Members of the opposition, the chareidi and religious parties, have done it again in Tiveria. Once again, Mayor Ron Kobi tried to have his city council pass a budget, but it was defeated on Tuesday night in a 9-to-6 vote.
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Less than two hours into the holiday of Lag B’Omer and firefighters from around the region have been called to a massive fire that broke out in the Ramot Forest northwest of Jerusalem.
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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson appeared to think Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) was questioning him about Oreo cookies during his congressional testimony, when she was in fact asking him about foreclosure properties.
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The IDF on Tuesday night neutralized a terrorist about to throw a firebomb at a passing vehicle on Highway 60 near el-Hader Junction.
Members of the Etzion Brigade patrolling the area detected the terrorists near the major vehicular thoroughfare.

Al Jazeera suspended two “journalists” for producing a video that claimed the Zionist movement “benefited” from the Holocaust and that Jewish people “exaggerated” the outcome.
“The victims of the Nazis, who were following Hitler’s orders, exceeded 20 million people.

Tara, one of the major dairy suppliers in Israel, on Tuesday turned to the state regulatory committee that regulates pricing seeking an increase in the price of dairy products under state control.
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Joe Biden is responding to President Donald Trump’s latest attack on his candidacy, saying Trump can’t understand the difficult decisions that struggling families must make.
Speaking Tuesday to high-dollar donors in an Orlando suburb, the former vice president referenced Trump’s criticism a day earlier that Biden had deserted his native Pennsylvania by moving as a child to Delaware, a state he represented in the Senate for 36 years.

There was a home-invasion in a home located in the Sephardic Jewish community in Flatbush, Wednesday afternoon.
Sources tell YWN that at around 1:30PM, a man forced his way into a home in the vicinity of East 1 Street between Avenue S and Avenue T.

An 8-day-old boy was injured in a car accident on his way home from his own Bris Milah on Tuesday afternoon. The incident took place when a bus and two private cars collided on Golda Meir Boulevard in Jerusalem.
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Preparations for Lag B’Omer are completed at the tziyun of Shimon HaTzaddik in the Shimon HaTzaddik (Sheikh Jarrah) neighborhood of Yerushalayim.
It is the minhag of many Yerushalmim to visit the tziyun on Lag B’Omer before or after returning from the tziyun of the Rashbi in Meron.