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Tuesday, December 08, 2020

ISRAEL OK WITH F-35 US SALE TO UAE

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 ( 500 million Dead )

REVELATION 6:7-8
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).

COVID 19 WORLD TOTALS AS OF TUE DEC 08, 2020. CASES - 67,940,855 AND DEATHS - 1,550,303

US aims to deliver millions of vaccines within 24 hours of approval-But vaccination campaign in world’s hardest-hit country likely to take longer than initially expected, with 100 million set to get jab by mid or late March-By Ivan Couronne-7 December 2020, 11:14 pm

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Trucks and cargo planes are at the ready to distribute millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine across the United States, a complex task led by a four-star general that will ultimately proceed more slowly than initially expected.US Army General Gus Perna, in charge of logistics for the government’s Operation Warp Speed, has been putting his troops — a mix of soldiers and health experts — through dry runs for weeks, in anticipation of the day when a vaccine is approved.The US Food and Drug Administration is due to grant emergency use approval to the vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, likely soon after December 10 and 17, respectively.The goal: to distribute the first batch of roughly 6.4 million Pfizer vaccine doses in 24 hours to all hospitals and other sites that have ordered it.Military personnel will not deliver the vials themselves — the federal government is paying for the doses and will give orders to private sector companies that will handle the entire operation.The Pfizer vaccine vials are waiting in a factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan.Six trucks will leave the facility each day, filled with containers — each one carrying around 1,000 vials of five vaccine doses — and enough dry ice to maintain them at the required temperature of minus 70 degrees Celsius (minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit).Those trucks will head to airports where FedEx, UPS and other cargo carriers will carry them across the country. Pfizer estimates that 20 planes will transport the vaccine every day.Moderna is sending giant 50-liter batches of its vaccine, made in New Hampshire, to partner Catalent, which will complete the “fill-finish” of the vials in Bloomington, Indiana.Moderna chief Stephane Bancel told AFP last month that the objective is to “load up the trucks and get moving” as soon as the FDA gives the green light.The list of delivery sites (hospitals, clinics, warehouses for partner pharmacies, individual doctors’ offices) has been established by dozens of state and local entities, and sent to Warp Speed HQ.Perna’s job is to distribute as quickly as possible available doses in direct proportion to the population — and make sure that those who get the first dose have a second dose at the ready, three (Pfizer) or four (Moderna) weeks later.“We want to maintain a cadence, a deliberate, planned, coordinated cadence of delivery of vaccine as it becomes available,” Perna said.Back in the spring, the administration of US President Donald Trump had hoped to distribute hundreds of millions of vaccine doses before year’s end.But in the end, the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic will only get 40 million doses in December — meaning enough to vaccinate 20 million people.Up until early November, Pfizer was promising it could deliver 100 million doses worldwide by year’s end, but it eventually halved that forecast due to a problem with sourcing ingredients.“On the manufacturing side, it’s turned out to be somewhat more complicated and more difficult than we planned,” Moncef Slaoui, Warp Speed’s chief scientific advisor, admitted on CNN.University of Miami Miller School of Medicine lab tech Sendy Puerto processing blood samples from study participants who volunteered to take part in testing the National Institutes of Health-funded Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Miami, on September 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Taimy Alvarez, File)-In recent days, predictions have only gotten worse: last week, officials said 100 million people were expected to be vaccinated by the end of February.On Sunday, Slaoui pushed back that timetable to mid or late March.Of course, once the containers of vaccine doses are delivered, the tough task of ensuring they are properly administered is another governmental can of worms.“There is no detailed plan that we’ve seen, anyway, as to how you get the vaccine out of a container into an injection syringe, into somebody’s arm,” President-elect Joe Biden said.The point-by-point details are crucial to the pharmacists, nurses, and other technicians who are going to have to manage the delivery and injection of two, three, and as many as six vaccines next year.The Pfizer vaccine can remain frozen in a container for 30 days — as long as the dry ice is replaced every five days.“They have to now have the muscle memory — to know that this one has to be in the freezer, this one is coming in a container, this one has to go to minus 80, this one has to go to minus 20,” Prashant Yadav, an expert in global health supply chains, told AFP.“That complexity makes it even harder, because we know that standard operating procedures are adhered to better when they get into the muscle memory of the person who’s executing it versus having to read something,” said Yadav, who works at the Center for Global Development.The entire operation will be put to the test in a week or so. On his whiteboard, Perna has written a provisional date for the first deliveries: December 15.

Israeli activist: 'This is de facto annexation on steroids'-Matrix of new highways could pave way for massive settlement growth-Rights groups say expansion of road, tunnel and overpass network pushed by Transportation Ministry sets stage for huge increase in West Bank settler population-By Joseph Krauss-7 December 2020, 6:02 pm

AP — In the coming years, Israelis will be able to commute into Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from settlements deep inside the West Bank via highways, tunnels and overpasses that cut a wide berth around Palestinian towns.Rights groups say the new roads will set the stage for explosive settlement growth, even if the incoming US administration somehow convinces Israel to curb housing construction. The costly infrastructure projects signal that Israel intends to keep large swaths of the territory in any peace deal, and would make it harder to establish a viable Palestinian state.“This is not another hundred housing units there or here,” said Yehuda Shaul, an Israeli activist who has spent months researching and mapping out the new projects. “This is de facto annexation on steroids.”Construction already is underway on a huge tunnel that Shaul says will one day allow residents of Maale Adumim, a settlement town east of Jerusalem, to drive into the city and onward to Tel Aviv without passing through a military checkpoint or even hitting a traffic light.South of Jerusalem, work is underway to expand the main highway leading to the Gush Etzion settlement bloc and settlements farther south, with tunnels and overpasses designed to bypass Palestinian villages and refugee camps.A view of a road in the West Bank, south of Jerusalem, November 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)-Palestinians will be allowed to drive on many of the new roads, but the infrastructure leading into Israel will be of limited use to them because they need permits to cross into the country.Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War and has since built a wide network of settlements that house some 400,000 Jewish settlers (nearly 700,000 including Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, which Israel does not consider settlements). The Palestinians want those territories for a future state and view the settlements as a violation of international law and an obstacle to peace — a position with wide international support.Supporters of settlements view the West Bank and Jerusalem as the historical and biblical heart of Israel, and oppose any future partition of the Holy Land.But most Israelis live and work in the main cities, uncomfortable living deep inside the West Bank, where two-lane roads pass through military checkpoints and Palestinian villages, and where clashes and rock-throwing can erupt at any time.The new roads promise to change all that, transforming currently isolated settlements into affordable suburban communities with safe, easy access to cities and public transportation. Shaul estimates the new infrastructure could facilitate plans for more than 50,000 settler housing units in the West Bank and another 6,000 units in East Jerusalem.“People don’t bring roads, roads bring people,” he said.Shaul is a co-founder of Breaking the Silence, a group of former Israeli soldiers who document alleged human rights abuses by the IDF. In recent months, he has turned his attention to Israeli planning.His findings are based on minutes from several meetings held in recent years by parliamentary subcommittees charged with improving West Bank infrastructure. He also cites a strategic plan presented by Transportation Minister Miri Regev, an outspoken supporter of settlements, to a group of settlement mayors last month.In a statement after the meeting, Regev called it “an exciting day for the settlements and for the State of Israel, which builds and is building in all areas of the homeland.” She said it provided a “holistic vision” for “a future development plan for the region.”The Transportation Ministry did not respond to requests for comment.Oded Revivi, the mayor of the Efrat settlement in the West Bank, who attended the meeting, said the draft plan was “very thorough,” and that the ministry was open to suggestions, “taking into account the needs of both populations, both the Jews and the Arabs.”He said US President Donald Trump’s Mideast plan, which would allow Israel to annex about a third of the West Bank, including all its settlements, had proven that the settlements are not an obstacle to peace. That plan was immediately rejected by the Palestinians and is likely to be scrapped by President-elect Joe Biden, who opposes annexation.Settler leaders at the US Embassy’s Independence Day celebration in Tel Aviv on July 3, 2017. (L-R) Ariel Mayor Eliyahu Shaviro, Efrat Mayor Oded Ravivi, Yesha Director General Shiloh Adler, and Ma’ale Adumim Mayor Benny Kasriel. (Courtesy: Yesha Council)-Alon Cohen Lifshitz, an expert at Bimkom, an Israeli rights group that focuses on urban planning, said the main aim of the road projects is to create a “matrix of control” that ensures the free movement of Israelis while further fragmenting the areas governed by the Palestinian Authority.“Most of the settlers are not [ideological]. They are looking for options to live the dream in affordable housing,” he said. “This is the main obstacle for the expansion of settlements.”The same process unfolded on a much smaller scale more than a decade ago, when Israel opened Route 398, connecting settlements in the southern West Bank to Jerusalem. Informally known as the “Liberman Road,” after former transportation minister Avigdor Liberman, who lives in one of the settlements south of Jerusalem, it reduced the driving time from 40 minutes to 10 minutes. The area’s settler population nearly doubled in the next six years, to about 6,000 people, according to Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement watchdog.Many Palestinians view the roads as another kind of barrier erected to separate communities from one another and farmers from their land. They say much of the construction is on land expropriated from farmers, who have little hope of recourse in Israeli courts.“This is a military occupation, so when they take a decision, they impose it by force, without any coordination with the other side, with the owners of the land,” said Mohammed Sabateen, head of the local council in Husan, a Palestinian village south of Jerusalem sandwiched between a growing settlement and one of the new road projects.“These roads are primarily designed for Israelis and settlers, not Palestinians,” he said. The military can also cut off Palestinian access at any time by closing gates at the main access points.A view of a road in the West Bank, November 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)-Israel is also at work on so-called “fabric of life” roads intended to benefit the Palestinians, but Shaul says these are usually aimed at routing them away from settlements. One has been dubbed the “apartheid road” because it runs alongside a road open only to Israelis, and the two are separated by an imposing concrete wall.Biden has vowed to work with Israel and the Palestinians to restart peace talks, without offering much detail. It’s possible he will adopt a similar approach to the Obama administration, which pressed Israel to freeze or curb settlement growth as part of peace efforts that went nowhere.But even if Biden succeeds in convincing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to temporarily curb settlement growth, the road infrastructure would ensure plenty of demand once the pause ended.“The second the freeze is over, this infrastructure will be there to facilitate even greater growth,” said Shaul, who believes that stopping the road projects is key to preserving hope for a two-state solution. “This would be the foundation for the development of settlements for the next 20 years.”

