Jason Greenblatt, the outgoing US special envoy for Middle East peace, met with Saudi Arabian blogger and Twitter influencer Mohammed Saud on a train in Riyadh on Tuesday morning.
Greenblatt was in the region attending the Sir Bani Yas Forum, a conference of “senior decision-makers from across the Middle East and around the world” in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the weekend.

Two top national security aides who listened to President Donald Trump’s July call with Ukraine’s president are preparing to testify Tuesday at House impeachment hearings as the inquiry reaches deeper into the White House.
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The historic visit by the Satmar Rebbe to Israel has met with a tremendous amount of backlash from many groups in Israel, but none as vocal as MK Yulia Malinovsky from Yisrael Beiteinu.

FORT WORTH, Texas A convicted child kidnapper was sentenced Thursday to life in federal prison.
Following a two-day trial in September, a federal jury in Fort Worth deliberated for less than 10 minutes before convicting Michael Webb, 51, of kidnapping an 8-year-old girl.

At his “emergency summit” held with the right-wing bloc of 55 MK’s on Monday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu slammed Yair Lapid, the number 2 of the Blue & White party.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the U.S. is reversing the Obama administration’s approach to settlements.
Pompeo’s announcement repudiates a 1978 State Department legal opinion that held that civilian settlements in the occupied territories are “inconsistent with international law.”

In just 48 hours, Benny Gantz of the Blue & White Party will have to have formed a government, or return the mandate and possibly trigger elections for a third time.

One of the heads of the Neturei Karta, Yisroel Meir Hirsch, published a video last week during the rocket attacks on Israel that raised the ire of hundreds of thousands of Israelis.

The Williamsburg community is near gridlock on Sunday afternoon, as the Satmar Rebbe prepares to leave on a trip to visit Eretz Yisroel.
Many streets of Bedford Avenue have been closed all day Sunday with no parking on either side, as thousands of Satmar Chassidim will wish the Rebbe farewell as he leaves to the airport.

HaGaon HaRav Bentzion Mutzafi Shlita, a prominent sephardi posek in Eretz Yisrael mocks ashkenazi chassidim and their style of Davening in shteiblach. The rav made his remarks during a weekly shiur.
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