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British billionaire and chairman of Virgin Atlantic Sir Richard Branson landed in Israel on Tuesday to inaugurate the airline’s new route from London Heathrow to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.
As the famous businessman stepped off the plane, with stewardesses waving Israeli and British flags by his side, in a stint of showmanship, he kneeled on all fours and kissed the ground at the Ben Gurion Airport in front of a throng of reporters.

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers accused Twitter on Tuesday of violating U.S. law in allowing content from U.S.-designated terrorist groups, including Hezbollah and Hamas, to appear on its site.
Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), Max Rose (D-N.Y.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) said that if Twitter can regulate such content better than the U.S. government, then the company’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, should testify before Congress.
In a September 2019 letter to a bipartisan group of members—Gottheimer, Reed and Fitzpatrick, Twitter stated that the platform is no place for terrorist organizations. Twitter then proceeded to outline its policy, which makes exceptions for Hamas and Hezbollah.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signed a proclamation declaring Oct. 27 as an official day of remembrance, ordering state flags to half-staff one year after the attack at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh, where 11 Jewish worshippers were shot and killed during Shabbat-morning services by lone gunman.
“A year has passed, but I continue to carry sorrow for the victims and their families of this heinous attack. We must honor them by remembering and through our thoughts, prayers and actions,” said Wolf. “I ask all Pennsylvanians to spend Oct. 27 doing the same in their honor. Pittsburgh is a city of bridges, and so it is a fitting tribute to commemorate this occasion with a day of building bridges of understanding, welcome and friendship.”

A European Jewish leader is calling on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, to act against organizers of the Carnival of Aalst in Belgium for its plan to use anti-Semitic caricatures at its upcoming 2020 parade.
Organizers of the 2020 event published 150 caricatures mocking Jews ahead of the event.
The caricatures, which feature Orthodox Jews with red, hooked noses and golden teeth, were printed on ribbons for participants. The carnival, which was recognized by UNESCO in 2010 as a “Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity,” is an annual three-day event in the days preceding Ash Wednesday.

A Jewish community and activism center in Budapest experienced minor damages as neo-Nazis attempted to set it ablaze.
No injuries were reported.
The Aurora community center was empty during the arson attempt, according to Adam Schonberger, director of the Marom, a Jewish association founded in 2014 affiliated with the Conservative/Masorti movement.
Marom owns and operates Aurora in conjunction with its outreach to young, unaffiliated Hungarian Jews and others.
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When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began the process of trying to form a government 28 days ago, he had 55 Knesset seats supporting him—32 from his Likud Party, nine from Shas, eight from United Torah Judaism and six from Jewish Home/New Right. When he announced earlier this week that he was returning his mandate to President Reuven Rivlin, he had not a single seat more.
Following the Likud leader’s inability to reach a majority, Rivlin officially turned to challenger Benny Gantz on Wednesday, granting the Blue and White leader 28 days of his own to succeed where Netanyahu failed.

Nearly a third of Jewish Americans say they have hidden their religious identity or avoided carrying items that would identify oneself as Jewish in public due to threats of anti-Semitism, according to a poll released Wednesday.
A study by the American Jewish Coalition found that 31 percent of the respondents said they had “avoided publicly wearing, carrying, or displaying things that might help people identify [them] as a Jew.”
Twenty-five percent of those surveyed also told pollsters that they at least sometimes “avoid certain places, events, or situations out of concern for [their] safety or comfort as a Jew.”
Read more at The Hill.

The Israel Defense Forces announced on Wednesday that a military drone conducting “routine operations to secure the border” crashed in Lebanese territory.
According to a report by Lebanon’s National News Agency, the drone fell after being shot down by a Lebanese citizen with a hunting rifle.
The IDF said that the downing of the drone would not lead to intelligence being exposed, according to a report in Ynet, which noted that the IDF uses dozens of drones near the border on a daily basis, mostly for intelligence-gathering purposes.
Last month, the IDF acknowledged that one of its drones had crashed in southern Lebanon, two weeks after reports that another Israeli drone had crashed into a Hezbollah media center.
(JNS)
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For the first time, a machine that runs on the mind-boggling physics of quantum mechanics has reportedly solved a problem that would stump the world’s top supercomputers – a breakthrough known as “quantum supremacy.”
If validated, the report by Google’s AI Quantum team constitutes a major leap for quantum computing, a technology that relies on the bizarre behavior of tiny particles to encode huge amounts of information. According to a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Google’s Sycamore processor performed in less than three and a half minutes a calculation that would take the most powerful classical computer on the planet 10,000 years to complete.

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