US Supreme Court debates hearing 2 cases on restoring Nazi-era Jewish property-Trump administration supports Germany and Hungary, arguing cases should be heard in countries where crimes took place-By Jessica Gresko-dec 8,20-Today, 5:22 am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US Supreme Court on Monday struggled with whether to allow two lawsuits stemming from claims of property taken from Jews in Germany and Hungary during the Nazi era to continue in US courts.One case was brought by a group of Hungarian Holocaust survivors. They’re seeking to be compensated for property taken from them and their families as they were forced to board trains to concentration camps.The other case involves the heirs of Jewish art dealers and the 1935 sale of a collection of medieval Christian artwork called the Guelph Treasure. The heirs say the sale of the works, are now said to be worth at least $250 million, was done under pressure.The question for the court in both cases is whether the lawsuits should be allowed to move forward in US courts. Lower courts allowed them to.During nearly three hours of arguments, which the court heard by phone because of the coronavirus pandemic, both conservative and liberal justices seemed concerned about closing US courts to lawsuits like the two before them but also about improperly entangling American courts in foreign policy.“Given the nature of international relations it’s easy to envision cases where it would seem particularly inappropriate for United States courts to get involved in litigation,” Chief Justice John Roberts said at one point. But he went on to ask whether, even if courts weren’t normally involved in such cases, it might still be “appropriate in particularly sensitive international relations cases.”Both cases involve the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. It generally bars foreign sovereigns like Hungary and Germany from being sued in US courts, though there’s an exception for lawsuits involving “property taken in violation of international law.”Germany and Hungary argue that federal judges can apply the principle of “comity” in FSIA cases and decline to hear cases better suited to being resolved in another nation. Several justices, however, suggested that could be problematic.“I mean there are almost 700 district judges. You want every one of them to assess whether a particular lawsuit raises foreign relations concerns?” Justice Samuel Alito said. Justice Neil Gorsuch suggested the approach could produce “bedlam.”The case against Hungary was filed in 2010 by 14 survivors of the Hungarian Holocaust, including some who survived being sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Four of them became US citizens after the war while others became citizens of Canada, Israel and Australia. They’re seeking to have their case become a class action.The second case before the court involves a collection of artworks called the Guelph Treasure, or the Welfenschatz in German. Some 40 pieces of the collection, including reliquaries and crosses, are on display in a state-run museum in Berlin. In that case, three heirs of a group art dealers who once owned the pieces are suing over what they say was the pieces’ forced sale for below market value. The group has been unsuccessful in pressing their claim in Germany and brought a lawsuit in the United States in 2015. Germany and the state-run foundation that owns the collection have said that investigations in Germany found the sale was not forced and also that any dispute should be resolved in Germany.The Trump administration has backed Germany, urging the court to dismiss the case. The administration has also backed Hungary, urging the justices to return the case to a lower court to determine whether American courts should refrain from weighing in on this particular dispute.The cases are Hungary v. Simon, 18-1447, and Germany v. Philipp, 19-351. A decision in both cases is expected before the end of June.

ArchaeologyThe sword ceased from Israel, but Jonathan dwelt at Michmas-Rare Second Temple menorah drawing from Biblical Maccabean site brought to light-Hitherto unpublished 2,000-year-old charcoal menorah, forgotten in archives for 40 years, shores up hypothesis that ancient Michmas was a priestly settlement, study says-By Amanda Borschel-Dan-DEC 8,20-Today, 2:05 am

