Though Muhammad leads the pack, 67 newborns named after Game of Thrones character

Staff and campers at Camp Morasha must have been surprised to see Secret Service show up to buses as President Trump’s daughter Ivanka arrived to say goodbye to her daughter Arielle who is taking a 3 day trip at Camp Morasha.
According to the camp’s website, the ‘Morasha Mania’ program is meant for prospective campers to experience Morasha first-hand.
“Children enjoy three days and two nights in camp, immersed in all aspects of Camp,” the websitre says.” From sports to swimming, theater productions to pool parties, horseback riding to rock climbing – your children will come home with a great feel for what Camp Morasha is all about.”

Nearly 4,000 weapons were confiscated and thousands of people arrested on weapons-related charges in the first half of 2019, according to a report by the Israeli police on Tuesday.
According to the report, some 3,661 weapons were confiscated, 2,704 people were arrested for shooting-related crimes, and 3,447 were arrested in a total of 3,568 cases pertaining to illegal arms dealing in the first six months of 2019.
Approximately 80 percent of all weapons seized were in Arab communities, according to The Jerusalem Post.
“Police operations were conducted across the country as a result of quality intelligence and undercover operations,” the police statement said.

An international team of researchers has traced an unusual 2017 radioactive release that blanketed a large part of Europe to Russia.
The cloud was not harmful outside of Russia, according to the paper published in scientific journal PNAS, but researchers said there may have been a more serious fallout in the direct proximity of the release site.
Russian authorities have repeatedly denied responsibility for the release of the ruthenium-106 isotopes, and the delay in identifying the suspected origin site has robbed scientists of crucial evidence it would need to help prevent another massive leak, the researchers said.

On Friday, Apple confirmed that the company has eavesdropping practices similar to Google’s and Amazon’s, but never disclosed that fact in its privacy policy.
Apple samples a small number of recordings of interactions with its voice assistant Siri, which is used by millions of Americans on their iPhones, Apple Watches, and other iOS and Mac devices. According to the whistleblower, that includes “countless instances of recordings featuring private discussions between doctors and patients, business deals, seemingly criminal dealings, and so on.”
Apple says that the recordings aren’t associated with a specific Apple ID, meaning that no one listening would actually know who was on the other end, but it does send information like device location.

New York is extending the waiting period for certain gun purchases from three days to 30 days to give authorities more time to run background checks.
The change signed into law Monday by Democratic Gov.
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California’s Democratic governor signed a law Tuesday requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns to appear on the state’s primary ballot, a move aimed squarely at Republican President Donald Trump.

The following is an email that was sent to every funeral chapel in the NYC area on Tuesday morning. It was provided to YWN by El Al:
Dear XXXXX Chapels,
Please be advised that ELAL passenger flights recently suffered several departure delays due to late delivery of human remains and documents.

Berlin – Germany’s Foreign Ministry says it has instituted new social media guidelines and disciplined personnel after anti-Israel tweets were “liked” by the official Twitter account of the German mission to the Palestinian territories. The Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that 10 people had access to the @GerRepRamallah account and it wasn’t clear who clicked the [...]