Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit issued a legal opinion on Tuesday evening stating that Israel’s high-level security and coronavirus cabinets cannot hold votes until a justice minister is appointed, Channel 13 News reported. Mandelblit stated that until a minister is appointed, the two special cabinets will have to allow votes to be carried out by the full cabinet. His opinion is based on the fact that the failure to appoint a justice minister is in violation of the coalition agreement between Likud and Blue and White to maintain equal representation of both parties. The ruling comes on the background of a political squabble between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

Five Chareidi Bochrim in their 20s were moderately to lightly injured after their car flipped over on Highway 98. According to witnesses, the car flipped over near the town of Keshet in the Golan Heights. Rescue teams that were dispatched to the scene of the accident provided first aid medical treatment to the five youngsters. They were all transported by ambulance to Ziv Hospital in Safed. Police traffic investigators have begun their more thorough investigation. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Alber Ancounina who was one of the first responders at the scene relayed: “The accident involved a car that flipped over.

The Indian city of Pune is running out of ventilators as gasping coronavirus patients crowd its hospitals. Social media is full of people searching for beds, while relatives throng pharmacies looking for antiviral medicines that hospitals ran out of long ago. The surge, which can be seen across India, is particularly alarming because the country is a major vaccine producer and a critical supplier to the U.N.-backed COVAX initiative. That program aims to bring shots to some of the world’s poorest countries. Already the rise in cases has forced India to focus on satisfying its domestic demand — and delay deliveries to COVAX and elsewhere, including the United Kingdom and Canada.

For decades, a deadly type of childhood cancer has eluded science’s best tools. Now doctors have made progress with an unusual treatment: Dripping millions of copies of a virus directly into kids’ brains to infect their tumors and spur an immune system attack. A dozen children treated this way lived more than twice as long as similar patients have in the past, doctors reported Saturday at an American Association for Cancer Research conference and in the New England Journal of Medicine. Although most of them eventually died of their disease, a few are alive and well several years after treatment — something virtually unheard of in this situation. “This is the first step, a critical step,” said the study’s leader, Dr.

The U.S. is recommending a “pause” in the administration of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots. In a joint statement Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said they were investigating clots in six women that occurred 6 to 13 days after vaccination. The clots were observed in the sinuses of the brain along with reduced platelet counts — making the usual treatment for blood clots, the blood thinner heparin, potentially “dangerous.” More than 6.8 million doses of the J&J vaccine have been administered in the U.S., the vast majority with no or mild side effects. U.S.

As news headlines report on the latest Israeli sabotage at Iran’s Natanz nuclear site, the Jews in Iran are battling a serious COVID wave along with the rest of the country. At least four Iranian Jews recently passed away of the coronavirus, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. The virus wave, Iran’s fourth, is especially severe in the cities of Tehran and Isfahan, both of which house Jewish kehillos. On the order of Chief Rabbi Rav Yehuda Gerami, the shuls in the cities are closed. Many young Iranian Jews have contracted the virus, with some of them becoming seriously ill and requiring respiratory assistance. A number of Jews are fighting for their lives in Iran’s overcrowded hospitals.

When plotted on a graph, the curve of Bhutan’s COVID-19 vaccination drive shoots upwards from the very first day, crossing Israel, United States, Bahrain and other countries known for vaccinating people rapidly. Those countries took months to reach where they are, painstakingly strengthening their vaccination campaigns in the face of rising coronavirus cases. But the story of Bhutan’s vaccination campaign is nearly finished — just 16 days after it began. The tiny Himalayan kingdom wedged between India and China has vaccinated nearly 93% of its adult population since March 27. Overall, the country has vaccinated 62% of its 800,000 people. The rapid rollout of the vaccine puts the tiny nation just behind Seychelles, which has given jabs to 66% of its population of nearly 100,000 people.

A jury has awarded $29.5 million to the family of a woman who was left brain damaged after being treated for a severe allergic reaction by an ambulance service in Las Vegas in 2013. Then-27-year-old Chantel Giacalone went into anaphylactic shock after biting into a pretzel infused with peanut butter while in Las Vegas for a convention, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Friday. Giacalone’s lawyer, Christian Morris, said she lost oxygen to her brain for a period of minutes after seeking treatment from MedicWest Ambulance, which was running the medic station that day. Morris argued in a civil lawsuit that MedicWest Ambulance negligently treated her allergic reaction.

Reb Dekel Levy, a 35-year-old Lubavitcher chassid from Rechovot, was finally removed from an ECMO machine 72 days after he was attached to it due to coronavirus complications. Despite the good news, Levy is still in serious condition and has a long road ahead of him before he will be fully recovered. “Hodu L’Shem Ki Tov Ki L’Olam Chasdo,” a statement by the Kehillas HaTzirim of Chabad in Rechovot said. “Together with the great simcha we request that everyone continue davening for his full recovery.” Reb Levy, a father of three small children, was diagnosed with the coronavirus in January. After his condition deteriorated he was hospitalized in Kaplan Hospital in Rechovot, where he was sedated and ventilated.

In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country’s top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to give them a boost. Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates,” said the director of the China Centers for Disease Control, Gao Fu, at a conference Saturday in the southwestern city of Chengdu. Beijing has distributed hundreds of millions of doses in other countries while also trying to promote doubt about the effectiveness of Western vaccines. “It’s now under formal consideration whether we should use different vaccines from different technical lines for the immunization process,” Gao said.