Over the past year more than 70 fires were started by arsonists in the vicinity of Ramat Beit Shemesh. As a result, police opened an investigation to discover the identity of the arsonists.

Only six frum Jews made the cut on “City & State’s” Power 100 list of the one hundred most powerful and influential residents of Brooklyn’s 2.65 million people in the annual City & State list published this week.

Degel Hatorah chairman MK Moshe Gafne spoke out regarding a Haifa court ruling to order the cancelation of Monday’s planned MBD concert in Haifa. Gafne shouted “what is this madness and how can we continue like this” in his response to the court ruling that a concert for the chareidi tzibur in accordance with the chareidi lifestyle is prohibited by the nation’s highest court.

A powerful bloc in Iraq’s parliament called on Monday for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, following a series of airstrikes targeting Iran-backed Shiite militias in the country that have been blamed on Israel.
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This week, about 350 children in the Tosh Hasidic community north of Montreal, Canada, were vaccinated against measles, according to a report by CJ News on August 22, 2019.
This vaccination program was related to 5 cases of measles confirmed in Boisbriand, Quebec, during the summer of 2019.

Following another night of rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israeli communities on Sunday, Israeli fighter jets struck multiple Hamas positions including the office of a battalion commander and a Hamas base.
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Three masked robbers held up a midtown Manhattan Jewelry store in broad daylight.
Police say the men posed as customers during the heist at Avianne & Co. Jewelers in the diamond district just after noon on Sunday.

A husband and wife from Bnei Brak were apprehended by police on motzei Shabbos in Ramat Hasharon with thousands of shekels worth of drugs in their vehicle.
Police manning a routine checkpoint in Ramat Hasharon detected the couple in the vehicle, both in their 20s, as they tried to evade the inspection point.

Mrs Shira Shnerb’s daughter Rina HY”D, was murdered in the erev Shabbos bomb attack in Shomron, near the community of Dolev.
In a pained voice, she sends a clear message, one of Emunah in HKBH and the fact that “nothing is coincidental, and we must go on despite the tears…”
Mrs.

Judge Avraham Elyakim has ruled that the scheduled concert of Motty Steinmetz and Mordechai Ben David that was scheduled to take place in Haifa for men only, must be canceled.
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