Day: June 27, 2017

The Israeli government has suspended the project of creating spaces for joint prayers of men and women at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. It is reported by The New York TImes. “Today’s decision is a powerful blow to the unity of the Jews, Jewish communities and the nature of the relationship between the State of Israel and the Jewish Diaspora”, — said on this occasion, the defense Minister of Israel Avigdor Lieberman. As reported RIA Novosti, the author of the idea about the place praying together, the head of the Jewish Agency “Sohnut” Natan Sharansky also expressed their disappointment. The decision on creation of zones of joint prayer was made in January 2016 after years of consultations with leaders of Jewish communities around the world. For were made by the representatives of the liberal Jewish communities in Israel and abroad, against — Orthodox followers of Judaism, controlling the religious life

The government of Saudi Arabia has allocated $ 67 million to fight cholera in Yemen. About it reports The Independent. “Saudi Arabia is committed to working closely with our partners in the humanitarian field, in order to combat cholera and to improve the overall sanitary situation in Yemen,” said Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Rabia, Advisor to the Royal court and the coordinator of the center for humanitarian assistance of king Salman. According to him, the decree on the allocation of funds was signed by the recently appointed heir to the throne crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. According to who, every day in Yemen is fixed at five thousand cases of infection with cholera and control the spread of the epidemic is almost impossible. Just suffered about 200 thousand people, killed more than a thousand. Doctors call this epidemic “the largest in the world.” In the country, meanwhile, civil war continues.

Michel Temer The chief Federal Prosecutor of Brazil’s Rodrigo Janot filed charges against the country’s President Michel Temer of bribery, reports Reuters. The prosecution submitted to the Supreme court. According to Brazilian legislation, the lower chamber of Congress must now vote whether to allow the court to begin hearings on the case of the President. This charge is expected to be the first in a series of alleged episodes of corruption against an extremely unpopular leader of the country, the Agency said. The coalition of Temer, meanwhile, are sure to have the proper number of deputies that the President’s opponents failed to gain the two-thirds majority in Parliament required to continue the trial. Previously Temer managed to avoid accusations of illegal financing of the presidential campaign of Dilma Rousseff in 2014. Political crisis in Brazil broke out after the recording appeared, which Temer supposedly discusses “buying the silence” of former