A delegation of U.N. ambassadors from around the world, led by Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon, took part in the 2019 March of the Living on Thursday.
The delegation, which includes envoys from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and Eastern Europe, did the nearly two-mile march from the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz to Birkenau on Yom HaShoah as a tribute to all victims of the Holocaust and a call for an end to anti-Semitism.
The ambassadors were also joined by Chairman of the Jewish Agency, Isaac Herzog; and Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, Rabbi Israel Lau.
The march included more than 10,000 Jewish and non-Jewish youth from 40 countries and dozens of Holocaust survivors and other dignitaries from around the globe.

The leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday and accepted his invitation to visit Israel.
During their phone conversation, Tshisekedi congratulated Netanyahu on his recent election victory, and the two leaders discussed ways to deepen relations and advance bilateral cooperation, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
Tshisekedi, who won his country’s own elections in late 2018 and assumed power earlier this year, is facing a deadly Ebola outbreak, with a record 27 new cases recently confirmed in a single day recently.

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As they do every year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israelis across the country stood at silent attention on Thursday morning as sirens wailed.
On Wednesday evening, as Holocaust Remembrance Day began, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin were on hand at the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to lay a wreath in memory of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War II.
At Yad Vashem, six torches were lit by six Holocaust survivors.

A bound copy of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times’s best-seller list for paperback nonfiction.
The report, which was made available for free online, is also No. 1 on the paper’s combined print and e-book list.
Several versions of the report are for sale, including one produced by The Washington Post and Scribner with annotations by the newspaper’s editors and reporters, which topped sales last week. Skyhorse Publishing’s edition, with a forward by attorney Alan Dershowitz, was at No. 11.
Read more at The Hill.
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A man was arrested in Washington state on Wednesday after reportedly making death threats against conservative talk show host Ben Shapiro.
Shapiro told Fox News he couldn’t comment on pending legal proceedings but confirmed the situation, as reported by TMZ, on Twitter, thanking law enforcement “for their quick and hard work here.”
The suspect reportedly threatened both Shapiro and his family. Sources told the outlet the threats were “extremely serious.”
Read more at Fox News.
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President Trump on Thursday took aim at the investigations into his administration during a National Day of Prayer event, telling attendees that he has survived the “witch hunts” in part by thinking about God.
“People say, ‘How do you get through that whole stuff. How do you go through those witch hunts and everything else?’ ” Trump told the crowd gathered in the White House Rose Garden.
“And you know what we do, Mike? We just do it,” he continued, gesturing toward Vice President Pence. “And we think about God. That’s true.”
“As God promises in the Bible, those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength; they will soar on the wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; and they will walk and not be faint,” Trump said.

Official Palestinian Authority TV last month broadcast pictures of bodies of Holocaust victims in a Nazi concentration camp, presenting them as pictures of Arabs killed by Jews in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948.
Two other pictures, which P.A. TV also claimed were of Arabs killed in 1948 by Jews, were actually pictures of the the Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangists in Lebanon in 1982.

 New York is now providing free phone calls from jails, making it the first major U.S. city to eliminate fees for inmate calls, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday.

The Democratic mayor said the city has fully implemented the law passed by the City Council last August.

“For too long have people in custody faced barriers to basic aspects of everyday life,” de Blasio said. “With free phone calls, we’re eliminating one of those barriers and ensuring that people in custody have the opportunity to remain connected to their lawyers, families and support networks that are so crucial to re-entry into one’s community.”

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Reacting to Attorney General William Barr’s testimony on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton said the notion that the President can fire any prosecutor investigating him if he feels the accusations are false is “the road to tyranny.”
Clinton made the comments during an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Wednesday evening. During the show, Maddow pointed to something Barr had said in his public testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.