Vitamin D has been recommended by health officials throughout the world to decrease the risk of contracting the coronavirus, including Israel’s Health Ministry, but health experts warn that it should be taken sparingly since excessive consumption of vitamin D can be dangerous. Clinical dietician Dr. Maya Rosman spoke about the recent studies on vitamin D’s role in fighting COVID-19 on Israel’s Radio 103FM but warned that people must exercise caution in taking vitamin D tablets or drops.

Ben-Tzion Hadar, a Holocaust survivor known as the youngest member of a group of children who escaped the Warsaw Ghetto and sold cigarettes near the Gestapo headquarters, passed away in Israel on Sunday at the age of 84 at Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera. Hadar’s story became widely known through the book The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square, which tells the astonishing story of a group of Jewish children who escaped from the Warshaw ghetto in 1942. The group of about 25 children aged six to sixteen kept themselves alive by selling cigarettes in Three Crosses Squares in Warsaw near the local Gestapo headquarters Hadar, then called by his Polish nickname of Bolosh, was born in 1936 and was only six years old when he escaped the ghetto.

In the third terror attack in two months in France, a terrorist shouting “Allahu Akbar” killed three people, including one woman whose throat was slit, at a church in Nice on Thursday morning. The attack took place attack at the Notre Dame Basilica on the city’s main avenue and one of the dead victims is believed to be the church warden. Several others were injured. The terrorist was shot by police and arrested as he continued shouting “Allahu Akbar.” He has been evacuated to the hospital for medical treatment. Je suis sur place avec la @PoliceNat06 et la @pmdenice qui a interpellé l’auteur de l’attaque. Je confirme que tout laisse supposer à un attentat terroriste au sein de la basilique Notre-Dame de #Nice06.

A convoy of cars decorated with American flags and Trump 2020 banners on Tuesday drove from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, holding a rally outside the U.S. Embassy in support of the American president ahead of next week’s election. Some two dozen vehicles joined the procession, which was organized by Republicans Overseas Israel. While Jews in the United States are expected to vote overwhelmingly for Democrat Joe Biden, Donald Trump is a popular figure in Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described him as the “greatest friend” Israel has ever had in the White House. Most of the people in Tuesday’s convoy appeared to be American immigrants, though there were also some activists from Netanyahu’s Likud party.

Rabbi Levi Duchman, who has already been active in the United Arab Emirates for six years, was officially appointed as the Chabad shaliach for the UAE on Motzei Shabbos by the Mercaz L’Inyanei Chinuch of Chabad. “Baruch Hashem, Jewish life here in the UAE has been able to blossom like a desert rose,” Rabbi Duchman said following the announcement, Chabad.org reported. “The coexistence and true respect people have for one another here is beautiful and unfortunately all too unique.

BULLHEAD CITY, AZ — A F-16 fighter jet intercepted a plane that was flying in a restricted area during President Trump’s rally in Bullhead City Wednesday. The following is a statement from North American Aerospace Defense Command: North American Aerospace Defense Command directed F-16 aircraft to investigate a general aviation aircraft that was not in communication with air traffic control and entered the Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) area [Trump Rally] surrounding Bullhead City, Arizona, without proper clearance. The violating aircraft was non-responsive to initial intercept procedures, but established radio communications after NORAD aircraft deployed signal flares. The violating aircraft was escorted out of the restricted area by the NORAD aircraft without further incident.

A former Trump administration official who penned a scathing anti-Trump op-ed and book under the pen name “Anonymous” made his identify public Wednesday. Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security says in a tweet: “Donald Trump is a man without character. It’s why I wrote ‘A Warning’ … and it’s why me & my colleagues have spoken out against him (in our own names) for months. It’s time for everyone to step out of the shadows.” Taylor has been an outspoken critic of Trump’s in recent months, and he has a contributor contract on CNN. Taylor’s anonymous essay was published in 2018 by The New York Times, infuriating the president and setting off a frantic White House leak investigation to try to unmask the author.

A historic kumzitz was held around a campfire in the Dubai desert on Tuesday night as Jews living in Dubai, Israeli tourists, and what appeared to be some Emirati locals sat together and sang soulful songs of yearning. “Higiah hazeman l’geulaschem”(“הגיע זמן גאולתכם”) was sung followed by “Salaam [peace in Arabic] upon us and on the entire world.” The kumzitz was organized by the Jewish Community Center in the Beis Chabad in Dubai. Rabbi Levi Duchman, Chabad shaliach to the UAE and the only resident Rav in the country, can be seen in the videos participating in the kumzitz. In other Israeli/Dubai news, Israelis singers Chaim Yisrael and Shuki Salomon, who are currently in the UAE, filmed a clip in the Dubai desert singing a new song, Shiras HaBakashos, that Salomon wrote and composed.

Harav Yehudah Aryeh Dinner, Rav of central Bnei Brak and a renowned posek, called to the public on Wednesday to accept the upcoming Shabbos ten minutes early for the victory of US President Donald Trump. “This week, we changed the clocks to winter time in Eretz Hakodesh,” Rav Dinner said. “This means that tzeis hakochavim is an hour earlier and this greatly affects us our preparations for Shabbos. In another few days, it will be erev Shabbos Kodesh and everyone should be aware and be prepared ahead of time that Shabbos will begin at 4:15 p.m. [in Jerusalem] instead of 5:15 p.m. No one should wait until the last minute.” “This could be very difficult for some. There are those who in the summer who haven’t even finished their Shabbos preparations by 7 p.m. and now it will be 4 p.m.

Iran has begun construction at its Natanz nuclear facility, satellite images released Wednesday show, just as the U.N.’s nuclear agency acknowledged Tehran is building an underground advanced centrifuge assembly plant after its last one exploded in a reported sabotage attack last summer. The construction comes as the U.S. nears Election Day in a campaign pitting President Donald Trump, who has maintained maximum pressure against Iran, and Joe Biden, who has expressed a willingness to return to the accord. The outcome of the vote likely will decide which approach America takes. Heightened tensions between Iran and the U.S. nearly ignited a war at the start of the year.