Israeli former spy Jonathan Pollard, who spent 30 years in jail in the United States, gave one of his first media interviews after his release almost four years ago.
Despite strict parole conditions prohibiting him from speaking to the press, Pollard is opened up to reporters, complaining that the Israeli leadership doesn’t care about him.
“If you don’t care about someone like myself, who spent 30 years in prison on behalf of the land and people of Israel, then how much concern can you actually show or exhibit or feel towards anybody in the country, from our soldiers to our civilians?” he says.
Read more at Times of Israel.

President Donald Trump on Monday lost an early round of his court fight with Democrats when a federal judge ruled that the president’s accounting firm must turn over his financial records to Congress as lawmakers seek to assert their oversight authority.
Trump called the 41-page ruling from U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta of Washington “crazy,” and he said he would appeal, adding: “We think it’s totally the wrong decision by obviously an Obama-appointed judge.
Lawyers for the president are fighting document and witness subpoenas on several fronts, and Mehta’s ruling came hours after former White House counsel Donald McGahn was directed not to appear before a congressional committee seeking testimony about his conversations with Trump.

Israel is the fastest rising opioid medication user in the developed world, according to a disturbing new OECD report.
According to the report, which was released on May 16 under the title, “Addressing Problematic Opiod Use in OECD Countries,” data from 2014–2016 put Israel in 11th place out of 37 OECD countries for opioid use, a 13 percent increase from 2013, when Israel ranked 24th. However, Israel leads the pack when it comes to the rate of increase in opioid use. From 2011–2013 to 2014–2016, Israel experienced a 125 percent increase.

Leadership and Marketing Update from H. LEINER & CO.
What’s your lucky number?
8! There should no more than 8 people at a meeting for it to be productive.
More than 8 people doesn’t allow everyone to participate, causes people to be reluctant to share their ideas, and allows for too many side conversations to distract from the main goals of the meeting.
Be thoughtful with your invite list and only invite the people who will be helpful additions at the meeting. Who has information to share? Who will be impacted by the decision? Who will be implementing the decision? Who will learn from participating?
Share with your team that you will be making changes to the meetings to limit the number to 8 people attending.

A man roughly 60 years of age was found stabbed to death Tuesday morning in Yerushalayim, police reported.
The victim was found in an apartment on Rechov Bar Yochai in the capital in an apparent murder.
Police have taken one male suspect into custody. Authorities are investigating the circumstances of the killing, but say the incident appears to be criminal, rather than terror-related.
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Former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon discusses the U.S.-China trade war and the problems facing Europe.
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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former longtime personal attorney, told a House panel during closed-door hearings earlier this year that he had been encouraged by Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow to falsely claim in a 2017 statement to Congress that negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow ended in January 2016, according to transcripts of his testimony that were released Monday evening.
In fact, Cohen later said discussions on the Moscow tower continued into June of the presidential election year, after it was clear that Trump would be the GOP nominee. Cohen is serving three years in prison for lying to Congress, financial crimes and campaign finance violations.

Birth rates in the United States have continued to drop for the fourth straight year, even reaching their lowest figures in 32 years in 2018.
In a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of new babies born in the country last year was at about 3.7 million. This is 2 percent lower compared to birth rates recorded in 2017.
Population experts say the development comes as a surprise seeing how the U.S. job market and the economy, in general, has considerably grown over the past few years. They expected birth rates in the country to stabilize or even rise as a result.
Demographers are calling the negative trend in U.S. birth rates a national problem.