The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that it is temporarily stopping the hydroxychloroquine portion of a global study into experimental treatments for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a news conference that the decision was made so the body could review safety data related to the drug, which is used to treat malaria and lupus and has been touted by President Trump as a way to combat the coronavirus, Axios reported.

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Italy has recorded 300 new confirmed cases of coronavirus over the last 24 hours.
National Civil Protection Agency confirmed this on Monday –– the lowest daily increase in new infections since February 29.
According to the latest data, the number of active cases has also dropped by 2.29% to at least 55,300 on Monday.
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By Alex Traimen
Israeli media and their left-wing anti-Netanyahu allies have been anticipating for years the moment Binyomin Netanyahu would be dragged into a courtroom. Unable to beat Israel’s longest-serving prime minister at the polls, many have looked to a politically left-leaning legal system to get him out of office.
Many pundits eagerly anticipated pictures of a guilt-ridden former prime minister, defeated at the ballot box, sitting depressed on the wooden benches of the Jerusalem District Court. Yet, at Sunday’s arraignment hearing marking the start of the official legal proceedings against Netanyahu, the picture was entirely different.

An Israeli soldier who lost his leg after being wounded in a terrorist attack in Judea earlier this month has been released from intensive care.
In a video message sent from his hospital bed at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva, 20-year-old Shadi Ibrahim, of the Druze town of Sajur in northern Israel, said, “I came out of intensive care, now everything’s fine with me. I’m alright.”
Ibrahim was seriously wounded in a vehicular assault on a military post near the town of Negohot in the south Hebron hills on May 14. The assailant, a 19-year-old area resident, was shot and killed by one of the soldiers on the scene, according to the Israe Defense Forces.

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
                The Taz in Orach Chaim 494 writes that we delay davening Maariv on Shavuos night so that the counting of the Omer should be complete. The Magen Avraham 494 says that on the night of Shavuos we don’t make Kiddush until after tzais hakochavim so it should be temimos. The question can be asked; is it permissible for women, who are exempt from the mitzvah of Sefiras HaOmer because it is a time bound mitzvah, to daven Maariv earlier or make Kiddush early? Is the concept of temimos necessary in order to bring in Shavuos?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not have to attend the next session of his trial on July 19, the Jerusalem District Court ruled on Sunday.
The ruling was handed down by Jerusalem District Court judge Rivka Friedman-Feldman, the head of the three-judge panel overseeing Netanyahu’s trial, at the conclusion of the 50-minute arraignment hearing, during which Netanyahu pleaded innocent to the charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust.
Dates for subsequent hearings have yet to be determined, according to media reports.

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Standard commercial flights out of Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport will likely resume in early-to-mid July, airport officials said Monday.
Following the sharp decline in the number of new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Israel, along with the drop in new fatalities, a number of foreign airlines announced plans to resume flights to Israel in June.
The airlines included Air Canada, Delta, British Airways, easyJet, Ryanair, Alitalia, and Lufthansa. Dozens of other companies have also made preliminary plans to resume operations in Israel, while Israel’s largest airline, El Al, announced last week that it was extending its own moratorium on flights until June 20th.

Discussion with Rav Chaim WegTranscription:
Question: If a business receives a PPP loan in order to help make their payroll, must the business owner separate ma’aser kesafim from that money? Would it matter if the loan is ultimately forgiven?
Answer: The halachah is that one is not obligated to give ma’aser kesafim from loans, since the money was not earned and must be repaid. If the loan eventually turns into a gift, then the question would arise whether ma’aser must be separated at that point.