Month June 2019
Lebanon will not be lured by a U.S. plan to invest billions in the country in return for settling Palestinian refugees, its parliament speaker Nabih Berri said on Sunday. President… Read more » The post Parliament Speaker: U.S. Plan Will Not… Continue Reading →
Voters in Istanbul returned to the polls Sunday for a re-run mayoral election ordered up by authorities after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his political allies lost control of Turkey’s… Read more » The post Turkey’s Erdogan Faces Challenge in… Continue Reading →
Dr. Yaakov Siegel, a clinical psychologist from Lakewood, NJ, recounts the story of how he came to write to the Rebbe, and the incredible answers he received. Read more on Yeshiva World News
For Upper Nazareth residents who preferred to change the name of their town, it was a landslide: In the results of the voting, Nof Hagalil won the vote by a… Read more » The post Name Change Goes Through: Upper… Continue Reading →
FedEx Corp said on Sunday an operational error prevented a Huawei Technologies package from being delivered to the United States, just weeks after the U.S. delivery company said an error… Read more » The post FedEx, in Another Error, Misses… Continue Reading →
A video showing IDF soldiers running away from Arab rioters was “edited in a manner to coincide with an agenda by rioting groups” intent on aggrandizing the actions of rioters… Read more » The post IDF: Soldiers Were Not Running… Continue Reading →
U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said Sunday that Iran should not “mistake U.S. prudence and discretion for weakness.” Speaking alongside Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Yerushalayim, Bolton said that… Read more » The post Bolton: U.S. ‘Prudence’ on Iran… Continue Reading →
The United Right List has begun a campaign urging all parties to the right of the Likud to unite in a single list before the upcoming September elections. The campaign… Read more » The post Smotrich: I’d Give Up My… Continue Reading →
Ethiopia‘s chief of staff and at least three other senior officials have been killed during a coup attempt by an army general in the northern state of Amhara, state media… Read more » The post Ethiopia’s Chief of Staff Killed… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump sent North Korean leader Kim Jong Un an “excellent” letter, the North’s state-run news agency reported Sunday, quoting Kim as saying he would “seriously contemplate it.” The… Read more » The post North Korea Says Kim Receives… Continue Reading →
As hundreds of thousands of Israelis prepare for their summer vacations, a new poll by the European Rabbinical Conference shows that nearly half of Israelis are concerned that they will… Read more » The post Poll: Israelis Fear They’ll Face… Continue Reading →
Any conflict in the Gulf region may spread uncontrollably, a senior Iranian military commander was cited as saying on Sunday by the semi-official news agency Fars. President Donald Trump said… Read more » The post Iran General: Any Conflict in… Continue Reading →
With the resignation of Avi Gabay, the race for the leadership of the Labor Party is on – but one of the leading candidates for the job, former Prime Minister… Read more » The post Ehud Barak Considering Forming New… Continue Reading →
We regret to inform you of the petira of Mr. Yehuda Aryeh (Leo) Kurland Z”L, who was Niftar at the age of 99. Mr. Kurland Z”L was originally from Borough park, and Flatbush, and more recently Lakewood. He was the… Continue Reading →
On Sunday morning a phone poll was conducted of cabinet members to approve the appointments of Rafi Peretz and Betzalel Smotrich as Ministers of Education and Transportation respectively, in the transition government. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Gaza City – Palestinian officials on Saturday dismissed proposals unveiled by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner for big money projects to form the first economic portion of the Trump administration’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan. Senior Palestine Liberation Organization… Continue Reading →
Washington – U.S. military cyber forces launched a strike against Iranian military computer systems on Thursday as President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike in response to Iran’s downing of a U.S. surveillance drone,… Continue Reading →
Tehran – Iran’s state TV says authorities have executed a former staff member of the Defense Ministry who was convicted of spying for the CIA. The Saturday report says Jalal Hajizavar was hanged last week in a prison near Tehran…. Continue Reading →
Joe Biden has enjoyed front-runner status since joining the presidential race, but now he is encountering the same pitfalls as other ambitious senators who have found that their experience and… Read more » The post Biden’s Senate Years Become a… Continue Reading →
Investigators pleaded Saturday for members of the public to come forward with information that could help them determine why a pickup truck hauling a trailer collided with a group of… Read more » The post ‘We All Feel It’: Bikers… Continue Reading →
Cambodian rescuers combing through the rubble of a collapsed seven-story building recovered the bodies of 15 construction workers and pulled out 24 injured, as authorities questioned four Chinese who were… Read more » The post Building Under Construction Topples in… Continue Reading →