IS ISRAEL GOING TO NUKE THEIR ENEMIES DURING THIS BIRD MIGRATION SEASON BETWEEN MAR 1-APR 15, 2022. TIME WILL TELL IF EZEKIEL 38 AND 39 WILL BE FULFILLED AT THIS PRESENT TIME.

DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN

REVELATION 6:7-8 (500 MILLION DEAD EACH FROM THE 4 JUDGEMENTS)(2 BILLION TOT DEAD HERE)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500 million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).

THE COVID-19 TOTALS.
WORLD OVER ALL CASES 331,127,822 - DEAD 5,563,105 - AS OF MON JAN 17,2022 (PROBABLY IN THE LAST 200,000 DEAD-150,000 STILL GOT COVID AND DIED AFTER GETTING BOTH VACCINE SHOTS)
THE SNAKE OIL (NWO) BOOSTER IS CALLED A DOWNLOAD EVERY 6 MONTHS IN YOUR BODY LIKE A COMPUTER DOWN LOAD.
2 MORE NEW BOGEYMEN-FLURONA AND DELTACRON-ARE THE NEXT WAVE.AND FEB 1,22-OLD PEOPLE CAN TAKE A 4TH KILLER SHOT IF YOU WANT.
NOW THAT OLD PEOPLE CAN TAKE THE 4TH SHOT IF THEY WANT. SUDDENLY 2 MORE SCAMS BA.1 AND BA.2 HAVE SUDDENLY TOOK 40 COUNTRYS BY STORM. GET PAMPERS ON YOUR FACE AND YOUR ARSE. AND GET READY FOR ANOTHER KILL SHOT SO CALLED VACCINE.

WELL DID YOU KNOW FOR EVERY PERSON THAT DIES OF COVID ON A VENTALATOR. THE GOVERNMENT PAYS THE HOSPITAL $39,000.00 FOR EVERY VENTILATOR KILL OFF. I THOUGHT I HAD A BLOOD CLOTT IN MY NOSE FOR THE LAST 3 DAYS. FROM MY SO CALLED VACCINE SHOT (WHICH IS NOT EVEN A VACCINE) (ITS A GENE THERAPY THEIR SHOOTING IN YOUR VEINS)-7 MONTHS AGO-JUNE 13TH,2022 . SINCE I REFUSED TO TAKE THE BOOSTER ON NOV 13, 2022. I ONLY TOOK THE 2 FIRST KILLER SHOTS. THE FIRST KIKLLER SHOT WAS PFZIER. THE 2ND KILLER SHOT WAS MADERNA. I WAS LUCKY I NEVER EVEN HAD A SORE ARM FROM THE 1ST AND LAST VACCINES-PILLS-BOOGYMAN I`LL EVER BE TAKING AGAIN. BUT I THOUGHT WHEN I SAW BLOOD WITH MY SNOT. THREE DAYS AGO. I THOUGHT FOR SURE I HAD BLOOD CLOTTS FROM THE VACCINE. THANK GOD WHEN I TOLD THE NURSE THIS MORNING. SHE TOLD ME ITS ONLY FROM THE DRY AIR IN MY ROOM. EVEN THOUGHT IN MY 61 YEARS ON EARTH. I HAVE NEVER EVER HAD BLOOD WITH MY SNOT WHILE BLOWING MY NOSE IN THE MORNING.S EVER. AND THAT WAS THAT. AND I TURNED MY HOT ROD WHEELCHAIR AROUND. AND WENT BACK TO MY ROOM. AND WORKED ON THE STORIES FOR MY SITE. THAT I AM WORKING RIGHT NOW.    

AND ABOUT THE NY STORY I FIGURED THE HOSPITAL KILLED OFF 2,317 PEOPLE ON THE VENTILATOR IN ONE MONTH. AND TOOK THE SPOILS OF $90 MILLION DOLLARS.

Omicron sub-variant throws up fresh questions about virus-British virologist says early data on BA.2 indicates ‘no dramatic difference in severity,’ stresses questions remain on transmissibility but doesn’t foresee it causing another wave-By Isabelle TOURNÉ-JAN 22,22-Today, 5:20 pm

PARIS (AFP) — Scientists are keeping a close watch on a recently discovered sub-variant of the Omicron version of the COVID-19 virus to determine how its emergence could affect future pandemic spread.The initial Omicron variant has become the dominant virus strain in recent months but British health authorities have notably identified hundreds of cases of the latest version, dubbed BA.2, while international data suggest it could spread relatively quickly.The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) identified more than 400 cases in Britain in the first ten days of this month and has indicated the latest variant has been detected in some 40 other countries, accounting for a majority of most recent cases in some nations including India, Denmark and Sweden.The UKHSA indicated Friday it had designated the BA.2 sub-lineage as a variant under investigation (VUI) as cases of it were on the increase even if, in Britain, the BA.1 lineage currently remains dominant.The authority underlined that “there is still uncertainty around the significance of the changes to the viral genome,” which required surveillance as, in parallel, cases in recent days showed a sharp rise in BA.2 incidence notably in India and Demark.“What surprised us is the rapidity with which this sub-variant, which has been circulating to a great extent in Asia, has taken hold in Denmark,” French epidemiologist Antoine Flahault told AFP.Scientists must evaluate how the virus, which has engendered the worst global health crisis in a century, continues to evolve and mutate. Its latest incarnation does not possess the specific mutation used to track and compare BA.1 against Delta, the previously dominant strain.BA.2 has yet to be designated a variant of concern — but Flahault says countries have to be alert to the latest development as scientists ramp up surveillance.“(France) expected a spike in contaminations in mid-January: It didn’t happen and perhaps that is due to this sub-variant, which seems very transmissible but not more virulent” than BA.1, he observed.“What interests us is if this (sub-variant) possesses different characteristics” from BA.1 in terms of contagiousness and severity, France’s public health agency said Friday.To date, only a handful of BA.2 cases have emerged in France — but the country is monitoring developments as they spread across the Channel.‘Comparable severity’Flahault, director of the University of Geneva’s Institute of Global Health, says the watchword is not panic but “vigilance” as “for now we have the impression (BA.2 case) severity is comparable to” classic variant Omicron cases.“But there are numerous questions on the table” and a need to monitor properties of the new variant on the block.“Very early observations from India and Denmark suggest there is no dramatic difference in severity compared to BA.1,” tweeted Tom Peacock, a virologist at Imperial College, London, adding the latest variant should not call into question the effectiveness of existing vaccines.Peacock stressed that “we do not currently have a strong handle on … how much more transmissibility BA.2 might have over BA.1. However, we can make some guesses/early observations.”He added that “there is likely to be minimal differences in vaccine effectiveness against BA.1 and BA.2. Personally, I’m not sure BA.2 is going to have a substantial impact on the current Omicron wave of the pandemic.“Several countries are near, or even past the peak of BA.1 waves. I would be very surprised if BA.2 caused a second wave at this point. Even with slightly higher transmissibility this absolutely is not a Delta-Omicron change and instead is likely to be slower and more subtle,” he forecast.French Health Minister Olivier Veran said Thursday that BA.2 did not look as if it would prove a game-changer as variants appear on the scene “fairly regularly.” But he indicated he would reserve judgment.“What we know for now is that (BA.2) more or less corresponds to the characteristics that we know of Omicron” mark one.

