Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Saturday that his organization is “investigating the rocket fire on Israel, as there was no order to any group to do it.”
Haniyeh was referring to Thursday’s rocket fire on southern Israel, which hit a religious school in the city of Sderot.
The statement was made during Haniyeh’s meeting with U.N. Envoy to the Middle East Nikolay Mladenov in Gaza.
According to Palestinian media reports, the Hamas leader stressed that Gaza’s rulers were “committed to the understandings reached as part of the ceasefire. We want it [the ceasefire] to continue.”

An Israel Defense Forces soldier was confined to an army base for a weekend as punishment for putting dairy and meat products in the same refrigerator.
According to Channel 12 news, he put cheese and cold cuts on the same shelf in a refrigerator on his base.
A Yisrael Beytenu lawmaker on Saturday condemned the army’s punishment of the soldier, warning it could portend further religious strictures on troops.
“Today they forbid putting milk and meat together in the same fridge. Tomorrow they’ll forbid girls from enlisting in the army. In two days we’ll become the army for the defense of Jewish law,” MK Evgeny Sova wrote on Facebook.
“We should stop this quickly,” he added.

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A man was arrested after allegedly threatening to commit a mass shooting at a shul, police in California said Friday.
Ross Farca, 23, was charged with making criminal threats, possession of an illegal assault rifle and manufacturing an assault rifle, the Concord, Calif. Police Department said in a statement.
Officers said they were alerted by the FBI to comments in an online chatroom and that they traced them to Farca. They said the comments included threats against Jewish people, threats to shoot law enforcement and claims to possess an assault rifle along with the shul threat.
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Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was convicted Sunday of improperly using state funds to illegally procure private catering services at the Prime Minister’s Residence.
Her conviction comes as part of a plea bargain accepted by the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court that saw her escape a charges of aggravated fraud in exchange for her confessing to lesser criminal charges of receiving a gift by purposefully exploiting other people’s mistakes, but not by fraudulent means.
Netanyahu was ordered to pay a NIS 10,000 ($2,800) fine and reimburse the state a further NIS 45,000 ($12,500). Her lawyer requested that the sum be paid in 10 monthly installments.

In light of reports about contacts between senior members of the charedi parties and the chairman of the left wing Kichol V’lavan party, Benny Gantz, UTJ officially announced on Friday that its political partnership with the Likud will continue even after the elections.
“Contrary to the various reports, the partnership with the Likud and Netanyahu will continue even after the upcoming elections,” said the short message, which sought to put an end to the various speculations on the issue.
On Thursday, journalist Ben Caspit reported in the Maariv newspaper that prior to the dissolution of the Knesset two weeks ago, UTJ officials were in contact with Kichol V’lavan leaders in an attempt to prevent new elections from being called.

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Iran has multiplied the speed at which it enriches uranium but it is still far from the maximum rate possible under its nuclear deal with major powers, meaning it would be months before production ceilings are hit, diplomats who follow it say.
Against a backdrop of rising tensions with the United States, which pulled out of the 2015 deal a year ago and has since imposed ever more punishing economic sanctions against Tehran, Iran has stayed within the deal’s key limits while threatening to discard at least some of them.
Since it withdrew from the deal, Washington has reinstated its sanctions against Tehran and added new ones in a bid to isolate the Islamic Republic — an effort Iran calls “economic terrorism.”

Rav Ephraim Hakohen Katz of Vilna, the Shaar Ephraim (1616-1678). Father-in-law of the Chacham Tzvi. In 1678, he accepted the position of Chief Rav of Yerushalayim. Originally from Vilna, he had been living in Budapest for the last few years. At this time, his oldest son died suddenly at the age of only 30. Then, while sitting shiva, his only other son, Rav Yehuda Leib, fell ill and lay in critical condition. Rav Ephraim davened that Heaven take him rather than his son. Immediately, he fell ill, and his son’s health improved. He instructed his son to publish his sefer, then he passed away.
Rav Avraham Yitzchaki (1729). Author of Zerah Avraham.