The Lakewood Vizhnitz Kehilla, led by Rav Eliezer Hager, went into contract erev Yom Tov to purchase the flea market located on Route 70 in Lakewood, New Jersey.
The land is being bought to build a 160 unit development for the growing chassidus.
The Kehilla is expected to close on the property right after Pesach.
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United Hatzala EMS volunteers treated a young boy who was hit by a bus on HaChozeh M’Lublin Street in Beitar Illit. Volunteers attempted to resuscitate four-year-old Boruch Eisenberg from Monsey, New York, and initiated CPR. Unfortunately, after lengthy efforts, the boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
Members of United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit are currently treating family members and bystanders who witnessed the accident.
The family had come to from America to to Israel for Yom Tov and had traveled to Beitar Illit to visit family.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says Democrats have become an ’embarrassment’ to their party and public service by choosing to attack President Trump instead of work with him.
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Highlights of a “Kinnus Taharas Hakodesh” gathering by thousands of Satmar chassidim at Arthur Ashe Stadium to raise $12 million for Israeli institutions that refuse to take funds from the Israeli government. The event was arranged by the Satmar faction led by Rav Zalman Teitelbaum of Satmar in Williamsburg.
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Tens of thousands of Yidden attended a mass Birkas Kohanim this morning at the Kosel. The large Birkas Kohanim is held every Chol Hamoed and draws tremendous crowds.
The entire Old City of Yerushalayim was closed to vehicles as thousands streamed by foot and via bus to the Kosel. Some had davened Shacharis elsewhere, while others took part at minyanim at the Kosel.
All joined together for the central Birkas Kohanim,with the Kosel chazzan calling out the bracha over a microphone. Hundreds of kohanim gathered at the front of the minyan, right by the Kosel, to bentch their fellow Yidden.

The mother of the Pupa Rebbe, Rebbetzin Miriam Greenwald, wife of the previous rebbe of Pupa, Rav Yosef Greenwald, author of the Vayechi Yosef, is in serious condition and in need of rachamei Shomayim.
The first day of Yom Tov, the news reached Williamsburg that the 100-year-old rebbetzin was rushed to the hospital.

This event took place in Elad, Israel, with over 10,000 participants, accompanied by the Ruvi Banet orchestra and the Malchus Choir.

הקבלת פני רבו א’ דחול המועד אצל הגרי”ג אדלשטייןצילום: באדיבות המצלם
הקבלת פני רבו א’ דחול המועד אצל הגרי”ג אדלשטייןצילום: באדיבות המצלם

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu offered Kulanu Chairman Moshe Kahlon the Foreign Ministry, News 13 reported.
According to the report, Kahlon insisted on remaining in his position as Finance Minister, and he may be allowed to do so.
Netanyahu and Kahlon are scheduled to meet on Thursday for coalition negotiations. Meanwhile, the sides are believed to be discussing the option of integrating Kulanu into the larger Likud party.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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