
A very good boy: Dog injured during a murder finds new home with police
jpost.com > israel-news...The dog catcher, Barak Itzhaki, arrived at the scene and helped to recover and transport the canine to the municipality"s vet.... ...The police knew they needed to save the 8-month-old German shepherd, and so they called the Netanya municipality"s dog catcher. ... ...A detective has homed the dog, with the help of the Herzliya and Netanya Animal Lovers Association. Unfortunately, the dog's name is unknown.... ...As the Jerusalem Post previously reported, Maj.-Gen. Moshe Hajaj saved the life of a dog whose leash got caught in the doors of an elevator....

Golda Meir biopic starring Helen Mirren to open 40th Jerusalem Film Festival
timesofisrael.com...Oscar hopeful “Golda” starring the award-winning actress Helen Mirren as Israel"s first and only female prime minister so far, will open the 40th... ...Liev Schreiber as Henry Kissinger, depicts the life of Meir, with a focus on the period of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.... ...Jerusalem Cinematheque director Roni Mahadav-Levin and festival artistic director Elad Samorzik called the film “an impressive and immersive international... ...by Triet and Arthur Harari....

Ukraine, Russia trade blame for devastating dam collapse, displacing thousands
timesofisrael.com...Ukraine accused Russian forces of blowing up the Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power station, which sits on the Dnipro River in an area Moscow has... ...Washington warned there would be “likely many deaths” as Moscow and Kyiv traded blame for ripping a gaping hole in the Kakhovka dam, which is located... ...The United States “cannot say conclusively what happened at this point,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters earlier.... ...EU chief Charles Michel appeared to point to Russia, calling the attack a “war crime,” while NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said the dam breach was...

Behaalotcha / 5 elements of this (past or coming) Shabbat
israelnationalnews.com > news...This week's Torah portion in the Diaspora, *Behaalotcha*, the third parasha in the book of Numbers, was read in Israel this past Shabbat....

How AI is intensifying Israel's bombardments of Gaza
972mag.com...and Islamic Jihad had reached a tenuous ceasefire in the wake of Israel"s latest offensive on the blockaded strip, which killed 33 and wounded dozens... ...“The skies above Gaza are filled with Israeli bombs,” Anas Baba told me when we spoke over WhatsApp a few weeks ago, just after the Israeli army... ...As Baba, the journalist, put it: “With a population of 2.3 million people in an area less than 45 kilometers, Gaza is one of the most densely populated... ...Swarms of killer drones directed by supercomputing algorithms, which can shoot and kill with minimal human intervention, are celebrated the same way Silicon...

Behaalotcha / 5 elements of this (past or coming) Shabbat
israelnationalnews.com...This week's Torah portion in the Diaspora, *Behaalotcha*, the third parasha in the book of Numbers, was read in Israel this past Shabbat....

Ehud Barak’s complicated position in Israeli politics and industry
israelnationalnews.com > news..., before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his colleagues formed the government.... ...First, in a podcast with Haaretz reporter Amir Oren, Gilead Sher&mdashone of the leaders of the "Resistance" against the Netanyahu government&mdashexplained... ...Among others, Sher mentioned former deputy attorney general Dina Zilber and Shikma Bressler.... ...He was Barak"s chief negotiator with the PLO at the failed Camp David Peace Summit and has remained close to Barak ever since....

Trump's former Chief of Staff testifies in Trump probe
israelnationalnews.com > news...Donald Trump's former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has testified to a federal grand jury in a special counsel's investigations of the... ...Special Counsel Jack Smith was appointed last November to oversee Justice Department investigations of whether Trump mishandled classified documents... ...A lawyer for Meadows, George Terwilliger, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.... ...Earlier this week, former Trump attorney Timothy Parlatore said he would be "not at all" surprised if the former President did not face any charges...

Minister Bezalel Smotrich: 'Connection between Israel and Diaspora Jews cannot be severed"
israelnationalnews.com...Finance Minister meets the leaders of Jewish community in France: The State of Israel is committed to strengthening ties with the Diaspora....
