israel is on a good and powerful path. as you mentioned, we formed the most diverse government in israel's history, with religious and secular, right and left together. an arab party together with the jewish party in this coalition. eight different parties, it is a juggle act, but it is working. we are moving forward, our growth is phenomenal, we are at 7% gdp growth. high-tech is booming, perhaps never has it been as strong as it is. it's a good direction. by and large, we are managing through the covid wave. i landed in the delta wave, my goal was to keep israel open while keeping is really safe, and now the same goes with omicron. we have adopted some unique methodologies in israel that i would love to share later on. of course, the most exciting part is regional relationships we have been forming for the past few years. my predecessor formed the abraham accords with bahrain, with the emirates. i am a huge believer in these bridges. the bottom line is, israel is headed on a very robust and positive direction. >> as you

what is their roles they as states neighboring israel at peace with israel? now able to move forward with israel because they have legitimacy that comes from the abraham accords and the normalization that other arab states have made towards israel. you notice how they feel it more comfortable about moving forward because they're not isolated. and that's that's equivalent to kiss and just getting to legitimize what egypt? they ever have a court is legitimizing a role for egypt and jordan in the solution of the palestinian problem. not to impose their will to take it over but to support the palestinian state in the making. and jordan has an important role to play there. these are two states capable with institutions. they can commit and fulfill commitments in a way that the palestinians have a terribly hard time doing because they don't have those institutions of state of so it's that kind of approach in which which is incremental which is territorial. but also involves the arab states particularly egypt for gaza jordan for the west bank in helping the palestin

the bottom line is, israel is headed on a very robust and positive direction. >> as you mentioned, israel is in the middle of the omicron crisis. you have thousands of cases every day. even more than 40,000 on average. despite this high number of cases, i think the israeli economy is fueled by the technology sector. you are one that has been successful in that sector yourself. how do you see omicron impacting the outlook for your country's economy, and who are you planning to deal -- how are you planning to deal with the next steps? >> as you suggested, i will address the two parts of the question. first of all, how does one fight omicron or covid, and i think all of the leaders of the world are facing it. i can share what we have been doing. i landed running if you will and the wave of delta. we were among the first to face. my format and methodology is a, i personally run the national covid task force as prime minister. every day at 9:00 a.m., i have an hour with all of the agencies and ministries that are relevant. i believe this is a fairly unique model, but i do this because i think

we will stand behind israel. you got a sense of that in the trump administration whatever you think about trump in different policies, but you got the sense he would've backed israel on such a thing. despite some of his recent comments. . reported in a book. mr. demer: lesson, all israel's activity during the trump years were extremely supportive of the administration. my guess is in an unprecedented way in terms of the security cooperation, and we have the same policy. the trump administration had a policy of prevention, not containment. therefore we worked very well together to do whatever we could in our own way in different sectors and pushing back against iran and it was a remarkable thing when the pressure got put together. the thing in the trump administration is it did not happen right away contrary to thought. it was not a four campaign, it was an 18 month pressure campaign. that is not a lot of time when you have people believing salvation is on the way because the policy of the united states is going t

for israel it is clear which one is worse. a military confrontation with iran is bad particularly because of hezbollah in the north and the danger that could lead to a larger conflict. but in the case of the u.s. under obama and biden yet of the european powers and china and russia there is a military confrontation from their point of view. they've rationalized it and say this will only send the program back two or three years. i've heard that many times and i use to tell people in the administration to the best of my knowledge when they make the decision in 1981 and of course it's a very different situation than today but i understand the estimate that was given was two to three years that he was going to set it back and now we are 40 years and counting so they have this belief that the worst possible scenario that you could have and because of that, that's what led to the jcpoa. if you are in containment, if your policy isay containment to try to delay this for ten, 15 years in the hope may be some people in the interim if y

