The Trump administration quickly declared enthusiastic support Tuesday for the Venezuelan opposition effort to spark a military uprising against embattled President Nicolas Maduro, hoping for decisive action in the political crisis that has engulfed the South American nation.
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B’chasdei Hashem, after 37 years, the remains of IDF soldier Zachary Baumel HY”D, who was killed in the First Lebanon War in 1982, were returned to Israel for kvura.

On Monday, MK Miki Heimowitz of the Blue and White party, turned to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein with a request, that her seat in Knesset, which if lined with leather, be changed for one that is not.
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Over the past few months, dozens of young Charedi men and women have been arrested for smuggling contraband items in Manchester, England. Recently, two Charedim spent Seder night in a holding cell in the airport in the city.
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President Donald Trump and Democratic congressional leaders agreed Tuesday to work together on a $2 trillion infrastructure package — but put off for later the difficult question of how to pay for it.
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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.