MDA on Thursday morning responded to a call for a flipped dump truck in the Yarkon district, on Route 4613 from the Bedek Junction to Barkat Junction. The truck was loaded with sand, and it fell on a parked car.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio became the latest entry into the 2020 Democratic presidential race on Thursday, bringing the primary field to nearly two dozen candidates.
The sprawling Democratic field features candidates ranging in age from 37 to 89; liberals and moderates; senators, governors and mayors; and an unprecedented number of women and minorities.

Police in a Boston suburb are investigating the circumstances around a suspicious fire at a rabbi’s home and are looking for someone spotted on a neighbor’s surveillance video.
According to a statement Wednesday, firefighters and police responded to the Arlington home on Lake Street at about 11 p.m.

Efforts to combat school shootings are starting to shift from preventing the violence to reducing the number of victims through technology that speeds up law enforcement’s response and quickly alerts teachers and students to danger.
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Alongside an editorial column dripping hatred for the chareidim and the Gerrer Chassidim in particular, the daily Haaretz on Thursday, May 16, 2019, displays a scornful cartoon that includes the image of the Gerrer Rebbe Shlita.

Iran’s foreign minister on Thursday said sanctions imposed by the Trump administration are “unacceptable” but that his country is committed to an international nuclear deal that has steadily unraveled amid rising tensions.
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Diana Prechtman Berger from Hadera is taken three times a week to the hospital for dialysis treatment. MDA Senior EMT at the dispatch center Ronit Glula heard from Diana’a granddaughter that this week is her 81st birthday, and Ronit couldn’t stay indifferent to that fact.

A large Shabbos rally is planned by the Eida Chareidis this coming Shabbos in protest of the massive Chilul Shabbos expected to take place around the Eurovision Song Contest being hosted in Tel Aviv.
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The High Court of Justice on Thursday rejected a petition by Har Habayis activists against the closing of the holy site to Jews on Jerusalem Day:
“We did not find any legal cause for intervention in the decisions,” the judges ruled in their decision.
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Hundreds of people attended the Levaya of Yisroel Schwartz, the Novaminsker Yeshiva Bochur that was tragically struck and killed by a truck in Boro Park on Wednesday.