President Trump is expected to announce that he will commute Roger Stone’s sentence, just days before the longtime political operative is slated to report to prison to serve more than three years. Sources told Fox News Friday that the president could announce a commutation of Stone’s sentence as early as Friday evening. The president, as recently as Friday morning, has said he was “looking at” offering Stone clemency, saying he was “very unfairly treated.”
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The World Health Organization is acknowledging the possibility that COVID-19 might be spread in the air under certain conditions — after more than 200 scientists urged the agency to do so. In an open letter published this week in a journal, two scientists from Australia and the U.S. wrote that studies have shown “beyond any reasonable doubt that viruses are released during exhalation, talking and coughing in microdroplets small enough to remain aloft in the air.” The researchers, along with more than 200 others, appealed for national and international authorities, including WHO, to adopt more stringent protective measures.

The Bronx Zoo and New York City’s aquarium are set to reopen this month, but New York City is canceling street fairs, outdoor concerts, parades and other big events through September as local officials try to keep city blocks open for restaurants and the public. Large outdoor gatherings have been officially banned in New York since the spring, though thousands have taken to city streets to protest against police brutality. Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday that the city’s ban will exempt “demonstrations, religious events and press conferences.” “Look this is always an area of real sensitivity here,” de Blasio said in a CNN appearance, in response to a question about whether protests would be allowed.

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Rav Shlomo Bloch zt”l (1886-1976) was one of the foremost students of the Chofetz Chaim and a student of the Klem Yeshiva as well.  After his move to Eretz Yisroel in 1925, he became known as one of the tzaddikim of Yerushalayim and his brachos were sought after by […]

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said that the government may reimpose a national lockdown if daily coronavirus cases rise to 2,000, news reports said on Friday. Edelstein’s remarks were made on the background of another record-breaking number of 1,464 new coronavirus cases confirmed on Friday morning in the previous 24 hours. Almost 8,000 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the past week. The number of active cases has risen to 16,651, with 124 people in serious condition, of whom 39 are ventilated. Two more deaths were recorded, raising the death toll to 350. The Ministerial Committee on Restricted Zones made a decision late Thursday night to impose a lockdown on neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Kiryat Malachi, Lod and Ramle for seven days.

As the rate of new coronavirus infections continues to break records in Israel, with almost 8,000 new cases diagnosed in the past week, a lockdown of five cities and towns went into effect on Friday at 1 p.m. Neighborhoods in the cities of Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Kiryat Malachi, Lod and Ramle were declared as “restricted zones’ for seven days. The neighborhoods that were declared restricted zones are Romema, Kiryat Sanz, Kiryat Belz and Mattesdorf in Jerusalem, Nachla U’Menucha and Kenei Habosem in Beit Shemesh, Achuzat Rutner and Chabad in Kiryat Malachi, Ganei Ya’ar and Sach in Lod and Amishav Bilu in Ramle.

Dozens of coronavirus patients in the United Kingdom suffered serious neurological complications regardless of the severity of other virus symptoms, according to a British research study as reported in The Guardian. A UK research study recently published in the journal Brain reported that researchers began collecting data on 43 COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms in March as more and more data of neurological symptoms associated with the coronavirus was recorded. The 43 coronavirus patients suffered from various neurological complications, including stroke, nerve damage, brain inflammation and delirium and experienced symptoms such as psychosis, seizures, delusions, hallucinations, strokes, vision problems, and confusion.

A tropical storm warning has been issued from Cape May, New Jersey to Rhode Island, including Long Island and Long Island Sound, as Tropical Storm Fay has developed off the coast of North Carolina and is moving up the coast. A flash flood watch has also been issued for New York City, Long Island and several counties in New York and New Jersey for Friday. The National Hurricane Center says Fay is expected to produce 3 to 5 inches of rain along and near the track of Fay across the mid-Atlantic states into southeast New York and southern New England. These rains may result in flash flooding where the heaviest amounts occur. Tropical storm conditions are expected to first reach the coast within the warning area on Friday and spread northward through the warning area Friday night.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yisrael Katz presented a new economic rescue program on Thursday evening whose aim is to assist small businesses that have been harmed by the coronavirus restrictions. “The finance minister and I have been working on this plan around the clock so that you will get the money as quickly as possible. We are in the midst of a growing global storm that is affecting virtually every country,” the Prime Minister told Israeli media during a press conference. “A balance needs to be struck between protecting our health and opening up the economy. The decisions have been made through trial and error – as all governments have had to do.” “The steps we took created a heavy financial toll on us.

Since Wednesday, a video illustrating Israeli police officers who violently forced mask compliance on a Chareidi woman whose nose was exposed has been making waves on the Internet. In the video, four police officers are seen physically trying to move the woman from her place. Bystanders protested the police actions loudly. The officers eventually succeeded at tackling the woman and handcuffing her while she was lying on the ground. In a statement made by the Police Spokesperson’s Department to the media the Israel Police said: “During police enforcement activities in Jerusalem, officers identified a woman who got off the light rail while not wearing a mask on her face as required.