<p>Opposition leaders including Lapid, Liberman, Eisenkot and Bennett are reportedly planning to offer Benny Gantz the presidency in exchange for him leaving politics.</p><p><i>(Arutz Sheva-Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)</i></p>

<p>New York judge declines to dismiss charges against Pedro Hernandez in the 1979 disappearance and murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz, paving the way for a third trial.</p><p><i>(Arutz Sheva-Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)</i></p>

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<p>Iran firmly rejects Trump’s claim that it agreed to hand over its enriched uranium stockpile, declaring it “as sacred as the soil of Iran" and will not be transferred “anywhere." </p><p><i>(Arutz Sheva-Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)</i></p>

<p>A planned concert by US rapper Kanye West at Poland's Silesian Stadium in Chorzów has been cancelled following government pressure and condemnation of his antisemitic comments. </p><p><i>(Arutz Sheva-Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)</i></p>

In our time, when the elevator has become the accepted way of entering homes, it is appropriate to affix a mezuzah there.

Communications Minister Dr. Shlomo Karhi called on the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation to immediately stop airing an advertisement for the Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony across all its platforms.