WATCH: Heavy flash flooding is reported in southern Israel as intense rainfall hits the Arava and Negev deserts, including the main road leading to Eilat.

The United Kingdom’s main newspaper regulator has ruled that it is not “significantly inaccurate” to refer to the majority of the Palestinian security prisoners released by Israel as part of ceasefire agreements with the Hamas terrorist group as “hostages.”
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), a government-recognized independent regulator, said in its April 30th decision that the characterization was permissible because the term “hostage” was “somewhat subjective.”
The ruling followed a complaint made in January by the U.K. branch of CAMERA, CameraUK, against The National, a Scottish newspaper that had referred to Palestinian terrorists in Israeli jails as “hostages.”

An explosive device wrapped in an Israeli flag was found on Highway 431 in the Rishon Letzion area, leading to road closures and heave traffic in the area.

During a visit to the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit today, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir says the military is increasing pressure on Hamas to release the hostages. “This week, we are sending tens of thousands of orders to our reserve personnel to intensify and expand our action in Gaza. We are increasing the pressure to return our people [held hostage] and defeat Hamas,” Zamir says in remarks published by the IDF.

OMAHA, Neb.

A woman was killed early Saturday in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki when a bomb she was carrying exploded in her hands, police said. The 38-year-old woman was apparently carrying the bomb to place outside a nearby bank around 5 a.m., police said. Several storefronts and vehicles were damaged by the explosion. Police said the woman, whom they did not publicly identify, had a criminal record and had been involved in at least one robbery and thefts in the past. The Greek police’s division for organized crime was investigating the incident, while authorities were also investigating whether the woman might have had ties to extreme leftist groups. Greece has seen occasional bombings, as well as targeted killings, attributed to various organized crime groups.

Texas will implement a $1 billion school voucher program, one of the largest in the country, that uses public dollars to fund private school tuition under a bill Gov. Greg Abbott signed Saturday, capping off a yearslong effort by Republicans. School voucher supporters have long targeted the state, where past efforts buckled for decades against resistance from Democrats and rural Republicans. Last month President Donald Trump called lawmakers before a key vote needed to finally get the bill to Abbott’s desk. Texas joins more than 30 other states that have implemented a similar program, of which about a dozen have launched or expanded their programs in recent years to make most students eligible.

The ballistic missile launched on Sunday morning by the Houthis from Yemen towards Israel evaded two layers of advanced aerial defense systems and fell in a field near Terminal 3 near Ben Gurion Airport. The first interception was carried out using an interceptor from the Israeli Arrow 3 long-range air defense, but it failed to hit the target. Another interceptor was launched from the American THAAD system. According to senior officials in Israel, the missile that hit Ben Gurion was not a new or particularly advanced missile, but a known model that has been intercepted in the past. The IDF is conducting an investigation to examine the incident, including an assessment of whether the interception failure was due to a technical malfunction or human error.

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Frightening Data: The Left-Wing Bloc Continues to Vote. Since Friday, Approximately 15,000 People Have Voted.
In recent days, many people have reached out to us asking whether there is real data proving a dramatic rise in voting numbers, or if this is just typical campaign rhetoric. We would like to present you with the actual numbers so you can understand the alarming increase, which may even result in a doubling of the number of votes required to maintain Eretz HaKodesh’s power in the Zionist Congress.