Israel is reportedly working to negotiate a “non-aggression pact” with Gulf states to confront hostilities from their shared enemy, Iran.
Hebrew-language Channel 12 reported Saturday evening that Israel’s Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz recently held a series of meetings with foreign ministers from the Gulf State and presented them with an initiative aimed at ending the long conflict with the Jewish state.
Israel is apparently trying to exploit the “common interest” of Iranian hostility in order to pursue friendly relations and economic ties with Gulf states.
The “historic” deal would apparently seek to develop friendships and cooperation and work to minimize potential conflicts between parties.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, New York City police received a 911 call reporting an assault in Lower Manhattan. When officers arrived at the scene, they found a man, unconscious, suffering from severe head trauma. He would later die of his injuries.
After another man appeared with a similar injury, the officers swept the area. They found two other dead victims nearby and then a third at another location, each with severe head trauma.
The four deceased men, all believed to be homeless, and one severely injured victim were apparently random victims of bludgeoning, police said.

At the start of Shabbos, a Damascus-born Syrian man wielding with knife and yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ near a Berlin shul in the district of Mitte was detained by guards, who contacted police after the man refused to drop his weapon. The guards sprayed him with pepper spray until police arrived.
Police arrested the man.
{Matzav.com}

Gizmodo reports: LaRouche PAC, a far-right group that supports Donald Trump, has taken credit for trolling Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a town hall meeting yesterday. An operative with LaRouche made headlines after standing up at AOC’s town hall in Queens yesterday and saying that humanity should eat babies, among other ridiculous things, to address the climate crisis.

Sen. Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack earlier this week before a stent procedure was conducted to clear an artery, doctors said Friday in a statement released by his presidential campaign.
Sanders, 78, was released from a Las Vegas hospital Friday.
“Sen. Sanders was diagnosed with a myocardial infarction,” his treating physicians, Arturo Marchand Jr. and Arjun Gururaj, said in the statement Friday.
The independent Vermont senator, dressed in a blue button-down shirt and a dark blazer, waved to cameras as he departed the hospital Friday afternoon alongside his wife, Jane. He told reporters he felt “great, thank you” before entering a dark SUV.

President Donald Trump resumed his attacks on Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Saturday morning, calling for the senator’s impeachment a day after Romney criticized Trump for asking foreign leaders to investigate a political opponent.
“Somebody please wake up Mitt Romney and tell him that my conversation with the Ukrainian President was a congenial and very appropriate one, and my statement on China pertained to corruption, not politics. If Mitt worked this hard on Obama, he could have won. Sadly, he choked!” Trump tweeted.

Daf on the Bike, Cross Country
You are over 70 years old, bli ayin hora, riding a bicycle cross country. Fifty miles a day, day after day, for over two weeks. You need to take along some basic necessities: tools, a change of clothes, Tallis and Tefillin…and a Gemara.
When Heshie Josephs of Detroit, an engineering professor at Lawrence Technological University, undertook a solo bicycle ride to Lakewood to benefit the local P’tach organization, he knew that he could not miss learning The Daf even once. The ride was difficult and exhausting; time was limited; and – after all – it was for the purpose of a great mitzvah.

Intelligence agencies didn’t like President Trump challenging them.
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New York’s emergency ban on flavored e-cigarettes, imposed earlier this month amid a rising epidemic of illnesses and deaths linked to vaping, was temporarily blocked by a state appeals court after a challenge from an industry group.
Michigan last month became the first state to implement a limited ban on flavored e-cigarettes, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a ban on thousands of flavors of e-cigarettes and vaping liquid like mango, bubble gum and cotton candy about two weeks later.