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According to multiple reports quoting Syrian opposition websites, a Russian delegation reportedly left Syria on Sunday and had with them the coffin containing the remains of Israeli spy Eli Cohen.

Jerusalem – The Israeli military says it’s investigating the fatal shooting of a Palestinian man by an Israeli civilian earlier this month near the West Bank city of Nablus. The inquiry comes the same day as Sunday’s announcement by Israeli rights group B’Tselem saying it found inconsistencies in the initial report that the Palestinian man [...]

Israeli police arrested the Palestinian Authority’s governor of the Yerushalayim district on Sunday after he allegedly violated an order previously given to him by authorities, police and his lawyer said.
The governor, Adnan Gheith, has been arrested several times in recent months in connection with an investigation related to a land sale.
Police had previously investigated Gheith over suspicions he was involved in the Palestinian Authority’s kidnapping in October of American-Arab Issam Akel, who was accused of involvement in selling an eastern Jerusalem building to Jewish buyers.
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Newark, NJ – Pro-Palestinian activists interrupted the “hometown kickoff” for the presidential campaign of Sen. Cory Booker. Booker, D-N.J., held the event in Newark, New Jersey, where he served as mayor from 2006-2013. It was the launch of what he is calling his The rally on Saturday kicked off a two-week national tour for Booker, [...]

Minister Miri Regev announces Iris Yifrach, Bat-Galim Shaer and Racheli Fraenkel will receive honor during ceremony on May 8

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has released 15 years of tax returns, including her returns for 2018, and the California senator reports that she and her husband had a federal tax bill of about $700,000 on an adjusted gross joint income of about $1.9 million last year.

Almost one-third of American adults believe that significantly less that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, according to a recent survey conducted ahead of Yom Hashoah.
The survey, conducted by Schoen Consulting on behalf of The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, found that 70% of US adults say fewer people seem to care about the Holocaust than they used to. 58% believe something like the Holocaust could happen again.
According to the survey, 11% of all US adults and 22% of millennials haven’t heard of, or are not sure they have heard of the Holocaust. In addition, 31% of US adults and 41% of millennials believe that 2 million Jews or less were killed during the Holocaust.

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto was appointed as chief Rabbi of Morocco with the blessing of King Mohammed VI of Morocco.
The ceremony was held in the Bet El Synagogue in Casablanca, attended by hundreds of people, including Moroccan officials who came under the guidance of the King of Morocco to honor the rabbi. In honor of the ceremony, a special prayer was also held in honor of the King of Morocco.
The Moroccan community, made up of thousands of Jews, provides services to about 100,000 Israelis who visit Morocco every year.
Rabbi Pinto will now have a diplomatic and Supreme Court Justice status in Morocco.