RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian officials say Israeli settlers attacked five villages in the occupied West Bank overnight, torching vehicles and olive trees, and leaving graffiti on the walls of homes. Ghassan Daghlas, a spokesman for the Nablus governorate, says the Jewish settlers set fire to five cars and spray-painted graffiti on more than […]

MOSCOW (JTA) — A Russian state-owned bank sent to one of its clients a promotional code that contained the phrase “Kill Jews.” Artem Chapaev, a former creative consultant at Amnesty International from Moscow, on Wednesday posted on Twitter a screen shot of the password, which he received as a text to his smartphone from Sberbank. […]

A group of Republican senators and senior White House officials met privately Thursday to map out a strategy for a potential impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, including rapid proceedings in the Senate that could be limited to about two weeks, according to multiple officials familiar with the talks.
The prospect of an abbreviated trial is viewed by several Senate Republicans as a favorable middle ground – substantial enough to give the proceedings credence without risking greater damage to Trump by dragging on too long.

Leaders of the anti-vaxx movement have been chased out from Jewish communities across North America. Now, they are trying their luck in Yerushalayim.
Using various secretive methods, the group has surfaced in Yerushalayim, hiding behind the innocuous sounding name: Ezrat Menachem. Using email and social media, Matzav.com has uncovered, they publicized an event this week featuring one of the most outrageous anti-vaxx activists, huckster Del Bigtree. Bigtree is a huckster who is famous for promulgating the disproven link between autism and vaccines.

The U.S. Secret Service paid more than $250,000 to President Donald Trump’s private businesses in just the first five months of Trump’s presidency – paying the president’s company an average of nearly $2,000 per day, according to Secret Service records.
Those records, obtained by the group Property of the People after an open-records lawsuit, detail some of the revenue that Trump derives from the U.S. taxpayer.
The president has set up an extraordinary arrangement: he kept ownership of his businesses – and then visited them repeatedly, bringing along aides and security officials and charging the government for what they bought.

Reaction and analysis from former CIA officer Buck Sexton and former Schumer aide Chris Hahn.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday requesting documents related to former vice president Joe Biden and his communications with Ukrainian officials, a step seen as a GOP effort to counter the House impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump.
The inquiry by Graham, R-S.C., is focused on any calls Biden may have had with Petro Poroshenko, then the Ukrainian president, regarding the firing of the country’s top prosecutor, as well as any that referenced an investigation of Burisma, the Ukrainian natural-gas company that employed Biden’s son Hunter Biden.

The IDF and Border Police have deployed extra units in the city of Chevron secure this year’s ‘Chevron Shabbos’, as tens of thousands of Israelis head to the ancient city for what has become a popular annual pilgrimage.
Last year, more than 40,000 Jews stayed in Chevron for Shabbos Chayeiu Sorah, and similar numbers are expected to visit this weekend.
The entire Meoras Hamachpela complex will be open to Jewish visitors during Shabbos. For most of the year, most of the complex is reserved for Muslim prayer services, with Jewish access limited to a single hall.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
{Matzav.com}