Researchers at the Hebrew University of Yerushalayim have announced that they have developed a new method of testing for Covid-19 which is 4-10 times faster than the tests most commonly used today and is also significantly cheaper, while supplying the same level of accuracy, Idan Zonshine reports at the Jerusalem Post.
Moreover, most of the materials required for the new test are already available in Israel, easing significantly Israel’s shortage of testing materials and its economic dependence on foreign commercial markets.
The new “method has already undergone a series of tests at Hadassah Hospital, using hundreds of samples from patients – and is now becoming operational,” said Dr. Naomi Haviv of Hebrew University’s Neuroscience Research Center.

After an unusually wet winter, Israel’s Lake Kinneret is full for the first time in decades.
In just two years, the Kinneret has risen by more than 5.5 meters. The water level is only 21 cm. from the line that marks its full capacity.
In order to prevent flooding, authorities will likely use the Degania Dam to release excess water into the Jordan River.
Built in 1931, the dam has only been opened twice in Israel’s history – in 1969 and 1992.
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President Trump is not firing Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House said in a statement Monday, warning against speculation after Trump on Sunday retweeted a call for the removal of the nation’s top infectious disease expert. “This media chatter is ridiculous,” said the statement, which was signed by White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley. “President Trump is not firing Dr. Fauci,” the Daily Beast reports.

President Donald Trump said today that it is ultimately up to him to decide when social distancing guidelines should be lifted and the economy reopened.
“For the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the Fake News Media are saying that it is the Governors decision to open up the states,” Trump wrote on Twitter, “not that of the President of the United States & the Federal Government. Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect.”
The president has previously said that he can “override” the decisions of state and local officials

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Our holy Yeshiva Toras Chaim is situated in a secluded place, surrounded by forest, outside of the city of Moscow and thanks G-d we managed to keep it operating during the coronavirus pandemic. As soon as the situation with coronavirus in the world started developing we have imposed a strict quarantine in the Yeshiva and so with G-d’s help have insured the safety of our students and staff.
Every day there are minyanim for all the prayers and the regular learning sedarim thanks to the avreichim of our kollel who came to live on site.

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Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu delivered a statement this evening on the fight against the coronavirus and the government’s ‘exit strategy’ from the restrictions placed on the economy and freedom of movement, INN reports.

According to analysis of international graphs and comparisons, Major Gen. (Res) Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel concludes that it is certainly possible and we are already in the final stages of the coronavirus epidemic, Arutz Sheva reports.
Prof. Ben-Israel is the chairman of the Israeli Space Agency and the National Council for Research and Development, the head of the Security Studies program at Tel Aviv University, and a former MK for the Kadima party. He holds a PhD in Philosophy and a BSc in Physics and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.

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