Police officers arrested an Arab youth who was suspected of trying to stab people in the Old City on Monday, police said.
According to the statement, the suspect attempted to stab a group of Border Police officers near Herod’s Gate, one of the gates on the northern end of the city walls.
The suspect was detained after a brief chase through the Old City. Only the assailant was wounded, police said in a statement.
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Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Holdings became the first space-tourism business to go public as it began trading Monday on the New York Stock Exchange with a market value of about $1 billion.
The listing, carried out through a merger with shell investment company that was already trading, secures vital new funding for Branson as the British entrepreneur competes with fellow billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in what’s been dubbed “the new space race.”
Investors are being asked to back a project that’s already been running for 15 years without yet achieving a first commercial launch, and which came close to folding following a fatal crash during a 2014 test flight.

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin is scheduled to host a major conference on anti-Semitism next week at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. Panelists will include Katharina von Schnurbein of the European Union; Elan Carr from the United States; Felix Klein of Germany; Lord Erik Pickles of Great Britain; and Frédéric Potier from France.
All five representatives were appointed by their respective governments to spearhead activities to counter the scourge of anti-Semitism in their home countries; this will be the first time they all gather on the same stage. The conference is set to take place on Nov. 4, around one week before the 81st anniversary of Kristallnacht is commemorated across the globe.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Sunday it had agreed to withdraw more than 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the Turkish border, an announcement welcomed by Damascus which said Turkey should now end its “aggression” in northeast Syria.
Turkey launched its cross-border offensive on Oct. 9 targeting Kurdish YPG forces in northeast Syria after President Donald Trump pulled US troops out of the area.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s Vladimir Putin then agreed on Oct. 22 that Syrian border guards and Russian military police would clear the border area up to 30 kilometers into Syria of YPG fighters over a six-day period that ends Tuesday.

President Trump on Monday used his first trip to Chicago as president to tear into the city and its leadership, comparing its violence to Afghanistan and blasting officials as inept and disloyal to the U.S.
“It’s embarrassing to us as a nation,” he said of the city’s crime rate. “All over the world, they’re talking about Chicago. Afghanistan is a safe place by comparison.”
“It’s true,” Trump added after some in the audience chuckled.

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President Trump said Monday that he is considering releasing portions of the video of the U.S. military raid that led to the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi over the weekend.
“We’re thinking about it. We may,” Trump told reporters Monday when asked about the prospect of releasing the footage at Andrews Air Force Base. “We may take certain parts of it and release it, yes.”
Trump described the raid in northwest Syria in great detail when announcing al-Baghdadi’s death in an address on Sunday morning. Trump said he watched much of the raid in the Situation Room, likening it to “watching a movie.”
“It was an amazing display of intelligence and military power and coordination, getting along with people,” Trump said.

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Just 4 years ago, the Nasi of Shas Yiden, Sar Hatorah Maran Hagaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky, shlit”a, gave a brocho that Shas Yiden should increase by another 10 kollelim with avreichim geonim! So, in addition to the first kollel in Beit Shemesh (which has 21 avreichim geonim), another kollel was opened in Bnei Brak (with 16), followed by Yerushalayim (with 12), and now, on Tuesday – Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan, in the young Torah city of Beitar (with 11). 

Israel’s Prime minister-designate Benny Gantz spoke of his meeting with the interim Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the previous day, saying “it was a matter-of-fact meeting, but regretfully we did not achieve real progress.”
Speaking first during his Blue and White party’s sitting on Monday, Gantz said “We will listen to small parties, but we will not let them dictate the national agenda. The good option is still a unity government with Likud. The worst is an election.”
Party co-leader Yair Lapid spoke after the former military chief, saying, “a government can be formed within 48 hours. All that Benjamin Netanyahu needs to do is accept a rotation deal where he is second.”

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Yerachmiel Yeshayu Brecher, a talmid of the Mir Yeshiva, was killed on Monday after falling 100 fee during a hike near Mitzpe Shalem, in the Judean Desert.
Apparently the hiker lost his way and got stuck during a hike in the creek. In the course of trying to find the right path, he fell to his death.
ZAKA teams were dispatched to locate the hiker with the aid of an Air Force helicopter. Rescue teams were finally able to locate him but all resuscitation attempts to regain a pulse ultimately failed.