After Monday’s meeting with the Likud’s negotiating team, Yahadut Hatorah (YH) MKs met with their counterparts for another meeting during which they sought to hold the same level of positions as the Sephardic party after reaching agreements on most of their wish list.

'Our steps were very prudent,' Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan says of US deployment of ships, bombers to region amid intelligence warnings of Iranian attack plans

New York – The outlook for department stores got murkier Tuesday after J.C. Penney and Kohl’s reported fiscal first quarter results that showed they struggled at the start of the year. Penney, which has been trying to turn around its business for several years after a disastrous reinvention plan, reported a wider than expected loss [...]

New York – Prosecutors aren’t quite finished investigating campaign finance violations by President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer. U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III agreed Tuesday to keep search warrant materials related to the investigation of Michael Cohen under seal until July 15 after prosecutors submitted a letter last week explaining why the probe [...]

Jason Greenblatt, the US Representative for International Negotiations, on Monday rejected reports claiming that the Trump administration’s peace plan for Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) would only be economic in nature.
“To those falsely claiming our vision is just economic peace: we’ve been clear that the economic vision we present can’t exist without the political component, and the political component can’t succeed without the economic. Don’t believe rumors the plan is only economic. It’s not,” he wrote on Twitter.
Senior White House officials said on Sunday that the Trump administration is planning to release the economic component of its upcoming Middle East peace plan in late June, adding that it would break up the release of the much-anticipated plan.

Ashraf Jabari, who hopes to attend peace summit in Bahrain which fellow tycoons have joined PA in boycotting, says two-state solution no longer the way forward

Border police bomb squad technicians neutralized a pipe bomb found near the Kalandia Crossing, which borders northern Jerusalem and the PA (Palestinian Authority) area of Kalandia.
The vigilance of the policemen operating at the crossing detected a suspicious object to the side of the road on the Palestinian side of the crossing.

Dan Caesarea reopens after 8 months of renovations, as part of luxury hotel chain's new strategy to attract younger generation with sleeker options

People told me not to speak at a Lag Ba’omer parade. I asked Rav Moshe Wolfson what to do.People told me not to speak at a Lag Ba’omer parade.
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