City of Tel Aviv to allow temporary expansion of local synagogues, allowing them to use nearby spaces so worshippers can social distance.

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, Reuters reports, and is in serious condition with high fever.Tymoshenko served two terms as Prime Minister prior to her defeat in the 2010 presidential election.Ukraine reported 2,328 new cases of Covid-19 yesterday, for a total of 104,958 confirmed cases since the outbreak of the epidemic, and 2,271 deaths.

While the UK's Chief Medical Officer has cautioned that a vaccine for coronavirus is unlikely to be ready before the coming winter, and is Inly "likely" to be ready by the following year, Russia is planning to manufacture up to two million doses of its home-grown vaccine every month by the end of 2020, The Guardian reports.Russia's Industry Minister, Denis Manturov, told reporters today that the country hopes to eventually produce six million doses a month.However, experts from several countries have expressed their concern over the efficacy and safety of the Russian vaccine, which has not been made available for international scrutiny, with some even warning that a bad vaccine could exacerbate the situation and be worse than no vaccine at all.Russia has dismissed concerns, and plans to commence mass testing next week.

Israeli navy's Squadron 916, which secures maritime border with Egypt, carries out naval exercises this week 'to prepare for the next war.'

Watch the Temple Institute's message to Jared Kushner, following his statements regarding the Temple Mount and the Israel-UAE agreement

n an interview In Kan News, Construction Minister Yaakov Litzman said that in his opinion, the government's coronavirus project manager, Prof. Ronni Gamzu, should resign, after asking Ukraine's President to bar the entrance of Breslov chassidim to Ukraine for Rosh Hashanah.The yearly trip to Uman, the city in Ukraine where Rabbi Nachman of Breslov is buried, is considered to be of crucial importance to Breslov Chassidim, with tens if not hundreds of thousands of the Rabbi's followers making huge sacrifices over the generations to fulfill this central tenet of the Chassidus.

Anti-Semitic group 'Goyim TV' unfurls banner reading 'The Jews Want a Race War' from LA freeway overpass.

Former MK Menachem Mozes (UTJ) has contracted the coronavirus, Behadrey Haredim reports, and is now in serious condition, In a respirator but not sedated.Mozes had traveled to the United States to attend the wedding of a grandson and apparently contracted the disease there. He is being treated in a private home rather than in hospital.Mozes is 73 years old and was a Knesset member until the formation of the 21st Knesset. The public is asked to pray for the healing of Menachem Eliezer ben Miriam Faiga among all the sick of the Jewish People.