Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said on Oct. 19 that all options will be considered to prevent Israel from ramping up settlement building in the West Bank, including cutting aid to the Jewish state, according to a report in The Hill.
A reporter asked Warren during a campaign event if she would “make aid to Israel conditional on freezing settlements.” Warren replied, “Right now, Netanyahu says he is going to take Israel in a direction of increasing settlements; that does not move us toward a two-state solution. It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution, and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction, then everything is on the table.”

The Sefer Torah was created for Rav Chaim Kanievsky, so that, despite his age and weakness, he could carry it around his neck during Hakafos on Simchas Torah.

For the first time in a decade, someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu will be asked to form a government in Israel.
The 70-year-old prime minister has called two elections this year, has twice been given the chance by the president to put together a ruling coalition, and has twice failed.
The fact that President Reuven Rivlin will now turn to someone else leaves Netanyahu even more vulnerable in his fight for political survival.
But although he has failed, the man now set to try his hand, centrist general-turned-politician Benny Gantz, also has no clear path to success.
Here are some of the possible scenarios, including even a third parliamentary election in less than a year, following two inconclusive elections in April and September.

Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann will walk away from the company he founded with $1.7 billion in cash and credit as key investor SoftBank takes over and scrambles to stave off bankruptcy, according to news reports.
The iconoclastic Neumann, who helped propel WeWork to an eye-popping $47 billion valuation, had been listed as a risk factor in the workspace-sharing company’s prospectus because his leadership and vision were considered essential to its success. But he bowed out as CEO last month after WeWork postponed its initial public offering amid troubling reports about his behavior and questions about the company’s true worth. Now, he’ll exit the company almost entirely, giving up his voting rights but maintaining an unspecified stake.

Yael Rose, the 6-year-old girl who was severely injured Friday by an SUV while riding a scooter at Moshav Emunim the in Be’er Tuvia Regional Council, died Tuesday at Assuta Hospital in Ashdod.
Initial investigation revealed that the girl was hit by a SUV. Police today said road accident investigators are continuing to investigate the circumstances of the accident.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham introduces resolution condemning Democrats’ closed-door impeachment process.
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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday officially marked the reburial of Queen Mother Helen of Romania, also known as Helen of Greece and Denmark, with a letter praising the late monarch for her work to aid and rescue Romanian Jews during the Holocaust.
During World War II, despite Romania’s alliance with and domination by Nazi Germany, Helen fought to bring food, medical supplies, and other aid to the country’s Jews, and in 1942 personally intervened to stop a mass deportation of Jews to the death camps.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has come to the defense of fellow 2020 candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard in the Hillary Clinton feud; Peter Doocy reports from Des Moines, Iowa.
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Although the administration prefers “peace to war,” U.S. President Donald Trump is “fully prepared” to authorize military action against Turkey, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday.
In an interview with CNBC’s Wilfred Frost, Pompeo said the “world should know” that “where we see American interests at stake or fundamental norms around the world that need to be enforced, we’ll use all the powers that we have.”
While the administration’s preferred measures were economic and diplomatic, he said, “In the event that kinetic action or military action is needed, you should know that President Trump is fully prepared to undertake that action.”

Rav Eliyahu Guttmacher, Av Beis din Greiditz (1796-1874). Born near Posen (Poznan) in eastern Germany (today, Poland) he became, at age 19, a student of R’ Akiva Eiger for four years. R’ Guttmacher published several pamphlets describing his ideas about the Redemption and the return to Eretz Yisrael. He also left behind many manuscripts on “traditional” Torah subjects, and some of his commentaries are published in the back of the standard Vilna edition of the Talmud.