and today really no major arab states are war with israel or israel with them. iran is in a state of belligerence, but has never had a war with israel and as unlikely ever to have a war with israel so you could say at that level. this strategy worked made sense still prevails in a certain way. obviously a lot has changed. but he did not. maybe take a count of two things one is you know this non-state actors. i mean it started with a stateless people than the plo and now you have a whole bunch of obviously groups affiliated in many different ways at the middle east is no longer a zone simply of states. that you have to worry about and i wouldn't necessarily say that that is a consequence of a certain approach but it is interesting that it's the most non-state actor written region of the world. and secondly that is a that he said the us on a course. including on the west bank which as you say i mean really did not take the palestinian issue itself into consideration and enabled and brought about for the palestinians and for israel and for the region because this i

we have adopted here in israel i would like to share later on. the most exciting part are real relationships forming the past few years and with that abraham accords and i am a huge believer. so the bottom line with a very robust and positive direction. >> as you mentioned in the middle of the only crime andev then to have thousands of cases and on average. so this high number of cases it is also fueled by technology. and one that has been successful in that sector and then going with more than 7 percent. so then withou the outlook and also to do in the next step. and then to come more endemic. t so with the two parts of the question. energy fight, crime and to share we have been doing here. i demanded running into the wave of the delta and then i personally run the national covid task force. and then to have an hour with all of the agencies that are relevant and with a fairly unique model because i think the leader can make much quicker decisions in a pandemic. and then executing very quickly and then i felt it's important that i run the task fo

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what is their roles they as states neighboring israel at peace with israel? now able to move forward with israel because they have legitimacy that comes from the abraham accords and the normalization that other arab states have made towards israel. you notice how they feel it more comfortable about moving forward because they're not isolated. and that's that's equivalent to kiss and just getting to legitimize what egypt? they ever have a court is legitimizing a role for egypt and jordan in the solution of the palestinian problem. not to impose their will to take it over but to support the palestinian state in the making. and jordan has an important role to play there. these are two states capable with institutions. they can commit and fulfill commitments in a way that the palestinians have a terribly hard time doing because they don't have those institutions of state of so it's that kind of approach in which which is incremental which is territorial. but also involves the arab states particularly egypt for gaza jordan for the west bank in helping the palestin

with respect to the three major breakthroughs in the israeli conflict, egypt-israel, jordan-israel, palestinians-israel, all of those breakthroughs occurred without the presidents of the united states. it is instrumental and instructive that unless the israelis and the palestinians are holding their own negotiations, which is extremely difficult for the united states to expect a player brokering role. what do we do about creating an environment in which those negotiations can take place? that involves difficult choices and some potential conflicts, particularly with the israelis over issues like settlement activities, land confiscation, and the palestinians, with respect to incitement, corruption and the perennial problem of what you do with a divided palestinian leadership. i suspect a two state solution is not available now, what you've got is a three state solution. israel, hamas, and what remains of the palestinian authority in the west bank. another problem that is not ready or ripe for resolution. the conventional wisdom in washington and elsewhere is that an american vacuum has enabled china and

he said, israel is not bound by what will be written in the agreements if that sign, and israel will continue to maintain full freedom of action anywhere anytime with no constraints. how do you think that looks entire wrong? what's the point of the reading is even turning up for the talks. if irrespective of the results you're going to bomb them. if you feel like it, what's the point of them even turning out? he's really point. she's very clue by one way or another. well, the military, no collab project in iran should be stopped. of course we prefer to to which it, by diplomacy, by sanctions, and not by a military operation. but if this is what will be the only option by one way or another, the middle of a nuclear project would be stopped. now we allows us administration to be engaged. we are involved now. it wasn't the case in the time of obama. unfortunately, we built it involved in negotiations. we are involved, we are open, general smith administration, and not fully visible, specially come out with such a policy that will reach again the shipment of putting that you know, a jame

no country is watching as closely as israel. their forces struck repeatedly as the radian supplies and munitions wherever it can find them. this week comfort zone talked to the form israel defense minister marcia ja lawn who slammed the 2015 nuclear agreement as an historic mistake talks or low talks. israel he says, i've just one priority is rarely boise is very flu by one way or another. the military milk level border any launch would be stop. we also talk about the spike in violence impacts by jewish settlers against palestinian more than 400 were logged. last year alone. why is the fate so reluctant to confront in february and what are these railey army which the u. m. accused of standing by and letting the attacks happen? also are shocking instruction. the least one israeli soldier was given by his commanders about treating palestinian prisoners. all that i'm more complex than the general, marcia. ya long welcome to conflict zone. thank you for having me. when the west side, the nuclear deal with iran in 2015, you joined th

