President Reuven Rivlin will on Friday evening sit down at the Seder table with IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi and 400 lone soldiers from around 35 countries around the world at the Yachad Lemaan Hachayal organization’s Yom Tov resort in Givat Olga.
Also attending the Seder will be the head of Yachad Le’ma’an Hachayal, Yoram Yair, Chief Education Officer Brigadier General Zvika Faireisen and the Director-General of Yachad Lemaan Hachayal, Brig. Gen. (Res.) Ilan Tal.
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Israel and United Nations pay tribute to Maj. Gen. Francis Vib-Sanziri of Ghana, a veteran of several peacekeeping missions

IDF Demolishes Home of Terrorist Who Murdered Ori Ansbacher H”YD [VIDEO & PHOTOS]The Israeli military has demolished the family home of a Palestinian terrorist charged with the horrific murder of a 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher.
Israeli forces bulldozed two apartments belonging to the father of Arafat Erfayieh in the Hebron on Friday.

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.

Washington – U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is wishing “happy Passover” to Jews commemorating the holiday in her home state of Minnesota and around the world. Omar is a Somali American and one of the first Muslims elected to Congress. She’s been criticized for remarks in recent months on Israel, Jewish influence in Washington, and 9/11 [...]

 Neo-Nazi Arson at Yeshiva Toras Chaim on Erev Yom Tov [PHOTOS]It was a horrific scene in Moscow on Erev Pesach, as talmidim at Yeshiva Toras Chaim awoke to find devastation from an apparent arson fire.
The Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Moshe Lebel, told the media there were 60 students, rabbis and guests in the building at the time of the arson.

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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Denver suburb was named after Native American symbol decades before it was co-opted by Nazis; only resident to object name change was descendant of Holocaust survivors

Commerce Official Wants Businesses To Get Trump Tax BreakRhode Island’s commerce secretary said Thursday he’s analyzing new regulations issued by the Trump administration about a program for giving tax breaks for investing in low-income areas to ensure concerns by state economic development officials were considered.
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Terror group blames bureaucracy at world body for the holdup, says some understandings reached with Israel are 'going well'

Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan will not involve giving land from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula to the Palestinians, an American envoy said on Friday. Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s Middle East envoy, apparently sought to deny reports on social media that the long-awaited plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would involve extending Gaza [...]

Three separate incidents of burning took place in Israel today, injuring three children attending biur chametz.
In Bnei Brak, a 10-year-old boy was burned in his body as a result of the bonfire. In Be’er Sheva, a 12-year-old girl was also burned in the leg, after her leg entered the burning bonfire.
In Yerushalayim, a 4-year-old boy was wounded in the head by a glass bottle that was accidentally thrown into the fire.

No one reported injured in fire at Torat Chaim in an eastern Moscow suburb, hours before some 60 people gathered for traditional seder meal

London – Britain’s Labour Party tweeted and then deleted a Passover greeting to Jews because it made a salient mistake: It featured a picture of a loaf of bread, a foodstuff banned during the weeklong holiday. The tweet, which was ridiculed online, was posted Friday and removed within two hours. The updated greeting, which originally [...]

Moscow – Jewish officials say an arson fire was set at the largest yeshiva in Russia as the faithful were gathered there for a Passover meal. No one was reported injured in the Friday fire at the Torat Chaim school in an eastern Moscow suburb. Olga Esaulova, a spokeswoman for Moscow’s chief rabbi, was quoted [...]

At Moscow conference, Evgeny Velikhov recounts his role in helping an Israeli rabbi open the country's only official Jewish seminary in 1989

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Player made the gesture, but was found not guilty after panel accepted his claim he had no idea what it meant

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