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The White House said Wednesday that President Barack Obama will meet Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Nov. 1 in Washington. Obama and his Iraqi counterpart will discuss "the importance of the U.S.-Iraq relationship under the U.S.-Iraq Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA)," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement. He added that the president […]
Almost half a million deaths in Iraq between 2003 and 2011 were caused by war and occupation, according to new research. The figure is around four times bigger than most previous estimates. An estimated 460,000 deaths in Iraq from March 2003 to mid-2011 were caused by violence during the war with the US and the […]
Prominent opposition figure Aleksey Navalny and co-defendant Pyotr Ofitserov have been given a suspended sentence in their trumped up embezzlement trial that has attracted a lot of international attention. According to RT, President Putin's official news agency, Navalny is going to appeal the sentence. “Neither I nor my colleagues are going to stop the political […]
Now, that's how you write a Jewish Press news brief! Old time close friend of our regular contributor Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Newark Mayor, Democrat Cory Booker, easily defeated his Republican opponent in Wednesday's special election, and will serve the remainder of the term of late Senator Frank Lautenberg, who died in office in June […]
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Nobel Laureate Robert Aumann are among ten individuals who have been named 2013 Orthodox Jewish All Stars by Jew in the City, the organization dedicated to re-branding Orthodox Jews and Judaism to the world through digital media. The awards will be presented on November 24 in New York City. […]
A mine explosion as a minibus drove by on Wednesday killed 21 people, including women and children, near the birthplace of the Arab Spring revolution against the Assad regime more than three years ago. Four children and six women were among the victims in the city of Noa in the Deraa province, according to the […]
With the federal government quickly nearing a default, a House Republican leadership effort to end the shutdown and permit the Treasury to start borrowing again to keep up with government debt collapsed Tuesday night, the NY Times reported. Senator John McCain, (R. AZ) wailed Tuesday: “Republicans have to understand we have lost this battle, as […]
Arabs shot into Beit Hadassah in Hebron on Tuesday evening with an air gun. There were no injuries in the attack. On Tuesday morning, a resident of Kedumim was shot in the face with an air gun, and lightly injured. In Hebron, the residents are starting to prepare to host the many thousands of visitors […]
On Tuesday, Arabs attacked Border Policemen in the village of Beit Ichsa, which is located between Mevaseret Tzion and Ramot. One soldier was injured in his eye. In response, the soldiers fired in the air, and 2 Arabs were arrested.
It's never a good idea to try to convert the Rabbi.
Next Sunday, October 20, at 9:45 AM, the Young Israel of Fort Lee will dedicate its new building at 1610 Parker Avenue, Fort Lee. The new “Ulo and Ethel Barad Building” is named after its donors. The Barads' son, Gerald, will be speaking at the event in memory of his parents, who were long time […]
Amazon amounted Tuesday it is opening a Tel Aviv office to support cloud service through Amazon Web Services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Amazon Web Services was launched in 2006, and Amazon stated, "Israeli companies use Amazon Web Services to foster innovation, shorten time to market, and expand their global businesses. The decision […]
Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Anas al Libi, snatched off the streets in Libya last week by U.S. soldiers, is expected to appear in federal court in New York Tuesday on his way to being tried in the United States for terrorism. Al Libi’s wife has claimed that he has nothing to do with Al Qaeda […]
Israel’s new offshore gas industry will generate $60 billion in revenues in Israel over the next 20 years, Finance Minister and Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid told the Knesset in its first day of the winter session Monday. He charged the Opposition with damaging the economy by placing obstacles to the natural gas hook-up, […]
The Obama administration is considering to back down and allow Iran to retains its uranium enrichment facilities, despite strong objections from Saudi Arabia and Israel, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The world’s major powers are scheduled to meet with Iran this week in a new round of negotiations on its nuclear program, which the […]
The IDF has discovered a smuggling tunnel loaded with explosives in central Gaza, one day after the military exposed a tunnel that that had been dug to a kibbutz. Outgoing IDF Spokesman Yoav Mordecai said that soldiers will explode the central Gaza tunnel. The government and military policy generally has been to bomb terrorists’ tunnels […]
The United States should forget about trying to turn Egypt into a democratic country, according to retired IDF Major-General Amos Gilad, who served for years as senior adviser to the Defense Ministry. Expectations of establishing Western-style democracy in Egypt or anywhere else in the Middle East are “an illusion,” he said last week at a […]
A car bomb in a Syrian rebel-held town near the Turkish border killed at least 39 people Monday, but the death toll is expected to rise because of a large number of people suffered serious to critical injuries. Activists posted a video showing residents of Darkoush carrying bodies amid extensive damage to nearby buildings. No […]
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas called a meeting Sunday night with top security officials to discuss increasing unrest, but his concern is stopping riots against his government and not at halting terrorist attacks on Israelis/ The PA’s official WAFA website reported Monday, “Abbas listened in the meeting attended by Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and Minister […]
A new highway planned for the entrance to Jerusalem and to bring motorists through the Har Nof neighborhood will be named after Rabbi Ovadia Yosef whose home was located there. Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz said Highway 16, to be named in memory of the rabbi, will connect with the entrance to Begin Highway near Sha'arei […]
Non-Jews finally have taken home some Nobel awards, although not officially Nobel Prizes. After an almost embarrassingly large number of Jews who won a vast majority of the prizes awarded this month, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday honored Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller for their "for their empirical analysis […]
The website "TechCrunch" reports that Facebook has just purchased the Israeli mobile analytics and market intelligence company, Onavo, for somewhere between $100-$200 million. Onavo, formed in 2010, will turn into Facebook's first office in the country. Onavo's primary application is for market intelligence, monitoring the performance of mobile apps for the purpose of charting that performance […]
Former president Moshe Katzav has requested a retrial from the Supreme Court. Katzav claims that his conviction was solely based on the testimony of 'A', and no other evidence. Katzav claims that calls made from his car prove he wasn't with 'A' at the times he was supposed to have been raping her. Katzav has […]
The Gaza terror tunnel uncovered last week was built using an estimated 500 tons of concrete and cement, the equivalent of 27 truckloads.
