Israel news:
According to the Wall Street Journal aid to the Syrian rebels is greater than previously thought. Senior rebels say that Israel has been sending them $5,000 a month: “She stood by our side heroically we wouldn’t survive without her.”
The J team is coming to Israel: Jason Greenblatt and Jared Kushner are coming with the hope of renewing peace negotiations. Jason is landing today and Jared in two days’ time. Jason will already start meeting with Israeli and a Palestinian leadership today. A White House staff member said: “Trump believes it’s possible to attain peace.”
“The Reform movement is arousing problems and disturbances”: The Israeli Rabbinate sharply criticized the ‘Kotel Plan’ to allocate a place of prayer for the Reform to conduct their mixed gender services. “There is an absolute prohibition against conducting mixed gender prayers anywhere near the Western Wall.”
Jewish (Missionary) book week: Missionaries had a booth at the Israel Book Week Fair selling a missionary ‘Tanach’ (scriptures) in Modern Hebrew to children. Being missionaries they chose not to reveal this fact to the buyers. The anti-missionary organization Yad l’Achim filed a complaint to the Police being that missionary activity is against the law in Israel. “The publishers don’t display in their booth that they are indeed missionaries and the books deal with the mission and encourage intermarriage. This is a problem of impersonation.”
Discounted Housing: 11,000 couples signed up for the next lottery of discounted housing for eligible families. The Ministry of housing reports great overload on their website because of all the inquiries.
World news:
Run-over terror attack in London: A vehicle ran into a crowd outside a London mosque about 12:30 at night. One person was killed and 11 injured in the terror attack. PM Theresa May said: “My thoughts are with the injured, their loved ones and those who responded to the incident.”
The ‘Macron Revolution’ continues: a month after being elected president, Emmanuel Macron’s new central party got an overwhelming majority of the National Assembly seats. At the end of a second round of elections they got about 360 seats out of a possible 577. The traditional parties, on both the right and the left suffered major setbacks and lost many assembly seats.