An Israeli man has apologized for spitting at Polish Ambassador to Israel Marek Magierowski.
“I would like to express my apologies,” said Arik Lederman, who was arrested for spitting at the ambassador, in a statement. “My family experienced the Holocaust, and my appeal to the embassy was on the matter of restitution of property.”
Lederman accused a security guard at the Polish embassy for calling him a zhid, a disparaging label for a Jew, causing his eruption. He has requested to apologize to the ambassador in person, adding that he didn’t know the person he spat at was him.
“I hope that with this, the incident will come to an end and will be kept in proportion,” he said.

According to recent Israeli media reports, senior Palestinian official Jibril Rajoub is undergoing treatment at Ichilov/Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, despite the P.A.’s recent decision to cancel all medical treatment in Israel for Palestinians.
Rajoub is secretary general of the Fatah Central Committee, president of the Palestinian Football Association and the Palestine Olympic Committee, and heads the PLO Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs.

The Trump administration and Polish officials have been in talks for some time to establish a new permanent U.S. military base in the country to counter threats posed by Russia and Iranian regime assets known to have plotted terror attacks in the region.
However, many members of Congress and top Jewish communal officials behind the scenes have been lobbying the Trump administration and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to demand Poland resolve Holocaust-era claims before the United States agrees to host a permanent military base in the country

Attorney General William Barr joked with Speaker Nancy Pelosi about Democrats’ calls for his arrest, asking the California Democrat whether she brought handcuffs to an event on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday morning, one week after the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Barr in contempt over subpoenas related to the Mueller report.
“As those seated on the platform waited for the president’s arrival in an adjacent tent,” an onlooker described, “Attorney General Barr approached Speaker Pelosi, shook her hand and said loudly, ‘Madam Speaker, did you bring your handcuffs?'”

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said Wednesday that 10,000 Palestinians were demonstrating along the Gaza border for “Nakba day” (Arabic for “catastrophe”), commemorating the 700,000 Palestinians who were dispossessed from their homes after fleeing or being expelled during the war surrounding Israel’s establishment in 1948.
According to the IDF, several attempts were made to breach the border fence, while some demonstrators threw explosive devices at the fence.
Gaza’s health ministry said 60 Palestinians were injured in clashes with IDF.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that coalition partners had ‘impossible’ demands and that clashes between them continue.
“The parties are making impossible demands. One party has requested four positions and budgetary demands that we don’t have,” Netanyahu said.
On Wednesday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on accepted Netanyahu’s request to extend the deadline to form the next government by two weeks, giving the incumbent premier until May 29 to finalize his new cabinet.
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An earthquake was felt in central Israel, including Yerushalayim, Wednesday night.
No injuries or damage has been reported in the wake of the 4.6 magnitude quake.
The Geophysical Institute reported that the epicenter of the earthquake was at sea, between Hadera and Haifa, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the Israeli coast. The quake struck Israel at 7:53 PM.
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by Jonathan S. Tobin
Democratic Party leaders have spent recent months doing their best to assert that their support for Israel is still solid. But their job just got a lot harder. With so many Democrats rushing to the defense of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) after she sparked outrage with comments in which she engaged in Holocaust revisionism on a Yahoo News podcast, the question now stands as to whether there is anything one of the party’s young left-wing rock stars can do or say that will cause its leaders to condemn them.

Researchers at a Canadian firm announced Tuesday that they have found evidence of a global disinformation campaign targeting U.S., Saudi, and Israeli interests online backed by Iran.
The University of Toronto-based Citizen Lab said Tuesday in a report that it had uncovered a “network of inauthentic personas and social media accounts,” dubbed “Endless Mayfly,” operated out of Iran targeting the U.S. and other regional rivals of Iran.
The newly-uncovered organization “spreads falsehoods and amplifies narratives critical of Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Israel,” according to the report.