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August 4, 2020 at 10:05 am
Two weeks ago, we reported on the new arrangement which will allow yeshiva and seminary students to enter Israel. The agreement came after weeks of intensive work by the recently formed Yeshiva & Seminary Coalition for Bnei Chul, headed by Rabbi Nechemya Malinowitz.
Now, students have started receiving permits, and some have actually already arrived in Israel. Numerous yeshivas and seminaries have been approved by the Health Ministry, and dozens more are expected to be approved in the coming days.
Meanwhile, Israel’s Corona czar, Ronni Gamzu, has warned that students who fail to adhere to quarantine rules may be deported from the country. Gamzu, who was appointed to the post in late July, also stated that sanctions may be taken against institutions whose students violate t...
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August 4, 2020 at 10:03 am
Construction and Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) on Tuesday accused the government of discriminating against religious Jews in its coronavirus policies.
Speaking at the Knesset plenum Tuesday morning, Litzman told Yesh Atid-Telem MK Yorai Lahav-Hertzano that the policy of permitting mass gatherings for protests and demonstrations while strictly limiting the size of prayer groups is a de facto form of discrimination against the religious sector.
“They don’t let me – my public – do what they allow you to do,” said Litzman.
“You can protest outside all night long against the law, even when the law permits protests, despite it being dangerous, with 10,000 or 20,000 people. I’m not allowed to bring even 30 people to a synagogue...
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August 4, 2020 at 9:38 am
Miss international travel? Why not recreate the experience in the comfort of your own home with some airplane food?
A leading airline food company in Israel is offering its in-flight meals to the general public as a low-cost delivery option during the pandemic.
Tamam Kitchen, which services Israel’s El Al airlines, Turkish Airlines and other international carriers flying out of Tel Aviv, piloted the idea in late July as a way to stay in business.
Read more at NPR.
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August 4, 2020 at 9:37 am
The U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, on Monday said states with high coronavirus case counts should reconsider imposing lockdown restrictions, emphasizing the need to get cases to a low baseline before the fall flu season.
In some states with moderate case counts, experts are seeing “that same insidious increase in percent positive that we had seen and pointed out … in states like Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Minnesota and others,” Fauci said during an interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Fauci said last week that he was seeing signs the surge of COVID-19 cases could be peaking in the South and West while other areas were on the cusp of new outbreaks. Those states should consider pausing or rollin...
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August 4, 2020 at 9:36 am
Anti-aircraft unit positions, surveillance posts and command and control infrastructure hit in airstrikes
Israeli jets, attack helicopters and aircraft launched strikes against Syrian army targets in the country's south, the IDF announced late on Monday.
The strikes, launched a short while ago, came in retaliation for an earlier attack thwarted on Israel's north border, which saw four terrorists killed as they approached the security barrier with firearms and explosives.
Monday's strikes were aimed at anti-aircraft unit positions, surveillance posts and command and control infrastructure on the Syrian side of the border, the IDF maintained.
It added that the Israeli military deems Syria responsible for everything happening on its territory -- a message it earlier ...
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August 4, 2020 at 9:36 am
There are 333 COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals in serious condition
New data released Tuesday by Israel's Health Ministry showed that 1,801 coronavirus cases were recorded on Monday.
As of Tuesday morning, 270 cases were detected since midnight.
Eight more deaths were recorded since yesterday, raising Israel's death toll to 554.
There are currently 24,598 active cases in the country, a figure which has significantly decreased over the last several days.
Some 770 people are hospitalized with COVID-19, among those 333 patients in serious condition, including 101 on artificial respirators. Read more at i24
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August 4, 2020 at 9:32 am
Kiryas Woodbourne with Rabbi Jungreis, Niklesburg Rebbe, where all are welcome. A few thousand people a day visit and all get along.
Kiryas Woodbourne with Rabbi Jungreis, Niklesburg Rebbe, where all are welcome
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August 4, 2020 at 9:18 am
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, 83, is hospitalized in serious condition at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, and on Tuesday morning his situation deteriorated.
