An explosion targeting a tourist bus has injured at least 16 people near the Grand Egyptian Museum, next to the pyramids in Giza, security sources say.
Most of those hurt are said to be foreigners, possibly South Africans, and suffered injuries of medium to minor seriousness.
It is not yet known who was behind the bombing but Islamist militants have attacked tourists in Egypt in the past.
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The UN Security Council convened a few weeks ago for a periodic discussion on the Middle East, during which Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, delivered a speech detailing the rights of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel.
In his speech which went viral, Danon presented the “four pillars” that link Judaism to the land of Israel and even read from the Torah in Hebrew while wearing a yarmulke.
After it went viral, Ambassador Danon expressed his satisfaction with the reactions to his speech. “The speech resonated so well due to the power of truth, and its success was a welcome surprise, as it conveyed to the world the strength of the eternal connection between the Jewish people and the land of Israel.”

The Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Palestinian National Council (PNC) condemned the German parliament’s decision to define the BDS movement against Israel as anti-Semitic.
According to PNC, the decision of the German parliament is tantamount to encouraging and supporting the “occupation, settlement and racial discrimination” that Israel has been committing against Palestinian Authority Arabs for more than 71 years.
The PNC also expressed regret at the German legislators’ “submission to the pressures and baseless lies” of the Israeli “occupation” against the BDS movement, calling on the German parliament to rescind its decision and support the PA’s right to self-determination.

Some 1,250 Yemenite Shofars were stolen from a 70-year-old man’s Brooklyn home on Thursday, the New York Post reported.
The man was inside his garage in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brookyn when he discovered that a thief had come in through the garage door.
Over 30 boxes containing the ancient horns made from Kudu antelope in Africa were missing.
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The powerful Lebanese Hezbollah militia has thrived for decades on generous cash handouts from Iran, spending lavishly on benefits for its fighters, funding social services for its constituents and accumulating a formidable arsenal that has helped make the group a significant regional force, with troops in Syria and Iraq.
But since President Donald Trump introduced sweeping new restrictions on trade with Iran last year, raising tensions with Tehran that reached a crescendo in recent days, Iran’s ability to finance allies like Hezbollah has been curtailed. Hezbollah, the best funded and most senior of Tehran’s proxies, has seen a sharp fall in its revenue and is being forced to make draconian cuts to its spending, according to Hezbollah officials, members and supporters.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk died on May 17, just 10 days before his 104th birthday.
His literary agent, Amy Rennert, said he passed away in his sleep at his home in Palm Springs, Calif., where he settled after living for many years in Washington, D.C.
Wouk’s two-dozen works include The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Marjorie Morningstar and The Caine Mutiny, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952.

Top Israeli officials welcomed the German parliament’s condemnation on Friday of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement as “antisemitic.”
The non-binding motion — submitted by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, their Social Democrat coalition partners, as well as the Greens and Free Democrats — read, “The argumentation patterns and methods used by the BDS movement are antisemitic.”