Chairman of the Blue and White party, Benny Gantz, told journalist Ilana Dayan that he will not sit in a coalition with Binyamin Netanyahu, and he will lead a combative opposition and remain optimistic as, “I am 100% certain that I will be prime minister” he concluded.
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William Weld, a former governor of Massachusetts who two years ago ran for vice president on the Libertarian Party ticket, on Monday became the first Republican to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 primaries.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette won Pulitzer Prizes on Monday and were recognized along with the Capital Gazette of Maryland for their coverage of the horrifying mass shootings in 2018 at a high school, a synagogue and a newsroom itself.

A 42-year-old man from Tel Aviv was in the maternity unit of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv a few days ago, after his son was born. Now, he has been diagnosed with the measles.
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Two children, ages 6 and 8, were struck by a bus on Nachal Kishon Street in Beit Shemesh on Monday morning, April 15, 2019, listed in light and moderate condition.
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The Ministry of Transportation is moving forward with an experimental project, that commuters using minibus service in Tel Aviv will be able to order a minibus servicing Gush Dan via a smartphone app.
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Capt. Sanford Cohen counts down the end of his deployment in Kuwait by the number of Shabbats, rather than days.
“It’s a lot more manageable,” said Cohen, 38, from Staten Island, N.Y.
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday released 10 years of his long-anticipated tax returns as he campaigns for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
The returns provide a more detailed look at Sanders’ finances than when he ran for president in 2016.

As a catastrophic inferno tore through a cultural treasure, President Donald Trump assessed the response from 4,000 miles away and offered unsolicited advice for firefighters trying to save Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral.

President Donald Trump spoke over the weekend with former President Jimmy Carter about his China policies and “numerous other topics.”
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley says Trump reached out to Carter on Saturday after the former president wrote him “a beautiful letter” about ongoing trade negotiations between the U.S.