Iran is plotting a destructive attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil extraction facilities, according to intelligence gathered by Israel’s spy agencies and relayed to Washington, an Israeli TV report said Friday night.
Top officials in Tehran were “mulling different aggressive actions” against American-allied targets after direct attacks on US targets were deemed to risky, and set their sights on Saudi oil production facilities, according to the TV report that did not cite its sources.
It is understood that an added advantage of such a attack from Iran’s point of view would be sending oil prices soaring, resulting in a windfall for the cash-strapped Islamic Republic, languishing under the harsh sanctions levied by the administration of Donald Trump.

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Of the 23 Palestinians identified as being killed in last weekend’s violent flare-up in the Gaza Strip, at least 17 (74%) were members of terrorist groups, according to an analysis published by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC).
Among the dead, the report found, were eight Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives, five Fatah operatives, two Hamas operatives and one Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine operative.
Around 700 rockets were fired by Hamas and Islamic Jihad into southern Israel over a two-day span, killing four Israeli civilians.
The IDF responded with pinpoint strikes on hundreds of terror targets in the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave.
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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Friday reiterated his call for Rep. Ilhan Omar to be removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for making anti-Semitic and anti-Israel comments while in Congress.
“Ilhan Omar has made statements … anti-Semitic comments … statements against our most cherished ally: Israel … that ought to be rejected by every American,” said Pence during an interview with Fox News.
Even before running for Congress, Omar has made anti-Israel statements such as tweeting in 2012 that Israel has “hypnotized the world,” a post that has since been deleted.
Then in February, one month into the job, Omar accused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the largest pro-Israel lobbying organization, of paying members of Congress to back Israel.

A December fundraising campaign brought in more than $20 million over the course of a few weeks, its thousands of donors united by a common goal: the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, oft-promised by President Donald Trump.
Some four months later, a contingent of those supporters is ready to see what their money has built.

A postcard written and signed by Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, just one day after officially declaring the State of Israel’s independence, was recently discovered. Dated on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Iyar in the Jewish year 5748 (May 15, 1948), it was sent to the founding father of the kibbutz movement, Shlomo Lavi.
In a letter inscribed on the back of the postcard, Ben-Gurion wrote: “The people of Israel have attained the pinnacle of their existence—the State of Israel has been born.”
The postcard, which was discovered right before Israel’s Independence Day, will be put up for public auction next week at the Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem.

One Palestinian rioter — a 24-year-old man — was reportedly killed on Friday in renewed unrest on the Israel-Gaza Strip border.
According to Gaza health officials, 30 other Palestinians were wounded on Friday.
Weekly border demonstrations — which have often turned violent — have taken place since March 2018. Israel sees the protests as potential cover for cross-border attacks and a bid by Hamas to distract from its internal governance problems.
The IDF said its troops were confronted by around 6,000 Palestinian rioters on the border on Friday, and opened fire when some of them approached the fence.

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Rav Shlomo Ephraim of Luntchitz, author of Kli Yakar and Ololos Ephraim (1550-1619). Rav Shlomo Ephraim was born in Lunchitz in Poland. He was a disciple of Rav Shlomo Luria (Maharshal), the famous talmudist and author of Yam Shel Shlomo. After leading the yeshiva in Lvov, Rav Shlomo Ephraim was appointed Rav of Prague. He sat on the Beis Din of that city with Rav Yeshayah Horowitz(the “Shelah Ha’kadosh”). Among Rav Shlomo Ephraim’s prominent students was Rav Yom Tov Lipman Heller, author of the Mishnah commentary Tosfos Yom Tov. The Kli Yakar died in Prague, Bohemia. The introduction of his Kli Yakar he relates that the name Shlomo was added to his name during life-threatening illness.