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Does currency exchange make your vacation more expensive?

Jerusalem Post A vacation abroad is often a big expense, but from the first stage of paying for flights, you can cut the currency exchange costs by up to thousands of shekels. https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/banking-and-finance/article-736441

Hours after arraignment, Trump claims election interference

Jerusalem Post Trump reached deep into his well of personal grievances to declare himself hounded by political opponents using the legal system against him to try to stop him from winning the 2024 elections. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-736442

IAF strikes Gaza in response to rockets fired after al-Aqsa clashes

Jerusalem Post Overnight, 10 rockets were fired from Gaza to Israel with one hitting a factory in Sderot. https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-736440

Trump Indictment Is a First for the U.S. but Not for Other Nations

New York Times Scholars say it is important to hold the powerful legally accountable, but there are likely to be charges — well-founded or not — that prosecutors have political motives. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/world/trump-world-leaders-indicted.html

Passover: IDF finishes getting ready for the holiday

Jerusalem Post The Israeli military has finished taking steps to make sure the entire army is ready for the holiday, including supplying food, organizing Seders and helping lone soldiers. https://www.jpost.com/judaism/jewish-holidays/article-736424

March in Hong Kong was ‘unseasonably warm,’ Observatory says

Hong Kong Free Press March in Hong Kong was “unseasonably warm,” the Hong Kong Observatory has said, with the monthly mean temperature almost 2 degrees Celsius warmer than normal. “With the northeast monsoon over southern China generally weaker than normal for most of the time in the month, Marsh 2023 continued to be much warmer…

IDF soldier injured in shooting attack near Hebron

Jerusalem Post Violence broke out across the West Bank after clashes took place overnight in al-Aqsa mosque. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-736436

US House speaker meets Taiwan president despite Beijing’s threats

Hong Kong Free Press US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sits down with Taiwan’s president on Wednesday for a highly symbolic meeting in California that has already prompted outrage and dire warnings from China. The meeting outside Los Angeles comes on what is technically a stopover for President Tsai Ing-wen, after her two-country trip in Latin…

Judaism doesn’t want you to wander and live just anywhere — or does it?

Jerusalem Post “The tension between freedom and obligation is baked into Jewish life.” https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-736435

Jewish chair of Florida’s Democratic Party arrested at abortion rights protest

Jerusalem Post The chair and state Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book were released overnight. https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-736433