Israel’s Foreign Ministry says it has summoned the French ambassador to protest remarks made by the former French envoy to Washington, in which he called Israel an “apartheid state.”
Former ambassador Gerard Araud on Tuesday replied to reports that Israel had summoned Ambassador Helene Le Gal.

Sen. Dick Durbin said Monday the attack on a Poway, California, synagogue was an act of “domestic terrorism” and accused President Trump of fueling hate crimes like it to rise due to his rhetoric.

From lunch with a civil rights leader in Harlem to meetings at a historically black university in South Carolina, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is making a new, concerted effort to appeal to African American voters and put behind him criticism of his record on race.

Chairman of the Yisrael Beitenu party, MK Avigdor Lieberman, announced he will not enter a coalition of a “halachic state”.
During an interview with Yediot Achronot, Lieberman added, “We in Yisrael Beitenu have five mandates against the 22 of the chareidim and chardalim (chareidi dati leumi), and we see our role to prevent the unilateral initiatives that are liable to turn the State of Israel into a halachic state.”

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein spoke with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday night, and recalled the horrific moments of the attack on his Chabad House in Poway, California that left him wounded, murdered congregant Lori Kaye HY”D, 60, and shot and wounded an eight-year-old girl and her uncle.

New York City has banned alcohol advertising on city property, citing health risks posed by excessive drinking.
“This order banning alcohol ads from City property reaffirms our commitment to health equity and our stand to protect the well-being of all New Yorkers,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, said Tuesday.

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IDF forces during the night, Monday to Tuesday, raided, shut down and confiscated equipment from a weapons manufacturing facilty in the PA (Palestinian Authority) village of Beit Ur al-Tahta, located in the Ramallah/el-Bireh governate.

A major power shortage at the International Space Station has delayed this week’s SpaceX supply run.
SpaceX was supposed to launch a shipment from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday.
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Three people were shot on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Tuesday afternoon.
According to WSOC-TV, three people have been injured and the suspect has been arrested.
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Interior Minister Aryeh Deri has announced putting a NIS 70,000 cap on payments to performers in cities performing on Yom HaAtzmaut around Israel.
Deri was responding to the outrageous reports that some leading Israeli performers are being paid extravagant amounts to perform this Independence Day, some receiving in excess of NIS 250,000 for a single one-hour performance, sums coming from government budgeting.