Study: Most N.Y. COVID Patients on Ventilators Died-By Robert Preidt-HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, April 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The largest analysis of hospitalized U.S. COVID-19 patients to date finds that most did not survive after being placed on a mechanical ventilator.The study included the health records of 5,700 COVID-19 patients hospitalized between March 1 and April 4 at facilities overseen by Northwell Health, New York State's largest health system.Among the 2,634 patients for whom outcomes were known, the overall death rate was 21%, but it rose to 88% for those who received mechanical ventilation, the Northwell Health COVID-19 Research Consortium reported.The new findings "provide a crucial early insight into the front-line response to the COVID-19 outbreak in New York," Dr. Kevin Tracey, president and CEO of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, said in a Northwell Health news release.The findings also add fuel to the notion that ventilators may sometimes do more harm than good for patients battling for life with severe COVID-19.Mechanical ventilators work by pushing air into the lungs of critically ill patients who can no longer breathe well on their own. These patients must be sedated and have a tube stuck into their throat.

On April 19, he doubled down on his assertion via video on his Facebook page.

Jensen said, "Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for – if they're Medicare – typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000."

PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)

REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.

MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)

IN REVELATION 17 & 18 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL BABYLONS.IF YOU CAN NOT DECERN BETWEEN THE 2 BABYLONS IN REV 17 & 18.YOU WILL JUST THINK THEIR BOTH THE SAME.BUT NO-THERES A RELIGIOUS BABYLON (THE VATICAN IN REV 17)(AND THE POLITICAL BABYLON IN REV 18 (AMERICA OR NEW YORK TO BE EXACT)

ISAIAH 34:10
10  It (AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29  And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30  The mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
031  One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32  And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)

COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE ATTACK ON AM

EZEKIEL 39:11-22
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18  Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19  And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20  Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21  And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL TO EAT THE FLESH OF 300 MILLION ENEMIES OF ISRAEL AFTER ISRAEL NUKES THEM WITH AN ATOMIC BOMB. HOW DO I KNOW THIS. BECAUSE THE BIBLE TELLS ME ITS GOING TO HAPPEN THIS WAY. FOR 7 MONTHS NOBODY BUT EXPERTS WILL BE ALLOWED TO PICK UP THE DEAD PERSONS BONES. THIS IS OVIOUSLY ATOMIC EXPERTS PICKING UP THE BONES TO BE BURIED IN THE JORDAN VALLEY.BECAUSE THERE STILL FULL OF RADIATION FROM THE ATOMIC BOMB EFFECTS. (SPRING MIGRATION IN ISRAEL)(500 MILLION BIRDS)

IF THIS IS THE TIME FOR ISRAEL TO NUKE THE RUSSIA - MUSLIM HOARDE HATERS OF ISRAEL. IT HAS TO OCCUR WHILE THE MIGRATING BIRDSD GO THREW ISRAEL. ALL 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS. WHICH OCCURS THIS YEAR FROM MAR 1-APR 15. IF THIS WAR IS TO OCCUR AT THIS TIME IN HISTORY. IT MUST OCCUR BETWEEN MAR 1 TO APR 15. NO I AM NOT SETTING DATES. BUT THE SPRING BIRD MIGRATION IN ISRAEL IS BETWEEN THEM DATES. AND AS WE SEE IN THIS ARTICLE THE 3 MAIN ENEMIES OF ISRAEL IN THE BIBLE. ARE RUSSIA-THE MUSLIM-CHINA AND IRAN. THAT ALL COME AGAINST ISRAEL. AND ISRAEL KILLS 300 MILLION OF THEM WITH THE ATOMIC BOMB. AND ALL 300 MILLION GET BURIED EAST OF THE MEDDITERANIAN SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY IN ISRAEL.THE CITY WERE ALL ISRAELS 300 MILLION ENEMIES  CEMETARY WILL BE BURIED WILL BE CALLED HAMONAH. WELL HAVE FUN LIBERALS AND GODLESS MORNING YOUR DEAD OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL. GOD EVEN PROTECTS ISRAEL FROM ALL THE 300 MILLION STINKING BODIES.   

Russia proposes interim nuke deal to Iran, with US aware of talks on matter – report-Moscow said to offer some sanctions relief in return for nuclear program limits; Biden administration said to have knowledge of proposal, which would likely need US Congress review-By TOI staff-jan 22,22-Today, 12:12 pm

Russia has discussed with Iran the possibility of an interim deal that would see limited sanctions relief in return for reimposing some restrictions on Tehran’s nuclear program, the NBC network reported FridayThe outlet said the US “is aware” of the proposal, and cited multiple unnamed sources for its reporting — two US officials, one Congressional official, one former US official and four other people familiar with the details of the talks.The sources said that while the US was aware of the discussions between Moscow and Tehran in recent weeks, US President Joe Biden’s administration was making efforts to distance itself from the proposal by Russia.The officials told the US news outlet that Tehran has thus far rejected the proposal.The US sources reportedly said that if Iran were to agree to it, it would be seen as a step toward a full deal in the future.If an interim agreement were to be agreed upon as a first step toward a renewed deal, some US lawmakers would likely insist it must be submitted to Congress for review.The sources told NBC that under one draft for the deal proposed by Russia, Tehran would commit to stopping enriching uranium up to 60 percent purity, a level that far exceeds the limits set by the original deal.Additionally, Iran would be required to dispose of its enriched uranium stockpile, with one possibility being that it is exported to Russia.The report said that in exchange, Tehran would receive access to the billions of dollars in oil revenues that are currently frozen in foreign bank accounts.A senior unnamed official from the Biden administration told NBC that an interim arrangement was not under serious discussion.“Though we cannot speak for any discussions that may have taken place between Russia and Iran, at this stage we are certain that no such interim arrangement is being seriously discussed,” the official said.“Regarding an interim deal, we will not negotiate in the press or comment on specific claims about the negotiations. Our timeline is based on a technical assessment of Iran’s nuclear progress rather than a temporal clock,” the official said.The report came after Iran, Russia and China began a joint naval drill in the Indian Ocean which they said was aimed at boosting marine security. Iran has been holding regular military drills in recent months.Iran said Friday it is also in talks with Russia over the construction of two new units at its Bushehr power plant nuclear power plant.Talks to restore the 2015 accord between Tehran and world powers — United States, France, Britain, Russia, China, and Germany — stopped last June as Iran elected ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi. The talks resumed in November.The 2015 deal offered Iran much-needed relief from sanctions that have crippled its economy, in return for curbs on its nuclear program.Then-US president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the deal in 2018 and Tehran has since steadily increased its public breaches of the accord.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week that there were only “a few weeks left” to save the deal, and the United States is ready to look at “other options” if the talks fail.Officials in Israel, which is seeking significantly more robust curbs on Iranian activities backed by the credible threat of military action, have said the country is not bound by the agreement and will act as it sees fit to protect its citizens.Defense Minister Benny Gantz called on Thursday for world powers negotiating with Iran on reviving the deal to include Tehran’s backing for proxy groups in the talks.“Iran’s double game must be on the negotiating table in Vienna and every international effort to reach an agreement must also take into account Iran’s aggressiveness in the region,” Gantz said.Meanwhile, Israeli fighter jets carried out a large drill over the Mediterranean that included practicing mid-air refueling, according to an unverified report in the Saudi-run London-based Elaph news outlet on Thursday.The use of Israel’s aging mid-air refueling fleet would be the strongest indication that Israel is planning for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, or would like to project to Tehran and the rest of the world that it is preparing.

