Israeli Health Ministry preparing to end outdoor mask mandate by April

 

The Health Ministry is preparing to end rules requiring Israelis to wear face masks while outdoors and considering allowing increased flights to operate from Ben Gurion Airport, Channel 12 News reported Sunday.

The move to end outdoor mask-wearing could come as soon as April, the report said, following the continued drop in morbidity rates in Israel. Officials recently said Israel has no plans to follow US guidelines that allow vaccinated people to hold small gatherings indoors without masks

The renewed flight activity will be to countries that accept Israel’s Green Pass. These so far include Cyprus, Georgia and Greece, who have announced that they intend on allowing in Israeli tourists who have been vaccinated or have recovered from COVID

The ministry is considering relaxing other COVID-19 regulations as well – including increasing allowed crowd sizes at culture and sports venues, the report said.

Speaking to Channel 12 later Sunday, Health Ministry Director-General Chezy Levy declined to comment on the mask mandate report, but said that it is possible the current limits on private gatherings – 20 people indoors and 50 people outdoors – will be expanded, perhaps even before the start of Passover.

“We have two more weeks, it’s possible we’ll change the restrictions for the better ahead of the evening of the Seder; we may allow more people to be together. I can’t make promises, but I very much hope so. It’s up to us.”

Regarding air travel, Levy emphasized his ministry’s cautious approach to opening the airport by once again warning against the possible entry of coronavirus variants, saying it was important to minimize the chances of new, possibly dangerous strains of the virus from arriving and spreading through Israel.

When asked about why some children in Israel are still not allowed back to school, despite the fact that many other restrictions are being pulled back, Levy explained: “We are talking about children who are not vaccinated, and who are together all day.

“We see how many classrooms have been closed, how many kindergartens have been closed, because of a confirmed [coronavirus] carrier among the children or the teachers. So it’s true that they [generally] don’t get severely ill, and that most of them don’t need to be hospitalized, but still it creates morbidity.”

Israel has recently been experiencing a trend of declining daily new coronavirus cases, declining active cases, a decline in the share of positive daily tests and in the basic reproduction number; and a decline in the highly important number of serious COVID-19 cases in the country.

Figures released Sunday showed active cases dropping below 30,000 for the first time since September, hitting 27,974.

Figures also showed that the basic reproduction number, or R0, representing the average number of people each virus carrier infects, had fallen to 0.78 — the lowest point since October.

These declines are largely attributed to Israel’s successful vaccination program. Over 4.1 million Israelis have been fully vaccinated, the Health Ministry said, and over 5.1 have received the first dose. Just 1,128,000 Israelis over the age of 16 still need to be vaccinated, 256,000 of whom are above the age of 50.

However, Israel on Sunday also passed a bleak milestone of 6,000 dead.

According to the Health Ministry, 6,008 have died from COVID-19 since the outbreak of the virus last March — an increase of 16 since the figure was last updated on Sunday morning.

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New Netflix show follows ex-Charedi fashion designer Julia Haart Former Monsey Girl

 

Netflix’s stream of Orthodox Jewish-themed content isn’t stopping anytime soon.

The streaming giant is producing “My Unorthodox Life,” a documentary series about Julia Haart, a prominent US fashion designer raised Talia Leibov in an ultra-Orthodox home, Hello! magazine reported Wednesday.

Soon after marrying at 19, Leibov left her Monsey Jewish community and founded a successful luxury shoe company. In 2016, she became the creative director for the Italian luxury fashion brand La Perla and in 2019 became the CEO of the international Elite Model Management agency. She’s also known for helping design a dress made out of crystals for top model Kendal Jenner.

The Netflix description of the series reads:

Since taking the reins of a global talent empire, Haart has been on a mission to revolutionise the industry from the inside out – all while being a mother of four. Her children include a TikToker, an app designer, a lawyer, and a high schooler torn between two conflicting cultures, and Haart helps them reconcile their Orthodox upbringings with the modern world. My Unorthodox Life takes you on a journey through Julia Haart’s untamed, unpredictable, and unorthodox life.

Netflix’s series “Unorthodox,” based on Deborah Feldman’s memoir about leaving her ultra-Orthodox community in Brooklyn, was wildly successful and earned multiple award nominations. The platform has several other Orthodox-themed offerings, including “Shtisel” and the 2017 film “Menashe,” filmed in Yiddish in a Haredi neighborhood.

