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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.

The Israeli military has demolished the family home of a Palestinian terrorist charged with the horrific murder of a 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher.
Israeli forces bulldozed two apartments belonging to the father of Arafat Erfayieh in the Hebron on Friday.

Israel’s Defense Ministry says the country’s military exports were $7.5 billion last year, down 18% from the previous year.
The ministry said on Wednesday that despite the drop, the 2018 figures were a “major success” and the second-highest level in the past decade.

A 10-year-old boy in Israel is in critical condition after he contracted the measles
The young boy was hospitalized at Schneider Medical Center in Petah Tikva is attached to a ventilator.
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The Israeli start-up behind last week’s failed lunar landing said Thursday that it is still investigating a malfunction that caused the spacecraft to plummet to the moon’s surface.