Analysi-sMoscow refuses to rule out military deployments to Caribbean-With drills and military muscle-flexing, Russia ups the ante amid Ukraine tensions-Maneuvers reflect bold attempt by Kremlin to halt decades of NATO expansion after the end of the Cold War; Putin working to strengthen alliances with countries opposed to West-By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV-jan 22,22-Today, 3:02 pm

MOSCOW (AP) — With tens of thousands of Russian troops positioned near Ukraine, the Kremlin has kept the US and its allies guessing about its next moves in the worst security crisis to emerge between Moscow and the West since the Cold War.Amid fears of an imminent attack on Ukraine, Russia has further upped the ante by announcing more military drills in the region. It also has refused to rule out the possibility of military deployments to the Caribbean, and President Vladimir Putin has reached out to leaders opposed to the West.The military muscle-flexing reflects a bold attempt by the Kremlin to halt decades of NATO expansion after the end of the Cold War. In talks with the United States, Russia demands legally binding guarantees that the alliance will not embrace Ukraine and other former Soviet nations, or place weapons there. It also wants NATO to pull back its forces from countries in Central and Eastern Europe that joined the alliance since the 1990s.Putin has described NATO membership for Ukraine and the others as well as the alliance’s weapons deployments there as a red line for Moscow, warning that he would order unspecified “military-technical measures” if the demands aren’t met.Putin pointed to NATO drills with the Ukrainian military, increasingly frequent visits of the alliance warships in the Black Sea and the flights of US bombers near Crimea to emphasize the urgency of Russia’s security demands. He argued that by creating training centers in Ukraine, Western powers can establish a military foothold there even without its joining NATO.“We have nowhere to retreat,” Putin said. “They have taken it to the point where we simply must tell them: ‘Stop!’”Russia, which annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, has denied it intends to attack its neighbor. Last year, however, Putin issued a stark warning that an attempt by Ukraine to reclaim control of the areas in the east controlled by Russia-backed separatists would have “grave consequences for Ukrainian statehood.”While Ukrainian authorities denied planning such offensive, US intelligence officials concluded that Russia had already deployed operatives to carry out acts of sabotage in the rebel east and blame them on Ukraine in a “false-flag operation” to create a pretext for possible invasion. Russia has rejected the claim as “total disinformation.”Putin has repeatedly asserted that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people,” and says large chunks of Ukrainian territory are historic parts of Russia — arbitrarily granted to Ukraine by Communist leaders during Soviet times.Over 14,000 people have been killed in nearly eight years of fighting in Ukraine’s industrial heartland called the Donbas, where the Moscow-supported insurgency erupted shortly after the annexation of Crimea. A 2015 peace deal brokered by France and Germany helped end large-scale battles, but a political settlement has stalled, and frequent skirmishes have continued along the tense line of contact.In early 2021, a spike in cease-fire violations in the east and a Russian troop concentration near Ukraine ignited the invasion fears, but tensions abated when Moscow pulled back the bulk of its forces after maneuvers in April.The military buildup near Ukraine resumed in the fall, with Ukrainian and Western officials warning that the increasing troop concentration could herald a multipronged Russian attack.Putin noted with satisfaction that Russia has caused a “certain stress” in the West. “It’s necessary to keep them in that condition for as long as possible,” he said in November, ordering his diplomats to push for binding guarantees against NATO expansion.While the US and its allies rejected the Russian demands for a halt to NATO expansion, some observers note that Moscow’s insistence on a written reply may reflect an intention to use it as an argument for a possible escalation.“At this stage, the parties don’t intend to compromise and want to shift responsibility for a potential conflict,” said Kirill Rogov, a Moscow-based independent analyst.Adding to an estimated 100,000 troops deployed near Ukraine, Russia also has moved more troops from Siberia and the Far East for joint drills with its ally Belarus, which also borders Ukraine. In those exercises, Russian military units have moved to areas near Belarus’ southern border, which is about 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Kyiv.Earlier this week, the Russian Defense Ministry also announced a series of naval maneuvers in the Black Sea and more distant areas such as the Mediterranean, northeastern Atlantic and the Pacific. The exercises that will start this month and last through February would involve over 140 ships, dozens of aircraft and more than 10,000 personnel.Amid the tensions, Putin also worked to strengthen alliances with the countries opposed to the West. He has hosted Iran’s hardline president for talks on expanding cooperation and is set to travel to the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing where he will hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.In recent days, Putin also spoke by phone with the leaders of Nicaragua and Venezuela, and a Russian government plane was recently seen cruising between Cuba and Venezuela in a possible harbinger of the next Kremlin moves.After the US and its allies rejected Russia’s demands for a halt to NATO expansion, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov kept the door open for the deployment of military assets to Cuba and Venezuela.While voicing concern that NATO could potentially use Ukrainian territory for the deployment of missiles capable of reaching Moscow in just five minutes, Putin has warned that Russian warships armed with the latest Zircon hypersonic cruise missile would give Russia a similar capability if deployed in neutral waters.Fyodor Lukyanov, a leading Russian foreign policy expert, observed that with Russia and the West taking intransigent stands in the talks, an escalation appears inevitable.“Tensions will be high, including demonstrations of force not necessarily near or in Ukraine,” Lukyanov wrote in a commentary. “Real talks with some room for maneuvering and a broader agenda would ideally begin only after the next round of escalation in order to ease tensions.”

Iran denounces Saudi-led coalition over strikes on Yemen rebels-As Saudi Arabia denies reports it carried out deadly attack on prison, Tehran says countries arming coalition ‘are complicit in these crimes’ By AFP-jan 22,22-Today, 4:12 pm

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Saturday condemned recent airstrikes on rebel-held areas of Yemen, warning they make achieving peace in the war-torn country “more difficult.”The Saudi-led coalition has denied as “groundless” reports it carried out an airstrike on a prison in Yemen’s rebel-held north that aid groups said killed at least 70 people, including migrants, women and children.Saudi Arabia accuses regional rival Iran of providing military support to Yemen’s Houthi rebels, especially missiles and rockets, claims that Tehran denies.“The continuation of the coalition’s military attacks on Yemen with the silence and indifference of the international community and the uncontrolled sale of weapons to the aggressors… has made the path to achieve a just peace in the country even more difficult,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement.The latest violence in Yemen’s seven-year war came after Houthi forces on Monday claimed their first deadly attack on Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, a member of the coalition.The attack, which coincided with a coalition strike on Hodeida that killed three children and knocked out Yemen’s internet, was condemned by the United Nations secretary-general.Khatibzadeh said there was a lack of “serious determination to advance the political settlement of the Yemeni crisis,” warning it will lead to the “destruction of the country and instability in the region.”The Houthi rebels seized the capital Sanaa in 2014, prompting the Saudi-led intervention — supported by the US, France and Britain — in March 2015.“The countries that provide the coalition with bombs and weapons of mass destruction are complicit in these crimes and must be held accountable,” Khatibzadeh added.

Qatar signs financial deal to ensure natural gas supply to Gaza power plant-Weeks after pledging cash to build pipeline connecting Israeli gas facilities with Strip’s only electrical plant, Doha agrees to set up escrow account with electricity company-By TOI staff-jan 22,22-Today, 1:48 pm

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said Friday it had signed an agreement with Gaza’s electric company that will establish an escrow account for the costs of supplying gas and generating electricity at the Strip’s sole power plant.The statement said that Qatar will be the owner of the account and will organize and manage payments through it. The Gaza Electricity Distribution Company will deposit $5 million per month when the planned gas-powered plant starts operating, the statement said.Doha did not say how many years the Gulf nation was committing to the plan.Qatar, the Palestinian Authority and Gaza’s electrical company signed a deal last month advancing a long-term project to supply Gaza’s only power plant with Israeli natural gas.Qatar’s envoy to the Gaza Strip, Mohammad al-Emadi, said at the time that Doha had signed a memorandum containing a pledge to invest $60 million in laying the pipeline for the proposed project.But a final deal on the initiative, which has been in the works for years, has yet to be reached and could still be months or years away.The so-called “Gas for Gaza” initiative is a complex diplomatic dance, involving Israel, Hamas, the PA, Qatar, Egypt and the European Union, among other players. The project seeks to replace the diesel fuel that currently powers Gaza’s electrical plant with Israeli gas.Gaza has suffered from a chronic electricity deficit for more than a decade. The coastal enclave has only one power plant — which runs on imported diesel fuel — and experiences daily blackouts of between eight and 12 hours.With Israel’s approval, Qatar since 2018 has periodically provided millions of dollars in cash to Gaza’s Hamas terrorist rulers to pay for fuel for the Strip’s power plant, fund infrastructure projects and provide aid to tens of thousands of Gazan families.Transitioning Gaza from diesel fuel to natural gas is widely viewed as an important solution to the enclave’s electricity crisis. Talks on a natural gas pipeline have been in the works for years, without a clear timeline for success.Under the proposal, natural gas would flow from Israel’s Leviathan gas field, which lies off Gaza’s coast, to southern Israel. The EU and Qatar would then fund extensions to the pipeline to Gaza’s power plant.

