Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, approved changing the name of Natzrat Illit (Upper Nazareth) to Nof HaGalil.
Mayor Ronen Flut conducted a referendum among residents of the city regarding a name change.
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The family of a 54-year-old black man fatally shot by a white officer is suing the officer and the city of South Bend, Indiana, where Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (BOO’-tuh-juhj) is mayor.
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New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding big changes in corporate governance.
DiNapoli, writing in his capacity as trustee of the state retirement fund, said he will vote against the nominees for Facebook’s board of directors at next year’s annual investor meeting unless the company agrees to a series of changes, such as the selection of an independent chairman who has no material interest in the company.

The two-year-old boy who is in critical condition after drowning in a pool in the community of Meitzad on Wednesday is in need of Rachmei Shomayim.
HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita was updated on the incident shortly after is occurred, and he instructed the family to add the name Refoel.

North Korean and U.S. officials are holding “behind-the-scenes talks” to arrange a third summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the fate of the North’s expanding nuclear arsenal, South Korea’s president said, four months after a second meeting between the leaders in Vietnam collapsed without any agreement.

The “Ezras Nashim” Organization held a CPR demo open to the public in front of Amnon’s Pizza on 13 Avenue in Boro Park.
The organization put up a small tent and handed out literature as well as educating people about tick bites and pool safety.
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President Donald Trump is blaming Democrats for the death of a man and his 23-month-old daughter shown in a searing photograph that has become a symbol of the peril faced by migrants.
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What appeared to be just another apartment in the chareidi city of Modi’in Illit was in fact used for drugs. The Petach Tikvah Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday released the chareidi suspect without restrictions.
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Talmidim of the Philadelphia Yeshiva say the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ and sing the National Anthem before their graduation ceremony.
Philadelphia Yeshiva is led by Hagaon HaRav Shmuel Kamenetzky Shlita, one of the leading Roshei Yeshiva in America.

A U.S. judge cast aside prosecutors’ demand for a decades-long prison sentence for an American woman who admitted supporting the Islamic State, instead giving her four years behind bars Wednesday on defense assurances she wants to mend her ways.
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