Rabbi Steinsaltz is suffering from a lung infection, and is unconscious and on a respirator.
"My father is fighting a very serious incidence of lung infection (which is not connected to coronavirus), and suffered a deterioration this evening," his son Menachem Even-Israel wrote. "Please remember him in your thoughts and mention him in your prayers."
"May we see him return to full health, with G-d's help. Please pray and say a chapter of Psalms for my father, Rabbi Adin, the son of Rivka Leah."
On Tuesday evening, a prayer gathering for Rabbi Steinsaltz will be held at the Western Wall and broadcast via Zoom. Read more at Aru...
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August 4, 2020 at 9:14 am
Israeli Coronavirus Czar Prof. Roni Gamzu met Tuesday with Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef to consult with him on halakhic issues related to the fight against the coronavirus.
After the meeting, the Chief Rabbi and Prof. Gamzu issued a joint statement in which they implored the public to obey the instructions of the Health Ministry and other relevant authorities.
At the beginning of their joint statement, they highlight the health dangers and the need to tighten the guidelines for "dealing with the corona epidemic that has claimed many victims, young and old, healthy and sick."
"Our Torah is the Torah of life, and commands us very strongly to protect our lives, and the Torah also said, and to live by it, and as the sages extrapolated in Tractate Yoma 85:B: and not to die by it," the...
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August 4, 2020 at 9:02 am
No injuries reported to Israeli troops after combined air-ground assault neutralizes terrorists
The Israeli army foiled four terrorists trying to place a bomb on the Israel-Syria border, according to a statement early Monday morning.
"A short while ago, IDF [Israel Defense Forces] troops thwarted an attempt to place improvised explosive devices (IEDs) near the Alpha Line between Syria and Israel," the IDF spokesperson's unit said.
Soldiers of the Maglan special forces, according to Ynet, had taken up clandestine positions along the border when notified of the approaching squad.
"IDF troops on the southern Golan Heights, adjacent to an IDF post, spotted a terrorist squad placing explosive devices adjacent to the security fence," the IDF said. Read more at i24
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August 4, 2020 at 8:54 am
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday revived a lawsuit challenging Maryland’s rules for obtaining a handgun as unconstitutionally restrictive.
The unanimous ruling from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond reinstates the lawsuit, which was first filed in 2016 and tossed out of court by a federal judge last year.
The lawsuit challenges Maryland’s handgun licensing law, passed in 2013, which requires gun purchasers to complete four hours of safety training in addition to passing background checks, being 21 years old and a Maryland resident.
The case was initially dismissed because the plaintiffs, including the advocacy group Maryland Shall Issue, lacked standing to sue.
But Monday’s ruling determined that one of the plaintiffs &m...
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August 4, 2020 at 8:52 am
National Hurricane Center's Aug. 4 -- 8 a.m. update
Location: 37.7N 76.8W
About 15 mile SSE of Tappahannock, Virginia
Maximum sustained winds: 70 mph
Present movement: NNE at 33 mph
Minimum central pressure: 993 mb or 29.33 inches
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The National Hurricane Center said Doppler radar imagery and surface observations indicate that the eye of Hurricane Isaias made landfall in southern North Carolina around 11:10 p.m. Monday near Ocean Isle Beach, with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph.
Strong winds and heavy rainfall are likely from the eastern Carolinas to the Mid-Atlantic coast Monday night and Tuesday.
The National Weather Service has issued a Tropical Storm Warning and a Tornado Watch for Tuesday in much of&nb...