Iran denounces Saudi-led coalition over strikes on Yemen rebels-As Saudi Arabia denies reports it carried out deadly attack on prison, Tehran says countries arming coalition ‘are complicit in these crimes’-By AFP-JAN 22,22-Today, 4:12 pm

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Saturday condemned recent airstrikes on rebel-held areas of Yemen, warning they make achieving peace in the war-torn country “more difficult.”The Saudi-led coalition has denied as “groundless” reports it carried out an airstrike on a prison in Yemen’s rebel-held north that aid groups said killed at least 70 people, including migrants, women and children.Saudi Arabia accuses regional rival Iran of providing military support to Yemen’s Houthi rebels, especially missiles and rockets, claims that Tehran denies.“The continuation of the coalition’s military attacks on Yemen with the silence and indifference of the international community and the uncontrolled sale of weapons to the aggressors… has made the path to achieve a just peace in the country even more difficult,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement.The latest violence in Yemen’s seven-year war came after Houthi forces on Monday claimed their first deadly attack on Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, a member of the coalition.The attack, which coincided with a coalition strike on Hodeida that killed three children and knocked out Yemen’s internet, was condemned by the United Nations secretary-general.Khatibzadeh said there was a lack of “serious determination to advance the political settlement of the Yemeni crisis,” warning it will lead to the “destruction of the country and instability in the region.”The Houthi rebels seized the capital Sanaa in 2014, prompting the Saudi-led intervention — supported by the US, France and Britain — in March 2015.“The countries that provide the coalition with bombs and weapons of mass destruction are complicit in these crimes and must be held accountable,” Khatibzadeh added.

SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.

GENESIS 1:5,145 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
REVELATION 16:21 80-120LB HAIL ON HUMANS
21And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent:(80-120 LBS) and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

FAMINE

EZEKIEL 5:16
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

DEUTORONOMY 28:24
24  The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

LOCUSTS (DEMONIC) TORTURES SINNERS 5 MONTHS
REVELATION 9:1-6
1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke (DEMONIC) locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

FEARFUL SIGHTS AND GREAT SIGNS FROM HEAVEN

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MATTHEW 24:21-22,221 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened,(DAY LIGHT HOURS SHORTENED) there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID HITS EARTH HERE)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
 
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

Anticipating heavy snowfall, Mt. Hermon ski resort to close after busy weekend-Site’s management blames heavy traffic in Golan on visitors who didn’t prebook passes; meteorological service forecasts cold snap on Sunday-By TOI staff-JAN 22-Today, 5:33 pm

The Mount Hermon ski resort in the Golan Heights announced it will be closed on Sunday and Monday due to “weather conditions,” following a busy weekend at the site.There was heavy traffic on the roads leading to the resort Saturday, which the site’s management blamed on visitors who wanted to ski without booking a pass in advance.Thousands visited the site Saturday, before management shuttered the gates at the usual 4 p.m. closing time.Heavy snowfall is expected in the Golan Heights on Sunday and Monday, according to the Israel Meteorological Service, which also said light snow was possible on the high peaks of northern Israel.The ski resort said it would update the public on when it expects to reopen in the coming days.Meanwhile, some 100,000 Israelis flocked to the country’s national parks and nature reserves on Saturday, according to the Parks Authority.The authority said national parks at Yarkon, Tel Afek, Caesarea, Beit Guvrin, Migdal Tsedek, along with the Banias, Mount Arbel, Ayun nature reserves, were especially crowded.According to the meteorological service, rain is expected on Sunday in northern Israel and along the coastal plain, accompanied by isolated thunderstorms, with a slight risk of flooding.It said the rain would gradually spread to central Israel, with heavy winds and colder than usual weather in most parts of the country.

INDIA HAS 380,000 CASES OF COVID IN ONE DAY-A NEW RECORD

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

 

 DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN

REVELATION 6:7-8 (500 MILLION DEAD EACH FROM THE 4 JUDGEMENTS)(2 BILLION TOT DEAD HERE)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500 million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).

THE COVID-19 TOTALS.
WORLD OVER ALL CASES 152,100,328 DEAD 3,196,191 AS OF SAT MAY 01,21

DR ZELENKO ON COVID-19 RECOVERY-TAMAR YONAH
https://soundcloud.com/israel-news-talk-radio/while-cautious-im-not-so-afraid-of-the-coronavirus-anymore-the-tamar-yonah-show
DR VLADMIR ZE'EV ZELENKOS MIXTURE FOR RECOVERY OF COVID-19
https://www.vladimirzelenkomd.com/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TaRDwXMhQHSMsgrs9TFBclHjPHerXMuB87DUXmcAvwg/editReuters

IT LOOKS LIKE THE WORLD JUDGEMENT AFTER THE PINK MOON ON APRIL 26TH IS THIS SURGE IN INDIA WITH COVID 19. IN FACT TODAY 380,000 ARE INFECTED IN INDIA WITH COVIDS. THE MOST EVER BY FAR FOR A ONE DAY TOTAL. THE PEOPLE IN INDI A CAN;T GET VACCINES OR OXYGEN. AND EVEN THOUGH THE VACCINES WERE MADE IN INDIA. THEY GAVE 9/10TH OF THEIR SUPPLY TO THE WEST. AND NOW INDIA IS DYING OFF FROM COVID 19 AS A RESULT.
 
Associated Press-India launches effort to inoculate-ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and MARIA CHENG-Sat, May 1, 2021, 12:13 AM

