Pakistan overturns murder conviction in Daniel Pearl slaying

https://www.timesofisrael.com/pakistan-overturns-death-sentence-for-briton-convicted-over-daniel-pearl-murder/

  A Pakistani court Thursday overturned the murder conviction of a British Pakistani man found guilty of the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Instead, the court found Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh guilty of the lesser charge of kidnapping and sentenced him to seven years in prison.

In January 2011, a report released by the Pearl Project at Georgetown University following an investigation into his death made chilling revelations, claiming that the wrong men were convicted for Pearl’s murder.

The investigation, led by Pearl’s friend and former Wall Street Journal colleague Asra Nomani and a Georgetown University professor, claimed the reporter was murdered by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 2001 attacks, not Sheikh.

Trump's Covid-19 reelection strategy

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/01/opinions/trump-covid-19-response-reelection-strategy-lockhart/index.html

All of this confirms that while the president was slow off the mark to respond to the pandemic, he was always working off a political plan that had his reelection as the top priority.

In January and February his administration didn't see a political benefit in getting out ahead of this. In late March as the cases grew, that changed. But judging from his actions, it's still politics and reelection that are largely driving his response.

 

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National Stockpile Of Emergency Equipment Nearly Gone, Trump Says

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marleycoyne/2020/04/01/national-stockpile-of-emergency-equipment-nearly-gone-according-to-report/#119de12f88be

 Topline: The national stockpile of personal protective equipment (PPE), including gloves, masks and gowns needed to shield healthcare workers from coronavirus exposure, is nearly gone, Trump said Wednesday—an increasingly dire problem as the number of reported infections swells to 200,000 nationwide.

 

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הידבקות ליצמן: הרבי מגור, נתניהו וראש המוסד - לבידוד

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Health Minister Ya'acov Litzman and wife diagnosed with coronavirus

https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Health-Minister-Yaacvov-Litzman-diagnosed-with-coronavirus-623267

 Health minister Ya'acov Litzman and his wife have been diagnosed with the coronavirus and will go into home-quarantine, according to a spokesperson for the Health Ministry.

"The health minister is feeling well," a statement by the Health Ministry informed the public on Thursday. 

 An epidemiological investigation is being carried out, and messages will be sent to those who came into contact with Litzman and are required to enter isolation. It is expected that the head of the National Security Council Meir Ben-Shabbat and Health Ministry director-general Moshe Bar Siman Tov, as well as several other senior officials, will be asked to home-quarantine.

Haredim have finally begun embracing social distancing. Why did it take so long?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/haredim-have-finally-begun-embracing-social-distancing-why-did-it-take-so-long/

Information took too long to filter into the insular ultra-Orthodox world, and some key rabbis didn’t grasp the pandemic danger. Now Israel braces for the consequences of the delay

 

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Experts do an about-face, begin recommending masks to fight coronavirus

https://www.jpost.com/International/Experts-do-an-about-face-begin-recommending-masks-to-fight-coronavirus-623166

 'If, in fact, a person who may or may not be infected wants to prevent infecting somebody else, the best way to do that is with a mask. Perhaps that's the way to go.'

 The World Health Organization stood by its position that masks should not be used by healthy members of the public because they are "commonly misused." Wearing a mask could provide a false sense of security and cause people to become lax with other important hygiene measures. Removing a mask so it doesn't cover your nose or touching the outside of the mask can make it less effective, according to the WHO.

 

Netanyahu: Wear masks in public

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/278155

Prime Minister Netanyahu said tonight that he is working to curb the Corona pandemic, "We are all putting in a huge effort day and night to overcome the virus."

He announced new movement restrictions on the Bnei Brak area.

"I instructed all the offices to provide special assistance to the city of Bnei Brak. We decided to reduce to the minimum necessary entry and exit from the city."

"It is for the good of their lives and for the lives of all Israeli citizens. This is a time for mutual responsibility among all the state's citizens."

The prime minister also added the duty of wearing masks in public. "We ask the citizens of Israel to wear masks in the public domain. If you don't have a mask, use a scarf or any other covering that will reduce the possibility of infecting others."