A 43-year-old Yerushalmi woman who was suffering from extreme obesity died on Tuesday after having received surgery to shrink her stomach. She had a number of pre-existing illnesses in addition to living with obesity. Due to her weight, she underwent stomach shrinking surgery last month, a surgery that was deemed successful. Due to a leak that took place following the initial surgery, doctors were forced to operate a second time in order to stop the leak between her stomach and her small intestines. In spite of the surgery being a success, the woman never regained consciousness. After staying in the ICU for a week, she passed away in spite of the heroic efforts put forth by the doctor.

The Chinese company Huawei can secretly tap into communications through the networking equipment it sells globally, a U.S. official charged as the White House stepped up efforts to persuade allies to ban the gear from next-generation cellular networks. The U.S. national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, made the statement at an Atlantic Council forum on Tuesday evening after The Wall Street Journal quoted him as saying Huawei can “access sensitive and personal information” in systems it sells and maintains globally. O’Brien did not provide any evidence to support the claim. U.S. officials have long argued that Huawei is duty-bound by Chinese law to spy on behalf of the country’s ruling Communist Party.

Officers from multiple agencies helped KCPD avert a potentially horrific tragedy before the start of Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade Wednesday. A vehicle broke through the parade barrier on the north side of the route at 8:12 a.m. All officers on the route were immediately alerted. Clay County Sheriff’s Deputies assisting KCPD deployed Stop Sticks, which the vehicle struck. The vehicle proceeded south down the route to where it turned at Pershing and was headed for the crowd. Multiple police cars were prepared to block it. An Independence, Missouri, police officer driving a KCPD vehicle then used tactical vehicle intervention, also known as the PIT maneuver, to stop the suspect car on Pershing.

Rav Avraham Schlesinger, an Israeli senior kashrus supervisor, recently said in a shiur that a Chinese factory owner whose factory he supervises wrote to him that the coronavirus, which is believed to have originated with bats, shows how eating kosher saves Jews from illnesses, Kikar Shabbos reported. “We see that the Jewish concept of eating kosher saves you from illnesses because the entire epidemic apparently began due to the consumption of bats,” the factory owner wrote. “We also see how powerless human beings are as is accepted in the Jewish faith.” Rav Schlesinger added: “The factory owner requested that I convey to Am Yisrael: ‘Pray for us.

With the start of the 2020 census just a month away for most U.S. residents, the U.S. Census Bureau is behind in recruiting workers and establishing partnerships with civic groups, and it is at risk of missing some informational technology testing goals, according to a report released Wednesday. While the Census Bureau has succeeded so far in early tasks of verifying addresses across the U.S. and launching an advertising campaign, the agency’s readiness for upcoming operations is mixed, according to the report from the Government Accountability Office. The report was made public Wednesday during a hearing by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Last Sunday, Eliah Ben-David was arrested by Israel’s Security Services and was issued an exceptional order prohibiting him from meeting an attorney. On Monday, after the investigation did not lead to findings, District Court Judge Ido Dorian Gamliel ordered his release from detention without any limiting conditions. Minutes after his release, Shin Bet forces arrived and took him into administrative detention based on an order signed by the Defense Minister Naftali Bennett. After hearing that Bennett signed the administrative order, MKs as well as many people from the right-wing public in Israel protested to the move by Bennett and applied pressure to him to get him to rescind the order and free Ben David.

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Mohsen Rezaee, former commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council, an advisory body to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said in an interview earlier this week that if the United States attacks Iran, Iran will raze Tel Aviv to the ground. The host of the interview, which was aired on Lebanese TV, questioned Rezaee about the IRGC commander’s threat to attack Israel if Iran is attacked by the US. “Have you really made that decision?” the interviewer asked. “If the US attacks you, will you really strike Israel?” “You should have no doubt about this,” Rezaee replied. “We would definitely raze Tel Aviv to the ground. We have been looking for an excuse.

It took a year of campaigning, countless stump speeches and an especially strong night on the debate stage for little-known Democratic presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar to break into the top tier of the 2020 campaign in New Hampshire. Now she has less than two weeks to make it count. The Minnesota senator on Tuesday immediately worked to turn her better-than-expected night into enough momentum to be competitive in next-up Nevada and beyond. For Klobuchar, that means consolidating establishment and moderate voters, picking up traction with black and Latino Democrats and introducing herself to most everyone else. “Hello, America!” she yelled over a cheering crowd at a campaign party in Concord as she was on track to finish in third place.

In a horrific tragedy, 13-year-old Daniel Cohen Z”L was fatally run over by a cement truck in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. It happened on Derech Moshe Dayan Street just after 4:00PM. Emergency personnel rushed to the scene and attempted to save his life, but were unfortunately unsuccessful. ZAKA responded and took care of Kavod Hames. Sadly, Daniel celebrated his Bar Mitzvah just three months ago. The Levaya was held tonight at 11:00PM at the Yarkon Cemetery. Boruch Dayan HaEmmes… (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)