Hamas and the Islamic Jihad also condemned the action by security forces, blaming Israel for the violence
Jordan on Sunday sent a formal protest to the Israeli government over its decision to allow religious Jewish activists to visit the Har Habayis complex on Yom Yerushalayim, warning it could lead to a fresh round of violence.
“We strongly condemn the continuation of the Israeli violations at the Al-Aqsa (Mosque) by extremists who have the backing of the security forces,” the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said.
Amman also warned that the “dangerous consequences of the provocative Israeli policy could lead to a new escalation of violence that would threaten the entire region.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked from the government, his spokeswoman says.
Bennett and Shaked’s New Right party failed to clear the minimum vote threshold in elections on April 9 for Knesset, but the two continued to serve on an interim basis until the formation of a new government. That will now not be until after fresh elections in September, which were called after Netanyahu failed to form a government by Wednesday night’s deadline.
There is no word in the announcement on who will succeed Bennett and Shaked, but Channel 13 news reported Saturday that Netanyahu was expected to tap members of his Likud party for the posts.

Despite the drubbing he received in Israel’s April 9 election, New Right co-founder Naftali Bennett is gearing up to run his new party in the September election. Moreover, according to Israeli daily Israel Hayom, Bennett is considering a political alliance with far-right activist Moshe Feiglin, who exceeded all expectations during the last campaign before his Zehut Party lost steam ahead of election day and failed to pass the minimum electoral threshold.

As Jews celebrated the liberation of Yerushalayim and the reunification of the city in the 1967 Six-Day War, Arabs outraged that Jews had been given limited access to the Har Habayis for the occasion hurled chairs, stones and other objects at security forces, according to the Israel Police Spokesperson’s Unit on Sunday.
Security staff responded with riot dispersal maneuvers, and hundreds of Jews were permitted to continue to walk through the holy site in groups.
The Har Habayis is typically restricted to Jews during Ramadan, out of concern for the sensitivities of Muslim worshippers.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bashed US foreign policy during a private meeting with Bronx community leaders, prompting two military veterans to storm out.
Anthony Vitaliano — an Army veteran who worked in the NYPD for 38 years, and commanded the Bronx’s homicide detectives — was sitting next to Ocasio-Cortez when she slammed the US foreign policy and suggested President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were autocrats, according to a person at the meeting.
“I was revolted,” said the attendee, who didn’t want his name published. “She knocks the country, she knocks the president. And that’s not what America is about,” said Silvio Mazzella, a Vietnam War vet and treasurer of Community Board 11.

The Har Habayis is scheduled to open for Jewish worshipers on Sunday on the occasion of Yom Yerushalayim, despite the tension it will cause with the Palestinians and Jordanian people.
Har Habayis activists praised the police for their actions for the Har Habayis, and called upon Jews to ascend the Har Habayis on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of the liberation of Yerushalayim in the 1967 Six Day War.
The Israel Police had initially announced that the Har Habayis would be closed to Jews on Yom Yerushalayim, citing “security reasons”.
Nearly all poskim agree that there are severe halachic issues with ascending Har Habayis.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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As the summer months are beginning to roll in, resident anti Semites in Sullivan County in upstate New York are revving up the hate in preparation for the influx of Orthodox Jews who make their way to their bungalows starting around Shavuos time.
A Facebook group called “UNCENSORED SULLIVAN COUNTY NEW YORK NEWS and POLITICS” had a post up this week which read:
“Measles Migration in full swing its a parking lot on 17!! Minivans carrying measels to a bungalow near you!! [sic]
Some of the comments were equally nasty, with one man responding that, “I am not saying they are all bad. But the majority I’ve come in contact with ruin it for the rest of them.”
 

In a commencement speech on Thursday to Yeshiva University graduating students, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman slammed the Obama administration’s treatment of Israel compared to that of the current one.
“Should Israel still negotiate with the Palestinians even though Israel did not steal their land? Of course, it should, precisely because we are not suggesting, as our predecessor did—that Israel return to the bargaining table as a thief returning to the scene of a crime,” he said. “Precisely for that reason, there is a basis for discussion.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu is considering making changes to the transitional government which will be in place until the September elections.
Channel 13 News reported that in internal talks with his advisers, the possibility of appointing Russian speaking Environmental Protection Minister Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) as minister of Immigration and Absorption Minister was raised – in the context of Netanyahu’s battle against Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman.
Netanyahu is also considering dismissing Bennett and Shaked, and transferring the senior positions to members of his party.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Just one month after the inauguration of the 21st Knesset, parliamentarians voted to disband the government and send the country into national elections for the second time in six months.
The Knesset vote came after a tension-filled last-minute effort by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to formulate a majority ruling coalition of at least 61 Knesset members before the midnight deadline between Wednesday and Thursday. But that effort came up short. Netanyahu’s political nemesis, Avigdor Lieberman, refused to bring his five-member Yisrael Beiteinu Party into the government, despite recommending Netanyahu as prime minister, leaving the coalition just one Knesset member shy of a clear majority.