This week, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General Aviv Kochavi appointed Gil Messing as the new IDF Spokesman. The appointment was approved by Prime Minister/Defense Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
However, according to a report in the daily Haaretz, Lessing served as an undercover police agent during the corruption investigation into the Yisrael Beitenu party headed by Avigdor Lieberman.

Venezuelans heeded opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s call to fill streets around the nation Wednesday but security forces showed no sign of backing his cry for a widespread military uprising, instead dispersing crowds with tear gas as the political crisis threatened to deepen.
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President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, met Monday with a delegation of Jewish leaders from around the world led by president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), Mikhael Mirilashvili. EAJC Chairman of the Board, Aaron Frenkel, and Head of the Mikhael Mirilashvili CIS Rabbinical Council and Chief Rabbi of Russia, Beryl Lazar, also took part in the summit.

As Kaliver Chassidim deal with the recent petira of the rebbe ZT”L, senior officials in the chassidus were compelled to deal with a most unpleasant reality, the theft of the rebbe’s snuff box that he used for decades.

Police in Seine-Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris, France, are investigating a violent robbery and attack last Monday of a Jewish family. The four attackers were Muslim, and the victim says they targeted his home because he was Jewish.

A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled Tuesday that a Spanish museum that acquired a priceless, Nazi-looted painting in 1992 is the work’s rightful owner, and not the survivors of the Jewish woman who surrendered it 80 years ago to escape the Holocaust.

Some 100 avreichim, residents of Tiveria, arrived outside Tiveria City Hall on Wednesday morning for an angry demonstration, all armed with receipts to prove that they have paid ‘arnona’ property tax.
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The following is an unedited response to a YWN article published on Chol Hamoed, detailing a fiasco at the “A Different Pesach Program” in Orlando.
Alan Sakowitz, a guest at the program, writes it was “one of the best Pesachs ever”.

Former Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Tuesday, sent a letter to Knesset comptroller Chaim Avidor, informing him that he doesn’t plan to take his monthly salary, and he will be working for NIS 1 annually.
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A major drug bust took place today in Bnei Brak, when police discovered 108 marijuana plants growing inside a private apartment in the Chareidi city. Following special intelligence gathered and an ensuing investigation, police arrived at the apartment and arrested a 30-year-old suspect, who is married with three children.