Just ahead of Hanukkah, a forgotten 2,000-year-old charcoal drawing of the Temple menorah is again seeing the light of day.First uncovered 40 years ago during archaeological surveys at Michmas, a Hasmonean stronghold during the Maccabean Revolt, the drawing was never published by scholars and its documentation was left to gather dust on archive shelves. Newly rediscovered, it is included in a new analysis of all available archaeological evidence from Michmas, and has some researchers convinced that the ancient town was once an elusive priestly agricultural settlement.Michmas, today the Arab village Kfar Mukhmas, about 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from the modern Jewish settlement of Maaleh Michmas and 9 kilometers (5.5 miles) from Jerusalem, is cited in the Book of Maccabees as the first base for the Jewish leader and future high priest, Jonathan. It is also identified in Mishnah Menahot 8:1 as the provider of the Temple’s semolina wheat.The new study published in the Hebrew-language journal, “In the Highland’s Depth,” outlines additional physical evidence supporting the hypothesis that ancient Michmas was an agricultural settlement populated mainly by kohanim (priests).Lead researcher Dr. Dvir Raviv told The Times of Israel on Monday that in general, “We have very little evidence of priestly settlements.” The drawing Raviv stumbled across, he said, is a step towards illuminating that deficit.Jonathan destroying the Temple of Dagon, by Gustave DorĂ©. (Public domain via Wikipedia)-Ancient Michmas is most known from the Book of Maccabees. As depicted in 1 Maccabees 9:73, Jonathan, the youngest of the five sons of revolt-instigating priest Mattathias, makes peace with the Seleucid general Bacchides and settles in Michmas ahead of beginning his rule, which spanned 161-143 BCE. “Thus the sword ceased from Israel: but Jonathan dwelt at Michmas, and began to govern the people; and he destroyed the ungodly men out of Israel.” (King James Bible)“Jonathan’s choice of the town as the base from which to consolidate his control of Judea may have been linked to the location of Michmas in a densely populated area of Jews who supported the Hasmoneans during the years of the revolt,” said Raviv in a Bar-Ilan University press release.But what if the Michmas townsfolk were not “just” Jews, but rather priests? As part of the new study, Raviv published for the first time the rare charcoal drawing of the menorah — a symbol of priesthood during the Second Temple period — that was discovered in a burial cave in the 1980s and forgotten. In total, the 1980s Benjamin Region Survey undertaken by the Staff Office for Archaeology in Judea and Samaria found four clusters of tombs surrounding the modern Arab village of Mukhmas in the West Bank, with some 70 burial caves.1980s photograph of the facade of menorah drawing in a Second Temple-era tomb at Mukhmas (From the archive of the Unit of the Staff Officer for Archaeology in Judea and Samaria)-According to the 1980s report, the menorah is approximately 50 centimeters (20 inches) wide and 30 centimeters (12 inches) high with a flat base of some 10 centimeters (4 inches). It has a total of seven branches, with six branches coming out of a central stem. Raviv writes that the menorah — drawn with a charcoaled stick — was crowned by an intriguing but unclear paleo-Hebrew letter, which was scratched into the cave wall. Rather large, the letter is 40 centimeters (15.5 inches) high and 20 centimeters (almost 8 inches) wide, and could be proof of a further priestly tie, said Raviv.“But no one knew about the drawing except the surveyors. It lay in the archives in the COGAT archaeology unit [in Judea and Samaria] and no one knew about it until I rechecked and examined the archive materials from the surveys of this area. And then I rediscovered the report,” said Raviv.Easy come, easy go-The physical evidence of this previously unpublished menorah drawing may have already disappeared. Raviv told The Times of Israel that based on the precise coordinates recorded by the excavators in the 1980s, he attempted to locate the burial cave where the menorah was found. After an exhaustive search, he and his partner did not succeed.“We got to the place just outside the modern village of Mukhmas and didn’t find it. It’s possible it doesn’t exist anymore. There has been lots of development, there’s a lot of industry there today. It’s hard to believe it did survive, but maybe it’s just covered,” said Raviv.According to photographic evidence from the 1980s, what appears to be an unusual paleo-Hebrew letter — either a heh or a chet — was etched above the charcoal menorah. The early Hebrew font was not in general use during the Second Temple period.The font was used by Jewish rebels as a nationalist return to Israelite roots on coins and in messages and “it may indicate the tomb’s owners were associated with the small groups that continued to use the script during the Second Temple period, probably kohanim,” Raviv writes.-Two additional charcoal menorahs at Michmas-This newly rediscovered menorah and mysterious letter join another 1980s find of a hideaway cave, in the nearby el-’Aliliyat region. There, archaeologists discovered a mikveh (ritual bath), a cistern, and two menorah drawings, one crowned by an Aramaic/Hebrew inscription.This cave system, in the el-’Aliliyat region, was recently visited by Raviv and scientists from the Israel Cave Research Center.The inscription found in the second cave system, too, could point to a priestly connection — or not, said Raviv.An Aramaic/Hebrew inscription above a Byzantine-era cross and Second Temple-era menorah drawn in a cistern in the al-Aliliyat cliffs near modern Kfar Mukhmas. (Boaz Langford)-Written in typical Hebrew lettering, it states, “Yo?ezer it?aqar ?alu matran[a]“, which can be deciphered in two different readings. The reading of Hebrew University archaeologist Prof. Joseph Patrich, who discovered the inscription, gave a nod to Roman forces: based on its Aramaic root, Patrich translated the Aramaic word “matrana” into the Hebrew mishmarot, and interpreted the inscription as: “Joezer was uprooted, the guards (mishmarot) entered.”However, others read the word mishmarot as the shifts of priestly service in the Temple, a use found throughout later Jewish sources.According to Raviv, “An analysis of the word mishmar/ot in talmudic texts reveals that, in Tannaitic sources (Mishnah and Tosefta), it always designates the priestly divisions, whereas the meaning of roadblocks or military units is added in Amoraic texts… The inscription matarna in the el-’Aliliyat caves should be understood in the older meaning — priestly divisions.”Taken together with the ritual bath, the menorah drawings and the fact that the name Jo’ezer (“God is the Help”) is connected to priestly families, even without the clear identification of the inscription there are strong indications that the cave system was prepared and used by the priestly class, said Raviv. The ritual bath, which would have taken great resources and time to prepare, is a sign that ritual purity was strictly observed.Itai Amir, an Israel Cave Research Center member, in the ritual bath in the al-Aliliyat cliffs near modern Kfar Mukhmas. (Boaz Langford)-“The discovery of the graffiti of seven-branched menorahs in the el-‘Aliliyat caves and in Kafr Mukhmas supports the idea that the decorative use of the menorah during the Second Temple period until the Bar-Kokhba revolt was associated with the Temple and a priestly population. Both the archaeological finds in Michmas discussed here and references to the settlement in literary sources indicate the village’s link to the Temple,” he writes.Other contemporary menorahs-The three Michmas menorah drawings are all likely dated to circa 136-70 BCE and join only a handful of other seven-branched menorah representations from the Second Temple period.Other contemporary menorahs include the Arch of Titus depiction in Rome, and the Magdala Stone, located near Tiberias, which dates to prior to the Temple’s fall. In Jerusalem, sites of menorah drawings include a burial chamber called Jason’s Tomb and pieces of plaster uncovered in the Jewish Quarter. The menorah also appears on coins minted by Mattathias Antigonus, who died in 37 BCE.“Due to the difficulty in determining the exact date of the [Michmas] menorah’s graffito and the scarcity of explicit references to priests in Michmas during the Second Temple period, it is possible that a group reached the site only after the destruction of the Temple and lived there during the period between the revolts,” said Raviv in the press release.The symbol of the menorah was later adopted in funerary art to represent resurrection, especially during the Byzantine era. But until the Bar-Kochba revolt of 132 CE, it was largely used to denote the priestly class.A depiction of Jewish captives and the gold menorah taken from Jerusalem following the destruction of the city in 70 CE, seen on the Arch of Titus, in Rome, Italy, October 20, 2016. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)-Tip of the menorah? According to textual sources including the Mishnah, there are two other sites that may have been priestly villages, writes Raviv: Beit Hakerem (today’s Ein Kerem), which provided stones for the altar, and Beit Rima, which may have produced wine for libations.“It’s very difficult to put a finger on the priestly settlements of the Second Temple period,” said Raviv.The Magdala Stone bears one of the earliest images of the seven-branched menorah from the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. (Yael Yulowich, courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority)-Raviv said that while there is later archaeological evidence, including an inscription uncovered in 1962 Caesarea excavations, which lists villages that were populated by priests after the fall of the Second Temple, earlier evidence is elusive.However, if, by using the textual sources and archaeological evidence, researchers are able to shore up the location of Michmas as a priestly settlement, “then we can also talk about other locations such as Beit Hakerem and Beit Rima. Maybe Tekoa is another such village,” he wondered.“Identifying Michmas offers a key piece in the greater picture of priestly settlements,” Raviv said.

13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)(THAT INCLUDES ABORTION)

MATTHEW 18:6
6  But whoso shall offend (HURT) one of these little ones (CHILDREN) which believe in me,(JESUS) it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY FOLKS)

EXODUS 21:12
12 He that smiteth (MURDER)a man,(OR BABY) so that he die, shall be surely put to death.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY PEOPLE)

REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)


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

US fears Iranian attacks as it withdraws troops from Iraq, Afghanistan-Pentagon orders aircraft carrier USS Nimitz to remain in Arabian Gulf beyond original posting to deter efforts to avenge killings of Iran nuclear chief, Gen. Qassim Soleimani-By Lolita C. Baldor-dec 8,20-Today, 3:17 am

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Pentagon pulls troops out of the Middle East in the coming weeks, under orders from US President Donald Trump, US military leaders are working to find other ways to deter potential attacks by Iran and its proxies, and to counter arguments that America is abandoning the region.A senior US military official with knowledge of the region said Monday that Iran may try to take advantage of America’s troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, and the planned departure of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz from the Arabian Gulf.The official said as a result military leaders have determined that based on the security situation in the region, the Nimitz must remain there now and “for some time to come.” In addition, the official said an additional fighter jet squadron may also be sent to the region, if needed.The Nimitz left the Gulf region and was set to begin heading home. But the ship was ordered to return last week to provide additional security while the troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan continue. A US defense official said at the time that the decision would ensure that American troops could deter any adversary from taking action against US forces. No timeline was given, but the US military official speaking Monday made it clear that the change is open-ended, and it’s not clear when the ship’s crew will return home.The potential Iranian threat has become an increasing concern in recent weeks following the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Iran has blamed the death on Israel, which has been suspected in previous killings of Iranian nuclear scientists. US officials are also worried about a possible Iranian retaliatory strike on the first anniversary of the US airstrike that killed Iran’s top general, Qassim Soleimani, and senior Iraqi militia leaders near Baghdad’s airport in early January.This photo released by the semi-official Fars News Agency shows the scene where Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in Absard, a small city just east of the capital, Tehran, Iran, Nov. 27, 2020. Parts of image are blurred for potentially disturbing imagery. (Fars News Agency via AP)-The military official said the US is aware of Iranian attack planning and threats, and that some are more mature, while others are aspirational. A key worry, he said, is that Iranian-backed militias in Iraq may be willing to act even without the blessings or direction of Tehran.The presence of the Nimitz, said the official, may cause Iran or the militias to rethink a possible attack.The Pentagon is mindful of the impact of the extended deployment on the Nimitz sailors and on the Navy’s plan for the ship’s maintenance, said the military official, who spoke to a small number of reporters on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing troop deliberations.The Pentagon announced last month that the US will reduce troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan by mid-January, asserting that the decision fulfills Trump’s pledge to bring forces home from America’s long wars. Under the accelerated pullout, the US will cut the number of troops in Afghanistan from more than 4,500 to 2,500, and in Iraq from about 3,000 to 2,500.Postponing the return of the Nimitz, however, will keep between 5,000-7,000 sailors and Marines in the Middle East, likely into next year. Other ships in the Nimitz strike group may remain with the carrier.The military official said that the Pentagon will look at other ways to make up for the loss of the Nimitz when the carrier does leave the region.Trump’s troop withdrawal decision got a cool reception from Republican lawmakers and allies, who warned of the dangers of reducing forces before security conditions are right. And it came despite arguments from senior military officials who favor a slower pullout to preserve hard-fought gains.Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, top US commander for the Middle East, has long argued for a consistent aircraft carrier presence in the Gulf region to deter Iran.In this photo provided by U.S. Navy, the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76, front) and USS Nimitz (CVN 68, rear) Carrier Strike Groups sail together in formation, in the South China Sea, Monday, July 6, 2020. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jason Tarleton/U.S. Navy via AP)-Visiting the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the North Arabian Sea in February, McKenzie told the sailors: “You’re here because we don’t want a war with Iran and nothing makes a potential adversary think twice about war than the presence of an aircraft carrier and the strike group that comes with it.”Despite widespread demands for US Navy ships in other parts of the world, McKenzie requested and received a much larger than usual naval presence in the Middle East region throughout the early part of this year. But over time, the numbers have declined, in recognition of the Pentagon’s effort to put more emphasis on China and the Indo-Pacific.