NEW DELHI (AP) — In hopes of taming a monstrous spike in COVID-19 infections, India opened vaccinations to all adults Saturday, launching a huge inoculation effort that was sure to tax the limits of the federal government, the country's vaccine factories and the patience of its 1.4 billion people.The world's largest maker of vaccines was still short of critical supplies — the result of lagging manufacturing and raw material shortages that delayed the rollout in several states. And even in places where the shots were in stock, the country’s wide economic disparities made access to the vaccine inconsistent.Only a fraction of India’s population will be able to afford the prices charged by private hospitals for the shot, experts said, meaning that states will be saddled with immunizing the 600 million Indian adults younger than 45, while the federal government gives shots to 300 million health care and front-line workers and people older than 45.So far, government vaccines have been free, and private hospitals have been permitted to sell shots at a price capped at 250 rupees, or around $3. That practice will now change: Prices for state governments and private hospitals will be determined by vaccine companies. Some states might not be able to provide vaccines for free since they are paying twice as much as the federal government for the same shot, and prices at private hospitals could rise.Since state governments and private players compete for shots in the same marketplace, and states pay less for the doses, vaccine makers can reap more profit by selling to the private sector, said Chandrakant Lahariya, a health policy expert. That cost can then be passed on to people receiving the shots, increasing inequity.“There is no logic that two different governments should be paying two prices,” he said.Concerns that pricing issues could deepen inequities are only the most recent hitch in India’s sluggish immunization efforts. Less than 2% of the population has been fully immunized against COVID-19 and around 10% has received a single dose. Immunization rates have also fallen. The average number of shots per day dipped from over 3.6 million in early April to less than 2.5 million right now.In the worst-hit state of Maharashtra, the health minister promised free vaccines for those ages 18 to 44, but he also acknowledged that the shortage of doses meant immunization would not start as planned on Saturday. States say the paucity of shots is one reason why immunizations have declined.India thought the worst was over when cases ebbed in September. But mass gatherings such as political rallies and religious events were allowed to continue, and relaxed attitudes on the risks fueled a major humanitarian crisis, according to health experts. New variants of the coronavirus have partly led the surge. Deaths officially surpassed 200,000 this week, and the true death toll is believed to be far higher.The country's shortage of shots has global implications because, in addition to its own inoculation efforts, India has promised to ship vaccines abroad as part of a United Nations vaccine-sharing program that is dependent on its supply.Indian vaccine makers produce an estimated 70 million doses each month of the two approved shots — the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India and another one made by Bharat Biotech.The federal government is buying half of those vaccines to give to states. The remaining half can then be bought by states and private hospitals to be given to anyone over 18, but at prices set by the companies.The federal government is buying shots at 150 rupees each, or $2. The Serum Institute will sell the shots to states at 300 rupees each, or $4, and to private players at 600 rupees each, or $8. Bharat Biotech said it will charge states 400 rupees, or less than $5.50 for a shot, and private players 1,200 rupees, or more than $16.By comparison, the European Union paid $2.15 per dose for the AstraZeneca vaccine. The company says that price is discounted because the EU contributed to the vaccine's development.The strain is mounting on the Serum Institute, which in addition to being India’s main supplier is also a critical supplier of the U.N.-backed initiative known as COVAX, which more than 90 countries are depending on. The institute paused exports in March.“The urgent demand for vaccines in India is bad for the rest of the world,” said Ravi Gupta, a professor of clinical microbiology at Cambridge University.Some experts warned that conducting a massive inoculation effort now could worsen the surge in a country that is second only to the United States in its number of infections — more than 19.1 million.“There’s ample evidence that having people wait in a long, crowded, disorderly queue could itself be a source of infection,” said Dr. Bharat Pankhania, a senior clinical lecturer specializing in infectious diseases at Britain’s University of Exeter. He urged India to first stop the circulation of the virus by imposing “a long, sustained, strictly enforced lockdown.”Pankhania cautioned that immunization efforts alone would not help immediately stem the current spike of COVID-19, since shots “only start to bear fruit in about three months’ time.” Vaccination would help prevent future waves of infection, he said.India is also importing shots from the Russian makers of Sputnik V. The first batch was due to arrive Saturday. Another 125 million doses of Sputnik V will be distributed by an Indian pharmaceutical company later this year.Given the urgent need for vaccines, some experts said rationing available doses is critical.“Vaccines need to be delivered to the areas with the most intense transmission,” Gupta said, explaining that vaccines should be used as “emergency control measures” in specific regions of India rather than offering doses to all adults across the subcontinent.Pankhania said the widely seen images of Indian virus patients gasping for air and smoke billowing from makeshift funeral pyres should spur rich countries to share their vaccines more freely. He criticized the approach taken by many Western countries that are attempting to vaccinate all citizens, including younger people at low risk, before sharing any doses.“It is better globally to immunize all the (vulnerable) people that need to be protected rather than to immunize entire populations in only some countries,” Pankhania said.___Cheng reported from London. Associated Press writers Daria Litvinova in Moscow and Krutika Pathi in New Delhi contributed to this report.

India sets another COVID case record, and Brazil’s health minister makes plea for vaccines-Last Updated: April 30, 2021 at 2:34 p.m. ET-By Ciara Linnane

The global tally of confirmed cases of the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 climbed above 150 million on Friday, and India set yet another one-day case record, as the Indian army opened its hospitals in the latest effort to address a dire humanitarian crisis.India counted 386,452 new cases in the last 24 hours, according to its health ministry, the most for any country in a single day since the start of the pandemic in late 2019. Those numbers are understood to be understated as the nation of almost 1.4 billion people’s healthcare system is completely overwhelmed.Crematoria and graveyards are full, forcing people to use public parks and car parks for funeral pyres. Patients are dying while waiting in ambulances to be admitted to overcrowded hospitals. And the vaccine program is stumbling, even though India is the world’s biggest vaccine maker.Don’t miss: Letter from India: ‘We live in mortal fear of COVID-19’India has among the worst air quality in the world, behind only Egypt, according to Thomas Lee, founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors. “The respiratory risks from poor air quality, might also make India more vulnerable to airborne diseases like COVID-19,” Lee wrote in commentary.The country is also struggling with a “double-mutant” COVID variant, that seems far more infectious than the original virus. Called the B.1.617 strain, the new variant has two spike proteins instead of one. The World Health Organization said earlier this week that the variant has now been found in at least 17 countries.The White House said it would restrict travel from India starting May 4 on the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.“The policy will be implemented in light of extraordinarily high COVID-19 caseloads and multiple variants circulating in the India,” the government said in a statement.Elsewhere, Brazil’s death toll rose above 400,000 on Friday, the second highest in the world after the U.S. Latin America is another hot spot in the pandemic, accounting for 35% of all deaths in the latest week, according to the New York Times, despite being home to just 8% of the world’s population.Like Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been widely criticized for his blasé approach to the crisis, and is now the subject of a Senate inquiry. Bolsonaro has long played down the severity of the crisis, has ridiculed people for wearing face masks and resisted lockdown measures.On Friday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus held a joint news conference with Marcelo Queiroga, Brazil’s health minister, and Dr. Carissa Etienne, a WHO regional director. Queiroga called on other countries to share vaccine supply, “so we can broaden our vaccination campaign and contain the pandemic at this critical time and avoid the proliferation of new variants.”The U.S. vaccine program, meanwhile, continues to show good progress. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine tracker is showing that as of 6.00 a.m. ET Thursday, 305.5 million doses had been delivered to states, 237.4 million doses had been administered, and 143.8 million people had received at least one shot, equal to 43.3% of the population.More than 100 million people are now fully vaccinated, it was reported Friday at the White House’s daily pandemic briefing, though some are in the two-week period after vaccination during which protective antibodies are believed to develop. That’s equal to 30% of the population. These Americans have received two shots of the two-dose vaccines developed by Pfizer Inc. PFE, +0.13% with German partner BioNTech SE BNTX, +4.80% or by Moderna Inc. MRNA, +1.79% or one shot of the Johnson & Johnson JNJ, -0.90% single-dose vaccine. The AstraZeneca vaccine, in use in other parts of the world, has not been authorized for use in the U.S.Among Americans 65 and older, 37.4 million people are fully vaccinated, equal to 68.4% of that group. Almost 45 million people in that age bracket have received a first jab, covering 82% of that population.

