Around 400 Orthodox Jews gathered at the Intercontinental Hotel in Manhattan on Tuesday to give thanks to President Trump, and to throw their support behind his reelection campaign.

President Donald Trump says he’ll be releasing the transcript of his April telephone conversation with Ukraine’s new leader “before week’s end!”
Trump’s promise to release an account of his first conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy comes a day before House impeachment investigators begin public hearings.

Baha Abu al-Ata was one of the top leaders of Islamic Jihad in Palestine (PIJ), which is funded by Iran, and was behind several attacks on Israel this year, including rocket strikes on Israel’s south in August, April and September.
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Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein slammed the members of the Arab Joint List for their reaction to the IDF operation which eliminated top Islamic leader Baha Abu Al Ata overnight Monday.

The Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim, HaRav Shlomo Amar, wrote a letter to public officials on Tuesday in light of the tense security situation in the south, encouraging them to strengthen shemiras Shabbos, Kikar Shabbos reported.

A group of seminary girls have alot to thank hashem for today, after they escaped what could have been a catastrophe.
According to information provided to YWN by parents of some students, the seminary had plans to go to the Negev on a trip today, but due to the deteriorating security situation in the South, it was cancelled.

Due to the security situation in the south, the Home Front Command gave instructions to cancel all events on Tuesday, including weddings. Due to this, a large number of couples who were supposed to get married on Tuesday evening in Israel’s south received messages that their weddings will not be held as planned.

Roshei Yeshivahs of yeshivahs located in the south of Israel, which is being bombarded with rockets from the Gaza Strip following Israel’s targeted assassination of an Islamic Jihad commander, called Hagaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky on Tuesday morning to ask whether to cancel the regular learning sedarim.

YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden Petira of Rav Hillel Mandel, a well-known Mechanech for the past 30 years. He was 62.
Rav Mandel currently lived in Chicago, where he served as the Menahel of the Veitzner Yeshiva.

In a move signaling that war is imminent chas v’sholom, Israel has ordered the closure of “all non-essential businesses” from Gaza up to Gush Dan. This includes Tel Aviv, Holon, Ramat Gan, Givatayim and Rishon L’Tzion.
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