Tel Aviv – Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport went on its highest alert and cleared its runways as a Bulgarian passenger plane with a blown tire approached from Cologne, Germany on a scheduled flight. More than 100 ambulances and firetrucks arrived to await what officials feared could be a crash landing. Israelis watched Monday afternoon on [...]

The United States said it carried out a strike on Sunday against al Qaeda in northwest Syria, calling the area a “safe haven” for the group to plot attacks overseas.
The strike at a training facility targeted “operatives responsible for plotting external attacks threatening US citizens, our partners and innocent civilians,” US Central Command said in a statement.
The northwest is the last major territory in Syria still held by rebel groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad and is dominated by jihadist factions including Tahrir al-Sham, the latest iteration of al Qaeda’s former affiliate the Nusra Front.

Iran has reportedly exceeded the uranium enrichment limit under the 2015 nuclear deal, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday.
The maximum of low-enriched uranium, 660 pounds, is not enough to produce a nuclear bomb. But exceeding it is a sign of Iran appearing to disregard the 2015 accord, which the United States withdrew from in May 2018, in addition to reimposing sanctions lifted under it alongside enacting new penalties against Tehran.

Visitng Gulf state for UN environmental confab, Israel Katz urges closer economic ties between Israel and UAE, discusses regional security

Former head of Council of Higher Education becomes first state comptroller in decades who was not previously a judge, says he won't meddle in decision making

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri has decided to grant local governments an extension to pass their budget before dissolving the council and assuming control.
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Sunday gave a 14-day extension to five local municipalities and cities which to date have not succeeded in passing a budget since municipal elections in October 2018.

Top Palestinian official says purported ancient Jewish pilgrimage road in East Jerusalem is 'a settlement project' that is 'based on a lie that has nothing to do with history'

The following video represents the latest campaign video of the Yisrael Beitenu party, which is headed by MK Avigdor Lieberman.
The video, which is self-explanatory, mocks the Prime Minister and chareidim, warning voters that a vote for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is a vote for a ‘halachic state’ and a vote for Yisrael Beitenu is a vote for a ‘Jewish non-halachic state’.

Two Kansas City, Missouri, men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a $1 million conspiracy to steal more than 1,400 cell phones in dozens of commercial burglaries across five states.
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