After media around the world reported that an Israeli missile had killed a baby and its pregnant mother in Gaza during the recent eruption of violence, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization may have inadvertently revealed that a rocket from Gaza was responsible for their deaths.
“A leak from the heroes of the Sarayat al-Quds [Islamic Jihad Jerusalem Brigades] on the circumstances of the death of the baby Saba Abu ‘Arar indicates that a rocket of the resistance exploded inside the family’s home due to a technical failure, and prematurely exploded,” Hamas’s al-Risala News said, according to a report by Israeli news service TPS.

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New York – Amazon launched its high-tech Go convenience store a year ago, where shoppers can pull items off the shelf and walk out. Now it’s adding a decidedly low-tech feature: accepting cash. Its new store opening in New York City Tuesday will be the first Amazon Go store to do so. At its other [...]

Arafat Irfaiya, 29, who confessed to killing 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher in February, has been deemed fit to stand trial following a psychiatric evaluation conducted at the request of his defense team.
The next hearing in Irfaiya’s case is slated to be held at the Jerusalem District Court in June, at which point the Public Defender’s Office will present its response to the indictment, which included counts of committing a terrorist act in the form of premeditated murder, assault and entering Israel without a permit.

Istanbul – A toy museum in Turkey has put on display what it says is a doll with hair from a Jewish girl killed in the Holocaust. The object has been on display at the Anatolian Toy Museum since its opening in 2017, the Turkish edition of CNN and other Turkish media reported last week. [...]

The US president was furious with the Jewish state over its atomic program fearing the Soviet Union could use it as leverage, telegram posted online last week shows

A day after Israel and the Hamas terror organization entered into a ceasefire, ending two days for rocket attacks on the Jewish state, an air raid siren was accidentally sounded in an IDF base inside of Tel Aviv.
The incident occurred just after 12:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Kirya base in Tel Aviv, when a siren was suddenly sounded, leaving Israelis on nearby streets in panic, with some streets coming to a standstill.
Local police assured residents that there was no security situation in the area, and calmness was soon restored.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Calcalist: Israel's ride-hailing company Gett, which is gearing up for a London or Tel Aviv IPO, says funds were raised according to a $1.5 billion valuation

Moscow – A survivor of the Russian commercial airliner that crash-landed in Moscow on Sunday, killing 41 people, says a flash of lightning was heard moments before the plane began its emergency descent. Investigators are still working to understand what happened to cause the plane to ignite in a fireball upon landing. A lightning strike [...]

New York – An organization representing for-hire drivers in New York City says its members will go on a two-hour strike against Uber and Lyft ahead of Uber’s planned initial public stock offering. The New York City Taxi Workers Alliance says its members voted not to drive for Uber or Lyft between 7 and 9 [...]

In a speech that aired on MTV (Lebanon) on May 2, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that Hezbollah has the capability to invade the Golan and that Israel acknowledges this fact.
He said that Israel is afraid to “get entangled” in Gaza and promised that if Israel’s army so much as thinks of invading southern Lebanon, it will be “crushed and destroyed for the world’s TV channels to see.”The audience then chanted: “We respond to your call, oh Nasrallah!”
The speech was delivered on the anniversary of the death of Hezbollah military leader Mustafa Badreddine.
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Men suspected of helping run site that referred users to purchase drugs, weapons; bust includes arrests in several other countries

Jerusalem – Two Israelis have been arrested on suspicion of setting up a “dark” Internet site that was used to buy weapons, drugs and stolen credit cards, Israeli police said on Tuesday. The suspects, in their mid-30s, were arrested during a joint investigation with the FBI and Israel’s cyber crime unit. Further arrests were made [...]

If the Talicia drug to combat H. pylori bacterial infection gets approved, commercial launch is planned for the fourth quarter of 2019, Israeli firm says

Calm has returned to the south, but nobody is under the impression it will last, and everybody has different ideas of what to do next, just after Eurovision

Lawyer for suspect in stoning death of Aisha Rabi says his client will be let out of custody next Tuesday, will have to wear electronic monitor

MK Yisrael Eichler of Yahdut HaTorah has reintroduced a bill to make it illegal to publicize the name or identifying description of a casualty before the victim’s relatives are informed.
Rabbi Eichler said the bill was blocked by the Justice Ministry during the last Knesset on the strange grounds that dead people don’t have legal rights.
“What about their relatives? their children? Are their rights abandoned,” Eichler asked. The MK asked for across-the-board support when the measure comes up for a vote.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Senior politician says Jewish state agreed to allow some restricted goods into the Strip and will undertake other measures in return for an end to attacks

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