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March 3, 2021 at 1:07 pm
Recent Mediterranean oil spill an act of 'environmental terrorism,' Gila Gamliel says
A "pirate ship" owned by a Libyan company that departed from Iran is accountable for the recent oil spill in the Mediterranean sea, Israel's Environment Protection Minister Gila Gamliel said on Wednesday.
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"After reducing the number of suspects in the incident, we discovered that it was not just environmental crime - but environmental terrorism," she said in a tweet.
The minister added that the incident amounted to an "environmental attack" on Israel. Read m...
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March 3, 2021 at 1:01 pm
Chief of Staff Kohavi slams ICC decision. 'We won't allow IDF servicemen to be placed at legal risk.'
IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi on Wednesday addressed a letter to IDF servicemen following the International Criminal Court's announcement it would investigate Israel for alleged war crimes.
"IDF Commanders and Soldiers,
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) announced today that it has decided to open a criminal investigation into suspicions of war crimes in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This decision is fundamentally invalid and was made in a non-substantive manner and without authority.
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March 3, 2021 at 12:55 pm
Realizing they lack a path to 51 votes, Senate Democrats appear ready to abandon a plan to add a minimum wage hike to President Biden’s $1.9 trillion spending package.
Senate Democrats said it’s now much more likely they will take up a wage hike in separate legislation and not on the broad COVID-19 spending package that they hope to usher into law.
“We are going to find another path, which we need to do,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat. “Even though the parliamentarian has ruled and even though we may not have the votes right now, we will find another path.”
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March 3, 2021 at 12:51 pm
Maryland will hear the loud mating call of billions of 17-year cicadas in May and June. The state will be the epicenter of the emergence.
Summer nights in Maryland will vibrate with the mating calls of 17-year cicadas. The state will find itself at the epicenter of the 2021 emergence of Brood X, or Great Eastern Brood, cicadas.
They only emerge from the ground in large numbers every 17 years, and they make a big impression when they do. The noise in the trees could be deafening from mid-May to mid-June.
Count on billions of these periodical cicadas tuning up in Mid-Atlantic and Midwest states. There are two species of periodical cicadas — the 17-year cicadas, found in northern states, and the 13-year cicadas, found in the South.
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March 3, 2021 at 12:46 pm
Baltimore, MD, March 3, 2021 — Responding to the announcement by the International Criminal Court of "an investigation respecting the Situation in Palestine," Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag, International Liaison of the Coalition for Jewish Values, issued the following statement:
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The ICC said nothing while Hamas lobbed thousands of missiles at Israeli cities, awakening only once Israel responded. By "investigating" defense against terrorism, the International Criminal Court is openly encouraging terror and the murder of (Jewish) civilians, while also...
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March 3, 2021 at 12:09 pm
Baltimore, MD - Mar. 3, 2021 - While many folks have understandably expressed frustrations with the state’s rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Reisterstown native Mathew Steininger has launched this website to automatically monitor the online booking portals for major hospitals, retail pharmacies and state-run vaccine sites.
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Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens When appointments become available, Mathew’s system automatically sends out alerts on the Twitter feed @MDVaxAlerts. His website displays when appointment times are available, which are then tweeted to followers. A Carver Cent...
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March 3, 2021 at 12:05 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Wednesday, 3 March 2021)
"The decision of the International Court to open an investigation against Israel today for war crimes is absurd. It's undiluted antisemitism and the height of hypocrisy.
Without any jurisdiction, it decided that our brave soldiers, who take every precaution to avoid civilian casualties against the worst terrorists in the world who deliberately target civilians, it's our soldiers who are war criminals.
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They said that when we build a house in our eternal capital of Jerusalem, it'...
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March 3, 2021 at 11:33 am
U.S. Capitol Police are increasing security after obtaining intelligence to suggest a "possible plot" by a militia group to breach the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 4.
"The United States Capitol Police Department is aware of and prepared for any potential threats towards members of Congress or towards the Capitol complex," they said in a statement Wednesday. "We have obtained intelligence that shows a possible plot to breach the Capitol by an identified militia group on Thursday, March 4."
The Capitol Police said that they "have already made significant security upgrades to include establishing a physical structure and increasing manpower to ensure the protection of Congress, the public and our police officers."
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March 3, 2021 at 11:31 am
After viewers noted that the stage at the CPAC conference was shaped like a Nazi symbol, the organizer of the conservative political conference said any resemblance was unintentional.
But Hyatt, which operates the hotel that hosted the conference, called the prospect of the symbol being included in CPAC “abhorrent.”
CPAC is perhaps the leading annual conservative conference, drawing a who’s-who of prominent Republicans, as well as lower-profile activists. This year, former president Donald Trump was the top-billed speaker.
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March 3, 2021 at 11:14 am
Former President Donald Trump is “seriously” looking at running for the White House in 2024, but he hasn’t yet made up his mind, American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp said Tuesday, days after Trump’s keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which Schlapp’s organization sponsors.
