Over three hundred rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel on Shabbos, and Israel’s Iron Dome system intercepted dozens of them.
Air raid sirens sounded in Gaza-area towns, as well as in Beit Shemesh and other Jerusalem-area towns. Rockets also landed in the courtyards of a home and school in Kiryat Gat.
A 60 year old man was declared dead after being critically wounded at approxamitely 2:30 following a rocket attack which hit a building in the Ashkelon area.
MDA paramedics provided medical treatment to the man and evacuated him to the Ashkelon Barzilai Hospital with shrapnel wounds in his chest and stomach. The hospital announced his death approxamitely one hour after the hit.

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Cindy Warmbier, the mother of Otto Warmbier, the American student who was detained in North Korea before his death, called the country a “cancer” on Friday.
“North Korea, to me, is a cancer on the Earth,” Warmbier said while speaking at a Hudson Institute event.
“If we ignore this cancer, it’s not going to go away, it’s going to kill all of us,” she added.
“The only difference between Hitler and [North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un] is that he’s doing it to all of his people,” she said.
 
Read more at The Hill.
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Vice President Pence hammered former Vice President Joe Biden and other leading 2020 Democratic presidential contenders as “advocating a socialist agenda.”
“I think the choice that we face in the country today is a choice between freedom and socialism, increasingly. President Trump has been advocating an agenda that’s built on the principles of freedom in the marketplaces, lower taxes, less regulation, more access to energy, better, fair trade deals,” Pence told CNBC on Friday.

The World Muslim League has invited a Jewish delegation to visit Saudi Arabia for the first time ever, Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced on its Arabic Twitter account on Friday.
Secretary General of the Muslim World League, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, said the visit will take place in January 2020.
On Tuesday, a memorandum was signed between the Muslim World League and the American Jewish Committee (AJC), stating that Al-Issa will visit Auschwitz in January on the 75th anniversary of its liberation.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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On Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Hashoah) on May 2, under the theme “Say No to Anti-Semitism,” more than 10,000 Jewish and non-Jewish youth from 40 different countries, together with dozens of Holocaust survivors and dignitaries from around the world, participated in the 31st annual International March of the Living to pay tribute to all victims of the Holocaust and call for an end to anti-Semitism.

Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a resolution on Thursday condemning “all forms” of anti-Semitism to mark Yom Hashoah, or Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“Anti-Semitism is on the rise around the world and here in America,” said Cruz in a statement. “In just the last few weeks, we have seen it manifested as hateful cartoons in major news publications, anti-Semitic smears in the halls of Congress and murders at houses of worship,” referencing such illustrations in the international edition of The New York Times and the Chabad of Poway shooting in Southern California, where one woman was killed and three others injured, Both instances happened within the week.

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladmir Putin discussed the possibility of a new multilateral nuclear accord in a Friday phone call, the White House said Friday.
They also discussed the situation in Venezuela and North Korean denuclearization, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a White House briefing.
She said they also touched on trade and the situation in Ukraine during their talks — which lasted almost an hour and a half according to Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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Police are warning Lakwood residents of a possible ring of robbers operating in the area.
Fifteen homes were burglarized in the Regent/ Hollywood neighborhood last Friday night, police say. The previous Friday night, homes by Glen Avenue were targeted.
The police shared that the group targets a different neighborhood every Friday night. The thieves mostly enter through unlocked windows and search for for cash, wallets and jewelry on the first floor of occupied homes.
The police suspect that the group is aware that many surveillance cameras are off on Shabbos and that people usually don’t call the police on Shabbos.
Please be careful to lock all windows Friday night and every night.
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An IDF officer and a female soldier were wounded on Friday evening after shots were fired at Israeli soldiers along the Gaza border in southern Israel.
According to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, the officer is listed in moderate condition. The soldier suffered very light injuries. Both were evacuated to hospital for treatment.
In response to the shooting, IDF aircraft attacked a military post belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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