Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., the powerful 14-term congressman who once chaired the House Committee on Homeland Security, announced Monday he will not seek reelection in 2020.
King, in a statement Monday, said his “prime reason” for retiring “was that after 28 years of spending four days a week in Washington, D.C., it is time to end the weekly commute and be home in Seaford.”
“This was not an easy decision.

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Followers of Rabbi Eliezer Berland attacked a 43-year-old man in Beit Shemesh on Sunday, after the man complained to them about their dangerous driving on local roads that endangered other drivers as well as pedestrians.
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The neighborhood known as the “Batei Warsaw” or Nachalas Yaakov, located near the Kikar Shabbos intersection has not had large scrap iron and junk removed from the neighborhood for some 15 years.
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Iran on Sunday said an open Revolutionary Court case involving an ex-FBI agent who disappeared there in 2007 on an unauthorized CIA mission “was a missing person” filing, not a sign that the man was being prosecuted.
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Throngs of people gathered at the medical clinics in Be’er Sheva belonging to the various HMOs in the city. The number of people requesting vaccines surmounted the number of vaccines that were obtained by the local health clinics causing a shortage in the city.

Violent clashes took place in the Yishuv of Yitzhar in Samaria between residents and security forces. During the clashes, some 15 people were reported injured, including one police officer.
The violence erupted after a large contingent of police and Border Police forces surrounded the home of one of the residents by the name of Neriah Zarog.

Following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s decision to appoint Naftali Bennet as Defense Minister, Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel submitted his resignation from the cabinet.
Ariel completed 19 years of public service in Knesset and was recently ousted from the leadership position of his Ichud Leumi faction, replaced by Transportation Minister Uri Ariel.

A poll commissioned by Israel’ Channel 12 Meet the Press program revealed that most Israelis would like to see Blue & White party Chairman MK Benny Gantz succeed in his efforts to build a coalition government.

Iran has discovered a new oil field in the country’s south with over 50 billion barrels of crude, its president said Sunday, a find that could boost the country’s proven reserves by a third as it struggles to sell energy abroad over U.S.
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