Belaaz reports that Shas MK Moshe Arbel appealed to the Egyptian ambassador in Israel to allow the opening of the kever of Rav Yaakov Abuchatzeira in Damanhur, Egypt.
In the letter, MK Moshe Arbel requested to allow Jews to visit the kever for at least for days each month.
At the end of his letter, he remarked, “I have no doubt that the opening of the holy place will bring great blessing to Egypt and its president, and will encourage tourism from all over the world to pray at the grave and stay in Egyptian hotels in Cairo or Alexandria, which will encourage tourism and strengthen the Egyptian economy.” (Belaaz)
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Police in Argentina have apprehended the last member of a gang who assaulted and brutally beat the country’s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich, in his home on February 25, Israel Hayom reports.
The man is the sixth member of the gang to be arrested after police captured the other five in March and April of this year and is believed to have driven the gang members to Davidovich’s home at the time of the attack.
While the attack was initially thought to have been anti-Semitic in nature, police later said the motive behind the incident appears to be criminal, and that the gang behind the attack was a gang of burglars who, in addition to breaking into the rabbi’s home, had also broken into other homes in the area.

A new study released Thursday indicates that among young Jewish Europeans, an overwhelming majority believe antisemitism is a problem in their countries and is getting worse, causing four in ten to consider emigration.
The study, entitled Young Jewish Europeans: Perceptions and Experiences of Antisemitism, is based on a European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights survey, and was released under the aegis of the agency along with the European Commission and the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.
It surveyed attitudes among European Jews between the ages of 16 and 34, particularly their perceptions of and reactions to antisemitism.

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All are asked to daven for the wellbeing of Yita bas Faiga and Rochel bas Yita, a mother and her child who were injured upon being hit by a car in the chassidishe enclave of South Blooming Grove, NY, near Kiryas Yoel.
Mother and daughter have been airlifted to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla in critical condition.
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An exhibition that offers the public a glimpse into the role of faith as a mechanism for survival during the Holocaust opened at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland on Monday.
“Through the Lens of Faith” was arranged and organized by the Amud Aish Memorial Museum in New York, which was founded by the Jewish philanthropists and businessman Elly Kleinman, and works to present the experiences of Holocaust victims and survivors, and how faith helped them persevere.
World-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, whose previous projects include the Jewish Museum Berlin and the renovation where the Twin Towers stood in New York City, helped design the exhibit, which was installed on a path veering off the route leading to the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum.

The California Department of Justice (DOJ) released a report on July 2 revealing that anti-Semitic hate crimes increased by 21 percent in 2018 from the year prior.
The report documented 126 instances of anti-Semitic hate crimes in 2018, an increase from 104 in 2017. However, it was a decline from the 160 instances of anti-Semitic hate crimes in 2009.
Jews were the most frequent target of anti-religious hate crimes in California in 2018, followed by the “anti-other religion” category at 30 instances, 28 instances of anti-Muslim hate crimes and 10 instances of anti-Catholic hate crimes.
Despite the increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes, hate crimes overall in California dropped by 2.5 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to the report.