Europe
Cyprus is among the “positive forces” working together to secure the eastern Mediterranean, says Israel’s premier • Israel and Cyprus sign a science and technology agreement.
The leaders plan to discuss energy cooperation, strengthening tourism, and jointly dealing with climate change and the ongoing pandemic.
Israel’s ambassador to Portugal thanked President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa for his “long-lasting friendship with the Jewish community in Portugal and with the State of Israel.”
“I call on every country negotiating with Iran ... to make it clear that it is impossible to negotiate and enrich uranium at the same time,” says Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Referring to the IAEA report that Iran has begun enriching uranium to 20 percent purity, the Israeli prime minister told the U.S. secretary of state that world powers should immediately cease the negotiations in Vienna.
International Atomic Energy Agency: The Islamic Republic has started producing enriched uranium with advanced centrifuges.
“I think the Israelis and policymakers need to pivot to give Israel the tools it needs because however this plays out in Vienna, deal or no deal … I think the Israelis feel they have the clock ticking louder and louder, and they have to prepare,” said JINSA president and CEO Michael Makovsky.
While the P5+1 debates in Vienna, “Iran could be positioning itself so close to making nuclear weapons that if Tehran chose to break out, countries mighty be deterred from intervening,” said Andrea Stricker, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Hopes of a breakthrough are reportedly slim, with Western powers growing “increasingly frustrated” • Israeli premier calls on the world not to give in to Iran’s “nuclear blackmail.”
The Portugal-based International Observatory of Human Rights ceremony took place at the Oporto Holocaust Museum in the presence of 200 teenagers from the city’s schools.
“Romanians are at the peak of morbidity in the fourth wave; they have over 5,000 confirmed cases every day with the number of deaths at 500 to 600 per day. The burden on hospitals is evident,” said Dr. Eyal Fuchs.
Polish officials welcome the move but stress that contrary to Israeli reports, the decision is independent of Polish policies on anti-Semitism.
