Frum passengers on an El Al flight who were diverted to Athens during a New York-Tel Aviv flight for fear that they would not reach Israel before Shabbos, have filed a class action lawsuit against the airline.
According to Channel 12 news, 52 passengers have filed the suit, demanding hundreds of thousands of shekels in compensation from El Al. El Al offered compensation to all 400 passengers on the flight in the form of a free round-trip ticket to any destination in Europe.
Attorney Asher Rotenbaum said the company had behaved irresponsibly and said the claimants wanted compensation for the “great anguish and distress caused,” with passengers forced to spend three days in Athens without a change of clothes and in sub-par conditions.

Iran sees no prospect of negotiations with the United States, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday, a day after US President Donald Trump said a deal with Tehran on its nuclear program was possible.
Washington withdrew last year from a 2015 international nuclear deal with Tehran, and is ratcheting up sanctions in efforts to strangle Iran‘s economy by ending its international sales of crude oil.
Trump said on Monday: “I really believe that Iran would like to make a deal, and I think that’s very smart of them, and I think that’s a possibility to happen.”

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An Israeli citizen is suspected of trying to smuggle hundreds of thousands of balloons into the Gaza Strip, authorities reported last week.
According to the statement, 50-year-old David Cohen used his citizenship to skirt security checks at the Ashdod port on the import of the balloons to Chevron where the container was slated to be transferred to Gaza.
Hamas operatives have been using balloons to float explosives over the border to start fires in Israel. Thousands of acres in Israel have been burnt down in this way. Hamas agreed during the recent ceasefire to stop using the fire balloons but the agreement has not been kept.
{Matzav.com Israel News}

Palestinian Authority leader Abbas earlier this month inaugurated the “Martyr Khalil Al-Wazir Abu Jihad Faculty for Administration and Military Sciences” at the Al-Istiqlal University in Jericho, as part of the annual events marking the April 16 anniversary of Al-Wazir’s death.
Al-Wazir was a founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terrorist organization’s military wing and also planned many deadly terrorist attacks from the 1960s to the 1980s. These attacks, in which at least 125 Israelis were murdered, included the single most lethal terrorist attack in Israeli history—the hijacking of a bus and murder of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
He was assassinated at his home in Tunis by Israeli commandos on April 16, 1988.

“The ‘deal of the century,’ or the deal of disgrace, will go to hell,” said Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a ceremony in Ramallah on Monday.
Speaking of the U.S.-sponsored conference in Bahrain scheduled for June 25-26, Abbas added that “the economic project they [the conference participants] are working on for next month will also go to hell … we said we are not going to accept this meeting and its results because they are selling us illusions that will lead to nothing.”
“The Palestinian Authority does not recognize this conference,” Abbas said.
The P.A. announced a boycott of the Trump administration at the end of 2017, following the official recognition by the United States of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel.

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Neviim and Mitzvos

Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
The Torah tells us in Vayikra, Perek Chof Zayin, posuk lamed daled that these are the mitzvos that Moshe commanded Bnei Yisroel on Har Sinai. The Gemara in Shabbos, daf kuf daled, amud alef and Megillah, daf bais, amud bais tells us that Chazal learn out from the above posuk that a Navi is not able to command any new mitzvos. All the mitzvos were given to Moshe Rabbeinu and anything thereafter is not one of the mitzvos. A Navi is unable to be mechadesh any new mitzvos.

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