The Mora D’asra of Modi’in Illit, HaRav Meir Kessler, spoke out against teaching children secular subjects, warning, “They are preparing the children for the workplace”.

Tel Aviv was rated as one of the world’s five most congested cities by the navigation app Waze, according to a Haaretz report on Monday. Waze found that driving one kilometer in Tel Aviv (.6 miles) takes 2.38 minutes.
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Last week, MDA’s Life Guardian course came to a conclusion, in memory of Sergeant Nachshon Wachsman HY”D and Captain Nir Poraz HY”D, who were killed during the mission to rescue Wachsman from terrorist captivity.

The United States has told the United Nations it has begun the process of pulling out of the landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that he submitted a formal notice to the United Nations.
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Apple on Monday said it will put up $2.5 billion toward easing California’s housing crisis.
The sum from Apple eclipses pledges by fellow Silicon Valley giants Google and Facebook for addressing the lack of affordable housing in a region where affluent tech workers have helped drive up the cost of homes.

Laying out the anatomy of a chilling smear campaign, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House investigators in a transcript released Monday that Ukrainian officials had warned her in advance that Rudy Giuliani and other allies of President Donald Trump were planning to “do things, including to me” and were “looking to hurt” her.

A man who fatally stabbed a former co-worker who interrupted him during a 1992 burglary was executed Monday in South Dakota.
Charles Russell Rhines died by lethal injection at the state prison in Sioux Falls at 7:39 p.m.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average returned to a record on Monday, joining other market gauges at all-time highs, as the stock market’s rally carried into a fifth week.
Oil producers, banks and other stocks that do well when the economy is strengthening again led the way.

Milwaukee police arrested a man suspected of throwing battery acid on a Hispanic man who says his attacker asked him, “Why did you come here and invade my country?”
Police said Monday they arrested a 61-year-old white man suspected in Friday night’s attack, but they have not released his name.

Israel on Monday, November 4, 2019, officially launched its annual campaign for Israelis to get vaccinated against the flu, placing on emphasis on the high-risk population groups. The first vaccinations will be given to members of the high-risk categories as the vaccinations have arrived in Israel.