No fewer than 1,982 small and medium-sized business operate in Yehuda and Shomron, a 100 percent increase over the past decade. Relative to population size, the average rate of entrepreneurship in Yehuda and Shomron in 2018 was 20 percent higher than in Tel Aviv.
The data, from the Israel’s Central Bureau of Statics and the MATI Jerusalem Business Development Center in Yehuda and Shomron, was presented at an entrepreneurial conference in Shomorn, the first such conference of its kind.
In a sign of the region’s growing tourism industry, the most prominent commercial field in Yehuda and Shomron is the service industry, in particular food and hospitality services, followed by industry and health services and skin care.

Dear Matzav Shmooze,
Has there been a recent financial crisis that the media isn’t reporting? Why is it that every day there is another fundraiser being passed around Whatsapp and every one of them with their own cheshbon why their campaign is unique, unprecedented, historic etc.? A few years ago, the shidduch crisis was all the rage with too many single girls to match up with the single boys. Now there is a GoFundMe crisis – too many fundraisers to match up to all the dollars!
How were yeshivos built before GoFundMe existed?

U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr said on Wednesday that Jewish institutions, including shuls, should have armed security.
“We live in a time of danger,” Carr told Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief Yaakov Katz in an interview at the Global Coalition 4 Israel Conference. “Any synagogue, every JCC should have guards. God willing, may they never be needed, but they should be there.”
Carr, 50, emphasized U.S. President Donald Trump’s commitment to fighting anti-Semitism.
“The rhetoric of the president couldn’t be clearer. Every time the president speaks on this issue, he calls it [anti-Semitism] a vile poison that must be rooted out,” said Carr.

Nearly four months after being nominated, Kelly Craft—U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Nikki Haley as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations—vowed on Wednesday to fight the international body’s anti-Israel bias, in addition to calling out anti-Semitism.
“Without U.S. leadership, our partners and allies would be vulnerable to bad actors at the U.N. This is particularly true in the case of Israel, which is the subject of unrelenting bias and hostility in U.N. venues,” she said in her opening testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “The United States will never accept such bias. If confirmed, I commit to seizing every opportunity to shine a light on this conduct, call it what it is, and demand that these outrageous practices finally come to an end.”

As the Bayit Yehudi party central committee voted on Wednesday to retain Knesset member Rabbi Rafi Peretz as their leader and not to hold new internal elections, its partner in the Union of Right-Wing Parties Otzma Yehudit accused it of reneging on a pre-election agreement and breaking off contact.
Prior to Israel’s April election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orchestrated an agreement between Otzma Yehudit and the Bayit Yehudi -Leumi alliance which led to the three parties running on a joint slate called the Union of Right-Wing Parties (URWP). The group went on to win five seats in the election.

It is not every day that you have tens of thousands of yidden – from Modern Orthodox to chassidim in their full levush, from the elderly to young children – holding hands and dancing with palpable simcha.

Some twenty-two years ago, as The Agudah celebrated the 10th Siyum HaShas of Daf Yomi, that was the incredible sight. In Madison Square Garden, Nassau Coliseum and scores of satellite locations worldwide, Klal Yisroel celebrated what was by far the largest scale Siyum HaShas ever.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer on Wednesday called for an investigation into the Trump administration’s decision to delay an updated $20 bill featuring Harriet Tubman.
After Obama-era Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced in 2016 that such a re-design would be released in 2020, current Secretary Steven Mnuchin revealed last moth that it would be delayed until 2028.
“I ask that you conduct an investigation into decisions made at the Treasury since January of 2018 regarding the delay of the redesign of the $20 note,” Schumer wrote in a letter to Treasury Department Inspector General Eric Thorson.
 Read more at The Hill.

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The weekly news cycle, which includes the events and stories that recently transpired, captivates the country and molds people’s opinions. It informs, educates, saddens and gladdens those who follow the fast-moving train. But for those who are sensitive enough to perceive that the rapid flow of news contains relevant messages with lessons for personal growth, the daily flow can also inspire.

Rav Bentzion Hacohen Kook, posek from Yerushalayim and head of the Beis Hora’ah Haklali of Yerushalayim, is due to visit New York and New Jersey this coming weekend, after two years during which he has not visited the United States.
Rav Kook is coming to celebrate the wedding of his talmid in New York, but is expected to stay for a few more days, giving Shiurim in Halacha and Shmuesen in yeshivas and batei midrash.
Rav Kook, author of the Seforim Tzioni Halacha including thousands psokim that he heard from his rebbi, Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, will spend next Shabbos in Monsey and will then stay he Lakewood.

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