El Al was forced to cancel several flights on Monday due to the limited number of expected passengers on the plane, Calcalist reported. According to the report, El Al sources said that the flights aren’t covering the expenses. El Al’s announcement is the latest in a series of statements since the outbreak of the coronavirus about cancellations and flight delays as well as the recently announced layoff plan of 1,000 employees. Some of the flights that were canceled were to destinations that aren’t considered high-risk at all – the UK, Austria and Germany. “The passengers are simply not arriving. There’s no point in flying,” the El Al source said. A Calcalist report on Sunday said that El Al froze a number of pilot training courses as well as flight training courses.

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The Coronavirus has made its way to a Yeshiva on Sunday as numerous bochrim from one of the leading Litvish Yeshivos in Bnei Brak found themselves under house quarantine this week. Students from the Yeshiva went to the United States last week for a wedding and flew back to Israel with a stopover in Italy Once the plane disembarked in Israel, authorities made all of the passengers deplane through a different route and ordered them all to maintain a house quarantine for two weeks. The affected family has two students who study in the Orchos Torah Yeshiva in Bnei Brak and they too went under house quarantine for two weeks and cannot return to Yeshiva until after that time has passed. They will be forced to continue their studies in their own home.

The first case of coronavirus has been reported in New York State, Governor Cuomo confirms. “This evening we learned of the first positive case of novel coronavirus – or COVID-19 – in New York State. The patient, a woman in her late thirties, contracted the virus while traveling abroad in Iran, and is currently isolated in her home. The patient has respiratory symptoms, but is not in serious condition and has been in a controlled situation since arriving to New York. “The positive test was confirmed by New York’s Wadsworth Lab in Albany, underscoring the importance of the ability for our state to ensure efficient and rapid turnaround, and is exactly why I advocated for the approval from Vice President Pence that New York was granted just yesterday.

Rav Meir Turnheim, a Chabbad chassid who lives in Lod has successfully predicted the results of past political elections in Israel and throughout the world with great accuracy, basing his predictions on a specific complex method of singling out letters from one passuk in the parsha read in the week of the elections in the section read on the day of the elections. At times, his predictions were proven true despite the fact that all other predictions and polls predicted otherwise. According to his predictions for the Israeli elections on Monday, Rav Turnheim claims that based on his method, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will win the elections, as his name is mentioned ten times in the parsha (Parshas Tzevah) and Gantz’s name is not even mentioned once.

YWN regrets to inform you of the tragic passing of Mendel Krafchik Z”L, who was involved in a serious car crash in Pennsylvania overnight. He was 23. Mendel was born in Manchester, UK, where his mother still lives. Sadly, his father was Niftar around 10 years ago. He previously learned in the “RAP” Yeshiva in Yerushalayim, after which he served in the IDF Givati Brigade for a number of years. He then moved to NY, where he was currently living until his tragic Petira. Misaskim and local Askonim worked to have his body released to be flown to London for the Levaya. Boruch Dayan Ha’Emmes… STAY UPDATED WITH BREAKING UPDATES FROM YWN VIA WHATSAPP – SIGN UP NOW Just click on this link, and you will be placed into a group. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)  

Preparations are underway for Israel’s elections for the 23rd Knesset on Monday. A reinforced police presence on Election Day of over 18,000 police officers, Border Police and volunteers along with thousands of civilian guards will be deployed at about 10,840 voting stations at over 4,100 locations nationwide on Election Day. Special preparations were also made in by the Jerusalem municipality to encourage voters who may want to stay home on Election Day to avoid crowds out of a fear of the coronavirus as well as boost Jerusalem businesses, which reportedly suffered a decline in revenue during the election period. The Jerusalem Municipality is providing free ice cream on Election Day to anyone who spends 20 shekels in any Jerusalem store.

Habochur Yosef Chaim ben Devorah Leah (Hecht), who utilized his difficult nisayon, to bring his nation to a new awareness, updates Klal Yisroel on his viral movement “AsherToTheYatzar.com“. Watch this incredible video and share with others.
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Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Sunday tore into Sen. Bernie Sanders over comments he recently made about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, describing the presidential candidate as “a liar, an ignorant fool or both.” Speaking at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, Danny Danon offered a searing rebuke to Sanders for calling Netanyahu a “reactionary racist.” “Whoever calls the prime minister of Israel a ‘racist’ is either a liar, an ignorant fool or both,” Danon said as he spoke on the first day of the pro-Israel lobbying group’s annual conference. “We don’t want Sanders at AIPAC. We don’t want him in Israel.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Following an extensive police investigation, the Jerusalem District Attorney filed an indictment against the leader of Shuvu Banim, Rabbi Eliezer Berland, 82, on Sunday for the criminal offenses of obtaining items by fraud under aggravating circumstances, attempted obtainment of items by fraud under aggravating circumstances, exploitation and attempted exploitation. According to the indictment, Berland, with the help of his associates, presented himself to those in need as someone with special spiritual powers who could provide healing and relief from various distresses as long as those in need paid him thousands of shekels.