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B’chasdei Hashem, officials at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem reported there is an additional improvement in the condition of terror victim Gavriel Lavi, who was seriously wounded by an Arab terrorist in a recent stabbing attack near Shar Shechem of Jerusalem’s Old City.

Republicans and Democrats are banding together to try and stop the Trump administration’s sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia.
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and others are introducing 22 Senate resolutions to halt the sales.
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Mrs. Malka Ilovitz of Mevo Modi’im, the wife of Moshe Eliezer, who remains missing since the Friday before Lag B’Omer is once again calling at the public at large to assist in efforts to locate Moshe.
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New tools are coming to fight robocalls, but don’t expect unwanted calls to disappear.
Political gridlock could derail bills aimed at beefing up enforcement and forcing phone companies to do more.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who is 77, is trying to make yet another political comeback, officially announcing his candidacy to run in the Labor Party primaries, hoping to once again serve as the party’s leader, Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) reported.

Authorities say two Florida burglars thought they were clever when they used a blowtorch to break into an ATM machine, but they never hit the jackpot.
Instead, the burning heat actually welded the ATM’s hinges shut.
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Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker has released a housing proposal that includes a tax credit designed to help make rentals more affordable plus zoning changes and new funding aimed at boosting construction of units for low-income renters.
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President Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner sat down for a rare interview that aired Sunday night on HBO. The contentious interview was conducted by Johnathon Swan of Axios.

Security camera footage captured this entire incident, as armed robbers beat a Paris jewelry store owned by jews, and stole all his merchandise, Wednesday morning.
Sources tell YWN that store owner Gil Shmuel Hadad was inside his store, when a man rang the bell.

China on Wednesday launched a rocket from a mobile platform at sea for the first time, sending a five commercial satellites and two others containing experimental technology into space.
The Long March 11 rocket blasted off from a launch pad aboard a commercial ship in the Yellow Sea off the coast of Shandong province, marking the 306th launch of a rocket in the Long March series, but the first one at sea.