245 Israelis returning from abroad test positive for coronavirus

 

The new “Check2Fly” coronavirus testing lab at Ben-Gurion Airport's Terminal 3,

Some 245 Israelis who returned from abroad tested positive for the coronavirus in the past two weeks, Ynet reported.

Of the 245, some 30 flew to Israel from the US, 16 from Turkey, 27 from Ukraine, 11 from Russia, 8 from Holland and four from England, according to the news site. Some 26 Israelis who tested positive for the coronavirus were retuning from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as well, according to the report.

All the above countries apart from the UAE are listed as red by the Health Ministry, meaning that Israelis returning from these countries must enter quarantine upon their return.

Some 90 flights that took place over the past two weeks are listed on the Health Ministry site as locations where Israelis may have been exposed to the coronavirus due to the presence of a confirmed patient.

The 245 who tested positive for coronavirus are among the approximately 44,000 Israelis who have returned to Israel from abroad since the beginning of December.

On Sunday, the Health and Transportation ministries decided to update the country's coronavirus travel policies. Many of the new regulations are aimed at preventing the formation of crowds in the airport.  Included in these updates is a doubling of available check-in counters and earlier available check-in times for travelers. 

A team will also be formed to improve the computer interface in order to shorten waiting times during which travelers are grouped together in lines.

The Health Ministry said that it expects around 240 Israelis to return from visits to the UAE with positive COVID-19 diagnoses during the month of December, Haaretz reported Sunday.

Last week, the Foreign Ministry vetoed turning the United Arab Emirates into a “red country,” which would have meant that arrivals to Israel would have to enter quarantine.

The Health Ministry had decided to designate the UAE “red” earlier the same day, due to the large gatherings of Israelis in Dubai in recent weeks, but Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi asked Health Minister Yuli Edelstein to consult with the Foreign Ministry before any future decisions are made about the UAE.

Idan Zonshine and Lahav Harkov contributed to this report.

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Remembering the rabbi of Buchenwald

 

The date was April 11, 1945, and what Rabbi Schacter was about to 
experience would change his life forever.

On a sunny afternoon 75 years ago this spring, Chaplain Herschel Schacter was drinking coffee with several officers from his unit, the Eighth Corps of the Third US Army, on the outskirts of Weimar, Germany, when “a friendly Colonel, a nice man” approached. 

“You know, this may be of interest to you,” the colonel began. “We just got word that our troops penetrated a place called Buchenwald. It’s some kind of concentration camp, I think.” 

The date was April 11, 1945, and what Rabbi Schacter was about to experience would change his life forever. 

Schacter and his assistant, Private Hyman Schulman, drove five miles to the site. The German guards had fled as American forces arrived earlier that day. Trembling, Schacter stepped through the front gate. His eye “caught a glimpse of a tall chimney with billowing smoke still curling upward.” It was Buchenwald’s crematorium. 

“I scarcely could believe my eyes,” he later recalled. “There I stood, face to face with piles of dead bodies strewn around, waiting to be shoveled into the furnace that was still hot. It was just an incredible, harrowing sight. I stood there for a while in utter confusion and disbelief. I then began to really feel what this horror was all about.” 

A GI led the rabbi to a nearby prisoners’ barracks.

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Shuli Rand on marrying a second wife: I want to be free

 

The news that a Charedi celebrity, who has been in a dispute with his wife for many years, had received permission from a rabbinical court to marry a second wife, sparked outrage on the internet. It is now possible to reveal that the haredi in question is Shuli Rand.

Rand and his wife in Ushpiziin happier times

Rand, who is in a long-running dispute with his wife and the mother of his children, Michal Rand, began dating the television host and journalist Tzofit Grant in the past year.

On Thursday, Rand was interviewed by Hen Lieberman on Channel 13's "The Source," to tell his story. 

"The court still hasn't given me permission," Rand said on the show. "No one has given me permission. Michal came and publicized it beforehand with a loud shout. She calls it bigamy and so on and so forth."

Why can a man get a permit and women can't?

"Okay, it's true that there is no situation in Judaism to let a woman, as long as she is in the definition of being married, get married. There is no such thing. On the other hand, with a man there is such a thing, if it is discrimination it started somewhere our holy Torah was written. Okay, that's the way it is."

