A ceasefire between Israel and the Gaza terror groups went into effect at 4:30 a.m. Monday, ending two days of intense fighting that saw more than 600 rockets fired at Israel and four Israeli civilians killed, according to the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups.
The Israeli government refused to confirm the reported truce, apparently so as to avoid publicly acknowledging its negotiations with terrorist groups. However, the military announced that, as of 7 a.m., it was lifting all security restrictions that had been in place in the south during the fighting, and that schools would be allowed to open, indicating that a ceasefire had indeed been reached.

Forty-one people were killed Sunday after a Russian passenger jet making an emergency landing in Moscow touched down and burst into flames.
The Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet, carrying 78 people, careened across the runway at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport with thick, black smoke pouring out from behind, footage from the scene showed. The aircraft, operated by Aeroflot, skidded to a stop perpendicular to the runway. Passengers scrambled out of the burning hulk on emergency slides, some travelers carrying children.
The Russian Investigative Committee said 41 people died, including one crew member. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the plane to make an emergency landing and catch fire. Officials launched a criminal investigation.

In the aftermath of Saturday’s shooting at the Chabad of Poway in Southern California, the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, pledged $15 million for the State Nonprofit Security Grant Program in the state budget.
The program provides unprecedented funding for security grants for nonpublic schools, places of worship and other nonprofit institutions. The program will provide up to $200,000 per recipient and will for the first time allow for security personnel funding for nonprofits at risk of bias crimes or attacks due to their ideology, beliefs or mission.
Last year, just $500,000 was allocated for the program.

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Germany may soon fine parents over $2,700 if they don’t vaccinate their children, Germany’s Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn told a regional newspaper over the weekend.
In an interview with German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, Spahn said the country may fine parents 2,500 euros ($2,790) if they cannot prove their children have been vaccinated for measles, ABC News reported on Sunday. He also said the country is considering banning unvaccinated children from daycare facilities.
Sphan’s proposal has not yet been discussed by the country’s cabinet, but it comes as measles outbreaks emerge in areas around the world where the disease had previously been eradicated.

Israeli forces killed a senior Hamas terrorist Sunday who had been responsible for smuggling Iranian cash into the Gaza Strip, an IDF spokesperson said in a statement.
Hamed Ahmed Abed Khudari, 34, was eliminated in an Israeli airstrike Sunday afternoon, as part of a large-scale Israeli retaliation against a massive wave of rocket attacks from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Gaza health officials confirmed Sunday afternoon that Khudari had been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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The levaya for R’ Pinchas Menachem Pashwazman, who was killed by a rocket in the city of Ashdod, took place in Beit Shemesh tonight at the Bais Hachassidim Ateres Nuchem D’Gur.
Pinchas Menachem was a Gurrer yungerman who was born in Beit Shemesh and moved to Ashdod after he got married. His parents are originally from Monsey, New York, and his father is a rebbi in Gur.
According to the family, this is the third time that the family has lost family members in disasters. His mother’s two brothers perished in disasters, one of them in a terror attack on a bus on Mount Meron, and the other in the Gesher Bnot Yaakov disaster.
He is survived by his wife and four-month old baby.

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A senior Palestinian Arab source said on Sunday night that “at the present time there is no ceasefire. Israel is delaying the implementation of the understandings reached in the past, but wants to achieve calm in return for calm.”
“The battle will not end until the occupation responds affirmatively to our people’s demands,” the Joint Command Center of armed Palestinian factions in Gaza says in a statement early Monday.
“We will not allow the settlers to leave their shelters as long as the enemy’s leadership denies its understandings with the resistance, it says.
The statement comes as rocket sirens continue to wail despite reports Israel and the Gaza terror groups are working toward a cease-fire brokered by Egypt and the UN.
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