Ministry of Labor & Social Affairs Minister Chaim Katz has launched a plan to address safety on construction sites. The initiative addressed 37 local authorities, including Jerusalem, Yavneh, Charish, Be’er Sheva, Kiryat Gat, Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv and more.

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, approved changing the name of Natzrat Illit (Upper Nazareth) to Nof HaGalil.
Mayor Ronen Flut conducted a referendum among residents of the city regarding a name change.
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The two-year-old boy who is in critical condition after drowning in a pool in the community of Meitzad on Wednesday is in need of Rachmei Shomayim.
HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita was updated on the incident shortly after is occurred, and he instructed the family to add the name Refoel.

What appeared to be just another apartment in the chareidi city of Modi’in Illit was in fact used for drugs. The Petach Tikvah Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday released the chareidi suspect without restrictions.
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Did you know that one of Israel’s greatest heroes went by the name of Kamel Amin Thaabet. It sounds unlikely, but this was actually the pseudonym of Mossad agent extraordinaire Eli Cohen who infiltrated the Syrian power elite in the 1960s and used his privileged position to send confidential plans about the country’s military and government back to Israel.

Jerusalem area police operating in the southern capital apprehended a PA (Palestinian Authority) resident with a yarmulke and tzitzis on Tuesday, believing he was going to disguise himself to permit remaining inside the capital illegally.
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This week has seen a dramatic rise in the number of balloon bombs that have been launched from Gaza at Israel and have caused a massive number of fires across the southwest region of the country.
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A Sefer Tehillim is being written on klaf (parchment), which will be located close to the operating rooms at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.

Rabbi Avraham Salim, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Meor Torah, was injured in a car accident on Wednesday in Sao Paulo, Brazil, while he was on a fundraising trip for his yeshiva.
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A rare Minyan was held this morning in the only Shul in Bahrain. The reason: A group of Jews who were in Bahrain for the Peace conference, including Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump’s special adviser for Middle East peace.