Artzeinu ○ www.artzeinu.org ○ Vol. 19 No. 650 ○ October 31, 2020 Ministers decide to reopen high infection rates, mostly with majority In Holon, Dozens of anti-government Arab populations, may need to remain on protesters gathered, with a counterprotest p synagogues on Sunday, but lockdown: Taybeh, Kafr Kanna, Manar, by a handful of Netanyahu supporters shops to remain closed Deir al-Asad, Kafr Kassem, Kafr Qara nearby. Some of the protesters supporting Netanyahu reportedly wore shirts with the Government ministers decided in the and I’billin. slogan “Leftists are traitors” on them. early hours of Friday morning to move The reopening of street stores will only go forward the reopening of synagogues to forward if infection rates are below 500 The labeling of political opponents as Sunday, but that street stores must remain per day. If daily cases remain above 500, “traitors” carries particular significance in closed until at least November 8, The shops will only reopen on November 15, Israeli culture due to its association with Times of Israel reports. the date set in the initial reopening plan. the Rabin assassination. Netanyahu has long been accused of playing a part in the The so-called coronavirus cabinet made Malls and market areas are likely to incitement against Rabin prior to his the decision after a lengthy virtual remain shuttered. death. The premier has regularly rebuffed meeting that saw Finance Minister Israel Finance Ministry chief economist Shira the allegations and has characterized them Katz of Likud clash with other officials, Greenberg has estimated the cost of the as a form of “political assassination.” including party leader Prime Minister continued restrictions on the economy at Benjamin Netanyahu, over store NIS 2.3 billion ($673 million) a week. In the weeks before the Rabin reopenings. assassination, Netanyahu, then head of the Hundreds march in Tel Aviv opposition, and other senior members of Katz and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein his Likud party, attended a right-wing of Likud voted against the decision, in protest of Netanyahu political rally in Jerusalem where according to media reports. Katz Several hundred people marched through protesters branded Rabin a “traitor,” demanded stores reopen on Sunday, and the streets of Tel Aviv on Thursday as “murderer” and “Nazi” for signing a Edelstein said the government should part of the weekly demonstrations against peace agreement with the Palestinians agree on lockdown decisions Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, earlier that year. unanimously, and stick to the reopening calling on him to resign due to his plan that called for easing measures every corruption trial and his handling of the At an official memorial ceremony of two weeks. ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Rabin held at the Knesset earlier Thursday, Netanyahu said recent threats Synagogues were supposed to remain Some of those who joined in the march to his own life and to his family were closed until November 15, according to reportedly arrived from an event to mark being ignored. the original reopening plan. The number 25 years since the assassination of the late of worshipers will be limited to 10 prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was “Twenty-five years after the murder of indoors, and 20 outdoors. killed by extremist gunman Yigal Amir at Rabin, there is incitement to assassinate the prime minister and his family, and The coronavirus cabinet also decided that the end of a rally in Tel Aviv in 1995. almost nobody says anything,” Netanyahu vacation rental homes can resume Due to restrictions because of virus said, to jeers from some listening business on Sunday, but that only nuclear spread, there was no memorial ceremony lawmakers. families can stay in the homes, and that held in Rabin Square where the shooting renters cannot use public pools or dining took place, as in previous years. Instead, US to mark passports of halls in the homes’ communities. 25,000 memorial candles were lit at the site. Jerusalem-born citizens with Hairdressers and beauty parlors will also birthplace of ‘Israel’ be allowed to reopen on Sunday, as well There were similar, smaller anti- as “one-on-one” activities, including Netanyahu rallies held at various locations The US State Department plans to reverse driving lessons and fitness training. around the country. Protest organizers a longstanding US policy that passports of said it was the 19th week in a row that Coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu said citizens born in Jerusalem may not say rallies have been held. during the meeting that seven cities with they were born in Israel, The Jerusalem Post reports. Israel, on the aspects of cooperation.” great interest in the sale. The change in policy is expected to take Sudan is grappling