Suspect, 19, taken for questioning; incident comes after two Israelis wounded in Jerusalem stabbing attack

Vitkija – Lithuanian soldiers and officials attended the unveiling of a plaque honoring the late chaplain of what Nazi hunters say was a local unit of Holocaust-era murderers of Jews. The municipality of Vitkija hosted the unveiling of the plaque for Zenonas Ignatavičius, who was born in that town and served in 1941 in the [...]

YWN EDITORIAL – ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! “HITLER IS COMING” Hate In Crown Heights Just FEET AWAY From NYPD Command Post – WHERE IS DEBLASIO?There was yet ANOTHER hate crime targeting the Orthodox Jewish community in NYC, this one in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.
A note with the words “HITLER IS COMING” was placed on a wall at the Jewish Children’s Museum on Eastern Parkway on Thursday.

Yediot Ahronot’s military correspondent, Yossi Yehoshua, claims that the defense establishment doesn’t need more charedi soldiers, and therefore the discussion of the draft law is completely unnecessary.
“You ask if the IDF needs more charedim in service and the answer is no,” Yehoshua told Army Radio. “There are about 3,000 charedim who enlist in the army every year, the majority for combat units, and more charedi soldiers will cause another headache for the IDF.”

Arson balloons spark three fires inside Israel; 7,000 Palestinians protest along Gaza border with hundreds rioting, 11 wounded

Seattle – Amazon.com Inc is interested in buying prepaid cellphone wireless service Boost Mobile from U.S. carriers T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Amazon is considering buying Boost – currently one of Sprint’s prepaid brands – mainly because the deal would allow it to use the [...]

The United States has reported 971 cases of measles in the first five months of 2019, the greatest number since 1992, when 963 cases were reported for the entire year, federal health officials said Thursday.
The agency has typically been updating its measles cases weekly, on Mondays, but announced the case count Thursday because it had reached this new milestone.
The biggest source of this year’s surging measles cases is New York, where Rockland County and New York City have been battling outbreaks for nearly eight months. The two jurisdictions account for the majority of the cases this year, with a total of 643. The outbreaks have been concentrated in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.

Washington – Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren says that if she’s elected president, she’ll work to end the Justice Department policy that bars indictment of a sitting president. The proposal from the Massachusetts senator comes days after special counsel Robert Mueller noted in a rare public statement that an existing Justice Department opinion prohibits the [...]

Jared Kushner modeling Trump’s defense after Netanyahu, Michael Wolff writes in new book; anti-Semitic note left on mural at New York Jewish Children’s Museum

Tel Aviv – An Israeli activist against what he regards as corruption filmed himself accosting Sheldon Adelson in Tel Aviv, telling him “Asshole, you live too long.” Barak Cohen, a left-wing lawyer who was suspended by the Israeli bar association in 2017 for harassing banking executives, posted the encounter on Twitter. Adelson is a Jewish casino magnate [...]

Tehran boosts production of low-enriched uranium and heavy water, inspectors say they still have unrestricted access to the sites

 North Korea Executed and Purged Top Nuclear NegotiatorsA South Korean newspaper reported Friday that North Korea executed a senior envoy involved in nuclear negotiations with the U.S. as well as four other high-level officials. But as ever with North Korea, a country that closely guards its secrets, there are reasons to be cautious about the purported purge.

A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said.
In a statement, the ministry said Abdullah Ghaith, 16, “died after he was shot by Israeli occupation soldiers close to Bethlehem and his heart and lungs were penetrated.” Another man, 21, was shot in the stomach at the same location and was being treated in hospital, the ministry said.
Israeli police said that the Palestinian teenager was shot while attempting to climb over the heavily guarded security barrier from Bethlehem into Yerushalayim. The police added that they were launching a probe into the incident.

'The cracks in support run deep,'' says former PM, noting with new elections Netanyahu will not have time to pass legislation to protect him from corruption charges

Beijing – China threatened on Friday to unveil an unprecedented hit-list of “unreliable” foreign firms, groups and individuals that harm the interests of Chinese companies, as a slate of retaliatory tariffs on imported U.S. goods was set to kick in at midnight. The commerce ministry did not single out any country or company, but the [...]

 Flatbush Community – WHERE ARE YOU?Dear Flatbush Neighbors,
NO – this is not a fundraiser. I am not asking for money. I am writing this letter out of true sadness and perplexity over the recent Mikvah Yisroel campaign that is taking place.
Read more on Yeshiva World News

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims took part in the final Friday prayers of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City, as Israel heightened security following a Palestinian stabbing attack.
The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf organization which administers the site, the third holiest site in Islam, said in total 260,000 worshipers gathered for the lunchtime prayers.
The prayers came only hours after a Palestinian teenager stabbed two Israelis inside the Old City before being shot dead by Israeli police.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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Berlin – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday voiced concern over a warning to Jews by a German official about the dangers of wearing the kippa skullcap in Germany in the face of rising anti-Semitic attacks. The German government’s commissioner on anti-Semitism Felix Klein sparked alarm when he said in a recent interview [...]

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