MK Moshe Gafni, who leads the UTJ’s Degel Hatorah faction, estimated this weekend that a compromise will be found at the last minute, and Israel will not have new elections, Kikar Hashabbat reported.
His statements come in direct contradiction to those of Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman (UTJ), who said earlier this week that Israel is “headed towards new elections.”
He estimated that the 28 days allotted to MK Benny Gantz (Blue and White) will draw to a close without him being able to form a government.
“There will be another 21 days and then we’ll hold new elections. And no one wants that. I estimate that at the end of the day, a solution will be found, and it will be based on the fact that the blocs will change.”

The family of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin contacted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Attorney-General Dr. Avichai Mandelblit through Prof. Aviad Hacohen and Adv. Oded Saburai following the transfer of the body of the terrorist Amiad Khalil Ibrahim last week to Gaza.
Goldin was killed and his body kidnapped during a United Nations-brokered ceasefire during 2014’s Operation Protective Edge.
The family noted that “the transfer of the body is a violation of the decisions of the Political-Security Cabinet of January 2017, as well as of the decisions of the Supreme Court which ordered the government to implement its decisions and cease transferring the bodies of Hamas members for burial as long as the organization holds IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians.”


We present you with the next video from our chupa series, where we re-visit the gorgeous hit Mimkomcha (originally composed by Yitzy Waldner and sung by Yaakov Shwekey on the Ad Bli Dai album) with a new and fresh musical arrangement. Also featuring the song of the year (arguably) Nafshi, (composed/sung by Ishay Ribo and Motty Steinmetz) which has been sung at dinners, kumsitz’s, and Shabbos tables all over.
Featured here as a chupa selection, with a gorgeous arrangement by Yisroel Lamm. The video combines the vocals of The Yedidim Choir and superstar Ohad, where they join to provide some real powerful musical experience.
Video was taken on August 22nd, 2019 at Marina Del Ray, at the Apfelbaum & Kwestel Wedding.

As the old saying goes, two Jews, three opinions. Add one headache for the Taliban.
Zabulon Simentov, 66, who is believed to be the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan, was  once imprisoned by the Taliban for for arguing with a fellow Jew, then kicked him out because the constant bickering became too annoying.
“[The Taliban] beat me a lot,” Simentov told Foreign Policy. Unfortunately, his time in prison allowed the Taliban to run away with the shul’s Torah. Scribed in the 15th century, the scroll was allegedly taken by Taliban’s interior minister and sold on the black market.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Several days after President Donald Trump’s phone call with the leader of Ukraine, a top White House lawyer instructed a senior national security official not to discuss his grave concerns about the leaders’ conversation with anyone outside the White House, according to three people familiar with the aide’s testimony.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testified that he received this instruction from John Eisenberg, the top legal adviser for the National Security Council, after White House lawyers learned July 29 that a CIA employee had anonymously raised concerns about the Trump phone call, the sources said.

Apple is seeking exclusions from President Donald Trump’s tariffs that went into effect Sept. 1 on the Apple Watch, iMac, parts for the iPhone and other components imported from China.
The company filed requests for exclusions from 15% duties on 11 products or components Thursday, the first day U.S. firms could seek relief from the tariffs on about $110 billion in Chinese imports. The iPhone maker had mixed results on its requests for exclusions from the previous round of duties.

Fitbit on Friday announced it will be acquired by Google in a deal that values the smartwatch maker at roughly $2.1 billion.
The deal puts Alphabet in a race against Apple when it comes to tracking fitness and health data. Fitbit’s stock had surged as much as 30% earlier this week on reports that Alphabet had put in an offer. The deal is expected to close in 2020.
Google will pay $7.35 a share for the fitness tracker, helping it advance its ambitions for wearable technology. The company does not make its own smartwatch.

Starbucks Corp.’s newest store type is so small it leaves little room for customers.
The location opening Tuesday in New York’s Penn Plaza has just 300 square feet (28 square meters) for customers — a fraction of a traditional Starbucks dining area and roughly the size of a generous living room. It lacks features like menu boards and a pastry case, and has a discreet, out-of-sight cash register. Customers who order via phone ahead of time can pick up their order when it pops up on a digital board. Walk-in orders are welcome but the space is designed to accommodate digital orders.

Rav Tzvi Hirsh Kalisher
Rav Moshe Birdogo, son of Rav Avraham. Rav Moshe resided in western Morocco and was known as the Rosh Mashbir (1730)
Rav Avraham Halevi Zions, rosh yeshivas Knesses Yisrael in New York
Rav Avraham Rice, pioneer of the Baltimore Jewish community and founder of one of the first Hebrew schools in the U.S.
Today in History – 5 Cheshvan

· Pogrom against Alexandria’s Jews and their expulsion from the city by the Christian rabble incited by Bishop Carilius, 413 CE
· Jews massacred in Beit Shean by Greeks, 333 BCE
· 200 Jews massacred in Germany, 1298
· Pope Gregory X condemns the libel of Jews for ritual murder, 1272

Hundreds of Palestinians gathered at the border of Israel and the Gaza Strip on Friday as part of the continuation of the “March of Return” demonstrations that have occurred nearly week throughout 2018 and 2019.
Prompted by Hamas, they threw rocks, Molotov cocktails and other explosive objects at the security fence and Israel Defense Forces, as well as burned tires, yelled anti-Israel slogans and waved Palestinian flags.
One Molotov cocktail hit an IDF vehicle, though no injuries resulted.
The Palestinian health ministry reported nearly 100 Palestinians as having been wounded in the mayhem.
Protests also occurred in the West Bank on Friday, with Arab adults encouraging children to collect and burn tires.
(JNS)
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