• A car bomb exploded in the Hezbollah stronghold of Beirut, killing five people and injuring at least 20 more. [BBC]
• An 85-year-old Palestinian man died after a tear gas canister fired by the Israeli army in response to a protest in the West Bank entered his home. [Reuters]
• An illegal firearms cache was found in the home of Jamel al-Jamal, the Palestinian ambassador to Prague who was killed this weekend in an explosion believed to be triggered by a security mechanism when he opened his safe. [Times of Israel]
• The Israeli government will wait to announce a planned settlement bit until after John Kerry’s visit to the region. [NYT]
• In the New Yorker, Jonathan Rosen explores the extinction of the passenger pigeon. [New Yorker]
• Alfred Marshall, the founder of discount chain Marshalls, has died at 94. [NYT]
Stephanie Butnick is chief strategy officer of Tablet Magazine, co-founder of Tablet Studios, and a host of the Unorthodox podcast.
