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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In the midst the efforts to form a government at the last minute, the charedi parties told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday morning that they are vehemently opposed to holding new elections in September.
The heads of the parties have informed the prime minister that they are opposed to holding the elections on the said date, which comes out to 3 Elul, because this would harm the opening of the Elul zman for the yeshivos.
In the wake of their opposition, it was agreed that if a government is not formed and will be forced to vote, an effort will be made a week earlier, on the 26th of Av – August 27, or only after the Yomim Tovim.
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Opposition parties Blue and White, Labor, and Meretz announced on Monday that they would not back a preliminary motion to dissolve the Knesset, which is being sought by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud.
The bill to dissolve parliament was submitted by the Likud party on Monday for the first of three votes to trigger new elections.
The move was widely seen as a pressure tactic to persuade prospective coalition partners to soften their demands, as well as a bid to prevent President Reuven Rivlin from tasking another lawmaker to form a government should Netanyahu fail to do so by a Wednesday deadline.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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The elections for the 22nd Knesset will be held on September 3rd of this year – if coalition talks fail and the Knesset votes to dissolve itself, paving the way for snap elections.
Likud MK Miki Zohar submitted a bill Monday morning which would dissolve the 21st Knesset and call for new elections to be held less than five months after the last vote, held on April 9th.
The bill was submitted in keeping with a decision made by Likud leaders Sunday to prepare for the dissolution of the Knesset by Wednesday.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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The Israeli government on Monday expressed openness to discussions led by the U.S. over disagreements with Lebanon over the countries’ shared maritime border.
The Middle Eastern nations have been in discord over borders, affecting about 330 square miles of the sea, the news service noted. Gas fields have been discovered in the disputed area.
Talks could be “for the good of both countries’ interests in developing natural gas reserves and oil” the office of Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz’s office said in a statement, according to Reuters.
Read more at The Hill.
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Days after Germany’s anti-Semitism czar said that Jews would be ill-advised to wear kippot in public in some parts of the country, one of the nation’s leading dailies printed a “do-it-yourself kippah” cutout on its front page on Monday as an act of solidarity with the Jewish community.
Ahead of the publication, which occupied about a quarter of the front page, Bild Editor-in-Chief Julian Reichelt wrote: “If only one person in our country cannot wear [a] kippa without endangering himself, the answer can only be that we all wear a kippah. The kippah belongs to Germany!”
In an open letter printed next to the cutout, Reichelt called on Germans to embrace their Jewish compatriots. The paper’s online site also included a video of how to cut out the paper kippah.

If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to secure a coalition before the Wednesday deadline and Israel goes to another round of elections, Netanyahu’s Likud Party will win again, according to a survey conducted Sunday by Israeli daily Ma’ariv.
Conducted by the Politics Panels Research Institute on May 26 after a large rally led by the opposition Blue and White Party in Tel Aviv against a proposed law which would give serving prime ministers immunity from indictment, the survey shows that a right-wing bloc would be victorious.