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August 3, 2020 at 10:54 pm
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — There were angry exchanges in the Knesset’s law committee Monday over the issue of foreign students entering the country. Most of those slated to arrive in the coming weeks are Yeshiva students and MK Eli Avidar (Yisrael Beitenu) was quick to accuse the Chareidim of trying to bring disease into Israel with foreign students, stating that “You should be ashamed because you brought people from Brooklyn and infected your own people in Bnei Brak and Beitar Illit. You are public criminals who act irresponsibly towards your citizens. There should be equality and everyone should be allowed in, but you are allowing only Chareidim.”
Committee chairman Yaakov Asher (UTJ) responded that “it is a shame and disgrace, this is antisemitism. You gained a...
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August 3, 2020 at 10:50 pm
Baltimore, MD - Aug. 3, 2020 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Avrami and Ayala Gross on the birth of a daughter.
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בתם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
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August 3, 2020 at 10:37 pm
The Torah enumerates the seven minim of Eretz Yisroel in Devarim 8:8. The Gemara in Brachos 41b tells us that when it comes to which fruit comes first regarding brachos and chashivus we look to see which fruit is written first in the posuk. In addition, the posuk mentions the word eretz twice, so we say that whatever fruit is closer to the word eretz comes first. If there is a tie, then the one closer to the first eretz comes first. The Rema brings this down lehalacha in Orach Chaim 211:4. The question is, why does the posuk depict it in this way that whatever fruit is closer to eretz comes first? We could have written the...
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August 3, 2020 at 10:33 pm
According to a professor at Iran’s Tehran University, burning U.S. flags will help Iran establish solidarity with protesters in the United States.
In an interview with Iran’s Ofogh TV on July 18, professor Foad Izadi said, “We aren’t burning enough American flags.”
It was important to do so, he said, because “we need to prioritize our target audience if we want to start acting in America.”
That audience, he said, was “Americans who have been hurt by America.” Those Americans “who are tearing down statues and burning flags.”
When these people see Iranians burning U.S. flags, he said, this will create “relations and solidarity between us.”
While some Americans would be offended, they would still wond...
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August 3, 2020 at 10:29 pm
The Trump administration is considering taking “a number of options” without congressional approval as negotiations on the fourth coronavirus stimulus relief package are stalled between the White House and lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Fox News has learned.
A senior administration official told Fox News Monday that the administration is weighing taking unilateral action to quell the economic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“As the negotiations continue to progress as a snail’s pace, the administration is considering a number of options that might be available without congressional legislative action,” the official told Fox News.
Read more at Fox News.
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August 3, 2020 at 10:15 pm
The tender for deploying 5G infrastructure in Israel will open on Tuesday and it is nothing short of a historic moment. 5G, the fifth generation technology standard for cellular networks, is set to dramatically upgrade telecommunication capabilities in the country, turning smart cities, telemedicine, and autonomous vehicles into a reality.
Three groups, all from Israel’s telecom industry, are set to enter the bidding war. One group will include Partner and HOT Mobile, another Cellcom and XFONE, with Pelephone the only one of the cellular companies to enter the race by itself. The tender will be managed by Tal Elimelech, senior director for regulation and economy at the Ministry of Communication.
The telecom companies are entering the tender in a difficult situation, with their fina...
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August 3, 2020 at 10:14 pm
President Trump on Monday morning threatened legal action over a bill passed by the Nevada legislature to send mail-in ballots to all voters ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential election.
The legislature on Sunday pushed through the bill despite objections from Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, the only statewide Republican elected official, on a party-line vote. It would give Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak the power to command the secretary of state to adjust election procedures during a state of emergency.
The bill also expands who can turn in ballots, a provision many Republicans in the state said could open the door for ballot harvesting.
“In an illegal late night coup, Nevada’s clubhouse Governor made it impossible for Rep...
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August 3, 2020 at 10:14 pm
Don’t expect presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to name his running mate this week.
A source familiar with the process of choosing the running mate told Fox News on Monday that “an announcement isn’t likely this week.”
Various reports over the weekend indicated that the former vice president and his team were extending the vetting process of the contenders in the running mate search by a week to two weeks.
Read more at Fox News.
