Sen. Ted Cruz said he thinks President Trump could “absolutely” be defeated in the 2020 election and predicted there could be “staggering” Democratic voter turnout.
He said in an interview with PBS’s “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover” that aired Friday that he believes the presidential election will be a “coin flip” and placed Trump’s reelection chances at “50-50.”
Asked if Trump could be defeated, Cruz responded, “Absolutely. I personally handicap the 2020 election as a coin flip. I think it’s about 50-50.”
“I want to see the president reelected,” he added. “And I think he certainly can get reelected. But I think we are going to see staggering Democratic turnout in 2020.”

On July 20, 1969, millions of people around the world watched on TV as Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong took his historic step into the pages of history.
A breathtaking achievement, the mission delivered on President Kennedy’s 1961 promise to land an American on the Moon by the end of that decade. With the American Flag flying proudly on the Sea of Tranquility, the U.S. had finally won its space race with the Soviet Union.
The Moon landing was also a truly global event. An estimated 650 million people around the world watched the Moon landing on TV, according to NASA.
Events were held across the globe to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing.

History will be made on July 20 as Benjamin Netanyahu, 69, becomes the longest-serving prime minister that the nation—only two years older than he—has seen.
Israel’s founding father and first premier, David Ben-Gurion, served in that role for 4,875 days—from May 14, 1948 to Jan. 26, 1954, and then again from Nov. 3, 1955 to June 26, 1963, for a total of 13-and-a-half years. Netanyahu’s 4,876 days will also have come via two separate stints in office—first from June 18, 1996 to July 6, 1999, and then from March 31, 2009 until the present.
Michael Freund, Netanyahu’s deputy communications director from 1996-99, told JNS that Netanyahu surpassing Ben-Gurion’s tenure is “a feat of remarkable political longevity.”

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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