The Florida deputy who knew a gunman was loose at the Parkland high school but refused to go inside to confront the assailant was arrested Tuesday on 11 criminal charges related to his inaction during the massacre that killed 17 people.
Scot Peterson was on duty as the resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on the day of the February 2018 shooting but never entered the building while bullets were flying. He was charged with child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury — allegations that carry a maximum prison sentence of nearly 100 years.

The federal government for years has kept under wraps the names of hundreds of nursing homes around the country found by inspectors to have serious ongoing health, safety or sanitary problems. But a new program highlights the homes that are undergoing close federal scrutiny to ensure they are up to par.
Nearly 400 facilities nationwide had a “persistent record of poor care” as of April, but they were not included along with a shorter list of homes that get increased federal scrutiny and do have warning labels, according to a Senate report released Monday.

Sefaria, a non-profit organization working to assemble an online library of Jewish texts, plans to petition the non-profit corporation that reviews and develops new emojis to add a Torah emoji, according to its official Facebook page.
The organization is asking its users to vote online for the design it will propose to The Unicode Consortium. One of the two choices features an open scroll and the other a closed text wrapped in a blue mantel.
A winner will be picked by the end of the week, in time for Shavuos according to Sefaria’s Facebook page.
Read more at CNN.
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One of the “Trump Baby” blimps flown at protests in London against the US president’s visit was attacked by a pro-Trump supporter carrying a sharp object.
A woman approached a group of activists outside the House of Commons and stabbed a mini blimp in the back, according to the team of “babysitters” looking after the balloon. In footage broadcast online, the suspect could be heard calling the balloon a “national disgrace”, adding: “The president of the United States is the best president ever, shame on you.
The Donald Trump supporter was led away from the crowd by police officers. A spokesperson for Scotland Yard told The Independent that a woman was initially arrested for possession of a bladed article.

President Trump during an interview broadcast early Wednesday said that he appreciates Prince Charles’s passion on climate change, but dismissed the British royal’s concerns on the topic, adding that the weather “changes both ways.”
Trump told Piers Morgan of ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” that the prince spent more than an hour trying to warn him the dangers of climate change.
“He is really into climate change and I think that’s great. What he really wants and what he really feels warmly about is the future,” Trump said. “He wants to make sure future generations have climate that is good climate, as opposed to a disaster, and I agree.”

Sources described as close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that an MK who called for Israel to become a halachic state would never be justice minister, despite previously being in contention for the post.
Bezalel Smotrich, a member of the national-religious United Right party, told the Israeli media on Monday, “The State of Israel will be run, God willing, as it was run during the days of King David and King Solomon — according to Torah law.”
Smotrich’s name had been mooted as a possible education or justice minister in the next governing coalition, though Netanyahu ultimately failed to form a government, prompting new Knesset elections to be called for September, just over five months after the previous ones were held.

Yerushlayim Mayor Moshe Lion on Wednesday afternoon promised that the toava flags would be taken down immediately following the “pride” parade Thursday afternoon.
Following the city’s insistence on removing pro-family signs while ignoring requests to remove toava flags, one resident wrote that he was “shocked to discover” the bias.
“Where are law and justice?” he sent Lion via WhatsApp. “Are my family and I second-class citizens in this city?”
Leon’s response was shown to have read, “My dear friend, I am committed to acting according to my legal adviser’s guidelines. I am very sorry that you feel hurt. Tomorrow night all of the flags will be removed.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.

A Greek town has elected the first Jewish mayor in the country, a 65-year-old doctor.
Moses Elisaf, an independent candidate, won 50.3 percent of the vote in the mayoral race on Sunday in the northwestern city of Ioannina.
Out of 10.8 million people, approximately 6,000 Jews live in Greece.
Almost all of Greek Jewry was annihilated in the Holocaust during the years of World War II.
(JNS)
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Israel’s High Court of Justice has rejected a petition by Hamas terrorists from Gaza incarcerated in Israeli prisons to overrule a decision by Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan to prevent them from receiving family visits.
In 2017, Erdan ordered the Israel Prison Service not to approve family visits for Gaza terrorists connected to Hamas, in a bid to exert pressure on the organization to return Israeli citizens and the bodies of Israeli soldiers.
The court found that Erdan’s decision fell within the purview of state security and is legal, according to The Jerusalem Post.