Month April 2019
Jerusalem – A Palestinian teen says he was unarmed when Israeli troops grabbed him last week and then shot him in both legs while he was handcuffed and blindfolded. The 16-year-old Osama Hajahjeh said Monday he was walking home last… Continue Reading →
An 11-year-old boy is in critical condition after a car hit him on Rechov Mirski in Ramot, Yerushalayim, on Sunday night. The driver fled the scene and remains at large. Police are… Read more » The post 11-Year-Old Boy in Critical Condition… Continue Reading →
China consistently opposes unilateral U.S. sanctions against Iran, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday amid reports that Washington is expected to announce that buyers of Iranian oil must halt… Read more » The post China Says Consistently Opposes Unilateral… Continue Reading →
A Be’er Sheva court has indicted Sami Amarani, a 28-year-old Bedouin from Rahat, for destroying 170 dunams of agricultural land and causing damage of tens of millions of shekels for… Read more » The post Bedouin Accused of Poisoning Agricultural… Continue Reading →
Winter overstayed its welcome a second day on Monday, as rainy and cold weather – atypical for Chol Hamo’ed Pesach – continued. According to weather researchers, the month of March… Read more » The post Chol Hamo’ed Plans Dampened as… Continue Reading →
Seven suicide bombers took part in the devastating attacks on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka that killed 290 people and wounded more than 500, a senior investigator said… Read more » The post Investigator: Sri Lanka Attacks Carried… Continue Reading →
Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Kosel Monday morning for the traditional mass Birkas Kohanim event, held on Chol Hamoed of Pesach and Sukkos, on the first day… Read more » The post Tens of Thousands Attend Birkas… Continue Reading →
On Sunday night, YWN-Israel reported that an 11-year-old child was struck and seriously injured in a hit and run on Golda Meir Blvd. in Jerusalem. Police investigators have since reported locating the vehicle in Givat Ze’ev and they are now… Continue Reading →
Washington – Two months before special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed in the spring of 2017, President Donald Trump picked up the phone and called the head of the largest U.S. intelligence agency. Trump told Mike Rogers, director of the… Continue Reading →
Three fire rescue vehicles from the Beit Shemesh district responded to a motzei Shabbos and first day of Pesach fire on the Burma Road, which parallel’s Highway 1. The vehicle was totally engulfed in flames and therefore, destroyed. Read more… Continue Reading →
Residents of a small town in southeastern Poland marked a Christian holiday on Friday by making a large doll resembling a Hasidic Jew, hanging it, beating it up and then burning it. Read more on Yeshiva World News
New York – President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani insisted Sunday there was “nothing wrong” with the president’s 2016 campaign taking information from the Russians, as House Democrats pledged stepped-up investigations into campaign misconduct and possible crimes of obstruction detailed… Continue Reading →
A comedian whose only political experience consists of playing a president on TV cruised toward a landslide victory in Ukraine’s presidential election Sunday in what was seen as a reaction against the country’s entrenched corruption and low standard of living…. Continue Reading →
Warsaw, Poland – The U.S. ambassador to Poland wished Jews a happy Passover in Polish, and the reaction was a wave of angry comments on Twitter. Ambassador Georgette Mosbacher also wished Poles a happy Easter on Sunday. By then, Mosbacher… Continue Reading →
Two months before special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed in the spring of 2017, President Donald Trump picked up the phone and called the head of the largest U.S. intelligence agency. Read more on Yeshiva World News
About one year after the United States decided to leave the Iran nuclear deal, the State Department is set to announce that all countries will have to completely end their… Read more » The post U.S. Will Try to Force… Continue Reading →
The United States has largely carved out exceptions so that foreign governments, firms and NGOs do not automatically face U.S. sanctions for dealing with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards after the group’s… Read more » The post U.S. Carves Out Exceptions for… Continue Reading →
Two months before special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed in the spring of 2017, President Donald Trump picked up the phone and called the head of the largest U.S. intelligence… Read more » The post Trump Called on Spy Chiefs… Continue Reading →
Colombo, Sri Lanka – More than 200 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in nine bombings that rocked churches, luxury hotels and other sites in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday — the deadliest violence the South Asian island country… Continue Reading →
An 11-year-old boy was in serious condition Sunday night, after he was struck by a car in a hit-and-run accident on Golda Meir Avenue in Jerusalem. Emergency medical personnel from United Hatzalah and Magen David Adom responded to the scene… Continue Reading →
Top congressional Democrats left the door open on Sunday to the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump, but said they would first need to complete their own investigations into whether… Read more » The post Top Democrats Leave Open Option… Continue Reading →