◀︎ Kabbalist Rabbi Batzri: Gather at home, strengthen the family
09:45:54 ◀︎ Report: Health Ministry to establish civilian contact tracing for Covid-19
09:45:54 ◀︎ National Association of Police Organizations endorses Trump
09:50:28 ◀︎ MK Mark: 'We didn't make any deals with the Joint List'
09:52:45 ◀︎ Update: New daily high of 1,898 new virus cases yesterday
09:53:52 ◀︎ Social workers, strike for 11 days so far as they demand better working conditions, are demonstrating in Jerusalem this morning. They are currently attempting to block the Light Rail.ההפגנה על פסי הרכבת הקלהצילום: איגוד העובדים הסוציאליים