ב”ה, פרשת וישלח // י”ד כסלו, תשע”ט DAILY VOL. XV - NO. 3518 // November 22, 2018 Thursday One Person Killed in Fiery BREAKING Brooklyn Bridge Crash Mars Landing Comes Down to Final 6 Minutes Of 6-Month Trip Page 3 South Korean Named Interpol President In Blow to Russia Page 2 NEW YORK GOP Rep. Collins Declares Victory After Absentee Count Page 4 Story on page 4 AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews NYC Transit Riders, Police and fire officials on Wednesday morning investigate the scene of a fiery crash involving multiple vehicles that closed the Brooklyn Bridge Drivers Brace for for about an hour. Influx of Amazon Employees Page 5 Chief Justice Roberts Raps DOJ Rejects Pollard’s Trump’s ‘Obama Judge’ Comment Israel-Transfer Request ISRAEL WASHINGTON (AP) – Chief “We do not have Obama AVRAHAM WEISSMAN which was made by Mr. Pol- U.N. Envoy Hints Justice John Roberts issued judges or Trump judges, lard’s attorney on his behalf Iran Playing Spoiler a rare statement Wednesday Bush judges or Clinton NEW YORK – The U.S. in close coordination with In Gaza Ceasefire defending the judiciary’s judges. What we have is Department of Justice has the Israeli government, is independence after Presi- an extraordinary group of rejected a request to allow only the latest chapter in a Page 6 dent Donald Trump accused dedicated judges doing their Jonathan Pollard to serve decades-long saga that has a judge who ruled against his level best to do equal right the remainder of his parole been widely described as a migrant asylum order as an to those appearing before in Israel, sources close to travesty of justice. Jordan Implores “Obama judge.” Mr. Trump them,” Roberts said in a Mr. Pollard confirmed to Rabbi Pesach Lerner, Israel to Provide More quickly lashed back defend- statement that was released Hamodia on Wednesday. executive vice president Kinneret Water ing his own criticism. Continued on page 3 The refusal of the request, Continued on page 6 Page 7 HAMODIA DAILY 50¢ TODAY IN NEW YORK FRIDAY B 33° Minister Shaked: 28° President Wasting His Low of 18° H Time With Peace Plan Mostly sunny, breezy and colder SHABBOS 50° Page 7 NW 12-25 mph accuweather.com R 2 Breaking 14 Kislev 5779 // November 22, 2018 THURSDAY South Korean Named Interpol U.S. and South Korea to Scale President in Blow to Russia Back Major Military Exercise WASHINGTON (AP) – Defense Sec- which is called Foal Eagle and is con- DUBAI (AP) – South Korea’s Kim retary Jim Mattis says the United ducted each spring in South Korea, Jong Yang was elected as Interpol’s States and South Korea will scale back will be “reduced in scope.” president on Wednesday, edging out a a major military exercise next spring In Mattis’s words, the exercise next longtime veteran of Russia’s security to avoid setting back diplomacy over spring will be scaled back to a level that services who was strongly opposed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons. will “not be harmful to diplomacy.” the U.S., Britain and other European Mattis told reporters at the Penta- North Korea strongly objects to large- nations. gon on Wednesday that the exercise, scale U.S.-South Korean exercises. Kim’s election was seen as a vic- tory for the White House and its European partners, who had lobbied against Alexander Prokopchuk’s Trump Says He’ll Visit attempts to be named the next presi- dent of the policing organization. Troops in War Zone The U.S. and others expressed concern that if Russia’s candidate WASHINGTON (AP) – President recently returned from beginning to had been elected, it would lead to Donald Trump promised Tuesday as plan for a visit. further Kremlin abuses of Interpol’s he departed for Florida to spend the Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said red notice system to go after political Thanksgiving holiday at his private Wednesday that visiting a war zone is Kang Kyung-kook/Newsis via AP opponents and fugitive dissidents. Kim Jong Yang, the senior vice president club in Palm Beach to revive what had a decision for the president, while add- Russia accused its critics of run- of Interpol executive committee. once been a presidential tradition: a ing that there have been times in the ning a “campaign to discredit” their visit to troops deployed in a war zone. past when he has advised against visits candidate, calling Prokopchuk a “I’m going to a war zone,” he said to “certain locations” to avoid security respected professional. moment in its history as delegates in response to a reporter’s question risks to the president and the troops. Kim’s win means he secured at decided whether to hand its presi- about