Tens of millions of Americans are facing during Friday and Saturday with rather freezing weather following the arctic storm that is spreading all over the US. Because of this, residents are suffering from many power outages and many Christmas events have been canceled. Forecasters believe that this is an unprecedented storm in its scope, which exposes about 60% of the population US National Weather Service Warning.
"The weather service's map depicts one of the largest volumes of winter weather warnings and advisories ever," the forecasters said, adding that the "bomb cyclone," as they define it, is formed when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly and has caused blizzards and winds.
The lowest temperature today in the USA was recorded in Haver, Montana, where -38 degrees Celsius was measured.
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A frozen lake in Chicago, photo: AFP
Attempted terrorist attack in Samaria: shooting at a house in the settlement of Shaked, no casualties
Attempted terrorist attack in Samaria: On Friday evening, fire was opened from afar on a house in the settlement of Shaked.
As a result, IDF forces launched searches in the area. According to Palestinian reports, the Jenin Battalion of the Al-Quds Companies, the military arm of the Islamic Jihad, took responsibility for the shooting at the settlement.
"A short time ago, a report was received of a shooting at the settlement of Shaked in the area of the Menasha regional division," said an IDF spokesperson. "After scanning the settlement, damage was detected in one of the houses.
There are no casualties.
IDF forces are searching the area for suspects."
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A shattered window following the shooting at a house in Shaked Yishuv, photo: use according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law
18% of China's residents have been infected with Corona starting this month
According to an estimate by Chinese health system officials, nearly 250 million people in China may have been infected with the corona virus in the first 20 days of December, Bloomberg News and the Financial Times reported on Friday, making the figure the largest outbreak of the corona virus in the world so far.
The cited figures were presented during an internal meeting of China's National Health Commission (NHC) last Wednesday.
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Receiving a patient at the entrance to a clinic in China, photo: GettyImages
The star of Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Israel national team in the past has passed away
Sad news.
Willie Sims, the former basketball player who starred in Israel in the past, passed away on Friday evening at the age of 64. Sims suffered a heart attack in August and has since been hospitalized in serious condition in the hospital where he is unconscious.
Sims was not feeling well and because of this he was rushed to the hospital so that the doctors could treat him and stabilize his medical condition.
The former player played for many years in Israel, including five seasons in Maccabi Tel Aviv, and also played in Hapoel Tel Aviv, starred in Elizur Netanya, Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Hadera and Hapoel Eilat.
He settled in Israel and since then retired from active playing in 1998, served as the director of a basketball school, and in recent years worked as a fitness trainer.
His daughter Daniel is married to the captain of the Israeli national team Gal Mekel.
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Willie Sims (center).
Sad, photo: Moshe Shay
A 20-year-old woman was killed in a car accident near Tgamon Hula
Road accident on Route 90: A 20-year-old woman was killed in a westbound accident involving two vehicles.
MDA medics and paramedics provided medical treatment at the scene and performed CPR, ultimately resulting in the death of the female driver. The driver of the second vehicle, a 59-year-old man, was taken by MDA ambulance to Ziv Hospital in a minor condition with a chest injury.
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Car accident near Agmon Hula // Documentation of MDA operations
Rain falls throughout the country;
Vehicles sank into a sinkhole in Yavne
Stormy Saturday:
Heavy rain is falling today (Saturday) across the country, when there is a fear of flooding in the coastal cities.
Local rain is possible in Arava and Eilat, and there is a fear of floods there.
At the same time, the Yavne municipality updates that "due to the weather and the heavy rains, a section of the road on Carmel Street sank in the last hour. Four vehicles parked along the street got stuck."
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Several vehicles got stuck, photo: use of the work according to section 27a
The violence in Arab society continues
Musa Alaesam, 27 years old from Tel Sheva, was shot to death tonight (Friday) while staying with his family in the Ra'im parking lot.
The MDA team that arrived at the scene found the young man in a critical condition and after resuscitation operations pronounced him dead. Another young man, 23 years old, was taken from the scene in a moderate-severe condition to Soroka Hospital suffering from penetrating injuries.
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Musa Alaesam, photo: courtesy of the family
A 15-year-old boy was seriously injured on Friday while riding a bicycle as a result of a stray shooting in the city of Taiba.
MDA teams arrived at the scene and evacuated the injured to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba. The police started an investigation.
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