A “hilltop youth” was killed in a car crash in Gush Etzion on Monday while being chased by the police. The youth, who was later identified as Ahuvya Sandak, 16, from Bat Ayin, was part of a group of hilltop youth who were allegedly throwing rocks at Arab vehicles near the yishuv of Kochav HaShachar on Monday. Israel Police arrived at the scene and the group of boys jumped into a car and fled the scene. The police pursued the car and according to the police, the driver of the youths’ car lost control during the chase and the car flipped over, killing Sandak and lightly injuring four other passengers.

During his final shiur on Chanukah, Rabbi Yosef Dovid Teitelbaum, otherwise known as the Sassover Rebber, raised a number of tough questions with regard to the distribution of the Coronavirus vaccinations that are now being administered in Israel and other countries. “It is not easy for me to say this. I thought a lot about whether to speak and I know I will be criticized for it. The Gedolim have stated their opinion regarding vaccinations and I am like dust before them but even dust can say its opinion.” “I had the good fortune to be partly responsible for saving the lives of 30,000 people who received the Matan Chaim drops. I gave these drops in America as well.

A Bnei Brak resident who passed away earlier this month after contracting COVID-19 for the second time died of a different virus strain than he contracted the first time, Kan News reported. Sheba Hospital in Te HaShomer, where the man passed away, carried out genetic testing which showed that the man had contracted a different coronavirus variant than the first strain he contracted months earlier, from which he subsequently recovered. “There’s no doubt that the man was infected twice and that he had recovered from the first infection,” Prof. Galia Rahav, head of the Infectious Disease Unit, told Ynet. “It’s very worrying that a person can be infected a second time while the virus is mutating. What impact will this have on the coronavirus vaccine?

A German court on Monday convicted Stephan Balliet of murder and attempted murder and sentenced him to life in prison for his attack on a synagogue last year on Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day. He killed two people after he failed to gain entry to the building. The Oct. 9, 2019, attack is considered one of the worst anti-Semitic assaults in Germany’s post-war history. The 28-year-old defendant posted a screed against Jews before trying to shoot his way into the synagogue in the eastern city of Halle while broadcasting the attack live on a popular gaming site. Judges at the Naumburg state court, which met in the state capital of Magdeburg for security and capacity reasons, on Monday found him “seriously culpable,” news agency DPA reported.

PM Boris Johnson says ‘there is no reason to believe the new variant of COVID19 is anymore dangerous than the existing strain’. “I want to stress we in the UK fully understand our friends’ anxieties about the new variant. But it’s also true that the risks of transmission sitting alone in the cab is very low. So we hope to make progress,” Johnson says. “We want to work with our colleagues to develop new treatments and new vaccines as we have”. Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance adds ‘the vaccine should be as effective’ on the new variant. Alarmed by a mutant strain of the coronavirus, many countries are banning travel from Britain, where it appears to be spreading widely. European markets plummeted and U.S.

The coronavirus cabinet voted on Monday to ban all non-Israelis from entering Israel as fear of the new coronavirus variant found in the UK and other countries grows. The ban includes those with special permits to enter Israel, such as relatives attending family events, students, and businesspeople. The cabinet also approved a measure requiring all Israeli citizens returning from abroad to quarantine in state-run hotels. Passengers will be required to quarantine for 14 days if they choose not to get tested for the coronavirus or for 10 days if they test negative on a coronavirus test upon arrival and test negative again nine days later. The new measures will go into effect beginning on Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m.

A 52-year-old mother of six, a resident of Tal Menashe in the Shomron, was found dead in the Reichan forest with signs of violence on her body overnight Sunday. The woman had left her home on Sunday at 1 p.m. to go for a run in the nature reserve in the Reichan forest, next to Tel Menashe, and never returned. When her husband failed to reach her on her phone, he contacted the police and a search began. The search continued for hours, with the participation of volunteers from the Samaria-Jordan Valley search and rescue squad in the Yehudah Shomron Police, the IDF, Border Police, a K9 unit, and civilian volunteers. Her body was found in the forest at about Monday morning at 1 a.m. There were signs of severe violence to her body, especially her head.

The duet of Jewish music superstar Avraham Fried and Tel Aviv rock star Aviv Geffen – “Batzoret” (Drought)was released on Sunday morning. How did this unlikely collaboration of Fried and Geffen come about? It all started with a video that Fried’s friend sent him. “It could have just been another evening of the coronavirus routine in my home in Brooklyn,” Fried said. “But a video that a friend in Israel sent me left me in tears. When I saw the video of Aviv crying during an interview and pleading to stop the hateful discourse…I couldn’t continue to stand by and I answered his call.” “I never met Aviv Geffen,” Fried continued, “and meeting him was never on my agenda.

A letter from HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef instructing the residents of Israel to be vaccinated for the coronavirus was published on Sunday. “I hereby turn to Acheinu Bnei Yisrael in Eretz HaKodesh to adhere to the instructions of the doctors, like it says in the Torah ‘ורפא ירפא’ – from here we learn that doctors have been given permission to heal.

Zeinab Soleimani, the daughter of Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, who was eliminated by the US in January, said in a recent English-language interview that her father was the only one standing up against the terrorist groups of Al Qaeda and ISIS. “Al Queda and ISIS are terrorist groups that America made and we have many proofs of that,” she said in the interview which was aired on Going Underground on Russia Today TV. “My father was the only person standing against these terrorist groups.” “[The US] made [these terrorist groups] to start a war in the Middle East and they use it to start hurting people and taking their houses, their jobs, their money, their countries.