his support for the troops. He “There’s places that I’ve been very least two-thirds of votes cast at Inter- dency to Prokopchuk or Kim, who did not say when he would be making straightforward I don’t want him to pol’s general assembly in Dubai on were the only two candidates vying the trip or where he would be going. go at certain times,” Mattis said. He Wednesday. He will serve until 2020, for the post. An official said a White House team declined to elaborate. completing the four-year mandate of Based in the French city of Lyon, his predecessor, Meng Hongwei, who the 95-year-old policing body is best was detained in China as part of a known for issuing “red notices” that wide anti-corruption sweep there. identify suspects pursued by other national has criticized “China’s long- to President Vladimir Putin — would Kim, a police official in South countries, effectively putting them on standing practice of trying to use have politicized police cooperation Korea, was serving as interim presi- the world’s “most-wanted” list. Interpol to arrest dissidents and refu- across borders. Prokopchuk was in dent after Meng’s arrest. Russia said Critics say countries like Russia, gees abroad.” charge of facilitating Interpol war- after the vote that Prokopchuk, who is Turkey, Iran and China have used the Bill Browder, who runs an invest- rants on behalf of Russia. one of three vice presidents at Inter- system to try to round up political ment fund that had once operated in Russia, however, secured a win pol, will continue in that position. opponents, journalists or activists, Moscow, says Russia used the diffu- for its ally Serbia on Tuesday when Most of Interpol’s 194 member- even though its rules prohibit the use sion system against him, which led Kosovo’s bid to join Interpol failed to countries attended the organization’s of police notices for political reasons. to his brief arrest in Spain earlier this garner enough votes. The move would annual assembly this year, which was The agency faced criticism two year. have boosted Kosovo’s efforts at rec- held in an opulent Dubai hotel along years ago when Interpol’s member- Browder and another prominent ognition of its statehood. Kosovo the Persian Gulf coast. states approved Meng as president Kremlin critic warned Tuesday that declared independence from Serbia Interpol was facing a pivotal for a four-year term. Amnesty Inter- electing Prokopchuk — who has ties in 2008. Will He Go? Trump Dangles He Might Attend 2019 Press Dinner WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) – President a comedian. Good first step in comeback of a dying Donald Trump said he may attend next year’s evening and tradition!” adding: “Maybe I will go?” White House Correspondents’ Association din- Presidents have traditionally attended the din- ner now that organizers have scrapped the usual ner. But Mr. Trump, who has an especially conten- format featuring a comedian. But he may not be tious relationship with the press, has skipped it thrilled with the replacement. the last two years. The correspondents’ association announced Wolf’s sharply anti-Trump performance in this week that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron 2018 was criticized by some as too pointed in its Chernow — biographer of presidents and states- personal shots at White House Press Secretary men including George Washington and Alexan- Sarah Huckabee Sanders and other White House der Hamilton— will serve as the 2019 dinner’s staff. featured speaker. But Chernow, like many of his Chernow said in a statement released by the fellow historians, strongly opposed Mr. Trump’s association that he’d been asked “to make the case candidacy in 2016 and labeled him a “demagogue.” for the First Amendment” in his speech and was But Trump declared victory Tuesday night “happy to oblige.” after he arrived in Florida for a Thanksgiving- “Freedom of the press is always a timely sub- week break. ject, and this seems like the perfect moment to go “So-called comedian Michelle Wolf bombed so back to basics,” he said, adding that, “While I have badly last year,” he tweeted. “This year, for the first AP Photo/Louis Lanzano never been mistaken for a stand-up comedian, I time in decades, they will have an author instead of Author Ron Chernow at his home in Brooklyn. promise that my history lesson won’t be dry.” Hamodia, [USPS 021660] [ISSN #1553-9490] is published Daily 4 times a week on Mon, Tues, Thurs, And Fri except for weeks of Passover and Sukkos, for the subscription price of $200.00 per year by Hamodia, 207 Foster Ave Brooklyn NY 11230. 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