While the IDF remains prepared for “any eventuality” southern district officers explain, the military is standing down from its recent alert status along the Gaza border as the situation has calmed. Read more on Yeshiva World News
A 3-year-old boy was scalded by boiling soup on Sunday afternoon in his home in Elad. United Hatzalah volunteers rushed to the scene of the emergency and began medical treatment on the young boy whow as screaming from agony. Read more on Yeshiva World News
The claims of the New Right party headed by Naftali Bennet and Ayelet Shaked – which did not pass the electoral threshold because there were irregularities in counting the votes pertaining to the ‘double envelopes’, received a harsh response from the Central Elections Committee.
For most of the nation, voters believed that the results announced last week by Chairman of the Central Elections Committee Justice Chanan Meltzer were final. However, almost immediately thereafter, Naftali Bennet of “New Right” learned he was less than 1400 votes from the minimum threshold.
According to multiple reports quoting Syrian opposition websites, a Russian delegation reportedly left Syria on Sunday and had with them the coffin containing the remains of Israeli spy Eli Cohen.
A motorcyclist was seriously injured in a motor vehicle accident that took place between his motorcycle and a car on Sunday afternoon on Jerusalem’s HaDaf Hayomi Street in the Neve Orot section of Ramot. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Israeli airline Arkia turned around one of its planes, flight IZ272, from Barcelona to Tel Aviv, after an explosion was heard 10 minutes after take-off. The flight, which was being operated by the Italian charter company Neos, experienced a malfunction in one of its engines and had to make an emergency landing.
The head of the Shuvu Yisrael Institute, Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, was crowned by representatives of the King of Morocco to the Chief Rabbi of the Muslim State. In a traditional ceremony held in the city of Rabat, the capital of Morocco, with the participation of representatives of the Jewish community, the rabbi was dressed in the traditional religious garb.
The chareidi parties, Shas and Yahadut Hatorah, both having expressed their loyalty to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to form the next coalition government, are now hearing unwanted rumors. According to reports on Israel Radio, based on credible rumors, PM Netanyahu has been taking with Benny Gantz, chairman of the Blue and White party, and Avigdor Lieberman, who chairs the Yisrael Beitenu party.
An Israeli airstrike on a military position in central Syria early Saturday wounded six soldiers and destroyed several buildings, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported.
SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying the airstrike near the town of Masyaf, in Hama province, hit a military academy widely known as the Accounting School.
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