at the congregation at israel synagogue. as the hostage situations unfolding. the lifestream didn't show much of what was happening inside but there was audio of what witnesses say was a faint voice of a man before the lifestream was interrupted and cut off before 2:00 p.m. local time. reported the man repeatedly mentioned his sister, he said a few times he didn't want anyone hurt and he mentioned his children. he said repeatedly that he believes he's going to die. abc news is reporting the hostage takers claiming to be the brother of a pakistani neuroscientist serving 86 year sentence for trying to kill american soldiers. she was convicted in new york in 2010 and reportedly transferred to the federal medical center in carswell. i was in the fort worth area. we have no idea if this man is in fact he says he is or is related at all. she seen as a hero and martyr to a lot of people in pakistan and elsewhere. abc reported the hostage taker made a threat about bombs, we cannot confirm that here at fox news. fox affiliate katie fw reports a rabbi in new york called

in israel, joe biden said it before, the first principle is the security of israel. it is something we focus on everyday. we just had another strategic conference with israel the other day. miller: i only raised this issue, brett, because partners and allies relationships, we are best when each country respects the interests of the other. that raises the question of american leverage. how do we use american leverage in situations where we need to cooperate because our interests are involved, our material, tactical or strategic interests? in our values are undermined by the very countries with which we are cooperating and it is a very difficult line, an impossible line, i would argue to walk. for example, the issue of egypt and saudi arabia, see values as a more important propagation than interest. we are going to get back to the issue of saudi arabia. let's take a little regional tour. let's start with iran. your friend and former colleague of mine rob mellon. how would you describe the state. ? we will get to the fate of the negotiations in a minute. how would you d

in israel's history. as authorities try to contain the spread of the disease, farmers in israel had been forced to slaughter hundreds of thousands of chickens, hula lake reserve. and israel, it's a stop over for most birds migrating from europe to africa with the changing seasons. an estimated 500000000 birds passed through the valley every year. but a new mutation of the bird flew is now tearing through the migrating flock of leaving authorities struggling to control the large outbreak. to the poorly bertha my al sheila, we declared a quarantine in the area and began collecting the carcasses. m a clearly little. could we do an untouched a dying or injured birdsall? not only the dead fool whistled in the out of the rug. lovely. the flu was 1st discovered in europe in october. officials fear it could eventually be passed on to humans. so far, no such cases have been recorded from the new type of bird flew and is earl. the virus causing the flu has however, already been detected and farmed birds in israel a

so far, no such cases have been recorded from the new type of bird flew and israel. the virus causing to flu has however, already been detected and farmed birds in israel alone. more than half a 1000000 egg laying chickens have died or been cold. as the government tries to limit the environmental damage on the rec, alicia lunch with with with it, i hope it won't continue spreading. because as of now on, we don't know on caller la cautiously. well, by live a blue shield on mute so little in the from the outbreak means to popular sheila park is currently closed for bird watchers and hunters and will likely remain. so for the rest of the bird migration season, like so many other parts of public life euro, the european union's most prestigious cultural program has been on hold because of the pandemic. but now 3 cities are coming under the spotlight as european capitals of culture for the year 2022. they are conscious in lithuania, assault set in luxembourg. and novi. sod in serbia. the trio will state a series of spectacular events to showcase europe's artistic diversity

and israel president travels to the united arab emirates signaling a deepening of ties, 2 years after the countries agreed to normalize relations, plus rough, an adult winds, the australian open and makes history. a spaniard reeds, dunham admitted from russia in $0.05, taking his $24.00 grand slam title. that is more than any other male player beforehand. ah, i'm the cough really. it's good to have you with us. after the publication of a report revealing systematic, sexual abuse of children in the german catholic church, the numbers of believers considering to turn their backs on the institution has skyrocketed. the investigation also revealed a cover up that went all the way to former po benedict. once the archbishop of munich and a country were most practicing christians have to pay church tax. many believers no longer want to financially support an institution that turned a blind eye on decades of abuse. preparations for a sunday morning mass augustine, this bower is a priest in the catholic parish of christ koenig in munich. he feels both a deep insecurity in himself, but also in

