Israel news:
A Border Policeman saved a Palestinian when a call went out to the Border Police in the Machpela caves to help a Muslim worshipper that fainted during prayers.
Hassan Nasrallah threatens Israel claiming that Israel is violating UN agreements and spying in Lebanon and he promised a military response.
Death from heart disease down in patients 80 years old or older: This is a bigger drop in mortality than the 25% drop of other segments of the Israeli population.
Israel is rated 19th in UN food security with a warning that it is dependent on food imports for survival. This is a wake-up call to Israeli which is the world leader in agriculture technology to do something about this.
World news:
Ground breaking fertility treatment in Britain: British researchers isolated the gene responsible for fetal development which will help increase the chance of becoming pregnant.
Erdogan claims the Mossad is involved in the Kurdish independence referendum in Iraq and is helping the Kurds reach their goal of independence which is something Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran don’t want.
Tension mounts in Barcelona the Catalan capital as voters are blocking the ballots in order to prevent the Spanish authorities from stopping the Catalonia independence referendum vote from taking place today. Spain does not want to grant this independence and is trying hard to prevent it. Last week they blocked Catalonian websites that gave voter information under the guise of a Supreme Court order saying such activity was “illegal”. The vote was considered illegal and police througout the day are trying desparate measures to close down the 'illegal' ballots.
The Mayor of San Juan City in Puerto Rico, Carmen Yulín Cruz is critical of the speed of the help coming to the island: She Tweeted: “I am begging, begging anyone that can hear us, to save us from dying. If anybody out there is listening to us, we are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency.” Unfortunately this became a Twitter war with Trump discussing her inefficiency to coordinate with the federal aid being sent and of course it becomes a discussion of who is really inept depending on which side of the political spectrum you are on.
