The dwellings of two Palestinians accused of murdering yeshiva bochur and Israeli army recruit Dvir Sorek will be destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces, after an appeal by the suspects’ families was denied on Tuesday.
Nasir and Qassem Asafra are accused of ambushing and stabbing to death the nearly 19-year-old Sorek, who disembarked a bus outside Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Judea and Samaria to return to his religious seminary and whose body was found in the early hours of Aug. 8.
The accused terrorists’ families were notified of demolition plans by the IDF earlier this month and given the chance to appeal the decision. On Tuesday, their appeals were rejected and the demolition orders signed.

Blue and White Party No. 2 Yair Lapid will not join a government headed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even if Netanyahu’s Likud Party and Blue and White form a unity government, party sources said Tuesday.
“Lapid is for unity, but will not sit in Netanyahu’s government,” said the sources according to Ynet.
Senior officials involved in the negotiations between the two parties also said that during Tuesday’s talks representatives of Blue and White leader Benny Gantz insisted that Gantz would not serve under an indicted prime minister, according to the report.

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Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that President Trump has been “completely vindicated” by the released transcript of his call with Ukraine’s president.
“The president did nothing wrong,” Pence told Fox News’ Lou Dobbs in an exclusive interview that aired Wednesday night. “He had a conversation with a world leader [and] spoke about issues that were appropriate issues related to our strong relationship with Ukraine, and it was nothing more than that.”
“From the day after the election, Democrats have been trying to overturn the results” of the 2016 election, Pence said, and “it’s just not going to work.”

President Donald Trump alleged Wednesday that Hunter Biden got China to put $1.5 billion in a fund, an assertion flatly denied by Biden’s lawyer, who said earlier this year his client had not received anything from the investment.
Trump, who has made a similar allegation for months, is referencing information from a book by Peter Schweizer, “Secret Empires,” that first detailed how Hunter Biden flew to China on Air Force Two with his father in 2013.

A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday stayed a subpoena seeking eight years of President Donald Trump’s tax records for 24 hours and gave the Justice Department until Monday to decide whether to intervene in the case.
U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero told the attorneys representing Trump and the Manhattan district attorney pursuing the documents that he would decide on a longer-term stay after the two sides took another day to work out some of their differences, including about the handover of documents unrelated to the tax returns.

State and local officials on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), alleging the agency makes “unlawful and unconstitutional” civil immigration arrests in and around courthouses in New York City.
The lawsuit, filed by Attorney General Letitia James and Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, claims these arrests deter witnesses from helping law enforcement and prevents victims from reporting crimes to the authorities out of fear of being detained.

Justice Department officials took less than a month to abandon an inquiry into President Donald Trump’s communications with his Ukrainian counterpart about investigating former vice president Joe Biden – reigniting concerns among Democrats and legal observers that the law enforcement agency is serving as a shield for the commander in chief.
Just weeks after intelligence leaders asked the Justice Department and FBI to consider examining a summer phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the head of the department’s criminal division determined there was not sufficient cause even to launch an investigation, senior Justice Department officials said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky backed President Donald Trump during a meeting between the two leaders in New York Wednesday.
Zelensky stated that “nobody pushed” him to probe former US Vice President Joe Biden during a phone conversation between himself and President Trump in July.
“We had — I think good phone call. It was normal. We spoke about many things, and I — so I think and you read it that nobody pushed me,” Zelensky said.
Trump responded: “In other words, there was no pressure and you know there was no pressure.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Officials in Rockland County, New York, declared Wednesday that its measles outbreak is over.
The first measles case in Rockland County was identified October 1, 2018, with the last rash onset from measles identified August 13, 2019. Since the start of the outbreak, there were 312 confirmed cases of measles in Rockland County, according to the Rockland County Health Department.
No new cases of the virus have been reported in the affected area since August 13. A measles outbreak is officially declared over 42 days after the last person infected by the disease develops a rash.
Read more at CNN.
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Two cousins who were separated 75 years ago by World War II reunited in Israel on Saturday.
Morris Sana, 87, and his cousin Simon Mairowitz, 85, grew up believing that the other died in a concentration camp in Europe during World War II, according to People magazine. The cousins were close friends before the Nazis invaded Romania in 1940, which forced both of their families to flee the country separately.
Sana’s niece and daughter connected with relatives several decades later on Facebook, and organized for Sana and Mairowitz to see each other again in Tel Aviv.