Voting in the World Zionist Organization elections in the United Kingdom officially opens this Sunday, July 6, at 8:00 a.m. and will continue through Thursday, July 10, at 6:00 p.m.
Registered voters are expected to receive their personalized voting links via email before the voting period begins. Participants are urged to check their spam and promotions folders if the email is not found in their inbox. Anyone who registered but has not received the link is instructed to contact the campaign via email at hkelections@eretzhakodesh.org.

President Donald Trump ’s big tax cut bill will overhaul a common food assistance program for lower-income people by forcing states to pick up some of the costs and requiring more people to work to receive benefits. The changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are projected to squeeze some people out of the program, which has existed for decades in varying forms as part of the nation’s social safety net. Here’s a look at the food assistance program, by the numbers: Year: 2008 The federal aid program formerly known as food stamps was renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, on Oct. 1, 2008.

Over the last several days, IDF troops operating under the Southern Command, with support from the Shin Bet and Military Intelligence, successfully neutralized over 100 members of Hamas. Among those killed were high-ranking operatives, including Hakam Issa, who served as Hamas’s Head of Combat Assistance; Mohammad Al-Sheikh, who led operations for the Khan Younis Brigade; Issa Abbas, a platoon commander in the Zaytoun Battalion; and Mohammad Jarousha, who commanded a platoon in the Tzabara Battalion.
As part of renewed military efforts, Division 98, which re-engaged in ground operations this week, joined forces with Division 162 to carry out strikes on Hamas operatives affiliated with the Gaza Brigade in northern Gaza.

Russia unleashed a ferocious wave of aerial attacks against Ukraine on Friday, launching a barrage of drones and missiles in what Ukrainian officials say was the most extensive assault since the war began nearly three years ago. The strikes came shortly after President Trump voiced frustration over his recent phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he was “disappointed.”
Ukraine’s air force reported that a staggering 539 drones and 11 missiles were fired at the capital, Kyiv, over a span of seven hours. The assault injured at least 23 people and caused widespread destruction across the city, with numerous residential buildings and infrastructure damaged.

Robert Reffkin, Compass co-founder and CEO, joins CNBC’s ‘Squawk on the Street’ to discuss the impact of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s primary win on real estate, solutions to the city’s affordability crisis, and more.
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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, assesses President Donald Trump’s first six months, applauds passing of ‘big, beautiful bill’ and more on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’
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Palestinian Arab terror factions are anticipated to issue a formal reply later today to the current ceasefire offer, a source told the Saudi-based Al-Arabiya news channel. According to that insider, there appears to be strong alignment among the various groups around a short-term 60-day pause in fighting, which would serve as a window for discussions on a permanent resolution and the complete pullout of Israeli troops from Gaza.
The individual emphasized that all factions involved have, in principle, given their backing to an initial two-month truce.
That timeframe, they said, would be used to conduct further negotiations aimed at forging a longer-lasting arrangement, which would include halting the war altogether and removing IDF forces entirely from the territory.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday put on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a “declaration of dissent” with its policies, accusing them of “unlawfully undermining” the Trump administration’s agenda. In a letter made public Monday, the employees wrote that the agency is no longer living up to its mission to protect human health and the environment. The letter represented rare public criticism from agency employees who knew they could face blowback for speaking out against a weakening of funding and federal support for climate, environmental and health science. In a statement Thursday, the EPA said it has a “zero-tolerance policy for career bureaucrats unlawfully undermining, sabotaging and undercutting” the Trump administration’s agenda.

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The man charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband on June 14, and wounding a state senator and his wife, said Thursday that he’s looking forward to the facts coming out about what happened that day. During a court appearance, Vance Boelter waived his right to full hearings on whether he should remain jailed without bail, and on probable cause, where the judge would determine whether the government has enough evidence to proceed with prosecuting the case. Thursday’s hearing lasted less than 10 minutes. “Your honor, I’m looking forward to court, and looking forward to the facts about the 14th coming out,” Boelter told Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko. Boelter affirmed that he knowingly waived his rights to the full hearings he was entitled.

It is big and it is beautiful, President Donald Trump says. But for many Democratic leaders, the tax break and spending cut package passed by Trump’s Republican allies in Congress on Thursday represents the key to the Democratic Party’s resurgence. Even before the final vote, Democratic officials were finalizing ambitious plans for rallies, voter registration drives, attack ads, bus tours and even a multiday vigil, all intended to highlight the most controversial elements of Trump’s “big beautiful” bill: deep cuts to the nation’s safety net that will leave nearly 12 million more people without health coverage and millions of others without food assistance, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

A young soldier serving in Israel’s Armored Corps, Sergeant Asaf Zamir, 19, from Dimona, lost his life in the southern Gaza Strip after being struck by an anti-tank missile.
The same attack that claimed Sergeant Zamir’s life also left two members of the 53rd Battalion of the 188th Brigade with critical injuries.
Both injured soldiers were transported to the hospital for emergency care. The total number of fallen Israeli soldiers since the outbreak of the war now stands at 883.
Earlier in the day, authorities released the identity of another soldier who was killed in a separate incident: Sergeant Yair Eliyahou, 19, of Ezer, located in the Be’er Tuvia regional council.

With the Knesset’s summer session ticking toward its final weeks and the High Court’s deadline looming, the IDF announced its readiness to begin issuing 54,000 draft notices to eligible chareidi men starting next Tuesday, July 8.
However, military officials have encountered a significant logistical obstacle: there are currently not enough prison facilities to detain those who refuse to enlist.
According to a report on i24NEWS by journalist Yinon Yitach, the IDF is now considering the urgent establishment of hundreds of new detention spaces to handle expected noncompliance. This plan, however, hinges on budgetary approval.

IDF Spokesperson Col. Avichai Adraei has issued an evacuation order on Khan Yunis residents as the war efforts in Gaza continue.

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