Turkey will launch an operation east of the Euphrates in northern Syria against the U.S.-backed Kurdish YPG militia, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday.
“We entered Afrin, Jarabulus and Al-Bab. We will go into the east of the Euphrates next,” Erdoğan said, referring to areas captured by Turkish-backed Syrian rebels.
Erdoğan has threatened to enter Syria for the past year-and-a-half, but was thwarted by the United States, which proposed establishing a 19-mile “safe zone” along the border in December.

After Gerre Chassidim were evicted from a miklat (bomb shelter) shul in Arad, losing their appeal to the High Court of Justice last week, Arad City Hall padlocked the miklat to keep them out.
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Britain said Monday that it would join a U.S.-led naval security mission in the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran’s seizure of merchant vessels has raised tensions with the West. Earlier, Iran’s foreign minister lambasted recent U.S.
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Japanese electronics maker NEC Corp. on Monday showed a “flying car,” a large drone-like machine with four propellers that hovered steadily for about a minute.
The test flight reaching 3 meters (10 feet) high was held in a gigantic cage, as a safety precaution, at an NEC facility in a Tokyo suburb.

Police are recommending the State Prosecutor file criminal charges against Gal Hirsch for alleged tax evasion amounting to NIS millions, News13 reports.
Israel Police investigators on Monday turned over the investigation against Brigadier-General (reserves) Gal Hirsch, recommending a criminal indictment for alleged tax evasion to the tune of NIS millions.

If President Donald Trump is serious about strengthening gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings, he should demand that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put a House-passed bill strengthening background checks up for a vote, congressional Democrats said Monday.
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Washington – Following two mass shootings over the weekend, President Donald Trump called on federal authorities Monday to do a better job identifying violent extremists in the U.S. But that won’t be easy. Federal investigators looking to prevent acts of domestic terrorism, like the massacre of 22 people at a crowded shopping center in El [...]

Tel Aviv – The Tel Aviv Prosecutor’s Office has filed a criminal indictment in the city’s District Court against Natan Grossman, an owner of the Peleg-Yerushalmi affiliated HaPeles newspaper, as well as against Shmuel Elyashiv, Avraham Trager, Chaim Yavrov, Netanel Shtepfer, Shabtai Fein, Yisrael Tropper, and Moshe Brillman. The indictment contains 27 counts of felony [...]

New Jersey – A Jewish comedy club owner and the family’s nanny were stabbed to death in a suburban New Jersey neighborhood. David Kimowitz, 40, owner of The Stand comedy club in New York City, was found dead on Saturday morning in his Maplewood home. The au pair, Karen Bermudez-Rodriguez, 26, was found dead on [...]