The Chairman of the Vaad Yeshivos, HaRav Chaim Aharon Kaufman, has reached agreement with IDF officials by which bnei torah reporting to induction centers for their first draft order, the ‘tzav rishon’, will have special provisions.

A Tennessee elementary school will no longer have a student portray Adolf Hitler Y”MS in its living history exhibit after a group of students began giving Nazi salutes.
Rutherford County school district spokesman James Evans said in an email Wednesday that the fifth-grade student portraying Hitler was supposed to give a speech and a Nazi salute as part of the exhibit.

Palestinians on Wednesday marked the 71st anniversary of the 1948 war around Israel’s creation with protests across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Thousands of people streamed to the Gaza-Israel frontier as the terror group Hamas, which controls Gaza, announced a general strike, closing schools and public institutions to allow for a large turnout.

170 children from the New Sephardi Talmid Torah in Jerusalem are without a building since the building they were in, a private building, was sold by the town, leaving them without a home.
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HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita is quoted saying the Eurovision song contest taking place in Tel Aviv poses a “sakona to all of the yishuv in Eretz Yisrael” due to the massive Chilul Shabbos connected to the international event as it will take place this motzei Shabbos.

A deal was signed between Shas party representatives in Elad and Mayor Yisrael Porush, bringing Shas into the coalition running the city. The agreement was signed after months of Shas remaining in opposition but changed position after some of the Degel Hatorah councilman decided to enter the coalition as well.

Yahadut Hatorah MK Yisrael Eichler continues to attack Yisrael Beitenu party chairman MK Avigdor Lieberman in the media. Speaking to KAN Reshet Bet Radio hosts Kalman Lipskind and Assaf Lieberman, Eichler explained that “The only thing holding up the formation of a coalition is Lieberman.

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In what is becoming an all too often occurrence, hoodlums who claim to be chareidim on Tuesday evening hurled stones at firemen who were responding to a call in an abandoned building located in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem.

About half a million people at a cost of NIS 15.5 million will visit the tziyun of the Rashbi in Meron during Lag B’Omer. The Ministry of Religious Services presents all the data for the Lag B’Omer Campaign, 2019.
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A fired broke out in a kindergarten located in Givat Ze’ev on Tuesday evening, in an apartment on Agan HaAyalot Street.
The apartment was full of smoke when the fire department arrived on the scene.