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August 5, 2020 at 9:44 am
The Israeli delegation, led by the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D), in the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMoD), and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have completed their mission in India: collecting sufficient samples to test and validate four Israeli diagnostic technologies. The team will be returning to Israel in the upcoming days, with more than 20,000 samples collected from COVID-19 patients.
Israel’s Defense Attache to India, Col. Asaf Maller: The goal is to bring to the world the technological capability to perform rapid Corona tests within tens of seconds.”
Head of the delegation on behalf of the DDR&D, Lt. Col. Yaniv Meirman: We are in the midst of processing and analyzing the data that we have collected, and will continue this process...
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August 5, 2020 at 9:44 am
Cleanup is underway in the wake of Tropical Storm Isaias, which left Maryland shortly after noon on Tuesday.
Gov. Larry Hogan's office said Tuesday they are aware of a number of issues in central and southern Maryland and on the Eastern Shore.
As of noon on Tuesday, about 30,000 Baltimore Gas and Electric customers lost electricity, mostly in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert and Harford counties and Baltimore City.
The Maryland Emergency Management Agency has increased the state activation level and is coordinating calls between the National Weather Service, state agencies and local emergency managers. Read more at WBAL
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August 5, 2020 at 9:43 am
Israel's Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi, Rabbi David Lau, on Wednesday participated in a Zoom meeting of the Knesset's Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee regarding the coronavirus restrictions for synagogues.
According to him, there is no logic in placing the same restrictions on a synagogue with 300 seats as on smaller synagogues.
"I turned to them and requested," he said. "I am really asking them to pay attention: You cannot compare a synagogue with 20 seats, where a ten-person limit is logical, to a synagogue with 300 seats, where there is no logic in the restriction."
"I can't say if there is a place in Israel where the guidelines are kept like they are in the vast majority of synagogues in Israel. Ten people in the men's section, and when there is an eleventh, he ...
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August 4, 2020 at 9:34 pm
Baltimore, MD - Aug. 4, 2020 - We sat and cried for the Beis HaMikdash on Tisha b'Av, and then hours later we found ourselves in Shabbos Nachamu. But is there any real nechama without a Beis HaMikdash? While certainly not complete, if we but understand nechama better, we really can find it in the here and now.
Is Real Nechama Possible Today? from Tzvi Goode on Vimeo.
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August 4, 2020 at 9:19 pm
BALTIMORE — The National Weather Service confirmed three separate tornadoes occurred in southern Maryland Tuesday morning as Tropical Storm Isaias moved through the Mid-Atlantic.
As many as nine tornadoes were reported Tuesday morning in Maryland and Delaware.
According to the NWS, preliminary information from storm surveys concluded that two tornadoes occurred in St Mary's County, while the other was in Calvert County. A detailed report will be revised and issued Wednesday.
A tornado that touched down at 8:21 a.m. was confirmed in Queenstown after an investigation.
Trees fell on houses, bridges were washed out and at least one person in St. Mary's County was reported killed during the storm.
Crews are assessing damage throughout much of Central and Sout...
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August 4, 2020 at 9:11 pm
Governor of Beirut bursts into tears talking about explosion at fireworks factory, compares scale to Hiroshima bombing.
At least 78 people were killed and 4,000 people were injured in the massive explosion which shook Beirut Tuesday.
Initial reports from Lebanon suggested that the explosion was an accident at a fireworks factory. However, officials later stated that the blast was cuased by highly explosive materials which had been seized from a ship and stored at the site for years.
Director-General of Lebanon Public Security Abbas Ibrahim said: “The storage area contained highly explosive materials confiscated years ago. To discuss fireworks is laughable.” Read more at Arutz-7
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August 4, 2020 at 9:07 pm
Virgin Atlantic was the second Virgin Group airline to file for bankruptcy protection
Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection in New York on Tuesday, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage demand for air travel.
The airline suspended its passenger flights in April due to the COVID-19 crisis and resumed flying passengers in July.
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August 4, 2020 at 8:50 pm
A cocktail drug of two antibodies “can almost completely block establishment” of the novel coronavirus in monkeys and hamsters, according to a prepublication copy of a study on the therapy.
REGN-COV2, developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, “can greatly reduce virus load in lower and upper airway” when administered either as a preventive measure or treatment after infection, according to the study by a team from Regeneron, Southwest National Primate Research Center/Texas Biomedical Research Institute and science research company BIOQUAL.
The study was published on BioRxiv, an open access repository for biological research that has yet to be peer reviewed.
Read more at NEWSMAX.
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August 4, 2020 at 8:49 pm
The Census Administration said Monday that it would speed up its acquisition of data ahead of the end of September, when it says it will end all collection efforts nationwide.
In a statement, the Census Bureau said that it would accelerate efforts to collect data in person and through self-reporting efforts, both of which it said would now end on Sept. 30. Census officials said in the announcement that the administration planned to collect a similar amount of data as has been collected in previous censuses.
Read more at The Hill.
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August 4, 2020 at 8:48 pm
President Trump’s campaign manager said Monday that he wants “more debates” between the president and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden – and he wants them to begin sooner rather than later.
