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These Green Pass rules will stay into effect until August 8, 2021.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Israel's new COVID-19 rules: Everything you need to know

Here are all the top stories on #TheRoundUp today: 🇶🇦 Amir approves law for #ShuraCouncil 💵 Qatari targeted in $1.1M scam 🌍 Climate change should be a top priority for Qatar ⚽ Qatar to play USA tonight in #GoldCup..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: The Round Up | 29 July 2021 – Doha News | Qatar

Central American leaders called to unite against antisemitism at the launch of the Central America Forum for Israel on Thursday, featuring Yair Lapid and Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammettei.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Lapid, Guatemalan president launch Central American pro-Israel forum

A Central American event is an opportunity to show support for Israel and to reject antisemitism in the wake of a spike in antisemitic incidents.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Antisemitism: Central American countries hold Israel solidarity event

If the budget is not approved by November 4, the government will be automatically dissolved, and snap elections will be called.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Budget: Deadline and government dissolution nears, discussions begin Sunday

A group of municipal chief rabbis have called for other municipal chief rabbis to be excommunicated should they establish kashrut authorities or their own conversion courts.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Municipal chief rabbis: Excommunicate rabbis who back religious reforms

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has described the Delta variant of the coronavirus to be as contagious as chickenpox and could cause severe illness, the New York Times reported, citing an internal CDC document.For more coronavirus news, visit our dedicated page.The variant was also more likely to break through protections afforded by the vaccines, the report said, adding that the agency’s reverse course on masking guidelines for fully vaccinated Americans on Tuesday was based on this document.However, CDC’s figures show that the vaccines are highly effective in preventing serious illness, hospitalization and death in vaccinated people, the report said, citing experts.New research showed the vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant carried tremendous amounts of the virus in the nose and throat, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told the Times.The Delta variant is more transmissible than the viruses that cause MERS, SARS, Ebola, the common cold, the seasonal flu and smallpox, the report said.The immediate next step for the agency is to “acknowledge the war has changed,” the report cited the document as saying.CDC is expected to publish additional data on the variant on Friday, the NYT said.Read more:Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine becomes less effective within six months: StudyDelta variant drives Mideast coronavirus surge: WHODoes the Delta COVID-19 variant threaten vaccine efficacy?
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: CDC says Delta COVID-19 variant causes severe illness, spreads ‘like chickenpox’

Two crew members, a Briton and a Romanian, were killed when a petroleum products tanker managed by Israeli-owned Zodiac Maritime came under attack on Thursday off Oman’s coast, the company said on Friday.London-based Zodiac said on its website that the attack in the Arabian Sea on the Mercer Street, a Liberian-flagged Japanese-owned ship, was still being investigated.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.An unnamed senior Israeli official blamed Iran for the attack and said that the ship was hit with a drone, according to Israel’s Channel 13 TV.Earlier on Friday it had described the incident as suspected piracy but the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), which provides maritime security information, says it was not piracy.“Details of the incident are still being established and an investigation into the incident is currently underway. We continue to work closely with the UKMTO and other relevant authorities,” said Zodiac, which is owned by the wealthy Israeli Ofer family.It said it was “not aware of harm to any other personnel” than the British and Romanian crew members who were killed. The UKMTO said the vessel was about 152 nautical miles (280 km) northeast of the Omani port of Duqm when it was attacked. It gave no more details on the type of vessel, any cargo, to whom it belonged or about possible casualties.In an advisory note, UKMTO said it had been informed that regional search and rescue authorities and coalition forces have been tasked to assist the vessel.According to Refinitiv ship tracking, the Mercer Street, a medium-size tanker, was headed to Fujairah, a bunkering port and oil terminal in the United Arab Emirates, from Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania.Tensions have risen in the Gulf region since the United States reimposed sanctions on Iran in 2018 after then-President Donald Trump withdrew Washington from Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with major powers.Washington has blamed Iran for a number of attacks on shipping in strategic Gulf waters.In recent months Iran and Israel have traded accusations of attacking each other’s vessels.Read more:British military group: Ship reportedly attacked off OmanIran denies being behind blast on Israeli-owned ship in Oman gulfShip in Gulf of Oman struck by unexplained blast; crew safe
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Two crew members killed in attack on Israeli ship off Oman coast

Despite his defeat two months ago, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to leave the stage to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Netanyahu lays out plan to regain power

Egypt looks to strengthen its relations with Senegal and win it over in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam negotiations, to be held under the auspices of the African Union, which is to be headed by Senegal next year.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Egypt seeks rapprochement with Senegal in Nile dam crisis ahead of its AU presidency