President Donald Trump raged at the New York Times in a set of unhinged tweets this morning.

Said Trump: “I wonder if the New York Times will apologize to me a second time, as they did after the 2016 Election. But this one will have to be a far bigger & better apology. On this one they will have to get down on their knees & beg for forgiveness—they are truly the Enemy of the People!”

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According to a report on the Ynet website on Tuesday, the Palestinian Authority has conducted sweeping arrests of senior PA defense officials suspected of spying for Hamas.
PA military intelligence allegedly uncovered a year-long plot by Hamas to infiltrate the PA security framework. The organization’s leadership was immediately informed and a sting operation was launched against the suspects, who have now been arrested.
According to reports, some of the spies were acting under duress following the arrest by Hamas of their relatives in Gaza, while others were paid for their service. Participants were asked to provide information about operations planned by the PA against Hamas in Gaza and spread disinformation within the PA security establishment.

Facebook has formed an artificial intelligence team in Tel Aviv, announced the company on Tuesday.
The 10-person team, called “Data.AI,” will work on machine-learning “algorithms that can improve the company’s internal interface and create new tools for data analysis,” reported Calcalist, citing a statement from the social-media network.
The new initiative will seek to improve Facebook’s platform, help engineers resolve issues, project upcoming events and issues, and access necessary data quicker.
More than 200 people are currently employed at Facebook’s research and development center in Tel Aviv, according to the firm.
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Israeli President Bibi Netanyahu has announced plans to name a neighborhood in Golan Heights after President Trump, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Netanyahu toured Golan Heights on Tuesday, and said a community in the strategic plateau should be named after Trump in appreciation for his decision last month to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the region. “[There] is a need to express our appreciation by calling a community or neighborhood on the Golan Heights after Donald Trump,” Netanyahu said.

The Trump administration’s yet-to-be unveiled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan entails “tough compromises” for both sides, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Tuesday.
Speaking at the TIME 100 Summit in New York City, Kushner noted that the proposal — which has been molded over the past two years — would be published after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan ended in early June.
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law called resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “about as tough of a problem set as you can get.”
“We’ve taken, I think, an unconventional approach,” he asserted. “We’ve studied all the different past efforts, and how they failed and why they failed. There’s been some tremendous work done by the people who’ve worked on this before us.”

An Israeli cabinet minister condemned US Democratic Party presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Tuesday for describing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as racist over its treatment of Palestinians.
While enjoying unprecedentedly strong backing from the Republican administration of President Donald Trump, some Israelis have been fretting about whether this comes at the cost of losing traditionally bipartisan support in Washington.
Addressing a televised CNN event alongside other Democratic candidates on Monday, Vermont senator Sanders said he was “100 percent pro-Israel.” but proposed changing US policy toward it.

Walgreens will no longer sell tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21, the company announced Tuesday.
The new policy, which takes effect Sept. 1, aims to prevent youth access to tobacco products, Walgreens said.
The change comes as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers actions against the company for selling products to those under 18.
“We’ve seen positive results from other recent efforts to strengthen our policies related to tobacco sales, and believe this next step can be even more impactful to reduce its use among teens and young adults,” said Richard Ashworth, Walgreens president of operations, in a statement.
Read more at The Hill.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah claimed on Monday that Israel was not ready for a full-scale war with the Lebanese terrorist group, walking back previously reported comments in which he said a conflict with the Jewish state was likely this summer.
According to Israeli news site Mako, Nasrallah made the statement at a ceremony marking the anniversary of the founding of Hezbollah’s youth movement.
Nasrallah said he “tends to rule out the possibility that Israel will start a war against Lebanon,” partly because, “the days have passed when Israel could decide the outcome of war from the air.”
As a result, he asserted, “they would need to undertake a ground operation, and according to many statements, the Israeli army is not ready for this.”

One of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bodyguards was seen on video Tuesday carrying an unusual weapon later identified as an anti-drone rifle.
The video, published by Hebrew news site Mako, shows Netanyahu and his entourage in the town of Caesarea, and the weapon in question is only visible for a few moments. It is a large, black, rifle-like weapon with an abnormally wide rectangular barrel.
There was initially confusion in the Israeli media as to the identity of the weapon, which has never been viewed being carried by one of Netanyahu’s guards before.
According to Mako, it was eventually determined that the weapon was a Chinese-made rifle specifically used to neutralize small drones.

The Israeli Ministry of Transportation is launching an incentive-based pilot program in an effort to fight worsening traffic congestion in the country. The pilot will attempt to answer the age-old question: in an effort to solve Israel’s traffic problem, will the carrot prevail, or will the government have to resort to the stick, levying congestion charges?