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The miracle on the Ayalon Highway in central Israel

 

תיעוד הנס ממצלמת רכב: רגע נפילת הקלונס על הרכב בנתיבי איילון. pic.twitter.com/XdStHkPjWE

— Itamar Cohen (@Itamar_cohen_1) March 15, 2021

 Jonathan Deri, a 24-year-old student from Tel Aviv was driving to the post office Sunday on the Ayalon Highway in central Israel.

Speaking from his hospital bed at Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Deri recalled the harrowing events of his drive Sunday, when he had a brush with death, after a massive metal cylinder collapsed onto the road, striking his car.

"I was driving down the highway, when suddenly I heard a loud noise. A piece had broken off from a crane near the highway - a cylinder that they told me weighs about 15 tons. It fell straight onto my car."

"What happened to me was a miracle. I still haven't fully internalized what happened to me. I could have died that day. It's a day I need to bless 'HaGomel' [blessing of thanks]."

The giant metal cylinder which fell on Deri's car was being lifted up by a crane for infrastructure work being carried out by Electra. 

Deri suffered light-to-moderate injuries in the accident - an outcome paramedics say was miraculous, considering how much worse the incident could have ended.

"This was a real miracle," said MDA paramedic Eitan Gavra. "The vehicle passing on the highway was hit by a large metal cylinder that fell from a crane and hit its front end. The driver, who was injured in his limbs, walked around at the scene while conscious. We performed medical tests and evacuated him to the hospital while his condition was stable."

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Great Synagogue to reopen ahead of Pesach - after a year of being closed

 

The Great Synagogue in Jerusalem will return to regular operations, opening its doors on the upcoming Pesach (Passover) holiday after a year of closure due to the coronaviruspandemic.

The Orthodox synagogue, which first opened for prayer in 1958, seats 850 men and 550 women.

The synagogue's management has announced that prayers will be held according to the Green Badge plan, and will require attendees to pre-register and present a Green Passport.

Cantor Tzvi Weiss will lead approximately half the prayers, and the synagogue's choir, led by Eli Jaffe, will accompany the cantor for the prayers on the Shabbat (Sabbath) just prior to Pesach, as well as on the first day of the holiday.

Cantor Avraham Kirshenbaum will lead the prayers on the last day of Pesach, accompanied by the synagogue's choir.

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Biden wouldn’t survive his own rules for sexual misconduct

 It’s worth reminding people that if President Biden were compelled to live by the standards he intends to institute for college students accused of sexual misconduct, he would be presumed guilty of rape, denied any legitimate opportunity to refute Tara Reade’s charges and tossed from office in disgrace.

The New York Times reports that Biden’s Kafkaesque “White House Gender Policy Council” is “beginning his promised effort to dismantle Trump-era rules on sexual misconduct that afforded greater protections to students accused of assault.” The subhead informs us that “the Biden administration will examine regulations by Betsy DeVos that gave the force of law to rules that granted more due process rights to students accused of sexual assault.”

The most disingenuous word here — though the piece is brimming with them — is “more.” History did not begin in 2015, and former Education Secretary DeVos did not invent more due-process rights in Title IX; she simply reinstated time-honored fundamental due-process rights that have guided justice systems in the liberal world for hundreds of years. The Constitution says — twice — that no citizen shall be arbitrarily “deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.” No means no.

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Jeff Hafif Gives Get After 17 Years, More Rallies Planned For Other Get Refusers

 

Jeff Hafif, a man who withheld a Get for 17 years while marrying a second woman, finally gave a Get on Sunday morning.

This breaking update follows a report by VINnews last week that Hafif was arrested after a recording circulated in which a voice sounding like Jeff’s was heard abusing his wife and children.

Hafif’s case was also just one out of many cases that are the center of a new but quickly growing movement on social media, in which Jewish influencers are using their platforms to promote and gain public support for Agunos, taking back control of a broken system that has thus far failed to help these victims properly. Many of these social media campaigns resulted in public rallies outside the homes of these recalcitrant husbands, effectively creating a social pressure unlike any that had been seen before.

The message is clear. The community is no longer willing to tolerate Get withholding, and community members are willing to step up and make their voices heard publicly.

Hafif gave his Get on Sunday morning aftert meeting with some Rabbonim in the local Syrian community, inluding Rabbi Eli Mansour.

According to reports, Mr. Harry Adjmi was also instrumental in helping the Get come to fruition. This is at least the second Get Mr. Adjmi was involved with over recent weeks.  Mr. Adjmi was instrumental in the Get of the #FreeElizabeth movement as well.

War on Get Refusers .... But Meir Kin Laughs it off!