There are other ways and a man according to Jewish law can live with another wife.

"I want a permit, I want to be free."

Rand additionally spoke about his wife Michal and the special process he requested which includes the approval of 100 rabbis. "The court has made tremendous efforts including exorbitant proposals to resolve this matter financially, because it could have been ok if I was Bill Gates. I'm not sure, perhaps. But I, all that can be given to a person, that I was able to give, what I have and what I don't have..."

What is the amount that she (Michal) wanted?

"NIS five million, something like that, five million."

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Rabbi Fabian Shonefeld Passes On

 

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Robot Distributing Chanukah Donuts In Hospital

 

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A Premature Autopsy Report on Trump

Recently, there has been a plethora of autopsy reports on US President Trump, including a well-written one on Arutz Sheva, which I will address in friendly fashion below..

There is a famous quip "the operation was a success but the patient died." I reformulate that quip herewith. to say:

"Mr. Trump’s candidacy was successful, he prevailed, but Mr. Biden was elected.."

Though the Arutz Sheva autopsy report is well-done, Mr. Trump is not cooked. Patient/candidate Trump is still alive. Mr. Trump’s flaws, as presented by Dr. Chaim C. Cohen, a writer with much the same academic credentials as I have - PhD, years of college teaching, etc. - in explanation of Mr. Biden’s apparent success, do not explain Mr. Biden’s apparent victory. The evidence does not explain Mr. Trump’s failure to win the presidency, because, certainly, he did win the election in a popular vote and what should have been an electoral college landslide.

There are several indicators of Mr. Trump’s win. No incumbent president has ever lost re-election while his party gained seats in the House of Representatives. No incumbent president has lost a re-election bid while winning significantly more (10,000,000+/-) votes than in his previous election and significantly increasing his share of Black and Latino votes. There are about 55 counties, which, in election after election, are reliable predictors of a presidential outcome. Mr. Trump won about 50 of those counties.

If some statistically unsophisticated person would consider the above facts to be mere coincidences, he would probably consider the 2020 voting results in hypothetical State X: exactly 3,000,000 votes for Mr. Biden and Zero votes for Mr. Trump also to be a coincidence. After all, theoretically, it could happen that exactly 3,000,000 votes (not 2,999,999), constituting 100% of the votes cast, were cast for one of two candidates. Recall the actual 2016 voting results in two or three Philadelphia precincts in which more votes were cast than there were names on the voting rolls. I heard that in one previous presidential election there were some Philadelphia precincts in which there were no Republican votes cast at all! Might that have been a coincidence or anomaly?

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The Corona Vaccine, Purposeful Lies vs. Hard Scientific Facts

A guide for the perplexed: debunking false posts on the web, with explanations of the vaccine and answers to frequent questions.

Introduction:

On December 12, the FDA granted authorization to the corona vaccine developed by the Pfizer pharmaceutical company and its German affiliate BioNTech after it checked the results of the third stage of the vaccine trials.

This is an event of historic importance in the battle against the corona pandemic that has, in less than a year, killed close to two million people (1.7 m. so far) the world over and left millions of others with psychological and physical damage To that must be added the economic havoc the pandemic has caused.

This official authorization allows the vaccine to be given all over the world and with its 95% effectivity (as authorized by a specially augmented group of FDA scientists), there is no doubt it will cause a massive reversal of pandemic's spread and possibly even stop it completely.

The FDA check effectively erases all the arguments against the virus. The 92 page detailed and explanatory summary by Pfizer-BioNTech passed FDA muster on every facet of the third stage tests, including the efficacy of the vaccine and mainly in its description of the minor side effects to those vaccinated during the trial.

The FDA wrote: "The data provided by the Pfizer company passed our critical examination. The efforts to speed up the development of a vaccine did not negatively affect the scientific standards or trustworthiness of our investigative process." The FDA added that the vaccine may be administered to those over the age of 16. In Israel and the US, medical personnel and the elderly in nursing homes will be the first to receive the vaccine.