US to restrict travel from India over COVID starting Tuesday-Nation will bar entry to most foreigners who’ve been to India in past 14 days, amid massive surge of infections-By Zeke Miller, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and Matthew Lee-MAY 1,21-Today, 6:46 am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will restrict travel from India starting Tuesday, the White House said Friday, citing a devastating rise in COVID-19 cases in the country and the emergence of potentially dangerous variants of the coronavirus.White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden’s administration made the determination on the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Biden signed a proclamation barring entry to most foreigners who have been in India in the past 14 days, with exceptions for legal permanent residents, spouses and close family members of US citizens, and some others. He cited the spread of the virus and its variants.“The CDC advises, based on work by public health and scientific experts, that these variants have characteristics of concern, which may make them more easily transmitted and have the potential for reduced protection afforded by some vaccines,” Biden said in the proclamation.He said the CDC has concluded that “proactive measures” are needed to protect public health from travelers from India.In this photo provided by the US Air Force, a C-5M Super Galaxy, carrying critical medical supplies, takes off Wednesday, April 28, 2021, from Travis Air Force Base, California, for a non-stop flight to India (Cameron Otte/US Air Force via AP-With 386,452 new cases, India now has reported more than 18.7 million since the pandemic began, second only to the United States. The country’s Health Ministry on Friday also reported 3,498 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 208,330. Experts believe both figures are an undercount.Biden spoke Monday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the growing health crisis and pledged to immediately send assistance. This week, the US began delivering therapeutics, rapid virus tests and oxygen to India, along with some materials needed for India to boost its domestic production of COVID-19 vaccines. Additionally, a CDC team of public health experts was expected to be on the ground soon to help Indian health officials move to slow the spread of the virus.Vice President Kamila Harris, who is of Indian descent, called the situation in India a “great tragedy” and said she hadn’t spoken to any of her relatives still living there since the news of the travel ban was made public. She emphasized America’s “longstanding, decades-long relationship” with the country in speaking about the US aid to help alleviate some of the crisis there.US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the media on India, prior to boarding Air Force Two, April 30, 2021, at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, in Hebron, Kentucky, on return to Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)“We have a responsibility as the United States, and particularly with people we have partnered with over the years, to step up when people are in a time of need,” she said.The White House waited on the CDC recommendation before moving to restrict travel, noting that the US already requires negative tests and quarantines for all international travelers. Other restrictions are in place on travel from China, Iran, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil and South Africa, which are or have been hotspots for the coronavirus.There was no immediate comment on the new limits from the State Department, which on Thursday reissued a warning to Americans against traveling to India and said those already in the country should consider leaving by commercial means. That warning was accompanied by a notice that the department was telling the families of all US government employees at its embassy in New Delhi and four consulates in India that they could leave the country at government expense.US diplomatic facilities in India have not been immune from the pandemic and a handful of local staff have died from the virus. Several dozen other local and US staffers have been sickened by COVID-19, according to officials who were not authorized to discuss personal matters publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The State Department has declined to comment on the number of staff affected, citing security and privacy concerns.But even as the US boosts pandemic assistance to India and allows some of its diplomatic families to come home, other aspects of the relationship continue unhampered.Just minutes after the White House released the new travel restrictions, the State Department said it had approved more than $2.4 billion in arms sales to India, which the US believes will be a critical counterbalance to China in the Indo-Pacific region.The sale includes six Boeing P-8I patrol aircraft and related technology to be used for surveillance. The department said the deal “will support the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to strengthen the US-Indian strategic relationship and to improve the security of a major defensive partner, which continues to be an important force for political stability, peace, and economic progress in the Indo-Pacific and South Asia region.”

Berlin bans annual Quds Day march that protests Israel-Jewish and pro-Israel groups have tried for years to have the march banned as a purely antisemitic demonstration-By JTA-MAY 1,21-Today, 5:31 am

Berlin banned the annual anti-Israel Quds Day march this year, the first time the city has taken a stand against the event since it became a local tradition in 1996.Quds Day, which protests the establishment of the state of Israel, was established in 1979 by Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Since then, his followers have marked the day in cities around the world with large Muslim populations, during or shortly after Ramadan.Jewish and pro-Israel groups have tried for years to have the march banned as a purely antisemitic demonstration. It is illegal in Germany to call for the destruction of Israel.“Participants unscrupulously exploit freedom of expression and assembly to spread their hatred,” Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told the Judische Allgemeine newspaper.Germany designated the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group as a terrorist organization last year, and Schuster added that the move “should make it easier to ban the Quds march, because the connection to the banned Hezbollah is obvious.” In 2016, Berlin barred Quds Day marchers from carrying Hezbollah flags, saying the image of an upraised assault weapon is a call for genocide.Since 1996, Berlin’s annual demonstration has attracted between 300 and 1,000 Islamists. Men and women march separately.According to the Judische Allegemeine Zeitung, several Palestinian groups were among the 2,000 people who had registered to attend the event scheduled for May 8. Last year’s march was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

US Jewish day schools struggle with celebrating Lag B’Omer amid Meron tragedy-Balancing hardship and happiness is difficult, one teacher says, ‘but we’re kind of used to it, Jewish people’-By Ben Sales-MAY 1,21-Today, 4:37 am

JTA — After months of distanced learning, Sharon Levin was excited for her school to celebrate Lag B’Omer together on Friday with a day of outdoor activities.The spring holiday, which is popular among students at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy near Philadelphia, was to include a picnic, a bonfire and a mini-color war, or tournament where students in blue and students in white faced off against each other in a variety of games. Levin, the head of school, had enjoyed having all her kids back on the school’s campus for Israeli Independence Day a couple weeks ago, and was looking forward to another holiday.Then, Thursday night, she heard the horrific news: At least 45 people had died in a stampede at a massive Lag B’Omer celebration in Israel’s Mount Meron. Like Jewish day school leaders across the country, Levin was faced with a vexing dilemma. Was it possible to address the tragedy while still having a celebration, especially in a difficult year like this one?“In our Jewish community, we can barely ever come up for breath,” Levin said Friday.“Here we are right now going through school in the midst of a pandemic,” she added. “What do you do as the head of school with a joyous Lag B’Omer celebration? How do you acknowledge and commemorate what just happened in Israel?Across the US, Jewish day school heads answered that question in largely the same way. Five administrators who spoke with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Friday all said they let the festivities go on, but all made sure to include an acknowledgment of the tragedy. A few of them said that, unfortunately, they’ve had experience mixing joy and sadness, particularly when it comes to discussing Israel.“Tragedy and happiness can live side by side, although that’s a difficult balance,” said Tamar Cytryn, director of Jewish studies and campus life at Chicago Jewish Day School. “But we’re kind of used to it, Jewish people.”Like Levin, Cytryn felt that students would gain more from celebrating than from transforming a happy day into an entirely somber one.“It’s challenging — you have to think about creating an environment where students connect and understand that something big and something tragic happened,” she said. “But also ask yourself if canceling connects them more or serves a stronger purpose.”In the end, her school did not cancel. Her students, like many others, recited Psalms on behalf of the victims, a traditional Jewish response to tragedy. Cytryn’s school also had Israeli emissaries talk at a schoolwide assembly about how they were feeling.At Barrack in Philadelphia, students wrote get-well-soon cards for the more than 100 people wounded in the stampede, and gave charity. At a few schools, they chanted a traditional prayer for healing or said the Mourner’s Kaddish prayer.Then the students took part in the rest of the day’s programming: arts and crafts, color wars, (supervised) bonfires, song and dance.“We helped students work through their emotions of why bad things happen to good people and used these tragedies as a moment to reflect and teach,” said Vanessa Donaher, head of school at Scheck Hillel Community School in North Miami Beach, Florida. “From a religious perspective, it’s difficult for students and adults alike to understand why these things happen in the world.”In Israel, on Sunday, schools across the country are going to begin their day by discussing the tragedy, according to a directive sent on Friday by the Education Ministry.At Jewish schools in the US, the response varied by grade. Administrators of elementary schools said that their teachers did not discuss the tragedy unless a student asked about it.In middle and high schools, where students are expected to be aware of the news, schools alternated between discussing the facts of the tragedy and talking about how to help victims and process grief.“The seventh and eighth grade, especially, came in having seen it,” said Jody Passanisi, director of the middle school at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School in Palo Alto, California. “Many of them had questions and were wondering what happened, in terms of the tragic part but also, how did people get there? What was the tradition?”High school students had the harrowing experience of wondering whether older friends of theirs spending a gap year in Israel were at the stampede. Donaher said that about half of her graduating seniors spend a year in Israel, and that she first checked whether any of them were at Meron before she then asked whether any alumni of other schools had been ther.All of Donaher’s students were safe, but that wasn’t the case for everyone. One of the victims was Donny Morris, a 19-year-old from New Jersey studying in an Israeli yeshiva this year. Rabbi Bini Krauss, principal of Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy in New York City, said that his son, who is also studying at an Israeli yeshiva this year, knew Morris through friends.“It’s very painful to know you have kids who spent their year in Israel who aren’t coming back,” he said. “He’s devastated.”

