The Yerushalayim District Court ordered Israel’s Menorah insurance company to pay a highly-paid tech worker $1.3 million for the loss of work caused by a bug that flew into the man’s vehicle and distracted him, leading him to smash into a concrete pillar.
Moving objects in vehicles such as pets, insects or cargo accounted for one percent of 65,000 accidents caused by distracted drivers from 2011 to 2012.
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Palestinians are the third angriest people in the world and are ranked as the fourth least rested people in the world, according to the 2019 Gallup Global Emotions Report.
The Gallup poll asked more than 151,000 people in over 140 countries five questions concerning positive and negative experiences respectively, to determine their overall Positive and Negative Experience Indexes. 43% of Palestinian respondents reported feeling angry, while 50% reported that they did not feel well-rested.
The countries with the highest Negative Experiences Indexes were Chad, Niger and Sierra Leone. The Palestinian Territories ranked in with the 9th highest Negative Experience Index.

Anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. have doubled since 2015, according to new data from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
The ADL’s annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents released Tuesday revealed a total of 1,879 attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions in 2018. The figure was down slightly from 2017, but still near historic levels and nearly double the number of attacks that were recorded in 2015, according to the ADL.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s CEO and national director, said in a statement that there continues to be “an alarmingly high number of anti-Semitic acts.”

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The man accused of attacking a Southern California shul fired only eight to 10 of the roughly 60 bullets he had before his weapon jammed, prosecutors said, Fox reports.
John T. Earnest, 19, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder in the shooting at the Chabad of Poway. One woman, Lori Kaye, was killed and three people wounded.
Earnest was arrested shortly after the attack with 50 unfired bullets, a tactical vest and helmet, prosecutors said during his arraignment.
The judge scheduled a status hearing for May 30 and denied bail, calling Earnest an extreme threat to public safety.

The Sadigura Rebbe, Rav Yisroel Moshe Friedman of Yerushalayim, was physically attacked in Lakewood, NJ, last night, Matzav.com has learned.
The attack was not hate-driven, according to sources, but was carried out by a mentally unhinged individual, who jumped at the rebbe at the home of the rebbe’s daughter and son-in-law.
Boruch Hashem, the rebbe emerged unharmed.
While the rebbe resides in Yerushalayim, he has been staying for the last while in Lakewood, as he has been battling serious illness.

Facebook has thrown down the gauntlet to Amazon by announcing a raft of new shopping features for WhatsApp, Instagram and its own online Marketplace.
The social media giant said its 2.4 billion users will soon be able to browse products, get recommendations from celebrities, organize shipping and make payments without ever leaving its “family” of three apps.
WhatsApp, historically Facebook’s most private product, will gain product catalogues and secure payments, which the company has been testing with about a million users in India.
 
Read more at The Telegraph.
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Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that a drug used to treat multiple sclerosis may help epilepsy patients.
Published in the scientific journal Neuron, the findings of Professor Inna Slutsky of the university’s faculty of medicine and school of neuroscience center around the mechanism that regulates neural activity.
The team found that the DHODH gene is key to triggering neural activity, and that the drug Terflunomide—used to treat multiple sclerosis—inhibited such activity. The reduction in neural activity became permanent when brain cells were exposed to the drug for long periods of time.
Now, researchers say they believe that their findings will help develop drugs focusing on neural stability.