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Prime Minister Netanyahu is considering making changes to the transitional government which will be in place until the September elections.
Channel 13 News reported that in internal talks with his advisers, the possibility of appointing Russian speaking Environmental Protection Minister Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) as minister of Immigration and Absorption Minister was raised – in the context of Netanyahu’s battle against Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman.
Netanyahu is also considering dismissing Bennett and Shaked, and transferring the senior positions to members of his party.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Just one month after the inauguration of the 21st Knesset, parliamentarians voted to disband the government and send the country into national elections for the second time in six months.
The Knesset vote came after a tension-filled last-minute effort by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to formulate a majority ruling coalition of at least 61 Knesset members before the midnight deadline between Wednesday and Thursday. But that effort came up short. Netanyahu’s political nemesis, Avigdor Lieberman, refused to bring his five-member Yisrael Beiteinu Party into the government, despite recommending Netanyahu as prime minister, leaving the coalition just one Knesset member shy of a clear majority.

An Illinois high school district is withdrawing a course for educators titled “Teaching Palestine” after pushback from teachers and community members.
The Niles Township High School District 219 serves Lincolnwood and parts of Morton Grove, Niles and Skokie in Cook County, home to Chicago. There are an estimated 291,800 Jews in Illinois with most of them living in the Chicagoland area.
The district consists of Niles North High School and Niles West High School.

The U.S. envoy for peace in Afghanistan will meet with the Taliban this month during an international trip to promote peace talks to end the Afghan War, officials announced Saturday.
The Trump administration is currently negotiating with the armed group to facilitate a withdrawal of U.S. troops, though the talks have been met with bipartisan skepticism on Capitol Hill.
The talks between the administration and the Taliban have also failed to thus far make significant progress, though they did raise eyebrows earlier this year when the Pentagon reportedly asked Congress for funds to reimburse the armed group for transportation and other expenses related to attending the peace negotiations.

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Some may read this as the story of Chortkov. In truth, this is the story of Klal Yisroel.
191 years ago this Shevuos, the first Chortkover Rebbe, Rabbi Duvid Moshe Friedman, was born in Galicia. His father, the Heiliker Ruzhiner, exclaimed that he was “kodshei Kodshim” and that people would consult him in the same way they would consult the Urim Vetumim. His Beis Hamedrash was a palace of Torah and kedushah to where tens of thousands of chassidim would flock.

Apple is phasing out its content download and streaming service, Bloomberg reports. CEO Tim Cook will unveil a spread of new features geared to move the company’s focus away from the iPhone starting Monday at the tech giant’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
One of these changes is getting rid of iTunes, which has served since 2001 as the home for users’ music, television and podcast libraries. Going forward, three new desktop apps will be unveiled — Music, TV and Podcasts — to house and manage the data. This will match the format already used on iPhones and iPads.
Read more at NY POST.
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Rav Shimshon Aaron Polansky, the Teplik Rav (1876-1948). Rav of Midovia in Ukraine’s Kiev district at age 20. Five years later, he became Rav of Teplik in Ukraine’s Podolia’s region. Rav Polansky immigrated to Eretz Yisrael in 1922, settling in the Beis Yisrael area of Yerushalayim.