A Family’s Nightmare of a Young Child With MeaslesThe last day of Yom Tov should have been a wonderful ending to a beautiful Pesach in Israel. Instead, it turned into a nightmare no parent should have to experience.
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130 documentaries to be screened at the event, including two competitions of top Israeli offerings

Jihadist group in Latakia region accuses Damascus of chlorine strike, drawing US warning to Assad over use of banned weapons

Attorney general refuses PM's request for a full-year delay, sets a new date for the fall

 Many Uber, Lyft Drivers Fail To Respond To RecallsOne out of six Uber and Lyft drivers in the New York City and Seattle areas are driving vehicles with outstanding recalls, according to Consumer Reports.
But taking a taxi or limousine isn’t necessarily a safer option: nearly a quarter of traditional for-hire vehicles in New York City such as taxis, limousines and livery cabs also need repairs due to outstanding recalls, Consumer Reports said .

Rare nest found perched on cliff face at Hai Bar Nature Reserve, just two weeks after griffon vulture population on Golan Heights was decimated in poisoning incident

California Sues Over $1B In Canceled High-Speed Rail MoneyCalifornia sued Tuesday to block the Trump administration from cancelling nearly $1 billion for the state’s high-speed rail project, escalating the state’s feud with the federal government.
The Federal Railroad Administration announced last week it would not give California the money awarded by Congress nearly a decade ago, arguing that the state has not made enough progress on the project.

30-year-old Lahav Shani says it is an 'honor' to take the reins of iconic orchestra from Zubin Mehta, the conductor since 1969

Poll finds Americans oppose preemptive strike on Islamic Republic, but huge majority supports massive retaliation if Iran attacks US forces

After US presidential hopeful calls regime leader a 'tyrant,' Pyongyang retorts that he's an 'imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being'

Israel’s Interior Ministry Announces An Arnona Property Tax Hike For 2020In a blow to citizens of Israel, the Ministry of the Interior announced an increase in property tax for 2020 by 2.58%.
It is explained the increase rate is derived from a fixed wording in the law, according to the explanation attached in the notice.

Israel Precision Medicine Partnership initiative finds fertile field in Israel; among the areas to be studied by the selected projects are deafness, cancer and diabetes

Netanyahu needs restrictions removed to offer more posts to coalition partners ahead of May 28 deadline; measure passed in 2013 as good-government reform has never been enforced

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has laid out a number of practical steps to be taken by his government to curb neo-Nazi activity and demonstrations, as well as to increase protection of the local Jewish community.
“Let me reiterate what I said publicly on [May 1]: It is a disgrace that the scum of history is rearing its ugly head today again,” he wrote in a May 18 letter to World Jewish Congress CEO and executive vice president Robert Singer, who wrote a letter earlier this month to Löfven, calling for the ban of the Nordic Resistance neo-Nazi party as “there must be zero tolerance for such manifestations of evil.”

Suspected killer is captured after fleeing to Belarus, leads local police to Rivka Tsipishev's body after days of searches

Eric Garcetti, a Democrat, criticized by left-wing US groups after saying 'I support the embassy being here' while in Israeli capital

Revised indictment adds 4 charges to the previous 109 against gunman John Earnest; Poway synagogue to dedicate Torah scroll in memory of victim Lori Gilbert-Kaye

Senior Likud sources quoted as saying push for new legislation is engineered to generate outrage and ultimately secure support for Netanyahu immunity using existing law

Israel on Tuesday condemned a top UN official for meeting with a Hezbollah leader in Lebanon.
A day earlier, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis tweeted, “Grateful for an open and substantive discussion on a broad range of topics with Deputy Secretary General Naim Qassem of Hizbullah. On top I received a copy of his book — a necessary reading.”
Responding on Tuesday, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon tweeted, “We are shocked and disappointed by this meeting with a designated terror organization’s leader, threatening Israel, Lebanon and the whole region. One doesn’t need to read the Naim Qassem book, courtesy of #Hezbollah terrorists, in order to understand this!!”

Israel's intelligence agency calls on startups to apply for funding, seeks variety of fields ranging from big data, to fintech, natural language processing and smart city tech

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