Statement from Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Executive Vice President of Agudath Israel of America:

Derech HaTorah, a growing Torah Umesorah school located in Rochester, NY, is seeking dynamic, talented teachers to join our Limudei Kodesh and general studies staff. There will be multiple openings this coming school year.

The government’s public legal service on Monday filed a case with the Jerusalem District Court on behalf of four students seeking to be accepted to talmidei torah in the capital, but were refused, MyNet reports.
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A 19-year-old male was the victim of a hit and run on Highway 1, the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Highway, on Wednesday morning, July 17, 2019. As seen in the accompanying video, the victim moved out onto the road for a few seconds and he was struck by a passing vehicle.
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Big Tech faced tough questions Tuesday as federal lawmakers focused on issues of potentially anticompetitive behavior by technology giants and expressed bipartisan skepticism over Facebook’s plan for a new digital currency.
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U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar said that she plans to introduce this week a resolution in support of the anti-Israel BDS movement, reported Al-Monitor on Tuesday.
“We are introducing a resolution … to really speak about the American values that support and believe in our ability to exercise our first amendment rights in regard to boycotting,” the congresswoman told the outlet.

CALIFORNIA — The Los Angeles police department was responding to a reported drone strapped with explosives, possibly fireworks, near downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday.
The LAPD’s bomb squad was en route to the drone, which was reported on top of a building in the 1000 block of West 7th Street.

A 10-year-old bedouin child was killed when he was struck by a tree in the Kiryat Gat area of Israel. The incident occurred in Action Park during a camp trip.
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Newly elected Labor party leader MK Amir Peretz is working hard, continuing efforts to create a left-wing/centrist bloc ahead of elections towards unseating Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Labor party chairman, MK Amir Peretz, continues to meet with Meretz party chairman, MK Nitzan Horowitz, and it is reported the two are close to agreement regarding running together in the upcoming Knesset election on Tuesday, September 17, 2019.

Following the recent petira of five people from the same street in Bnei Brak’s Kiryat Herzog neighborhood, an atzeres hisorarus was held in the community.
Rav Avraham Edri Z”L lived at 2 Kovlaski Street in the community and when he went to make a shiva call at his neighbor, Rav Avraham Liebowitz Z”L who was niftar, he collapsed and died.