Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein on Tuesday congratulated the country’s 500,000th person to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
“It warms the heart to see the citizens of Israel joining in to help [one another], especially the elderly, emerge from great darkness into great light,” said Netanyahu, during a visit to the Clalit Health Services anti-coronavirus vaccination facility at the Pais Arena in Jerusalem.
Israel, said Netanyahu, was a world leader in both acquiring and administering the vaccines. “My mission now is to ensure that we will continue at this pace and we are working on it together,” he said.

President Donald Trump is imploring Congress to up the impact payment checks for Americans from $600 to $2,000, but the demand does not come without a cost.
The unemployment boost expires Saturday night if Trump does not sign a coronavirus relief package by midnight.
“States cannot pay out benefits for weeks that begin before the bill is signed, meaning that if the president does not sign the bill [Saturday], benefits will not restart until the first week of January. But they will still end in mid-March, effectively trimming the extension to 10 weeks from 11,” The New York Times reported.
President-elect Joe Biden pounced on the expiration benefits to boost the Democrat-fed omnibus and to attack President Trump as harming the American people.

In the following video clip from MD Yarmish, taking at Camp Mesifta in 1940, you can see Rav Yisroel Chaim Kaplan, Rav Shlomo Heiman and Rav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz.

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On Thursday night, Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin celebrated a third anniversary hoda’ah in honor of his miraculous release. Three years ago, on Zos Chanukah 5778, Klal Yisroel celebrated the miraculous release of Reb Sholom Mordechai. It wasn’t just a victory for him and his family. It was a victory for us all – a triumph of emunah and bitachon.
Over 12,000 people watched Thursday night’s event, with the first hour featuring Avraham Fried, Benny Friedman, Yaakov Schwekey and Shlomie Gertner. The next two hours featured a conversation with Reb Sholom Mordechai and his close friend, Yated published Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz, who led the campaign to free Sholom Mordechai. The fascinating conversation was moderated by Rabbi Yitzchok Hisiger.

Coming on the heels of a very successful recent plasma drive, Lev Rochel Bikur Cholim has announced a second drive to help save even more lives.
Here’s what Kip Kuttner, Miller-Keystone medical director had to say about the recent drive: