Poland abruptly canceled a visit by Israeli officials amid concern that talks would focus on the unsettled issue of Jewish property restitution.
The escalation comes amid thorny relations between Poland and Israel about historic issues, mainly the role that Poles played during the Holocaust. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki scrapped a trip to Jerusalem in February after Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly said the Polish nation cooperated with German Nazi occupiers during World War II.

[COMMUNICATED]
On Sunday, May 19th , over 500 individuals will participate in OXC, OHEL’s Annual mud-run style extreme obstacle race at Camp Kaylie at OHEL in Wurtsboro, New York.
This Year, OHEL additionally takes OXC online, with our special 24 hour Online OHEL Xtreme Challenge, where, without the mud, you can help children, adults and families overcome life’s biggest obstacles. OHEL is celebrating 50 years of service in strengthening the community through over 50 programs and services that meet the ever increasing and diverse needs of the community.
With a goal of $500,000, OHEL is on a mission to continue make giant leaps and is gearing up for its 24 hour matching donor campaign!

President Donald Trump’s long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan will recognize the extension of Israeli law over all Jewish settlements in the West Bank, a Channel 12 television report said Sunday.
The report said that the plan, expected to be made public in mid-June, will recognize that all Israeli-settled areas “will remain in Israeli hands under a permanent accord”.
While the US will not explicitly back the “annexation” of the settlements, or the extension of “Israeli sovereignty” to them, it will not object to the “extension of Israeli law” to them.

A senior Iranian official on Sunday dismissed the United States military buildup in the region, saying that American wouldn’t dare attack out of fear of Iranian retribution against Israel.
“The US military forces’ deployment in the Persian Gulf is more of the nature of psychological warfare. They are not ready for a war, specially when Israel is within our range,” the Iranian Parliament vice-speaker Ali Motahhari said on Sunday, according to the FARS news agency.
Meanwhile, a senior Israeli official warned that Israel could indeed be caught in the crossfire of a US-Iran conflict either by direct rocket attack or through one of Iran’s proxies, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon or Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Gaza.

The President of the State, Reuven Rivlin, met today with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the President’s Residence. At the end of their meeting, the President accepted the Prime Minister’s request and granted him a two-week extension to the period of forming the government.
In the extension document, the President wrote: “After you presented me with the need to extend the period for the completion of the process of assembling the government, at your request, under section 8 of the Basic Law: The Government, I hereby extend the period allotted to you to fulfill the task of forming the government by fourteen days.”

Likud MK Michal Shir slammed US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Sunday, saying that “Arabs gave nothing to post-Holocaust Jews except wars and death.”
The MK was responding to comments Tlaib had made, saying she was happy that her Palestinian ancestors provided a “safe haven for Jews” after the Holocaust.
Suggesting that the US congresswoman should “open a history book once in a while,” Shir said Jews arriving in Israel had to face “repeated terror and rejection from the Arabs” and “had no choice but to defend themselves.” She also suggested Tlaib “thank the IDF” for protecting Muslim Israeli citizens from Hamas, ISIS, and Islamic Jihad “who are only waiting for a chance to put their hands on them.”

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rafael Shmuel ben Fraydel Miriam, the young boy whose health struggles caught the attention and tugged at the heart of the entire Klal Yisrael.
Rafael Shmuel was born with his intestines outside of his body and required surgeries immediately after birth. Miraculously, Rafael Shmuel survived and spent several year being cherished by his family.
Unfortunately, Rafael Shmuel’s condition required correction through more surgeries and he returned to surgery last week accompanied by the tefillos of Klal Yisrael.

Google announced on Tuesday the eight startups selected for the first official cohort of its Tel Aviv accelerator program Google Startup Growth Lab. During the four-month program, startup executives will meet with experts from Google to receive training and support for scaling up and expanding to global markets.

Charmaine Yoest says President Trump declaring the opioid epidemic as a crisis set the tone for his administration.
WATCH:

The Defense Department will reprogram an additional $1.5 billion originally designated for other U.S. military projects to help fund President Donald Trump’s border wall, acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan said Friday, a move immediately decried by Democrats as a way of side-stepping congressional oversight.
The reprogramming comes in addition to $1 billion the Pentagon pulled out of Army manpower accounts in March that allowed the administration to build another 80 miles of wall on the southern border.