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“I had a couple of chances to talk to him,” Schlapp told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo on “Mornings With Maria.” “I’m careful with confidences, but I don’t think h...
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March 3, 2021 at 11:12 am
The Health Ministry on Monday informed healthcare providers that they can begin to vaccinate Israelis who have recovered from COVID-19.
The ministry’s recommendation calls for vaccinating patients with a single dose three months after recovery. Only recovered patients over 16 can receive a shot, in keeping with the ministry’s guidelines not to vaccinate anyone younger than that.
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Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) can begin administering vaccines to the recovered on Tuesday, a Health Ministry statement said.
Over 323,000 Israelis who were inf...
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March 3, 2021 at 11:12 am
Fox News said Tuesday that it had signed former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany as a contributor to offer commentary on various network programs.
McEnany, former President Donald Trump’s final press secretary, didn’t speak about her new role during an interview with Fox’s Harris Faulkner that aired Tuesday.
It was reported in January that McEnany had disclosed to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics while still in office that she would work for Fox after leaving the White House. Fox said at the time that it had been in discussions with McEnany but had paused them.
Before working for Trump, McEnany was a commentator at CNN.
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March 3, 2021 at 11:04 am
The number of seriously ill COVID-19 patients in Israel dropped to its lowest point since December 30 on Tuesday, according to Health Ministry figures. New deaths and infections continued to decline since highs in January.
The ministry said there were 704 active serious cases, including 265 classified as critical and 226 patients on ventilators.
Serious cases peaked in mid- to late-January with over 1,900 patients, with the number steadily falling since.
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The drop in serious cases comes alongside Israel’s world-leading vaccination campaign.
The Health ...
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March 3, 2021 at 11:02 am
A House of Representatives panel has reissued a subpoena seeking Donald Trump’s tax and financial records, saying in a memo made public on Tuesday it needs the documents to address “conflicts of interest” by future presidents.
In a court filing on Tuesday, House lawyers told a judge that the House Oversight Committee reissued a subpoena to Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA LLP, on Feb. 25.
The committee issued a similar subpoena in 2019, but that subpoena expired in January when new U.S. lawmakers took office.
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March 3, 2021 at 10:59 am
Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday accused the media of ignoring President Joe Biden’s “radicalism” to advance the “ultimate goal of putting Democrats in charge.”
In an interview on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” former President Donald Trump’s eldest son said that “everyone knew what this radical administration would do, but no one would say it.”
“The media went to great lengths to try to cover [up] Joe Biden’s radicalism [and] the radicalism of the people within his agenda,” Trump Jr. asserted.
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March 3, 2021 at 10:56 am
Percentage of Charedim diagnosed with coronavirus falls as percentage of Arabs diagnosed begins to rise, Prof. Eran Segal says.
Just 6% of seriously ill coronavirus patients are from the haredi sector, Professor Eran Segal tweeted. At the same time, he added, 50% of those seriously ill with coronavirus are from the Arab sector.
"Over the past week, the number of seriously ill coronavirus patients in the Arab sector rose 24%, and they currently represent 40% of new serious cases," he wrote.
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According to Prof. Segal, the drop in the overall number of patient...
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March 3, 2021 at 10:52 am
"The decision of the International Criminal Court at the Hague to commence investigations against the State of Israel is scandalous.
We will not accept claims against the exercise of our right and our obligation to defend our citizens. The State of Israel is a strong, Jewish and democratic state which knows how to defend itself and to investigate itself when necessary.
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We are proud of our soldiers, our sons and daughters, the essence of our people, who stand guard for their country generation after generation, a defensive wall against all those who seek our h...
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March 3, 2021 at 10:51 am
MK Ayelet Shaked, number two on the Yamina party's list, on Wednesday responded to the latest polls, saying she expects her party to overtake Gideon Sa'ar's New Hope party.
In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Shaked said, "Yesterday we saw that we are very close to Gideon Sa'ar, and in my estimation, in the near future we will overtake him."
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, she said, "is weakening."
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"I turn to the right-wing voters in Israel: In order to preserve a right-wing government, you need to vote Yamina. The...
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March 3, 2021 at 10:47 am
Israeli public figures responded to the ICC announcement that it would investigate Israel for alleged war crimes in Gaza and Judea and Samaria.
Professor Eugene Kontorovich, Director of International Law at the Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum said the ICC's opening of the investigation "is entirely unjustified - and predictable, given its longstanding lawless bias against the Jewish state."
"The Prosecutor today makes a mockery of international criminal law," he added, accusing the court of becoming a "judicial arm of the U.N. anti-Israel echo chamber."
"The Prosecutor treats Jews building houses as an 'atrocity crime' - while she has taken no action against the hundreds of thousands of Russian and Turkish settlers in Ukraine and Cyprus, both of which , unlike Israel...
