Gag order partially lifted to reveal detention of senior employee at Israeli's top secret nuclear facility

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Yom Tov is fast approaching, and with it, a multitude of expenses. The credit card is swiping continuously, yet the “To Buy” list still looms large. For all of us, it’s a lot, but for many devoted yungerleit in Beis Medrash Govoha and the many Kollelim around Lakewood, a befitting Yom Tov is far out of reach. Five years ago, Kupas Yom Tov stepped in to fill this gap. Today, we share an exclusive look at what goes on behind-the-scenes of this vital organization.
How did Kupas Yom Tov start?

This is probably not the forum for this, but I’m going to post it here anyway.
I’m sure some of you opened up the Wall Street journal this week and saw the front page article about measles in the Orthodox Jewish population.
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Badatz Mehadrin, the hashgacha of Rabbi Avraham Rubin, announces one who does not eat kitnios on Pesach should be alerted to the fact that 1% cottage cheese from the Strauss Company contains kitnios and is therefore, not mehadrin for Pesach as it is during the year.
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Tel Aviv planners want to show European tourists and song contest visitors that Israel 'is awesome'

Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday evening, together with representatives of the New Right party, reviewed the raw materials of the committees which count the double envelopes containing the votes of the soldiers.
A review of the materials found that no invalid ballots were found, with the exception of one ballot that had been disqualified according to the law.
The Election Committee approved the New Right’s request to conduct a recount of votes in 300 ballot boxes which were used for special votes – the double-enveloped ballots cast by Israeli citizens unable to vote at the ballot nearest to their home.

American Jewish leaders to meet with White House on Tuesday; Netanyahu eyes grand alliance to tame Iran

Valley Stream, NY – Police on Long Island said a small plane carrying three people went down in a residential neighborhood of Valley Stream Sunday night. Newsday reports that a disoriented pilot flying a rented single-engine plane flying in thick fog with a disoriented pilot ran out of fuel and clipped the roof of a [...]

President Donald Trump’s proposal for a “Deal of the Century” to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict promises practical improvements in the lives of Palestinian Arabs but is likely to stop short of ensuring a separate, fully sovereign Palestinian state, people familiar with the main elements of the effort told The Washington Post on Sunday.
The plan is likely to focus heavily on Israeli security concerns, according to The Washington Post. Trump has told friends he wants to upend traditional assumptions about how to resolve the conflict, but unlike in his unorthodox personal diplomacy with North Korea, Trump has largely outsourced the Middle East peace effort to his son-in-law.