Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman asserted Tuesday that the next government would be a “charedi government” that would act for religious coercion.
“The current election campaign revolves around one issue: Will the rightist bloc become a charedi bloc, with Yisrael Beytenu outside the coalition, or will a national, right and liberal government be formed with Yisrael Beytenu?” Liberman said.
“The only one in a right-wing coalition that can stop this madness is Yisrael Beytenu. Only we can prevent a situation in which a right-wing government is being blackmailed by  charedim.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Google made $4.7 billion from news sites in 2018, according to new research from the News Media Alliance, a trade association representing newspapers in the U.S. and Canada.
News content makes up between 16 percent and 40 percent of Google results, according to the study, and the company’s revenue from distributing news content is only $400 million less than the $5.1 billion the entire U.S. news industry brought in from digital advertising in 2018.
Between January 2017 and January 2018, traffic from Google to news publisher sites increased more than 25 percent to about 1.6 billion visits per week.
Read more at The Hill.
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by R’ Yaakov Klein
Early this morning, the Jewish nation lost a giant, Reb Shlomo Cheshin zt”l, a tzaddik with whom I merited to have a close relationship since the early days of my youth. It is with a broken heart and tear-filled eyes that I write these words of tribute and reflection about a singular figure whose passing has left a gigantic hole in the heart of our nation.
 
While a google search of this tzaddik’s name yields no results and his renown reached only a limited demographic, Reb Shlomo Cheshin zt”l was well known to many broken souls whose lives he singularly transformed. Who was this remarkable man, and what is his legacy?

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani on a visit this week that aims at easing regional tension, in what experts called a rare, bold move for a Japanese leader.
Tension between Iran and the United States has escalated recently, a year after Washington pulled out of a deal between Iran and global powers to curb Tehran’s nuclear program in return for lifting sanctions.
Abe’s trip, scheduled from Wednesday to Friday, is the first by an incumbent Japanese premier to Iran in 41 years, although Tokyo and Tehran have friendly ties and mark the 90th anniversary of diplomatic relations this year.

An interview with a former Israeli nuclear official is presented as support that Israel may have resorted to using a nuclear bomb in the Six Day War.
Published by the Nonproliferation Review, the interview features Elie Geisler, who served at Dimona’s nuclear research center from 1964 to 1966 and was assigned to guard a “radioactive package” before and during the 1967 War.
Hurriedly commissioned as an army officer, he was sent to a police compound south of Tel Aviv with a platoon of police border guards to guard a metal box containing a metallic half-sphere and to check it periodically for radiation leakage. Other cores were placed in other locations, he was told.

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UPDATE, Monday June 10th, 2:45 pm IST:
An internationally followed real-life drama met its peak this weekend, after donors around the world united to free 50-year-old Avraham Gil of Bnei Brak from a Polish prison.
Gil has been unjustly held in Polish prison for three years without trial after his identity was allegedly stolen and used for fraud. Rav Chaim Kanievsky was involved last year in efforts to secure Gil a trial, which only came into fruition this month.
During his absence, Avrahaml’s wife Sigalit was left to raise their four children alone.

Labor leader Avi Gabbay will not seek to retain leadership of the party in next month’s primary race, he announced Tuesday.
“To my supporters, to my friends, to my partners, and to my dear loved ones, I want to inform you that I will not be running for leadership of the party in the elections which will be held next month,” Gabbay said on Facebook.
The decision, he said, was the next logical step in light of Labor’s poor showing in the April 9 general election, which saw the party dwindle to just six mandates.
Labor’s primary election is scheduled to take place on July 2.

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Israeli and Palestinian Authority forces exchanged fire in the city of Shechem early Tuesday morning in what the Israel Defense Forces is reporting to be a case of mistaken identification.
“During operations to arrest terrorist operatives in the city of Nablus, a firefight broke out between IDF soldiers and people who were identified by the troops as suspects. After the fact, it was determined that it was Palestinian security services personnel,” the IDF said in a statement, adding that the incident would be investigated.

The international edition of The New York Times will no longer feature daily political cartoons, according to the paper’s editorial page editor James Bennet.
While Bennet says the policy change has been in the works for a year, one of the paper’s leading cartoonists, Patrick Chappatte, said the decision was directly related to a public outcry against an April caricature of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog wearing a Star of David collar and seemingly guiding a blind U.S. President Donald Trump, who was wearing a yarmulke.