Suspect in Nice church attack faces terror murder charges-Police had struggled to question stabbing suspect, who was seriously injured following spree in which three killed-By AP-7 December 2020, 10:34 pm

PARIS — French authorities said Monday that the main suspect behind October’s deadly Nice church attack has been handed terror murder charges.Brahim Issaoui’s health had impeded authorities’ ability to question him. Issaoui was seriously wounded by police following the attack, and remained hospitalized in life-threatening condition for some time.But on Monday a communique said the Tunisian migrant was charged with “assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and “participation in a criminal terrorist association.” It is unclear if this means that the suspect was finally questioned as part of the investigation.HE is suspected of stabbing three people to death at the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Nice, the southern French city’s biggest church.

Georgia Senate candidates accuse each other of fraternizing with anti-Semites-Kelly Loeffler scrutinizes Raphael Warnock’s defense of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, while he targets her support from QAnon conspiracy theorist-By Ron Kampeas-7 December 2020, 10:02 pm

JTA — The two candidates in a critical runoff election for the US Senate exchanged charges of associations with anti-Semites and white supremacists during a televised debate Sunday night.The Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, and incumbent Republican Kelly Loeffler faced off in Atlanta, ahead of a January 5 special election that could determine which party controls the Senate.Loeffler twice scorned Warnock, who is Black, for defending the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor whose anti-Israel and anti-Semitic statements drove his one-time parishioner then-president Barack Obama to renounce him. Wright is also Black.“He’s called Israel an apartheid state and said that we should end military assistance,” she said of Warnock. “He’s compared Israelis defending themselves against Palestinians, he has compared them to birds of prey. And he celebrated Jeremiah Wright, an anti-American anti-Semite. That’s divisive.”Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Obama’s ex-pastor, delivers a speech in Washington in which he calls Israel an ‘apartheid state’ and declares that ‘Jesus was a Palestinian,’ October 10, 2015. (Screenshot/ YouTube)-Warnock has been sharply critical of Israel in his sermons, including in denouncing snipers targeting violent protesters on the border with the Gaza Strip. He once signed a document likening Israel’s control of the West Bank to apartheid South Africa’s occupation of Namibia; it did not liken Israel to an apartheid state. Warnock has said that he would uphold current levels of defense assistance to Israel.The Democrat in turn reminded viewers of Loeffler’s close alliance with Marjorie Taylor Greene, a newly elected Georgia congresswoman who has embraced theories aligned with the QAnon conspiracy movement, which includes anti-Semitic tropes.Illustrative: Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to Georgia attorney general Chris Carr, during a campaign rally for Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler in Roswell, Georgia, October 31, 2020. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)-“She says she is against racism and that racism has no place, but she welcomed the support of a QAnon conspiracy theorist and she sat down with a white supremacist for an interview,” Warnock said. “I don’t think she can explain that.”The white supremacist interview apparently refers to Loeffler’s friendly interview this summer with Jack Posobiec, a right-wing provocateur who at one point had associations with white supremacists, but more recently has been associated with what the Anti-Defamation League has termed the “alt-lite,” a branch of the far right that claims to seek the ouster of white supremacists from right-wing ranks.If Democrats win both runoffs in Georgia next month, they will have control of Senate. The other race is between Jon Ossoff, a Jewish Democrat, and incumbent Sen. David Perdue. That race also has been marked by accusations of anti-Semitism — for instance, Perdue has run ads depicting Ossoff with a digitally altered nose to make it seem larger.Perdue has refused to debate Ossoff, so the challenger appeared Sunday on a debate stage by himself.

Israel ‘very comfortable’ with US sale of F-35s to UAE, Ambassador Dermer says-Envoy to US confident arms deal won’t harm Israel’s regional military edge, says he is more concerned about Biden’s plan to reenter Iran deal-By Jacob Magid-7 December 2020, 8:43 pm

NEW YORK — Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer said Monday that Israel is “very comfortable” with Washington’s proposed $23 billion arms deal to the United Arab Emirates and stressed that he is far more concerned about President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to reenter the Iran nuclear deal.“We believe that the UAE is an ally in confronting Iran, and we do not believe that this arms package will violate the US commitment to maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge [QME],” Dermer said in a joint interview on MSNBC with his Emirati counterpart, Youssef al-Otaiba.The Israeli envoy explained that security officials from both the US and Israel met before the arms deal was finalized in order to ensure that the federally protected QME would be maintained. Jerusalem is believed to have received an American commitment to a substantial military package to compensate for the US sale of 50 stealth F-35 fighter jets, 18 advanced armed Reaper drone systems, and a package of air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions to the UAE.Dermer said both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz had signed off on the Emirati arms deal. “I can tell you, that’s not something that happens often in our politics, but on this deal they did issue that joint statement,” he said.(From L-R) UAE Ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba and his Israeli counterpart, Ron Dermer, are interviewed on MSNBC on December 7, 2020. (Screen capture/MSNBC)-Indeed, minutes after securing their assurance of a compensation package from the US, a joint statement was released from Netanyahu’s office on behalf of both the premier and the defense minister saying that Jerusalem would not object to the supply of advanced weapons to the UAE.But almost immediately afterward, Gantz issued his own statement accusing Netanyahu of keeping him and other top defense officials in the dark about the initial negotiations regarding the F-35 sale as part of the UAE’s normalization deal with Israel, signed in September.During the interview, Dermer pivoted to Israeli concerns regarding Biden’s stated intention to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal if Tehran were to go back to strict compliance with the agreement.“What keeps me up at night is actually not the proposed F-35 sale to the Emirates. What keeps me up at night is the idea that somebody would return to the nuclear deal with Iran,” Dermer said.He argued that both Israel and Arab states in the Middle East do not support the US reentering the multilateral agreement, which provided sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on Iran’s nuclear program.52 F-35 jets line up for a launch exercise at Utah’s Hill Air Force Base in show of force and combat readiness amid US-Iran tensions, January 6, 2020. (US Air Force/R. Nial Bradshaw/Twitter screen capture)-Dermer reiterated his call for the Biden administration to talk with its allies in the region before moving forward with Iran.Al-Otaiba was asked to explain the timing for the Emirati agreement to normalize relations with Israel in September.Pointing to an Arab Youth Survey that found 89 percent of Emiratis between the ages of 18 and 24 support the normalization deal, al-Otaiba said, “There’s a recognition that the region is moving in a different direction, with different mindsets, and I think we took advantage of that.”-Senate seeks to block Emirati arms-The Trump administration officially notified Congress of the planned arms deal to the UAE last month. In the weeks that followed, Democrats, along with one Republican, have put forward a series of resolutions aimed at blocking the deal, arguing that the Emiratis should not be entrusted with such sophisticated weaponry.Those four resolutions, submitted by Chris Murphy (D-CT), Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Rand Paul (R-KY), are slated to come to a vote on the Senate floor on Tuesday, a Congressional aide told The Times of Israel.The proposals point to the UAE’s participation in a bombing campaign in Yemen, which has been described as a humanitarian disaster, as well as alleged Emirati violations of the international arms embargo in Libya. They also warn of the possibility that the technology supplied by the US could land in the hands of competitors Russia and China.The liberal pro-Israel lobby J Street announced Monday that it supported the Murphy-Menendez-Paul resolutions, arguing that “proposed sale of a massive quantity of advanced, highly destructive weapons systems to the UAE would only fuel a region-wide arms race and exacerbate ongoing conflicts that are having devastating consequences for civilians’ human rights and are imperiling US interests.”“While the Israeli government has officially stated it does not object to the proposed sale, many Israeli security leaders have warned that the transfer of this type and volume of advanced weapons technology to the UAE could materially erode Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge — a cornerstone of Israel’s security that J Street steadfastly supports,” the dovish group said in a statement.US Senator Christopher Murphy attends a talk at the third day of the 53rd Munich Security Conference (MSC) at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, southern Germany, on February 19, 2017. (AFP/ Christof STACHE)-Last week, al-Otaiba issued a rebuttal of congressional concerns over the deal while warning that if Washington refuses to supply his country with the weapons it needs to secure the region, it will be forced to turn elsewhere.The Senate resolutions must come to a vote by December 11 or face expiration.A Republican congressional aide told The Times of Israel last week that it was likely the resolutions would be voted on, but even if they pass, they would not receive the two-thirds majority needed in both houses to override a presidential veto.Because the transfer of such weapons takes years to come about, an incoming Biden administration could also block the deal, but there’s little precedent for a president to scrap such agreements made by a predecessor.At the same time, Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, Tony Blinken, told The Times of Israel days before the election that the Democratic nominee would have to “take a hard look” at the F-35 sale, due to concerns that it might threaten Israel’s military edge.

