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On Sunday, Israeli police arrested a man who is a suspect in the vandalism of the gravestone of Baruch Mandelblit, the father of the current Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit.

It was revealed last week that the gravestone had been vandalized a few weeks prior.

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Two young girls aged 2-and-a-half and 7 respectively, were hospitalized in Tevaria’s Poriya hospital after they were scalded by boiling water in their home.

The girls, who come from a Chareidi family, were listed as being in moderate-to-light condition after they suffered severe burns to their lower extremities.

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For a businessman who grew a small coffee roaster into an inescapable global chain, who ensured that even his part-time workers had benefits and who has given about $150,000 to Democratic campaigns, former Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz is generating tepid — or even hostile — responses within the party as he weighs a presidential bid in 2020.

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​I met Rav Nissan Kaplan when I first began learning at the Mir Yeshiva in Yerushalayim almost twenty years ago. I joined his shiur and spent many Shabbos seudos around the Kaplan family’s Shabbos table.

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Following the collapse of a dam near the Corrego de Feijao iron mine in the city of Brumadinho in Brazil, Israel has sent a team of search and rescue specialists from the IDF and Zaka to Brazil to assist in the search for survivors and locating the deceased.

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Yad Vashem’s Gathering the Fragments campaign aims to collect Holocaust-era artifacts in order to preserve and share them in various way with the world in order that the Holocaust is never forgotten.

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Ben Gurion Airport Security Officials arrested a man who was caught operating a drone in the airport. In a statement made by airport security, “The man is a foreign national tourist”.

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(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times)

In this past week’s Parsha, there is a fascinating Rashi (Shmos 18:10) in regard to why Yisro repeats himself twice. 

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A soldier from the armored tank corps was court-martialed today and received 15 days in jail for transgressing the orders of the IDF with regards to field security.

The soldier took a photo of the Gaza border from inside a tank and published it on social media.

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The Internal Revenue Service has told lawmakers it would return from the government shutdown buried in millions of unanswered taxpayer letters, weeks behind schedule on training for workers and needing to hire thousands of new employees for this tax filing season, according to two House aides.

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Britain’s Telegraph newspaper has apologized and paid damages to U.S. First Lady Melania Trump after publishing an article it says contains many false statements.

The newspaper said Saturday it apologizes “unreservedly” to Mrs.

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A handwritten letter and accompanying statement were released from the home & offices of Rav Chaim Kanievsky this morning regarding an anonymous individual who is, in the words of the Rav, in “dire straits.” Sources connected to Kupat Ha’Ir confirm that the individual is a talmid chacham, and that his situation is a matter of life and death.

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Former Education Minister and one of the higher ups in the Likud party Gideon Sa’ar recently did an interview with the weekly periodical “Olam Katan” in which he related to the importance of Shabbos and how he observes it each week.

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It was vintage Roger Stone: The longtime Republican operative flashed a Nixonesque double-armed victory sign after being indicted Friday for lying to federal investigators.

Stone, with his self-professed political dirty tricks and the tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back, has long lurked in the shadows of Donald Trump’s world and was instrumental in guiding him on his first steps to the White House.

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Donald Trump didn’t carry many parts of Texas’ heavily Democratic areas along the border with Mexico, but he won remote Hudspeth County thanks to people like Terry Rose. And the 71-year-old mechanic saw the longest shutdown in U.S.

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Israel’s Delek Drilling and its U.S. partner, Noble Energy, said Sunday the foundation of their rig for the Leviathan gas field has arrived, in the first stage of an ambitious project they say will wean Israel off coal and revolutionize its economy by turning it into an energy exporter.

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Kinnus Zikaron in memory of Moreinu Harav Zvi Dov Slanger zt”l. Join the Hanahalah and Talmidim of the yeshiva, along with Rabbonim and members of the community in marking the Rosh Yeshiva’s first yahrzeit.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed threats made by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, saying the Iranian-backed group is “in distress” and “very embarrassed.”

Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday that the Hezbollah leader “broke his silence” in a televised address on Saturday because the terror group faced major financial pressure due to U.S.

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As the world commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on International Holocaust Remembrance Day Sunday, death camp survivor Cipora Feivlovich marks her own personal milestone as she turns 92.

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