PM, suspected of bribery, reportedly told police he only had casual relationship with Shaul Elovitch, described his website as insignificant

The World Health Organization says there has been a “dramatic resurgence” of measles in Europe, in part fueled by vaccine refusals, with nearly 90,000 people sickened by the virus in the first half of 2019. In a report issued Thursday, the U.N. health agency said the number of measles cases from January to June this […]

After exhuming remains of Nava Elimelech earlier this month and citing new evidence, officials summon man investigated along with brother in 1998

Foreign Minister Katz praises move by tiny Pacific island nation, expresses hope more countries will follow suit

Q:
What do you say about weddings that go till late at night?

Rav Miller zt”l:
Why should weddings take so long?! You need hundreds of people to ruin their health just because you want to make a wedding?! People should go home early — it’s a crime to keep two hundred people up till very late at night! The next day two hundred people will be walking around looking like ghosts because of you. It’s a strain on the heart and a strain on the kidneys. It’s too much!

President Juan Orlando Hernandez will travel to Israel on Friday to inaugurate a “diplomatic office” in Jerusalem, the French news agency AFP reported Wednesday. The Honduran Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the office in Jerusalem will be an extension of its embassy in Tel Aviv. “For me it’s the recognition that Jerusalem is […]

The Truth

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
It is one of the strangest things in politics; Jews overwhelmingly vote Democrat. This habit is said to go back to the days of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a hero of liberal Jews. And the dichotomy was evident there. Though FDR provided jobs for many unemployed citizens, led the United States into World War II, and guided the country to subsequent victory in the war that saw 6 million of our brethren murdered, he refused entry to refugees from the Nazis and rebuffed pleas to bomb the tracks to the concentration camps and shut them down. Many have faulted him for millions of deaths, which they say could have been prevented had he acted properly.

The cellphones of Blue and White chief Benny Gantz and his top aides were reportedly compromised by Russian hackers earlier this year in what a private intelligence firm called an “unprecedented” breech.
The CGI Group, an Israeli company specializing in business intelligence, found that Gantz and other senior staff were targeted in a “powerful and unprecedented attack by Russian hackers, the kind we have never seen before,” according to Channel 12 report.
CGI also identified a mole from the Yesh Atid party who leaked audio recordings of Gantz to the press in the run-up to the April election. CGI determined the leaker did not reveal any information that was too damaging to the party.

US Agency Sees Low Risk In Contaminated Blood Pressure DrugsU.S. health officials on Wednesday tried to reassure patients that they face very low risks from ongoing contamination problems with widely prescribed blood pressure drugs.
Drugmakers have issued more than 50 recalls since last July linked to low levels of a probable cancer-causing chemical found in generic drugs taken by millions of Americans.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Dorian posed an increasing menace to Florida Thursday as it pushed over open waters after doing limited damage in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Dorian was expected to grow into a potentially devastating Category 3 hurricane before hitting the U.S. mainland late […]

Party's rules for whittling down the field have drawn complaints that they are arbitrary and force candidates to pour money into expensive online fundraising

Orthodox Jewish journalist Joel Pollak says he was told he'd been disruptive at past events; campaign officials say Breitbart walks line between news and hate speech

Impeach Trump? For Democrats, the answer is complicated. While more than 130 House Democrats — more than half the caucus — have come out in favor of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, according to a tally by The Associated Press, those numbers don’t reflect the whole story. The number of Democrats who would […]

While Israel waits for northern tensions to explode again, the electioneering machine revs back up to full speed

O’Rourke Campaign Ejects Breitbart Reporter From SpeechBeto O’Rourke’s presidential campaign said Wednesday that it ejected a Breitbart News reporter from an event at a South Carolina college because it wanted to ensure that students felt “comfortable and safe.”
The Texas Democrat’s campaign found itself in a public confrontation with the aggressive conservative web site a day after its senior editor-at-large, Joel Pollak, said he was booted from an O’Rourke speech.

A New Jersey law that permits doctors to prescribe life-ending medications went into effect after an Orthodox Jewish doctor lost in his bid to challenge the measure. The Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act was to take effect Aug. 1, but a state Superior Court judge placed a temporary hold on the […]

Republican Joe Walsh on his quixotic attempt to unseat Trump; Mattis speaks out for 1st time since leaving White House; 'world’s toughest job' opens at Berlin Jewish Museum

Victim's sisters aged 19 and 14 in serious condition, one fighting for her life; driver, 22, in moderate condition; engine thrown from car by force of collision with tree

 How Israel Forced A Man In Thailand Whose Wife Was An Agunah To Give A GetAn Israeli businessman who refused to give his wife a ‘get’, leaving her an agunah, traveled to Thailand and did not return for six years, fearing he would be arrested upon his return.
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Shmuel Belvoy, the father of Yehuda, the 29-year-old man who was abused at at a branch of the Supersol supermarket chain in Gush Etzion, spoke out Wednesday about how he found out his son was being abused.
“My son told me he has been suffering daily for five years, and it hurts me that all this time he didn’t talk. My wife and I didn’t know anything. He is a special needs child. He has anxieties. He is afraid of his own shadow. And mentally he’s like a little kid,” Belvoy told News 13 host Amnon Levy.
He noted that a friend he had contacted revealed the video of the abuse to him. “He told me ‘I have a video and I will show it to you, but don’t faint, be strong. I saw the video and I was exposed to it for the first time, and cried like I never cried.'”

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