 

DAVID OHAYON- GIVE ESTHER A GET!! #GetHim Rally Info below. 🤡 pic.twitter.com/EQFKjF41QM

— Bracha Kahane (@brachashap) March 12, 2021

 

We have exhausted countless efforts to avoid having to do this. Devorah greatly preferred a solution that didn't include involving the public. But we have reached a juncture in which Devorah is now calling on us to respond and to speak up to help her receive her get. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/8fwIZJyCtP

— Rabbi Efrem Goldberg (@RabbiGoldberg) March 14, 2021

Meanwhile Meir Kin is laughing at all these organisations as he continues to torture his wife 

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No Shame! Israeli Anti-Vaxxers "Animals" File Complaint To ICC

 

An Israeli anti-vaxxer group called Anshei Emet filed a suit against Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) earlier this month, claiming that Israel’s vaccination policies are akin to “crimes against humanity” according to the Nuremberg Code, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday.

“It is our intention to present to you and detail how in the State of Israel this year, the Government of Israel with its ministers and its Knesset members, heads of cities, and additional senior factors, violate the Nuremberg Code in an unlawful manner, blatant and extreme,” the group stated. “And to our regret, not only in a single aspect but many – too many!”

Anshei Emet complained that Israelis were being used in a “medical experiment” by Pizer and claimed that “many were killed, injured and severely damaged by the vaccine.”

The complaint also stated that Israeli entities that ban unvaccinated employees or customers are acting against the Nuremberg Code. The group went so far as to call on the ICC to halt Israel’s administration of vaccines.

Contrary to the suit, only about 0.25 of Israelis experienced side effects, of which the vast majority were mild, such as weakness, dizziness, muscle pain, chills and a sore throat.

Furthermore, the Pfizer vaccine has proven to be 97% effective against severe cases of the coronavirus and 94% effective against asymptomatic infections.

Unvaccinated Israelis are 44 more times likely to develop symptomatic coronavirus and 29 more times likely to die of the virus than those who have been fully vaccinated.

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My dad told me my mom was dead — then I met her 57 years later

 

At age 60, Ed Hajim was looking through a suitcase of yellowed letters belonging to his deceased father when he stumbled across a secret so big, so dark that it completely upended his life. 

“It was horrendous,” Hajim, now 84, told The Post. “I must have sat there for half an hour. 

The letter Hajim found revealed that his mother, who his father had told him died when he was a baby, was, in fact, still alive. And his father had stolen him from her. 

The kidnapping was just the start of Hajim’s childhood troubles, which would rise to near-Dickensian levels. But he managed to overcome his rough start, build a happy family of his own and make millions on Wall Street. 

His story is told in the new memoir “On the Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey from the Orphanage to the Boardroom” (Skyhorse Publishing), out now. 

Ed Hajim's father (together left) kidnapped him from his mother in 1939. Ed eventually tracked her down and got to know her (right).

“I had a lot of trouble writing it,” Hajim says. “I got welled up. When I was 18 and went to college, I decided I would take my [childhood] and bury it and not bring it back.” 

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Landlord homeless, unable to evict ‘deadbeat’ tenant thanks to COVID law

Shawna Eccles brought the two-story, semi-detached home for about $477,000 in February 2019 and exhausted her savings to renovate it.

 A Brooklyn homeowner unable to evict an allegedly deadbeat tenant because of new state housing lawsclaims she has been forced to live in her car for weeks.

Shawna Eccles, 30, says in court papers she sleeps on the couches of friends and relatives whenever she can, and in her four-door Toyota when she can’t, after fighting and failing for months to evict Sharita Patterson, 33, from the two-family home in Carnarsie. 

“There is no one I can stay with until I am able to evict, and all of my money covers the mortgage, water bill and property taxes,” Eccles told The Post. “If anything gets cut off, it will be considered an illegal eviction. I have no additional funds to rent an apartment.”

Thanks to the state’s pandemic-inspired eviction moratorium and recently enacted housing regulations, Patterson has until at least May 1 before any New York housing court would even consider a case against her.

Tenant Sharita Patterson allegedly owes $14,700 in back rent on the two-bedroom pad in Brooklyn, court papers show.

That’s because she checked a box on a “hardship declaration” form, claiming she’s been financially impacted by COVID-19 and is unable to move. Under the new rules, New Yorkers had until Feb. 26 to fill out the form, which automatically pauses their evictions.

Patterson, who allegedly owes $14,700 in back rent on the two-bedroom pad, bought a new car during the pandemic, according to court papers.

