The White House is reportedly reviewing plans to deploy as many as 120,000 US troops to the Middle East in the event that Iran moves to boost its uranium enrichment or launches attacks on American targets.
The plan — which approaches the level of troop buildup prior to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 — was presented last Thursday during a meeting of defense chiefs, The New York Times reported late Monday citing more than half a dozen unnamed defense officials in US President Donald Trump’s administration.
The report said the plan was the most aggressive of several proposals presented during the Pentagon meeting on the order of hawkish US national security adviser John Bolton in light of escalating tensions with Iran.

The Health Ministry is expected to take legal action against two doctors who advised thousands of patients to not get vaccinated, according to Israel Hayom. This is the first time that the Health Ministry will have taken legal action like this against doctors.
The Health Ministry referred to the doctors’ actions as “serious negligence.” If the doctors are convicted, they may lose their license to practice medicine, according to Israel Hayom.
The decision comes as the Health Ministry continues the fight against a large measles outbreak. 4,100 cases of measles have been recorded in Israel since March 2018, according to Health Ministry statistics.

A charedi IDF soldier on Monday told his friends that Satmar chasidim bought pies of pizza for a group of soldiers, Arutz Sheva reported.
In his post, the soldier said he was on duty near the Me’aras Hamachpelah when three Satmar chasidim visiting from the US came up to the jeep he and several other soldiers were sitting in and struck up a conversation.
“They didn’t know that there are chassidish eherlich people in the army,” the soldier noted.
At the end of the conversation, the Satmar chasidim surprised the soldiers by buying them all pizza.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Israel’s High Court of Justice is scheduled to discuss on Thursday a petition against a decision this week by Yerushalayim District Police commander Maj. Gen. Doron Yedid to close the Har Habayis to Jews on Yom Yerushalayim for the first time in 30 years.
Most years, the police not only allow Jewish visitors into the Har Habayis compound on Yom Yerushalayim, they expand visiting hours to accommodate the thousands of extra visitors who come to celebrate the annual holiday marking the reunification of Yerushalayim after the 1967 Six Day War.
This year, however, Yom Yerushalayim takes place on June 2, which falls during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Former leaders at the Department of Homeland Security, including then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, pushed back on a White House plan for mass arrests of migrants shortly before their ouster, according to The Washington Post.
The Trump administration had planned to arrest thousands of parents and children in 10 major U.S. cities to deter further migrants, the Post reported, citing seven current and former DHS officials. The plan involved fast-tracking immigration court cases and expanding the government’s authority to deport migrants who did not show for their hearings.
Arrests of the no-shows would involve coordinated raids of the homes and neighborhoods of parents with children, according to the Post.

In an interview with Lebanese Mayadeen TV last week, Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad Al-Nakhaleh said the terrorist group had demonstrated only a portion of its “power and determination” in its armed conflict with Israel earlier in May. He went on to say that his organization had “sufficient capabilities for a prolonged confrontation.”
Referring to the events of May 3-6, he said “these past few days were only a live-fire exercise for the resistance,” adding that he is certain that “a greater battle with the Zionist enemy is yet to come.”
Al-Nakhaleh said that the PIJ had not informed Cairo of its intention to “retaliate” against Israel.

The Lawfare Project has announced that it has filed a new case against Kuwait Airways in Germany, over the airline’s policy of anti-Semitic discrimination on its flights. The case is being brought by a Frankfurt based Israeli businessman who booked a flight from Munich to Sri Lanka in November last year, only to be denied the right to travel.

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The departmental disciplinary trial has begun for NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, five years after being accused of using a chokehold on Eric Garner, who later died on Staten Island in 2014.
Monday was the first day of the trial. If Pantaleo is found to have violated department rules, he could be fired from his job at the NYPD, where he has held a desk job since the 2014 incident.
A grand jury declined to indict Pantaleo on criminal charges for the death of Garner, who died after being arrested for selling single cigarettes on the streets of New York. Garner was recorded telling the cops, “I can’t breathe” during the arrest, which became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement.

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, is proposing a plan to reduce gun suicides by limiting the access to firearms for those who are at risk of self-harm. A CDC report released in 2018 revealed that over 22,000 people died from firearm suicides in 2016.
The five-point plan includes the implementation of federal gun licensing program, which is a centerpiece of the gun control plan Booker unveiled last week and would require a background check, safety training and an in-person interview, which Booker argues would help identify people at risk of suicide.