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Thousands of families have headed to the Catskills today for the final visiting day of summer 2019.
Drivers are encouraged to follow posted speed limits, as State Police troopers are on patrol on the highways. The troopers sit with their radar guns, and drivers who do not follow the reduced speed-limits in certain zones will be ticketed.
A handful of camps cancelled their visiting day because of alleged traffic related to the Woodstock festival. However, most camps left visiting day in place, for askonim familiar with the situation stated that traffic will not be significantly different than on an average summer visiting day Sunday.

A charedi man from Bnei Brak won NIS 500,000 in the lottery from a ticket he paid just NIS 50 for on Thursday, JPOST reports.
The winner, who lived in poverty and preferred to be called “Ashkenazi Simon Tov,” had paid just NIS 50 for the ‘Chish Gad’ scratch.
Thanking Hashem for his windfall, the former pauper described his decision to buy the ticket.
“I entered the Chazon Ish store to shop for groceries as usual, but for some reason, decided to buy a lottery card this time.” This was the first time he had ever bought a lottery ticket.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel will not hesitate to launch a large-scale military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, even during the peak of election season, if deemed necessary.
Speaking to reporters ahead of his flight to Kiev, he says,”I heard comments that I am refraining from a large [military] campaign because of the elections. This is not correct. Everyone who knows me knows that my considerations are matter-of fact and real, that I act with full cooperation with the security forces, with assertiveness and responsibility.
“If it is required, we will embark on a large campaign, with considerations to the elections — with elections or without elections,” the prime minister stresses.

Aya Na’amana, an Israeli Technion student who went missing in the Danakil Desert in northeast Ethiopia, was found dead on Sunday.
A group of travelers who arrived at the finishing point of the trail in the Danakil salt desert, dubbed as the hottest place on Earth, reported that one of the travelers, Na’amana, split up from the group and did not make it to the end of the trail.
On Sunday morning Na’amana’s body was found, after possibly falling to her death. Word of her death was sent to her family in Israel and to the Foreign Ministry, which began working to transfer her body back to Israel for burial.

For the first time in more than ten years, Camp Eitz Chaim’s Boys Division was back in action.
Camp Eitz Chaim is affiliated with the Eitz Chaim movement started by Rav Elya Svei zt”l, Reuven Dessler, Harry Mayer, and other dedicated individuals. It continues to operate a very successful girls camp of over 200 campers, run by Mrs. Chana Rappaport of Toronto and her dedicated staff, along with many other activities throughout the year.
Led by Dovid Lagunov, Shmuel Dimarsky and Shlomo Deutsch, over 80 boys, ages 6-14, who reside in the former USSR, with the assistance of American and Russian counselors from Peekskill, Philadelphia, and Eretz Yisroel (Brisk and Mir), enjoyed their first Shabbos in Tarusa, Russia, about a three-hour car ride from Moscow.

Jordan has summoned Israel’s ambassador in protest over “violations” at Har Habayis, the Hashemit Kingdom’s Foreign Ministry says.
It summoned envoy Amir Weissbrod to voice its “condemnation and rejection of Israeli violations” at the highly sensitive site, where Israeli security forces clashed with Palestinian worshipers last week “as well as demand the immediate halt of these provocative and absurd violations in the Noble Sanctuary, which are inflaming the conflict and constitute a clear violation of international law.”
Jordan supervises the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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Last night, soldiers monitoring Israel’s security fence with Gaza identified a terrorist squad armed with rifles attempting to infiltrate into Israel.
In the time it takes to watch this video, IDF troops had already arrived at the scene in order to stop the terrorists.

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A group of Democratic members of the House of Representatives is considering opening an investigation into the conduct of U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman following Israel’s decision to bar Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from entering the country.
The group is also reportedly considering releasing a statement of no confidence in Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer.
According to a report by McClatchy DC news, a senior congressional aide told the site that some 12 Democratic representatives—including Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee—were “reviewing all of our options.”