Wednesday, September 02, 2020

THOUSANDS OF JEWS AROUND THE WORLD EXPECTED TO SEEK AUSTRIAN CITZENSHIP

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 ( 500 million DEAD )

REVELATION 6:7-8
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).

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)

GENESIS 6:11-13
/11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

HOSEA 4:1-3
 1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye chil dren of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22  The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23  And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
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.

AS OF SEPTEMBER 03,20-THERE ARE 857,821 DEATHS OF THE 25,786,609 COVID-19 CASES WORLDWIDE.

Top ultra-Orthodox rabbi says yeshiva students shouldn’t take COVID-19 tests-Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky reportedly urges against being tested as it wastes Torah study time and positive results will send countless others into quarantine-By TOI staff-sept 03,20-Today, 4:08 pm

A top rabbi of the ultra-Orthodox community has reportedly instructed yeshiva students not to be tested for the coronavirus to avoid closures of schools and mass quarantines.Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky cited a “fear of massive damage to Torah study” in his instruction, according to a Wednesday report by the Kikar Hashabbat website which caters to the ultra-Orthodox community.Kanievsky, considered among the most important leaders of the non-Hasidic branch of ultra-Orthodox Jewry in Israel, expressed concern that the testing process would take students away from their studies and that positive results would require those who came in contact with the patient to quarantine, further disrupting yeshiva life.He gave similar reasons a day earlier when he told yeshiva administrators not to quarantine their students who are exposed to virus carriers, as is required under Health Ministry regulations aimed at curbing an ongoing major outbreak of the coronavirus.In urging against the virus tests, Kanievsky also advised that rabbis who are at risk due to their age or health factors should maintain a distance from students.According to the Kikar Hashabbat report, Kanievsky’s instructions did not apply to high school yeshivas. Unlike the higher yeshivas, where students are at least 17-18 years of age and often sleep on-site in dormitories, many yeshiva high school students return to their homes every evening, bringing them in contact with a greater pool of people and therefore posing a great risk of spreading infections.Therefore, students at high schools should get a virus test if they show any of the symptoms of the disease, Kanievsky instructed.Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in the northern Israeli city of Safed, February 26, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)-Binyamin Cohen, director of the yeshiva committee control center tasked with overseeing institutes’ adherence to government guidelines, said in a statement to the ultra-Orthodox news site that out of 25,000 yeshiva students, around 500 have been diagnosed so far with the virus and are in quarantine wings within the yeshivas, where they are able to continue with their studies while isolated.However, according to the Ynet news site, some 800 yeshiva students were found positive for COVID-19 in recent days, leading to thousands being ordered into quarantine.On Wednesday, around 100 students at a yeshiva in the northern city of Karmiel were diagnosed with the disease, the control committee said.By law, Israelis must enter quarantine for 14 days after being exposed to a person who tests positive for the novel coronavirus.According to Hebrew-language media reports, Kanievsky on Tuesday said that sending students into legally required quarantine could lead to “damaging the study of Torah, heaven forbid.”Kanievsky added that “it is the duty of the heads of the yeshivas to allow the study [to continue] in a way that is not dangerous,” without expounding.The comments by Kanievsky came as Israeli children were returning to school following summer break, amid fears from officials that students could serve as major coronavirus infection vectors.Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men study torah in small ‘capsule’ groups at the Ateret Shlomo Yeshiva in the city of Modiin Illit, August 24, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)In March, as the pandemic began to spread in Israel, Kanievsky announced through a spokesman that study halls should remain open, as “canceling Torah study is more dangerous than the coronavirus.” His edict, which he later rescinded, was partially blamed for high infection rates in ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel, including in his hometown of Bnei Brak.According to Health Ministry figures, ultra-Orthodox communities have led the country in infection rates, though in recent months morbidity levels have dropped off. Several cities marked as hot zones under a plan implemented earlier this week are ultra-Orthodox, including the West Bank settlement-city of Beitar Illit.On Monday, Beitar Illit protested an order to close schools after being designated a “red city,” or high infection zone, under coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu’s “traffic light” program.The program, which is meant to help the country fight the coronavirus while avoiding a total lockdown, designates cities, towns, and regional councils as red, orange, yellow, or green based on the number of confirmed cases per capita and the rate at which the virus is spreading in each community.Bnei Brak is also expected to soon be declared a “red city” according to Hebrew media reports.Israel has seen nearly 120,000 coronavirus infections and 963 deaths since the start of the pandemic.Sam Sokol and Jacob Magid contributed to this report.

Thousands of Jews from around the world expected to seek Austrian citizenship-New rules allow those who were persecuted by the Nazi regime and their direct descendants to become Austrian citizens without giving up their current passports-By Toby Axelrod-sep 03,20-Today, 10:06 am

