Month November 2020
A Rav was attacked at knifepoint in Vienna by a woman who ripped the kippah from his head and yelled an anti-Semitic threat before fleeing, police in the Austrian capital… Read more » The post Vienna: Rav Attacked at Knifepoint… Continue Reading →
No progress towards normalized relations with Saudi Arabia will be made while King Salman remains in power, Channel 12 reported Thursday, citing a senior Israeli source. “Israel understands that there… Read more » The post Israeli Official: No Progress With… Continue Reading →
According to a report in Yisrael Hayom on Friday, quoting talks with “senior politicians,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz have been holding substantive… Read more » The post Report: Netanyahu and Gantz Discussing… Continue Reading →
Israel will soon roll out a “green passport” program that will enable anyone who has had coronavirus to travel more freely abroad, coronavirus commissioner Prof. Nachman Ash said Thursday. Prof.… Read more » The post Prof. Ash Announces ‘Green Passport’… Continue Reading →
Australia’s second-largest state, Victoria, once the country’s COVID-19 hotspot, said on Friday it has gone 28 days without detecting any new infections, a benchmark widely cited as eliminating the virus… Read more » The post Once Australia’s COVID-19 Hotspot, Victoria… Continue Reading →
A man in his twenties has been arrested in connection with three arson attacks on buildings and a bus in Yerushalayim’s Romema and Ezras Torah neighborhoods on Thursday night. A… Read more » The post Man Arrested in Connection With… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that delivery of the coronavirus vaccine would begin next week and the week after. Speaking to U.S. troops overseas via video link to mark… Read more » The post Trump: Coronavirus Vaccine Deliveries to… Continue Reading →
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered at least two people executed, banned fishing at sea and locked down capital Pyongyang as part of frantic efforts to guard against… Read more » The post S. Korea Agency Says N…. Continue Reading →
Health Ministry director-general Prof. Chezy Levy addressed the recent controversy surrounding the AstraZeneca pharmaceutical company regarding its coronavirus vaccine in an interview on Army Radio Friday morning. “We have contracted… Read more » The post Health Ministry DG: We Ordered… Continue Reading →
Israel’s Health Ministry confirmed 1,069 new coronavirus cases on Thursday morning, the highest number of daily cases in over a month, with tests showing a positivity rate of 1.8%. The number of active cases is 9,422, the first time in… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) — The British government said Friday it has formally asked the country’s medicines regulator to assess whether a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University should be authorized for use. The step comes amid questions about preliminary… Continue Reading →
Rishon L’Tzion Rav Yitzchak Yosef met with a delegation of Bahrain royals at the King David hotel in Jerusalem on Wednesday. The delegation is visiting Israel as part of a program of the Bahrani King Hamad Global Centre for Peaceful… Continue Reading →
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Six American oil executives held for three years in Venezuela were found guilty of corruption charges by a judge Thursday and immediately sentenced to prison, defense lawyers said, dashing hopes of a quick release that would… Continue Reading →
Two NYPD officers who were shot and wounded Tuesday while responding to a domestic violence call in Queens were released from a hospital on Thanksgiving. Video shows officer Christopher Wells, 36, and officer Joseph Murphy, 33, in wheelchairs as they… Continue Reading →
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said on Wednesday that he’s being attacked by anti-vaxxers for his role in encouraging Israelis to be vaccinated for the coronavirus. Anti-vaxxers have dubbed him “Mengele” – comparing him to the notorious Nazi Dr. Mengele YM”S… Continue Reading →
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said on Wednesday that he’s being attacked by anti-vaxxers for his role in encouraging Israelis to be vaccinated for the coronavirus. Anti-vaxxers have dubbed him “Mengele” – comparing him to the notorious Nazi Dr. Mengele YM”S… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory — even as he insisted such a decision would be a “mistake” — as he spent… Continue Reading →
Split tolling will begin at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (VNB) on Tuesday, December 1, 2020, when vehicles will be charged half of the previous toll charges, but will have to pay… Read more » The post Split Tolling Coming to Verrazzano-Narrows… Continue Reading →
In a historical move, Israel’s ZAKA organization signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday with DIHAD, the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development organization in the United Arab Emirates. The MOA was signed at a ceremony at the DIHAD headquarters… Continue Reading →
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A woman was killed in a Thanksgiving Day crash after a speeding minivan plowed into the McKinley Monument in downtown Buffalo, police said. The unidentified male driver was in critical condition after the crash, which happened… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (Chabad.org/Menachem Posner) – After spending months in a coma, followed by a difficult and intense period of in-patient rehabilitation, Rabbi Yehuda (Yudi) Dukes finally returned to his home in Cedarhurst, N.Y. today, 242 days after he was admitted in critical… Continue Reading →