As the coronavirus continues to rage in Israel, with a record number of seriously ill patients, it is also taking a toll on pregnant women and their babies. On Motzei Shabbos a two-day-old baby born to a coronavirus patient passed away in Hadassah Ein Kerem in Jerusalem and in Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah, a 33-year-old mother is fighting for her life after her baby was delivered on Friday night in an emergency C-section. She is hospitalized in the gynecology intensive care unit in critical condition, sedated and ventilated. The baby, born in the 31st week of pregnancy at only 199 grams, is also ventilated and fighting for his life at Schneider Children’s Medical Center.

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) went on CNN on Monday, and made two statements that are simply outrageous, and we encourage our readers to watch both of the videos in this article. The CNN host asked Rep. Cohen whether rioters received advanced reconnaissance tours to help carry out the illegal acts that took place on January 6th at the U.S. Capitol stating, “I want to ask you about something specific because several of your colleagues have alleged that the rioters may have received inside help, including raising the prospects of tours, conducted or with the ok, of fellow sitting Members of Congress. This is quite a charge to make. Have you seen any hard evidence to substantiate that allegation?” Rep.

First Lady Melania Trump released a “farewell” video message on Monday, thanking first responders for their efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic and calling on viewers to “remember that violence is never the answer.” In a video posted to her Twitter account Monday afternoon, Melania called serving as first lady the “greatest honor of my life.” “I have been inspired by incredible Americans across our country who lift up our communities through their kindness and courage, goodness and grace,” she said. “As Donald and I conclude our time in the White House, I think of all of the people I have taken home in my heart, and their incredible stories of love, patriotism and determination.” Without specifically referencing the Capitol riots, she used the video message to call for peace.

Tragedy struck the Kiryas Joel community on Monday, when a young child was R”L struck and killed by a vehicle. The incident happened just before 4:00PM on Da Weider Blvd, when the three-year-old boy was struck by a delivery van from a local butcher. Kiryal Joel Hatzolah Paramedics attempted to save the child’s life, but sadly, their efforts were unsuccessful. The NY State Police are on the scene investigating the incident. Further information will be published when it becomes available to us. Boruch Dayan HaEmmes… (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Two hundred NYPD Officers boarded buses to Washington D.C. on Monday, as they travel to the Nations Capitol to assist in security for the Biden inauguration. The NYPD tweeted the following: “This morning, 200 of your officers begin their journey down to the U.S. Capitol, to represent the NYPD and assist with security for Wednesday’s Presidential Inauguration.” The NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan tweeted that the officers had “volunteered” for the job: “Two-hundred of NY’s Finest are on their way to Washington D.C.

Guatemalan police and soldiers launched tear gas and wielded batons and shields against a group of Honduran migrants that tried to push through their roadblock early Sunday. A group of about 2,000 migrants had stopped short of the roadblock the night before. The roadblock was strategically placed at a chokepoint on the two-lane highway to Chiquimula in an area known as Vado Hondo. It’s flanked by a tall mountainside and a wall leaving the migrants with few options. Some 100 migrants tried to make their way through authorities around 7:30 a.m. Sunday. The security forces beat them back and deployed tear gas. None made it through and the larger remaining contingent kept its distance during the melee.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested Sunday at a Moscow airport as he tried to enter the country from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from nerve agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin. Navalny’s detention at passport control in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport was widely expected because Russia’s prisons service said he had violated parole terms from a suspended sentence on a 2014 embezzlement conviction. The prisons service said he would be held in custody until a court rules on his case. No date for a court appearance was immediately announced. The service earlier said that it would seek to have Navalny serve his 3 1/2-year sentence behind bars.

Former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos: “We have to turn down the capability of these Conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences… There are people on YouTube for example that have a larger audience than daytime CNN.” “OAN and Newsmax have freedom of speech, but I’m not sure we need Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and such bringing them into tens of millions of homes.” “It is up to the Facebooks and YouTubes in particular to think about whether or not they want to be effectively cable networks for disinformation. “And then we have to figure out the OANN and Newsmax problem that these companies have freedom of speech, but I’m not sure we need Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and such to be bringing them into tens of millions of homes.

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu praised US Ambassador David Friedman for “establishing the deep ties between Israel and the US, in correcting the diplomatic injustices that were created over the years in global diplomacy regarding Israel and in establishing the status of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” in farewell remarks on Sunday at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting. Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks at the farewell for US Ambassador David Friedman at start of the Cabinet meeting, today: “Today we are taking our leave from US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.

A woman was arrested Friday after stealing a mail truck in Brooklyn and crashing it into several parked vehicles, police said. It happened about 6:00 p.m. Friday in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section. Police said Martha Thaxton, 21, took off in the unoccupied truck down Fulton Street, crashing into several vehicles. Officers said she attempted to flee the vehicle but was arrested on several charges, including grand larceny and reckless endangerment. It was not clear whether she had a defense attorney who could comment on the charges. (AP)