JTA — Caroline Wellbery’s father, the late German literary scholar Egon Schwarz, fled Austria with his family after the Nazis annexed the country in 1938, when he was 15. Schwarz ended up studying in the United States and then teaching at Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.His escape was “a deeply life-changing event for him, and it permeated our household for the entirety of our lives,” said Wellbery, a physician and medical educator at the Georgetown University School of Medicine who lives in Maryland.Schwarz didn’t feel animosity toward the nation that had ousted him, Wellbery said. Still, he always had a desire to reconnect with his ancestral roots.Now Wellbery, who turns 67 this month, is trying to do that for him by applying for Austrian citizenship under a new amendment to the country’s citizenship law that went into effect Tuesday.“It seems like there was a wish to bring the story to some kind of closure, and that is part of why I am interested in pursuing this,” she said.Wellbery is among thousands of Jews around the world expected to apply. Adopted last year by the Austrian National Council, the amendment allows those who were persecuted by the Nazi regime and their direct descendants (including children adopted as minors) to obtain Austrian citizenship without giving up their current passports — that’s still mandated of new Austrian citizens outside of this law.It applies not only to citizens of Austria proper and successor states of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy, but also to stateless persons who had a primary residence in Austria but had to leave for safety by May 15, 1955, a decade after the war ended.The amendment is “in line with Austria’s ongoing endeavor for reconciliation with all those who suffered under the totalitarian Nazi regime in Austria,” Austria’s US Embassy said in a statement.Interest is high, says attorney Daniel Gros of Vienna, who is hearing from “friends of friends” all over the world — but especially from the United States, Israel and the United Kingdom. He is advising applicants as a consultant with the Vienna law firm of Lansky, Ganzger + Partner.There is a special twist for British Jews who were not thrilled about Brexit, he added: They will be able to have both British and EU passports, the latter being extra valuable for travel throughout Europe once the UK fully severs ties with the EU.The passport is additionally attractive for some Americans, like Wellbery’s family members, who she said are particularly distressed by the political and social chaos in the US, mostly fueled by President Donald Trump.“If there is a repeat of the last four years, this will pique the interest of the family,” she said.Clockwise, from top left: Daniel Gros, a Jewish attorney in Vienna advising Jews on how to apply for Austrian citizenship; and Elana Dunn-Rennert, Paul Burg and Caroline Wellbery, who are all applying. (Courtesy of Gros, Dunn-Rennert, Burg and Wellbery via JTA)-Zeev Maayan, 33, is an Israeli who has successfully applied for Portuguese and Hungarian citizenship based on his ancestry in both countries. He’d like to add Austria to that list.“In Israel, getting a foreign citizenship is like a national sport,” he said. “People want to have other options. It also upgrades you socially, and you can travel in certain countries without worrying.”But even the experienced Maayan was surprised by the quick response to his new Hebrew-language Facebook group aimed at crowdsourcing information about the Austrian application process. Within days he had more than 100 Israeli members, most of them asking technical questions about how to apply: “Do I need to translate this, or where did you find the documents of your ancestors?”Oskar Deutsch, president of the Jewish Community Vienna and the Federal Association of Jewish Communities in Austria, said many people have contacted him already, too.“I am very happy about it,” said Deutsch, who was consulted on the law by Austria’s Foreign Ministry.Still, he doubts the measure will have much impact on the size of the community, which has about 8,000 members, mostly in Vienna, with some in the cities of Linz and Graz.During the coronavirus pandemic, “people should not and will not travel very much,” Deutsch said. “They have other problems than to decide where to live.”Gros is much more optimistic: He expects “thousands and thousands of applications.”“I believe this will completely change Jewish life in Austria,” said Gros, 33, who was born in Germany to a family from the former Yugoslavia. “Even if only a small percentage bring their families, a lot of things will change because we will have Jewish people from all over the world contributing to the community.”According to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, when Austria was annexed by Germany in 1938, there were about 192,000 Jews living there, nearly 4% of the total population. By December 1939, three-quarters had emigrated, and about 65,000 Austrian Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.Austrian Jews line up outside the Polish consulate seeking documents in order to escape Nazified Austria, March 22, 1938. (AP Photo)-But Austria has been much slower to confront its dark Nazi past than Germany and other European countries. For decades after the Holocaust, successive Austrian governments adhered to a line that painted Austria as “the first victim” of Nazism, ignoring the mobilization of its society and infrastructure of state for the Nazi war machine after German annexation.Whereas German society, its laws, judiciary and other institutions had been de-Nazified following World War II, few similar actions were taken in Austria. An official apology for being “henchmen in the Nazi dictatorship” came in 1994, and critics allege that it is still overly stingy with Holocaust restitution funds and in its handling of a large number of art restitution claims.Today, Gros sees the state as committed “to somehow face its history, to somehow give the next generations something that was taken away from their grandfathers and grandmothers.” Austria’s young conservative chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, has boosted ties between his country and Israel in recent years, citing the country’s Nazi collaboration as part of his motivation.German citizenship has been open since 1949 to German Jews who survived the Nazi era and their descendants. Other European countries have made it possible for Jews to reclaim citizenship denied to their forebears, with some limitations. Spain enacted a law in 2015, meant as an atonement for the Inquisition — the 15th-century persecution and expulsion of Jews. Sephardic Jews with demonstrable roots in Spain and knowledge of the Spanish language could receive passports through October 2019 (in May, Spain extended the window for one year due to the coronavirus crisis). Portugal has a similar law without a time limit and without a language requirement.The Austrian citizenship will be more practical for American-Israeli Elana Dunn-Rennert, 35, who already lives in Vienna with her husband and their three children but has to renew her visa regularly. She took a circuitous path to the country of her roots Her maternal grandmother fled Graz in 1938 at age of 3 with her family, ending up in the USDecades later Dunn-Rennert, then 6 years old, moved with her parents from the US to Israel. She eventually met her husband there, and they moved to Austria.She’s planning to apply for citizenship, following instructions sent out by the Jewish leader Deutsch.“Before, I would have had to give up my Israeli and American passports, and that’s not something I ever wanted to do,” said Dunn-Rennert, who teaches at the Vienna Jewish Community organization’s kindergarten.Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, left, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint news conference in Jerusalem, June 11, 2018. (Ammar Awad/AFP via Getty Images/JTA)-She has to get documents proving she is related to her grandmother, who died last year. Already the archives of the Austrian Jewish Community organization has provided some information on her ancestors.True, “reclaiming my Austrian heritage is a practical thing for me,” she said. “But … it’s also kind of like, ‘They wanted to get rid of us, but we are still here.’”US citizen Paul Burg, 87, sees getting an Austrian passport as the ultimate triumph. Born in Czernowitz (today Chernivtsi) in 1933, his family survived the war along with some 20,000 other Jews thanks to an intervention by Traian Popovici, the city’s wartime mayor.But the changing status of Czernowitz makes his claim a little tricky. Czernowitz was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until it dissolved in 1918, then became part of the Kingdom of Romania. After World War II, Ukrainian forces took it over, and most of its Jews fled to Israel. Since 1991, it has been part of Ukraine.Still, the fact that his father was born there when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire makes Burg eligible for citizenship under the new regulation. He is receiving advice from Gros and his Vienna law firm.“I want to be part of the struggle against anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in Europe,” Burg said.US-born Israeli lawyer Deborah Opolion’s father was born in Vienna in 1932. In the late 1970s, he returned there with his family as an American diplomat. Opolion, then a teenager, fell in love with the city, though she knew that “people who might have been Nazis were still alive. It was a very staid, serious, somber sort of a place.”Now 55, she has visited Vienna often with her teenage daughter. To her, the atmosphere has changed a lot since she was a girl.“There is a more cosmopolitan feeling, a younger and fresher, more open vibe,” she said. “I don’t know if I would be applying for citizenship” if it were the same old Austria.

13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)(THAT INCLUDES ABORTION)

MATTHEW 18:6
6  But whoso shall offend (HURT) one of these little ones (CHILDREN) which believe in me,(JESUS) it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY FOLKS)

EXODUS 21:12
12 He that smiteth (MURDER)a man,(OR BABY) so that he die, shall be surely put to death.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY PEOPLE)

REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

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 AMERICA)

Gantz: Israel has changed ‘equation of response’ to Gaza, will strike if needed-Defense minister says Hamas was surprised by ferocity of retaliation to waves of incendiary balloons, realized Israelis were taking matter seriously-By TOI staff-sep 03,20-Today, 12:14 pm

Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Wednesday that with a forceful response to waves of incendiary balloons launched at Israel by terrorists in the Gaza Strip over recent weeks, the military had altered the balance in exchanges of fire with Palestinian territory.“We changed the equation of response. In Gaza they were surprised and realized that we were taking the ballooin issue seriously, so we attacked as we attacked,” Gantz told Army Radio. “We will continue with both defense and offensive activity as needed.”“We attacked dozens of targets all over Gaza of varying degrees of importance,” Gantz said.For nearly all of August, Gaza-based terror groups launched hundreds of explosive and incendiary balloons, as well as rockets, across the border fence with Israel, which responded by conducting nightly airstrikes against Hamas targets and closing the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing with Gaza to fuel and construction materials.Smoke and flames rise during an Israeli airstrike on the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on August 18, 2020. (SAID KHATIB/AFP)-Amid fears of another round of serious violence, Hamas Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar’s office announced Monday night that the terror group had accepted ceasefire terms with Qatari mediation. Israel tacitly indicated its consent by lifting the restrictions imposed on the Strip since the beginning of the escalation.However, senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya on Tuesday said that if Israel does not fulfill the terms of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas within two months, there could be another round of escalation of violence on the southern border.Denying that Israel had been forced to give anything away to achieve the agreement, Gantz said that “I will not accept the logic that every time someone wants to achieve something, it is the people of Israel who pay the price.”“We remember that there are millions of people living there [in Gaza], we remember that they have the danger of the coronavirus, and we say to them, ‘It is not us who are bringing these catastrophes upon you,'” he said.Gantz also commented on a recent airstrike in Syria attributed to Israel. Though declining to confirm that Israel carried the attack, He said, “We know that in the places that we strike there are people who may be hurt.”“In most cases we don’t attack with the intention of killing unless there is a specific incident of a cell operating at that moment against us. But we strike to hit infrastructure for Iran’s entrenchment in Syria that in the end will be used against us.“Regrettably, occasionally there are people hurt, that is part of the business,” Gantz said.A heightened state of readiness will continue on the northern border, amid fears of retaliation by the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group for the killing of one of its members in a July strike also attributed to Israel, Gantz said.Those who try to attack Israel “will pay the price,” he vowed. “If there is terror from Syria, Syria will pay for it; if there is terror from Lebanon, Lebanon will pay for it.”AFP contributed to this report.

IDF opens probe after troops allegedly plant explosives in Palestinian village-Initial questioning leads officials to believe soldiers didn’t get authorization for action in Kafr Qaddum, where demonstrations take place regularly-By TOI staff-sep 03,20-Today, 11:24 am

The Israel Defense Forces is reportedly investigating an incident in which soldiers allegedly placed improvised explosive devices inside a Palestinian village in the West Bank, a report said Wednesday.]Troops from the Nahal Brigade placed at least three explosive devices next to a road on the outskirts of Kafr Qaddum, where regular and often violent demonstrations are held against Israel’s military rule of the West Bank, the Haaretz daily reported last week.The report said the devices were concealed using rocks, material and ammunition boxes, and left ready for detonation, so that touching them would cause them to explode.Following that report, Haaretz said Wednesday that the military’s criminal investigation division launched an investigation into the incident on Monday, at the orders of the chief military advocate general, Sharon Afek.An initial probe led by Brig.-Gen. Yaniv Alaluf, the commander of the Judea and Samaria Division, led officials to believe the soldiers had not received the necessary authorization and hadn’t reported their actions to their superiors, according to the report.The explosive devices were placed near homes, with a sign in Hebrew placed nearby saying: “Stay away or you’ll die, mortal danger.”pic.twitter.com/jArYBQcrSM — (@AlGhadTV) August 26, 2020One of the devices was found by a 7-year-old boy, whose mother called in a family member who moved the box, the report said. The device exploded and caused him mild injuries in the face and hands.Family members then found the second device and threw rocks at it, causing it to detonate. The third was neutralized by IDF sappers called in.Attorney Michael Sfard has called on the IDF to “seriously investigate this severe incident, just like Israeli law enforcement authorities would have probed an incident in which Palestinians planted explosive devices near an Israeli community, and reach the highest-level officials involved in it.”The IDF last week commented to Haaretz that stun grenades — not explosive devices — had been placed “in an open, uninhabited area, where violent riots have been held for several years.” It said they were placed for deterrence, and “after it was discovered that it could cause harm, the forces worked to remove them.”

Mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus found in Tel Aviv metropolitan area-Municipalities in coastal Gush Dan region ordered to increase monitoring, take pest control steps-By Sue Surkes-sep 03,20-Today, 10:42 am

Mosquitoes carrying West Nile fever have been identified in the heavily populated Gush Dan area of central Israel for the first time this summer.The Environmental Protection Ministry on Wednesday again warned coronavirus sufferers to take particular care.The Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan municipalities have been instructed to increase monitoring and, where necessary, undertake pest control.diseased insects have already been found in the north of the country in and around the Kishon Stream in the Mount Gilboa area, and in the communities of Yotvata, Ketura, Eliphaz and Grofit in the Arava Desert in the south.The Kishon River flowing through the Kishon Park near Haifa, northern Israel. (Hanay, Wikimedia commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)West Nile fever is a zoonotic disease, meaning that it originates in animals and is transmitted to humans. It is caused by a virus found mainly in birds, and is spread to humans through mosquito bites.There is no vaccine against the disease.In most cases, bites cause a mild, flu-like illness that goes away on its own. Symptoms include fever, headache, weakness, joint and muscle pain, conjunctivitis, rash and sometimes nausea and diarrhea.But in 2018, three Israelis died from the disease.Last year, according to Health Ministry figures, 32 human cases of West Nile fever were reported in 27 localities, infected animals were found in four locations, and infected mosquitoes were spotted in 34 places throughout the country.The ministry has set out a list of steps the public should take to reduce exposure to West Nile fever.

Posters lauding Nazism hung at Arizona State University-Neo-Nazi organization Folksfront takes credit for incident that included flyers declaring ‘Hitler was right’By JTA and TOI staff-sep 03,20-Today, 10:09 am

Posters glorifying Nazism were found on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University for the second time in less than a year.The posters, discovered on Sunday morning, read “Hitler was right,” “unity of our blood” and other comments deemed anti-Semitic, the Arizona Republic reported. Campus police removed the posters.The university is investigating the origin of the posters, the newspaper reported, citing a statement from the university.Similar flyers were posted around the Tempe campus in November.The neo-Nazi organization Folksfront took credit for both sets of posters. Its website calls it “the official media source for the Folkish Resistance Movement, a National Socialist political organization based primarily out of North America.” It also said the group wants “to spread our message not only in North America but throughout the entire English-speaking world.”abbi Shmuel Tiechtel, head of the Chabad House at Arizona State University, posted a message to his Facebook page on Tuesday, saying “tens of students have reached out for support” after the discovery of the flyers.“This is a painful post to write and it’s painful to look at these pictures, but this is an important post to write so we can stand together against bigotry, add in light and respond appropriately,” he wrote. He noted that the flyers came days after an arsonist torched the Chabad Center for Jewish Life at the University of Delaware in Newark.My dear friends,I prefer to only discuss positive subjects, and it's with deep sadness that I write this post, but over… Students returned to campus in mid-August.“Ensuring the safety and security of our students is a top priority, and the university undertakes extensive efforts to ensure student safety is not compromised,” the university statement said. “ASU is a community that values diversity, tolerance, respect and inclusion. We support open debate and honest disagreements, but not hateful rhetoric.”

THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-2321 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

 1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

GENESIS 25:20-26
20  And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22  And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)

In boon for Israel, Saudi Arabia gives permanent overfly rights to and from UAE-Netanyahu hails ‘another tremendous breakthrough,’ promises new policy will shorten and cheapen flights and open Israel up to the Far East-By Raphael Ahren-sep 03,20-Today, 2:29 pm

In another breakthrough for Israel’s rapprochement with the Arab Gulf, and a major boon for Israeli air travel, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday announced that it will henceforth allow flights “from all countries” to cross over its airspace on flights to or from the United Arab Emirates.The dramatic announcement, which followed Monday’s first-ever Israeli nonstop flight to Abu Dhabi — which for the first time crossed through Saudi airspace — was announced by the state-owned Saudi Press Agency.The statement made no mention of the kingdom’s rival, Iran, nor Qatar, which Saudi Arabia is currently boycotting. Flights between those countries to the UAE would, in theory, not need to use the kingdom’s airspace.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the announcement as a “huge breakthrough” that will help the Israeli economy and reduce airfare.  —  (@SPAregions) September 2, 2020-“For years, I have been working to open the skies between Israel and the East. It was spectacular news two-and-a-half years ago when Air India received approval to fly directly to Israel,” he said in a filmed statement, standing near a huge map.“Now there is another tremendous breakthrough: Israeli planes and those from all countries will be able to fly directly from Israel to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and back. Flights will be cheaper and shorter, and it will lead to robust tourism and develop our economy.”For years, I have been working to open the skies between Israel and the East. It was spectacular news two-and-a-half years ago when Air India received approval to fly directly to Israel.Now there is another tremendous breakthrough. pic.twitter.com/V7zbrxGTQ5 — PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) September 2, 2020-The new Saudi policy “will open up the East,” the prime minister went on.“When you fly to Thailand or anywhere else in Asia, it will save time and money. This is amazing news for you, the citizens of Israel. These are the benefits of a peace that is genuine,” he said.Netanyahu thanked Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, and the UAE’s de facto ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed for their ” important contribution” in bringing about the new Saudi policy.Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan stressed on Twitter that the opening of Saudi airspace to flights between Israel and the UAE does not change “the Kingdom’s firm and established positions toward the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people.”He added that Riyadh “appreciates all efforts aimed at achieving a just and lasting peace in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative” a plan that envisions full normalization between Israel and the Arab world in return for Israel’s withdrawal to the 1967 lines and the creation of a Palestinian state.Kushner had been aboard Monday’s historic flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi, from where he went on to Manama and Riyadh to advocate for normalization with Israel. However, both countries told him that they are not yet ready to follow the UAE in establishing diplomatic relations with Israel.U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner, center, stands with U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien while speaking to journalists during a flight on an Israeli El Al plane to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. The plane landed in Abu Dhabi after flying in from Israel in the first-ever direct commercial passenger flight to the United Arab Emirates. (Nir Elias/Pool Photo via AP)-“The prospects for the peace process in the region and the need to resume negotiations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides to achieve a just and lasting peace were also discussed,” the Saudi Press Agency said after Kushner’s meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.Marc Schneier, a New York-based rabbi who has close ties to several Gulf states and has long advocated for normalization with Israel, hailed the new Saudi policy but stressed that Riyadh remains devoted to the Palestinian cause.Today’s announcement is historic and it also signals the beginning of the warming of relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Israel,” he told The Times of Israel. “While they are still deeply committed the Palestinian people, this first step is a big one and should be celebrated.“We are hopeful the the media reports are correct, which will allow EL AL to overfly Saudi Arabian airspace. We need to learn how this can be implemented and authorized formally,” Stanley Morais, acting director for international affairs at El Al, told The Times of Israel.On Monday, El Al Flight 971 took a joint US-Israel delegation to Abu Dhabi for talks with Emirati officials to lay the groundwork for the agreement between Israel and the UAE ahead of a peace accord to be signed in the coming weeks.A wing tip with the Star of David is visible through the window of an Israeli El Al airliner just before the plane lands in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (Nir Elias/Pool Photo via AP)-Minutes before takeoff, Captain Tal Becker announced what many expected would be the case: the Boeing 737-900 would cross over Saudi Arabia.“This flight records two significant events in the history of the State of Israel and in the region heralding another step towards regional peace — for the very first time an Israeli-registered aircraft will overfly Saudi Arabia and after a nonstop flight from Israel, land in the United Arab Emirates,” he said, first in English and then in Hebrew.“The duration of the flight with the shortened route over Saudi Arabia will be three and a half hours, instead of what would have been approximately eight hours as we fly eastbound.”Agencies contributed to this report.

