Preparations are underway for Israel’s elections for the 23rd Knesset on Monday. A reinforced police presence on Election Day of over 18,000 police officers, Border Police and volunteers along with thousands of civilian guards will be deployed at about 10,840 voting stations at over 4,100 locations nationwide on Election Day. Special preparations were also made in by the Jerusalem municipality to encourage voters who may want to stay home on Election Day to avoid crowds out of a fear of the coronavirus as well as boost Jerusalem businesses, which reportedly suffered a decline in revenue during the election period. The Jerusalem Municipality is providing free ice cream on Election Day to anyone who spends 20 shekels in any Jerusalem store.

Chicago’s mayor said video footage of police shooting and wounding a suspect inside a downtown Chicago train station is “extremely disturbing” and that she supports the interim police superintendent’s request for prosecutors to be sent directly to the scene — an unusual or perhaps unprecedented action in the nation’s third largest city.

Habochur Yosef Chaim ben Devorah Leah (Hecht), who utilized his difficult nisayon, to bring his nation to a new awareness, updates Klal Yisroel on his viral movement “AsherToTheYatzar.com“. Watch this incredible video and share with others.
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New York state will wait until April 1 to penalize stores that violate a new ban on single-use plastic bags that is embroiled in litigation, the state’s top environmental official said Friday. New York will officially prohibit stores from handing out most thin plastic bags starting Sunday. But state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said Friday that the state has agreed to delay enforcement as it fights a lawsuit in Albany County court, lodged by a manufacturer of plastic bags and by convenience store owners who call the ban unconstitutional. An association of 6,000 convenience store owners statewide opposes the state’s efforts to allow stores to hand out only thick, reusable plastic bags that the industry says it can’t yet produce.

In the Menahel’s personal Good Morning – a story of care and connection. In the full-time Rebbe arrangement – a story of unique dedication to Chinuch. In the height-adjustable desks – a story of Unconditional Chinuch for each Talmid. In the competitive basketball games – a story of friendship and fun. And in each gratified smile – a story of passion, privilege, and pride. Watch this video to see these stories in action – and then join the action! Cheder D’Monsey specializes in the Unconditional Chinuch, so many have come to admire. The purposefully small class sizes.  The fully integrated curriculum. The trained, full-time Rebbeim. It’s been 10 years of unconditional chinuch….

It isn’t easy being a Bernie Sanders supporter in a conservative state like Oklahoma. Travis Wyman, a 40-year-old construction worker and online “social justice warrior,” says he and other Sanders fans can hear “fear-mongering words” like socialist and communist thrown at them many times a day. It’s done nothing to deter Wyman, who volunteers for Sanders’ presidential campaign at phone banks and was among roughly 200 people who turned out to hear the candidate’s wife, Jane Sanders, speak last week in Tahlequah, an eastern Oklahoma city and home to the Cherokee Nation, the largest Native American tribe in the country. “Man, this is a revolution. We’re here to change the world.

France is banning all indoor public gatherings of more than 5,000 people to slow its snowballing spread of coronavirus cases and recommending that people no longer greet each other with kisses. The number of French cases almost doubled, to 100, on Saturday. Of those 86 are hospitalized, two have died and 12 have recovered, said the head of France’s national health service, Jerome Salomon. The cancellation of large gatherings in confined spaces was announced earlier Saturday by Health Minister Olivier Veran after special government meetings that focused on responses to the epidemic.

Israelis head to the polls for the third time in less than a year on Monday, after the two previous parliamentary races ended inconclusively. Twenty-nine parties are running, but no more than eight are likely to break the 3.25% electoral threshold needed to enter the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. No party has ever won an absolute majority in the 120-seat Knesset. Typically, larger parties have to make alliances with smaller groups to create a governing coalition with a majority in parliament. After the election, the president will tap a party leader to try to form a coalition government.

From the perspective of teens, TikTok is a major new outlet for self-expression, one proudly home to the silly, the loud and the weird. To others, the Chinese-owned online video service is an unnerving black box that could be sharing information with the Chinese government, facilitating espionage, or just promoting videos and songs some parents consider lewd. (TikTok denies the first two concerns and says it’s working on the third.) Welcome to the bifurcated world of TikTok, an emerging social-media powerhouse that lets users create and share short videos, many no longer than 15 seconds. “That’s where the Gen Z party is,” says Kory Marchisotto, chief marketer for e.l.f. Cosmetics. “That’s where they’re all hanging out.” There’s little doubt that TikTok users find it irresistible.

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Sunday tore into Sen. Bernie Sanders over comments he recently made about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, describing the presidential candidate as “a liar, an ignorant fool or both.” Speaking at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, Danny Danon offered a searing rebuke to Sanders for calling Netanyahu a “reactionary racist.” “Whoever calls the prime minister of Israel a ‘racist’ is either a liar, an ignorant fool or both,” Danon said as he spoke on the first day of the pro-Israel lobbying group’s annual conference. “We don’t want Sanders at AIPAC. We don’t want him in Israel.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)