And the city’s Department of Social Services recently told Eccles that Patterson has rejected their offers of rental assistance so she could find a new apartment, the landlord claims.

The “hardship declaration” seems to be a free pass, the landlord said.

“They don’t have to prove it and they don’t allow us to challenge it,” said Eccles, who has been trying to evict Patterson since August. 

Eccles bought the two-story, semi-detached home on East 91st street for about $477,000 in February 2019, spending her savings to renovate it, turning the somewhat rundown, barely 1,500-square-foot structure into an updated, modern home. 

Patterson, who was supposed to pay $2,100 a month, was her first tenant. 

Without any rental income for months, Eccles thought she was close to a legal settlement with Patterson in December. Believing Patterson was about to vacate, she rented the home’s first floor to an elderly woman and moved out to temporarily live with friends.

When Patterson backed out at the last minute, and signed the hardship declaration, Eccles was essentially left homeless.

One neighbor said, “I have seen her in the car in the driveway.”

Another neighbor, who has heard the two women arguing, said, “It’s very unfortunate. She said she was the first in her family to buy a house. 

“There were times when Shawna was scared.”

Patterson, a mother of three, has allegedly threatened Eccles, filed 51 false complaints about the building with the city, flooded the bathroom, leaves dirty diapers and trash around the property, broke the front door lock and replaced it without giving anyone else the key, blocks the driveway, and runs an illegal candle business out of the apartment, the landlord claims in legal papers. 

Patterson has accused Eccles of harassing her, according to court papers. The tenant could not be reached.

The case “highlights a terrible lack of balance between the rights of landlords and tenants in New York City, and is a prime example of the state government’s failure to properly address the housing situation,” said Eccles’ lawyer, David Gerard. He said small landlords are in “truly unfair and untenable situations.”

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ZAKA founder accused of sexual assault, rape of minors

 

Co-founder and chairman of the ZAKA volunteer emergency response organization, Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, was accused Thursday of sexual assault, rape, and abuse by six people in a report by the Haaretz daily, which said there are likely many more cases.

The allegations against Meshi-Zahav, who is a prominent figure in the ultra-Orthodox community who earlier this month was awarded the Israel Prize's lifetime achievement award, were made by both men and women, some of whom were minors at the time of the alleged events.

Meshi-Zahav denied the allegations. "The claims are baseless; I don't know how I'll be able to rehabilitate my good name in light of the irrevocable damage caused to me."

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Historical Portraits Brought To Life Using Colorization And AI Technology

 

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Ami Magazine Interviews MK Eichler ... Who Calls Israeli Govt ,,,,,,"Malchus Harisha"

 

Ami's publisher Yitzi (the fool)  Frankfurter has what they call in Yiddish "mer mazel vee siechel", more luck than brains.

Frankfurter's  father was a follower of the "Beirach Moshe" who was the Satmar Rebbe after R' Yoel z"l and was really a closet Zionist..but when he became the Satmar Rebbe, he had to toe the line of being an anti-Zionist. 

At any rate Yitzi hates the State of Israel and bashes her whenever he can, but he cannot do it directly since he will lose his sponsors so he discretely pushes this outdated agenda in his "naaresheh" interviews.

Last week the Israeli Supreme Court decided to recognise the conversions performed in Israel by Reform rabbis... 

Yitzy (the fool)  Frankfurter interviewed MK Yisrael Eichler :

In this interview, Eichler refers to the Israeli Government as the "malchus harishah" an "evil government" (see line 6 above); this is the  term that is frequently used by the Neturei Karta, Satmar and Arabs......

This statement is bizarre is crazy and ironic since Eichler is a sitting member of the Knesset and has been there since 2003.

 In other words Eichler has been sitting in the Knesset for over 18 years a place that Satmar and other anti-Zionists call a "place of meenim and apikorsim," and tells the fool, Frankfurter, with a straight face that the government is a "malchus harishah"

Eichler only cares about $$$$$ ... doesn't care about Chillul Shabbas (see video below just released, where he is recorded saying that Chillul Shabbos is not a priority it is  "fourth or fifth on the list") doesn't care about boys going to the army, is a real politician that only cares about how much money he can extract on behalf of moisdois. 

He is even prepared to sit with the Israeli Left, Lapid or even Lieberman should they G-D forbid win in the upcoming elections. 

Another "journalist" would have stopped Eichler in mid sentence and would have asked him...

"If its a malchus harisha, as you just described,  how is it that you have been sitting with these "rashaiem" for over 18 years?

