Jerusalem – Scores of activists returned to streets across Israel on Wednesday to protest the killing of an Ethiopian Israeli teen by an off-duty police officer in what the community calls the latest example of police brutality and discrimination in Israeli society. Protesters mobilized to block a busy thoroughfare in Tel Aviv before being dragged [...]

Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Tuesday said that the Republican Party is “in a coma” because of a “willingness to only absorb that that supports what you currently think.”
“I think members of the Republican Party are in a coma right now, is what I think. And at some point they’ll wake up and say, ‘What’s happened?’ ” Kasich said in a piece published by The Washington Post on Tuesday. “And then we’re going to tell them, and they’re going to go, ‘Really?’ ”
Kasich, who is a frequent critic of President Trump, said the GOP is “stumbling around” as a result of “no new really exciting ideas … for a number of years.”
Read more at The Hill.
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Asheville, NC – A North Carolina man charged with anonymously threatening to lynch a Muslim-American political candidate in Virginia also is accused of posting an anti-Semitic threat on a Florida synagogue’s Facebook page. An FBI agent outlined those allegations against 52-year-old Joseph Cecil Vandevere in an affidavit unsealed before Vandevere’s initial court appearance Wednesday in [...]

Poll finds almost 80% think Ramallah was correct to stay away from US-led workshop, even more say independence tops economic plan

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A failed tiger attack has been recorded in thrilling footage captured in India, thanks to the bravery of an amateur videographer, who didn’t drop his phone despite the beast almost snatching him.
The short clip showed the whole ordeal, from the tiger spotting the two people on a motorbike and swiftly closing in on them in several giant leaps, to the beast realizing that its prey has gotten away and retreating into the bushes.

Seattle – Boeing Co on Wednesday said it would give $100 million to organizations to help families affected by the deadly crashes of the company’s 737 MAX planes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. The multiyear payout is independent of lawsuits filed in the wake of the crashes, which together killed 346 people, a Boeing spokesman said. [...]

The Israeli security agency Shin Bet announced on Wednesday the arrest of a Hamas operative who entered Israel with a humanitarian pretense, pleading to receive medical treatment.
According to local reports, the suspect had undergone a full year’s training by the military wing of Hamas before entering Israel.
His mission was to enter under a false humanitarian guise and set up a laboratory of explosives in the West Bank, which would then, in turn, supply terrorists with explosives to carry out attacks in Israel, according to the Shin Bet.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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Robert Menendez, top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warns Secretary of State Pompeo that reported transfer of US-made missiles to rebels is 'serious violation'

Last Shabbos, thieves broke into the dorms of the Beit Matityahu Yeshiva in Bnei Brak and stole thousands of shekel from the boys’ private closets.
The boys, as instructed by the Roshei Yeshiva, invited the police – who arrived together with forensics investigators to investigate and look at the security cameras around the dorms.
One of the bochurim told Kikar Shabbos, “According to our estimate, a total of NIS 10,000 was stolen, which is theft from dozens of young people who will not have pocket money for the coming month, when only last week we returned home after Shavuos and brought the money from our parents.”
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