The developers of a housing project in Chester, New York, have sued public officials for trying to prevent the development to keep Chassidim from moving in.
The lawsuit filed earlier this month by The Greens at Chester developers in federal court in White Plains, New York alleges that town and county residents and officials attempted to prevent the project’s development due to opposition to a chasidic influx. The developers have asked the court to reverse the town’s building-permit denials for homes that comply with approved plans. They also are seeking $80 million in compensatory damages, $20 million in punitive damages, and compensation for property they say the town effectively has taken away, according to the newspaper.

Google-owned mobile navigation app developer Waze announced on Monday the release of a new carpooling feature in Israel. Drivers will now be able to invite multiple passengers to join their carpool, and if the car has at least three passengers, their route will be adjusted to include High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes. Prior to the new feature, drivers could not add additional stops and passengers once one carpool stop had been made, a Waze spokesperson said in a phone call with Calcalist Monday.
Waze’s peer-to-peer carpooling service, first launched as an Israeli pilot in July 2015, initially only allowed carpooling en route to work to avoid regulatory hurdles. The service was gradually expanded globally, and as of October, Waze Carpool is available in all 50 US states.

Jack Ma’s online bank is leading a quiet revolution in the way China lends to small businesses, taking aim at a credit bottleneck that has held back Asia’s largest economy for decades.
Using real-time payments data and a risk-management system that analyzes more than 3,000 variables, Ma’s four-year-old MYbank has lent 2 trillion yuan ($290 billion) to nearly 16 million small companies. Borrowers apply with a few taps on a smartphone and receive cash almost instantly if they’re approved. The whole process takes three minutes and involves zero human bankers. The default rate so far: about 1%.

“The Palestinian Authority is 100 percent to blame for the failure of the Oslo Accords,” former Shin Bet security agency director Avi Dichter told a packed Tel Aviv audience on Sunday night.
Dichter spoke at the ZOA House as part of a special conference organized by the Zionist organization Im Tirtzu in collaboration with Canadians for Israel’s Legal Rights on the topic of Israel’s legal rights. He discussed the history of Israel’s legal rights and the passage of the Nation-State Law, which after first being sponsored by Dichter in 2011 was finally passed by the Knesset in July 2018.

President Trump delivers remarks in the Rose Garden and signs H.R. 1327, The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund bill.
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Former Obama administration staffers pen an op-ed slamming President for ‘poisoning of our democracy.’
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Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh says it’s about time somebody pushed back against the human misery caused by Democrat leadership.
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Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s attorney, reacts to the fallout from Robert Mueller’s congressional hearing.
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The Israeli government is preparing an official initiative, including an incentives package, to encourage countries to relocate their embassies to Jerusalem. Foreign Minister Israel Katz will soon present a proposal to the Cabinet to designate the transfer of embassies to Jerusalem as a “national, diplomatic and strategic objective of the highest order.”
When Katz began his tenure as foreign minister in February 2019, he learned there were countries that agreed in principle to open embassies in Jerusalem, but sought reciprocal measures from Israel. For example, Honduras and El Salvador have agreed to open embassies in Jerusalem, but want Israel to open full diplomatic missions in their respective capitals in return—a move that hasn’t been forthcoming on Israel’s part.

In the past year, 30 percent of serious cybersecurity events in Israel were not reported to the proper authorities as required by law, according to data released Thursday by Israel’s Privacy Protection Authority.
New regulations requiring companies and nonprofits to report significant breaches came into force in May 2018. Since then, the authority has handled 146 severe cybersecurity events, only 103 of which were reported by the organizations that fell victim to the attacks, according to the data. The rest of the incidents were reported by third parties. The authority estimates that an unknown number of additional attacks took place but were not reported.