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Analysis: Here’s how you know Donald Trump is panicking about the 2020 election

Analysis: Here’s how you know Donald Trump is panicking about the 2020 election

The best way to understand what Donald Trump is thinking and feeling at any given moment is his Twitter feed. And right now, Trump’s Twitter… Read More ›

Cabinet approves extending limit on demos as protests surge

Cabinet approves extending limit on demos as protests surge

A source in Blue and White said that if coronavirus numbers go down in the upcoming week, the party’s ministers may oppose renewing the limitations… Read More ›

Poll shows Bennett’s Yamina pulling 23 seats, Likud dropping to 26

Poll shows Bennett’s Yamina pulling 23 seats, Likud dropping to 26

Channel 12’s survey shows majority of Israelis support snap elections, despite vote taking place only 6 months ago, and want Gamliel to be fired as… Read More ›

Ministers approve 1-week extension for restrictions on protests, prayers

Ministers approve 1-week extension for restrictions on protests, prayers

Law limiting demonstrators to 1 kilometer from home extended to October 13; march held in Tel Aviv in violation of police orders; ultra-Orthodox scuffle with… Read More ›

Top Trump aide Stephen Miller tests positive

Top Trump aide Stephen Miller tests positive

WASHINGTON (AP) – Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and speechwriter, tested positive for the coronavirus Tuesday. A senior administration official said Miller had… Read More ›

Commission to allow Pence to debate without plexiglass barriers around him

Commission to allow Pence to debate without plexiglass barriers around him

The commission organizing general election debates will allow Mike Pence to participate without plexiglass barriers around him at Wednesday’s contest after the vice president’s team… Read More ›

Easing coronavirus lockdown restrictions not likely before October 18

Easing coronavirus lockdown restrictions not likely before October 18

Netanyahu: No decision on changes until at least Monday   Israel is set to remain under lockdown for at least another two weeks, according to… Read More ›

IDF strikes Hamas target in Gaza after rocket launch

IDF strikes Hamas target in Gaza after rocket launch

This is the first launch since 13 rockets were fired at Israel during the White House signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords establishing normalized relations… Read More ›

John Hagee, prominent pro-Israel evangelical pastor, ill with COVID-19

John Hagee, prominent pro-Israel evangelical pastor, ill with COVID-19

Son says 80-year-old founder of Christians United for Israel recovering after illness was detected early   SAN ANTONIO  — Prominent megachurch pastor and conservative activist… Read More ›

New Jersey governor: Trump fundraiser ‘put lives at risk’

New Jersey governor: Trump fundraiser ‘put lives at risk’

  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s fundraiser at his Bedminster golf club hours before he announced he had contracted the coronavirus was wrong… Read More ›

Trump tweets that he’s leaving the hospital and says ‘don’t be afraid of Covid,’ a virus that’s killed over 209,000 Americans

Trump tweets that he’s leaving the hospital and says ‘don’t be afraid of Covid,’ a virus that’s killed over 209,000 Americans

  President Donald Trump in a tweet on Monday said he would leave Walter Reed hospital at 6:30 p.m. ET. In the process, he once… Read More ›

Can Trump’s COVID-19 illness derail the Israeli-Arab normalization train?

Can Trump’s COVID-19 illness derail the Israeli-Arab normalization train?

Even without COVID-19, the timeline for additional deals was tight, but now that timeline has been further shortened.   In 1919, former US president Woodrow… Read More ›

A mortality tale

A mortality tale

Opinion: Upon becoming infected with COVID, both the U.S. president and an Israeli rabbinical leader did a huge service to their communities, becoming living proof… Read More ›

Trump leaves hospital briefly to greet supporters, ‘I learned a lot about COVID’

Trump leaves hospital briefly to greet supporters, ‘I learned a lot about COVID’

In video, Trump describes experience: ‘This is the real school. This isn’t the let’s read the books school, and I get it, and I understand… Read More ›

Israelis Persist In Rallies Against Pm Despite Lockdown

Israelis Persist In Rallies Against Pm Despite Lockdown

  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in hundreds of locations across Israel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pressing ahead… Read More ›

Trump’s doctors say the president is getting better. But they also started him on a steroid usually reserved for patients with ‘severe and critical COVID-19’

Trump’s doctors say the president is getting better. But they also started him on a steroid usually reserved for patients with ‘severe and critical COVID-19’

  White House physician Sean Conley announced Sunday that President Trump was feeling better. Conley said he hoped the president could return to the White… Read More ›

Smaller percentage of people screened for coronavirus test positive

Smaller percentage of people screened for coronavirus test positive

Currently, there are 71,509 people with the virus in Israel, 840 who are in serious condition, among them 224 who are intubated.   The number… Read More ›

Defying protest ban, thousands of Israelis demonstrate against Netanyahu

Defying protest ban, thousands of Israelis demonstrate against Netanyahu

Clashes break out between protesters and police in several locations across Tel Aviv, with at least 12 people arrested and hundreds of fines handed out;… Read More ›

Trump adviser says it’s serious, president has some trouble breathing – report

Trump adviser says it’s serious, president has some trouble breathing – report

2nd unnamed official tells CNN situation not deteriorating; third anonymous official says US president is currently okay but there are worries this could change quickly… Read More ›

What Does “Laishev BaSukkah” Actually Mean?

What Does “Laishev BaSukkah” Actually Mean?

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times The bracha that is recited on the Sukkah is “Blessed are You..who has sanctified us… Read More ›