The FDA added that "the decision to authorize the vaccine was reached after an open and transparent process that included opinions of independent experts in health sciences, as well as a thorough in-depth evaluation of FDA scientists in order to ensure that this vaccination meets the strict and scientific standards of the FDA in anything connected to security, efficacy and quality of manufacture necessary to support it for emergency use."

On December 13, the New England Journal of Medicine published an applied science article by tens of the best scientists and doctors worldwide who took part in the third stage trials of the vaccine (no. BNT162b2 in the listing of clinical research trials). The article puts paid to the false attacks against the mRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer-BioNTech.

Part I: Questions and answers on the vaccine, explaining the facts in layman's terms:

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Michigan Attorney General Says Being Wished a Merry X-mas ‘Devastated’ Her Son

Attorney General Dana Nessel of Michigan tweeted her concern over President Trump’s use of “Merry Christmas” this weekend, according to CBN News.

While campaigning in Georgia in an attempt to secure Republican Senator’s seats, the President told the crowd: “Let me begin by wishing you all a very Merry Christmas. Remember the word? Remember we started five years ago and I said, ‘You’re going to be saying Christmas again,’ and we say it proudly again. Although they’ll be trying to take that word again out of the vocabulary. We’re not going to let them do that.”

Nessel later told her Twitter followers in response to Trump’s speech, “I remember the first time I was at a store with my son and an employee said ‘Merry Christmas’ to us. My son looked devastated and asked, ‘Are we the only people who don’t celebrate Christmas?’ I answered ‘No, and we are just as American as everyone else.’ Glad @JoeBiden knows that.”

But the now-deleted tweet brought an onslaught of responses chiding the AG for her disparagement of “Merry Christmas.”

She later tweeted, “Saying ‘Happy Holidays’ this time of year does not denigrate Christianity. It simply acknowledges and respects the great diversity of our nation and includes each and every one of us who call ourselves proud Americans.” 

A follower told Nessel in response: “Being offended is a choice. If you’re offended by an expression of goodwill, that’s a your problem. If someone wishes me Happy Hanukkah or Ramadan I just say thanks as it’s said with good intentions. Asking people of faith to not use these is telling them to hide their faith. Nope.”

Another was confused how the greetings could cause such harm. “There are only 2 holidays in December. I say Happy Hanukah to my Jewish friends and Merry Christmas to my Christian friends. I belong to neither religion, but somehow I manage these small gestures to goodwill without severe damage to my psyche.”

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BILL GATES WORTH $118.8 BILLION WANTS BUSINESSES TO STAY CLOSED

 

Man worth $118.8 billion says that average people should have their businesses closed down https://t.co/asBhlaETvm

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) December 13, 2020

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LISTEN AS THE MEDIA MOCKED TRUMP WHEN HE RIGHTFULLY PREDICTED THAT THE VACCINE WOULD BE READY THIS YEAR

 

The media. Lol. https://t.co/a739F7H0aJ

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) December 14, 2020

 

.@IrwinRedlenerMD says Trump's claim there will be a #coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year is "preposterous."

Learn more: https://t.co/mOb9hhEyvr#11thHour pic.twitter.com/c2q66cNfuI

— 11th Hour (@11thHour) May 16, 2020

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WHOOPIE GOLDBERG OF "THE VIEW" THINKS JILL BIDEN CAN BE "SURGEON GENERAL" BECAUSE SHE IS A "DOCTOR"

 

Remember when this classless dumbass thought that “Dr.” Jill Biden should be surgeon general? pic.twitter.com/kqU4Sd1pcy

— 🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 (@LionelMedia) December 14, 2020

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Palestinian Arab propagandists re-write history—literally

Two small, seemingly unrelated items in the news this week tell you pretty much everything you need to know about the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The first had to with an archaeological discovery in Israel. Many years ago, Israeli antiquities experts acquired an ancient inscribed bulla—a stamp used for sealing documents—that was of unknown provenance. It was obtained from a Bedouin merchant, not dug up by archaeologists. Given its condition, and without being able to examine the soil where it was uncovered, it was impossible for experts to precisely date or identify the bulla.

