Tropical Storm Isaias is packing dangerous winds and heavy rain as it rapidly heads toward the Tri-State after making landfall as a hurricane near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina. On the forecast track, the center of Isaias will to move near or along the coast of New Jersey by this afternoon. The primary threat from Isaias will be the torrential rainfall, but we also expect wind gusts up to 50 mph and possible tornadoes. Tornado watches have been issued for all of New York City, as well as Long Island, Westchester, Rockland, Orange and Putnam counties until 4 p.m. Tuesday. The watch also applies to a number of New Jersey counties and Connecticut’s Fairfield County. The greatest risk of tornadoes is midday from southeast Virginia to New Jersey, forecasters say. TIMING 1.

Dr. Rashed Hammad Al-Adwani, the Kuwaiti Ambassador in Kiev, Ukraine visited the kever of Rav Nachman of Breslov as part of a tour of the town of Uman on Sunday, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. As is well-known, Kuwait has no diplomatic relations with Israel and regularly makes hostile statements against the Jewish state in the halls of the UN. It even has a policy of not allowing Israelis with foreign citizenship to board its aircraft. Al-Adwani visited Uman for an inter-faith meeting in the city and expressed an interest in visiting the kever of Rav Nachman of Breslov, saying that he heard a lot about it and wanted to see what it’s all about. He also expressed interest in eating at a kosher restaurant since kosher meat is considered kosher according to the Muslim halal laws.

Chairman of the Knesset’s Law and Justice Committee, MK Yaakov Asher (UTJ), slammed the incitement against yeshivah bochurim and the Chareidi sector following the media’s revelation that “17,000 yeshivah students” are entering Israel. “Everyone is aware of the value of Taglit and Masa to Israel,” Asher said at the beginning of the Law and Justice Committee meeting on Monday morning. “During the coronavirus era, we needed to come up with special arrangements. This all passed quietly. Suddenly when it’s named Yeshivas Mir, where thousands of bochurim come from all over the world, some of whom live in Israel – the whole country is aghast.” “They requested to bring [the yeshivah bochurim] in the same way [as the Masa and Taglit students],” Asher said.

The IDF has confirmed that they have conducted airstrikes in Syria, saying they were in response to the attempted attack along the border last night. The IDF says in a short statement “Last night, IDF troops thwarted an attempt to place an improvised explosive device (IED) on the southern Golan Heights. In response, a short while ago, IDF fighter jets, attack helicopters and aircraft struck military targets in southern Syria. The IDF says it targeted Syrian army observation posts, intelligence gathering equipment, anti-aircraft cannons and command-and-control infrastructure. YWN WHATSAPP STATUS UPDATES: CLICK HERE to join the YWN WhatsApp Status. YWN WHATSAPP GROUPS: CLICK HERE to be dded to an official YWN WhatsApp Group.

Israel has increased its capacity by only 19 beds in hospitals since the pandemic began, from 16,302 beds in February to 16,321 beds in July, according to a report by the Knesset Research and Information Center (RIC). According to the report, presented to the Knesset’s Special Committee for Public Petitions on Monday, additional beds from internal medicine wards were designated for coronavirus patients rather than increasing beds in general. There are currently 783 coronavirus patients hospitalized in Israel and three hospitals, Shaare Tzedek and Hadassah in Jerusalem, and Ichilov in Tel Aviv, are currently operating at over 100% capacity in their coronavirus wards and two others are at 94%.

The number of shootings in New York City continues to skyrocket. According to CBS, the total so far this year has surpassed the number of shootings in all of last year, and there is still five months to go! The NYPD says there were 16 shootings that left 20 people shot on Sunday. In 2019 there were no shootings reported at all. YWN WHATSAPP STATUS UPDATES: CLICK HERE to join the YWN WhatsApp Status. Last year, there were 776 total shootings with 922 victims. Over the weekend, the 2020 total surpassed that, with at least 942 victims, including innocent children like 17-year-old Bronx basketball star Brandon Hendricks, who was killed by a stray bullet in June, and 1-year-old Davell Gardner, who was shot dead in his stroller last month.

A Tropical Storm Watch was issued for New York City and Long Island, as well as parts of the Hudson Valley, New Jersey and Connecticut ahead of Isaias, which is expected to hit the Tri-State late Monday and Tuesday. The rain breaks out Monday night, with periods of heavy downpours, including potential flooding on Tuesday, according to AccuWeather. The storm could bring 2 to 4 inches of rain and wind gusts of up to 50 mph, especially along the coasts. Flood protection barriers have been set up for the first time at South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan. The sandbags and water-filled tubes span nearly a mile. (AP)

A Jewish man and his son were subject to an anti-Semitic verbal attack in the heart of the Jewish community in Melbourne last week, The Jerusalem Post reported. The father and son were standing next to a busy street when a man yelled at them: “What are you looking at Jew dogs?” and continued to verbally assault them with expletive-laced comments, according to Australia’s Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC). “I cannot believe that in Australia in 2020 we are still experiencing anti-Semitic incidents on the street,” the victim told the ADC. “I can’t shake off this unsettled feeling that people today are still singling out Jews as open targets for abuse without fear of repercussions. What if that individual had attacked someone who was alone or unable to defend themselves?” ADC chairman Dr.

The IDF thwarted a terrorist attack in the Golan Heights on Sunday, scoring a direct hit on four terrorists as they were planting a bomb along Israel’s northern border, the IDF stated after midnight on Sunday. The four terrorists, who were all killed in the strike, crossed into Israel from Syria on Sunday night. and were observed trying to plant explosives inside an unmanned IDF post. IDF soldiers and aircraft immediately opened fire and killed all four terrorists, IDF Spokesperson Hidai Zilberman said on Monday morning. Some of the terrorists were armed. No Israeli soldiers were injured in the incident. This is the moment when four terrorists attempted to plant explosives near the security fence between #Israel and #Syria last night… …and the moment we stopped them.

Prof. Tal Zaks, Chief Medical Officer of the US biotechnology company Moderna, recently told Ynet that the Israeli government has ensured that Israeli citizens can receive Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine as soon as it’s ready. “As a former Israeli I’m glad to know that the Israeli government has indeed seen fit to make sure the vaccination will be available to its population,” Zaks told Ynet. Zaks received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Ben-Gurion University in the Negev and then moved to the States to conduct post-doctoral research at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Before joining Moderna in 2015, Zaks was the senior vice president and head of Global Oncology at Sanofi.