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Lt. Gen. Demokritos Zervakis will meet with top Israeli security officials, receive a military bbriefing at the northern border and visit an Iron Dome battery.
Kids from Ukraine will be flown to Israel’s Schneider Medical Center in Petach Tikvah, where they will continue to receive medical care.
Most of the refugees at the Dacia Marin recreation center plan to immigrate to Israel in the coming weeks.
The NATAN mission is delivering food, hygiene products, medical and other relief supplies to some of the estimated 500,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the violence.
The 1909 painting “Bild mit Haeusern” (Painting with Houses) was claimed by descendants of the Jewish art collector Emmanuel Lewenstein after his son and wife sold the painting to the museum under stress in 1940 five months after Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands.
The move will “enhance assistance” to Israeli citizens crossing from Ukraine into Poland, said Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.
“It is my duty to prepare the security establishment of Israel to be ready to act, when and if needed at any given time, in the present and future. Israel will defend its people at any time when it feels it needs to do so,” said Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
The new agreement taking shape will pave the way for Iran to become a nuclear threshold state, says former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “It is a horrible deal. We should oppose it with every fiber of our being.”
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz focused his comments on threats posed by Iran, especially if it is able to produce a nuclear weapon.
The focus of the visits will be expanding cooperation in the Mediterranean Basin, with an emphasis on climate change, according to the Israeli president.
“The mood in Congress indicates concern over the direction of these negotiations. Endless discussions only benefit Iran’s nuclear program, and there are calls for a more coercive approach to the U.S. posture on Iran,” said Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran.
Alexander Giannakakis, 35, previously of Quincy, Mass., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for “making false statements in a matter involving domestic terrorism,” among other related charges.