Impossible, that is, until the advent of new technology. Last week, Prof. Yuval Goren of Ben-Gurion University announced that thanks to the latest laboratory testing methods, he and his colleagues had determined that it is one of the earliest known bullas—it was used in the court of the Israelite king Jeroboam II, in the 8th century BCE.

The partially-preserved inscription on the seal shows a roaring lion, with the Hebrew words “L’Shema, eved Yerov’am,” that is, “Belonging to Shema, the servant [or minister] of Jeroboam.”

Keep that in mind as I describe the second news item. This one has to do with a group of activists known as the Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers, who last week noticed that “The Palestine Project,” an anti-Israel website, has been engaged in some pretty sleazy sleight-of-hand.

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Gov Cuomo Will Get Away With Sexually Harassing His Staff Because He is a DemocRAT

 Gov. Andrew Cuomo is lucky he’s a Democrat — otherwise Lindsey Boylan’s charge that he “sexually harassed” her might lead to political challenges and media shame.

“Yes, @NYGovCuomo sexually harassed me for years. Many saw it, and watched,” the former Cuomo aide, now running for Manhattan beep, tweeted.

It’s a serious charge, one Cuomo flatly denies. The details? Boylan won’t say. She cites no specific allegations and provides no evidence. She won’t even respond to requests for further comment. “I have no interest in talking to journalists,” she declares. “I am about validating the experience of countless women and making sure abuse stops.”

Clearly Boylan thinks it’s now OK to level a broadside against a famous man without having to back it up with . . . anything.

But don’t blame her: The left often embraces the idea that “believing the victim” means skipping things like evidence and context — and what the accused has to say. This has been the default on college campuses for years and was the standard they tried to impose at the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

Faced with a blanket accusation, Team Cuomo leaked bits of Boylan’s work record, undermining her claims. An internal memo obtained by The Post shows she quit her job with governor after allegations of harassment by her. But if a Republican leaked such a defense, it would be offered as only more evidence of his willingness to treat women despicably.

You have to regard Boylan’s claims with skepticism, since she offers no details or back-up and won’t even discuss the matter. But will the left and the media be so skeptical next time it’s someone from the political right facing such charges?

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Supreme Court rules: Malka Leifer to be extradited to Australia

 On Tuesday morning, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected an appeal lodged on behalf of Malka Leifer protesting her extradition to Australia, and ruled that the extradition would go ahead.

After years of litigation, Leifer will be sent back to Australia to stand trial for sexual offenses.

In her ruling, Judge Anat Baron wrote that, “Since the initial petition for extradition to Australia, more than six years have passed, years during which the defendant used every possible procedure and claim to prevent her extradition. Let it be known to all who would seek to evade justice in Israel that they will not find a place of refuge here.”

Commenting on the Court’s decision, Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn said: “I welcome the Supreme Court's ruling declaring that the extradition of Malka Leifer to Australia is to go ahead. After many torturous years, it is time to do justice to Leifer's victims. I intend to sign the extradition order without delay.”

A petition to have Leifer extradited to Australia to face charges of sexual offenses committed against minors (her former students) was first presented in 2014. However, the District Court that heard the petition ruled that Leifer was unfit to stand trial in view of her mental state, and therefore the proceedings were terminated in 2016.

However, at the beginning of 2018, the extradition request was reinstated, due to suspicions that Leifer was exaggerating her mental health issues and presenting her condition falsely. A number of expert psychiatric opinions were presented, resulting in the District Court ruling that Leifer was indeed fit to stand trial.

Leifer’s legal representatives appealed this ruling in the Supreme Court, which rejected it two and a half weeks ago. The District Court then ordered Leifer to be extradited, and this morning, the appeal on the extradition was rejected by the Supreme Court.

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'The vaccine is safe. Get vaccinated'

 

Coronavirus project manager Professor Nachman Ash met on Monday with Dr. Michal Shani, chairwoman of the Israel Association of Family Physicians, in order to jointly lead the public diplomacy efforts regarding the vaccines against the coronavirus.

Prof. Ash said during the meeting, "We see the family physicians as a significant player in front of the public who seek information about the vaccine."

Dr. Shani received an overview of the preparations for the administration of the vaccines and added, "The Association of Family Physicians is a full partner in informing and making the information about the vaccine accessible. The public mostly turns to family doctors and consults with us before receiving the vaccine."

