A delegation from ZAKA has flown down from Israel to participate in the search and identification of bodies in a mass grave identified in a building site over a former Jewish ghetto in the city of Brest on the Belarus border with Poland.
The grave was expected to yield above of 1,100 bodies, most of whom were shot in the head and many of them women and children.
“The sights are shocking to every Jewish heart,” ZAKA Executive Director Rabbi Tzvi Hasid said in a statement.
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 MK Rabbi Rafi Peretz, who is Chairman of Habayit Yehudi party, initiated a new policy for his party.

In order to strengthen themselves in the mitzvah of not speaking lashon hara, Peretz has instituted the limud of Chofetz Chayim which will take place at the beginning of every party meeting. The group will learn two rules of lashon hara every day before carrying on with official business.

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Israeli former spy Jonathan Pollard, who spent 30 years in jail in the United States, gave one of his first media interviews after his release almost four years ago.
Despite strict parole conditions prohibiting him from speaking to the press, Pollard is opened up to reporters, complaining that the Israeli leadership doesn’t care about him.
“If you don’t care about someone like myself, who spent 30 years in prison on behalf of the land and people of Israel, then how much concern can you actually show or exhibit or feel towards anybody in the country, from our soldiers to our civilians?” he says.
Read more at Times of Israel.

President Donald Trump on Monday lost an early round of his court fight with Democrats when a federal judge ruled that the president’s accounting firm must turn over his financial records to Congress as lawmakers seek to assert their oversight authority.
Trump called the 41-page ruling from U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta of Washington “crazy,” and he said he would appeal, adding: “We think it’s totally the wrong decision by obviously an Obama-appointed judge.
Lawyers for the president are fighting document and witness subpoenas on several fronts, and Mehta’s ruling came hours after former White House counsel Donald McGahn was directed not to appear before a congressional committee seeking testimony about his conversations with Trump.

Israel is the fastest rising opioid medication user in the developed world, according to a disturbing new OECD report.
According to the report, which was released on May 16 under the title, “Addressing Problematic Opiod Use in OECD Countries,” data from 2014–2016 put Israel in 11th place out of 37 OECD countries for opioid use, a 13 percent increase from 2013, when Israel ranked 24th. However, Israel leads the pack when it comes to the rate of increase in opioid use. From 2011–2013 to 2014–2016, Israel experienced a 125 percent increase.

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A man roughly 60 years of age was found stabbed to death Tuesday morning in Yerushalayim, police reported.
The victim was found in an apartment on Rechov Bar Yochai in the capital in an apparent murder.
Police have taken one male suspect into custody. Authorities are investigating the circumstances of the killing, but say the incident appears to be criminal, rather than terror-related.
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