Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak is running for the Labor party leadership, Army Radio reported on Tuesday.
The Labor party’s leadership primary will take place on July 2, after its current chairman, Avi Gabbay, led the party to its worst ever election on April 9, gaining a mere six seats.
Barak led the party to victory in 1999 when he was elected Prime Minister, beating then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Gabbay is supporting Barak’s candidacy for leadership, according to a report by Israel Hayom.
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Sephora, a US-based cosmetics and skincare company, has come under fire for stating that it “does not ship to Palestine” when asked if the company ships to Israel.
The ruckus came after an Israeli Instagram user responded Monday to a Sephora advertisement with the innocent question, “Do you ship to Israel??”

In response to the anti-vaccination symposium tonight at Ateres Chynka Hall in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Matzav.com reached out to Dr. Alan Kadish, a physician and president of the Touro College & University System.
Dr. Kadish didn’t mince words in telling Matzav.com how he feels about tonight’s event and the fallacious claims of its organizers and presenters.
“We in the Jewish community must unite to unmask this hoax once and for all,” Dr. Kadish told us. “Not vaccinating children is reckless and potentially deadly. There is no justification medically, socially or religiously for not vaccinating.”

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is expected to be jailed on New York’s Rikers Island this week, where he will await trial on state-level mortgage fraud charges, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Manafort was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison in March after being convicted of and pleading guilty to multiple federal charges. Manafort may be held in solitary confinement separate from other inmates due to his status as a “high profile” inmate.

A bill that would give Brooklyn residents who regularly cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge a discount similar to Staten Islanders has passed the state Senate, according to the Brooklyn Paper.
The measure would give Brooklynites who cross the span 10 or more times a month using E-ZPass a discounted toll of $5.50 — the same price borough residents pay under the Staten Island Resident Rebate Program.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-Bay Ridge), passed Thursday by a 55-2 margin, the report said.
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Noa Pothoven, 17, has been legally euthanised in the Netherlands, saying the pain she was dealing with after a childhood abuse was “insufferable”.
Noa wrote an autobiography called Winning or Learning, which details her battles with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anorexia after being molested and raped as a young child.
Children as young as 12 can opt for euthanasia in the Netherlands but only after a doctor determines that the patient’s pain is unbearable.
Euthanasia is also legal in some US states, Canada and Belgium.
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