Suicide bombers struck churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing more than 200 people in a highly coordinated attack that targeted Christians and foreigners in this island nation.
No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, the worst violence here since the end of the civil war a decade ago. Thirteen people have been arrested, police said, and three police officers were killed in a raid on a house as they attempted to interrogate an individual.
The dead included “several” Americans, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. He blamed “radical terrorists.”
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe said the suspects were “local.” He told reporters that elements of the government had prior intelligence about the attacks.

Shmuley Boteach is at it again. Now he is telling me what I can and can’t say to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — a friend of nearly half a century who values my advice. When Bibi won the election last week, I tweeted the following:
Mazal tov to @IsraeliPM @netanyahu, who I’ve known since he was a student at MIT. Waiting for the new peace plan to be implemented. Time for a fair two-state solution that assures Israel’s security.
That was too much for Boteach. How dare I express my views to my friend. I should be expressing Boteach’s views. After all, he is a know-it-all when it comes to Israel’s security. Here is what Boteach wrote:

President Reuven Rivlin will on Friday evening sit down at the Seder table with IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi and 400 lone soldiers from around 35 countries around the world at the Yachad Lemaan Hachayal organization’s Yom Tov resort in Givat Olga.
Also attending the Seder will be the head of Yachad Le’ma’an Hachayal, Yoram Yair, Chief Education Officer Brigadier General Zvika Faireisen and the Director-General of Yachad Lemaan Hachayal, Brig. Gen. (Res.) Ilan Tal.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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The US Department of Justice released on Thursday the highly anticipated report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that shows the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election despite Moscow’s attempt to influence it.
Two Israel-related matters were mentioned in the report, which have previously been reported in the press:
Led by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, the Trump transition team attempted to persuade foreign governments, with then-incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn talking to Russia, to oppose the December 2016 UN Security Council Resolution 2334, condemning Israeli neighborhoods in Judea and Samaria. The resolution passed as the United States did not exercise its automatic veto power and instead abstained.

Some 6,000 Palestinian Arabs demonstrated along the Gaza border on Friday.
The Hamas-run “health ministry” in Gaza reported that 46 people were injured during the clashes, including paramedics and journalists.
Earlier on Friday, shots were fired at IDF troops adjacent to the security fence in southern Gaza. In response, IDF aircraft and tank struck two Hamas military posts in Gaza. No injuries to IDF soldiers were reported.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Three separate incidents of burning took place in Israel today, injuring three children attending biur chametz.
In Bnei Brak, a 10-year-old boy was burned in his body as a result of the bonfire. In Be’er Sheva, a 12-year-old girl was also burned in the leg, after her leg entered the burning bonfire.
In Yerushalayim, a 4-year-old boy was wounded in the head by a glass bottle that was accidentally thrown into the fire.

רבני בני ברק במכירת חמץצילום: יהודה פרקוביץ
 
רבני בני ברק במכירת חמץצילום: יהודה פרקוביץ