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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Saeb Erekat, 65, one of the most experienced and high-profile spokesmen for the Palestinian cause over decades of dispute with Israel, died on Tuesday after contracting COVID-19, his family said. He was 65.

“With hearts full of sorrow and pain, and with patience, Erekat’s clan everywhere mourns to the Palestinian Arab people and to the Arab and Muslim nation Saeb Erekat,” his extended family clan posted on Facebook.

09 Nov 2020; MEMO: The first flight operated by Dubai airline FlyDubai landed in Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday, according to Israeli media, Anadolu reports.

The state-owned Israeli KAN channel released a video of the Emirati flight landing at the airport.

According to FlyDubai, owned by Dubai government, the carrier will operate two flights daily between Dubai and Tel Aviv as of Nov. 26.

09 Nov 2020; MEMO: Former US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said he expects that the new American administration run by President-elect Joe Biden to reconsider the two-state solution with regards to the Israel-Palestine conflict, RT reported yesterday.

07 Nov 2020; MEMO: US President Donald Trump’s defeat would not affect Israel, but could put Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in crisis, Israeli analyst Sima Kadmon conveyed on Friday.

“If Trump is defeated, the Israeli prime minister would face a strong slap, not Israel,” Kadmon wrote in Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Sunday, hailing a strong alliance that could be burdened by differences over policy on Iran and the Palestinians.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - “God Bless You Donald and Melania” read the poster hanging over an Israeli highway during the U.S. election campaign. In nearby Palestinian areas, anti-Trump graffiti adorned walls.

Perhaps nowhere outside his own country did President Donald Trump polarise opinion more than in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, where to many he was either hero or villain.

JERUSALEM, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday that street stores in Israel will be allowed to reopen from this coming Sunday, marking another step out of a nationwide lockdown.

Netanyahu chaired a meeting of the special cabinet for handling the COVID-19 on Wednesday on the outline of returning to routine and the policy on the restrictions.

04 Nov 2020; MEMO: More than 80 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails have contracted coronavirus, the Wa’ed Association for Prisoners and Liberated Prisoners said in a press conference in Gaza today.

The detainees are being held in the Gilboa prison and include prisoners who have existing medical conditions and the elders.

03 Nov 2020; MEMO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed his hope that US President Donald Trump wins a second term in the White House, Anadolu reported on Monday.

Praising Trump’s Middle East policy, Netanyahu said: “I can only hope that this policy that isolates Iran and brings the fruits of peace, peace grounded in reality to the people of Israel, to the Arab peoples of the region; I can only hope that this policy will continue in the coming years.”

02 Nov 2020; MEMO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to pay taxes and maintenance expenses for his private home in Caesarea, Israeli media revealed yesterday.

According to a report by Israel’s Channel 13, Netanyahu claimed that the expenses were related to fulfilling his duty as a prime minister so he should be exempt from paying taxes on them.