and israel, 2%. do you expect this news and the time that has entrance spiraled si transpired, do you think that that will increase the number of vaccinations that we'll see among children? >> i can only hope that it will increase the number of children vaccinated. but i think the decreasing number or the low number of children vaccinated has a lot to do with covid misinformation on two different fronts. there is misinformation on how covid can affect children with a lot of people still thinking that if htheir child contracts covid, they won't end up in the hospital. that is not necessarily true. and there is a lot of misinformation on how these vaccines can potentially affect children. there is an undying thought that the vaccines can cause inf infertility in children which is proven to not be true amongst other things. that is why a lot of parents are not varks naturing their children. you don't want your child to be the only one to ends up in the hospital sick with covid because they were not vacc

as a night, though, towel was cut off from israel. it was in the, our part of town and the wall made things very difficult for it because it was a war zone on the american colony was on the edge of the was it? so all of a sudden it became a rather economically bad thing for the american colonies. the fact that this a new border had, he wrote it, plus of course it lost all its contact with these weighty site, which was probably at the time the site was to him or business went by now the american colony was a business lost a lot of its clients, so out of its suppliers. so it was a big show shock and also culture show the face of the city anto tell were linked in the coming years. the hotel was on the brink. oh, the problem was that we weren't and that reached ahead in about 1960 and that's when my father had to come out when the hotel was faced with bankruptcy. ah, beth is sun horatio. vesta was living in london. he decided to return to help site . the hotel horatio had grown up in jerusalem, but left for london at 17. he became a lawye

member states and israel battles to control an outbreak of avian flu. it's already killed, thousands of cranes, and the government has been forced to co hundreds of thousands of poultry. ah, i'm anthony howell broke into the program. south africa's parliament has been badly damaged in a major fire that has left the national assembly chamber gutted. dozens of 5 fathers were called into battle the blaze which sent a plume of smoke rising over cape town. police say a man is due to appear in court on tuesday, over the place. the fire had already been burning for hours when security guards discovered it at around 6 in the morning. fire queens raced to the scene that were unable to stop the flames from spreading to the national assembly building. where south africa's carla. this is a very sad day for our democracy because parliament is the home of our democracy and bonnie minutes also as the t g. a keep point. i'm all next is will be investigated. the police have started to investigate the forensic department here, public works easier. we all together, reinfo

just look at the chart of what's happened in israel in the last couple of weeks. this is a country that's 90% plus adult vaccinated. more than half adult boosted. these are the levels that the democrats would love to achieve in the united states. it's not just that it doesn't make any difference, it seems to be making the situation worse and it's impossible for me to channel that a fourth shot that a second booster is doing to do anything but, in a couple of months, lead to another boomerang, another synchronize wave that overwhelms hospitals because they are reporting that, again, in israel, that thai icu's are under immense pressure, so i don't know what the logic is right now, but i know that in any rational world every public health authority would be calling for an immediate halt to vaccinations, mrna vaccinations for covid until we know what's going on. >> tucker: it's just a completely scary thing to hear. and again, you can look up the data. it's on vaers -- >> we're lucky right now that omicron is not as dangerous as delta overall. if another variant come

bother to israel. quote: i am closely monitoring reports of the hostage situation at congregation beth israel in texas where the community is gathered for shabbat services praying for an immediate and safe end. we're also hearing from israeli prime minister-and-a-half tally bennett, quote: i am closely monitoring the hostage situation taking place at beth israel in colleyville, texas. we pray for the safety of the hostages and rescuers. president biden is right now attending mass here in wilmington. we'll let you know when the service ends if he speaks to the press. jackie, guysesome. >> let me is can you this, because the hostage taker, from what we understand, claims to be the brother of this convicted terrorist. we're not necessarily sure, but one of the theories that's been posited over the last couple of hours is that potentially the situation that's unfolding is that he wants to see his sister or see her elited. her released. and some of the experts that we've had on the air have essentially said

