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A Satmar beis medrash located on Nechemia Street in Bnei Brak was targeted by vandals on Wednesday evening, apparently surrounding an election-related machlokes.

Infant Shalom Dov Ber Rosen Z”L was niftar on Thursday morning after being transported to Assaf HaRofeh Hospital in Rishon L’Tzion.
An ambulance was summoned to Tzemach Tzedek Street in Kfar Chabad on Wednesday morning, after the 6-month-old infant was found unconscious.
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The Council of Higher Education recently approved the decision of Education Minister and Chairman of the Council for Higher Education, Naftali Bennet, to establish a faculty of medicine at Ariel University.

Elections for 21st Knesset are over, and the question remains is how much did the election cost the nation? The various political parties entering the 21st Knesset will now receive funding based on their size.
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It appears that even after the counting of the IDF votes, the Shas party remains with eight seats and will be the third largest party in the new Knesset. This will undoubtedly lead party chairman, Minister Aryeh Deri, to present Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with a hefty list of demands regarding which cabinet portfolios and positions he seeks for party members.

The Israeli police opened an investigation on suspicion of stealing tons of sugar from the country’s emergency warehouses. Following an intelligence operation, an open investigation was opened, during which five suspects who were brought to Lahav 433 Israel Police Major Crimes Unit offices in Lod were detained for interrogation, where they are being investigated by the department’s Unit for Combating Economic Crime.

To date, three countries have landed on the moon. Today, that number may become four.
Israel launched its first lunar mission, a spacecraft called Beresheet, on Feb. 21, riding piggyback on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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Attorney Avraham Yustman send a letter on Thursday afternoon to the Justice Chanan Meltzer, Chairman of the Central Election Committee (CEC), requesting a delay in publishing the official results of the Knesset election.
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The Satmar Rebbe, Hagaon HaRav Yoel Teitelbaum’s letter explaining his psak against participation in Israeli elections, is going to be auctioned off after Pesach.
The auction, which is being organized by the Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem, was revealed to the public on Tuesday, election day in Israel.

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Knesset elections are behind us and it is time to focus on Pesach. At the Kosel, the team was out on Wednesday morning to remove the kvitlach ahead of yomtov as well as to inspect the integrity of the stones, to prevent any from falling.