An Arab attempted to stab a Jewish man in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Yerushalayim.
“I heard a cry of ‘Allahu akhbar!’ about a meter away, a Petach Tikva resident related. “I turned my head and saw an Arab coming towards me, wearing a Jerusalem municipality jacket and holding what looked like a knife. It was obvious that he was coming to stab me.”
“I immediately grabbed a restaurant chair and slammed it into his head. He fell. Two police officers ran out of the nearby restaurant and arrested the suspect as a terrorist, and took him for interrogation and to further clarify the incident.
“It was a huge miracle that I noticed in time and managed to save myself and those around me.”

President Donald Trump sent North Korean leader Kim Jong Un an “excellent” letter, the North’s state-run news agency reported Sunday.
Kim “said with satisfaction that the letter is of excellent content,” the Korean Central News Agency reported.
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President Trump announced his administration will slap new sanctions on Iran as tensions between Washington and Tehran mount.
“Iran cannot have Nuclear Weapons! Under the terrible Obama plan, they would have been on their way to Nuclear in a short number of years, and existing verification is not acceptable. We are putting major additional Sanctions on Iran on Monday,” Trump tweeted Saturday.
“I look forward to the day that Sanctions come off Iran, and they become a productive and prosperous nation again – The sooner the better!”
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President Donald Trump said Saturday that military action against Iran was still an option for its downing of an unmanned U.S. military aircraft, but amid heightened tensions he dangled the prospect of eventually becoming an unlikely “best friend” of America’s longtime Middle Eastern adversary.

Palestinian officials on Saturday dismissed proposals unveiled by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner for big money projects to form the first economic portion of the Trump administration’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan.
Senior Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official Hanan Ashrawi said Kushner’s plans were “all abstract promises” and said only a political solution would solve the conflict.
Hamas, the Islamist militant group that controls Gaza, was more blunt, saying: “Palestine isn’t for sale.”
An Israeli cabinet minister welcomed the plan.
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Washington – The White House on Saturday outlined a $50 billion Middle East economic plan that would create a global investment fund to lift the Palestinian and neighboring Arab state economies, and fund a $5 billion transportation corridor to connect the West Bank and Gaza. The “peace to prosperity” plan, set to be presented by [...]

Israeli security forces operating near the Mosque in Isawiya came under attack as Palestinians began throwing rocks and shooting firecrackers at them. The force returned fire using live ammunition as well as crowd-dispersing ammunition.
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Experts called in to examine receptacle, found hidden under larger basin, at Bethlehem pilgrimage site

No details given about contents of exchange, months after nuclear talks break down; Pyongyang says leader to 'seriously contemplate' letter