Number of patients in serious condition continues to fall, hospitalizations drops below 1,000 as infection rate trends downward.

Education and Health ministries agree In plan to allow schools to partially reopen, with students learning in open spaces.

The US embassy in Turkey issued a travel advisory due to "possible terrorist attacks and kidnappings" in that country.

A Jerusalem Rabbinical Court has allowed a married man to marry a second time. The court's ruling came after the man's first wife demanded two million NIS as a condition to accepting a divorce.

The government of North Korea has warned its citizens to stay indoors due to yellow dust clouds that it claims may carry the coronavirus and streets in the country are now empty. Scientists in South Korea assert that these seasonal dust clouds do not spread viruses.North Korea maintains that it has remained free of the coronavirus throughout the pandemic.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced In Friday that Israel would not oppose a US sale of advanced weapons systems to the United Arab Emirates, an apparent reference to F-35 fighter jets."The Prime Minister and the Defense Minister both agree that since the US is upgrading Israel's military capability and maintaining Israel's qualitative military edge, Israel will not oppose the sale of these systems to the UAE," they said in a joint statement.(Arutz Sheva"s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically In all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)

According to a report In Kan News, the Hamas terror organization currently has a secret cell operating in Turkey.The cell reports to Hamas' leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, and is active in the fields of procurement, cyber warfare, and counterterrorism.

"These were people who were at death's door," says UK professor. Drugs are being tested in both UK and US hospitals.