US envoys attended the inauguration of a Jewish heritage site in eastern Jerusalem on Sunday, signaling support for Israel’s hold over parts of the city that Palestinians want for a future state.
Palestinians — who view the heritage project and Jewish settlement activities in the Silwan district as moves by Israel to further cement control over areas it captured in the 1967 Six Day War — called the US presence at the event a hostile act.
Two of Trump’s top Middle East advisers — peace envoy Jason Greenblatt and Ambassador to Israel David Friedman — came to the opening of an excavated road that archaeologists say was used by Jewish pilgrims to Jerusalem two millennia ago.

New York has the most expensive car insurance rates of 47 states surveyed in a recent study by WalletHub, a consumer finance Web site.
“Car insurance rates are influenced by geography,” said Jill Gonzalez, a WalletHub analyst. “Typically, states with more people who live in concentrated urban areas … have higher insurance rates.”
She added that “insurance rates are also tied to median income levels, since they sometimes cover lost wages from injuries, among others. This is why many Northeastern states have more expensive car insurance.”
The average New York driver pays about $1,200 a year, with downstate higher and upstate lower.
Read more at NY POST.

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Ahead of a third day of planned protests over the Sunday shooting death by a cop of 19-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli man Soloman Tekah, Israel’s acting police chief, Commissioner Moti Cohen, sent a message to the police force saying no more violence would be tolerated.
“As a police force in a democratic law-abiding country, we are duty-bound to protect the delicate balance between the right to legitimate protest and enforcing the law. Restraint is a form of strength we are required to possess as professionals charged with enabling legitimate protest,” he writes.

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A far-left organization funded by the New Israel Fund has been actively aiding the recent wave of protests – many of them violent – which erupted across the country following the shooting death of Solomon Tekah, an Ethiopian teenager, in Haifa.
The joint Arab-Jewish ‘Standing Together’ organization, which is funded by the NIF, has taken an active role in the protests, which began Monday, resumed Tuesday following Tekah’s funeral, and which are expected to continue Wednesday.

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein announced on Twitter that the elections will not be canceled.
“In recent days, I asked to promote the cancellation of these unnecessary elections for you, citizens of Israel, and to save you billions. Unfortunately, not all parties cooperated and therefore we cannot cancel the elections.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Israel is bracing for a third day of intense protests over the police killing of 19-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli Solomon Tekah, with leaders calling for calm and restrain. .
President Reuven Rivlin appealed on Wednesday to members of the Israeli-Ethiopian community to avoid a “civil war.”
“We must stop and think together how to continue from here. This is not a civil war,” he said. The president added that “we must exhaust the investigation into the death of Solomon and we must prevent the next death.”
The victim’s father also urged restraint from both demonstrators and police, vowing to prevent another death.

Canadian political candidate ejected for comparing Israel to Nazi Germany
A candidate for the Canadian Parliament has been ejected from her party for previous anti-Israel comments, including comparing the Jewish state to Nazi Germany.
Rana Zaman, a social activist and Muslim who won in May the New Democratic Party (NDP) nomination in Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, was ousted last week after several Twitter posts from last year denouncing Israel’s response to violent protests along its border with Hamas-controlled Gaza came to light.