Israel’s government officials are facing the grim situation of implementing further restrictions on Israeli citizens in the wake of soaring coronavirus cases and overloaded hospitals. The coronavirus ward in Maanyei Hayeshua is operating at over 100% capacity along with five of Israel’s largest hospitals. Amid the turmoil, the singing duo Meir Adler and Arahle Samet, dressed from head to toe in protective clothing, were mekayeim the mitzvah of bikur cholim in the coronavirus birthing ward in Maanyei Hayeshua Hospital. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Wednesday that China was aggressively attempting to influence state and local governments, including through seemingly innocuous sister-city agreements, delivering the message in the presidential battleground state of Wisconsin. “Telling the truth about China isn’t partisan,” Pompeo said to an audience of Republican lawmakers and guests who were spread out across the Wisconsin state Senate chamber. “It’s principled. And it protects our people.” Pompeo’s visit to the Wisconsin Capitol less than six weeks before the election was a first for a secretary of state. His stop came after President Donald Trump’s Attorney General William Barr was in Milwaukee on Tuesday and Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to be in Eau Claire on Thursday.

Finland has deployed coronavirus-sniffing dogs at the Nordic country’s main international airport in a four-month trial of an alternative testing method that could become a cost-friendly and quick way to identify infected travelers. Four dogs of different breeds trained by Finland’s Smell Detection Association started working Wednesday at the Helsinki Airport as part of the government-financed trial. “It’s a very promising method. Dogs are very good at sniffing,” Anna Hielm-Bjorkman, a University of Helsinki professor of equine and small animal medicine, said.

MONTICELLO – Calls are being made for an investigation into petitions filed with the Board of Elections by a former judge, in the Sullivan County District Attorney’s race. At a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Democratic Party Chairman Steve Vegliante, who was flanked by leaders from the Conservative, Independence and Republican parties announced that a complaint was being filed with the New York State Attorney General’s Pubic Integrity Bureau. “There has been some egregious conduct in the filing of independent petitions in the race for DA by Frank LaBuda,” said Steve Vegliante. “We think there is a clear case for criminal prosecution here”.

An 18-year-old woman was seriously injured by a tree that collapsed on her in the courtyard of a home in Bnei Brak on Tuesday, leading to the amputation of her leg. The woman, who married only three months ago, was evacuated to Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer with severe injuries to her lower limbs. The woman’s father-in-law, singer and ba’al chessed Avi Ben-Yisrael, told Kikar H’Shabbos on Wednesday morning: “She was taken for a 7-hour operation in Sheba in an attempt to save her leg as much as possible. We’re very optimistic.” “I plead with everyone to beseech the gates of Shamayim and daven for Orit bas Aviva as if she was your own daughter.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

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The group gathered around the town square, waiting for the arrival of what has become a new American boogeyman: antifa. Michael Johnson and others were certain that school buses full of radical left-wing extremists from big cities were coming to Leitchfield, Kentucky, where about 50 of their neighbors had gathered on the courthouse lawn to chant, “Black lives matter!” and wave signs in solidarity with the nation’s surging protest movement. The June 10 protest ended peacefully with no sign of any antifascist activists in the town of less than 7,000 people, but Johnson and his son sat awake outside their house all night, armed with a shotgun, just in case the antifa rumors he saw circulating online were true.

The first kosher restaurant in the United Arab Emirates opened on the ground floor of the luxury Armani Hotel in Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, in Dubai. The restaurant, named Armani/Kaf, can seat 40 diners. Its menu will be overseen by Armani Hotel Dubai executive chef Fabien Fayolle, who will blend kosher cuisine with signature Armani dishes. It will be under the supervision of Rabbi Levi Duchman, the UAE’s only resident rabbi, though glatt-kosher and pas Yisroel certifications from Emirates Kosher Supervising Agency, the only UAE-based kosher certifier. The restaurant will also provide room service for hotel guests as well as delivery service throughout Dubai. The restaurant will be closed for guests on Friday but will offer special food deliveries for Shabbos.

Firefighters are finally starting to tame an enormous wildfire burning in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles. Officials are confident that crews will make more progress on the Bobcat Fire after containment on Wednesday hit 38% — a 21% jump from a day earlier — before hot, dry winds return to Southern California in a few days. Meanwhile, a major fire in the northern part of the state, the CZU Lightning Complex in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, was 100% contained, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, said Tuesday evening. The fire was ignited during a barrage of lightning on Aug. 16 and the cluster of blazes went on to destroy 925 homes and kill one person.

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