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U.S. Sen. John McCain has died; a Jewish gunman has killed two people and wounded 11 others at an eSports tournament in Jacksonville; and Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Neil Simon has died at the age of 91.
FIFA has banned Jibril Rajoub from attending soccer games for a year; anti-semitic slogans were found on monuments for Holocaust victims in Estonia; and Drake will present the critically-acclaimed film Monsters and Men at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.
President Donald Trump has named Samantha Ravich as the new deputy chairwoman of the intelligence advisory board; a new trailer for the Netflix film Outlaw King, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, has been released; and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Lithuania ahead of the Baltic summit.
President Donald Trump warns that Israel will have to pay a “high price” in peace negotiations with the Palestinians; TIFF has added a second Natalie Portman film to its Special Presentations program; and work on the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv will no longer be done on Shabbat.
Anti-semitic messages were found on a Chabad centre in the Russian village of Lyubavichi; Lana Del Rey has issued a statement defending her decision to play at a music festival in Israel; and Israeli actress Inbar Levi has been cast as the biblical Eve in the upcoming season of Lucifer.
PepsiCo Inc. has agreed to buy SodaStream International Ltd.; a list of prominent Israeli politicians’ phone numbers has been leaked; and a group of Ugandan Jews will be participating in their first ever Birthright Israel trip this week.
The U.S. Consulate in Haifa will close in September; this Sunday, Filipino church congregants will honour Israel in Earl Bales Park; and the Israeli dark comedy, Stockholm will premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.
A fashion shoot taking place at the Canadian National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa has angered Jewish leaders; TIFF has partnered with the Yorkville Jewish Centre to provide High Holiday services to Jewish industry attendees; Israel’s Educational Television channel went off the air recently; Ruby Rose has deleted her Twitter account following backlash over her being cast as Batwoman.
Formed about a decade ago, Brothers for Life, based in Seattle but with a presence in Israel, comprises wounded Israeli combat veterans who help soldiers around the world who have been scarred by war. The idea is that simply by meeting and talking, the Israelis help fellow combatants open up about their experiences.
Art Spiegelman is slated to become the first cartoonist to win the prestigious MacDowell Medal; two University of Toronto students have created a new platform for medical students; a new trailer for Ariel Vroman’s spy thriller The Angel has been released by Netflix; Col. Avi Blot has been sworn in as the new Israeli military secretary.
Hassan Diab’s part-time contract role was increasingly subject to international criticism.
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