YWN-Israel regrets to inform you of the petira of HaGaon HaRav Avraham Tucker ZT”L, who was niftar in Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Hospital on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, at the age of 85.
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A sudden White House announcement that a U.S. aircraft carrier and a bomber wing would be deployed in the Persian Gulf to counter Iran comes just days ahead of the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw America from Tehran’s nuclear deal.

The terrorist who brutally murdered Tekoa teenager 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher HY”D has been deemed mentally competent to stand trial.
Arafat Erfayieh, 29, of Hebron, was sent for a psychiatric evaluation at the end of April.

Bitter over the Mueller report, Democrats consider a subpoena for the unredacted report, voting to hold Barr in contempt of Congress.
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Memorial Day begins in Israel on Tuesday evening at 8:00PM with the sounding of a one-minute siren. Israel will remember its 23,741 fallen IDF soldiers and 3,150 civilians killed in terror attacks, including the four victims of the latest round of Hamas rocket fire from Gaza earlier this week.

There have been reports that Yahadut Hatorah has decided to halt coalition negotiations with Likud representatives due to the Chilul Shabbos expected to surround the Eurovision Song Contest.

Despite the State Attorney’s intention to recommend indictments against Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit gave his approval for the appointment of Deri as minister in the fifth Netanyahu government.
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Connecticut’s Attorney General gave state lawmakers the legal go-ahead Monday to pursue legislation that would prevent parents from exempting their children from vaccinations for religious reasons, a move that several states are considering amid a significant measles outbreak.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller was expected to step down days after concluding his investigation in March. Yet he remains a Justice Department employee — and the department won’t say why.
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New York and New Jersey want to know how the Internal Revenue Service decided to stop requiring donor information from certain nonprofit organizations — among them big political spenders.
Monday’s lawsuit against the tax agency, from New York Attorney General Letitia James and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, comes as Montana and New Jersey are challenging the policy change itself in a separate case.