Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday appeared to blame a US strategist working with the Blue and White campaign for being behind a report that Israel was likely behind the placement of devices in the vicinity of the White House that can capture cellphone calls.
“Yesterday you heard the lies that Israel tried to spy on the White House, a complete lie,” Netanyahu said in the Hebrew-language video.
“For them everything is kosher,” said Netanyahu referring to the Blue and White campaigin. “They are willing to do anything and don’t care if they damage this valuable asset, our relationship with the United States and my relationship with the president.”

A day after announcing his plan to ban flavored vaping products, President Donald Trump shared how he and his wife are tackling the growing problem among young people with their own teenager at home.
When asked about what he’s told his son Barron, 13, about vaping, the president told reporters on the South Lawn, “We haven’t told him anything but ‘don’t vape, don’t vape.’”
“It’s causing a lot of problems and we’re going to have to do something about it,” Trump said after a White House meeting with health policy advisers on Wednesday. “There have been deaths and there have been a lot of other problems.”

President Donald Trump on Thursday ruled out asking Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to take on a dual role as national security adviser and said he has about 15 candidates for the post last held by John Bolton.
There had been some discussion among White House officials about giving Pompeo the national security job while he remained secretary of state, but Trump told reporters he did not plan to take that step.
Trump said he spoke to Pompeo about the idea and the secretary of state “liked the idea of having somebody in there with him.”
Trump said he now has 15 candidates for the job, a day after saying he had a short list of five. He said he would probably have a decision on who gets the post next week.

The A Team presents a Symphony Chuppah featuring Benny Friedman.
The idea to use two very unique songs not often sung to the tune of Mi Adir and Mi Bon Siach came from dear friend and partner on the west coast: Naftali Finkel of the Shira Orchestra LA, in honor of his sons wedding.
Watch and Enjoy as we performed Mi Adir to the tune of Hamalach by London School of Jewish Song and Mi Bon Siach to the tune Yedid Nefesh off MBDs album Hold On.
Credits:
Produced by: Yitzy Schwartz/A Team Orchestra
Arranged by: Avremi G
Conducted by: Yitzy Schwartz
Mixed by: V-Gold beat productions
Live Mix: Eli Lishinsky
Israel Concierge: R’ Steve Jobs A”H
Post Production: Platinum Productions

Those expecting Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy to flame out any day now will have to keep waiting.
The former US vice president survived another Democratic debate on Thursday largely unbloodied and unbowed, leaving those on the margins of the race for the party’s 2020 nomination wondering if their time to gain ground on the front-runner is running out.
If anything, the third Democratic debate in Houston was notable for how few of the nine other candidates took hard swings at Biden, a marked contrast from earlier debates when his record was more directly challenged.
The evening likely left the race fairly much as it was before the debate, with Biden holding a sizeable, but not overwhelming lead over US Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that protects the right of Jewish residents to place a mezuzah on their doorposts, including dormitory rooms and apartments.
Senate Bill 652, known as the “Mezuzah Bill,” mandates that property owners “shall not enforce or adopt a restrictive covenant or any other restriction that prohibits one or more religious items from being displayed or affixed on any entry door or entry door frame of a dwelling.”
A mezuzah is a parchment scroll with Torah verses handwritten on it by an expert scribe placed on the doorpost of a Jewish person’s home and often on interior rooms of the home.

Health officials, lawmakers and parents have been raising alarms about vaping for a couple of years, warning that products touted as healthier alternatives for smokers are instead drawing in young people with fun flavors and slick marketing.
But the caution has taken on new urgency in recent weeks as authorities scramble to understand a rash of mysterious vaping-linked illnesses that have put healthy people in the hospital with serious lung diseases. On Tuesday, authorities announced a sixth death connected to e-cigarettes, which are battery-powered devices that can look like flash drives and pens and that mimic smoking by heating liquids with substances such as nicotine and marijuana.
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How did the concerns start?

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The third Democratic presidential debate covered health care, racism, guns and immigration, with candidates touting their records and arguing over how far left the party should go.
The candidates facing off are former vice president Joe Biden; Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang; former congressman Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas; and former Obama Cabinet official and former San Antonio mayor Julián Castro.

Netanyahu challenger faces questions after Iran hacked his phone; reaction from ‘Life, Liberty & Levin’ host Mark Levin.
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