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WORLD NEWS Thursday 28 sepTember 2023
Israel says it foiled Iranian plot to target, spy on senior Israeli

politicians

By JULIA FRANKEL there. Glick survived a 2014
Associated Press Palestinian assassination at-
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel ar- tempt.
rested five Palestinians in a The Shin Bet did not elabo-
plot allegedly hatched in rate on the identity of the
Iran to target and spy on Iranian official in Jordan
senior Israeli politicians, in- who allegedly orches-
cluding Israel’s far-right na- trated the plot. He is not in
tional security minister, the custody and apparently re-
country’s internal security mains at large.
agency said Wednesday. But the Shin Bet accused
The Shin Bet security service three Palestinian men in
alleged that an Iranian se- the West Bank identified as
curity official living in neigh- 47-year old Murad Kama-
boring Jordan had recruit- maja, 34-year-old Hassan
ed three Palestinian men in Mujarimah and 45-year-old
the Israeli-occupied West Ziad Shanti of gathering in-
Bank and another two Pal- telligence and smuggling
estinian citizens of Israel to weapons into Israel. The
gather intelligence about security service also said
several high-profile Israeli that it charged two Pales-
politicians. tinian citizens of Israel over
The targets included Na- their involvement in the
tional Security Minister It- Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attends the weekly cabinet meeting in plot. It did not specify how
amar Ben-Gvir a firebrand Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. the men planned to target
Israeli settler leader who Associated Press Ben-Gvir and the other poli-
oversees the country’s po- Iran’s mission to the United quent public visits to the creased Jewish access ticians.
lice force in Prime Minister Nations did not immedi- holiest and most contested and prayer rights at the Ben-Gvir claimed that the
Benjamin Netanyahu’s ul- ately respond to a request site in the Holy Land. The sacred Jerusalem com- Palestinian suspects had

tranationalist government for comment on the allega- hilltop compound in Jeru- pound, the holiest site in conspired to “assassinate
as well as Yehuda Glick, tions. Ben-Gvir, who draws salem, revered by Jews as Judaism home to ancient a minister in Israel,” with-
an American-born far-right inspiration from a racist the Temple Mount and by biblical Temples. Today, out clarifying whether he
Israeli activist and former rabbi, has provoked out- Muslims as the Noble Sanc- the compound houses the meant himself or another
member of parliament. rage across the wider Mid- tuary, is at the emotional Al Aqsa Mosque, the third- minister. He thanked Israeli
The plan was foiled by Is- dle East for his particularly center of the Israeli-Pales- holiest site in Islam. Since security forces for uncov-
raeli intelligence officials, hard-line policies against tinian conflict. Israel captured the site in ering and capturing what
the Shin Bet said, without the Palestinians, anti-Arab Glick is a leader in a cam- 1967, Jews have been al- he called the “terrorist
offering evidence. rhetoric and stunts and fre- paign that pushes for in- lowed to visit but not pray squad.”q

Plans for Poland’s first nuclear power plant move ahead as U.S.

and Polish officials sign an agreement

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — verified in terms of safety posed to the Polish plan.
Polish and U.S. officials is nuclear energy, which is Many environmentalists
signed an agreement having its big day today,” traditionally oppose nucle-
Wednesday in Warsaw he said at the ceremony. ar energy, and in Poland
to move forward with the Morawiecki’s government some argue that the initial
construction of Poland’s had announced last year cost is so high and that it
first nuclear power plant that it had chosen the U.S. takes so long to develop
as part of an effort by the as its partner for the proj- that it makes more sense
Central European nation to ect. to invest in renewable en-
move away from polluting A consortium made up of ergies. Still, opposition in
fossil fuels. Westinghouse and Bechtel Poland to the plan has not
Prime Minister Mateusz signed the agreement with been high.
Morawiecki called the deal the Polish state-owned util- Even the Greens party is di-
to build the plant at the Lu- ity overseeing the nuclear vided on the matter. That is
biatowo-Kopalino site in the program, Polskie Elektrown- a reflection of how fears of
Pomerania region near the ie Jądrowe (PEJ). climate change have per-
Baltic Sea the beginning of The planned site is about suaded some environmen- Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki talks to journalists
as he arrives for the third EU-CELAC summit in Brussels, Belgium,
a new chapter for Poland, 280 kilometers (175 miles) talists around the world to Tuesday, July 18, 2023.
and described nuclear en- from the border with Ger- embrace nuclear power Associated Press
ergy as a stable and clean many, which shut its last as a solution, because it
energy source. remaining nuclear reactors doesn’t involve the burn- power plants with three re- first three reactors of the
“The only clean, stable en- in April. Last year, the four ing of fossil fuels. Poland is actors each, the last one to Pomerania plant, which of-
ergy source that is tech- German states closest to planning to spend $40 bil- be launched in 2043. The ficials say should start pro-
nologically proven and Poland said they were op- lion to build two nuclear deal with the U.S. is for the ducing electricity in 2033.q