Coalition negotiations are underway as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hopes to assemble another coalition government. As is always the case, there are always demands for the various government portfolios, with a focus on the senior posts.
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(by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times)
For some reason it was missed. The oatmeal cereal was left in the diaper bag. The father was doing the bedikah in the house – and the diaper bag was with his wife at his in-law’s house. 

Yahadut Hatorah officials have given a written list of its demands to Likud’s Yariv Levin as coalition negotiations between the parties will be limited to writing during Pesach week.
While the chareidi parties, Shas and Yahadut Hatorah, have recommended Binyamin Netanyahu receive the presidential mandate to form a coalition government, talks will not officials get underway until after Pesach.

Chairman of the Central Election Committee Justice Chanan Meltzer has turned to Attorney General Dr. Avichai Mandelblit and Israel Police with a request to launch a probe into election fraud at polling stations.
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President Donald Trump and his business organization sued the Democratic chairman of the House oversight committee on Monday to block a subpoena that seeks years of the president’s financial records.
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Three fire rescue vehicles from the Beit Shemesh district responded to a motzei Shabbos and first day of Pesach fire on the Burma Road, which parallel’s Highway 1. The vehicle was totally engulfed in flames and therefore, destroyed.

Veteran residents of the Upper Golan Heights admit they do not remember the last time they saw significant snow during Chol Hamoed Pesach, and this year in particular, a leap year, with Pesach falling in “spring” according to the Gregorian calendar.

In line with first requests from the United Right-Wing party, Rabbi Rafi Peretz is demanding the Education portfolio and the person in the second slot, held by Betzalel Smotrich, will receive the Justice Ministry portfolio.
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A Jewish man was arrested on Sunday morning, the first day of Chol Hamoed Pesach after he prostrated himself on Har Habayis, which is prohibited for Jews to do.
YWN NOTES: Gedolei Yisrael over the generations and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel prohibit visiting Har Habayis, which they explain carries the punishment of karess.