After an intensive search, the kever of Rav Yosef Patzanovski, author of the well-known Pardes Yosef commentary on the Torah, was discovered in the Lodz cemetery. The headstone also reveals the date of his petirah, the 2nd of Sivan.
“Recently, we have been searching for certain graves that were covered by growth and branches, and with wonderful hashgocha pratis, the kever of the Pardes Yosef has been found,” said Boris Veiniger of the local kehillah. “It was completely covered with dirt and thorns.”

Yad Vashem responded to the statements of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez earlier this week, claiming that the US is running “concentration camps” on the US border.
“AOC: Concentration camps assured a slave labor supply to help in the Nazi effort, even as the brutality of life inside the camps helped assure the ultimate goal of “extermination through labor,” Yad Vashem wrote on Twitter. “Learn about concentration camps.”
For AOC’s convenience, Yad Vashem included a link leading to an educational page on their website entitled “Labor and Concentration camps.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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The drone shot down by Iran today cost a whopping $123 million apiece – about $34 million more than Lockheed Martin’s F-35A Lightning II, the Pentagon’s next-generation fighter jets, according to Military.com, which cited Defense Department documents.
The 47-foot-long, jet-powered RQ-4A has a wingspan of about 130 feet – longer than a Boeing 737 – and can fly at altitudes of about 65,000 feet for longer than 24 hours while packed with sophisticated sensors.
“This would have been a sophisticated radar-guided surface-to-air missile that shot the aircraft down, not a shoulder-fired, heat-seeking missile,” tech news site The Drive reported.
Read more at THE NY POST.

The Shin Bet revealed an attempt by Iranian intelligence to set up an espionage infrastructure in Israel and arrested Taar Shafoot, a Jordanian citizen born in Hebron.
During the Shin Bet interrogation, it was revealed that Shafoot, a Jordanian businessman, had entered Israel on behalf of Iranian intelligence to carry out missions intended to promote the establishment of infrastructure in Israel that would serve secret activities of the Iranians.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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French investigators are probing whether a conman who became known as the “Fake Chairman” for scamming banks out of millions of dollars by posing as a top-ranking executive gave himself a promotion – to government minister.
Gilbert Chikli, a 53-year-old French-Israeli citizen, is at the center of an investigation into a caper that may have netted some $90 million by convincing heads-of-state, clergy, business figures, large charities and other luminaries that they were working with France’s defense minister to free French citizens kidnapped by Islamists in the Middle East and Africa, according to the BBC.

Boris Johnson took a step closer to becoming the next British prime minister on Thursday after he topped the ballot from Conservative lawmakers in the first phase of the Tory leadership contest.
Johnson, Britain’s former foreign secretary, will now go head to head with Jeremy Hunt, the current foreign secretary, over the next month before Conservative Party members vote on which one of the two will become the next leader of the party and prime minister. A decision is expected the week beginning July 22.

Mobile technology has transformed the way we live – how we read, work, communicate, shop and date. But we already know this.
What we have not yet grasped is the way the tiny machines in front of us are remolding our skeletons, possibly altering not just the behaviors we exhibit but the bodies we inhabit.
New research in biomechanics suggests that young people are developing hornlike spikes at the back of their skulls – bone spurs caused by the forward tilt of the head, which shifts weight from the spine to the muscles at the back of the head, causing bone growth in the connecting tendons and ligaments. The weight transfer that causes the buildup can be compared to the way the skin thickens into a callus as a response to pressure or abrasion.

President Trump declared Thursday that Iran “made a very big mistake” after the country shot down a U.S. drone, but suggested he may be restrained in any response.
The president’s first apparent reaction to the strike came in a morning tweet, in which he did not say how the U.S. may respond. Asked later at the White House if he plans to strike Iran, Trump said the public “will soon find out” but did not elaborate.
“Obviously, you know we’re not going to be talking too much about it. You’ll find out,” he told reporters in the Oval Office during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Read more at The Hill.
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A saga that began with a municipal employee opening a corrupted email has forced a small Florida city to take the extraordinary step of agreeing to pay nearly $600,000 to the hackers who paralyzed their computer systems.
With Riviera Beach’s records held hostage, its city council voted unanimously to pay 65 bitcoin to the hackers – a tab that will be picked up by the city’s insurance carrier. For the past three weeks, city employees have not been able to access their emails, emergency dispatchers couldn’t log calls into computers, and workers and vendors had to be paid with paper checks. Even cops had to dig through closets at the police headquarters to find paper traffic citations, The Palm Beach Post reported.

A laser system designed by Israel’s Elbit Systems to protect aircraft against infrared (IR) homing missiles will be used by NATO’s Multinational Multi Role Tanker Transport Fleet (MMF) starting in 2020, the company announced this week.
In a three-day series of flight tests for the new directed IR countermeasures (DIRCM) system, called “J-Music,” at the end of May, it was integrated into Airbus-manufactured A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport aircraft. J-Music functioned flawlessly throughout the tests, proving itself capable of defeating multiple threat types.
It successfully handled simultaneous threat scenarios and overcame head-on, tail-on and side-on threats from a number of ranges and at various altitudes.