Month January 2020

A New York City police officer was injured when a man pinned him between his car and the patrol vehicle Tuesday night. NYPD officers conducted a traffic stop in Manhattan’s Lower East Side and when they were returning back to… Continue Reading →

MK Moti Yogev will not be leaving Jewish Home, after all. After announcing last week that he was quitting the party over the violation of Jewish Home’s agreement with Itamar… Read more » The post Yogev Changes Mind, Won’t Quit… Continue Reading →

Ukraine’s first Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who is coming to Israel this week for the World Holocaust Forum, said that Ukraine is beginning to build a “Little Jerusalem” in Uman in a recent interview with Times of Israel (TOI). Zelensky… Continue Reading →

SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. on Tuesday reported its first case of a new and potentially deadly virus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who returned last week from the outbreak’s epicenter was hospitalized near Seattle. The man,… Continue Reading →

In an abrupt about-face, Hillary Clinton said Tuesday night that she would endorse her 2016 rival Bernie Sanders if he wins the Democratic nomination to face President Donald Trump in November. The former secretary of state had earlier refused to… Continue Reading →

Two different air bag glitches have forced Toyota and Honda to recall over 6 million vehicles worldwide, and both problems present different dangers to motorists. The Toyota recall affects about 3.4 million vehicles globally and is being done because the… Continue Reading →

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that France will be inflexible about Iran’s nuclear ambitions and that his country is determined Tehran will never acquire nuclear weapons. “In the… Read more » The post Macron in Israel: France “Inflexible”… Continue Reading →

Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday that a media report that the Kingdom is behind the hacking of Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos‘s phone was “absurd.” The billionaire’s phone was hacked… Read more » The post Saudi Dismisses Reports It Is… Continue Reading →

Rabbi Avraham Gelbman, z”l, a 50-year-old resident of Beit Shemesh, was killed Wednesday morning in a self-driving accident on Route 5, near the Barkan interchange. The accident happened when the… Read more » The post Father of Eight Killed in… Continue Reading →

Twenty-seven IDF soldiers died in combat or as the result of accidents or other factors in 2019 – the lowest number in any calendar year since the establishment of the… Read more » The post IDF Has Lowest Number of… Continue Reading →

Exiting the 2015 nuclear deal is one of Iran‘s options, the Iranian president’s chief of staff, Mahmoud Vaezi, said on Wednesday, according to the official IRNA news agency. “It was… Read more » The post Official: Iran Could Withdraw From… Continue Reading →

Russian President Vladimir Putin is due in Israel Thursday to participate in the ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and Prime Minister Binyamin… Read more » The post Report: Israel Transferred Old City… Continue Reading →

Some residents of Australia‘s capital Canberra were evacuated briefly on Wednesday after a bushfire broke out near the airport as searing hot weather ended a few days of respite and… Read more » The post Australia Evacuates Parts of Its… Continue Reading →

Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Wednesday after U.S. stocks tumbled overnight as a virus outbreak in China rattled global markets. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index climbed 0.7% to 24,031.35… Read more » The post Asian Shares Higher After Selloffs… Continue Reading →

Supporters of the Rimel family launched a social media protest Wednesday after prosecutors indicted Tari Kurd, a 19-year-old resident of an eastern Yerushalayim neighborhood, for reckless driving, unintentional manslaughter and… Read more » The post Protesters Slam ‘Slap on Wrist’… Continue Reading →

The Republican-controlled Senate voted early on Wednesday on party lines to approve the rules for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, rejecting Democratic efforts to obtain evidence and ensure witnesses are… Read more » The post Senate Approves Trump Impeachment Trial… Continue Reading →

Leah and Simcha Goldin, parents of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, Hy”d, on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Naftali Bennett not to release the bodies of three… Read more » The post Goldin Family: Don’t Release Terrorists’… Continue Reading →

An award ceremony was held Tuesday in Rockland County for the two police officers who handled with professionalism the arrest of the suspect in the Monsey stabbing on Chanukah. NYPD… Read more » The post Officers Honored for Arrest of… Continue Reading →

Iran said it had asked the U.S. and French authorities for equipment to download information from the black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner, potentially angering countries which want the… Read more » The post Canada, Iran at Odds Over… Continue Reading →

Lebanon formed a new government on Tuesday that is controlled exclusively for the first time by Hezbollah and its allies, affirming the Iranian-backed movement’s increasingly powerful role in the country… Read more » The post Lebanon Gets Government Loyal to… Continue Reading →