israel synagogue and colleyville 17 miles northeast of downtown for worse. the hostage takers said to be a man who claims his arm, no one knows if he is, the colleyville police sent out an update about an hour ago saying in addition to subjects, law enforcement confirmed but no injuries reported. fbi crisis negotiators are medications with the subject. greg abbott pleading the texas department of sub public safety is on the scene of the hostage situation in texas working with local and federal teams to achieve the best and safest outcome as they continue to monitor the situation and police received a call 10:41 a.m., less than an hour in to the streaming services of shabbat, local religious services there that happen every saturday morning, live streams state up for hours. you can hear the hostage taker sometimes even angrily reportedly mentioning his sister, telegram report set a few times, he didn't want to hurt anyone and repeated that he believes he's going to die. there are some people we've been able to speak to some people on the ground, let this into

the authorities try to contain the spread of the disease. farmers and israel's in israel have been forced to slaughter hundreds of thousands of chickens and new rules aim to stop the slaughter of male checks in germany. more than $40000000.00 are routinely killed every year. farmers maintain, the birds have very little value as they produce no eggs and not much meet the sex of embryos. when i'll be established before male chicks are hatched. it's a major change for poultry farmer's killing mill chicks because they don't lay eggs is now illegal on german farms. the egg farming industry welcomes the new law, but it also wants the new agriculture minister to make sure germany s e u competitors follow suit. yeah, bob thus will affect other european countries to introduce similar legislation as soon as possible. farmers and other european countries shouldn't be able to continue to kill mel checks. and regardless our market has to be protected. so we'll continue to have animal farming and hatcheries in germany. the german food and agricultural ministry says other e u members are taking similar

y esta situaciÓn preocupa al mundo, porque los cientÍficos de israel piensan que pueden existir otros casos y la enfermedad es la misma, son virales y causan dificultad para respirar ya que ambas atacan las vÍas respiratorias superiores. todo esto ocurre cuando israel tambiÉn detectÓ un brote de gripe aviar que ama a mÁs de 5000 grullas , un ave con un gran significado ya que muchos creen que esta especie es el vehÍculo del alma. un vocero dijo que todavÍa no saben si la enfermedad se ha propagado y advierten de la posibilidad de escasez de huevos, porque cientos de miles de aves fueron sacrificadas. los medios de comunicaciÓn israelÍes dijeron que los niÑos que han visitado la reserva podrÍan haber tocado una grulla enferma y haber contribuido a ti a la propagaciÓn de la gripe. la semana pasada una mujer embarazada muriÓ en jerusalÉn tras contraer la gripe y el mes pasado un niÑo de seis aÑos tambiÉn muriÓ en israel mientras dormÍa tras acostarse con fiebres. y los mÉdicos asegura que el menortenÍa inflamaciÓn por complicaciones de esta enfermedad. paulina: y la

at the same time, egypt is critical to the security of israel. coming out of the war, they played a critical role not only helping to wind down that conflict in 11 days and also working to ensure we have some stability in the wake of it that is central to the discussion. all these issues on the horn of africa, jeff was just in cairo working on these issues, so it's complex and multifaceted the issues are values and human rights central to the discussion as we have these conversations. i will say i saw the president in dc last fall and the first part of the meeting i was focused on human rights. it's central to our administration and approach and i think that's what makes us unique. >> we have a foreign policy of which human rights should play a significant role. we need to be consistent in the way we stand up for our values, which we are not. the u.s. foreign policy i know from my own experience is littered with hypocrisies and contradictions and many inconsistencies. it would be nice to think that human rights and even the democracy figures cent

