The tzibbur is asked to please be mispallel for Yehoshua Matisyahu ben Menucha Mina, a bochur in Lakewood who a struck by a vehicle in a hit and run and is now in critical condition.
May we hear besuros tovos.
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A French widower with no children left about $14.5 million to the state of Israel to assist families who lost loved ones serving in the military or to terrorism.
Nicolas Bauman died in 2009; most of the inheritance was transferred to Israel last week, Keren Kayemet L’Israel-Jewish National Fund announced on the eve of Yom Hazikaron, or Israel’s Memorial Day.
The fund for bereaved families established in Bauman’s will will operate for 10 years under the trustee management of the Ministry of Justice Administrator General and KKL-JNF.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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In one green area in the center of the country, staff members need at least 8 garbage trucks to clean up after Independence Day

Annual event at Reuven Rivlin's official residence in Jerusalem also attended by Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu and army's Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi

A hit-and-run driver struck a pedestrian at Lee Avenue  and Middleton Street in Williamsburg on Wednesday afternoon.
The car was then seen driving on the sidewalk at Franklin and Park Avenues to avoid being caught.

Iran accused the United States on Tuesday of “psychological warfare” with the United States announcing on Sunday that it is sending an aircraft strike group to the Middle East amid “troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” from Tehran.
Semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday that a spokesperson for Iran’s supreme national security council, Keyvan Khosravi, said “Bolton’s statement is a clumsy use of a burnt-out happening for psychological warfare.”

Move comes after US president invokes executive privilege to block lawmakers from full Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 election

Rav Yosef Dov (Yoshe Ber) Soloveitchik of Brisk, the Beis Halevi, father of Rav Chaim Solevetchik. Yosef Dov (1820-1892) was born in Nisvizh, near Minsk, to Reb Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik. Rav Yitzchak Zev was a grandson through his mother of Rav Chaim of Volozhin. Although Reb Yitzchak Zev was not a Rav he was known as a baki in Shas and Shulchan Aruch. By the time Yosef Dov was ten he knew Mesechtas Bava Kama, Bava Metzia, Bava Basra, Brachos, Gittin and Kiddushin by heart and was already writing his own chiddushim. When he was 11 his father brought him to Volozhin to learn under his uncle, Rav Itzeleh, the Rosh Yeshiva and son of Rav Chaim of Volozhin. After his marriage, his father-in-law supported him for thirteen years.

Prof. Nir Avieli answers your searing questions about Israel's love of fire-roasted meat, and how the barbecue fits into the heart of its national identity