The Shin Bet announced on Sunday that it prevented a severe terror attack planned around election day after uncovering a Hamas network in the West Bank.
On March 31, Shin Bet arrested 23-year-old Yihya Abu Dia, an operative recruited by the Gaza-based Islamist group to carry out a suicide attack near the time of the Israel’s April 9 national elections. Abu Dia had been in online contact with senior Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip who instructed him to purchase a car and rent a storage room in order to prepare a car bomb and conduct surveillance activity to identify an ideal attack point in the Ma’aleh Adumim area concentrated with buses, soldiers and civilians.

The driver in a hit-and-run in Yerushalayim last week that left an 11-year-old boy in critical condition has turned himself in to authorities, police said Sunday.
Police had been searching for the suspect since last Sunday’s collision in the Ramot neighborhood that injured a child, who has not been named, who remains in critical condition at Shaare Zedek hospital.
Police said the day after the crash that they knew the identity of the suspected driver, a man in his 20s, who had borrowed the car.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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After former Vice President Joe Biden, 76, announced his 2020 presidential campaign, the former Delaware Senator told reporters that he purposely urged Barack Obama to hold off on declaring his approval.
“I asked President Obama not to endorse,” Biden told reporters on Thursday. “Whoever wins this nomination should win it on their own merits.”
A source familiar with Obama’s thinking also told PEOPLE it is “unlikely that he will throw his support behind a specific candidate this early in the primary process – preferring instead to let the candidates make their cases directly to the voters.”
Read more here.
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A crowdfunding campaign established to help the victims of an attack on a Chabad synagogue near San Diego, California, raised nearly $50,000 in less than 24 hours.
More than 600 people donated on GoFundMe, with many of the donations ranging from $10 to $36.
The donations will “be used to pay for any necessary medical operations for the victims, funeral services, synagogue [repairs] or anything else the synagogue would need assistance with,” wrote the person who set up the page, who identified himself or herself as Cam N.

Lori Gilbert Kaye, the woman killed in the Chabad of Poway shooting was hailed as a hero after it emerged she was hit when she dived in front of Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, 57, the Rabbi of the shul.
Close friend, Audrey Jacobs, wrote a moving Facebook tribute praising her as a “jewel of our community” dedicated to good deeds and charity.
“Your final good deed was taking the bullets for Rabbi () Goldstein to save his life,” she wrote, noting that she “leaves behind a devastated husband and a 22-year-old daughter.”
Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs, Naftali Bennett, called Gilbert-Kaye a “hero who will be remembered in Jewish history.”

Thousands of participants took part in the levaya of the Kaliver Rebbe on Sunday, who was nifter at the age of 96.
During the levaya, Rav Yitzchak Bronstein, a talmid of the Rebbe, announced that according to the will, the Rebbe’s step-grandson Rav Yisrael Mordechai Yoel Horowitz will continue his path.
The new Rebbe is only 28 years old, but is considered to be a gaon in Torah, and serves as the Rosh Yeshiva of the Kaliver Torah institutions throughout Israel. Over the past year, he has managed to raise huge sums for the Kaliver institutions that were in danger of collapse.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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By Gordon Dale, Ph.D.
On the evening of the 18th of Nissan 5779 (April 22, 2019), the Modzitz community of Brooklyn celebrated Pesach with musical joy befitting the holiday. The annual Pesach kumzitz was held in the home of R’ Aron Orlander, a devoted student of R’ Ben Zion Shenker, zt’l, and was co-led by R’ Dovid Bick, a close friend and student of Rabbi Shenker. Featuring lively singing of Modzitz classics, as well as treats from lesser-known corners of the canon, the event showcased the breadth and depth of the Modzitz repertoire. A highlight of the evening was surely the musical offerings of R’ Andy Statman, whose virtuosic clarinet playing demonstrated his attention to musical nuance and decades of close study of the repertoire.

When a gunman opened fire in a shul in California yesterday, killing one and injuring three others, Lori Kaye jumped between the shooter and the rabbi. Kaye, 60, was shot at the shul and died at a nearby hospital. In addition to Kaye, at least three others were wounded in the shooting at Congregation Chabad in Poway, north of San Diego. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, 57, was shot in the hand  and suffered what looked like defensive wounds to both of his index fingers, a doctor at the Palomar Medical Center said.
In the following sudio, Rabbi Goldstein recounts what occurred:

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