Spyware crafted by a sophisticated group of hackers-for-hire took advantage of a flaw in the popular WhatsApp communications program to remotely hijack phones, the company said late Monday.
The Financial Times identified the actor as Israel’s NSO Group, with WhatsApp describing the hackers as “a private company that has been known to work with governments to deliver spyware.” A spokesman for the Facebook subsidiary later said: “We’re certainly not refuting any of the coverage you’ve seen.”

The U.S. embassy in Yerushalayim issued a security warning Monday night regarding increased risk of terrorist attacks over the next few days.
According to the warning, which the embassy posted on its website, “terrorist groups may choose the anniversary” of the embassy’s move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, “which coincides with the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv (May 14-18) or “Nakba Day” (May 15), to conduct violent protests or an attack.” American citizens were urged “to remain vigilant and take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness.”

A Jewish woman was wounded in a stabbing attack in Sweden Tuesday, leaving her in critical condition.
The incident took place in the city of Helsingborg roughly 10 miles northwest of Malmo, where the woman resides, Tuesday morning.
According to initial reports, the woman, who is said to be in her 60s, was stabbed nine times during the attack, then was left for dead.
Police have been deployed to the scene and are searching for the assailant.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Sen. Marco Rubio is asking Attorney General William Barr to investigate if former Secretary of State John Kerry broke federal law over his talks with Iranian officials.
Rubio sent a letter to Barr doubling down on his request for the Justice Department to investigate Kerry, a request he also made last year to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
“The Department of Justice should therefore make a determination on whether or not former Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s recent actions related to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran potentially violate the Logan Act or the Foreign Agents Registration Act,” Rubio wrote in the letter to Barr.

The health department has shuttered the Yeshiva of Central Queens for violating a May 9 order prohibiting unvaccinated students from going to school, which health officials issued after a report of a measles exposure at the school.
The school, located at 147-37 70th Rd., won’t be able to reopen without the health department’s approval. Administrators did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The health department has now closed nine schools in an effort to curb a measles outbreak that has seen 498 cases citywide since it began last October. The other eight schools have since reopened, health officials said.

Walmart will now offer shoppers the option to have their online orders delivered the next day, following Amazon promising one-day delivery for all Amazon Prime members and spending $800 million to improve its delivery infrastructure to make this possible.
Walmart on Tuesday is beginning its rollout of next-day delivery, starting in Phoenix and Las Vegas, the company announced in a blog post. The option will be available in Southern California over the next few days. And it will expand to reach roughly 75 percent of American consumers by the end of 2019, including 40 of the top 50 major metros in the U.S., according to Walmart.
Walmart isn’t disclosing the cost of its latest delivery push. But the company says it’s been working on it for quite some time.

After two days of deliberation a jury in Oakland, California, has awarded a couple $2 billion in punitive damages, concluding that sustained exposure to Monsanto Co.’s popular Roundup weed killer led to their cancer diagnoses. The couple will receive an additional $55 million for pain and suffering and to cover medical expenses.
Seventy-six-year-old Alva and 74-year-old Alberta Pilliod used Roundup for about 30 years for residential landscaping, which the jury believed played a “substantial factor” in their development of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Alva was diagnosed in 2011; his wife, Alberta, received the same diagnosis four years later. They are both in remission.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. was blasted by President Trump and his fellow Republicans after saying in an interview that it gave her “a calming feeling” to think of her Palestinian ancestors giving up their lives and their land to create a safe haven for Jews fleeing the persecution of the Holocaust.
On Monday, Tlaib accused Trump and GOP lawmakers of “spreading outright lies” about her.
“The Holocaust was a horrific persecution of Jewish people and should be remembered as such, nothing short of that. While I conveyed these sentiments during Yahoo’s Skullduggery’s Podcast, it’s shameful that right-wing extremists and GOP leadership, including President Trump, have twisted and misconstrued my words to spread falsehoods rooted in hate,” Tlaib said in a statement Monday.

by Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
The Torah tells us in Vayika, Perek Chof Gimmel, posuk chof zayin that the tenth day of Tishrei is Yom Kippur and one has to practice the five “inuyim.” One of the inuyim is not eating.
The Gemara in Pesachim, daf yud gimmel, amud bais and in Beitza, daf yud tes, amud bais says that one should not bring Kodoshim that is Korbanos that will become posul. Posul refers to whether there will be sufficient time to eat the korban before Pesach and since it included chametz, which can’t be eaten on Pesach, it will result in the korban being burned. In such a case one should not bring the korban.