In the eighth Democratic presidential primary debate, hosted by ABC News and held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., the seven candidates on stage Friday night slammed U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to eliminate Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Jan. 3 at Baghdad International Airport.
“In the situation that we saw with President Trump’s decision, there is no evidence that that made our country safer,” said former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
“Look, I feel very strongly about the campaign of murder and mayhem that General Soleimani and his units have perpetrated,” he continued. “It’s also the case from the war in Iraq is that taking out a bad guy is not a good idea if you do not know what you were doing.”

Intensive talks are underway between Washington, Jerusalem, Cairo and Riyadh to convene a summit in Cairo, possibly before Israel’s March 2 election, that would serve as a venue for a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, senior Arab diplomatic sources said on Thursday.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his team have been mediating between Israel and Saudi Arabia for the past few months, the sources told Israel Hayom.

Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said on Saturday that the way to weaken Hamas was to focus on weakening Iran, which he called “the head of the octopus.”
Speaking at a campaign event at a synagogue in Givat Shmuel near Tel Aviv, the Yamina Party leader said Israel was stepping up its actions against Tehran, though stressing that this did not mean all-out war.
“We are in the process of switching to hurting the head of the octopus—Iran’s power. I am not necessarily talking about a full-blown war with Iran tomorrow; it is more similar to the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, with the two regional powers Israel and Iran,” he said.

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Israel has begun to map the Yehuda and Shomron lands that Israel will annex, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an election campaign rally in Ma’ale Adumim on Saturday.
“We are already at the height of the process of mapping the area that, according to the Trump plan, will become part of the State of Israel. It won’t take too long,” said Netanyahu.
With Israeli election campaigns under way, both the Likud and Blue and White parties have repeatedly made statements in favor of annexing parts of Yehuda and Shomron, including the Jordan Valley, eliciting many reactions, both for and against.

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com The Mashgiach of the Lakewood Yeshiva, Rav Nosson Wachtfogel zt”l (1910-1998)once remarked: When beginning to serve the public, one must realize that the fundamental principle is to stay away from self-interest.  This is both in financial matters as well as matters involving honor.  A person should rather befriend those […]

Another NYPD officer has been shot within a violent 12-hour span, this time in a Bronx police precinct this morning – allegedly by the same suspect who fired on two cops last night in a street ambush, CBS NY reports.
The alleged gunman is now in custody. In a press conference this morning, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said he had served time in prison for attempted murder and was paroled in 2017.

United Hatzalah of Israel dedicated its newest all-terrain vehicle (ATV) to serve the residents of the Gush Shiloh area, which is the next step in fulfilling their promise to add more lifesaving vehicles and first responders to Judea and Samaria. The dedication ceremony took place on Monday in the town of Adei Ad, slightly northeast of Shiloh itself.
The ATV will provide first response emergency service to medical emergencies as well as search and rescue emergencies in the region known as Gush Shiloh. It is capable of transporting a patient through difficult terrain, particularly in mountainous and forested areas.

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Produced By: Doni Gross, Abie Rotenberg, Shlomo Simcha Sufrin
Arranged and Mixed by: Doni Gross
Recorded At: DeG Studios, NYC
Video Production: Munch Media
Filmed at: Bluetone Studios
Wedding Clips: Aaron Teitelbaum Orchestra
It is cause for celebration when an album is released that recaptures the magic of the past, while possessing the energy and cutting-edge musicality of today.
The debut of Aish 3, featuring the spectacular joint efforts of Abie Rotenberg, Shlomo Simcha and Doni Gross will no doubt be exuberantly embraced by knowledgeable Jewish Music fans worldwide.

A Thai soldier armed with military firearms rampaged through a bustling shopping mall and an army camp, killing 26 people before he himself was killed after a 17-hour standoff with security forces, Thai officials said, in a rare mass shooting that has shaken the country.
After live-streaming part of the shooting on Facebook, the gunman holed up in the mall with several hostages, as police secured the area in the early-morning darkness. The sound of gunfire emanated from the building before 3 a.m., and ambulances rushed in and out of the mall compound, according to live broadcasts from the scene. Mall workers and shoppers crawled out from fire exits and glass entrances, staying low to avoid bullets, escaping in small groups throughout the morning.