A Jewish man and his son were subject to an anti-Semitic verbal attack in the heart of the Jewish community in Melbourne last week, The Jerusalem Post reported. The father and son were standing next to a busy street when a man yelled at them: “What are you looking at Jew dogs?” and continued to verbally assault them with expletive-laced comments, according to Australia’s Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC). “I cannot believe that in Australia in 2020 we are still experiencing anti-Semitic incidents on the street,” the victim told the ADC. “I can’t shake off this unsettled feeling that people today are still singling out Jews as open targets for abuse without fear of repercussions. What if that individual had attacked someone who was alone or unable to defend themselves?” ADC chairman Dr.

Trained dogs were able to discriminate human saliva samples infected with COVID-19 from non-infected saliva samples with 94% accuracy, a Germany research study recently found, CNBC reported. Dogs, whose smell receptors are 10,000 times more powerful than those of humans, have been trained to identify various diseases through sniffing, including cancer, malaria and viral infections. Researchers in Germany decided to carry out a study to see if dogs could also sniff out the coronavirus. The researchers, from the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, the Hannover Medical School and the German Armed Forces, trained eight dogs from the Armed Forces for a week. Prof. Dr.

The kever of the famed Amora Rav Ashi lies on the border of Israel and Lebanon on Har Shina’an, with half of the kever located in Israeli territory and the other half in Lebanese territory. The kever is located on a UNIFIL base, guarded by soldiers from the UN. A group of photojournalists from the Al-Manar television network, a network that is affiliated with the Hezbollah movement, filmed themselves visiting the base on Sunday. The UNIFIL soldiers did nothing to stop them and the journalists came to the very gates of the base before they stopped filming. They documented their trip and broadcast it on social media channels of the station. It is unclear what the outcome of their trip was or what their motives were. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Israel’s Air Force attacked several Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip early Monday morning in response to rocket fire in Israeli communities bordering the Gaza Strip on Sunday night “A short while ago IDF warplanes and aircraft attacked Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip,” the IDF stated. “A cement factory used for digging tunnels was attacked as well as Hamas underground facilities. The attack was carried out in response to the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory [on Sunday night].” In response to the rocket that was fired at #Israel from #Gaza earlier this evening, our fighter jets & aircraft just struck subterranean Hamas terror facilities in Gaza. We hold Hamas responsible for all activity emanating from Gaza.

Israel’s Health Ministry recorded 916 new coronavirus cases in the previous 24 hours as of Monday morning, which like the record low number of new cases on Sunday, does not reflect a true reduction of cases since the number of tests performed was low as well – about a third of the usual number of tests were performed. The number of active cases has risen to 24,977, with 334 people in serious condition, of whom 100 are ventilated. The death toll has risen to 541. The past week’s death rate from the coronavirus in Israel, which has been rising since June, is now higher than the previous high in mid-April.

About 450,000 Jews were crowded into the Warsaw Ghetto in an area of 1.3 square miles as typhus raged through the streets in November 1941. Hunger and filth reigned, there were no medical supplies available, and people lay dying on the streets. The conditions were ripe for typhus to decimate the entire population of the ghetto, saving the Nazis from liquidating the ghetto through other means: starvation, shootings, and deportations to concentration camps. But something mysterious happened and the typhus was stopped it its tracks. Those who witnessed it said it was miraculous and historians have never been able to explain it.

Connie Culp, the recipient of the first partial face transplant in the U.S., has died at 57, almost a dozen years after the groundbreaking operation. The Cleveland Clinic, where her surgery had been performed in 2008, said Saturday that Culp died Wednesday at the Ohio clinic of complications from an infection unrelated to her transplant. Dr. Frank Papay, who is the chair of Cleveland Clinic’s dermatology and plastic surgery institute and was part of Culp’s surgical team, called her “an incredibly brave, vibrant woman and an inspiration to many.” “Her strength was evident in the fact that she had been the longest-living face transplant patient to date,” Papay said in a statement.

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The IDF thwarted a terrorist attack in the Golan Heights on Sunday, scoring a direct hit on four terrorists as they were planting a bomb along Israel’s northern border, the IDF stated after midnight on Sunday. The four terrorists, who were all killed in the strike, crossed into Israel from Syria on Sunday night. and were observed trying to plant explosives inside an unmanned IDF post. IDF soldiers and aircraft immediately opened fire and killed all four terrorists, IDF Spokesperson Hidai Zilberman said on Monday morning. Some of the terrorists were armed. No Israeli soldiers were injured in the incident. This is the moment when four terrorists attempted to plant explosives near the security fence between #Israel and #Syria last night… …and the moment we stopped them.

The only kosher restaurant in the city of Seattle closed its doors over the weekend, JTA reported. Bamboo Garden, a vegetarian Chinese restaurant that catered to a broad clientele, was the first restaurant in Seattle to become kosher almost 30 years ago, a boon for Orthodox residents since the observant community is too small to support a restaurant that caters only to those who keep kosher. It closed due to coronavirus woes as well as the owner’s wish to retire. According to local resident Joy Resmovits who wrote an article about the significance of the restaurant’s closing to observant Jews in the Seattle Times, it was the only local restaurant she could take her parents when they visited from New York.