A signed written warning by legendary physicist and Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein to the Jewish people, written just days after Israel’s independence in May 1948, is being offered for sale for the first time at $90,000.
In it, the German-born Einstein expresses confidence in the resilience of “our” Jewish people who would “overcome” the catastrophe of the Holocaust, but worries that “one still cannot say that the powerful men of this earth mean well with us.”
The Raab Collection, located in Pennsylvania, acquired the letter from a private collector, Raab Collection president Nathan Raab told JNS.

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Yigal Amir, the man who murdered Prime Minister Yizchak Rabin, has reportedly called a number of public figures, including lawyers to lay the groundwork for the formation of a new party called Nura Deliba dedicated to securing Amir’s release from prison.
“Within the Russian community,” Amir told one person, “a movement has been established that wants to get me released. There’s about 600 people in it; retirees, academics, etc. Now, they want to establish a party that will run in the next elections, with the goal of getting me freed from prison. One of the goals is also to change the media in this country, which in Israel is totally controlled by the Left. Now, these people aren’t afraid of anything, and they’ve established [this movement] on the internet.”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept through seven work sites in six cities across Mississippi on Wednesday, arresting approximately 680 “illegal aliens” in what officials said is the largest single-state workplace enforcement action in U.S. history.
The raids targeted agricultural processing plants, part of a year-long investigation into illegal immigrant employment in the state, officials said. They did not say how many individuals they were targeting in the operations, nor what proportion of those taken into custody were what ICE calls “collateral” arrests – those who were swept up along with those ICE was seeking.

Israel’s Council for Higher Education (CHE) has earmarked some $56 million to the NSF-BSF, a prestigious joint U.S.-Israel program made up of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). The funds, which will be allocated over a period of five years, will facilitate dozens of research programs each year in a variety of fields, expanding on the handful of research programs currently being carried out.
The NSF-BSF program was launched in 2013 to encourage collaboration between American and Israeli researchers. Through this program, researchers from both countries jointly submit proposals to the NSF-BSF, which reviews submissions and selects the winning proposals.

Kim Jong Un said North Korea’s latest missile tests were intended as a warning against ongoing U.S.-South Korea military exercises, while President Donald Trump’s new defense chief defended the training as necessary to maintain readiness.
North Korean state media said Wednesday that Kim personally oversaw what allied military officials said was a pair of short-range ballistic missile launches a day earlier — the fourth such volley in two weeks. “The demonstration fire clearly verified the reliability, security and actual war capacity of the new-type tactical guided weapon system,” the official Korean Central News Agency said.

The final batch of personal papers belonging to Max Brod,—one of Czech writer Franz Kafka’s closest confidants—was transferred to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem on Wednesday after decades of legal battles to complete the archive of Brod’s literary estate.
Hundreds of documents, handwritten by Brod and Kafka, were transferred to the National Library in accordance with Brod’s wishes, following orders by Israeli and Swiss courts to open vaults in Zurich where the materials were stored for decades.
The papers include three different draft versions of Kafka’s story Wedding Preparations in the Country, a notebook in which he practiced Hebrew, hundreds of personal letters, sketches and more.

Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday once again sparked controversy with remarks favoring a theocratic government.
“We all, if we could, would like the State of Israel to act according to the Torah and Jewish law. We just can’t because there are other people who think differently, and we need to get along with them. But we often encounter supposed contradictions that can be mitigated without needing to pay a price,” Smotrich said at a conference of rabbis in Jerusalem.

An eastern Jerusalem resident is suing the Israeli police for planting a gun in his home while filming an episode of a reality television show.
“Jerusalem District,” which purports to show the police in real-life situations and is produced by Israel’s public broadcaster, followed a team of officers late last year as they raided Samer Sleiman’s home in the Arab neighborhood of Isawiyah. The episode, which aired late last month, showed policemen finding a rifle. Sleiman was surprised, as he was not charged and the police had told him they had not found anything.
Later it was revealed that the police had planted the weapon after coming up empty-handed. The police have since apologized.

At a military base in northern Israel, the Israeli Defense Ministry and leading defense industries provided a glimpse on Sunday at the battlefield of the future.
The concept that they unveiled—called the Carmel combat vehicle—is a response to three years of planning solutions to the asymmetric, Middle Eastern warfare conditions taking shape.
These modern challenges include hidden enemy cells, embedded in built-up areas, which fire missiles from residential buildings. Such cells send explosive drones hurling into advancing military forces, and pop out of tunnels to open fire and vanish. Such cells surround areas in Gaza and Lebanon that are packed with rockets aimed at Israeli cities, forming “rings” around rocket-launch zones.