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It’s with great pain and sorrow that I’m forced to share with you a tragedy that took place this past Shavuos.
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Israel launched a retaliatory strike against “underground terror infrastructure” in a Hamas compound in Gaza early Thursday morning, after a rocket from Gaza was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome aerial defense system just after midnight on Wednesday.
Residents of Nirim in the Eshkol region east of Gaza were sent running for cover when the incoming rocket activated warning sirens, and reported hearing explosions. No Israelis were wounded.

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump does not want war with Iran.
“The president hasn’t shown a lot of inclination to put himself on a very risky course with respect to Iran,” he said in response to a question from JNS on Trump’s Iran policy during a question-and-answer following a discussion at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., about his new book Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons From a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon.
However, Carter warned, “I do worry about us getting into a tangle because we’re so wound up.”

Israel imposed a naval blockade on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Wednesday in response to the dozens of arson balloons launched across the border.
“Due to the continuous launching of incendiary balloons and kites from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, it has been decided tonight (Wednesday) not to allow access to Gaza’s maritime space until further notice,” a spokesperson for COGAT, a unit of Israel’s defense ministry, said in a statement.
Eight fires broke out on Israeli fields adjacent to the Gaza border on Wednesday, following weeks of continuous launches from the Strip being met with restrictions and then easing of Gaza’s fishing zone.

Maine legalized medically assisted suicide on Wednesday, becoming the eighth state to allow terminally ill people to end their lives with prescribed medication.
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who had previously said she was unsure about the bill, signed it in her office.
“It is my hope that this law, while respecting the right to personal liberty, will be used sparingly,” said Mills.
Maine’s measure will allow doctors to prescribe a fatal dose of medication to terminally ill people. It declares that obtaining or administering life-ending medication is not suicide under state law, thereby legalizing the practice often called medically assisted suicide.

Rav Eliezer Rokeach of Amsterdam, the Maaseh Rokeach
Rav Ezra Harari Raful, mekubal of the Aleppo community
Rav Moshe of Rozvadov, son of Rav Eliezer of Dzikov (1894)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged on Wednesday that the Jewish state was carrying out preemptive attacks against enemy targets, such as Iran and Hezbollah, in Syria.
“The chain of tests that we are dealing with is unending. We respond vigorously and with force to all attacks against us; however, we do not take action only after the fact. We deny the enemy’s capabilities before the fact. We are acting methodically and consistently to prevent our enemies from establishing offensive bases against us in our vicinity,” Netanyahu said at a state memorial service for former Israeli President Ephraim Katz.

Hope Hicks, a top aide to President Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign and his first year in the White House, has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on June 19, according to people familiar with the matter.
Hicks would be the first former Trump aide to go before the committee investigating whether Trump tried to obstruct a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. But Hicks might not answer many of the panel’s questions, citing the president’s assertion of executive privilege on events that occurred inside the White House.
Earlier this month, the White House instructed Hicks not to cooperate with a congressional subpoena for documents related to her White House service.
Robert Trout, a lawyer for Hicks, declined to comment.

Sirens were sounded on Wednesday night, shortly after midnight, in the Eshkol Regional Council of southern Israel.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit confirmed that one rocket that was fired from Gaza into Israeli territory was intercepted by the Iron Dome.
There were no reports of physical injuries or damages.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
{Matzav.com}