he said, israel is not bound by what will be written in the agreements if that sign it. israel will continue to maintain full freedom of action anywhere anytime with no constraints. how do you think that looks in tehran? what's the point of the iranians, even signing up for the talks? if irrespective of the results you're going to bond them. if you feel like it, what's the point of them even turning out? he's really point is very clue. by one way or not. well, the military, no collateral, or just any yvonne should be stopped. of course we prefer to to which it, by a diplomacy, by sanction us and not by military or operation. but if this is what will be the only option by one way or another, the middle of the nuclear projects would be stop. now we allows the use of ministration to be engaged. we are involved now. if it wasn't the case in the time of obama, unfortunately, we've been involved in negotiations. we are involved, we are open, general. some is that ministration and not really the session will come out with such a policy that will reach again the shipment of voting that you know, i k

ah right now, much of israel's cobit strategy has been focused on vaccination. over $4300000.00 israelis have taken the 3rd booster shots less than half of the population of roughly $9400000.00. since last week the country has begun to roll out the 4th booster for people over 60 medical staff and other high risk groups. ok, each time we boost we fortify our immune response. we deepen the immune memory and enhance our ability to cope more efficiently with the virus that already challenging us. and those that will unfortunately will emerge. but it's still unclear how hospitals will cope during this 5th wave at a heel of hospital in tel aviv family. dr. laura azurie takes us to the cove at 19 wards. not every badge is occupied right now. but numbers of severely ill patients are increasing daily. a majority or unvaccinated, or have underlying health conditions quote unquote, on, on a convention, at the moment some of our patients are vaccinated and some are not so funny every one hospitalized has underlying health conditions. and i am harsh and shaming, kidney condi

the world watching what is happening in israel today. thanks so much for being with us. >>> as more people are experiencing a covid infection, there are new questions about long-term covid or long covid and what we know. dr. jason maley is an instructor at harvard medical school, beth israel covid-19 survivorship program. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. we talk about long covid, and i think a lot of people have heard about this now, we are talking about things like debilitating brain fog, fatigue and other symptoms that can last for months on end. what are doctors seeing? >> reporter: that's right. exactly that. we are seeing patients who mainly had mild covid initially. and as they recover, they either have continuation of those symptoms, shortness of breath or debilitating fatigue or feel improvement for some period of time. over the coming weeks and months after recovering, they start to notice their thinking is different, their memory is not as sharp as it used to be. they have difficulty breathing. their heart races, th

ya lo hemos dicho, se está aplicando la dosis del recurso contra covid-19 personas de 12 años y en israel la segunda dosis de refuerzo se está aplicando a cierta parte de la población, adrian criscaut hace una comparación sobre el estatus de los dos países y que tan viable sería tener otra dosis de refuerzo ante ómicron >>> israel es un país de poco menos de 10,000,000 de habitantes. espero que el año pasado por la aprobación en estados unidos >>> habíamos empezado y terminado la vacunación masiva en israel >>> va ser muy tarde. >>> el año pasado comenzaron a aplicar una primera dosis de refuerzo bien de la nueva ola dómicron del consejo de salud de israel tomó una nueva decisión tras estudios realizados en el pís del exterior >>> científicos de este consejo recomendaba poder dar esta nueva vacuna y el consejo recomendó de forma primaria darlo a las personas mayores de 60 años, mayores con problemas de ninguna competencia >>> también a empleados de sector de salud se les aplica la vacuna de refuerzo, aquí en estados unidos está estudiando esta medida, se explica la d

s. mediated abram accords, israel the u. e, establish diplomatic relations in september 2021. almost overnight, commerce and tourism between the 2 countries flourished. $400000.00 israeli tourists have already visited the emirates freight to the 2 countries has multiplied by a factor of 12 within a year. is rated technology is boosting the u e. economy and even arms deals are in the pipeline is, integrates with and by lend on a lot of the, the synergies between the 2 countries are immense to that. and it will benefit from each other during the corona virus pandemic, when the and on. and they thought technology handle it set of built on mutual benefit. these ties are set to strengthen further. and the mid the israeli presidents state visit the united hour ever. it says it has intercepted a ballistic missile, fired by yemen, who the rebels. it's a 3rd strike of its kind. he's ready. president's office says his trip will continue as planned. now, no, that island is mocking. 50 years since the bloody sunday massacre. in 1972 british soldiers shot dead, 13 unarmed civilians during

