Israeli forces arrested a Jordanian national acting on behalf of Iranian intelligence to establish a spy network in Israel and the West Bank earlier this year, the Shin Bet security service revealed Thursday.

Officials in the Otzma Yehudit party were tense on Wednesday, directing criticism at the leader of the Bayit Yehudi party, Rabbi Rafi Peretz, accusing him of breaking the agreement between the parties signed in the last election race in April.
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The central committee of the Bayit Yehudi party met on Wednesday and decided things are to remain as they are.
The list and the chairman of the party are to remain as they were in the elections for the 21st Knesset and allow for connections with other right-wing parties.

Former top White House adviser Hope Hicks refused to answer questions related to her time in the White House in a daylong interview with the House Judiciary Committee, dimming Democrats’ chances of obtaining new or substantive information about President Donald Trump in their first interview with a person linked to his inner circle.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. was “wrong” to describe migrant detention centers as “concentration camps.”
“They are entirely different realities,” de Blasio, a 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, told MSNBC’s “Meet The Press Daily.”
“And so she was wrong, and you would be critical of her, you would tell her not to use that language?” asked host Chuck Todd.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, meeting in Pyongyang with Chinese President Xi Jinping, said Thursday that his country is waiting for a desired response in stalled nuclear talks with the United States.
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The deal between the Bayit Yehudi and Ichud Leumi parties ahead of elections for 22nd Knesset is deadlocked. The situation surrounds the old agreement, specifically the paragraph addressing Betzalel Smotrich has the first choice regarding the ministerial appointments offered to the party.

For the first time ever, Hatzoloh – the volunteer ambulance service that responds to over 50,000 emergency medical calls every year – has received City Council funding.
Under the leadership of Jewish Caucus Chairman Chaim Deutsch and Speaker Corey Johnson, as well as Councilmembers Helen Rosenthal and Andrew Cohen, Hatzoloh was allocated over $150,000 to support their work.

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A U.S. Navy high-altitude drone was shot down Thursday by an Iranian surface-to-air missile over the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions in the region after last week’s attacks on two oil tankers, according to military officials.
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