Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they struck a Saudi oil facility in the port city of Jiddah on Monday with a new cruise missile, just hours after the kingdom finished hosting its virtual Group of 20 leaders summit. The kingdom did not immediately acknowledge any attack as videos on social media suggested a fire struck a Saudi Arabian Oil Co. facility in Jiddah before dawn. Brig. Gen. Yehia Sarie, a Houthi military spokesman, tweeted that the rebels fired a new Quds-2 cruise missile at the facility. He posted a satellite image online that matched Aramco’s North Jiddah Bulk Plant, where oil products are stored in tanks. That facility is just southeast of Jiddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport, a major airfield that handles incoming Muslim pilgrims en route to nearby Mecca.

Israeli music star Chaim Yisrael and businessman and singer Shuki Salomon released a video on Motzei Shabbos featuring their song Shiras HaBakashos filmed on the dunes of Dubai. “We chose to film the clip davka on the sand dunes of Dubai,” Salomon said. “We wanted to emphasize the gap between the unimaginable wealth you see in the city to the simplicity and emptiness of the endless dunes of the desert.” “With this message of simplicity, we came to request from our Father in Shamayim to redeem us from this difficult time we’re enduring. The coronavirus pandemic has caused too much sinas chinam, parnassah problems, illness and pain.

Dr. Tal Zaks, the Israeli-born chief medical officer of Moderna Therapeutics, which announced last week that their vaccine has proven to be 94.5% effective, said that Israel was one of the first countries that believed in them and the advance that Israel paid them aided the company in achieving its goal. “Israel was one of the first countries that believed in us,” Zaks told Globes. “The advance that Israel paid helped to build the company’s production lines. Together with other countries that reserved doses in advance, it will receive doses that have already started being produced in Switzerland by our partner Lonza.” Zaks told Channel 12 News that Israel’s supply will be one of the first shipments from the production line in Switzerland.

Hagaon HaRav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, Rosh Yeshivas Ateres Yisrael and member of the Degel Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, has recently discovered the wonders of modern technology, which allows him to deliver shiurim to the bochurim without endangering his health. “I can’t see you but I understand from the machine here that you can see me, b’ezras Hashem Yisbrach,” HaRav Ezrachi said to the bochurim prior to delivering a shiur via teleconference. “I think there’s also a machine that allows each party to see each other. Zoom! “GAM ZOOM L’TOVA!” (Zoom is also for the good!”) Rav Ezrachi concluded. HaRav Ezrachi, 92, recently recovered from the coronavirus. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

NY Governor Cuomo blasted a recent “very secret” Satmar wedding which had around 7,500 people in attendance after the NY Post published the details. “If that happened, it was a blatant disregard of the law, it’s illegal, and was also disrespectful to the people on New York”, Cuomo said. “My information is that NYC is investigating the incident, they should investigate, and if 7,000 people were at a wedding, I’m sure they will be able to figure it out, and we will bring the full consequence of legal action to bear”. Cuomo’s response came after the top story on the NY Post website on Motzei Shabbos reported about the wedding for grandchild of the Satmar Rebbe, HaRav Aharon Teitelbaum – reportedly attended by 7,500 people. The Post blasted Satmar for not adhering to COVID-19 restrictions.

In an interview on Sunday, former New Jersey Governor and frequent Trump aide Christie condemned the Trump team’s challenges against the victory of president-elect Joe Biden as “a national embarrassment.” Christie, a longtime Trump ally said: “I have been a supporter of the president’s. I voted for him twice. But elections have consequences & we cannot continue to act as if something happened here that didn’t happen.” He says an unwillingness to present evidence “must mean the evidence doesn’t exist.” The former governor pointed to the fact that the Trump legal team won’t accuse Georgia’s governor of crimes inside a courtroom, where they would be forced to produce evidence. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

On Thursday, Rudy Giuliani and a number of President Trump’s other lawyers held a press conference on the topic of voter fraud – covered extensively on YWN. But on Thursday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson – one of Trump’s biggest allies in the media – repeatedly asked Sidney Powell, an attorney for President Donald Trump, for evidence of the widespread voter fraud evidence she claims to possess, but he says she never provided a single piece of evidence to his show. Instead, he claims the former prosecutor grew angry and demanded that his show stop contacting her when they pressed her for evidence.

To soften the blow of defeat, Fox’s Geraldo proposes naming the vaccine after Trump. “It would be a nice gesture to him and years from now it would become kind of a generic name. Have you got your trump yet, I got my trump, I’m fine. I wished we could honor him in that way.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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The United States government will officially designate the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic and withdraw funding from groups associated with it, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday on his visit to Israel. “Today I want to make one announcement with respect to a decision by the State Department that we will regard the global anti-Israel BDS campaign as anti-Semitic,” Pompeo said. “I know this may sound simple to you, Mr. Prime Minister, it seems like a statement of fact, but I want you to know that we will immediately take steps to identify organizations that engage in hateful BDS conduct and withdraw US government support for such groups.

President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Thursday aggressively made the case for the Trump campaign’s legal challenge of the 2020 election results, alleging in a fiery news conference that there was a “centralized” plan to carry out voter fraud around the country. While Giuliani did not present any direct evidence of a massive fraud scheme, Giuliani asserted that this is the “logical conclusion” reached as a result of incidents he said took place in several states. His descriptions largely entailed recitations of allegations put forth in several lawsuits that the Trump campaign has filed.