Hundreds of esrogim were seized at an airport in England.
The Animal and Plant Health Agency held up the shipment at the Manchester Airport under new and stricter regulations on the import of citrus fruit. Esrog importers were unaware of the new rules, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews worked with the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to have the 600 esrogs taken to a Manchester shul, where the stalks could be trimmed to meet the stricter rules, the Board of Deputies reported. The fruits also must be destroyed immediately after the holiday.
Some 10,000 etrogs were due to be imported to Britain for Sukkot this year.

Yair Lapid — co-chairman of Israel’s centrist Blue and White party — issued a rare, if indirect, criticism of the Trump administration on Monday, expressing support for two US senators opposed to the president’s just-announced plan to pull American troops out of northern Syria to clear the way for a Turkish invasion.
The critique of Trump’s move has centered on the likely consequences for the region’s Kurdish population, whose US-allied militias played a decisive role in the defeat of the Islamic State.
“I join my friends @LindseyGrahamSC and @ChrisVanHollen in their call to impose sanctions on Turkey and suspend it from NATO in response to any attack on the Kurds in northern Syria,” Lapid tweeted.

Rav Huna berei Mar Zutra (466 CE)
Mar bar Rav Ashi (466 CE)
Rabbeinu Yitzchak Halevi from Speyer, talmid of Rashi
Rav Avraham Abish of Frankfurt (1768)
Rav Tzvi Aryeh of Alik (1811)
Rav Menachem Mendel of Bohush (1942)
Today in History – 11 Tishrei
· Censorship of Jewish books in Russia, 1796.

At the Gerer Bais Medrash, Mussaf ended at 1:40 p.m. A surprising guest at Ger today was a member of the Yerushalayim City Council, Ofer Berkowitz, who joined the davening.
Rav Chaim Kanievsky, at the Lederman Shul in Bnei Brak, was honored with Maftir Yonah.
Ponovezh rosh yeshiva Rav Gershon Edelstein davened all the Yom Kippur tefillos at the Ponevezh Yeshiva. During the break today, he stayed in a special room built next to the bais medrash and did not return to his home. After the fast, thousands went to receive his bracha at his home.

מוצאי יום כיפור אצל חכם שלום כהןצילום: דוד ארזני
 
מוצאי יום כיפור אצל חכם שלום כהןצילום: דוד ארזני
 

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הגר”ח קנייבסקי במוצאי יום כיפורצילום: שוקי לרר
 
הגר”ח קנייבסקי במוצאי יום כיפורצילום: שוקי לרר
 

Former Vice President Joe Biden explicitly called for President Trump to be impeached on Wednesday afternoon at a campaign stop in New Hampshire, the Daily Beast reports.  “Donald Trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation and committed impeachable acts,” Biden said while speaking onstage at a stop in Rochester. “He should be impeached.” The move represents a significantly stronger stance for the Democratic contender, who has for weeks faced sustained attacks from the president. He went on to criticize Trump’s treatment of the United States Constitution, saying he’s “shooting holes” in the document. “The United States cannot have a president who will abuse whatever power he has available to him in order to get reelected,” he said.

President Trump on Wednesday addressed his decision to withdraw American troops from northern Syria, abandoning our Kurdish allies—who have done a majority of the fighting against ISIS—before an impending attack by Turkey, the Daily Beast reports. Trump noted several contributing factors, including that the Kurds, an Iranian ethnic group, did not help the United States during World War II—including the invasion of Normandy Beach.

Ah gut yohr to all Matzav readers across the globe on this Motzoei Yom Hakippurim. We hope that you all have a meaningful fast. May all your tefillos be accepted On High l’tovah and may this be a year of yeshuos, refuos, hatzlacha and bracha for all of Klal Yisroel. Of course, we are praying that this will be the year of the ultimate yeshuah, with the coming the geulah.
Tonight is considered a quasi-Yom Tov. There is a minhag to begin building the sukkah tonight.