In line with first requests from the United Right-Wing party, Rabbi Rafi Peretz is demanding the Education portfolio and the person in the second slot, held by Betzalel Smotrich, will receive the Justice Ministry portfolio.
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A Jewish man was arrested on Sunday morning, the first day of Chol Hamoed Pesach after he prostrated himself on Har Habayis, which is prohibited for Jews to do.
YWN NOTES: Gedolei Yisrael over the generations and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel prohibit visiting Har Habayis, which they explain carries the punishment of karess.

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There was an accident at Tel el-Bida Junction on motzei Shabbos. MDA ambulances from the Jordan Valley district responded to the scene, north of Mecholah, along with PA (Palestinian Authority) ambulances.

A 50-year-old Motorcyclist was killed on Sunday night on the Ayalon Highway near Holon near the Dov Hoz interchange. He was initially in serious condition following an accident that took place between his motorcycle and a private car.
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Despite the unseasonably cold weather, tens of thousands of mispallalim participated in Chol Hamoed Pesach Birchas Kohanim at the Kosel on Monday, the second day of Chol Hamoed Pesach in Eretz Yisrael.

On Sunday night, YWN-Israel reported that an 11-year-old child was struck and seriously injured in a hit and run on Golda Meir Blvd. in Jerusalem.
Police investigators have since reported locating the vehicle in Givat Ze’ev and they are now in the process of finding the driver of the vehicle responsible for seriously injuring the child.

An 11-year-old boy was in serious condition Sunday night, after he was struck by a car in a hit-and-run accident on Golda Meir Avenue in Jerusalem.
Emergency medical personnel from United Hatzalah and Magen David Adom responded to the scene and provided medical care to the child before evacuating him to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

There was shock among mispallalim of the Tiferes Yisrael Shul in Tzefas, as a Sefer Torah valued at $70,000 was discovered missing on the first day of Yom Tov.
Mispallalim opened the Aron Kodesh in the Shul located on Derech Chassidim Street in Tzefas’ Old City, and found the abandoned Eitz Chaim in the aron while the parchment, the actual Sefer Torah, was gone.

The snowy Mount Hermon site was painted white on Sunday morning, the first day of Chol Hamoed Pesach in Israel, having placed a fresh coat of white powder on the ski resort.
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The Kaliver Rebbe Shlita has been showing signs if increased weakness over the past two weeks, preventing the rebbe from attending Yomtov tefilos in his beis medrash.
There is much concern among chassidim and others, as it is reported the rebbe fell at home two weeks ago, and his condition has deteriorated since; preventing him from bearing weight on the injured leg.