Rav Yitzchak Eizik Margulies of Prague (1525).
Rav Chaim Algazi of Kushta, author of Nesivos Hamishpot. Student of Rav Shlomo Algazi Rabbi of Rhodes .

By Gila Katz Chevi Garfinkel is one of the most dynamic female speakers in the Torah world today.  Tonight at 8:00 PM there was a scheduled online-speech giving chizuk in regard to the current Corona pandemic.  The platform chosen was the famous Zoom platform – which is the online venue of choice for group meetings. […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has put the nation’s most populous state on a stay-at-home order. It expands to nearly 40 million people restrictions he said already applied to about half the state. He said late Thursday that the statewide restriction on any non-essential movement outside the home is needed to control […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday he’s asked the president to deploy a U.S. Navy medical ship to help the state expand its medical capacity and warned that more than half of people in the nation’s most populous state could contract the new coronavirus. Newsom asked President Donald Trump to send […]

A luxury beachfront hotel in Tel Aviv is being turned into a clinic for coronavirus patients, the Israeli news site N12 reported Monday.
Officials from IDF Home Front Command, emergency medical service Magen David Adom and the Israel Police are already at the Dan Panorama Hotel in Tel Aviv and making arrangements to isolate and secure the building in order to prevent infection when the patients arrive.
A special sterile area has been set up, a CCTV network has been installed to monitor patients, and signs have been put up warning of possible infection.
The hotel will not be used to house patients in serious condition, but will allow for treatment of patients whose condition is moderate but cannot care for themselves in home quarantine.

Researchers at Israel’s Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and Rambam Health Care Campus have successfully tested a new method, called “pooling,” that they claim will dramatically increase the country’s ability to test for COVID-19. Because the method enables simultaneous testing of dozens of samples, its implementation will greatly accelerate the rate of COVID-19 testing and detection, according to the researchers.
COVID-19 testing in Israel is currently focusing on symptomatic individuals, because the current rate of testing—about 1,200 a day—does not allow for monitoring of asymptomatic carriers in the population, though such monitoring is vital to curb the epidemic.

Deutsche Lufthansa will cut 95% of capacity, grounding 700 planes, as Europe’s biggest airline confronts the deepening crisis around the coronavirus pandemic.
“The coronavirus has placed the entire global economy and our company in an unprecedented state of emergency,” Chief Executive Officer Carsten Spohr said Thursday. “No one can foresee the consequences. We have to counter this extraordinary situation with drastic and sometimes painful measures.”

With Israel’s Knesset shut down and amid an ongoing national health crisis, negotiations towards a unity government are quietly continuing.
Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein, a member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, shut down Knesset proceedings on Wednesday after Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party refused his proposal for equal representation of the two leading parties in a key Knesset committee. Edelstein said that he will reopen the Knesset “when we are prepared for it,” adding, “I hope and pray that good sense will win and we will begin our parliamentary oversight work.”

On Sunday, Israel’s Ministry of Economy and Industry announced that the country’s major pharmacy and supermarket chains, including Super-Pharm, Shufersal, and Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing 2006, have agreed to limit the price of alcohol-based hand sanitizer to NIS 9.9 (approximately $2.7) per 100 milliliters.
The announcement came following a public outcry on social media networks last week, as consumers accused stores of taking advantage of the widespread coronavirus (Covid-19) scare to hike the price of the popular product.

Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert warn residents of the widespread confirmation of COVID-19 in our county. The cases are rising dramatically each day and it is expected this trend will continue. Currently, there are 80 positive cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Rockland County.