SpaceX launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites Tuesday, a middle-of-the-night rideshare featuring a deep space atomic clock, solar sail, a clean and green rocket fuel testbed, and even human ashes.
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Tel Aviv is moving towards becoming Israel’s first city with no public phones, removing 50 in the past few years and another 34 this year.
Ramat Gan wants to replace its public phone booths with trees after finding that 80 percent of its populace no longer wants the town’s 232 public phones.
Israel still has about 10,000 public phones, many of them no longer in use.
The only people who may miss them are yeshiva students and chareidi children, who do not have personal cell phones.
The number of phone booths in the US decreased from two million in 1999 to about 100,000, with a fifth of them in New York.
{Matzav.com Israel}

PLO official asserts that summit in Manama seeks to write off the Palestinian issue as an economic matter; protesters in Bethlehem burn a hanging effigy of Trump

Jerusalem – Israel’s right-wing bloc, which was unable to form a government following elections in April, took a hit with the far-right Jewish Power party saying it will break its alliance with the pro-settlement Jewish Home party. Jewish Power, or Otzma Yehudit, said that Jewish Home was not honoring the terms of the merger agreement [...]

A man who drove for Uber in New York City has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for abducting a woman who fell asleep inside his vehicle.
A judge Monday also ordered Harbir Parmar to pay more than $3,600 in restitution for overcharging customers.
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'We’re energized by their limitless potential to generate positive impact,' associate executive director of annual ROI Summit says of participants from 30 countries

Orange County, NY – A Kiryas Joel paramedic was honored last night as ALS provider of the year by Orange County Department of Emergency Services, the first time a Chasidic individual has ever been selected to receive that award. Avrohom Yitzchok Flohr, a senior member of Kiryas Joel Hatzolah, was hailed for responding to 350 [...]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that Donald Trump’s White House is “afflicted by mental retardation,” according to the Associated Press.
Speaking during a live televised address, the Iranian leader said the Trump administration’s decision to sanction Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday was “outrageous and idiotic” and meant “certain failure” for the U.S. president’s policy on Iran. Rouhani also slammed the Trump administration for suggesting the next step is to sanction Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, which could prohibit him from engaging in future negotiations to find a peaceful solution to recent tensions.

Washington – American consumers are feeling less confident this month as heightened trade tensions take a toll. The Conference Board, a business research group, says its consumer confidence index fell to 121.5 in June from a revised 131.3 in June after rising in April and May. The June reading was the lowest since September 2017. [...]