On October 1, , the 39th president of the United States will celebrate his 100th birthday. That’s a milestone in anyone’s book, but Carter wants to hang in there for at least another few weeks after making it to the triple-digit age, so that he can cast his vote for Kamala Harris. The information came from his grandson, who told it to New York reporters Jami Ganz and Jager Weatherby.

That’s yet another example of party loyalty and putting national interests ahead of one’s own. President Isaac Herzog will arrive in America soon after the elections and during the period of transition, which will afford him the opportunity to bid a fond farewell and a personal expression of appreciation to President Joe Biden, whom he greatly admires. That will not be Herzog’s main purpose in traveling to the US.

He is scheduled to be one of the keynote speakers at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, which is taking place in Washington on November 10-12. JUST A few years back, Gideon Sa’ar was treated as the golden boy of the Likud, and did well for himself in the primaries – too well, in fact, meaning that he posed a threat to , who made life so uncomfortable for him that he left the Likud, and he eventually formed his own party, but not before standing against Netanyahu in a contest for the party leadership, he which lost by a humiliating margin. There is now talk that Netanyahu wants to fire Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and replace him with Sa’ar.

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