The Israeli Defense Forces announced on Friday that, in cooperation with the Shin Bet intelligence agency, it thwarted an attempt to smuggle rocket-manufacturing materials to Hamas in the Gaza Strip through Egypt’s Sinai coast.
According to the statement, the Shin Bet found that the suspects in question were en route to Gaza with prohibited materials used to make projectiles fired at Israel by Hamas militants, including two dozen barrels of fiberglass.
“On May 11, 2019, two Palestinian vessels entered the forbidden area of entry (on the maritime border) of the southern Gaza Strip, in violation of the security regulations and ceasefire directives,” the IDF statement read.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren positioned herself in opposition to Vice President Joe Biden, who said on Wednesday that he wouldn’t repeal the Hyde Amendment, which prevents the federal government from providing funding abortions except in extreme cases.
“Under the Hyde Amendment and every effort to try to chip away or push back or get rid of Rowe vs. wade, understand this: Women of means will still have access to abortions. Who won’t … will be poor women,” Sen. Warren during an MSNBC town hall. “We do not pass laws that take away that freedom from the women who are most vulnerable.”
When asked if Biden was wrong, in reference to his support of the ban on federal funding of abortion, Warren said: “Yes.”

You are the greatest among us that will ever live, you are the pride of our nation, you are the glory of our republic and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts, says President Trump thanking WWII veterans.
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Alan Dershowitz on Christopher Steele agreeing to be questioned by U.S. investigators.
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Israeli-American philanthropist Miriam Adelson is the richest Israeli of 2018 with an estimated value of $22 billion, according to a report in the Hebrew business daily The Marker on Thursday.
Adelson is not only the richest Israeli citizen but far outranks the others below her, with the next on the list, Roman Abramovich, worth “only” $13 billion.
Most of her wealth was transferred to her this year as a gift by her husband, philanthropist and businessman Sheldon Adelson, in the form of stock shares of his Las Vegas Sands Corporation.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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Lenovo Group has used technology developed by Israeli augmented reality (AR) company Lumus in its new ThinkReality A6 headset, Lumus announced Thursday. The headset, unveiled by Lenovo last month, weighs 380 grams and offers Full HD resolution for each eye and a field of vision of 40 degrees.
Headquartered in central Israeli town Ness Ziona, Lumus develops and produces transparent AR displays built with a technology reminiscent of optical fibers. The company was founded in 2000 by Yaakov Amitai, a former executive at Israeli defense optics company ELOP, which merged with defense technology company Elbit Systems in 2000. Lumus has raised $51 million to date, from investors including Alibaba Group, HTC, and Taipei-listed Quanta Computer, according to Pitchbook data.

The Israel Defense Forces’ Medical Corps is in the midst of a pilot program that places nurses and male nurses in combat battalions, as part a series of changes designed to improve the military’s medical services.
IDF head nurse Lt. Col. Oshrat Gozlan told JNS in an interview that some 200 nurses and male nurses serve in the military today, but that unlike in the past, a growing number of them are in the field, together with combat soldiers.
“In the past, you saw them mainly away from the front, in first aid clinics or in the unit that accompanies hospitalized soldiers. Now, there is a trend involving growing numbers of nurses who are strengthening the medical chain in the field,” said Gozlan.

House Democrats have officially introduced a resolution to hold Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with congressional subpoenas.
The contempt resolution allows Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) to go to court to seek civil enforcement of the subpoena for Barr to turn over special counsel Robert Mueller’s unredacted report and underlying evidence, as well as for McGahn to provide documents and public testimony.
The resolution also gives any committee chair the rare power to go to federal court to seek civil enforcement of subpoenas, both current and future orders, so long as they are granted approval by the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Board.

Barack and Michelle Obama have signed a podcast deal with Spotify, the streaming platform announced.
According to Spotify’s press release, the Obamas, through the multi-year partnership agreement between their production company Higher Ground and Spotify, “will develop, produce, and lend their voices to select podcasts, connecting them to listeners around the world on wide-ranging topics.”
Last year, the Obamas and Higher Ground signed a production deal with Netflix.
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