Muhammad Jamal Rashdeh, an Israeli-Arab citizen, was arrested in April and indicted last week for planning attacks on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, and the U.S. Embassy on behalf of a terrorist cell in Syria. He also planned to bring a terrorist into Israel from Jordan to help advance the attacks.
Howard Schultz, the founder and executive chairman of Starbucks, is stepping down. He admitted that in this next chapter of his life he would like to give back to America and is considering a political career.
The Jewish National Fund (JNF) threatened to sue Hamas for severe damages caused to land it owns in the Gaza border area from incendiary kites, rockets, and mortar shells sent into Israel. Since the start of the Gaza border protests in March, there have been more than 250 fires, destroying some 4,300 acres of land.
Deborah Lyons, Canada’s ambassador to Israel, ruled out any plans to move the Canadian Embassy to Jerusalem unless it’s part of a larger peace deal with the Palestinians. Speaking at a panel discussion at Beth Tzedec Congregation in Toronto on May 31, she said that U.S. President Donald Trump’s embassy move will harm the peace process and claimed that a similar gesture from Canada would further inflame tensions in the region.
