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The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they happen.
Police have arrested a 15-year-old Beitar Jerusalem soccer fan who set off a flare from the stands during a heated match in the capital this evening.
The teen fired the flare towards the goal of the visiting team, the Arab Israeli soccer club, Bnei Sakhnin, during the match’s first half in Teddy Stadium.
Police arrested the youth in the stands. They confiscated additional pyrotechnics and pepper spray found on his person.
The 15-year-old, a resident of Rehovot, was taken to the capital’s Moriah police station for interrogation.
Beitar won the match 2-1.
US President Donald Trump says he will imminently be filing a lawsuit against the BBC over its editing of his 2021 speech to supporters before their assault on the US Capitol.
“We’ll be filing that suit probably this afternoon or tomorrow morning,” Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office, more than a month after he first threatened a billion-dollar defamation complaint against the British broadcaster.
Police have arrested a third suspect over an attack on a pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa over the weekend.
Earlier this evening, police arrested two other suspects in the incident.
They are suspected of pepper-spraying 30-year-old Hanan Abu Shehadeh, as she drove with her two children Saturday.
Her assailants also shouted racist epithets at her and spat on her young daughter while the car windows were open, she recounted in interviews to Hebrew and Arabic outlets.
The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court has issued a gag order on details of the investigation and information that could identify the suspects.
German authorities have detained a 21-year-old man in the central city of Magdeburg who was allegedly plotting to attack “large crowds,” regional officials tell AFP.
The man, who is originally from Central Asia, expressed plans to carry out an attack that “could have had an Islamist motivation,” according to the interior ministry of Saxony-Anhalt, the eastern state that includes Magdeburg.
The ministry says it is preparing a deportation order, citing a “fact-based prognosis” that the man may pose a danger to Germany or a “terrorist threat.”
The 21-year-old man was taken into custody on Friday, the same day that German police arrested five men for allegedly plotting an Islamist car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the southern German state of Bavaria.
The five suspects arrested in Bavaria include three Moroccans, a Syrian and a 56-year-old Egyptian who — according to the tabloid, “Bild” — serves as imam at a mosque in the Bavarian town of Dingolfing-Landau.
US President Donald Trump says Washington is “looking into” whether Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire with its strike that killed senior Hamas commander Raad Saad over the weekend.
Trump denies any rift in his relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel more broadly, despite