As the rollback on coronavirus restrictions went into effect on Sunday, Machane Yehudah Shuk shop owners held a protest about the continued closure of the shuk. The Machane Yehudah shuk is not only an icon of Jerusalem but is also the means of parnassah for hundreds of small business owners, who have been badly affected by the coronavirus restrictions. And although most stores were allowed to re-open on Sunday, the rollback regulations apply only to stores located on the street versus malls or open-air markets. Unfortunately, the protest turned violent with a scuffle taking place between shop owners and police. One of the shop owners was arrested and the head of the Shuk Machane Yehudah Vendors Association Tali Friedman was summoned to the police for questioning.

When the coronavirus outbreak began, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed cough, shortness of breath and fever as possible symptoms for the newly-discovered virus. Now, the organization is adding six new possible symptoms to its list, including headache, chills and loss of taste or smell. These possible symptoms, added Sunday, are: Chills Repeated shaking with chills Muscle pain Headache Sore throat New loss of taste or smell The CDC continues to warn that these symptoms can appear any time between two to 14 days after exposure to the virus. With millions of people now infected worldwide, researchers have started to observe that COVID-19 has to potential to attack the entire body, not just the respiratory system. ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr.

As the global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 200,000 on Saturday, countries took cautious steps toward easing some lockdowns, while fears of infection made even some pandemic-wounded businesses reluctant to reopen. The states of Georgia, Oklahoma and Alaska started loosening restrictions on businesses despite warnings from experts that such steps might be coming too soon. Some owners said they weren’t yet ready to reopen or were doing so only on a limited basis, worried about a second surge of COVID-19 infections. “We’ve sacrificed so much already,” said Shawn Gingrich, CEO and founder of Lion’s Den Fitness, who decided after the Georgia governor’s announcement that he would not be reopening his Atlanta gym right away.

President Donald Trump’s raising of unproven, even far-fetched ideas for fighting COVID-19 — including his latest musing about injecting disinfectants into people — triggered an outcry from health officials everywhere. It also highlighted his unconventional approach to the special responsibility that comes with speaking from the presidential pulpit. Trump readily admits he’s not a doctor. Yet with the reported U.S. death toll from the virus topping 50,000, he continues to use the White House podium to promote untested drugs and float his own ideas for treatment as he tries to project optimism.

On Friday, Health Minister Yaakov Litzman notified Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he desires to leave the Health Ministry in favor of the Housing and Construction Ministry. The move comes in the middle of the Corona crisis and after 10 years of service at the head of the Health Ministry as either Minister of Deputy Minister. Litzman, who was once thought to be the most popular minister in the cabinet, has faced growing criticism over the past five years for his mismanagement of hospitals, his association with accused child abuser Malka Leifer, and his wanton neglect of the country’s second-largest emergency medical service organization United Hatzalah.

There are 14,803 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Israel on Thursday, with 139 in serious condition, of whom 107 are ventilated. A total of 5,685 Israelis have recovered from the virus. Israel recorded 193 deaths by Friday including Rav Yeshayahu Heber, z’l, who founded Matnat Chaim, a non-profit organization to encourage altruistic kidney donations, through which the lives of about 800 people were saved in the past decade. The IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate said that they believe the coronavirus crisis will last in the Middle East at least until the end of 2021, a Maariv report said. The estimate is based on an intense analysis of all aspects, trends, and predictions of how the crisis could affect the Middle East in the near future.

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday that he is considering resigning his post from the Health Ministry in order to become the Minister of Housing and Construction. According to many reports in the Israeli media, the move comes at the behest of the Gerrer Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter. A high-ranking minister in the government was quoted as saying that Litzman will be leaving and that the instruction came from the Rebbe. Litzman’s office refuted the statement and claimed that the statement was nothing more than idle chatter. Later on in the evening, his office recanted and clarified that indeed there were talks about this topic but no decision has been made yet.

South Korean officials reported no unusual activity in North Korea on Tuesday following unconfirmed media reports that leader Kim Jong Un was in fragile health after surgery. But the possibly of high-level instability raised troubling questions about the future of a nuclear-armed state that has been steadily building an arsenal meant to threaten the U.S. mainland amid stalled talks between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump. South Korea’s presidential office said Kim appeared to be handling state affairs as usual and that it had no information about rumors regarding his health. But many will be watching closely for any signs of trouble in North Korea, and whether it will address the reports — something it has not yet done.

A US judge has found Grafton Thomas, charged in the anti-Semitic stabbing of 5 people – one who later died – in a Monsey Shul suffers from mental defect rendering him unable to assist in his defense. Judge Cathy Siebel wrote in a decision made public Monday that Grafton Thomas be committed to a treatment facility for no more than four months to determine if “in the foreseeable future he will attain the capacity to permit criminal proceedings to go forward against him.” “The defendant is suffering from a mental disease or defect rendering him mentally incompetent to the extent he is unable to assist properly in his defense”.

Elisheva Stern wasn’t ready to say goodbye to her ailing father, who was succumbing to the coronavirus in an Israeli hospital. But knowing countless others around the world are not given the chance to say their last farewells to sick relatives, she decided to enter the virus ward and be by her father’s bedside, even if only for a brief moment, before he died. Stern’s father, Simha Benshai, 75, died at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center, which offers the next of kin of dying coronavirus patients the rare opportunity to say goodbye in person. “None of us want to say bye to the people who we love. But I’m actually happy that they gave me the opportunity to say bye to my father,” said Stern.