Month February 2020

Knesset members on Monday voted in favor of granting Likud MK Chaim Katz parliamentary immunity from a criminal probe into charges of fraud and breach of trust, preventing Attorney General… Read more » The post Knesset Grants Immunity to MK… Continue Reading →

Knesset members on Monday voted in favor of granting Likud MK Chaim Katz parliamentary immunity from a criminal probe into charges of fraud and breach of trust, preventing Attorney General… Read more » The post Knesset Grants Immunity to MK… Continue Reading →

(by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) Yesterday, Yeshiva World News reported that Naama Issachar, the Israeli citizen imprisoned in Russia for 10 months, continues to light Shabbos candles every week, a practice she began in the Russian prison. In fact,… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump went from the Daytona 500 on Sunday to attending the wedding of two top members of his administration, senior adviser Stephen Miller and Katie Waldman, press secretary for Vice President Mike Pence. Shortly after… Continue Reading →

Glimpses of greatness set the tone for the week as participants in the 20th annual Yerushalayim Yarchei Kallah spent a breathless Sunday on a journey that spanned the continents and… Read more » The post Memories of the Siyum HaShas… Continue Reading →

On February 3, Chief Kenneth Corey, commanding officer of Patrol Borough Staten Island (PBSI), convened the first meeting of the newly formed Clergy Task Force. “The goal of the Clergy… Read more » The post Patrol Borough Staten Island Forms… Continue Reading →

The Betzalmo legal rights organization is demanding that State Attorney Avichai Mandelblit be investigated over leaks of supposedly secure data to the media, after it was revealed that he had… Read more » The post Group Demands Mandelblit Be Investigated… Continue Reading →

Japanese officials have confirmed 99 more people infected by the new virus aboard the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess, bringing the total to 454, the Health Ministry said Monday .… Read more » The post Japan Confirms 99 More Cases… Continue Reading →

The IDF will collect the helmet of Air Force pilot Daniel Guri, z”l, who was killed after his helicopter crashed 36 years ago. The helmet was discovered in Nachal Paran in… Read more » The post IDF to Give Lost Pilot’s… Continue Reading →

On January 23, the newly formed Coalition to Combat Hatred and Promote Unity, a coalition of Rockland County supervisors, held their first forum at the Crowne Plaza in Suffern, New… Read more » The post Coalition to Combat Hatred and… Continue Reading →

Justice will be done, whether the officer whose gunfire shot killed Israeli youth Solomon Teka in 2019 is acquitted or convicted, Judge Za’id Falah said at the opening of the… Read more » The post Judge in Teka Trial: Protests,… Continue Reading →

Syria’s military announced on Monday that its troops have regained control of territories in northwestern Syria “in record time,” vowing to continue to chase armed groups “wherever they are.” The… Read more » The post Syria Military Hails Advance Against… Continue Reading →

Jackson Township’s legal and political woes continued to mount with the filing of a new federal lawsuit claiming that its zoning board’s denial of a proposed housing development was motivated… Read more » The post Jackson Hit With New Lawsuit… Continue Reading →

On the assumption that the coronavirus will eventually reach Israel, Israel Police has begun distributing masks to officers for them to use if and when the virus hits Israel, Channel… Read more » The post Report: Police to Get Coronavirus… Continue Reading →

A young Jerusalem woman is aiming to do the impossible after a tragic string of events changed her family forever. Oshrit Elmaliach, 25, is one of 9 siblings. For the past three years, her mother Nili ran the home despite… Continue Reading →

High Court Judges Yitzchak Amit, Noam Solberg and Alex Stein rejected on Monday the appeal filed by Ron Kobi, the ousted mayor of Teveria, against his dismissal by the Interior… Read more » The post High Court Dismisses Ron Kobi’s… Continue Reading →

Health authorities scrambled on Monday to track hundreds of passengers who disembarked from a cruise ship in Cambodia last week after a woman tested positive for coronavirus, heightening fears about… Read more » The post Scramble to Track Cambodia Cruise… Continue Reading →

Markets were mixed in Asia on Monday, with Japan’s benchmark slipping 0.7% after the government reported the economy contracted 6.3% in annual terms in the last quarter. China’s shares got… Read more » The post Asian Markets Mixed: Japan Skids;… Continue Reading →

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that an Israeli aircraft made a historic first flight over Sudan just two weeks after he met with the Arab state’s leader in Uganda. The Israeli premier met with the head of Sudan’s… Continue Reading →

With the Nevada caucuses less than a week away, Democratic presidential candidates campaigning Sunday were fixated on a rival who wasn’t contesting the state. Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg all targeted billionaire Mike Bloomberg, accusing him… Continue Reading →

The Rav of the Chareidi community in Rishon L’Tzion, Harav Moshe Nachshoni and MK Uri Maklev (Degel HaTorah) visited the manager of a Rishon L’Tzion taxi station, Max Butler, who recently began keeping Shabbos due to anti-Chareidi Tiveria mayor Ron… Continue Reading →