Month February 2020

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Special voting booths will be set up for Israelis who are under quarantine for possible coronavirus infection will get special voting booths for Israel’s national elections that will be held on March 2. The decision was announced… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) – Billionaire Mike Bloomberg has qualified for the upcoming Democratic presidential debate, marking the first time he’ll stand alongside the rivals he has so far avoided by bypassing the early voting states and using his personal fortune… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial will begin on March 17, an Israeli court said Tuesday, just two weeks after national elections are held. Netanyahu is charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust under a… Continue Reading →

HSBC will shed some 35,000 positions as part of a deep overhaul to focus on faster-growing markets in Asia as it tries to cope with a slew of global uncertainties,… Read more » The post HSBC Cuts 35,000 Jobs in… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart reported disappointing fourth-quarter profits and sales after a sluggish and shortened holiday shopping season. Violent social protests in Chile cut into international sales. Walmart also delivered a weak profit forecast for the year, sending shares… Continue Reading →

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The U.N. secretary general said Tuesday that the virus outbreak that began in China poses “a very dangerous situation” for the world, but “is not out of control.” Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press,… Continue Reading →

John Bolton, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, raised concern on Monday about his unpublished book being “suppressed” by the White House and suggested he should be… Read more » The post Bolton Hopes His Book Is… Continue Reading →

On Sunday, on Abarbanel Street in Bnei Brak, a number of teenagers were sitting in a car and demanded cigarettes from passersby. When they were refused, the teenagers jumped out of the car and pulled out knives threatening people. A… Continue Reading →

Turkey has restarted joint patrols with the Russian military in northeast Syria after a two-week hiatus, Russia said late on Monday, as a Syrian government offensive in the Idlib region… Read more » The post Turkey Restarts Joint Syria Patrols… Continue Reading →

Apple Inc. is warning investors that it won’t meet its second-quarter financial guidance because the viral outbreak in China has cut production of iPhones. The Cupertino, California-based company said Monday that all of its iPhone manufacturing facilities are outside Hubei… Continue Reading →

Dear readers, I’m sure I’m not the first driver to witness this: Traffic is flowing when it suddenly comes to a full stop, with lots of honking. No, it wasn’t because someone stopped for a deer crossing the road. It… Continue Reading →

Ryan Newman was involved in a ghastly crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500 on Monday night, hospitalizing him with non-life-threatening injuries. NASCAR delivered the news nearly two hours after Newman was extricated from his car, saying he… Continue Reading →

European Union finance ministers added Panama, the Seychelles, the Cayman Islands and Palau to the EU’s blacklist of tax havens, while giving Turkey more time to avoid being listed, an… Read more » The post EU Adds Cayman Islands, Panama,… Continue Reading →

South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham reacts to calls for Attorney General Barr to resign. WATCH:

Tiveria’s residents rejoiced on Monday following the news that former Tiveria mayor Ron Kobi’s ouster from his position was finalized after the Supreme Court rejected the appeal he filed against the decision of Likud Minister Ze’ev Elkin last month to… Continue Reading →

For the first time, the Israel Electric Company (IEC) has developed an organized, long-term power plan for Yehudah and Shomron. The plan, which has been in the works for a… Read more » The post New Program Announced to Develop… Continue Reading →

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Ethiopia’s reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and other officials on Tuesday on a visit expected to focus on security, investment and Ethiopia’s dispute… Read more » The post Pompeo Meets Ethiopia’s Reformist Prime… Continue Reading →

Billionaire Mike Bloomberg has qualified for the upcoming Democratic presidential debate, marking the first time he’ll stand alongside the rivals he has so far avoided by bypassing the early voting… Read more » The post Bloomberg Qualifies for Presidential Debate… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Transportation Ministry advanced plans on Monday to build a new train station that would directly connect Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport to the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The project, an extension of recently opened Jerusalem-Tel Aviv… Continue Reading →

For the first time, the Chief Rabbinate will be issuing criminal indictments against restaurants, food manufacturers, or fictitious kashrus bodies that claim to provide supervision, but are not recognized by… Read more » The post Rabbinate to Issue Its Own… Continue Reading →