Michael Cohen, the former lawyer, media attack dog and fixer for President Donald Trump, said Monday there “remains much to be told” as he heads to prison to begin a three-year prison sentence for crimes including campaign finance violations related to hush-money payments made on Trump’s behalf.

It has been a half year since the municipal election and Tiveria Mayor Ron Kobi hasn’t succeeded in passing a city budget and a coalition has not been formed. This is because the mayor’s party is a minority and therefore, he has not been able to pass his budget.

Boeing said Sunday that it discovered after airlines had been flying its 737 Max plane for several months that a safety alert in the cockpit was not working as intended, yet it didn’t disclose that fact to airlines or federal regulators until after one of the planes crashed.
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Yeshivas Rinat Yisrael in Carmiel is facing a difficult situation following the Chodesh Nissan bein hazmanim. The yeshiva reports it is being targeted by angry secular neighbors, and the harassment has reached a new level, so much so that it has delayed the opening of the new zman.

Tragedy has struck the Lakewood community on Monday with the tragic Petira of a 20-month-old child.
Sources tell YWN that the child was found in vehicle, apparently forgotten there earlier this morning.
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Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker is proposing that all gun owners be licensed by the federal government, a process that would include an interview and safety training.
National licensing is one of more than a dozen specific proposals in a sweeping gun control agenda the U.S.

The United Right-Wing party on Monday held its second coalition negotiating meeting with Likud, presenting the party’s impressive wish list to Likud representatives, which they explain they will have to familiarize themselves with the document.

A planned meeting on Monday, May 6, 2019, between Yahadut Hatorah and Likud coalition negotiators was canceled at the behest of Yahadut Hatorah, as the chareidi lawmakers were angered after learning of the mass Chilul Shabbos that will take place as Israel hosts the Eurovision Song Contest.

An Alabama lawmaker who remarked “kill them now or kill them later” during debate on an abortion bill said he was trying to criticize politicians’ focus on abortion as they neglect social services.
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The second day of Rosh Chodesh Iyar passed with a minimal showing of Women of the Wall (WoW) at the Kosel on Monday. There was less than twenty women present, surprising many as a new government is forming and the matter of the future of an egalitarian prayer area and other issues important to Reform Jewry are yet to be determined.