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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed legislation on Monday to ban flavored e-cigarettes statewide in an effort to protect young people from the unknown consequences of vaping, Reuters reports.
“Common sense says if you don’t know what you’re smoking, don’t smoke it,” Cuomo told reporters at a news conference. “And right now, we don’t know what you’re smoking in a lot of these vaping substances,” he said.

New York schools are required to provide a moment of silence to observe the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, according to a new state law approved by Gov. Andrew Cuomo Monday, the NY Post reports.
The law calls for a brief moment of silence at the beginning of the school day every 9/11 to encourage dialogue and education in the classroom among a new generation of students who weren’t alive during the 2001 terror attacks that leveled the World Trade Center’s twin towers and killed more than 3,000 people — the worst foreign attack on American soil. The law goes into effect immediately.

 
Red alert sirens blared in the cities of Ashkelon and Ashdod in southern Israel Tuesday evening.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing explosions in the sky caused by the Iron Dome system intercepting rockets in mid-air.
The Ashkelon City Council reported, “Following the alarm that was heard in Ashkelon a few moments ago, Mayor Tomer Glam ordered the opening of shelters throughout the city. Teams are on the ground and working to implement the directive during these minutes. We note that the Iron Dome system has intercepted two rockets fired at the city.”

Rav Chaim Kanievsky signed a letter backing the establishment of a chareidi city named Kesif in southern Israel, where there are plans to build 18,000 apartments for chareidim. Government funding for the construction of botei medrash and shuls has already been approved.
Plans are also afoot to build tens of thousands of new apartments in Kiryat Malachi and Kiryat Gat in southern Israel, giving them a chareidi majority by 2040.
Chareidim are hardest hit by rising apartment prices, with large increases in the Yerushalayim and peripheral areas where they buy the most.
{Matzav.com Israel}

Outgoing national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday disputed President Trump’s account of his dismissal, tweeting that he offered to resign before the president announced his ouster.
“I offered to resign last night and President Trump said, ‘Let’s talk about it tomorrow,'” Bolton tweeted.
The messages came moments after Trump rocked Washington with a pair of tweets that said he had asked Bolton to step down due to disagreements about policy.
“I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning,” Trump tweeted.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had fired his national security adviser, John Bolton, saying in tweets that he “disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions.”
“I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House,” Trump said.”I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. I thank John very much for his service.”
Trump said he would name a replacement next week.
Bolton, a former diplomat and political commentator who came on board in April 2018, was Trump’s third national security adviser.
Bolton was scheduled to appear alongside Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a White House briefing later Tuesday. Trump’s announcement came less than two hours before that event.

Within less than a decade, Israel’s Matnas Chaim kidney donor organization headed by Rav Yeshayohu Haber of Bnei Brak celebrated its 700th partnership between an altruistic donor and a patient suffering from irreversible kidney disease.
The most recent kidney was donated by a young man from a kibbutz in the north and was transplanted into a stranger from the Golan Heights at Petach Tikvah’s Beilenson Medical Center.
“Today we mark a significant milestone in eliminating the waiting list for transplants, and, in fact, creating a ‘reverse’ list in which there will be more people who want to donate than people waiting for transplants,” Rav Haber said.
{Matzav.com Israel}

President Donald Trump said today that he fired national security advisor John Bolton, saying on Twitter he had “disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions.” But minutes later, Bolton in his own tweet said that he “offered to resign” Monday night — and that Trump told him, “Let’s talk about it tomorrow.”
Either way, Bolton’s departure shocked Washington, D.C., and oil crude futures fell. Bolton, who was named national security advisor to succeed H.R. McMaster in March 2018, is a harsh critic of Iran, and has advocated military strikes against that oil-rich nation.