Israel’s schoolchildren began their school year on Tuesday morning with great excitement but the day didn’t last long for one school in Jerusalem, Yisrael Hayom reported. State-religious girls’ school Bnos Yerushalayim, located in south Jerusalem and home to 300 students, was closed after one of the teachers tested positive for the coronavirus on the first day of school. “My daughter spent two and a half hours in first grade and then they sent her home,” one mother said. “It’s unbelievable. She returned home and said: ‘Ima, it’s still morning.” “Teachers’ conferences were held last week and one of the teachers was positive for the coronavirus but wasn’t aware of it.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday it is investigating reports from airline pilots that someone was flying in a jetpack as they approached Los Angeles International Airport to land last weekend. “Two airline flight crews reported seeing what appeared to be someone in a jetpack as they were on their final approaches to LAX around 6:35 p.m. PDT Sunday,” the FAA said. The statement did not elaborate. Fox 11 Los Angeles obtained recordings of communications between the aircraft and the tower. “Tower, American 1997, we just passed a guy in a jetpack,” a pilot said. “American 1997, OK, thank you, were they off to your left side or your right side?” the controller asked. “Off the left side at maybe 300 yards or so at our altitude,” the pilot said.

President Trump slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday for “constantly lecturing everyone else” after she visited a San Francisco hair salon earlier this week, despite local ordinances keeping salons closed amid the coronavirus pandemic. Fox News first reported Pelosi’s visit to the salon and obtained security footage, which showed her walking through the studio with wet hair, and without a mask over her mouth or nose. The stylist doing her hair can be seen following her wearing a black face mask. Salons in San Francisco had been closed since March and were only notified they could reopen on Sept. 1 for outdoor hairstyling services only. The Beauty Parlor owner must really dislike Crazy Nancy Pelosi. Turning her in, on tape, is a really big deal.

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com This article was written for the refuah shleimah of Yehoshuah ben Masha (no relation to the author) who needs a yeshuah The period of COVID-19 has caused a number of people to fall ill.  It has also caused a number of people to get examined only to discover that they have a grave underlying disease.  This brings up a fundamental hashkafah question.  But first, a few points. The Rosh HaShana prayers delineate for us the true destiny of the Jewish people. The Jewish nation were the ones that introduced Hashem to the world, and in the future it is the destiny of the people of Israel to introduce more knowledge of Him throughout the world so that all peoples of the world will form one group in order to fulfill the Creator’s Will.

An IDF soldier and a Border Police officer were injured in a terrorist ramming attack at the Tapuach Junction in the Shomron on Wednesday morning. According to Israel Police, the terrorist rammed his car into the police officers at the junction, injuring them slightly, and then exited his car with a knife in his hand and ran toward the officers. Another officer at the checkpoint opened fire on the terrorist and neutralized him.

Pressed by Democrats to quickly negotiate a new coronavirus relief package, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday the administration remains willing to work on a bipartisan agreement to help small businesses, the unemployed, children and schools. Democratic leaders in Congress are holding it up with hardened positions, he said. “Let’s move forward on a bipartisan basis on points we can agree upon,” Mnuchin urged at a hearing by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. “The president and I want to move forward.” Mnuchin made the case that the economy’s recovery has strengthened in recent weeks, citing improved consumer spending, growth in manufacturing and a rebounding housing market.

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Antibodies that people make to fight the new coronavirus last for at least four months after diagnosis and do not fade quickly as some earlier reports suggested, scientists have found. Tuesday’s report, from tests on more than 30,000 people in Iceland, is the most extensive work yet on the immune system’s response to the virus over time, and is good news for efforts to develop vaccines. If a vaccine can spur production of long-lasting antibodies as natural infection seems to do, it gives hope that “immunity to this unpredictable and highly contagious virus may not be fleeting,” scientists from Harvard University and the U.S. National Institutes of Health wrote in a commentary published with the study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Congressional investigators say they have identified lapses pointing to possible fraud and abuse in the Trump administration’s coronavirus relief program, including more than $1 billion awarded to small businesses that received multiple loans. A report issued Tuesday by a House subcommittee says a lack of government oversight and accountability for the $600 billion-plus program “may have led to billions of dollars being diverted to fraud, waste and abuse, rather than reaching small businesses truly in need.” The Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program was a signature piece of the government’s economic aid program responding to the pandemic.

The torrid coronavirus summer across the Sun Belt is easing after two disastrous months that brought more than 35,000 deaths. Whether the outbreak will heat up again after Labor Day and the resumption of school and football in the land of Friday Night Lights remains to be seen. Seven of the nine states along the nation’s Southern and Western rim are seeing drops in three important gauges — new deaths, new cases and the percentage of tests coming back positive for the virus. Alabama is the only state in the region to see all three numbers rising; Mississippi’s deaths are up, but positive rates and cases are dropping.