A protest took place on Tuesday on Rechov Bar Ilan in Jerusalem against the construction of the light rail line that is being built through Chareidi neighborhoods. Kanaim have been holding ongoing protests against the construction. In the course of the protest, the kanaim tried knocking over a heavy safety barrier at the site and a 10-year-old Chareidi boy was injured on his leg. Much effort was required to extricate the boy. He was treated by MDA paramedics on the scene and evacuated to the hospital.

Democratic candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are neck-and-neck in the Georgia Senate runoff races against Sen. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. Georgia officials began counting the final votes of the nation’s turbulent 2020 election season on Tuesday night as polls closed in two critical races that will determine control of the U.S. Senate and, in turn, the fate of President-elect Joe Biden’s legislative agenda. The two Senate runoff elections are leftovers from the November general election, when none of the candidates hit the 50% threshold. Democrats need to win both races to seize the Senate majority — and, with it, control of the new Congress when Biden takes office in two weeks.

England’s National Health Service is accustomed to tough winters — and caring for people on overcrowded wards sometimes means moving patients into the corridor. But this is different. Now some are lucky just to get medical help as they wait in an ambulance in the parking lot. Pressure on the nation’s hospitals forced the hand of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has plunged the country into its third national lockdown and ordered everyone to stay at home as much as possible for at least the next six weeks. The situation is worsening, said Siva Anandaciva, chief analyst of the King’s Fund think tank. “It’s not hyperbole to say that the (National Health Service) is going through probably the toughest time in living memory,″ he told The Associated Press.

A senior Iranian commander said over the weekend that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has told Iranian-backed proxies in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip to destroy Haifa and Tel Aviv “if any foolishness is committed against Iran.” Gen. Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, commander of Revolutionary Guard’s Aerospace Force, said on Al-Manar TV that Iran has been working for years on honing the capabilities of its proxies near Israel. “All the missile capabilities of Gaza and Lebanon have been supported by Iran, and they are the front line for confrontation,” he said. “We teach the Resistance Front to make fishing rods, instead of providing fish, and Lebanon and Gaza possess the technology to manufacture missiles.” “Today, the Palestinians fire rockets instead of throwing stones,” Hajizadeh added.

After reportedly occurring a few times in the United States, an elderly woman in Israel was diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy after taking the Covid-19 vaccine. The woman, Iza Dubinovsky, a 72-year-old resident of Karmiel, started seeing symptoms several days after receiving the treatment. At first, she simply did not feel one side of her face. Following the strange sensation, Dubinovsky went to the hospital where underwent CT scans and head scans that all came out normal. Following this, she was told that the occurrence was indeed a side effect of the vaccine and that after using some medications the condition should pass. In an interview with Channel 12 news Dubinovsky said, “I was terribly distressed. I had a hard time drinking and eating. I was afraid it would stay that way.” Dr.

An Israeli civilian thwarted a stabbing attack by an Arab terrorist on Tuesday afternoon near the Gush Etzion junction, about ten minutes south of Jerusalem. The terrorist, armed with a meat cleaver, approached an Israeli civilian near the Gush Etzion Winery, located near the junction, in an attempt to stab him. Another Israeli civilian noticed the scene and moved toward the suspect, who threw his knife at him. The civilian then opened fire, killing the terrorist. It is reported that the Palestinian assailant was planning to stab an Israeli civilian. Another civilian noticed, approached the suspect who then threw the knife at him, the civilian opened fire, killing the suspect.

Los Angeles County hospitals are so inundated, officials said they’re just trying to provide the best care they can for the people who need it. Hospitals across Los Angeles County have become so slammed with patients in recent weeks that county officials have instructed ambulances not to transport patients to the hospital with virtually no chance of survival and to preserve supplemental oxygen supplies by only administering it to people who desperately need it. Overloaded hospitals have meant that ambulances are waiting to off-load patients at times for as long as six to eight hours. On any given day over the past week, 70 to 90% of L.A. County hospitals were closed to ambulances for advanced life support treatment.

A video showing Florida governor Ron DeSantis blasting a CNN reporter while she tries to ask about the state’s coronavirus vaccine rollout has been viewed millions of times in just 14 hours. The clip shows the moment CNN’s Rosa Flores tries to ask DeSantis about why some elderly patients had to join long queues and even sleep out overnight in order to get their vaccine in some parts of Florida. Watch the video below: (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Coronavirus czar Prof. Nachman Ash told Ynet on Tuesday morning that any delay in implementing a strict lockdown will result in a loss of lives. For now, he recommended that parents living in high infection areas should keep their children home. “A child who brings the disease home infects others,” he said. “We have seen quite a few such cases in recent days.” Yamina leader Naftali Bennett also recommended that parents keep their children home from school, saying that he kept his children at home on Tuesday for the first time. Former Health Ministry Director-General Moshe Bar Siman-Tov already kept his children home on Sunday. “Many friends have been asking me what to do about school,” Bar Siman-Tov wrote on Twitter on Sunday.

Israel’s Health Ministry approved the coronavirus vaccine of US biotech company Moderna, the company stated overnight Monday. There have been differing reports about when the Moderna vaccines will be shipped to Israel, with the company and some health officials saying that the first shipment will arrive in approximately two weeks, two months ahead of the scheduled delivery in March. Other reports said that the vaccines won’t arrive until March with the exception of about 100,000 doses. Health Minister Yuli Edelstein confirmed the latter report on Tuesday afternoon, saying that the ministry has no indication that the Moderna vaccines will arrive earlier than March.