The Defense Ministry announced that it will hold its first memorial ceremony for IDF fallen chareidi soldiers on the eve of Memorial Day, and that the IDF will announce that it will participate in the ceremony of the commanders of the 340th Division which is responsible for the chareidi units in the military.

Police are investigating a break-in that occurred over Pesach in the “Beis Menachem” dormitory at Mir Yeshiva in the Beis Yisrael section of Yerushalayim. When the bochrim returned to their rooms, the way they described the site was “a pogrom”.
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Southwest Airlines says Boeing did not disclose that it had deactivated a safety feature on its 737 Max jets until after one of the airliners crashed last year.
At issue is an alert that tells pilots if a sensor — called an “angle of attack” (AOA) indicator — is transmitting bad data about the pitch of a plane’s nose.

Oscar Stewart, a 51-year-old Iraq War veteran, was standing at the back of the room when shots rang out during Krias HaTorah at the Chabad of Poway on Shabbos. His actions, described by San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore as an “act of courage,” resulted in the shooter fleeing the scene before more damage was done.

The U.S. has little interest in joining other countries in a multi-nation effort to get North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said Sunday.
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Gasoline prices are scheduled into increase in Israel at the beginning of May 2019 by 19 agorot per liter of 95 octane, the fuel used by most vehicles on the road.
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A few months after he turned 17 — and more than two years before he was arrested — Vincent Vetromile recast himself as an online revolutionary.
Offline, in this suburb of Rochester, New York, Vetromile was finishing requirements for promotion to Eagle Scout in a troop that met at a local church.

Thousands of people streamed this year over Pesach to the kevarim of Gedolim in the Ukraine including the tziyun of Rav Nachman of Breslov.
Medical teams of United Hatzalah provided treatment to visitors and mispallalim in the Carpathians, Kiev, Bauman, Odessa, and Mezibuz near the tziyun of the Baal Shem Tov.

Iowa voters sent a record number of women to the Legislature during last year’s midterms. Women won two of the state’s most competitive U.S. House races, and a woman was elected governor for the first time.
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Eight years of struggle built to a crescendo this month, as Avi Matisyahu returned from the hospital to find most of his family’s belongings gone.
It all began in 2011, when Avi’s wife and mother of their 11 children Chaya Matisyahu was pregnant with their youngest son.
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