The city council in Krakow, Poland, has announced that a municipal street will be named next month after Rabbi David Alter Kurzmann, a caretaker of the Krakow ghetto orphanage.
During the liquidation of the orphanage by the Nazis, Kurzmann was offered to abandon the children and live or join them in their deaths.
Some 77 years after Kurzmann chose the latter, Walkative! tour guides collected hundreds of signatures to support their cause of honoring Kurzmann for his dedication, as well as the lives of the 300 orphans that were murdered.
The street-naming ceremony will take place on June 25.

President Trump’s son-in-law and assistant Jared Kushner has departed on a trip to Morocco, Jordan and Israel, the White House said Tuesday, signalling a fresh round of talks on a proposed US Mideast peace plan.
Kushner is accompanied by Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s special representative to international negotiations, and Brian Hook, the special US representative for Iran, the White House said.
They “will travel from May 27 to May 31 to Rabat, Amman, and Jerusalem,” said a White House official speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Helped by the Israel Women’s Network, an 18-year-old woman barred from an Egged bus by a religious driver due to inappropriate garb is suing the company for $70,000 under charges of gender discrimination.
The woman was trying to reach her first day at work from a West Bank settlement and needed to be transported there by her mother due to the driver’s refusal.
Regretting that the driver “applied his personal worldview” to the situation, Egged said he had been summoned for a disciplinary inquiry.
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If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unable to form a government by Wednesday at midnight, it is within parliament’s authority to dissolve itself, President Reuven Rivlin’s office said Tuesday, adding that the president “he hopes that we won’t be caught, G-d forbid, in another election campaign.”
“It is under the authority of the Knesset, according to the same exact law, to decide on dissolving [the Knesset],” the statement continued. “In light of this, the Knesset, as the representative of the sovereign, meaning the people, will bear the consequences of the decision in the future.”

A-Risalah Net, a site affiliated with the Hamas terror organization, on Tuesday morning said Iran has agreed to pay Gazan “martyrs'” families a total of half a million dollars.
The 1,700 families will receive a one-time grant through Iran’s “Palestinian Martyr” fund, intended to compensate for the cuts in their salaries.
Though the Palestinian Authority pays its own terrorists full salaries, it cut the salaries of 1,700 terrorists’ families and 2,000 prisoners and wounded from Gaza.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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E-cigarettes aren’t considered as risky as regular cigarettes, but researchers have found a clue that their flavorings may be bad for the heart.
In one study, vaping and some flavorings, even without nicotine, triggered blood vessel dysfunction that can increase the risk of heart disease, researchers reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Cinnamon and menthol seemed the most toxic. But overall, cells showed signs of damage and were inflamed, less able to form new blood vessels or heal wounds.
Small laboratory studies like this one can’t prove vaping really does harm, cautioned Dr. Jane Freedman of the University of Massachusetts, who wasn’t involved in the research. But she said the work should spark additional safety testing.

After walking away from a deal to build a headquarters on the Queens waterfront in Long Island City, Amazon is back to shopping for office space on Manhattan’s West Side, sources tell NY POST.
The tech giant has been in talks with owners of two new skyscrapers located just one block west of Penn Station: The newly built One Manhattan West and its soon-to-be sister project Two Manhattan West, sources tell The Post.
Amazon, which already has 5,000 workers in NYC, is seeking “at least 100,000 square feet or much more” — just to start, one well-placed source said.

Senior Likud officials turned to the Trump administration for help in pressuring Avidgor Liberman, chairman of the Yisrael Beytenu party, to soften his position and accept a compromise arrangement enabling Netanyahu to form a new government before the Wednesday deadline, Maariv reported Tuesday.
The report cited unnamed Israeli political officials, who say they reached out to the Trump administration in a bid to convince the White House to actively intervene on Netanyahu’s behalf.

The Likud has voted to approve a proposal by Prime Minister Netanyahu to fold Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu party into a joint list.
The merger will hold whether or not elections are called later this week.
The amalgamation will see Kahlon given the 5th slot on the party’s list, Eli Cohen the 15th spot, Yifat Biton the 29th spot and Roy Folkman the 35th spot.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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Republican megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson attended a signing ceremony with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in Israel Monday, as part of the governor’s trip to Israel with an entire delegation.
DeSantis, who took office in January, has promised to be “the most pro-Israel governor in America,“ and the Israel trip, his first trade mission as governor, is part of a Republican appeal to the state‘s Jewish voters going into the 2020 presidential election.
The Florida effort is part of a larger GOP offensive aimed at breaking the Democratic Party’s hold on the Jewish vote and, in the process, shoring up the conservative evangelical base.