Wisconsin’s take on Rep. Mark Pocan + Biden’s blame game on Iran

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✍️ Presidential talks: President Joe Biden sent a letter of condolence to Israeli President Isaac Herzog following the death of his mother, Aura.

🤳 Toxic Tweet: Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH) compared Washington, DC’s new vaccination rules to the Nazi regime, tweeting: “Remember the Nazis dehumanized the Jews before they separated them, separated them before imprisoning them, imprisoned them before enslaving them, and enslaved them before slaughtering them.

🗳️ Stepping down: Rep. Trey Hollingsworth (R-IN) has announced he will not run for a fourth term later this year. Hollingsworth, who introduced legislation limiting House members to four terms, avoided questions of whether he would stand for re-election in an interview with JI last year.

🗳️ Third Time: The Cleveland Plain Dealer Editorial Board implored Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) to reconsider his impending retirement and run for a third term, citing, among other things, the “ugliness” of the GOP primary.

🏃 In the race: Republican David McCormick ran for the Pennsylvania Senate seat vacated by Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA).

😷 Sick day: The State Department is experiencing a wave of COVID-19 infections among employees, leading some at Foggy Bottom to call the situation “Chernobyl”.

🕵️ Undercover: The Washington Post examines the story of a mole discovered at the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Portfolio padding: Guy Oseary signed on to represent the NFT World of Women collective, months after the talent manager signed Bored Ape Yacht Club.

Coming Soon: Gal Gadot will star in an upcoming remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 film “To Catch a Thief,” playing the character created by Grace Kelly.

📘 Bookshelf: A New York Times review of the upcoming Holocaust memoir, Mala’s Cat, called the book one that “must be read and cherished as a vital new document in a story that must never go away.” “

Across the Pond: Prince Charles has commissioned portraits of seven Holocaust survivors, which will be painted by top UK artists, to be unveiled on a BBC Memorial Day show the Holocaust later this month and will be on display in the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace.

Seizure at sea: Hamas claimed to have seized an armed “killer dolphin” sent by Israel to harm its fighters along the Mediterranean coast.

🧱 Recycled rubble: After four rounds of violence between Hamas in Gaza and Israel in about a decade, local businesses in the Palestinian enclave are finding ways to recycle the large amounts of rubble for use in the construction industry, despite concerns about their safety.

Spy game: Israel has indicted five citizens for spying for Iran’s benefit, as Tehran continues its attempts to turn Israeli citizens against their own country.

Bills, bills, bills: Iran, Sudan and Venezuela were among eight countries to lose their right to vote at the United Nations due to unpaid dues.

🇮🇷 Call to action: Morgan Lorraine Viña and Blaise Misztal of JINSA wrote an op-ed in The Hill calling on President Joe Biden to follow through on his previous pledges to defend Israel at the United Nations.

💻 Cyber ​​Challenges: The US Cyber ​​Command has released a number of malware examples to the public so that system administrators will know if they have been targeted by Iranian hackers.

🎭 Dramatic Festival: Israeli officials from the Embassy in Australia said the Embassy was asked to sponsor the Sydney Festival, a performing arts festival that has become a BDS battleground, disputing claims that the Israeli support for the cultural event was an attempt to “art-wash” his behavior.

Beautiful appearance: Surface’s “Design Dispatch” highlights the Galei Kinneret Hotel, the work of Saar Zafrir’s design studio, which based the new look of the 1946 structure on its original appearance, with improvements modern.

🕯️ Remembrance: Gerald Stern, the first trustee of the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, has died at age 86.

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