Israel News:
Chai Tederi age 58 of Holon was the truck driver killed when a pedestrian bridge collapsed on his truck. As he drove under the pedestrian bridge which connects the Bar Ilan University campus with Ramat Gan, the crane on his truck began opening. It collided with the bridge causing it to collapse on his truck killing him immediately.
Jerusalem terror cell convicted: They were going to carry out a multi-pronged terror attack in Jerusalem against Israelis. Muhammad Abu Hadid’s (the Solomon Family murderer) uncle was in this cell.
No riding bikes with cell phones: Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan passes a city ordinance prohibiting riding bicycles or electric bikes while using cell phones. The law is effective September 1st.
MK Uri Maklev proposes ‘Green transportation allowance’ law for people who don’t come to work in their own cars. They will get the money equivalent of the maintenance allowance given to car owners driving to work as a ‘green transportation allowance’.
75,000 more apartments are being put onto the ‘Overall Agreements’ of the Land Ministry with municipalities in an effort to lower prices of Real estate in Israel and make apartments more affordable for young couples and the general population.
Technion study: Positive thinking helps immune system fight disease. The study discovered and demonstrates a mechanism that makes the placebo effect work.
Raad Salah, the head of the northern branch of the Muslim Brotherhood was arrested for incitement to terror and violence.
World News:
Ivanka Trump tweeted her clear voice of reason: There should be no place in society for racism, white supremacy and neo-Nazis. We must all come together as Americans — and be one country UNITED. Her father the president denounced violence on both sides alluding to the extreme left and communists who were also violent in Charlottesville.
Iran continues to play chicken with the US Navy as another drone flew at night without lights within 1000 feet of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier. They previously brought a boat dangerously close to a navy boat that fired warning shots last week. In June, they also pointed lasers from an Iranian missile at a Marines helicopter in the Persian Gulf which immediately fired warning flares back at the missile boat.
Iran threatens to leave the US Iran nuclear deal if sanctions remain: They could “quit the nuclear deal within hours” because of these sanctions …and we’d still be better off than before,” Rouhani said.