Month March 2019
Acting Chief of the Israel Prison Authority, Asher Vaknin, on Sunday night visited the wounded prison guard who was attacked by an imprisoned Hamas terrorist in Ketziot Prison. Vaknin arrived at Be’er Sheva’s Soroka Medical Center and spoke with the… Continue Reading →
Washington – President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. The document reverses more than a half-century of U.S. policy as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (neh-ten-YAH’-hoo) visited the White House. Trump had previewed… Continue Reading →
Israel’s military says it has started striking Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip after a rocket hit a house in central Israel earlier in the day, wounding seven people. The military said Monday that Israeli forces “started striking Hamas targets… Continue Reading →
US President Donald Trump formally recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, Monday morning. “Today for the first time in 52 years, with Prime Minister Netanyahu at his side, the president of… Continue Reading →
Jerusalem – A pre-election gathering in Israel turned controversial when the head of a prestigious yeshiva slammed the Israeli government for not allowing gender segregation on public buses, noting that even the Nazi regime understood the need to separate men… Continue Reading →
Jerusalem – The Israeli military says it has started striking Hamas in Gaza after overnight rocket attack.
Washington – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that he was cutting short his visit to Washington after a Gaza rocket attack on Israel, which Vice President Mike Pence said is evidence that Hamas militants cannot be a partner… Continue Reading →
London – The flight on Monday seemed to go perfectly well, until passengers realized that their plane had landed in both the wrong city and the wrong country. The British Airways flight from London City Airport was supposed to head… Continue Reading →
Yet again, Lakewood has been struck by an outbreak of measles. There are multiple confirmed cases. It’s tiring to constantly urge people to get themselves and their children vaccinated. There comes a point when everyone has heard what the medical… Continue Reading →
The new tourist Rav Kav card, called Israel Pass, will be sold at a special stand at Ben Gurion Airport’s Terminal 3, Globes reported Monday. Since the Rav Kav smart… Read more » The post Tourist Rav Kav Cards to… Continue Reading →
New Zealand will hold a top-level inquiry into the massacre of 50 people at two Christchurch mosques that will examine what roles guns, social media and spy agencies played preceding… Read more » The post New Zealand to Probe Role… Continue Reading →
Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights was manna from heaven for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu two weeks before an election. For many Arabs, it crushed any hope that there… Continue Reading →
A Missouri man who confessed to knocking over about 120 headstones at a Jewish cemetery near St. Louis has been sentenced to three years of probation. Thirty-five-year-old Alzado Harris, of Northwoods, also was ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution when… Continue Reading →
Addis Ababa – Ethiopian Airlines’ CEO says the pilots who flew the plane that crashed on March 10 had trained on “all appropriate simulators,” rejecting reports that they had not been adequately prepared to handle the new aircraft. Tewolde Gebremariam… Continue Reading →
Magen David Adom Director Eli Bin announced on Sunday that at 3:00PM Israel time, MDA would be cancelling services to a number of locations inside Judea and Samaria and closing ambulance stations throughout the region. Read more on Yeshiva World… Continue Reading →
The NICC (National Infrastructure Coordinating Center) Watch Operations Department of Homeland Security is on alert after the Department of Energy announced that on April 6, 2019, there will be an event affecting the electric transmission and distribution system that has… Continue Reading →
Kfar Saba, Israel – Luck and miracles saved the seven members of the Wolf family from certain death, when a rocket destroyed their home in Moshav Mishmeret just before 6 a.m. “I nearly lost my family,” said Robert Wolf, as… Continue Reading →
Moscow – Russia is reacting with an “I told you so” on Monday in state media after the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Moscow’s involvement in the U.S. presidential election didn’t find evidence of collusion. Wrapping up… Continue Reading →
The 60-year-old woman who was moderately injured when a Hamas rocket slammed into a Moshav Mishmeret home in the Sharon region on Monday morning was transferred from Meir Hospital in Kfar Sava to Beilinson Hospital in Tel Aviv. Read more… Continue Reading →
Police made dozens of arrests in South Tel Aviv Sunday night, as several major incidents of unrest – including fights and rioting – broke out among large numbers of African… Read more » The post Dozens of Migrants Arrested in… Continue Reading →
British Prime Minister Theresa May could put her twice-defeated Brexit divorce deal to a vote in Parliament on Tuesday, ITV’s political correspondent said, though he later said no final decision… Read more » The post U.K.’s May Could Put Brexit… Continue Reading →