In an interview with Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” Bill Stepien voiced concern that the current debate schedule, which begins on Sept. 29, won’t give early voters in several states a chance to see the two candidates go head-to-head before ballots are cast.
“We want more debates. We want debates starting sooner,” Stepien, who was named Trump’s new campaign manager last month, said. “First debate is scheduled for Sept. 29, by that time 16 states already will have voted, by Sept. 29. That’s a concern t...
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August 4, 2020 at 8:40 pm
City officials ignored their own application process for public art projects to paint Black Lives Matter murals around the five boroughs, in order to mark an important moment in history, Mayor Bill de Blasio said as his administration faces claims of First Amendment violations for refusing to green-light other proposals.
“We haven’t said ‘no’ to people, we’ve said, ‘If you want to apply, you can apply, but there’s a process,’” de Blasio said during his City Hall press briefing Monday.
The pro-President Trump group Women for America First has sued City Hall for blocking a mural of their slogan “Engaging, Inspiring and Empowering Women to Make a Difference!” on a Manhattan roadway, while allowing multiple BLM paint...
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August 4, 2020 at 8:37 pm
The White House Correspondents’ Association announced Monday that a member of the press who covered President Trump’s trip to Florida last week has tested positive for COVID-19.
“We’ve already reached out to those who were in the pools with this individual, and the White House Medical Unit is conducting additional contact tracing and providing follow-on tests for those in the pools and potentially exposed,” said Zeke Miller, the group’s president.
Miller would not reveal the identity of the journalist, citing privacy concerns.
Read more at The Hill.
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August 4, 2020 at 8:36 pm
WASHINGTON (JNS) – The anti-Israel group IfNotNow has endorsed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for re-election in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District.
“BREAKING: IfNotNow Movement Rejects Racist Attacks, Becomes Latest Jewish Group to Endorse @IlhanMN for Re-election,” tweeted the group in a thread on Tuesday.
“As American Jews, we’re proud to support Representative @IlhanMNin her re-election campaign. In her first two years in Congress, despite unrelenting attacks, Ilhan has remained steadfast in advocating for progressive policies, and opposing Trump’s authoritarian agenda,” continued IfNotNow. “Over the last several months, @AIPAC and its allies, like @DemMaj4Israel, have raised millions for Ilhan’s opponent&...
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August 4, 2020 at 8:30 pm
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August 4, 2020 at 6:13 pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the issue of Israel applying sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria remains on the table.
“The issue of applying sovereignty is in Washington … it’s not off the table; the option still exists,” Netanyahu told party members at a Likud faction meeting.
Under the parameters of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan and Israel’s coalition agreement, Netanyahu had declared that starting on July 1, he could move to apply sovereignty to what is commonly referred to as the West Bank. But there has been little movement on the issue since.
It also remains unclear whether or not the United States will support any move by Israel to apply sovereignty. Trump is in the middle of a tough re-election c...
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August 4, 2020 at 6:12 pm
Landon Fuller’s parents believe social isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic contributed to the suicidal thoughts leading to his death.
“I think the big question we all have is why, and we will never know the reason why,” said his mother. “The only thing that I was able to find was in his journal was that he had wrote that he was going mad from staying at home all the time and that he just wanted to be able to go to school and play outside with his friends. So that was the only thing that I can imagine what was going through his head at that time. If I had read that before, I wouldn’t have thought that he was planning on taking his own life because I think we’re all feeling a little crazy right now.”
The Fullers have taken the opportunity to ...
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August 4, 2020 at 6:09 pm
The United States reported nearly 49,000 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, marking the lowest single-day number of infections in four weeks, after seeing record levels in July.
Echoing other sources, data maintained by the COVID Tracking Project revealed that the U.S. recorded 48,694 new cases this Sunday, the smallest number since about 28 days ago on July 6, when the country reported 41,600 infections.
Read more at Breitbart.
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August 4, 2020 at 5:58 pm
U.S. equity markets closed higher Tuesday as Congressional talks on coronavirus relief measures were underway. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters that lawmakers “hope to make some progress" as he made his way into the meetings late afternoon.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 165 points, or 0.62 percent, and the S&P 500 gained 0.36 percent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 0.35 percent and secured another record for the 30th time this year and 156th time under President Trump.
Democrats and Republicans "remain far apart on a number of issues. But we're finally moving in the right direction," Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Senate's top Democrat, said on the chamber floor earlier in the sess...
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August 4, 2020 at 5:57 pm
In light of threats from Hezbollah to retaliate over the death of one of its members in Syria last week, the Israel Defense Force has sent reinforcements to its northern border including advanced fire capabilities, intelligence collection systems and special operational units. But so far, instead of any actual fighting, Israel and Hezbollah are engaged in a game of theatrics and psychological warfare.
On July 27, according to media reports, a Hezbollah terrorist cell crossed the blue line border a few meters into Israeli-controlled territory in the Shebaa Farm region, where it was repelled by Israeli troops, who purposely avoided killing them so as to avoid deterioration into heavier conflict.
But according to most analysts, this was not Hezbollah’s official response and a more sev...
