Speculation about Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah's health sparked by tweet from Iranian FM Mohammed Javad Zarif

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Jerusalem – Rockets were fired from Gaza on southern Israel for two consecutive nights. On Friday night, at least one rocket fired into Israel was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. No injury or damage was reported. The Israel Defense Forces responded by striking what it called “Hamas’ underground infrastructure in Gaza. “ [...]

Justices will hear petition against appointment of Ophir Cohen to post, after sudden dismissal last month of Emi Palmor

New York – Looking across the stock market, it’s hard to find a company that isn’t vulnerable in some degree to the U.S.-China trade war. Stocks of companies that do lots of business with China, such as chipmakers and other technology companies, are obvious candidates for investors to sell when trade worries rise. They have [...]

Amman, Jordan – Jordan has summoned Israel’s ambassador to protest “Israeli violations” at a Jerusalem holy site sacred to Muslims and Jews. Jordan’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday that Amman delivered a “decisive letter” to the ambassador, including a call “to immediately cease all Israeli violations and all Israeli attempts to change the historical, legal status” [...]

Thousands of families have headed to the Catskills today for the final visiting day of summer 2019.
Drivers are encouraged to follow posted speed limits, as State Police troopers are on patrol on the highways. The troopers sit with their radar guns, and drivers who do not follow the reduced speed-limits in certain zones will be ticketed.
A handful of camps cancelled their visiting day because of alleged traffic related to the Woodstock festival. However, most camps left visiting day in place, for askonim familiar with the situation stated that traffic will not be significantly different than on an average summer visiting day Sunday.

Chareidi marketing guru Yossi Rosenbaum who represented the Likud in the Central Elections Committee meetings last week shocked the committee when he vociferously chastised Yair Lapid stating that he uses anti-semitic and racist language meant to incite against the Chareidi faction of the population.

Party sources say internal polls showed slate would win more seats together than apart; Lapid put kibosh on plan, said he wouldn't breach merger with Gantz