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Companies developing the huge natural gas field Leviathan will begin production on Tuesday after receiving approval from Israel‘s Environmental Protection Ministry, one of the project’s partners said on Friday.
Leviathan was supposed to begin operations on Dec. 24, but the ministry, which monitors emissions from the project, said it needed to extra data from the energy companies running the field and would postpone production.
Delek Drilling, which is leading the project with Texas-based Noble Energy, said in a statement that it had received approval from the ministry and will begin gas production on Dec. 31.

Israel’s relationship with the surrounding Arab countries requires no shortage of diplomatic prowess to maintain good relations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Oman in 2018 was seen as a major step in moving Israel’s covert relationship with the Persian Gulf states to an overt one. Now, the United States is hoping to help formalize this relationship by convincing Arab states to sign a non-aggression pact with Israel.
US Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coates met recently with the ambassadors of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman and Morocco in Washington; she also met with representatives from Israel’s foreign ministry to explore the idea.

Israel’s security cabinet on Sunday will vote on a proposal to deduct NIS 150 million, or $43 million, from Palestinian tax revenues for stipends paid by the Authority to the families of terrorist who perpetrate attacks against Israelis.
The proposal, expected to be brought up by Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, is in accordance with the law passed last year that stipulates slashing tax transfers to the PA unless welfare payments to convicted terrorists and their families are stopped.
Israel views the Palestinian government’s refusal to end the payments as evidence of its continued support for terrorism against the Jewish state.

Grafton Thomas, the attacker accused of stabbing five men in Monsey, N.Y., had an anti-Semitic journal and Googled “Why did Hitler hate the Jews” this month, prosecutors said today in their hate crimes complaint.
The journal was found at Thomas’ Greenwood Lake home, the NY Daily News reports.
It included questions like “why ppl mourned for anti-Semitism when there is Semitic genocide” and references to “Adolf Hitler” and “Nazi culture” on the same page as drawings of a Star of David and swastika, prosecutors said.
The NY Times reports that Thomas searched “German Jewish temples near me,” “Zionist temples in Elizabeth NJ” and “Prominent companies founded by Jews in America” in the weeks leading up to the attack on Motzoei Shabbos Chanukah.

Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon known for promoting voting rights, announced Sunday that he has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and vowed to fight it as he has fought for racial equality and other human rights throughout his life.
Lewis, D-Ga., who has served in Congress since 1987, said doctors detected the disease this month during a routine medical visit and subsequent tests. He said he later received confirmation of the diagnosis.
One percent of patients live five years after a diagnosis of Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. The average patient with that diagnosis lives for about a year. Pancreatic cancer was the third most common cause of death from cancer in 2019, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Two young men were critically injured in a shooting that took place at Basmat Tabun in Israel’s Galilee on Monday.

The injured men were brought to the nearby village of Ibtin to receive medical treatment.

United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Moshe Auerbach who was one fo the first responders at the scene in Ibtin relayed: “Together with other EMS personnel I treated the two injured men at the entrance to Kfar Ibtin for their injuries. Following initial treatment in the field the injured men were transported to the hospital, one was in critical condition the other was in serious to critical condition.”

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A tweet from President Donald Trump that identified an intelligence analyst as the alleged whistleblower who helped spark his impeachment was temporarily blocked over the weekend, with Twitter blaming an outage that affected a number of user accounts.
In recent days, Trump shared an unsubstantiated media report and a second post that appeared to name the intelligence community member.
However, the second tweet, from the president’s personal account, was not visible on Saturday to all of his 68 million followers. It was visible again on Sunday afternoon, although the original account that shared the alleged whistleblower’s name had been deleted.

A Brooklyn miscreant accused of slapping three Orthodox Jewish women last week struck again on Sunday and was busted for assaulting another woman.
A day after she was released without bail on charges stemming from the Friday attack, Tiffany Harris was charged with assault for slugging a 35-year-old in the face on Eastern Parkway near Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights at about 9:15 a.m., according to police.
It’s unclear if Sunday’s victim is Jewish — and police weren’t treating the incident as a hate crime. The victim suffered swelling and bruising to her right eye from the pummeling, police said.
Read more at THE NY POST.
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