Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday praised the International Criminal Court’s decision to forgo an investigation into possible US war crimes in Afghanistan.
“Over the weekend, there was a very important development for the State of Israel and the international community,” Netanyahu said at the opening of his government’s weekly cabinet meeting. “The court in The Hague rejected the petition by the prosecutor of the international court to investigate US soldiers.”

Syrian opposition websites reported on Sunday evening that a Russian delegation had left Syrian territory with an Israeli coffin containing the body of Israeli spy Eli Cohen.
Cohen, an Egyptian-born Jew, worked as an undercover Israeli agent in Egypt and Syria before he was discovered and hanged in 1965. By the time of his discovery, Cohen had managed to climb the ranks of the Syrian Defense Ministry, becoming the top advisor to Syria’s Defense Minister.
Israel is not commenting on the rumors on Cohen that have been running since Sunday morning on social media. Cabinet ministers who spoke to Channel 12 News said they were unaware of such a development at the moment.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.

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President Donald Trump, renewing his attack on the Federal Reserve, claimed Sunday the stock market would be “5000 to 10,000” points higher had it not been for the actions of the U.S. central bank.
“If the Fed had done its job properly, which it has not, the Stock Market would have been up 5000 to 10,000 additional points,” the president tweeted. “Quantitative tightening was a killer, should have done the exact opposite!”
The president delivered his latest assault on the Fed as his motorcade pulled into Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, for a Sunday outing.

House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Doug Collins on releasing the congressional testimony of former FBI general counsel James Baker.
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WhatsApp is testing a new feature that highlights messages as “frequently forwarded” if they have been shared five or more times.
The new beta for Android is part of WhatsApp’s ongoing campaign to limit the spread of misinformation on the popular messaging app, having limited the number of times you can forward a message earlier this year.
The new feature is currently limited to messages that you send, so you won’t see a “frequently forwarded” tag on messages you receive. Before sending a message, you’ll also be able to see the exact number of times it has been forwarded previously by going to the ‘Message Info’ section.

Israeli police arrested the Palestinian Authority’s governor of the Yerushalayim district on Sunday after he allegedly violated an order previously given to him by authorities, police and his lawyer said.
The governor, Adnan Gheith, has been arrested several times in recent months in connection with an investigation related to a land sale.
Police had previously investigated Gheith over suspicions he was involved in the Palestinian Authority’s kidnapping in October of American-Arab Issam Akel, who was accused of involvement in selling an eastern Jerusalem building to Jewish buyers.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Iran will ask the international community to take a position on the US designation of its Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was cited as saying on Sunday.
Iran condemned US President Donald Trump’s step last week as illegal. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is a powerful elite force which controls much of the Iranian state and economy.
“Today … we will send messages to foreign ministers of all countries to tell them it is necessary for them to express their stances, and to warn them that this unprecedented and dangerous US measure has had and will have consequences,” Zarif was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.

Almost one-third of American adults believe that significantly less that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, according to a recent survey conducted ahead of Yom Hashoah.
The survey, conducted by Schoen Consulting on behalf of The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, found that 70% of US adults say fewer people seem to care about the Holocaust than they used to. 58% believe something like the Holocaust could happen again.
According to the survey, 11% of all US adults and 22% of millennials haven’t heard of, or are not sure they have heard of the Holocaust. In addition, 31% of US adults and 41% of millennials believe that 2 million Jews or less were killed during the Holocaust.

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto was appointed as chief Rabbi of Morocco with the blessing of King Mohammed VI of Morocco.
The ceremony was held in the Bet El Synagogue in Casablanca, attended by hundreds of people, including Moroccan officials who came under the guidance of the King of Morocco to honor the rabbi. In honor of the ceremony, a special prayer was also held in honor of the King of Morocco.
The Moroccan community, made up of thousands of Jews, provides services to about 100,000 Israelis who visit Morocco every year.
Rabbi Pinto will now have a diplomatic and Supreme Court Justice status in Morocco.