Spurned by allies, Saudi Arabia rethinks checkbook diplomacy-After decades of spending billions to increase its influence, Riyadh has little to show for it, observers say, and allies can no longer rely on Saudi largesse-By Anuj Chopra-sep 03,20-Today, 12:33 pm

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — From Pakistan to Lebanon, Saudi Arabia is scaling back its famed checkbook diplomacy, a longstanding policy of splashing petro-dollars in exchange for influence that observers say has yielded few tangible gains.For decades, the wealthy kingdom funneled billions in aid to its allies — and to its enemies’ enemies — in a bid to bolster its position as an Arab powerhouse and leader of the Muslim world.But as plummeting demand has sapped its oil revenues, the kingdom is rethinking old alliances that Saudi observers say have swallowed their cash while offering little in return, at a time when its quest for regional supremacy is increasingly challenged by rivals Iran, Turkey and Qatar.A swath of regional countries from Jordan and Lebanon to Egypt and Pakistan, as well as the Palestinians, have been the top recipients of Saudi aid over the past decade, said Middle East expert Yasmine Farouk.“The dual economic impact of the coronavirus and low oil prices, however, may lead Saudi Arabia to restructure and rationalize its aid,” said Farouk, from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.“The country is already seeking to end the perception of being ‘an ATM.'”Vehicles pass in front of a screen advertising Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company Aramco with a slogan in Arabic reading ‘promising future,’ seen in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 9, 2019. (Amr Nabil/AP)-The kingdom has contributed billions to Lebanon’s post-civil war reconstruction, but it has voiced frustration over its failure to rein in Hezbollah, a powerful terror group backed by its arch-enemy Iran.“Saudi Arabia will not continue to pay Hezbollah’s bills, and the Lebanese have to shoulder their responsibilities towards their country,” Saudi columnist Khalid al-Sulaiman wrote recently for the pro-government Okaz newspaper.“It is no longer possible for Saudi Arabia to continue paying billions to Lebanon in the morning and receive insults at night,” he wrote.“This situation is no longer compatible with the new Saudi foreign policy, as Saudi money does not fall from the sky or grow in the desert.”‘Party is over’Saudi Arabia also appears frustrated with Pakistan after the longstanding ally pushed Riyadh to take a firm stand on the disputed region of Kashmir and threatened to take the issue to other Muslim forums.Such a threat is particularly disconcerting for Saudi Arabia, which is home to Islam’s holiest sites and views itself as the leader of the Muslim world.The kingdom recently recalled $1 billion of a $3 billion loan from cash-strapped Pakistan, and an expired multi-billion dollar oil credit facility to Islamabad has not been renewed, a diplomatic source told AFP.“Pakistani elites have a bad habit of taking Saudi support for granted, given what Saudi has done for Pakistan over the decades,” tweeted Ali Shihabi, a Saudi author and analyst.“Well the party is over, and Pakistan needs to deliver value to this relationship. It’s no longer a free lunch or a one-way street,” Shibabi wrote.Riyadh’s ties with Pakistan have historically been “very warm” but the relationship has been lopsided, said Saudi Prince Talal bin Mohammad al-Faisal“It (has) only benefited one side in ‘real world’ terms,” he tweeted. “That side is Pakistan.”‘Take their money’Pakistan and Egypt, another ally that has received billions in aid, rebuffed calls for ground troops to support the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen against Iran-linked Houthi rebels.Workers salvage oil canisters from the wreckage of a vehicle oil store hit by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, July 2, 2020. (Hani Mohammed/AP)-Further stirring consternation in Riyadh, a leaked 2015 audio recording showed Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi allegedly mocking Gulf powers including Saudi Arabia, saying they were rolling in money “like rice.”That sentiment was echoed in 2018 by US President Donald Trump when he hosted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office and held up a chart listing military hardware sales worth billions to Riyadh.“Take their money,” Trump told NBC News the following year, justifying backing the kingdom’s rulers after journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder sparked global uproar.With so many of its relationships rendered transactional, Riyadh is struggling to win respect and its once-leading role in the Muslim world is increasingly challenged by its rivals, observers say.The Saudis are increasingly resentful of “ungrateful” allies, said Farouk.States that have traditionally benefited from Saudi largesse, including Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinians, have “already seen instances in which aid was frozen, decreased or cut off,” she 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.

David Blaine pulls off high flying balloon 'Ascension' stunt-[Reuters]-Joey Roulette-September 2, 2020

(Reuters) - Daredevil David Blaine performed his latest stunt on Wednesday, ascending nearly 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) into the Arizona sky while hanging from a cluster of jumbo-sized balloons before parachuting safely back to earth."It's like magic, it feels like I'm floating in the air," Blaine said on a radio to his team of aides back on the ground after gently lifting off from a desert airstrip in Page, Arizona, connected to dozens of balloons in an event he called "Ascension."YouTube said the stunt, which it livestreamed, set a new record as the most-watched YouTube Originals live event ever with over 770,000 viewers.Blaine gradually dropped small weights to speed his ascent, donned a parachute mid-flight and strapped on an oxygen mask as he neared 29,400 feet, an altitude where most commercial airliners travel.Blaine, 47, has a history of performing high-profile and high-risk feats of endurance. His stunts include locking himself in a fish bowl, trapping himself in a block of ice for two days in Times Square, and standing freely atop a thin, tall pillar for 35 hours in New York City.Wednesday's stunt lasted roughly 30 minutes. Reaching an altitude slightly higher than Mount Everest, Blaine released himself from the balloon cluster and free-fell for some 30 seconds before deploying a parachute to slow his descent."Wow, that was awesome," Blaine yelled into his radio as he stood back on land.Blaine has said he trained for the event for two years, including becoming a licensed pilot. It was his first live broadcast stunt since 2012.(Reporting by Frank McGurty; Editing by Tom Brown)

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 24:21-22,29
21 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.

Face recognition tech ‘nudges’ visitors to wear masks at Sheba hospital-Israel’s AnyVision software identifies those without masks and returns feedback on screens, using behavioral economics to create awareness and social pressure-By Shoshanna Solomon-sep 03,20-Today, 1:12 pm

Israel’s biggest hospital, Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, is using software developed by facial recognition startup AnyVision to “nudge” its visitors to wear masks and to wear them correctly.The software, deployed at the hospital, uses security cameras already deployed at the premises. AnyVision’s system detects visitors who are not wearing a mask, or wearing them imperfectly, and gives feedback on screens with messages like: “No mask kills my vibe” — or “Ooh, I like your style” if the person is wearing a mask correctly.The idea is based on behavioral economics, in which “nudges” as opposed to hard enforcement are important tools that can be used to bring about changes in attitude and behavior. AnyVision’s system does not identify anyone by name, nor report them to a control center. It simply alerts the visitors to the fact that they are not wearing masks in a place where they are required to, in a manner similar to speed cameras that return negative feedback to drivers who exceed the speed limit.“In a playful manner we increase awareness regarding masks,” said Alex Zilberman, the chief operating officer at AnyVision, in a phone interview.The screens calling attention to the person not wearing a mask creates social pressure, he explained, and increases other visitors’ sense of legitimacy in asking that person to don the face gear as required.The nudging software is garnering interest from other entities, such as those that operate airports, public transportation, and public buildings, he said.The mask “nudging” mechanism is a relatively simple feature of a much broader and more sophisticated AnyVision system that has been operating in Sheba since the start of the pandemic to help conduct epidemiological investigations among the hospital staff. If a staff member is found to be ill with COVID-19, the system scans the hospital’s security cameras’ video footage to locate people who were in contact with that staffer for more than 15 minutes without a mask.“We can see all the people they were in touch with,” said Zilberman. Hospital staff had to give permission for their identity to be used, and the system would not be able to identify a casual visitor, he stressed.The startup developed this operational solution quickly at the request of the Health Ministry, and it has now been sold to other hospitals in Israel and logistics warehouses in the US, Zilberman said.Alex Zilberman, the chief operating officer at AnyVision (Courtesy)-As the coronavirus pandemic struck, AnyVision upgraded its deep learning technology to recognize masked faces, he said.“We taught the algorithms to identify a person through the features that are still visible,” he explained, including the eyes, forehead and the bridge above the nose. If a person is wearing sun glasses and a mask, for example, recognition won’t be possible. But with a mask and regular glasses, the algorithm is able to recognize the person with 99% accuracy, as long as at least half of the face is in the clear, Zilberman said.AnyVision was recently accused by human rights groups of providing Israel’s military with tools for mass surveillance in the Palestinian territories. Microsoft, an investor, in March divested its holdings in AnyVision even though the tech giant said it couldn’t substantiate claims that the startup’s technology is used unethically.Facial recognition technologies in general have also recently witnessed a global backlash due to a bias found to be intrinsic in some of the algorithms that power these technologies, making them unable to correctly identify people of color.Zilberman said that AnyVision’s product has been built specifically with non-bias in mind, he said. “Unbias is in our DNA,” he said. “We have 200 workers from different countries, from the UK, India, US and Europe” who work on the algorithms and make sure the end product is able to accurately identify people of all colors.AnyVision has also developed a touchless access control solution to open guarded points of entry for authorized people. This technology, currently sold to large corporations globall, will help companies get their workers back to their offices in a safer and touchless manner, without them having to press buttons or scan cards for identification as the pandemic continues to wreak havoc worldwide, Zilberman said.This touchless technology is already used by football stadiums and sports halls in the US, as well as offices of corporations globally, he said.AnyVision, founded in 2015 by Eylon Etshtein and Prof. Neil Roberston, has raised $74 million by investors including Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and Lightspeed Ventures, according to the database of Start-Up Nation Central, which tracks the industry.

 

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