The Yerushalayim District Court ordered Israel’s Menorah insurance company to pay a highly-paid tech worker $1.3 million for the loss of work caused by a bug that flew into the man’s vehicle and distracted him, leading him to smash into a concrete pillar.
Moving objects in vehicles such as pets, insects or cargo accounted for one percent of 65,000 accidents caused by distracted drivers from 2011 to 2012.
{Matzav.com Israel}

Palestinians are the third angriest people in the world and are ranked as the fourth least rested people in the world, according to the 2019 Gallup Global Emotions Report.
The Gallup poll asked more than 151,000 people in over 140 countries five questions concerning positive and negative experiences respectively, to determine their overall Positive and Negative Experience Indexes. 43% of Palestinian respondents reported feeling angry, while 50% reported that they did not feel well-rested.
The countries with the highest Negative Experiences Indexes were Chad, Niger and Sierra Leone. The Palestinian Territories ranked in with the 9th highest Negative Experience Index.

The man accused of attacking a Southern California shul fired only eight to 10 of the roughly 60 bullets he had before his weapon jammed, prosecutors said, Fox reports.
John T. Earnest, 19, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder in the shooting at the Chabad of Poway. One woman, Lori Kaye, was killed and three people wounded.
Earnest was arrested shortly after the attack with 50 unfired bullets, a tactical vest and helmet, prosecutors said during his arraignment.
The judge scheduled a status hearing for May 30 and denied bail, calling Earnest an extreme threat to public safety.

Facebook has thrown down the gauntlet to Amazon by announcing a raft of new shopping features for WhatsApp, Instagram and its own online Marketplace.
The social media giant said its 2.4 billion users will soon be able to browse products, get recommendations from celebrities, organize shipping and make payments without ever leaving its “family” of three apps.
WhatsApp, historically Facebook’s most private product, will gain product catalogues and secure payments, which the company has been testing with about a million users in India.
 
Read more at The Telegraph.
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Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that a drug used to treat multiple sclerosis may help epilepsy patients.
Published in the scientific journal Neuron, the findings of Professor Inna Slutsky of the university’s faculty of medicine and school of neuroscience center around the mechanism that regulates neural activity.
The team found that the DHODH gene is key to triggering neural activity, and that the drug Terflunomide—used to treat multiple sclerosis—inhibited such activity. The reduction in neural activity became permanent when brain cells were exposed to the drug for long periods of time.
Now, researchers say they believe that their findings will help develop drugs focusing on neural stability.

A new study finds that drinking tap water in California over the course of a lifetime could increase the risk of cancer.
Researchers from the environmental advocacy group Environmental Working Group estimated that the contaminants found in public water systems in California could contribute to about 15,500 cancer cases there over the course of a lifetime.

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Families battling illness must juggle so much more than the average family, and for them, the challenging Pesach preparations are especially difficult. Misameach strives to do whatever it can to ease the burden on these families and inject an extra burst of simcha into the Yom Tov season.
Misameach held a pre-Pesach event for children the day of bedikas chometz at Pump It Up of Lakewood. As the hectic race to Yom Tov reached its crescendo, parents desperately needing a reprieve were able to drop off their children for an afternoon of fun and take advantage of those precious few hours to continue their Pesach preparations.

Japan’s popular Emperor Akihito formally abdicated on Tuesday in a short ceremony at the Imperial Palace, giving way to his son after the weight of official duties became too much for the 85-year-old.
Dressed in a morning coat with his wife, Empress Michiko, just behind him, Akihito gave a short televised speech in the Imperial Palace’s Pine Chamber or throne room, encapsulating the humble and peaceful values that marked his rule.
“Since ascending the throne 30 years ago, I have performed my duties as the emperor with a deep sense of trust in and respect for the people, and I consider myself fortunate to have been able to do so,” he said.