Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa met on Thursday in Washington, D.C.
“Yesterday I met publicly with the Foreign Minister of Bahrain @khalidalkhalifa at the [U.S. State Department’s] Ministerial on Religious Freedom Another example of our growing diplomatic connections I will continue to work with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] to advance Israel’s relations with the Gulf countries,” tweeted Katz.

A video has emerged of Mordechai Ben David walking off stage after an attendee at a concert refused to put out his cigarette.
The footage was sent to Matzav.com by a reader, who stated that this took place at an event in Argentina.
Mordechai Ben David was singing Ana Melech, which appeared on his Efshar Letakein album and was composed by Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz, when the incident occurred. The exchange was captured by a cell phone camera. R’ Mordechai asked the attendee to extinguish his smoke, and when he did not, R’ Mordechai promptly departed the stage.
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Rav Yehuda Halevi Eidel of Slonim (1805). Born in Zamosc, Galicia, in 1757 or 1759. His most famous work was Afikei Yehuda. His chidushim on Seder Toharos is considered indispensable for anyone studying this topic. He also published a book on Hebrew synonyms called Redifei Maya, and his first book, Safah le-Ne’emanim, a treatise on grammar, was what caught the attention of the Vilna Gaon.” He had five sons, all of whom became rabbis.
Rav Avraham (Maskileison) ben Yehudah Leib (1788-1848). He authored Maskil L’eisan (chidushim on parts of Moed and Kodoshim,), Be’er Avraham (chidushim on Shas), Nachal Eisan (chidushim on the first two parts of Rambam’s Yad Chazakah), and Yad Avraham (chidushim on Yoreh De’ah; notes on Sifre).

The global shock after Trump supporters responded to the president’s attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a Somali-born Muslim, with frenzied chants of “Send her back!” is showing little sign of abating.
The jarring scene at Wednesday’s rally, which followed President Donald Trump falsely claiming Omar had praised al-Qaeda, inspired the social media hashtag #IStandWithIlhanOmar, which was soon trending on social media in the United States, along with other countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada and Egypt.
On Friday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel became the latest foreign official to openly condemn the comments: “Without question, I reject [Trump’s comments] and stand in solidarity with the congresswomen he targeted.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris, who clashed at the first Democratic debate, will face off again in the next two-night debate at the end of July, while the ideologically aligned Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will appear together the other night.
Who is matched with whom can shift the trajectory of the race, as Harris, D-Calif., showed in the first debate when she went after Biden on the issue of busing and race. It created a Harris vs. Biden narrative and helped catapult Harris toward the top of the national polls. The aftershocks of that moment were felt for days, culminating in Biden giving a major speech defending his civil rights record.

Thousands across the Catskills region are without power after a number of outages in the region, leaving them without electricity for Shabbos.
With high temperatures expected over the weekend, the outages does not come at an opportune time.
At least two camps suffering from an outage have sent their campers home. One of those, Camp Chaya Sura, pictured above, is a popular chassidishe girls camp with campers primarily from Brooklyn. The hundreds of campers have left the camp grounds to spend Shabbos with their families in the Catskills or back home, or with friends and others across the Catskills.

Progressive Congresswoman Ilhan Omar likens anti-Israel resolution to boycotts of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union; reaction from George Mason University law professor Eugene Kontorovich.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would direct aides to investigate a pending military contract widely expected to be awarded to Amazon Web Services, saying he had heard multiple complaints about an unfair bidding process.
His involvement would be an unusual Oval Office intervention in a process normally handled by military officials trained to follow complicated procurement laws and regulations.

Following recent armed attacks against religious and public institutions in the United States, including attacks at synagogues, churches, schools and colleges, Magen David Adom, Israel’s national EMS service, conducted three days of terrorism- and emergency-response training for civilians.
The instruction, known as “First 7 Minutes” training, taught course participants how to remain safe amid the chaos of a violent incident and how, in the immediate aftermath of an attack, to render critical first aid and other assistance in the seven minutes it typically takes first responders to arrive.