Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky swept to victory in Ukraine’s presidential election Sunday, an exit poll showed, as millions of voters weary of war and economic hardship rebuked the ruling elites and ushered in fresh uncertainty for their geopolitically pivotal nation.
Zelensky, a 41-year-old TV star with no political experience, won 73% of the vote in the runoff election, according to national exit poll results broadcast by Ukrainian television. President Petro Poroshenko, who was running for his second five-year term, accepted defeat in a speech soon after the polls closed.
Zelensky walked onstage at his election-night celebration to the theme song from “Servant of the People” – the popular sitcom in which he plays the president of Ukraine..

Suicide bombers struck churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing more than 200 people in a highly coordinated attack that targeted Christians and foreigners in this island nation.
No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, the worst violence here since the end of the civil war a decade ago. Thirteen people have been arrested, police said, and three police officers were killed in a raid on a house as they attempted to interrogate an individual.
The dead included “several” Americans, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. He blamed “radical terrorists.”
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe said the suspects were “local.” He told reporters that elements of the government had prior intelligence about the attacks.

Shmuley Boteach is at it again. Now he is telling me what I can and can’t say to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — a friend of nearly half a century who values my advice. When Bibi won the election last week, I tweeted the following:
Mazal tov to @IsraeliPM @netanyahu, who I’ve known since he was a student at MIT. Waiting for the new peace plan to be implemented. Time for a fair two-state solution that assures Israel’s security.
That was too much for Boteach. How dare I express my views to my friend. I should be expressing Boteach’s views. After all, he is a know-it-all when it comes to Israel’s security. Here is what Boteach wrote:

The US Department of Justice released on Thursday the highly anticipated report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that shows the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election despite Moscow’s attempt to influence it.
Two Israel-related matters were mentioned in the report, which have previously been reported in the press:
Led by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, the Trump transition team attempted to persuade foreign governments, with then-incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn talking to Russia, to oppose the December 2016 UN Security Council Resolution 2334, condemning Israeli neighborhoods in Judea and Samaria. The resolution passed as the United States did not exercise its automatic veto power and instead abstained.

Some 6,000 Palestinian Arabs demonstrated along the Gaza border on Friday.
The Hamas-run “health ministry” in Gaza reported that 46 people were injured during the clashes, including paramedics and journalists.
Earlier on Friday, shots were fired at IDF troops adjacent to the security fence in southern Gaza. In response, IDF aircraft and tank struck two Hamas military posts in Gaza. No injuries to IDF soldiers were reported.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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The following is a rare video of the Satmar Rebbe, Rav Moshe Teitelbaum zt”l, the Beirach Moshe, on Erev Pesach 5764/5.
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Uber on Thursday night confirmed that it has raised $1 billion for its autonomous driving unit at a post-money valuation of $7.25 billion.
Existing Uber shareholders SoftBank Vision Fund and Toyota were joined by Japanese auto parts maker DENSO. Toyota and DENSO will invest a combined $667 million, with SoftBank’s Vision Fund putting in the rest. Toyota is also committing up to an additional $300 million over the next three years to deploy autonomous vehicles into the Uber’s network by 2021.
Uber is preparing to go public next month, and this deal could soothe some investor concerns about the cash-burn on self-driving R&D.
Read more at AXIOS.

Poland should follow Greece in stepping up pressure on Germany to pay billions of euros in damages for Nazi occupation during World War Two, a lawmaker in charge of Warsaw’s reparations campaign said on Thursday.
Greece’s parliament voted a day earlier to launch a diplomatic push to press its case — and Berlin responded by reiterating its position that all such claims by invaded countries had long been settled.
Arkadiusz Mularczyk, who heads the Polish parliamentary committee on reparations, said in a tweet that the Greek vote showed WW2 compensation had become an international issue.
“It’s time for a decision from the Polish Sejm (lower house of Parliament),” added the lawmaker from the ruling nationalist Law and Justice party.

Hezbollah has not abandoned its plans to invade parts of northern Israel during a future conflict, a top IDF office said in interview excerpts published on Thursday.
“We, of course, will not let that happen,” outgoing GOC Northern Command Maj. Gen. Yoel Strick told the Hebrew news site Ynet.
Strick — who is finishing up a two-year stint as the head of the Northern Command — said he had “no doubt” the IDF would win any potential war in the north.
According to Strick, the IDF has been “most effective” in pushing the Iranians back from the border with Israel in southern Syria in recent years.

Pesach is one of the most wasteful times of the year in Israel, JPOST reports.
According to data published by food rescue organization Leket Israel and accounting firm BDO, 106,000 tons of food, worth approximately NIS 1.126 billion ($313 million), goes to waste during the month of Pesachl – about 14% higher than regular monthly waste.