Israel and Bahrain signed a deal for regular passenger flights between their countries, Israeli media reported on Thursday. The agreement follows the finalization of official ties between the two countries at a ceremony in Manama on Sunday. The deal allows for up to 14 passenger flights a week between Ben Gurion Airport and Bahrain International Airport in Manama as well as unlimited flights between Ramon Airport near Eilat and Manama, and five cargo flights a week. Flights are expected to begin next week. “We are making history,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stated. “Each day brings a new breakthrough.

President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are set to square off in their final debate Thursday, one of the last high-profile opportunities for the trailing incumbent to change the trajectory of an increasingly contentious campaign. On Thursday night, in an effort to curtail interruptions, Trump and Biden will each have his microphone cut off while his rival delivers an opening two-minute answer to each of the six debate topics, the commission announced. The structure of Thursday’s debate will be the same as the first debate: Each segment will last about 15 minutes, and the candidates will have two minutes to respond after the moderator opens each segment with a question.

A Yeshiva Bochur is in critical condition after he was struck by a vehicle in Monsey, Thursday night. Rockland Hatzolah was on the scene at around 7:30PM, on Collage Road near Dolson. Police were on the scene investigating. Sources tell YWN that the victim is a 17-year-old Yeshiva Bochur, from HaRav Beck’s Yeshiva. Please say Tehillim for Moshe ben Sara Devorah. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
The post TEHILLIM – Yeshiva Bochur Struck By Vehicle On Collage Road In Monsey, In Critical Condition appeared first on The Yeshiva World.

The U.S. regulators who will decide the fate of COVID-19 vaccines took an unusual step Thursday: Asking outside scientists if their standards are high enough. The Food and Drug Administration may have to decide by year’s end whether to allow use of the first vaccines against the coronavirus. Thursday, a federal advisory committee began pulling back the curtain on that decision process, debating whether the guidelines FDA has set for vaccine developers are rigorous enough. “Vaccine development can be expedited. However, I want to stress that it cannot — and must not — be rushed,” Dr. Marion Gruber, director of FDA’s vaccine research office, told the advisers as they began the daylong deliberation.

The number of laid-off Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 787,000, a sign that job losses may have eased slightly but are still running at historically high levels. Last week’s figure was down from 842,000 the previous week, the Labor Department said Thursday. The government also revised down the number of people who sought aid in the two weeks before that. The revised total for the week that ended Oct. 3 was 767,000, the fewest since the viral pandemic erupted in March, though still more than three times the levels that preceded the pandemic. Economists welcomed the declines as evidence that the job market is still recovering from the pandemic recession. But some cautioned that the improvement could prove short-lived.

While the world will be closely watching the U.S. election, some countries will be watching more closely than others. A number of world leaders have a personal stake in the outcome, with their fortunes depending heavily on the success – or failure – of President Donald Trump. Perhaps none has so much riding on a Trump victory as Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli leader, who had a rocky relationship with President Barack Obama, has praised Trump as “the greatest friend” Israel ever had in the White House. Trump has delivered a series of diplomatic gifts to Netanyahu, recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, withdrawing from Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran and offering a Mideast plan that heavily favors Israel over the Palestinians.

A Minnesota judge has dismissed a third-degree murder charge filed against the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck, but the more serious second-degree murder charge remains. Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill’s ruling was dated Wednesday and made public Thursday. Cahill said there was enough probable cause for the second-degree murder charge and manslaughter charge against Derek Chauvin to proceed to trial. Cahill also denied defense requests to dismiss the aiding and abetting counts against three other former officers, Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao.

Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans powered past a Democratic boycott Thursday to advance Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate, keeping President Donald Trump’s pick on track for confirmation before Election Day. Democratic senators refused to show up in protest of the GOP’s rush to install Trump’s nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Never has the Senate confirmed a Supreme Court nominee so close to a presidential election. All 12 Republicans on the panel voted in favor of Barrett, a conservative judge. No-show Democrats displayed posters at their desks of Americans they say have benefited from the Affordable Care Act now being challenged in court.

Gitty Kramer is a Kallah however she is more nervous than excited. She has to deal with questions like: will her father be alive when the wedding date comes around, or will he succumb to his brain tumor? If he is alive, will he be present for the wedding or will he miss it like he missed his 4th child’s wedding because of brain surgery? What about her brother who just received a new kidney? The most important question of all is: Will she herself be at her own wedding or will she have to cancel it because her family has become impoverished? The Kramers currently have no income but they still have a lot of debt from the previous wedding and due to expensive medical bills.  Her Father, Rabbi Kramer, used to be a cheder Rebbi. Because he can no longer function, he isn’t able to work.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Kendra Horn, a lawyer from Oklahoma City, accomplished the most stunning political upset in the nation two years ago when she ousted a two-term GOP incumbent and captured a seat that had been held by Republicans for four decades. But in this year’s election cycle, Horn, 44, won’t have the element of surprise she had in 2018, and both state and national Republican groups have launched a massive counter-attack to win back the seat that virtually every political prognosticator has listed as a toss-up.