"The vaccine is safe. Get vaccinated!" she added.

The participants at the meeting formulated the appropriate outline for the transfer of information to the medical staff and unanimously agreed on the need for transparency with respect to all information about the studies conducted, and on the efficacy and safety of the coronavirus vaccines.

The health maintenance organizations (HMO) will begin distributing coronavirus vaccines to Israeli citizens next Wednesday, December 23.

There are currently 313,000 vaccines from Pfizer in Israel, according to the Health Ministry's National Immunization Technical Advisory Group.

The advisory group has recommended that in the first stage only healthcare workers, the elderly, caregivers for the elderly, and adults over the age of 60 or 65 be given the vaccine. However, no final decision has been made on which groups to prioritize for vaccination.

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US intel lied about ‘Russian plot’ — and the media bought it hook, line and sinker

 If there is one thing that the Hunter Biden laptop episode has proved, it is that former directors of the CIA aren’t as adept at evaluating evidence as advertised.

Five former directors or acting directors of the CIA signed a letter asserting that the laptop, first reported by this newspaper in the weeks before the election, “has all the hallmarks of Russian information operation.”

More than 50 former senior ­intel officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, signed the letter, which was used by the Biden campaign and the media to discredit the damning e-mails about Hunter Biden’s business dealings.

The signatories should have thought better of their missive when they felt compelled to ­include the line, “We want to emphasize that we do not know if the e-mails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney, are genuine or not, and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement.”

That also should have tipped off reporters to the fact that the letter was rank speculation masquerading as informed analysis. But true to form, they happily ran with it instead.

In a complete reversal from the Cold War era, journalists in the Trump years have not only reflexively believed representations from national-security professionals about nefarious Russian plots, they have actively sought them out and promoted them.

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Jill Biden's Pathetic response to Wall Street Journal editorial Questioning Her Using" Dr." When She Never Went to Medical School

 

Jill Biden on Sunday night responded to the controversy surrounding a recent Wall Street Journal editorial that argued she should refrain from using the title “Dr.” before her name.

“Together, we will build a world where the accomplishments of our daughters will be celebrated, rather than diminished,” Biden wrote on Twitter.

The editorial, written by Joseph Epstein, said it “feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic” for the title to be used by Jill Biden, who has a doctorate in education from the University of Delaware.

“A wise man once said that no one should call himself ‘Dr.’ unless he has delivered a child,” Epstein wrote.

He also referred to the first lady-elect as “kiddo” in the first sentence.

The editorial had received backlash from many including the Biden transition team, who called the piece “sexist.”

″You and the @WSJ should be embarrassed to print the disgusting and sexist attack on @DrBiden running on the @WSJopinion page,” Biden spokesman Michael LaRosa tweeted at WSJ editorial features editor James Taranto.

“If you had any respect for women at all you would remove this repugnant display of chauvinism from your paper and apologize to her.” 

A separate editorial penned by the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page editor, Paul A. Gigot, on Sunday claimed that the Biden team and the media were playing the “gender card to stifle criticism.”

“Why go to such lengths to highlight a single op-ed on a relatively minor issue?” he wrote.

“My guess is that the Biden team concluded it was a chance to use the big gun of identity politics to send a message to critics as it prepares to take power.”

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Ancient oil lamp haul found near Beit Shemesh digs up solution to modern mystery

 

Archaeologists said Monday that they have unearthed one of the largest oil lamp workshops discovered in Israel, dating back 1,600-1,700 years, in a discovery that also solves a more modern mystery: the lost location of a cistern with ancient artifacts that was found by a researcher more than 85 years ago.

According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, the workshop, in the city of Beit Shemesh — unearthed ahead of the construction of a new neighborhood — contained hundreds of ancient ceramic oil lamps, two of which bore the Jewish symbol of the menorah, as well as stone molds for the production of lamps,  and terracotta figurines.

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Watch President Trump Get a Standing Ovation At West Point

 

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Anti -Vaxers R' Shmuel Kaminetzki & Malkiel Kotler Say that "Daas Torah" is Against Covid Vaccine ... Updated

 

I am not going to go into whether one should vaccinate or not ....I personally will ...

