Yesh Atid MK Ofer Shelah, a longtime friend and colleague of Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, declared his intention last week to challenge Lapid for the leadership of the party, demanding that party primaries be scheduled as soon as possible. Lapid, the undisputed chairman of Yesh Atid to date, promised at the party’s formation in 2012 that primaries would be held but the date has been repeatedly pushed off. Shelah claims that Yesh Atid will not be viewed as an alternative to the current government before the next elections with Lapid at its helm, criticizing Lapid for not presenting a clear agenda on issues of the economy, security and politics.

generation’s leading Rabbanim, including Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlita, the Belz Rebbe shlita, the Viznitz Rebbe shlita and Rav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi shlita, is making headlines. Many families have been impoverished by Covid-19. The leading Rabbis are overwhelmed by the sheer number of families who need help to prevent imminent starvation and homelessness. Knowing that something had to be done quickly, the 28 Gedolim convened a special Beis Din empowered to make decrees.

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The expected lockdown that was supposed to begin on Monday and effect some 40 cities, with a handful of the larger Chareidi cities included, seems to have changed to nightly curfews and school closures in the same cities that were supposed to be locked down. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has seemingly canceled plans to impose full lockdown and agreed to lesser restrictions in the hopes of curtailing the spread of the coronavirus. The change came following a meeting that Netanyahu had with Chareidi ministers Aryeh Deri (Shas) and Yaakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) and Commissioner of the Coronavirus project Professor Ronni Gamzu.

In this soldier’s city and across the country, veterans and military families are divided about reports that President Donald Trump made disparaging comments toward the military, with some service members bristling at the remarks and others questioning whether they happened. Thomas Richardson, a retired member of the Army’s 82nd Airborne, did not like what he heard. Richardson was trained to respect the office of commander in chief, but he was rankled by allegations in The Atlantic, many of them independently confirmed by The Associated Press, that Trump had referred to fallen and captured U.S. service members as “losers” and “suckers.” “Usually, you don’t choose those kinds of missions.

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A significant breakthrough has been made in a potential relationship between Israel and Saudi Arabia, Yisrael Hayom reported on Sunday. An actual normalization deal is not anticipated in the near future due to King Salman’s continued opposition to the move but in the course of the visit of the US delegation headed by White House adviser Jared Kushner last week, an accord between the United State, Israel, and Saudi Arabia was suggested, similar to the Serbia-Kosovo-US-Israel agreement announcement on Friday. US President Donald Trump is expected to invite Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Washington ahead of the US elections in November, according to a Globes report, quoting a senior Saudi source.

Forty-eight years ago, on September 5, 1972, two members of the Israeli Olympic team were murdered and nine were taken hostage and subsequently murdered in the course of the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. The acts were perpetrated by eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, who demanded the release of 234 Palestinian terrorists in Israeli jails and the West German-held founders of the Red Army Faction, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof. Days of negotiations ensued and a rescue operation ended in failure and the murders of all the hostages. Five of the Black September terrorists and a West German policeman were killed during the rescue attempt.

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