Time Magazine columnist Ian Bremmer on Sunday tweeted a quote from President Donald Trump about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un that quickly went viral — but it wasn’t real.
“President Trump in Tokyo: ‘Kim Jong Un is smarter and would make a better President than Sleepy Joe Biden.’” Bremmer wrote on Twitter.
Bremmer left the false post up for several hours before conceding he made up the quote and deleting the tweet, which he defended as “plausible.” During the short amount of time it was up, the tweet enraged hundreds of Twitter users, may who had angry replies to the message.
Read more at The Daily Caller.
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The north-south Route 444 highway is closed to vehicles in both directions between the Barkat and Shoham interchanges due to a brush fire near the road. Police are asking drivers in the area to use alternate routes.
Israel Police received a report of a fire in an open area near Route 444 between next to  Petach Tikva. Police and security forces arrived to the scene and closed off the roads as they work to extinguish the blaze.
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Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused Politico of anti-Semitism on Saturday over an illustration that ran alongside an article that was published about Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ finances.
The article, “The Secret of Bernie’s Millions,” was an investigation into how the self-proclaimed democratic socialist amassed significant wealth and properties despite “unrelentingly” railing on the wealthy. One of the illustrations to go along with the article includes Sanders, who is Jewish, looking off into the distance with a mansion over one shoulder and a tree with dollar bills as leaves. Another one shows him holding a house in his hands with two more houses appearing on each shoulder. The three houses represent his three properties.

On Monday morning, a fire broke out at the Bais Malka giurl school on Malchei Yisrael in Yerushalayim.
At around 4:20 AM, five fire and rescue teams were dispatched for the fire that broke out in the girls’ school. With the help of a rescue and extinguishing crane, the fire fighters gained control of the flames within a short time, and there were no casualties.
In the wake of the fire, an investigation was launched into the circumstances of the outbreak of the fire.  Prelimianry investigations indicate that an electric failure in the air conditioner caused the fire to ignite ad nearly burn down the school building.
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An eruv was removed from a neighborhood on Staten Island after backlash from  some of the residents.
The eruv had been put up on utility poles around the neighborhood by a group of chassidm who had newly moved into the area. The eruv was removed after residents opposed to the influx of religious Jews in their neighborhood found out that the eruv was put up without permission from Con Ed, Verizon, or the Transportation Department.
The Orthodox residents have submitted paperwork to the local council to reattach the eruv.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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A shul in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev was evacuated and searched for explosives following a bomb threat.
The threat came in an email to the Jewish community, informing the readers that the bomb would explode within 24 hours.
The Estonian-domain email address used to send the threat contained the number 1488, a neo-Nazi code for Adolf Hitler and the phrase: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” The handle was for “Motorola terrorist.”
Read more at JPOST.
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President Trump says he hopes things will “work out” for Netanyahu amid a coalition crisis that could provoke new elections only months after April 9 polls.
“Hoping things will work out with Israel’s coalition formation and Bibi and I can continue to make the alliance between America and Israel stronger than ever. A lot more to do!” he posts on Twitter.
Netanyahu will be meeting with Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor Lieberman tonight to try and break the standoff and complete his coalition.
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5 Years ago, in mid-July, not long before the beginning of the new school year, over 100 wonderful girls found themselves without a school to attend in September due to no fault of their own. There simply was no room in the existing schools, which were all bursting at the seams. Something needed to be done, and quickly!
Rabbi Avrohom Landau recognized the need for something to be done, and he jumped in and did it. He left a very successful career at the Lakewood Cheder and undertook the tremendous responsibility of opening a brand new school and doing what was necessary to do for the benefit of the Klal.Fast forward five years.

Senior Likud officials say Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beyteinu Chairman Avigdor Liberman will meet this evening to negotiate a coalition. The Prime Minister’s Spokesman denied the meeting was scheduled, but the Likud insists that it will indeed take place.
In the afternoon, the Right Parties Union Chairman Rabbi Rafi Peretz met with Liberman and the two discussed the need to end the crisis and bring the government together as quickly as possible, even before the deadline imposed on the Prime Minister.
Earlier, Liberman slammed the Likud and accused it of failing to advance coalition negotiations.

A charedi man in his fifties was killed Monday morning in a fire that broke out in an apartment on Hashikma Street in Kfar Saba.
The firefighters were called this morning to Hashikma Street in Kfar Saba following a report of a fire in the apartment on the first floor of a six-story building. Neighbors told the firefighters they saw a man trapped in his home due to the fire and the bars on the windows.
The fire fighters entered the burning apartment and managed to rescue the man in critical condition. Paramedics worked to resuscitate the man, who suffered from burns and smoke inhalation, but the man unfortunately succumbed to his injuries.
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