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A tree collapsed on Derech Chaim Street in Pardes Chana on Wednesday afternoon, leaving two people injured.
Magen David Adom reports that paramedics and EMTs treated two victims, a 30-year-old who was the driver of the scooter hit by the tree, who was listed in moderate condition at the time of transport.

A Bernie Sanders’ adviser was enraged by a video of US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman asking Hagaon HaRav Berel Povarsky for a Bracha for President Donald Trump’s re-election.
Matt Duss, a foreign policy adviser for the Jewish Senator from Vermont, took exception to the video which was recently posted to Twitter.

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Under the protection of security forces, 8000 mispallalim entered the PA (Palestinian Authority) occupied village of Kifl Haris in Shomron on Tuesday night, to be mispallel at the kever of Yehoshua bin Nun.

Degel Hatorah MKs are scheduled to update the party’s rabbonim shlita on Wednesday night.
According to a Kikar Shabbos report, MKs Moshe Gafne, Uri Maklev, Yaakov Asher and Yitzchak Pindrus will be briefing HaGaon HaRav Natan Zuchovsky, along with HaRav Yosef Efrati, who is a member of the rabbinical council, and the council secretary, Rav Avraham Rubinstein.

The separate seating arrangement that was supposed to be in place for a Holon Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day event was canceled by Holon City Hall, following the involvement of the assistant district attorney, Dina Zilber.
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(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com)
Those who grew up in the nineteen fifties remember it well. The fear throughout the country was palpable. True, polio epidemics had been in the United States since 1894, but the epidemic was never so virulent.
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With coalition talks underway, the unity of the chareidi parties is displaying some cracks as Shas and Yahadut Hatorah are competing for some of the same portfolios, primarily, control of the Housing Ministry.

In a series of events which began as tragic but have become inspiring, Jews around the world have begun to unite to help a very special Beit Shemesh family.

The Breyers are a large, happy brood, with 8 kids at home, including one special needs daughter.
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A British judge sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail seven years ago and holing up in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Judge Deborah Taylor said it was hard to imagine a more serious version of the offense as she gave the 47-year-old hacker a sentence close to the maximum of a year in custody.