with an economic Israel Shipyards Ltd. announced that -- place in the coming days. US Ambassador crisis that includes rapid inflation, a with Dubai-based DP World, one of the to Israel David Friedman said, theweakening currency, and shortages of world's largest sea terminal operators – it “geographic restrictions [in the essential goods. Sudan won the prospect was among the companies submitting a agreements] no longer comport with our of some relief last week when the United bid. The companies previously tendered foreign policy,” in reference to the US States confirmed it would lift Khartoum together to operate ports on the East recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, Coast of the US. Israel in December 2017. The US a designation that had blocked Drink to that embassy was subsequently moved to international funding and debt relief. Jerusalem. The Golan Heights Winery will start Power outage across Israel displaying its bottles of Yarden, Gamla The State Department’s current, official and Mount Hermon wine on shelves in policy as listed on its website “recognizes Malfunctioning power units caused electrical blackouts across Israel early Dubai this week, Hamodia reports. that Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Friday, The Times of Israel reports. Gaza Strip are territories whose final The sale of Golan wine in Dubai, and status must be determined by The Israel Electric Corporation said the soon after elsewhere in the United Arab negotiations.” As such, anyone who was blackouts were caused by “a malfunction Emirates, follows a normalization in born in Jerusalem’s municipal borders in power production units,” and that relations reached between the UAE and after Israel’s establishment is listed as power will return to affected areas shortly. Israel last month. being born in Jerusalem. The policy The company’s website and telephone The Gulf state has described the Golan, explicitly says not to write that the person hotline also went down for a short time, captured by Israel in the 1967 fighting, as was born in Israel. possibly due to an overload as Israelis Syrian territory, and along with the Under the new policy, individuals will be sought to find out what the problem was. international community did not able to choose whether to have Outages were reported shortly before 1 recognize Israel’s annexation of the “Jerusalem, Israel,” or just “Jerusalem” a.m. in Jerusalem, Ashdod, Herzliya, the strategic plateau in 1981. on their passports. Tel Aviv suburbs of Ramat Gan, Last year, U.S. President Donald Trump Sudanese leader defends Givatayim and Rishon Lezion, and other recognized Israeli sovereignty over the areas across the country. Traffic lights and Golan. The UAE said at the time the U.S. Israel diplomacy deal streetlights stopped working in some move “disrupts all efforts to achieve The military leader of Sudan's ruling areas. lasting peace in the Middle East.” council sought to defend on Monday a 18 Haifa port bids The wines will be available in hotels, U.S.-backed agreement to establish restaurants and retail alcohol stores. In relations with Israel, saying the deal was The privatization of the Port of Haifa has the UAE only non-Muslims are legally yet to be concluded and could benefit attracted 18 applications filed Thursday allowed to drink. with the Government Companies Sudan as it struggles with a profound This will be the first Israeli-made wine in Authority from Israel and overseas. economic crisis, The Jerusalem Post the Gulf state. The Golan winery is reports. Despite in the past, however, not a single targeting the wave of Israeli and Jewish In his first public comments on the deal, Chinese company was among the tourists expected to visit the UAE, as Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said he had applicants. well as other tourists and locals who are consulted the prime minister and most The Government Companies Authority allowed to consume alcohol. political forces before the agreement was said that the large number of bids * * * announced last Friday in a call with U.S. received, included offers from leading “You can always make peace with an President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime international players in ports and F-16 in your pocket.” – Yitzhak Rabin Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. shipping, and was an indication of the The move is controversial in Sudan, once a staunch enemy of Israel, and has stirred opposition from some prominent political factions. “I always prefer to call it reconciliation instead of normalisation,” Burhan said in a televised interview. “So far, we have not Artzeinu, online at www.artzeinu.org, is published weekly by Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, 125 E. 85th Street, concluded an agreement. 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