On February 28, Bonei Olam’s V’zakeini program launched with a dream of 18,000 women joining together, united through prayer. But there’s always a beginning. Rabbi Shlomo Bochner, founder of Bonei Olam recalls, “My wife was the first to sign up, the rest for that first week was office staff and a few other women who were connected to the program in some way.” But after that first week there were 316 signups and then the second week it doubled to 750 and by Erev Pesach, it reached 4,500 participants. But from that first week and on, every single dollar donated each week, went to pay for a couple’s treatment. Every week an email reminder for tefilos goes out and women daven for a successful treatment. V’zakeini is now 20 weeks old and over 14,600 participants.

A potential constitutional crisis is looming over the actions of federal officers at protests in Oregon’s largest city that have been hailed by President Donald Trump but were done without local consent. The standoff could escalate there and elsewhere as Trump says he plans to send federal agents to other cities, too. In Portland, demonstrators who have been on the streets for weeks have found renewed focus in clashes with camouflaged, unidentified agents outside the city’s U.S. courthouse. Protesters crowded in front of the courthouse and the Justice Center late Monday night, before authorities cleared them out as the loud sound and light of flash bang grenades filled the sky.

Shalva Zalfreund, a’h, a kindergarten teacher and resident of Petach Tikvah passed away on Friday at the age of 64 after contracting the coronavirus in her classroom. A week after she was diagnosed with the virus and two weeks before her death, Zalfreund wrote a letter to the parents of the children she taught saying that she caught the virus at the kindergarten. “You surely saw what I wrote in the past requesting that everyone act with responsibility since I’m at high-risk.

Israel’s Shin Bet thwarted planned terror attacks against Israeli and IDF soldiers by a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror cell trained and funded by Iran and Hezbollah, the security agency revealed on Tuesday. The Shin Bet discovered the terror cell, which was disguised as the Arab Nationalist Youth organization, following the arrest and interrogation of Yazan Abu Salah, a 23-year-old Popular Front terrorist and resident of a village near Jenin. The Shin Bet discovered during Abu Salah’s interrogation that he had been actively planning terror attacks in the Shomron by acquiring weapons, and recruiting terrorists to lead two terror cells, one in Ramallah and one in the Shomron.

The Health Ministry recorded Israel’s highest infection rate on Tuesday since the pandemic began, almost 7%, with 1,855 new coronavirus daily cases. The number of active cases has risen to 29,883, with 260 in serious condition, including 78 on ventilators. Seven more fatalities were recorded since Monday evening, raising the death toll to 422. According to a military intelligence report, the lower number of daily cases recorded on Sunday does not indicate that infection rates are declining but rather was due to reduced testing and other factors. “This is not a true decrease and the number of cases is expected to continue rising,” the report said.

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Yes, it is true.

The cry of the children of Israel has raised and reached out to Sar Ha Tora Maran HaGaon Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky  Shlita, thousands of children whose source of livelihood was broken apart by the Coronavirus, and some even before the pandemic, facing a reality without basic goods, such as bread and milk. Yes, definitely there are such cases.   To sign a Shtar with Maran Rabbi Kanievsky Shlita’ Click Here Now!

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York say that an existing FDA-approved drug has the potential to reduce the danger of the coronavirus into nothing worse than a common cold or even eradicate it completely. Prof. Ya’acov Nahmias of Hebrew University and Dr. Benjamin Tenoever of Sinai spent the last three months studying what COVID-19 does to human lung cells, The Jerusalem Post reported. Their research showed that the reason that COVID-19 is so damaging to some patients is that it prevents the regular burning of carbohydrates, which leads to large amounts of fat, lipid droplets, to accumulate inside lung cells – a condition the virus requires in order to reproduce.

New York City moved to what was supposed to be the final phase of its coronavirus reopening Monday, but with indoor service at restaurants and bars still banned, malls and museums shuttered and theaters still dark amid concerns about the virus spreading indoors. Phase four of the city’s reopening does allow more outdoors arts and reaction activities to open. Media production companies can resume work, a major business in the East Coast entertainment capital. And professional sports teams can resume play too, though without fans. Gov.

Nurses across Israel went on strike on Monday at 7 a.m. after talks between the nurses’ union and the Finance Ministry ended without an agreement on Sunday. Nurses will work on a minimized “Shabbat mode” schedule during the strike at all hospitals (except coronavirus wards and testing centers and oncology wards which are excluded from the strike and will be fully staffed) and non-urgent surgical procedures will be canceled. The strike will also affect Kupot Cholim (health funds) which will also operate in “Shabbat mode” but will provide essential services, including insulin therapy, fertility treatment, and oncology and gastrointestinal treatments.