Minister Yoav Galant, Political-Security Cabinet member and former IDF commander spoke about Hezbollah’s attack on Israel and the IDF’s response in an interview on Ynet on Monday morning. “We won’t reach a situation in which Hezbollah drags Lebanon into a war,” Galant said.

The names of hurricanes may change, but one thing seems to stay the same: Misinformation spreads quickly during these dangerous storms.
Hurricane Dorian, an extremely powerful Category 4 storm that has brought misery to the Bahamas since making landfall Sunday, is expected to be no different.

Iran acknowledged for the first time on Monday that a rocket at its Imam Khomeini Space Center exploded after satellite photos showed the blast last week, with an official saying a technical malfunction during a test caused the explosion.
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The U.S. and Poland signed an agreement Monday to cooperate on new 5G technology as concerns grow about Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.
Vice President Mike Pence and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki signed the deal in Warsaw, where Pence is filling in for President Donald Trump, who scrapped his trip at the last minute because of Hurricane Dorian.

Following a Hezbollah attack on northern Israel on Sunday, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz announced that he ordered a suspension of Blue and White’s election campaign. “There is no opposition or coalition regarding action against anyone who tries to harm Israeli citizens or Israeli sovereignty,” Gantz said on Sunday.

Hurricane Dorian unleashed massive flooding across the Bahamas on Monday, pummeling the islands with so much wind and water that authorities urged people to find floatation devices and grab hammers to break out of their attics if necessary.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson shot down the notion that he wanted an early election to secure Brexit, insisting Monday that it wasn’t the way to get a deal done.
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Yemeni medics said on Monday they pulled dozens of bodies from the rubble of a Houthi rebel-run detention center that was hit a day earlier by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, killing over 100 people and wounding dozens.
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YWN regrets to inform you of the Pertira of Hagaon HaRav Naftali Shmerler ZATZAL after an illness. He was 64.
Rav Shmerler was the Av Beis Din of Machzikei Hadas in Zurich Switzerland, and one of the Rabbonim of Biyan.

The gunman in a spate of violence after a routine traffic stop in West Texas had just been fired from his job and called both police and the FBI before the shooting began, authorities said Monday.
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