The tears are still flowing over the fresh grave of R’ Yosef who departed from us last week.

His shattered widow is crying and asking “Why have you abandoned me?”

The children are crying out from the depths of their being “Totty, where are you?
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Germany’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday it has opened an investigation after learning that the official Twitter account of the country’s mission to the Palestinian territories had “liked” anti-Israel tweets.
The comments came after top-selling Bild newspaper reported that the “likes” came from the verified Twitter account of German diplomat Christian Clages, @GerRepRamallah.

Washington – Shot through by German machine gun bullets and tattered by the wind, an American flag that flew on the first U.S. invading ship on D-Day came home on Thursday in a White House ceremony. The flag handover was a main part of the visit to the White House by Mark Rutte, prime minister [...]

New York – Only hours after receiving a life sentence, convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was forced to make a sudden departure to the highest-security prison in the U.S. to serve the term, his lawyer said Thursday. A government helicopter whisked the narco, notorious for his daring jailbreaks, out of New York [...]

Washington – A U.S. warship on Thursday destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after it threatened the ship, President Donald Trump said. The incident marked a new escalation of tensions between the countries less than one month after Iran downed an American drone and Trump came close to retaliating with a military [...]

FaceApp was having a viral moment with its AI-backed photo-editing technology, which transformed celebrities and friends into decades-older versions of themselves, until its vague privacy terms and Russian origins began raising concerns among political leaders and social media users.
On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., asked the FBI and Federal Trade Commission to investigate FaceApp on the grounds its app could pose “national security and privacy risks for millions of U.S. citizens.” That same day, the Democratic National Committee urged 2020 presidential campaigns to delete the app “immediately.” DNC officials got burned by Russian hackers during the 2016 race and have since invested heavily in cybersecurity to prevent a repeat.

Two families who fled from Venezuela landed at Ben-Gurion on Wednesday amidst hundreds of olim from other countries. They received clandestine assistance to leave the country from the Jewish Agency.
Venezuela, a once-wealthy country has descended into crisis over the past few years, with the current situation being total anarchy and economic destitution. The Jewish community, which included 25,000 members in the 1990s is down to about 4,000 members, with most Jews immigrating to the US, Mexico, Panama or other countries. Only about 12% immigrate to Israel, according to Jewish Agency chairman Yitzchak Herzog.

The owner of several McDonald’s franchised stores in Florida finds itself the defendant in a religious discrimination lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after, the suit says, a Jewish man’s beard prevented his hiring.
When the store manager at a Florida McDonald’s interviewed Morteza Javadi in person, according to the lawsuit, he said Javadi’s beard would have to come off to comply with the grooming policy. The men’s grooming policy quoted in the lawsuit says “that says all employees must be completely clean shaven.”
Javadi said he couldn’t shave his beard, but offered to wear a beard net. The manager said no shave, no hire because it would violate company policies and the law.

Israel Katz and Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa pose for picture, discuss regional threats and bilateral ties; US envoy calls rare meeting 'tremendous progress'