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By: TOI Staff – Times of Israel; timesofisrael.com Israel’s main source of freshwater swells to just 21 centimeters under upper red line; experts expect lake to be full by early May, but Water Authority casts doubt Israel’s largest freshwater lake, the Sea of Galilee, rose by six centimeters (2.3 inches) over the rainy weekend, and…

By: Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com Not only have all the patients survived, according to Pluristem, but four of them showed improvement in respiratory parameters. Six critically ill coronavirus patients in Israel who are considered high-risk for mortality have been treated with Pluristem’s placenta-based cell-therapy product and survived, according to preliminary data provided by the…

By: Bill Zeeble – KERA News; keranews.org Passover, one of the most important holidays on the Jewish calendar, it begins Wednesday night. This year, though, things are different, because of COVID-19. Lasting a week, Passover celebrates the ancient Israelites’ escape from Egypt. Generations of family often gather around the large, symbolic Seder meal, sometimes with…

By: JPost Editorial – Jerusalem Post; jpost.com This pandemic will pass over us, it will end. We do not know how, but we know that we have been tested before and we have come through. Passover is a unique holiday, with its message of liberation from slavery and the requirement that the Haggadah be recited to…

By: Brandon Showalter – The Christian Post; christianpost.com Only 6 percent of Americans possess a biblical worldview, according to a new survey. The study, which was released last week out of the recently launched Cultural Research Center based at Arizona Christian University, is called the American Worldview Inventory and is the first of what will be…

By: Udi Etsion – C-Tech/Calcalist; calcalisttech.com Daniel Gold, head of the country’s national emergency team, thinks his cross-industry team of experts can rise to the challenge of Covid-19 It is a horrifying scenario that has already become a reality in some hospitals worldwide: the number of serious or critical coronavirus (Covid-19) cases surpasses that of…