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בנן של קדושים

 

Hitler kept secret hit list of 3,000 prominent Brits for after Nazis defeated UK

 

The names were nothing if not eclectic. From actors to astrophysicists, future presidents to poets, and spies to scientists, the Nazis’ secret list of the nearly 3,000 prominent Britons they intended to round up had they invaded the UK was characteristically thorough.

The discovery of the so-called “Black Book” at the end of the war provoked a number of wry comments from some of those whose names it contained. “My dear, the people we should have been seen dead with,” wrote the author Rebecca West to playwright Noel Coward, while the cartoonist David Low quipped: “That is all right. I had them on my list too.”

But as academic Sybil Oldfield details in a recently published book “The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi List,” there was nothing in the least bit comical about the Germans’ carefully laid plans to unleash terror had they crossed the English Channel. Armed with copies of the “most wanted” list, 20,000 SS troops were to sweep the country engaging in a deadly ideological and racial manhunt.

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Interpol drops warrant for Sbarro pizzeria bomber Ahlam Tamimi

 Interpol has reportedly dropped an international warrant for the Jordanian terrorist who orchestrated the 2001 Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15 people.

In a letter dated March 8 published in Arabic-language media, Interpol said Ahlam Tamimi was no longer “subject to an Interpol notice,” without further elaborating. Tamimi also appeared to have been removed from the most wanted list on Interpol’s website.

The international police cooperation organization did not respond to a request for comment.

Tamimi has been living in Jordan after being freed from an Israeli jail as part of a prisoner swap.

Advocates for terror victims’ rights have long sought her extradition to the United States for her role in the murder of two US civilians in one of the most infamous suicide attacks of the Second Intifada: the attack on the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem on Thursday, August 9, 2001.

Police and medics surround the scene of a suicide bombing inside Jerusalem’s Sbarro restaurant, Thursday, August 9, 2001. Fifteen people were killed, and 130 injured. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Fifteen Israeli civilians — including seven children and a pregnant woman — were murdered in the Sbarro attack. Another 130 people were injured; one of them, Chana Nachenberg, remains hospitalized in a vegetative state.

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Uman to be renamed for Nazi collaborator?

 

A senior lecturer at Ukraine’s oldest and most prestigious state university called on the government to rename the city of Uman for a Nazi collaborator in response to Israel’s complaints about honoring such individuals.

Bohdan Bilinsky, associate professor of Building Structures and Bridges at the 205-year-old Lviv Polytechnic National University, proposed the honor for Stepan Bandera in a Facebook post on Friday, the Focus news site reported. Uman, a major site for Jewish pilgrims, should be called “Bandera City,” he said.

Bilinsky said every Ukrainian city should “name stations, ports and planes after Stepan Bandera,” a nationalist who for a time collaborated with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union. His troops are believed to have killed thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.

“Maybe this evil spirit will stop coming to us,” Bilinsky wrote about criticism of honors to Bandera and other Nazi collaborators.

His proposal follows controversy over the naming this month of a stadium in Ternopil for Roman Shukhevych, another Nazi-allied militia leader.

Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine, Joel Lion, protested the stadium naming on Twitter. But a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Twitter defended the country “preserving the national memory.” Oleg Nikolenko added this “remains one of the priorities of Ukraine’s state policy.”

It is “fully understandable” that Ternopil seeks to “honor those who fought against Soviet Communism,” wrote Efraim Zuroff, the Eastern Europe Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, but not those behind “the mass murder of innocent fellow citizens.”

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Zera Shimshon Parshas Vayakheil-Pekudei

 

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Engineer responsible for creation of cassette tape, dies at 94

 

Lou Ottens, a Dutch engineer who invented the cassette tape and spent his wartime youth constructing a radio featuring directional antenna used to listen to banned BBC broadcasts jammed by the occupying Nazi army, has died at ninety-four.

Ottens displayed a talent for technology at a young age. After studying mechanical engineering at the university, the future activist went to work for Philips, becoming head of product development at the corporation. It was there that he had an idea that would transform the way the world listens to music "on the go."

Ottens invented the cassette tape to improve upon the design of the era's reel-to-reel players. While these outdated machines produced high quality sound, they were the opposite of the miniaturized music players people began to take for granted only years later. Bulky and impractical, Ottens grew frustrated with the reel-to-reel player's inadequate portability, and envisioned a cassette tape small enough to fit easily into a jacket pocket.

The cassette tape made its debut in 1963 at a Berlin electronics fair under the slogan: "Smaller than a pack of cigarettes."

Ottens was also later influential in Philips' development of the compact disc and other related technology.

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