Reps. Josh Gottheimer and Bill Pascrell Jr., both Democrats who represent New Jersey’s Fifth and Ninth congressional districts, respectively, sent a letter to Port Authority Chairman, and former New Jersey assemblyman and senator, Kevin O’Toole Monday, urging him to reverse course on the agency’s plan to discontinue carpool toll discount on the George Washington Bridge..
“We oppose any effort that will force New Jersey drivers to carry to burden of yet another costly toll hike, and one weigh entirely on the pocketbooks of commuters, make traffic worse, and contribute to further damage of our already-fragile environment,” the congressmen said in the letter.

A 30-year-old woman was moderately injured while a 40-year-old woman and two toddlers were lightly injured in a motor vehicle accident that took place on the Walaja Road near Ein Yael just south of Jerusalem.

United Hatzalah volunteer Rami Doyev who was one of the first responders at the scene relayed: “A two-vehicle accident took place on Highway 3755. Together with other volunteers and an ambulance crew from United Hatzalah I treated the two women and two children at the scene for their injuries. They were all lightly-to-moderately injured. After receiving initial treatment in the field they were transported to the hospital for further medical care and observation.”

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Ofakim, a town in Southern Israel, is home to a sizeable yet tight-knit community of frum Jews. One of the community’s most beloved and respected members is talmid chacham Rabbi Yehuda Politansky, a man in his fifties known for being a talmid of Rav Shimshon Pinkus zt”l.
To many, the Politanskys seemed to have it all: children, Torah, and prestige. In 2017, however, their lives began to spiral out onto a path they could have never anticipated.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an Israeli startup device that can quickly extract results based off just a drop of blood.
However, unlike the former startup Theranos, which falsely claimed that it could test for diseases based off blood from the prick of a finger (and whose founder and deputy were criminally charged), Sight Diagnostics’s OLO blood analyzer conducts just the complete blood-count test (CBC), which calculates white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets in somebody—a procedure that currently can take up to a day and consists of large laboratory machines.

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is unveiling a broad new education plan Saturday that pledges to spend $700 billion over a decade to create a high-quality child care and preschool system that he said would reach all children from birth to age 5 and create 1 million jobs.

Jewish convert David Ben Avraham (formerly known as Samah Zaytun), who was released from a Palestinian Authority prison in Halhul after 60 days, arrived on Friday for medical examinations at the national headquarters of United Hatzalah in Yerushalayim.
Ben Avraham completed the conversion process at Rav Nissim Karelitz’s bais din in Bnei Brak, before being arrested on erev of Yom Kippur upon arriving for a meeting with his son near Karmei Tzur.
After his release, he was evacuated by ambulance for further treatment and medical examinations at the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Yerushalayim. “I would like to thank the United Hatzalah volunteers and the ambulance staff for the dedicated and courteous care and for the quick evacuation to the hospital,” he said.

Sen. Bernie Sanders’s campaign has parted ways with a newly hired staffer following a report that he sent tweets containing anti-Semitic rhetoric.
A spokesman for Sanders’s campaign confirmed to CNN on Friday that Darius Khalil Gordon was no longer with the campaign.
“He is no longer with the campaign and we wish him the best,” Sanders campaign spokesman Mike Casca told the network.
Read more at The Hill.
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Incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not bring up the contentious issue of annexing the Jordan Valley during a meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Portugal, a senior Trump administration official told reporters Saturday.
“I can tell you that there was no annexation plan, full or partial, for any part of the West Bank presented by Israel to the United States during the meeting, and that has long been the US government position, that the ultimate disposition of territory is to be determined between the parties,” Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker said in a statement.