A postcard written and signed by Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion the very day after he officially declared the state of Israel’s independence was just recently discovered. The postcard, dated 6 Iyar 5748 (May 15, 1948), was sent to the founding father of the kibbutz movement, Shlomo Lavi.

A firefighting crew in the Charedi city of Elad was attacked on Sunday evening when they responded to a fire in the city at the intersection of Yehuda Hanassi and Rashi streets.

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Using the weekly cabinet meeting to make his announcement, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday morning announced he is making good on his promise to name a community to honor US President Donald Trump, marking one year since the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem.

A resident of the Bedouin town of Tuba-Zangariyye was arrested on Sunday evening for being suspected of perpetrating the poisoning and deaths of eight vultures on the Golan Heights. The Israeli police and Border Police were involved in making the arrest.
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At the cargo terminul in the Ashdod port, a 12 meter shipping crate caught fire that destroyed 4.5 tons of computer tablets.
Five teams of Firefighters understood quickly that the shipping crate contained a lot of batteries causing the extinguishing of the fire to be very complicated.

The Gerre Rebbe Shlita on last Thursday morning was brought to a Jerusalem hospital to permit running unspecified tests and he was released to his home later in the day.
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B’chasdei Hashem there were no deaths of injury as a terrorist on Sunday afternoon hurled a firebomb at a bus transporting school children in Gush Etzion. The attack occurred on the Tunnel Highway between the two tunnels.

Rebbetzin Chana Miltzer A”H, the former principal of the ‘Seminar HaChadash’ in Yerushalayim, was niftar on motzei Shabbos at the age of 94. It is reported that she had thousands of students throughout her career.
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Tiveria Mayor Ron Kobi on motzei Shabbos used Facebook on motzei Shabbos to respond to the harsh threatening letter he received from the Interior Ministry, in which he is warned that if he does not succeed in passing the city’s budget by June 30, 2019, the ministry is likely to intervene, as reported by YWN-Israel.

While Yahadut Hatorah is struggling to get the expanded housing portfolio into its hands, Kikar Shabbos News reports receiving a document showing the chareidi party is fighting hard for the housing portfolio.
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