Likud Minister Tzachi Hanegbi said on Tuesday that the US will never attack Iran’s nuclear program and Israel will have to make a decision to either strike Iran alone or accept the fact of a nuclear Islamic Republic. “The United States will never attack the nuclear facilities in Iran,” Hanegbit told Kan News. ” Israel must decide whether it will accept a nuclear Iran or will be forced to take independent action to remove this danger.” Hanegbi added that past incidents have proven that Iran has a “very limited” capacity to retaliate against Israel. “It’s possible that in the future there will be no choice [but for Israel to attack Iran],” Hanegbi asserted.

As Israel’s vaccination drive slows down in recent days, the Health Ministry announced on Wednesday that everyone over age 16 can be vaccinated beginning on Thursday. Health Ministry Director-General Prof. Chezy Levy told Ynet on Wednesday that the decision was made due to the recent decline in people showing up to be vaccinated, leaving vaccination centers almost empty. Coronavirus czar Prof. Nachman Ash said on Wednesday that hundreds of vaccine doses had to be discarded due to the low turnout since they cannot be stored for long once they have been opened. Additionally, there has been an alarming rise in the number of seriously ill patients in younger age groups, a result of the British variant.

In the wake of the high virus morbidity in Israel and the resulting overcrowded coronavirus wards in hospitals nationwide, at least 15 ambulances transporting seriously ill virus patients were forced to wait outside hospitals for almost two hours before gaining admittance on Tuesday night. Ambulances were waiting outside Ichilov and Assaf HaRofeh Hospitals in the Tel Aviv area as well as Kaplan Medical Center in Rechovot. “If Israel ends the lockdown by Sunday, the significance of that is clear,” a senior Magen David Adom told Army Radio on Wednesday. “More people will require medical services and the situation will grow even worse.” “There is no real difference in the number of seriously ill patients today than prior to entering the lockdown, said Dr.

Dr Vladimir Zev Zelenko, a NY State certified physician, was denied hydroxychloroquine by a pharmacist at a Walgreens in Monsey, Tuesday. The use of hydroxychloroquine became a political flashpoint last year when President Donald Trump and some others proclaimed it to be a miracle cure despite a lack of studies at the time to back up their claims. Regardless of your opinion on the use of the drug, or your opinion on Dr Zelenko, it is simply outrageous that a pharmacist refused to dispense a non-controled-substance to a doctor. Watch the video below: (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Israel, along with the rest of the world, will have to learn to live with the coronavirus for a long time, a senior Israeli health official said, according to a Channel 13 News report on Monday. The grim prediction is due to the new more contagious coronavirus mutations spreading throughout the world and the fact that herd immunity cannot be achieved without vaccinating children under the age of 16, which currently cannot be carried out until lengthy trials are completed. Health officials have said in the past that 60-70% of the population must be immune to the virus in order to achieve herd immunity but that number has changed due to the more infectious variants.

Iranian agents who scoped out Israeli, US and Emirati embassies in an unidentified East African country in order to plan a terror attack have been arrested, Kan News reported on Monday night. The terror attack was thwarted last month, the report said. The agents, some of whom had dual European and Iranian citizenship, were sent by Iran to glean intelligence on the embassies, the report said, citing Western intelligence sources. Some of the agents were arrested in the unnamed African country and some in other countries. The attack was intended to avenge the killing of Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani by the US and top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in a strike attributed to Israel.

A study published on Tuesday shows that nearly two-thirds of the Chareidi population in London have coronavirus antibodies, one of the highest recorded rates in a community in the world. The study, performed by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), showed that 64% of Chareidi Jews have virus antibodies, which includes 28% of children under the age of five and over half of school-age children. The number is staggering compared to the 11% infection rate in the general population in London and just 7% across the UK. “Estimates are amongst the highest sero-prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 described anywhere in the world to date,” the researchers stated.

The US Centres for Disease Control may recommend wearing two masks – one over the other – to keep at bay the more contagious variants of the coronavirus, according to Anthony Fauci. “That’s possible,” that the CDC could recommend two masks, Fauci told the Washington Post. “Just [in] discussions with my CDC colleagues yesterday … the CDC is looking at doing a study of seeing whether or not two masks might be better than one, it makes common sense that you would think – and the reason they don’t recommend it right now it’s a science-based organization, [so] they make recommendations based on data and science, so that’s the reason why they’re going to look at that particular issue.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

(By: Sandy Eller) A crippling Nor’easter that blanketed the greater New York City area in snow and had states of emergency declared in both New York and New Jersey was no match for the chesed of Klal Yisroel, as Misaskim and Hatzolah Air worked together to deal with some rather unusual circumstances as the mammoth winter storm raged on. The events began Sunday night in tragedy, when 70 year old Shulem Friedman of Boro Park passed away unexpectedly while vacationing in South Florida with his wife and grandchildren. With a punishing two day storm just beginning to wreak havoc in New York and New Jersey, and the majority of flights coming in and out of JFK, Newark and LaGuardia cancelled, arranging kevurah in Kiryas Joel was far from simple.

Israel confirmed 5,140 new coronavirus cases on Monday morning, with tests showing a still alarmingly high positivity rate of 9.7%. There are currently 68,331 active virus cases, with 1,839 virus patients hospitalized, of whom 1,140 are seriously ill, 390 are critically ill, and 315 are ventilated. The death rate has risen to 4,796, with 1,433 deaths confirmed in the past month alone – one-third of all virus fatalities since the start of the pandemic. There are 167 seriously ill patients in their 50s, 99 patients in their 40s, 50 patients in their 30s, and 20 seriously ill patients in their 20s. Additionally, there are two teenagers and four children who are seriously ill from the virus.