Monday, June 20, 2022
Knesset dissolves: Lapid to become PM
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid have decided to dissolve the current government and hold new elections. The decision was made after the two exhausted efforts to preserve the current coalition, which has seen numerous crisis in recent months.
The two will submit a bill to this effect for approval by the Knesset next week.
Yair Lapid will become prime minister during the transition period as per the coalition agreement and will greet US President Joe Biden as Israel's premier during his visit to the Jewish State on July 13. Elections for the 25th Knesset will be held in September.
With the dissolution of the government, Naftali Bennett will become the shortest-serving prime minister in Israel's history, a record which would be broken by Lapid if he does not remain prime minister following the elections.
Prime Minister Bennett is now talking to party leaders.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid will give an announcement to the public at 8 PM.
1 dead, 2 hospitalized from tree falling on Palisades Parkway
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The accident happened in the northbound lanes in Stony Point.
A pickup truck passenger was killed Sunday when a tree fell on the vehicle on a parkway in New York’s northern suburbs, a report said.
The freak accident occurred in the northbound lanes of the Palisades Parkway near Exit 16 in Rockland County at about 4 p.m., News 12 Westchester reported, citing police.
Three people were inside the red truck when it was struck by the falling tree.
The front seat passenger was killed and the driver and rear passenger were hospitalized, the report said.
Photos from the scene show the mangled remains of the vehicle that veered off the road during the accident.
Police closed off the northbound lanes of the parkway for several hours as they investigated and cleared the crash.
Rabbanute Pats themselves on the back after getting a guy to give his wife a get after 33 years
#RealStoriesfromtheRabbinicCourt
— Center for Women's Justice (@cwjisrael) June 19, 2022
Israel’s state rabbinic court released a story about an #agunah case that they recently “solved” involving a woman who got her get after 33 years. Keep in mind that they published this as a *success* story:
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In China it's "Shabbas Shira"
In a world where you can be anything, be kind.. ๐ pic.twitter.com/b1o4J9OqeP
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) June 19, 2022
World swimming bans men athletes that dress up like women from women’s events
World swimming’s governing body has effectively banned transgender women from competing in women’s events, starting Monday.
FINA members widely adopted a new “gender inclusion policy” on Sunday that only permits swimmers who transitioned before age 12 to compete in women’s events. The organization also proposed an “open competition category.”
“This is not saying that people are encouraged to transition by the age of 12. It’s what the scientists are saying, that if you transition after the start of puberty, you have an advantage, which is unfair,” James Pearce, who is the spokesperson for FINA president Husain Al-Musallam, told The Associated Press.
“They’re not saying everyone should transition by age 11, that’s ridiculous. You can’t transition by that age in most countries and hopefully you wouldn’t be encouraged to. Basically, what they’re saying is that it is not feasible for people who have transitioned to compete without having an advantage.”
Pearce confirmed there are currently no transgender women competing in elite levels of swimming.
Palestinians Message to Queers "Gay in Dreard" "go to hell
Queers for Palestine: “Free Palestine”
— Emily Schrader - ืืืืื ืฉืจืืืืจ (@emilykschrader) June 18, 2022
LGBTQ in Palestine:
Video from this week in Ramallah #pride pic.twitter.com/rrwlk5w7xO
Germany will finally limit use of gas but too late for the 6 million Jews they already gassed
Germany’s economy minister said Sunday that the country will limit the use of natural gas for electricity production amid concerns about possible shortages caused by a cut in supplies from Russia.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that Germany will try to compensate for the move by increasing the burning of coal, a more polluting fossil fuel.
“That’s bitter, but it’s simply necessary in this situation to lower gas usage,” said Habeck, a member of the environmentalist Green party.
Russian gas company Gazprom announced last week that it was sharply reducing supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for technical reasons, but which Habeck said appeared to be politically motivated.
Germany, which has long relied heavily on energy imports from Russia, began significantly scaling back its imports because of the war in Ukraine.
The government has nevertheless insisted that Russian gas will be needed for a while until alternative sources of energy, such as LNG brought in by ship, are available. Over the past months the German government has taken measures to fill gas storage facilities to 90% capacity by November to ensure enough gas is available as a heating fuel through the winter.
Habeck said storage facilities — currently at 56.7% capacity — were still able to make up the shortfall from Russia with purchases from elsewhere, but nevertheless described the situation as “serious" and said further measures may be necessary.
The German government recently called on citizens to cut back their energy use in light of the tense supply situation.
“It's obvious that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's strategy is to unsettle us by driving up the price and dividing us," Habeck said. “We won't let that happen.”
Is the Pope is about to RESIGN ?
Pope Francis has fuelled speculation that he could resign after postponing a trip to Africa and announcing an unusual meeting of cardinals.
Hobbled by pain in his knee and forced to use a wheelchair in recent weeks, the 85-year-old pontiff postponed a July trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan last week.
He also announced an unusual decision to hold a consistory to name new cardinals during a Vatican vacation month and arranged meetings to ensure his reforms stay intact.
The extraordinary consistory will be held on August 27, a slow summer month at the Catholic headquarters, to create 21 new cardinals - 16 of whom will be under the age of 80, thereby eligible to elect his successor in a future conclave.
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