Gavriel Lavi, one of two Israelis wounded in a stabbing attack in the Old City last month, was discharged from Shaare Tzedek Medical Center on Wednesday.
Lavi was critically wounded in the May 31st terror attack in the Old City, during which a 19-year-old Palestinian Arab terrorist stabbed and wounded two Israelis before being shot and killed by Israeli security personnel.
“I realized that I was between life and death,” said Lavi Wednesday. “Thanks to the prayers from my friends in yeshiva, everything turned around for the best. All of the prayers gave me so much strength and helped me not despair because of my difficult situation.”
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Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, signed a plea bargain Wednesday to pay NIS 55,000 ($15,215) for allegedly exploiting state resources for private catering services at the Prime Minister’s Residence.
According to the deal, which will be presented Wednesday at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, Mrs. Netanyahu will be charged with a criminal offense for receiving a gift by purposefully exploiting other people’s mistakes but not by fraudulent means. The fine will be transferred to the state.
Mrs. Netanyahu will not have to plead guilty to defrauding the state, as she was accused of doing when an indictment was first filed against her in June 2018. She will not stand trial after the case went through a six-month long arbitration process.

Syria’s missile defense system intercepted a number of missiles fired by Israel at it’s southern border, Syrian state news agency SANA reported overnight Tuesday.
The attack was launched in the early hours of the morning against the Tall al-Hara sector near the Golan Heights, SANA reported, adding that there had been no casualties.
The report did not specify the target of the raid. Britain-based war monitor The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the strikes had targeted positions of the Hezbollah Shiite movement in two locations.
“All the positions hit had the Lebanese Hezbollah there,” the Observatory said.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden made a bold promise on Tuesday to “cure cancer” if he is elected president in 2020.
At a campaign event in Ottumwa, Iowa, Biden expressed the difficulty one faces with a “loss” of a family member and others attempt to comfort them saying, “‘I know how you feel'” when in reality they have “no idea how I feel,” which is likely in reference to the loss of his son Beau Biden, who died in 2015 from brain cancer.

Traveling with friends to mekomos hakedoshim in Eastern Europe, Yo Aisenstark of Montreal’s Shearim Orchestra passed a piano in the airport and couldn’t resist. He played his composition, Tov Lehodos, as spectators soaked it in.
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by Rabbi Berach Steinfeld

Why do we say Birchas Kohanim in Birchas Hatorah? There is a distinct difference between the chochma of the Torah and other chochmos. All the other chochmos in the world are obtained based on the smartness of a person; the more genius the person is, the better chance the person has to understand the material. Regarding chochmas haTorah, it does not work that way. Even if a person is extremely smart, he is still unable to properly learn the Torah without Hashem teaching it to him. That is why in Tehillim, kuf yud tes we find the words “lamdeini chukeicha,” we daven that Hashemm should teach us his Torah.

Rav Moshe Rivkes, author of Beer Hagolah on Shulchan Aruch (1672 or 1684). He was one of four great tzadikim of Vilna who lived at the tragic time of the massacres at the hands of the Cossacks in 1655, along with Rav Ephraim (the Shaar Ephraim), Rav Shabbsai Cohen (the Shach), and Rav Shmuel Koidenaver. Approximately 25,000 Jews were killed in and around Vilna.

The time has come for the international community to recognize Yerushalayim as Israel’s capital, the Jewish state’s UN envoy said in a letter to the president of the Security Council.
“Since King David made Jerusalem the capital of the Kingdom of Israel 3,000 years ago, the Jews have always lived in, built and defended the Holy City,” Ambassador Danny Danon wrote. “Even after the Jews lost their sovereignty in the Land of Israel to the Roman sword, they still maintained a presence in Jerusalem, generation after generation.”