16 still hospitalized after Meron tragedy; condition of 11-year-old boy improve-Rambam Medical Center in Haifa says child has been taken off ventilator and is no longer sedated; identification of fatalities set to resume Saturday evening-By TOI staff-MAY 1,21-Today, 12:01 pm

Sixteen people remained hospitalized on Saturday morning after the deadly stampede at Meron, with a number of them in critical or serious condition.However, there has been an improvement in the condition of an 11-year-old boy who was seriously injured, the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa announced.A spokesperson for the hospital said the child was sedated and put on a ventilator when he arrived at the medical center on Friday, but has now regained consciousness. His condition has been upgraded to moderate, they said.The boy, who wasn’t named, is from the central city of Bnei Brak.The hospital said three other people injured in the crush remained in their intensive care unit and were still sedated and on ventilators. Those injured in the stampede were taken to a number of hospitals around the country.With 45 dead and dozens injured, the disaster in the early hours of Friday appeared to be one of the worst peacetime tragedies in Israel’s history, surpassing the death toll of 44 from the 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire.There have now been 32 victims identified at the Abu Kabir Forensic Center in Tel Aviv.The institute halted the identification process on Friday evening, following a ruling from the chief rabbi that it could not continue on the Sabbath. It was set to resume on Saturday evening.More than 100,000 people were attending the annual gathering in the northern Galilee, which includes visits to the gravesite of the second-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and massive bonfires on the mountainside.A bonfire lighting ceremony for the Toldot Aharon Hasidic sect was being held at the pilgrimage area, close to Bar Yochai’s tomb.As the dense crowds began to exit, some apparently slipped on the walkway, falling on those below and precipitating a stampede and fatal crushing, exacerbated by a reported police barrier at the bottom of the incline.Pictures from the scene showed bodies covered in blankets and bags as well as the personal effects and shoes of those trapped in the crush.As the initial shock and horror over the deadly crush began to subside, focus started to turn on Friday toward the matter of who was to blame for the packed conditions at the site that led to the deaths of 45 people and the injuring of dozens of others in the fatal stampede.Stark questions will likely be directed at political, civil and law enforcement officials involved in planning, approving and securing the event, amid talk of a potential state commission of inquiry to thoroughly investigate the disaster.

Death trap’: Packed walkway, slippery metal floor – how Meron tragedy unfolded-Fatal crushing occurred as large numbers of ultra-Orthodox participants moved through narrow passageway, on an incline, on the exit route from the pilgrimage site-By Raoul Wootliff-30 April 2021, 11:47 am

The roads to Mount Meron in northern Israel began to fill with traffic early Thursday afternoon as tens of thousands of people made their way to the pilgrimage site said to be the burial place of the famed 2nd Century sage and mystic, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who is reputed to have died on Lag B’Omer.Last year, the government ordered police to seal off the site for the duration of the Lag B’Omer festival to prevent gatherings amid fears of a fresh outbreak of the coronavirus.This year’s celebration of Lag B’Omer — which among other traditions commemorates the end of another plague some 2,000 years ago, that which saw the deaths of 24,000 followers of Rabbi Akiva — was the first major public gathering allowed since the start of the pandemic, with most major restrictions now removed due to the success of Israel’s vaccination drive.By nightfall Thursday, when Lag B’Omer bonfires are traditionally lit, an estimated 25,000 people, mainly ultra-Orthodox pilgrims, had gathered at the tomb, Israel’s second most visited pilgrimage site after Jerusalem’s Western Wall.That number, according to media reports, steadily rose in the subsequent hours until swelling by midnight to over 100,000, according to some estimates.-Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrate during a Lag B’Omer gathering on Mount Meron in northern Israel on April 29, 2021 (David Cohen/Flash90)-It was among those mass crowds, as the main bonfire lighting event ended, that a deadly crushing stampede occurred, causing one of the worst peacetime disasters in Israel’s history.At least 44 people were crushed to death and more than 150 people hurt, including many in critical condition.The incident took place shortly after a bonfire lighting ceremony for the Toldot Aharon Hassidic sect held at the pilgrimage area, close to Bar Yochai’s tomb.Video from the celebration showed tens of thousands of people in the makeshift arena, dancing and jumping up and down on the stands to music.But at the end of the ceremony, as the dense crowds began to exit, some 20,000 people streamed down a narrow, steep walkway toward the exit of the site.Video of the walkway, moments before the deadly crush, shows thousands of people packed together, with some visibly carried off their feet as the crowd moved through the passage.According to reports, the ground of the walkway was covered with slick metal flooring that may have been wet, causing some people to fall underfoot during the rush for the exit.Some apparently fell on the walkway and down a flight of stairs at its end, toppling onto those below and precipitating a stampede and fatal crushing domino effect.Eyewitnesses accused police of blocking a key exit route at the bottom of the narrow walkway, which had for years been seen as a dangerous potential bottleneck.“There’s an aluminum-floored walkway, then a stairway, and then there was a barrier,” said Eli Pollack, the head of the United Hatzalah emergency rescue service. “It was a death trap.”It wasn’t immediately clear why police may have prevented some people from leaving the scene as the disaster began to unfold — a move which would have reduced pressure on the packed crowd — but officers were apparently unaware of the severity of the situation and were trying to keep some areas clear of congregants.Footage from the scene shows police at one point ripping off metal barriers in order to enable people to escape and to widen the passageway.Witnesses and survivors described the panic and the fear amid the stampede, with many struggling for breath, trapped next to the dead, and waiting long minutes for rescue.“We were walking out, everything was flowing, suddenly it stopped,” a survivor identified as Zohar told Channel 12. “Everyone was pressed up against each other and we did not understand why. I lifted up my head and I saw police blocking the entrance, I shouted to them ‘people are dying here.’”Another survivor said from a hospital bed that he slipped on the walkway before being trampled. He was trapped under the crowd for some 10 minutes before first responders cleared the crowd and began treating him, he said.“I felt someone push me, he just wanted to move, he punched me. I felt that I couldn’t breathe,” the man told the Kan public broadcaster. “No one knew what to do.”“It started with very heavy crowding. There were a lot of people on top of me. I was lying on someone else who wasn’t breathing. There were screams, chaos. I saw children underneath me. The only thing going through my mind was that I didn’t want my child to be an orphan.”Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

History, mystery, and occult converge in King David’s fabled tomb-In Jerusalem’s City of David, visitors find ancient Roman burial caves, an historic 19th-century Jewish home and the site of shadowy excavations said to produce biblical treasures-By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am-MAY 1,21Today, 8:10 am