the holy city was divided. israel received the western pass. jordan, the east border controls became commonplace, missy, the american colony hotel, fit for its future. as a night, the hotel was cutoff from israel, it was in the, our part of town. and the wool made things very difficult for it because it was a war zone on the american economy was on the edge of the was at. so all of a sudden it became a rather economy, bad thing for the american economy. the fact that this a new border, how to rotate, plus of course it lost all its contact with these whitey site, which was probably at the time the site was doing more business with by now. the american colony was a business, lost a lot of its clients, so out of its suppliers. so it was a big show shock and also a culture show. the face of the city, anti tell when linked in the coming years. the hotel was on the brink. oh, the problem was that we weren't and that reached ahead in about 1960 and that's when my father had to come out when the hotel was faced with bankruptcy. ah, beth his son horatio

and we need to call out that hypocrisy the people who sell weapons to israel to kill palestinians should not be eulogy ising desmond too, too. they should keep that his name out of the mouth. so to speak. interesting talk d as always. alley up a name a thanks so much for joining us from chicago. my pleasure. thank you. is there any forces of last all, tillery and astro exact garza after rocket fire earlier in the day? not they believed to have landed, an empty fields and no casualties have been reported. it seen as a show for the following. the launch of rockets that landed off the coast of television. it's not clear if the rocket fight was intentional or test launch egypt his media to diffuse the tension. at least while people have been killed in a stampede at a religious shrine, an indian administered kush made thousands of people had gathered at the sight to mock the 1st day of the new year, alexia bryan reports in the cold darkness of the early morning. tens of thousands of devoted tracked to the hilltop temple of motivational davy and indian administered kashmir. at about 3 a year,

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a precious gift which must be cultivated when i am an online chairman in israel. do not agree on everything be done, but they are nevertheless true partners. as emphasized either then israel president ripley in 2 years ago when he spoke here. mister, let's combine some of the us. we are united not least by the shared values, the shared values to which we are committed and which are partly grounded in the lessons learned from history. and that applies particularly to the battle against anti semitism. we and politics and society has been engaged in this battle for many years. we've created commissions and commissioners to deal with anti semitism for tv, and we have innumerable civil society initiatives and groups. your mom land, we've tightened up. provisions under criminal law is what we're one of the dangers and make clear that anti semitism is not acceptable. full stop no matter how it is express it go ahead no matter where it comes from until you to steal your troops. never again, i must anti semitic stereotypes and prejudice be allowed to take hold. there never

he has three hostages including the rabbi at congregation beth israel. there was a question about whether this person was blood related to aafia siddiqui, known as lady al qaeda. the actual brother of the dr. siddiqui. they are saying the person who is the hostage taker is not aafia siddiqui's brother. they want the hostage taker to know that dr. siddiqui and her family condemn this act and do not stand by you. that is a statement from the actual brother of dr. aafia siddiqui. we know quote-unquote lady al qaeda who was convicted of attempting to kill american soldiers is in prison at a fort worth facility. we know through the live stream that this was a hostage taker who came in talking about his sister and islam. and he had children, and he believed he would die today. but other than that, this what we are trying to glean what it is he may be asking for in those ongoing negotiations. we know that obviously one person was released shortly after 5:00 local time in texas. unharmed. brought directly to their family. didn't need any medical attention. that

and, of course, the whole world is watching very closely what happens here in israel, because israel has consistently been ahead of the curve during this pandemic. you'll remember, jose, israel had the fastest initial vaccine rollout. they were the first ones with the booster back in july. the u.s. followed a couple months later in september. it's very possible what you are seeing here in israel today with the fourth dose, you may be seeing in the u.s. in a couple of months' time. omicron cases are rising rapidly in this country. but the israeli government sees this as something as a race against time to try to get as many of the fourth doses out as they can before the omicron wave peaks. that wave is a little bit behind the u.s. and the uk. other countries and israel's government says that is because of the very strict travel restrictions they put in place in november when omicron first emerged. all foreigners are banned from entering israel right now. the u.s., canada, turkey, other major countries are also on israel's travel red list which means travel is restricted. now, those re