Tiffani Adams woke up in a cold, dark Air Canada jet a few hours after landing at Toronto International Airport to discover she was left sleeping on the plane.
Adams described the harrowing experience in which she was unable to recharge her phone while stuck inside the parked aircraft, which sent her into a panic attack. She eventually found a flashlight in the cockpit, and opened one of the plane’s doors, flashing the light at the ground crew who came to her rescue.
Air Canada officials gave her a ride home and have been in contact with her since, but Adams is still recovering from the ordeal.
Read more at THE NY POST.
{Matzav.com}

President Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday that he is “not too prepared” to lose in 2020.
When asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether he was prepared to lose, Trump said, “No. Probably not. Probably not. It would be much better, it would be much better if I said, ‘Yeah.’ It would be much easier for me to say, ‘Oh yes.’ No I’m probably not too prepared to lose. I don’t like losing. I haven’t lost very much in my life.”
President Trump last week officially kicked off his 2020 reelection bid with a rally in Orlando, Florida, last week.
Read more at The Hill.
{Matzav.com}

Arab finance ministers met at the Arab League in Cairo, Egypt on Sunday and pledged $100 million dollars a month to the Palestinians. The move comes just ahead of the U.S.-sponsored meeting scheduled to take place in Bahrain this week.
The ministers condemned Israel’s seizure of Palestinian funds and called on the international community to pressure the Israeli government to “stop its piracy and return the Palestinian money in full,” according to a report by WAFA, the Palestinian News and Info Agency.
Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit said the monthly funding for the Palestinians had become an urgent necessity.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. will deny Iran resources needed to obtain a nuclear weapon.
WATCH:

E. coli was detected in the water supply in the City of Long Beach, Long Island, officials announced Friday. A boil-water order has been issued.
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said that the state has been swift in its response to the detected E.coli and has sent more than 30,000 bottles of water to the impacted area.
Curran said the Nassau County Health Department received a sample result that tested positive for E. coli Friday morning. The bacteria was detected in the course of normal testing.
The boil-water order will remain in place until all water samples indicate the water is free of bacteria and safe for consumption, Curran said.

U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton landed in Jerusalem on Saturday ahead of a tripartite summit of top security officials from Israel, the United States and Russia on Sunday.
While the meeting between Bolton, Israeli National Security Council head Meir Ben-Shabbat and Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev was initially set to discuss security issues pertaining to Iran’s entrenchment in Syria, the focus is now expected to shift to recent escalation in tension between the United States and Iran.
On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the summit “historic and unprecedented” and said it “greatly attests to the current international standing of Israel among the nations.”

A white supremacist who was convicted of first-degree murder after he ran down a protester in Charlottesville, Virginia two years ago has asked a federal judge for “mercy” when deciding upon sentencing.
On August 12th, 2017, Ohio resident James Alex Fields Jr. drove through a crowd of protesters demonstrating against the “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and leaving 28 more injured. A jury recommended Fields be sentenced to 419 years for the ramming attack.
In the court documents filed Friday, Fields’ attorneys cited his history of mental illness, the difficulties they say he faced being raised by a single, paraplegic mother.

President Trump told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview broadcast Sunday that he would prefer to run against former Vice President Joe Biden in 2020.
Trump told host Chuck Todd that he would rather run against Biden than run against Hillary Clinton, who remains a frequent target of Trump even after he defeated her in the 2016 election.
“I actually think that Hillary Clinton was a great candidate. She was very smart. She was very tough. She was ruthless and vicious,” Trump said. “[Biden’s] sleepy. She was not sleepy.”
Read more at The Hill.
{Matzav.com}

A 45-year-old Moroccan man detained by German police has been accused of threatening, demeaning and spitting at two Jews in Hamburg.
Shlomo Bistritzky, regional chief rabbi and a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Hamburg, and Eliezer Noe were approached near the city hall, where the two met with Mayor Peter Tschentscher, by a passer-by who harassed and spat on them.
Bistritzky told the Hamburg Abendblatt that the man confronted them by saying “Shalom” and then “said something that sounded threatening. We faced him and asked him what he had said. He then reached under his shirt and pulled out something … and began to threaten us verbally.”
The object reportedly was a lighter, which the man, who spoke Arabic and German, lit while insulting and threatening the two Jews.

Alan Dershowitz

I am a pragmatic rationalist. I calculate the costs and benefits of most of my actions, especially when I am representing a client. For the 50 years I was a professor at Harvard Law School, my goal was never to teach the students what to think, but to teach them how to think. I employed the Socratic method in my classes, demanding rational responses from my students. I have never thought of myself as a spiritual person, because for me spiritual was the antithesis of rational.