A Yahoo News reporter apologized to President Donald Trump on Tuesday for misreading a chart and getting wrong the numbers he used as the basis for a question on U.S. testing for the coronavirus. Trump taunted the reporter, Hunter Walker, after Dr. Deborah Birx corrected the numbers during an Oval Office news conference. “Are you going to apologize, Yahoo?” the president said. “That’s why you’re Yahoo and nobody knows who the hell you are.” Walker later tweeted that he had misread a chart and was sorry about it. The president, at a later event, thanked Walker for the apology and said he appreciated it.

Mayor Deblasio spoke at a press conference on Wednesday morning, and tried to explain his tweets which have now gained national attention, and caused the Levaya of the Tola’as Yaakov Rebbe ZT”L to become national headlines. The Mayor says that “if you say anger and frustration (in his tweets), you’re right. I spoke out of of real distress. People’s lives were in danger before my eyes, and I was not going to tolerate it. So, I regret if the way I said it, in anyway, gave people the feeling of being treated the wrong way, that was not my intention. It was said with love, but it was tough love, it was anger and frustration. “And no, it has not happened in other places. Let’s be honest. This kind of gathering has happened in only a few places, and it cannot continue.

HaRav Chaim Aryeh Zev Ginzberg, was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday evening, after he was in critical condition and on a respirator from COVID-19. HaRav Ginzberg is the Rov of the Chofetz Chaim Torah Center of Cedarhurst and the founding Rav of Ohr Moshe Torah Institute in Hillcrest, Queens. A statement from the family says: הודו לה כי טוב כי לעולם חסדו We are so filled with gratitude to be able to share with you that Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Zev Ginzberg was discharged from the hospital this evening. It is so clear to us how all of your nonstop tefillos have brought about this tremendous נס and we can never possibly thank you enough. You stormed shamayim and brought our husband, father and zaidy home to us.

Where do we go from here? With coronavirus numbers slowly starting to decline, elected officials and medical professionals throughout the United States are all wrestling with the same issues as they try to map out a plan for a return to some semblance of normalcy without compromising public health. With few facts on the ground but questions aplenty, Agudath Israel of America took advantage of an invitation extended by Israel’s Office of the Consul General in New York to discuss the ongoing situation with Minister of Health Rabbi Yaakov Litzman, whose public health decisions have played a part in keeping fatality rates relatively low during the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.

Israel Police, who are enforcing a lockdown in Beit Shemesh due to a high infection rate of the coronavirus, discovered a building in which dozens of students were learning on Tuesday. The police also found a shul nearby where tefillos were being held contrary to Health Ministry regulations. When the police began to enforce order and disperse the participants, violence ensured during which hundreds of Beit Shemesh residents threw rocks and other objects at the police, yelling calls of “Nazis.” Two police vehicles were damaged. The police arrested seven suspects on charges of illegal gatherings, disorderly conduct, and assaulting police officers. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

The Thunderbirds and Blue Angels flew in formation over New York City and Newark, NJ Tuesday afternoon. “Operation America Strong” paired the US Navy’s Blue Angels and the Air Force Thunderbirds in a coordinated flyover. The effort served as a salute to healthcare workers and first responders on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. The spectacular salute, from the Air Force and Navy, honored of healthcare workers, first responders, military, and other essential personnel. Flyovers in Newark, New York City and surrounding boroughs will started at noon and lasted approximately 35 minutes. “We are incredibly honored to have the opportunity to salute those working on the frontline of the COVID-19 response, we are in awe of your strength and resilience,” said Cmdr.

A stabbing attack occurred in the central Israeli city of Kfar Saba early Tuesday afternoon when a terrorist stabbed a 62-year-old woman waiting at a bus stop near a mall. The victim was treated by MDA medics at the scene and evacuated to the trauma center at the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba. She is in moderate to serious condition. The terrorist, a 19-year-old Arab from the Palestinian Authority city of Tulkarem was shot by an armed civilian who witnessed the scene. The terrorist was evacuated in serious condition to Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer. “When we arrived, we saw a 62-year-old woman, fully conscious, lying on the street,” said MDA paramedic Elazar Havani. “We examined her and found multiple bleeding wounds.

A Brooklyn resident confronted Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife Chirlane McCray about their “non-essential” travel as they walked in Prospect Park over the weekend, a video posted on Twitter shows. The mayor and his wife have taken flack for traveling from Manhattan to walk in Prospect Park during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the fact that there is a park surrounding Gracie Mansion, where they live. In a video posted to Twitter on Saturday, a user who says he lives near Prospect Park can be heard chastising the two for their “non-essential” travel. WATCH THE VIDEO: (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Eliyahu Biton, the father of the 11-year-old who is critically ill with the coronavirus and hospitalized in the ICU in Ramban Hospital in Haifa, sedated and on a ventilator, was interviewed outside the hospital on Monday. Biton said he’s simply broken and it’s very difficult.

As the Yom HaZikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day) siren sounded in Israel, a large group of Charedim, many belonging to the extremist Sikrikim group, danced and sang in the streets of Meah Shearim in what would seem like a celebration at the death of Israeli soldiers who gave their lives so that Jews could have a state of Israel and live peacefully in the land. The day commemorates the 23,816 men and women who gave their lives as well as the 3,153 terror victims who were killed since the founding of the State of Israel. It is a solemn day in Israel, one that is often commemorated in silence and mourning. Having similar situations in previous years, the police sent five undercover police detectives, three men and two women, to patrol Meah Shearim with the intent of keeping the peace.