Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday he wants to reclaim his old Senate seat from Alabama, where he’s been a conservative icon and dominant vote-getter since the 1990s.
But it’s already clear that President Donald Trump’s enmity toward him, along with an established field of competitors, means he’ll have to battle his way to the Republican nomination.

A meeting of the Finance Committee, headed by MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ), was held on Tuesday on the topic of providing compensation to owners of restaurants and halls in the Gaza Envelope area, due to income lost as a result of the ongoing rocket attacks from terror groups in the Gaza Strip.

Thousands of Beitar residents participated in a Hachnasas Sefer Torah on Tuesday evening in memory of the Ginsburg children killed in a fire a year ago.
The rabbanim of the city led the procession with the children’s father, R’ Reuven Ginsburg, as well as Beitar’s mayor, Meir Rubinstein.

A Bnei Brak resident in his 30s was arraigned in the Hadera Magistrate’s Court on Thursday after being arrested for growing a commercial quantity of marijuana in a Caesarea villa.
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Juul Labs said Thursday it will halt sales of its best-selling, mint-flavored electronic cigarettes as it struggles to survive a nationwide backlash against vaping.
The voluntary step comes days after new government research showed that Juul is the top brand among high schoolers who use e-cigarettes and that many prefer mint.

The people have spoken and despite the ‘liberal terrorism‘ that led to the cancelation of the evening in tribute to Rav Elimelech Firer and his Ezra LeMarpe organization, a charidy campaign was launched and when last checked by YWN-Israel on Thursday evening (ET), over NIS 2.1 million has been raised for the chessed organization.

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com)
A woman had gone through a bitter divorce. Subsequently, the husband had neither given her nor their daughter any financial support. The woman had found a wonderful second husband who took a warm interest in the child.
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Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, is opening the door to a 2020 presidential campaign.
Bloomberg announced earlier this year that he would not seek the Democratic nomination.
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As seen in the accompanying video, Rambam Hospital in Haifa on Thursday morning had to deal with flooding, which led to extended waiting times in some areas.
Operating rooms, MRI and other services were halted temporarily as a result of water main break in the hospital, which led to flooding in some areas.

The family of a resident of the United States who requested to be buried in Jerusalem, is now suing the Jerusalem Chevra Kadisha for NIS 250,000 because despite the agreement with them that the levaya would take place at 10:00AM, the body only arrived at 3:00PM.