The Egged bus company has reported 11 rock-throwing attacks on its buses in Yerushalayim on Tisha B’av, mostly around Shaar Shechem, the Ynet news site reports.
The assaults injured one person, who was hospitalized with a head injury, the report says. A number of buses suffered shattered windows and other damage.
Egged chairman Avi Friedman brands the uptick in stone-throwing “a real terror attack that was premeditated with the aim of harming visitors to the Kosel and deterring them.”
Read more at Times of Israel.
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Foreign Minister Yair Lapid says there is no change to the longstanding religious arrangements on Har Habayis, under which only Muslims may pray at the site.
“There is no change to the status quo on the Gar Habayis. We’ve clarified this to the Jordanians,” says Lapid. The Jordanian Waqf are the official custodians of the site.
His comments come after sources in the Prime Minister’s Office told Army Radio that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had misspoken on Sunday when he said both Jews and Muslims have “freedom of worship” on Har Habayis, which would be a potentially explosive change after decades of Jews being permitted only to visit, but not daven, there.

Heavy rains and flash floods grounded air traffic to a halt at Newark International Airport on Saturday.
The airport closed a flooded economy parking lot in the afternoon, and delayed all flights by 90 minutes, according to reports.
By Sunday morning, dozens of flights into the New Jersey hub had been canceled, according to the Port Authority’s website.
Some flights in and out of LaGuardia and Kennedy airports were delayed amid the wet weather, but the New York hubs escaped massive cancellations, according to flight tracking records.
Read more at NY Post.
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The New York Police Department is investigating the brutal attack of a Jewish man on his way to a Brooklyn shul as a hate crime.
The report comes after Flatbush Shomrim released video footage Friday on Twitter of two suspects in hoods and masks jumping the man and beating him for about 10 seconds before running away.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes division reported on Twitter the assault happened at 5:30 a.m. ET on New York Avenue in Flatbush.

The family of a teen pulled alive from the rubble of last month’s Florida building disaster has filed a lawsuit claiming its condo association knew the highrise was “at grave risk of collapse.”
Relatives of 15-year-old Jonah Handler say in the suit filed Thursday that the condo association at Champlain Towers South in Surfside was aware of previous “widespread structural damage” at the building, as detailed in a damning 2018 engineer’s report, the Miami Herald reported. Handler’s mother died from the building collapse June 24.
The court papers allege that the condo association knew that the “building was structurally unsound, unsafe, and at grave risk of collapse” well before it fell.

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld

The New York Police Department rolled out a “game truck” this month in an effort to connect with youth, particularly in low-income neighborhoods, where community relations with law enforcement have been strained thanks to generations of mistrust.
“This right here is going to be the game changer this summer,” Jeffrey Maddrey, the chief of community affairs for the department, said in a video introducing the vehicle. “We’re coming out to your block, [and] we’re coming out to your neighborhood. … Making sure our young people have a safe summer, a safe space, and just know that the NYPD is here to support them.”

A Miami firefighter working at the site of the Florida building collapse Thursday was among a crew of search workers who recovered the remains of his own daughter, officials said Friday.
The grieving father wrapped the 7-year-old victim of last week’s Champlain Towers collapse in his jacket and placed a small US flag on the gurney, according to WPLG-TV. The child’s uncle was also among the rescuers.
“It goes without saying that every night since this last Wednesday has been immensely difficult for everybody, and particularly the families that have been impacted,” Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Friday.
“But last night was uniquely different,” Cava said. “These men and women are paying an enormous human toll each and every day.”

Losing a governor’s race and working now as a Georgia Democrat operative has been lucrative for Stacey Abrams, who once claimed to be in over $200,000 of IRS tax, student loan, and credit card debt after losing the 2018 gubernatorial race.
Abrams’ two homes purchased after her failed bid against Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp – a race she never conceded, claiming election fraud – are worth a combined $1.4 million, according to public records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has until Sept. 14 to keep voters on his side.
The recall election of the Democratic leader will be held on that date, according to a statement Thursday from Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis.
The election was widely expected to be later in the year. With public sentiment currently favoring the first-term governor, the Democratic-led legislature voted this week to speed the process. The majority of likely voters said in a May poll that they would oppose Newsom’s recall, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.
Read more at NEWSMAX. 
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