Jordan closed Kever Aaron Hakohen to all visitors lacking explicit government permission on Thursday, after it claimed a group of Israeli tourists prayed at the site in violation of Jordanian law.
According to the Sky News Arabia website, the Israelis had entered the site “illegally,” without having received the necessary ministry permits.
The tomb, on Mount Harun near Petra, is believed by many to be site where Aaron Hakohen is buried.
According to Jordanian media, Wakf Minister Abdul Nasser Musa Abu al-Basal on Thursday instructed the official in charge of the tomb not to allow any visitors to enter the site without the ministry’s explicit permission.

Supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are drawing up a document for Likud Knesset candidates to sign, which states that they will only back Netanyahu as party leader.
The move comes in response to a statement by Yisrael Beiteinu head Avigdor Lieberman on Saturday that the Likud should name an alternate leader capable of stepping forward should Netanyahu prove incapable of forming a coalition following the Sept. 17 election.
Likud candidates are being asked to sign a document which states: “We, candidates for the Likud Party’s list for the 22nd Knesset, will not accept any dictate from any other party regardless of the election results, as to the leadership of Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu as the only candidate for prime minister.”

Nine people were killed and 26 others injured Sunday morning in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio, authorities said, raising the death toll in a grim week of mass shootings across the U.S.
The suspected shooter, who has not been identified, is also dead, according to police.
The attack came less than a day after a man with an assault-style weapon killed 20 in El Paso and a week after a gunman fired on a garlic festival in Gilroy, California, killing three people including a 6-year-old boy and wounding 12 more. With the country still grieving, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley noted that Dayton’s tragedy was just the latest.

Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday defended President Donald Trump after mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, calling the shooters “sick people” and disputing that either shooting was linked to politics.
“This is not appropriate. This is way beyond the pale. These are sick people,” Mulvaney said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Mulvaney’s comments came as Democrats argued that Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants and people of color has fueled the type of hatred on display in a manifesto that investigators believe was posted online by the El Paso shooting suspect, which listed angry – and, at times, jumbled – motivations for the attack, including rants about a “Hispanic invasion.”

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke said Saturday President Trump bore some responsibility for a shooting in El Paso, Texas that killed at least 20 people.
Asked by news reporters whether the president was in some part responsible for the shooting, O’Rourke, who formerly served as the city’s mayor, responded firmly.
“Yes. We’ve had a rise in hate crimes every single one of the last three years,” O’Rourke said Saturday evening. “During an administration where you’ve had the president call Mexicans […] criminals.”
“He is a racist, and he stokes racism in this country,” the former congressman and current 2020 candidate for president continued. “It does not just offend our sensibilities; it fundamentally changes the character of this country and it leads to violence.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamed Javad Zarif reportedly received an invitation to meet US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last month amid escalating tensions between western powers and the Islamic Republic.
According to The New Yorker, the invitation was delivered by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul during a meeting with Zarif in New York on July 15.
Zarif, who was in Manhattan for a series of meetings at the United Nations, reportedly told Paul that he could not unilaterally accept the White House invitation without consulting with Tehran. The minister later declined the invite, explaining that he would not want a White House meeting that yielded just a photo op and a two page statement afterwards, The New Yorker said.

Israel’s Ambassador to Panama lashed out at Ben Gurion Airport security via social media on Saturday after he and his family were abruptly stopped for questioning.
Dr. Reda Mansour, a Druze diplomat who has been working for Israel’s Foreign Ministry for decades, uploaded a lengthy Facebook post recalling his latest experience including “thirty years of humiliation” suffered at the transportation hub.
“During the night, I thought to myself while on the plane: […] 30 years of humiliation and you are still not done. In the past, you would beat us at the terminal, today you’ve progressed to treating us as suspects at the checkpoint at the entrance [to the airport].”

A leading Jewish organization advocating on behalf of Holocaust survivors affirmed on Friday that the Dutch National Railway — Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) — had taken an “important step” with its announcement of an application process aimed at compensating Dutch Holocaust survivors, their spouses and their children for NS’s role in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II.
“The Dutch National Railway (NS) compensation program is a significant acknowledgement of the role the NS played during WWII in the suffering endured by Dutch Jews transported on NS trains,” said Gideon Taylor — chair of operations of the Jerusalem-based World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) in a statement.

Author and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination next year, has pledged that, if elected, she would undo U.S. President Donald Trump’s official recognition in March of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
“I would rescind the president’s affirmation of sovereignty of Israel over the Golan Heights,” she said in response to a questionnaire from the Council on Foreign Relations. “I understand the occupation of the Golan Heights, but only until there is a stable government in Syria with whom one can negotiate.”

State Police are warning of a phone scam in which someone is impersonating state troopers, the Post Star reports.
Police have received information that someone has been contacting the public identifying themselves as a representative of State Police and requesting personal information. The number the individuals are calling from shows on caller ID as that of a State Police station, although the calls are not originating from the station.
State Police never ask for personal financial information over the phone, and troopers are investigating the matter.