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Three days of tefillah, emotion and connection to Mamme Rachel
Efforts peak at Mosdos Kever Rachel as they prepare to greet the masses who will flock to the site in the days surrounding 11 Cheshvan * Food, beverages, and prayer booklets will be distributed free of charge to visitors, and mass tefillos will be held throughout the three days surrounding Rachel Imeinu’s yahrtzeit * An agreement reached with national security forces allows a small group of mispallelim to remain in the Kever compound on the day of the yahrtzeit which falls on Shabbos * Maran Sar HaTorah Harav Chaim Kanievsky, shlit”a: “Many thousands have received their yeshua and witnessed obvious miracles in the merit of giving tzedakah to Mosdos Kever Rachel

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s Justice Ministry says it will soon decide whether to file charges against a former policewoman who shot an unarmed Palestinian in the back with a sponge-tipped bullet. The ministry said Sunday it has completed a criminal investigation after holding four hearings into last year’s incident. It did not say when it […]

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (VosIzNeias) – Swedish-US national astronaut Jessica Meir released three images of the State of Israel and its surroundings taken by the International Space Station where she has been staying since September. Since the first spacewalk in 1965, there have been 227 spacewalkers, only 14 of them women. Meir became No. 15. All […]

The parents of Jewish journalist Steven Sotloff, who was beheaded by ISIS in September 2014 after being kidnapped in August 2013 once he crossed into Syria from Turkey, noted their gratitude to the US military and President Donald Trump for “eliminating” ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering reappointing New Right’s Naftali Bennett to the cabinet amid warming ties between the two, Channel 12 news reported Friday.
Netanyahu fired Bennett, the former education minister, and his ally Ayelet Shaked, the former justice minister, from the cabinet following the April election. He did this ostensibly due to their failure to enter the Knesset at the polls — though his move to do so before a new government had been formed was widely seen as a sign of soured ties.
However, Channel 12 reported that Netanyahu and Bennett were now on considerably better terms. The currently free portfolios are Diaspora Affairs, Welfare and Defense — the latter currently being handled by Netanyahu.

AMMAN – Thousands of workers with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees have launched an open-ended strike in Jordan. UNRWA spokesman Amjad Obeid says the agency’s more than 6,000 workers began the strike on Sunday, paralyzing its schools, health care and garbage-collection services in refugee camps. He says classes were canceled for some 120,000 students. […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump a Florida man? Not so fast. Despite a stinging “good riddance” tweet from New York’s governor, the president’s home state may not let him go to Florida without a fight. Trump’s plan to shift his permanent residence to Palm Beach will likely be heavily scrutinized by New York state […]

The Tel Aviv District Court blocked the sale of a letter written by an 11-year-old Jewish-Polish girl who was killed in the Holocaust following protest by her family members.
Five letters written by children in Poland, sent to their counterparts at a school in Haifa before the outbreak of World War II, were set to be auctioned on Tuesday week at the Dynasty Auction House in Jerusalem. Among the letters was one written by Rachel Mintz, who described life in Poland in 1937 and talked about her desire to immigrate to Israel.
Mintz remained in Poland with her mother and hid during the war while her older brothers fled east and survived the Holocaust. She and her mother were murdered when she was 16, after a Jew from the town informed the Germans of their hiding place.

MK Moshe Gafni, who leads the UTJ’s Degel Hatorah faction, estimated this weekend that a compromise will be found at the last minute, and Israel will not have new elections, Kikar Hashabbat reported.
His statements come in direct contradiction to those of Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman (UTJ), who said earlier this week that Israel is “headed towards new elections.”
He estimated that the 28 days allotted to MK Benny Gantz (Blue and White) will draw to a close without him being able to form a government.
“There will be another 21 days and then we’ll hold new elections. And no one wants that. I estimate that at the end of the day, a solution will be found, and it will be based on the fact that the blocs will change.”

The family of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin contacted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Attorney-General Dr. Avichai Mandelblit through Prof. Aviad Hacohen and Adv. Oded Saburai following the transfer of the body of the terrorist Amiad Khalil Ibrahim last week to Gaza.
Goldin was killed and his body kidnapped during a United Nations-brokered ceasefire during 2014’s Operation Protective Edge.
The family noted that “the transfer of the body is a violation of the decisions of the Political-Security Cabinet of January 2017, as well as of the decisions of the Supreme Court which ordered the government to implement its decisions and cease transferring the bodies of Hamas members for burial as long as the organization holds IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians.”