World powers will not be able to negotiate a better deal with Iran than the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, Iran‘s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on Monday.
Iran threatened on Monday to restart deactivated centrifuges and ramp up its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent purity as its next potential big moves away from the agreement that Washington abandoned last year.
“#B_Team sold @realDonaldTrump on the folly that killing #JCPOA thru #EconomicTerrorism can get him a better deal,” Zarif wrote, referring to the nuclear deal by its acronym, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
“As it becomes increasingly clear that there won’t be a better deal, they’re bizarrely urging Iran‘s full compliance. There’s a way out, but not with #B_Team in charge.”

U.S. special envoy for Mideast peace negotiations Jason Greenblatt said on Monday that the Trump administration is not seeking “regime change” within the Palestinian Authority.
“Our plan right now is with President [Mahmoud] Abbas,” he said at the annual summit by the organization Christians United for Israel. “We’re not looking for any type of regime change.”
Greenblatt said there is a Palestinian government each in the West Bank, controlled by the Palestinian Authority, and Gaza, which is run by the terrorist group Hamas.
“We have to deal with everybody to make this work,” he said. “We cannot make a comprehensive peace unless we make sure that we are dealing with the representatives of all the Palestinian people.”

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Camp HASC had the great zechus to host Rav Berel Lazar shlita, Chief Rabbi of Russia, this past Sunday. It was a heartwarming and uplifting visit that the special campers and staff will always remember.
Rav Lazar’s whirlwind visit was coordinated by Mr. Abe Eisner, HASC Chairman, and began with great excitement when the helicopter touched-down in the camp HASC sports complex on the baseball field.

Dear Matzav,
At a time of heightened negativity both from within and without, it is important to publicize this stark reminder of just how special, holy, noble, refined, and wonderful our nation is. Sometimes it takes an “outsider” to say, “Mah tovu ohalecha Yaakov” and remind us just what it means to be an “am livadad yishkon” which shines forth a light of decency, morality, and kindness onto the nations of the world.
Read the post of a bus driver for a Jewish camp who “could not have asked for a better behaved, polite and grateful group of boys.”
The following are just some of the comments Sullivan County residents added to the post, showing how far reaching small acts can go when we  make a Kiddush Hashem:

H. Ross Perot, an eccentric Dallas billionaire whose two independent runs for president in the 1990s tapped into voters’ frustration with the major political parties and foreshadowed the rise of the tea party two decades later, died July 9 at his home in Dallas. He was 89.
The family announced the death in a statement but did not provide a cause.
The son of a politically connected cotton broker, Perot followed a long tradition of buccaneering Texas entrepreneurs. Following an unhappy stint in the peacetime Navy of the 1950s, he became a top salesman at IBM and was such an exhaustive peddler of computer hardware that he once met an annual sales quota in less than three weeks.

 
A slew of top US and Israeli officials addressed the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) summit in Washington, DC, on Monday.
Speaking to a crowd of thousands at the annual gathering, Vice President Mike Pence hailed the US-Israel relationship, saying that the alliance between the two countries had “never been stronger” than during the past two and a half years.
Pence vowed that his boss, President Donald Trump, would “never compromise the safety and security of the Jewish State of Israel.”
On Iran, Pence said the Tehran regime “should not confuse American restraint with a lack of American resolve.”

At a northern Israel college, students will soon be able to major in cannabis. Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, located near the town of Nazareth, announced its new program Monday.
it will launch a new medical cannabis major in the upcoming school year, under the department of behavioral sciences. The medical cannabis program will focus on three main disciplines: the growing and production of medical cannabis, medicine and pharmacology, and the economics and legal issues surrounding medical cannabis.

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Weeks have passed since the tragic fires which destroyed the Israeli town of Moshav Mevo Modi’im. Many of the survivors, through family connections, or successful GoFundMe-style campaigns, have been able to successfully relocate their families. Some, however, have not been so fortunate.

One such family is the Sorias clan, a young mother and father and their 6 children, who are still living in the temporary school dormitories. The fire was a particularly harsh blow to their extended family, who had lived on the moshav for three generations.