Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother, Charles, transformed American politics by pouring their riches into conservative causes, has died at age 79.
Charles Koch announced the death on Friday, saying, “It is with a heavy heart that I now must inform you of David’s death.”
David Koch, who lived in New York City, was the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential candidate in 1980.

China on Friday announced tariff hikes on $75 billion of U.S. products in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s latest planned increase, deepening a conflict over trade and technology that threatens to tip a weakening global economy into recession.

According to Magen David Adom, one person has been killed and others injured in a bombing attack near Ein Bibim in Shomron, in the Binyamin Regional Council near Yishuv Dolev.
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The George Washington Bridge was totally closed on Thursday night due to a police investigation.
The Bridge was closed at around 9:30PM, after some type of suspicious package or bomb threat.
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An Israeli child was attacked by a tiger in the Cosmoy Zoo, located in a Thailand. The boy is hospitalized in a local hospital in Thailand and is currently in stable condition.
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A 17-year-old girl was seriously injured and a 16-year-old girl was lightly injured in a boating accident that occurred on the Kinneret on Thursday afternoon.
The girls were riding a “banana boat” flotation device that was tied to a motorboat that was traveling on the Kinneret.

A search is underway in Harriman State Park for four missing teenagers, Thursday afternoon.
Sources tell YWN that Chaverim of Rockland along with Chaverim of Kiryas Joel launched the search at around 3:30PM.
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Almaty, Kazakhstan – Hundreds of Jews traveled to the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan to commemorate the 75th yartzeit of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, father of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Zt”l.

Even before Blue & White party leader MK Benny Gantz enlisted the services of a private investigation firm to learn the source of leaks in the party, MK (Blue & White) Omer Yankelovich complained that private detectives are following her, the Yisrael Hayom newspaper reports on Thursday.