Messages circulating in social media groups urge parents of children at Jewish schools in NYC not to have their kids tested for coronavirus.

Summary of the laws that pertain to the holiest and most solemn day of the Jewish year with additions in light of the pandemic.

Today: Partially cloudy to clear with temperatures close to the seasonal average. Tonight will be partially cloudy, mainly in the north of the country where there is a possibility of local light rain showers.Shabbat: Partially cloudy with no significant change to temperatures. Possibility of light local rain in the north and along coastal areas.Sunday: Mostly clear. Temperatures will rise, mainly In higher ground an in the interior of the country, to slightly above the seasonal average.Yom Kippur: Mostly clear. Temperatures will rise further to heatwave conditions, mainly In higher ground and in the interior of the country. Coastal areas will be hot and humid.

Interviewed In Reshet Kan Bet this morning, Higher Education Secretary Zeev Elkin dismissed remarks made by the government's coronavirus czar, Prof. Ronni Gamzu, who said yesterday that he supported tightening the lockdown but opposed a full closure."If Gamzu feels that he doesn't need to be here, then he's always free to get up and leave," Elkin said. "It's possible that during the past month, we were working according to overly optimistic scenarios, and that Gamzu therefore thought that we could permit more and more things, even when the numbers [of new infections] were high. But that approach has not proved itself," he noted.

Head of the Mahane Yehuda Traders' Association, Tali Friedman, has announced that all stores categorized as providing essential goods or services in the "shuk" will be permitted to remain open during the coming two-week lockdown."The Traders' Association and the market traders themselves appreciate this just decision that was given to us this morning by the Finance Minister, according to which most of the stores in the market will be permitted to operate and restaurants can make deliveries," she said. "I call In Jerusalem residents to continue to make their purchases at the 'shuk' and order food from its restaurants and cafes."

According to the Ministry of Health, Hadassah Ein Kerem and Shaare Zedek hospitals in Jerusalem are being obliged to absorb large numbers of coronavirus cases from the Arab population of the city, due to Arab patients refusing to use their own hospitals.The Ministry of Health contacted three Arab hospitals in East Jerusalem asking them to admit coronavirus patients from the Arab sector, but the hospitals responded that the patients were simply not interested in being hospitalized there, and preferred "Israeli hospitals."The Arab hospitals concerned are the Al-Maksad, Augusta Victoria, and the French Hospital.

Head of the Association of High School Teachers, Ran Erez, has appealed to Education Minister Yoav Galant to order special education classes to cease during the lockdown period.A similar request was made yesterday by the head of the Teachers' Union, Yaffa Ben David.

We cannot help everyone solve their problems or end their suffering, but there is Ine thing we can always do for them.