Tehillim is needed for Rebbetzin Gittel Kaplan, the wife of Hagaon HaRav Nissan Kaplan, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Daas Aharon and former longtime Magid Shiur in the Mir Yerushalayim.
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Israel said its aircraft hit terror sites for Gaza’s Hamas rulers early Saturday after two rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave.
This was Israel’s first strike against Hamas since the start of this week’s cross-border fighting with another Gaza terrorist group, the Iran-backed Islamic jihad.

Dear Friends,
When Shira came into the office for a food voucher, she was sure that the answer was NO.   Shira has a long relationship with the word no.
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Authorities say an off-duty police officer was killed and a woman’s foot was severed in a single-car crash in New York City.
Police say the 25-year-old officer was speeding on the northbound FDR Drive at about 2:30 a.m.

Due to an unseasonal dry spell that is expected to blow over Israel this week, the Fire Department has issued a warning against any open flames in the country, including bonfires and mechanical or construction work that could create sparks as there is a real and present danger for large-scale wildfires should any shrubbery or wooded areas catch flame Fire Commissioner Dedi Simchi has put the fire departments around the country on high alert.

President Donald Trump spent more than two hours at Walter Reed National Medical Center on Saturday for what the White House said were medical tests as part of his annual physical.
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People with severe but stable heart disease from clogged arteries may have less chest pain if they get a procedure to improve blood flow rather than just giving medicines a chance to help, but it won’t cut their risk of having a heart attack or dying over the following few years, a big federally funded study found.

Transcripts released Saturday in the impeachment inquiry show Ambassador Gordon Sondland playing a central role in President Donald Trump’s effort to push Ukraine to conduct political investigations as a condition for receiving needed military aid.
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New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who is deciding whether to launch a Democratic presidential bid, is pouring $100 million into an online advertising campaign attacking President Donald Trump.
The campaign, which targets voters in four general election battleground states — Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — begins running on Friday, according to Bloomberg spokesman Jason Schechter.

Tehillim is needed for a United Hatzalah volunteer who was involved in a serious crash in Holon on Friday.
United Hatzalah President Eli Beer tells YWN that the volunteer was responding to an emergency on his Ambucycle, when a vehicle struck him.