Were it not for an eccentric Finn and a former officer in the British army, King David’s family tombs might never have been found. No, we don’t mean the tomb on Mount Zion, whose doubtful sighting is based on Christian traditions from the Middle Ages. Rather, we are referring to a group of tunnels and caves in the City of David that more closely fit the biblical description. These were uncovered during excavations adjacent to Beit Meyuhas, a 19th-century house built by one of the first Jews to move outside the walls of the Old City.It all started when Valter Henrik Juvelius met Captain Montague Parker. Juvelius was a Finnish surveyor, poet and philosopher who wrote his doctoral thesis on Jewish chronology. Obsessed with the possibility of locating the lost Holy Ark and Temple treasures, he planned to bring an expedition to the Land of Israel in their pursuit. Parker loved the idea.Parker was a rich, noble, and possibly bored British ex-army captain. According to some accounts, before his departure, Parker attended a séance at which, in perfect English, King Solomon told him where to look.Some say that Juvelius claimed to have read a secret book in an even more secret library which revealed the location of the treasures. Others, like lecturer Tal Chenya, say that Juvelius claimed his unique way of reading between the lines of the Bible would divulge the site.Parker and Juvelius collected over $100,000 from supporters of their quest. They then bribed Turkish government officials into obtaining permission from the Jerusalem Pasha to dig in what we today call the City of David.Living there already was Rahamim Nathan Meyuhas, a butcher whose family had found its way to Jerusalem from Spain in 1510. The slaughterhouse he used for his animals operated before dawn and was located outside the Old City, where Meyuhas lived with his family. Since the doors of the Old City only opened when the sun rose, he decided to move outside the walls.In 1873 he picked a location known as the City of David, where there were few houses. Across the Kidron river bed in Silwan there was Arab settlement, but the Meyuhas family would be alone in the first Jewish home to be built in the area. For water they had the Shiloah, or Siloam Spring, and they grew all of the vegetables they ate.We got a look at the historic Meyuhas house on a tour with Chenya, who guides regularly at the City of David. He told us that warm and friendly relationships sprang up between the Arabs and their Jewish neighbors across the way. Happy occasions like weddings and holidays were always celebrated together, with the Jews bringing matzah to the Arabs on Passover, and the Arabs big trays of honey to the Jews. For their weddings, the Arabs even made sure the Meyuhas family would have kosher food.Juvelius and Parker arrived in 1909, hired several hundred Arab workers, and fenced off an area in the City of David not far from the Meyuhas house. Then they began to dig.At one point Jerusalem’s Jews began to wonder what kind of shady happenings were taking place beyond the fence. Baron Edmund de Rothschild — a banker philanthropist who founded many an early settlement in the Land of Israel — got wind of their activities. Worried that Solomon’s crown and other treasures could end up in the hands of non-Jews, he decided to buy the property on which the excavations were taking place.Parker was convinced that the treasures were actually somewhere on the Temple Mount. In 1911, when it became obvious that the adventure was coming to an end, he bribed the guard at the Temple Mount to look the other way. And one dark night when no one was supposed to be about, Parker and his crew dressed up as Muslims and began digging beneath the Dome of the Rock — the stone believed by some to hold up the world.Unfortunately for Parker, they were not alone for long. That night an Arab Jerusalemite held a party and had so many guests that he had to find himself another place to sleep. He picked the Temple Mount, and after climbing up was shocked and startled to find people digging away under the stone.As he screamed for help Parker and his associates fled from the spot, making it all the way to Jaffa. Unfortunately for them, the telegraph had already been invented and Jaffa gendarmes had instructions to search their luggage.Parker wasn’t fazed for a minute. He invited the police to his yacht, where, he said, they could go through his bags in comfort. Then, Parker loaded the boat with a number of sacks and dashed off before the gendarmes arrived. Contemporary newspaper accounts related that he did make off with some fabulous treasures, from Solomon’s crown to Moses’ staff.In 1913, Baron Rothschild asked archeologist Raymond Weill to excavate the property that he now owned in the City of David. Weill, the first Jewish archeologist to conduct excavations in Palestine, made two major discoveries. The first was an inscription discovered deep in a cistern. Written in Greek, it belonged to a synagogue over 2,000 years old.The inscription is attributed to Theodotos, a Jewish priest who was the head of the synagogue. It speaks of a synagogue founded by his forefathers where Jewish law was read and the Bible’s commandments taught. Also mentioned are a guest room, an inn, and water facilities. A copy of the inscription can be seen next to the caves today.The second discovery was made on the slopes above the Siloam Pool: a Roman quarry next to a group of caves assumed to have been used for burial. According to the Bible, King David was buried “in the City of David” (1 Kings 2:10). Of course, we can’t know today what royal tombs looked like in David’s time. However, the Book of Nehemiah, written in the 5th century BCE, places them just about where Weill discovered the caves.Once Jews began returning to Jerusalem from their exile in Babylon, they began repairing the walls of the city: “Shallun… repaired the wall of the Pool of Siloam… as far as the steps going down from the City of David… Nehemiah son of Azbuk… made repairs up to a point opposite the tombs of David.” (Nehemiah 3:15)Following Weill’s discovery, and as excavations continued at the end of World War I, the Meyuhas family was asked to leave so that workers could dig under their home. They left, but the house remained standing. Later on, Arabs moved into the City of David.After Rothschild passed away in 1934, the property he had purchased was transferred to the Jewish National Fund (JNF).Entrance to the City of David is NIS 28; half price for seniors, children and soldiers. While you can just appear at the ticket window, it is better to reserve in advance by calling (in Israel) 02-626-8700 or *6033, or visiting the City of David website.Aviva Bar-Am is the author of seven English-language guides to Israel.Shmuel Bar-Am is a licensed tour guide who provides private, customized tours in Israel for individuals, families and small groups.

Paris to name a street for Sarah Halimi in Jewish Quarter-‘It will be a way of achieving justice for her,’ says mayor following rally by some 20,000 people against ruling by France’s highest court not to prosecute Jewish woman’s killer-By Cnaan Liphshiz-MAY 1,21-Today, 8:09 am

JTA — Paris will soon inaugurate in its historic Jewish quarter a street named for Sarah Halimi, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said amid protests over authorities’ handling of the killing.Hidalgo made the announcement on Sunday following a rally by about 20,000 people, mostly Jews, who demonstrated against the April 14 ruling by France’s highest court on the 2017 slaying.“We need to honor Sarah Halimi’s memory. And that’s what we’ll do,” Hidalgo said in a statement, France3 reported Tuesday. “There will be a Sarah Halimi Street. It will be a way of achieving justice for her.”The street will be in the 4th District, also known as the Marais, which before the Holocaust was the heart of Jewish life in Paris.Halimi’s killer, a 31-year-old Muslim man with a history of antisemitic behavior, will not stand trial because the high court ruled that the marijuana he had smoked before the murderous attack made him temporarily psychotic. Previous rulings had found that the killer, Kobili Traore, was motivated partly by his hatred of Jews.In 2011, Paris inaugurated a memorial garden for Ilan Halimi, a French Jew (not related to Sarah) who in 2006 was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by a gang of criminals because he was Jewish. Jihadist literature and Hamas propaganda were retrieved at the homes of some of the conspirators. The gang’s leader was given a life sentence and more than a dozen others were sent to prison.

Yemen officials: Heavy flooding from seasonal rains kills 13-AHMED AL-HAJ-Sat, May 1, 2021, 5:54 AM

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Floods swept through parts of Yemen amid heavy seasonal rains, leaving at least 13 people dead, including two children, security officials said Saturday.Fatalities were reported in the provinces of Sanaa, Ibb, Shabwa and Hodeida, where it began raining late last month, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.Heavy rains also pelted the provinces of Aden, Taiz and Hadramawt, where flooding damaged houses and vehicles, they said. Rescuers managed to save some residents trapped in their cars.Yemen’s National Meteorological Center issued statements in recent days warning Yemenis to stay away from flood ducts in affected areas and to take necessary precautions. Yemen’s rainy season runs from April through August.Last year, flooding in Yemen left dozens dead and forced tens of thousands to leave their homes.The Arab world’s poorest country is divided between Houthi rebels in the north and an internationally recognized government in the south.