But to say that to take the vaccine is against "Daas Torah?"

I have written before many times that there is no such thing as "daas Torah" ..period! 

Choose a rabbi and follow him ...and that is actually "daas Torah."

Note:

Rav Kaminetzki has now said that everyone should consult his own rabbi and that he didn't sign the Kol Korah ... however if you see the original Kol Korah ...there are no signatories to begin with...

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There Are at least FOUR Pending Investigations Against Hunter Biden.

 

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Shocking video captures moment NYPD cops shoot gunman outside NYC church

 

Shocking video footage captured the moment police shot down a crazed gunman who opened fire outside an Upper Manhattan church on Sunday afternoon.

The video was posted to Facebook by Steven Wilson, who wrote that he and his family had attended the outdoor Christmas choir concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine that immediately preceded the chaotic 3:45 p.m. daylight shooting.

The unidentified 52-year-old suspect can be seen falling to the ground outside the church’s entrance after at least 13 shots were fired in the video clip.

“Kill me! Kill me!” the maniac screams from the top step of the church toward police gathered below on the street, according to the footage.

One cop is seen in the video running behind a garbage pail in front of the church, where he ducks, takes aim and repeatedly pleads with the man to drop his gun.

After that officer opens fire, the suspect can be seen moving behind a church pillar.

Soon after, another cop joins his colleague behind the garbage pail. After a quick succession of gunshots, the suspect finally drops to the ground, the footage shows.

“They got him, they got him,” the man filming can be heard saying.

About a dozen cops then creep up the stairs with their guns drawn before surrounding the suspect as he lies motionless.

The man was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital and pronounced dead, police said.

Nobody else was injured in the mayhem, authorities said.

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Santa Infects 75 with COVID-19 after visiting a nursing home in Belgium

 

Santa Claus spread more than good cheer at a nursing home in Belgium — with his visit leaving at least 75 people infected with COVID-19, according to local TV.

The alleged super-spreading St. Nick was one of the first to fall sick after his visit to the Hemelrijck care home in Antwerp just over a week ago, followed by 61 elderly residents and 14 staff, officials told VRT.

“It was made with the best intent, but it went wrong,” the Mayor of Mol, Wim Caeyers, said of the visit, calling it “a very black day for the care home.”

“It is a very great mental strain to bear for the man that played Saint Nicholas, as well as for the organizers and the staff,” Caeyers told the network.

“It will be all hands on deck during the coming week,” he said of trying to contain the outbreak.

Staff initially insisted that Santa — who was reportedly the son of one of the residents — wore a mask and adhered to safety protocols, as did those who met him. However, photos of the meet-and-greet quickly proved that to be untrue, the mayor claimed.

Jannes Verheyen, a rep for Armonea, the company that runs the care home, told The Brussels Times that everyone was “shocked” at what happened.

“It makes no sense to condemn people,” he said, with staff instead “motivated” to control the virus’ spread.

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Dusiznies ......Gmail, YouTube, other Google services hit with massive outage

B"H we are back ... 

Google services including the most popular blog, Dusiznies, Gmail and YouTube suffered a massive outage Monday morning that briefly shut users around the world out of their accounts.

The outage disabled all of Google’s Workspace services — including Google Calendar, Google Drive and the Google Meet videoconferencing tool — at the start of the workweek along with the tech titan’s flagship email platform.

Google confirmed the outage on its public status dashboard at 6:55 a.m. and said it had restored service for “some users” about 35 minutes later. The company did not immediately respond to an email asking what caused the problems.

“We expect a resolution for all users in the near future,” Google said on the dashboard.

The outage was most widely reported in Europe and the East Coast of the US but users also flagged problems in India, Japan and parts of South America, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.

Gmail users received error messages saying their accounts were unavailable when trying to access their emails, according to Twitter posts about the problems. For instance, the service said it “couldn’t find your Google account” when a Post reporter attempted to log into his Gmail account.

The YouTube homepage was also disabled — it currently shows a cartoon image of a monkey holding a hammer with the message, “Something went wrong…”

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the problems Monday.

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