Earlier today, IDF troops located an explosive device that was placed on a road near Elon Moreh, northeast of Shechem. Additional troops arrived at the scene and blocked the road as police sappers neutralized the explosive device.
The murder attempt follows the attack Friday at Ein Bubin Spring near the town of Dolev in Binyamin where 17-year-old Rena Shnerb was murdered in a bombing.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Representative Jerry Nadler visited the home of the revered Munkatcher Rebbe Shlita Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Rabinovich, where he was warmly welcomed by the Rebbe. The meeting served as opportunity to discuss various issues personally important to the Rebbe and to the community at large regarding criminal justice reform as it relates to the recently enacted First Step Act. The Congressman was accompanied by Ezra Friedlander, CEO of The Friedlander Group.

President Rivlin paid a condolence visit to the Shnerb family at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital after the murder of family member Rena Zel in a terror attack near Dolev on Friday, August 23rd.

He said “Your spirit and abilities, Rabbi Eitan, strengthen us. We cry but we also get up. It is most important for us to continue choose life and stay strong “

He was visiting the father of the family, Rabbi Eitan Shnerb who was wounded in the attack, and his son Dvir, who was more severely injure; both in the same room now. Near their bed were many close family members and friends who came to strengthen Eitan and Dvir and Tamar, the additional daughter of the Rabbi who was staying with them in the room.

The Mesivta Tiferes Yerushalayim (MTJ), one of the oldest yeshiva buildings in America located at 145 East Broadway, was vandalized with spray-painted symbols.
A worker there said he left Friday afternoon, and when he returned at 9 p.m., the graffiti was there.
The NYPD is investigating and looking at surveillance video. The hate crimes unit has been notified.
Read more at ABC News.
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Joe Walsh joins the race for the Republican nomination in 2020, GOP financier Dan Palmer weighs in.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have decided to reduce the amount of fuel transferred to the Gaza Strip by half, in a rebuke for the barrage of rocket fire at Israel over the past week, a Palestinian official said Monday.
A planned transfer was set to take place Monday morning through the Kerem Shalom crossing on the Israeli-Gaza border to Gaza’s only power plant.
Gazans rely on aid primarily from Qatar that is funneled through Israel but is sometimes halted during times of violent escalation on the border, putting pressure on the ruling Islamist group Hamas.
Read more at i24NEWS.

President Donald Trump said Monday that the long-awaited “deal of the century” on Middle East peace could be revealed before Israel’s September elections.
Just last week, the president told reporters that the plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict likely won’t be unveiled until after the elections, but bits and pieces maybe revealed beforehand.
But speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the G7 summit in France on Monday, Trump said that both Israelis and Palestinians are interested in reaching a peace deal.
“I think the Palestinians will be happy to get US funding again and make a deal,” Trump said.

Israeli security forces have captured the terrorists responsible for the bomb attack Friday which killed an Israeli teen and injured her father and brother.
IDF forces working with the Shin Bet internal security agency captured the terrorists in a pre-dawn operation Monday morning, days after 17-year-old Rina Shnerb was killed in a bombing attack at the Ein Bubin spring outside of the Israeli town of Dolev in Samaria.
According to a report Sunday night by Channel 12, the explosive device which killed Rina and injured her father and brother included some three kilograms of explosive material, making it an unusually powerful bomb.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Israeli researchers have found that a medication used to treat Alzheimer’s patients also has strong therapeutic effects on autistic children.
The Israeli news site Walla reported that a study conducted by the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan found a marked improvement in language skills after six months of treatment with the drugs Donepezil and Cholin.
The study was conducted on a group of 60 children and teenagers aged five to 16, all of which suffered from autism of varying severity.
Dr. Lidia Gavis, who supervised the study, said that the results indicated that the brains of autistic patients suffered from a lack of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which is also lacking in the brains of Alzheimer’s sufferers.