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One Bnei Brak family lost everything last week after an electrical fire became an uncontrollable blaze. Eight children were rushed from the scene. All of their belongings, however, were destroyed.
Neighbors watched from the street as the fire resisted being controlled. One friend of the family commented that they are “lucky to be alive.”
Now that their gratitude to be alive has begun to wear off, however, the Barak parents and their children are left to deal with the aftermath of the disaster. The parents and eight of their ten children are currently living with family friends. With no appliances, clothing, or furniture of their own, they are unable to return home.

An Independent Arabia reported that Israeli security officials met with their US counterparts to discuss the recent tensions between the US and Iran and to share sensitive intelligence, including on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
At the meeting, the Israelis emphasized that their country would only join an Iran-US war if they were attacked by either Iran or its proxies.
Both the US and Iran have claimed that they are not interested in war, but tensions still run high.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Hatzalah introduced a new project this week called the Hatzalah Aviation Division.
The HatzolAir is an airplane dedicated to airlifting patients of Hatzalah to hospitals and will be used in situations where the patient isn’t in a condition to be transferred any other way.
The service is opening up in New York with plans to add more planes and locations in the near future.
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Officials preparing for festivities in Meron this year are warning attendees to take extra measures of caution due the extreme weather forecast for Lag Ba’Omer.
The weather forecasters are expecting a heat wave to roll in on Tuesday, with temperatures on Thursday in Meron expected to hit one hundred degrees Farenheit.
Public officials are warning all the people intending to make the journey to be prepared for intense heat and to carry with them lots of liquids for hydration.
{Matzav.com Israel News}

Adva Biton, whose daughter Adele was critically wounded after being struck in a Shomorn rock attack 2013 and died of her wounds two years later, gave birth to a daughter on Adele’s Hebrew birthday.
“Last night, b’chasdei Hashem, I gave birth to our seventh daughter on the fifteenth of Iyar, on the same date as her sister, Adele,” Biton wrote on Facebook, adding that the birth was a “mix of emotions” for her.
In an interview with Ayala Hasson, Dr. Adva Biton said that she had a feeling that she would give birth on the charged date and called the day, 15 Iyar, a mix of a “bitter eye” and a happy heart.
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People coming to daven at a Chicago shul on SUnday morning were shocked to discover broken glass and charred rags strewn on the floor in what appears to have been an arson attempt on Kehillas Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel.
Chicago police confirmed that between 9 p.m. Saturday and 8:30 a.m. Sunday, someone tried to set a building in the 500 block of West Melrose aflame at two separate locations.
Three broken glass bottles with an unknown substance and charred black cloth towels were found outside, police said. No one was injured, and no buildings were damaged.

The Trump administration has announced plans to host a regional “economic workshop” as the first stage of its much-anticipated Middle East peace plan, CNN reported on Sunday.
Commenting on the announcement, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner told CNN that “people are letting their grandfathers’ conflict destroy their children’s futures. This will present an exciting, realistic and viable pathway forward that does not currently exist.”
Another “senior administration official” told the network that the effort will attempt to improve the economies of the West Bank and Gaza.

Police say anti-Semitic remarks were yelled at two Jewish teens in Borough Park over the weekend.
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