The office of Israel’s president says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been given the difficult task of forming a new government.
Wednesday’s decision came after President Reuven Rivlin’s attempts to broker a unity government between Netanyahu and his chief rival, Benny Gantz, failed.
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Contacts between the Blue & White party and Likud continue, and some of the details were released by Channel12 News correspondent Amit Segal. The matters being discussed pertain to religion and state.
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25-year-old Yosef Dov Bakar Z”L was Niftar on Wednesday following critical injuries sustained in a vehicular accident in Kazbegi, near Tbilisi, in Georgia earlier in the week. He was niftar in a Georgian hospital.
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The Feldman ice cream company in Israel has announced a recall on a number of products after listeria were found.
Products included in the recall include: parve vanilla ice cream, chocolate mini milk bar, yogurt ice cream and French vanilla ice cream products.
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Is Blue and White trying to breaking up the right-wing bloc through backhanded methods?
A Channel 12 News report on Monday said that Blue and White officials spoke with the leaders of the right-wing bloc and told them that contrary to what Netanyahu told them after the joint Netanyahu/Gantz meeting at the President’s Residence, he didn’t vouch for them at the meeting.

Twin sisters, Talya & Shira, share more than their identical genes. At age 6, their mother passed away due to a fatal illness.  
Before turning 10, their father was hit by a car and left paralyzed.
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The White House on Wednesday released a transcript of President Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showing him seeking a review of Biden family dealings in the country – but the document does not show Trump leveraging military aid as part of a quid-pro-quo, as Democrats have suggested in pressing forward with impeachment.

Similar to previous years, the Israeli Foreign Ministry has issued a travel warning against Israelis and Jews traveling to more than 40 countries during the coming holiday season.
In a statement released to the press, the Ministry said: “The International Jihad forces together with Al-Qaeda are calling for and attempting to undertake attacks against Israeli and or Jewish targets across the globe.

A 20 year old woman was stabbed by a terrorist near Modiin on Wednesday afternoon
It happened on Highway 443 near the town of Maccabim-Reut towards the Shilat junction.

The Women of the Wall (WoW) organization sent a letter to the Rabbi of the Kosel and Holy Sites, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz.
The organization writes “With the New Year and the appointment of the new director-general or the organization, we wish to meet with you”.
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