The Pentagon is suspending work on a second helmet for the F-35 jet in favor of exclusive use of the helmet developed by Israel’s Elbit Systems along with Rockwell-Collins. American defense officials said it ditched the second helmet after Elbit-Rockwell made improvements in the helmet, including a better night vision camera, saving the Pentagon millions […]
Bill de Blasio intervened in in charges against a teacher at his daughter’s school and who protesting Israel’s policies in Gaza in 2004 and helped him avoid a jail term, The New York Daily News reported Sunday. Documents that now are available show that while de Blasio, leading candidate for mayor, was a city councilman, […]
The IDF discovered a 1.5 mile long terror tunnel that led from Gaza to Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha.
Peace with the Palestinian Authority and even with Iran is to be made only by Israel and not by the Arabs and Persians, if one is believe the remarks by the grandson of Yitzchak Rabin Saturday night at an annual rally to mark the former Prime Minister‘s assassination in 1995. Yonatan Ben-Artzi made absolutely no […]
The European Union has donated tents to dozens of Arabs in Area “C” in the southern Hevron Hills to help them dig in for the winter in their attempt to create “facts on the ground” and take over the region that officially is under Israeli control as agreed in the Oslo Accords. The Arabs, most […]
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) is prepared to honor a “temporary truce” in two provinces, Homs and Rif Dimashq, to allow humanitarian aid to enter but as rejected a long-term ceasefire, the Arabic-language Asharq Al-Awsat reported. A nine-month ceasefire has been suggested to allowed the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to oversee he destruction of Syria’s […]
France’s right-wing National Front party headed by Marine Le Pen is leading the country’s two major parties in the polls for May’s elections to the European Parliament. The Le Nouvel Observateur weekly reported that the party has the support of 24 percent of French voters, compared with only 22 and 19 percent respectively for the […]
The Palestinian Authority is facing increased violence against the government of PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, and its security forced rounded up approximately 100 people in Jenin and nearby cities and villages in an effort to squash chaos, the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency reported. Among those arrested were teens between the ages of 13 and 14, […]
The Likud-Beiteinu party and the Jewish Home parties would collectively win six more seats in the Knesset if elections were held today, according to a new poll conducted by Smith Institute for Globes business newspaper. Labor, headed by Shelly, Yachimovich, would gain one more seat, while Yesh Atid, headed by Yair Lapid would sink form […]
Five Palestinian Authority Arabs have been arrested so far in the search for the killers of Shraya Ofer last night in the Jordan Valley terror attack. At least two Arabs were involved in the terror attack. They've been brought into interrogation by the Shabak.
Defense Minister Moshe "Boogie" Yaalon checks out the F-35.
Two terrorists attacked and killed Sariya Ofer. His wife managed to flee.
Israel’s giant generic Teva Pharmaceuticals firm will fire by the end of next year 5,000 employees around the world, including hundreds in Israel, as one of the “steps to accelerate the reduction of costs and to optimize its structure.” Most of the layoffs will be outside Israel, said Teva CEO Jeremy Levin, who moved to […]
A car bomb exploded in the Sinai on Thursday morning, killing 3 Egyptian soldiers and 1 Egyptian policeman.
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, who was kidnapped on Thursday from the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, has been released. He is currently under the protection of the Presidential Guards and in good condition. The kidnappers are apparently connected to Al Qaida, and the kidnapping may have been a warning to the Libyan government to not […]
Will it be jail or community service?
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was kidnapped on Thursday from the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli. The kidnappers are reportedly from a former rebel group.
Kitov Pharmaceuticals accounted it plans to apply for listing on the NASDAQ exchange, joining Israel-based Teva and Kamada that are traded on Wall Street. Kitov is hoping for approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after its Phase III clinical trial of a combination drug for the treatment of hypertension and pain relief. […]
Two of the three hold Israeli citizenship.
A Dubai woman has been cleared of the charge of showing a man the finger when she stopped her vehicle to take photos of a classic car, Gulf News reports. The Turkish man alleged that the 45-year-old Russian woman showed him the finger when he sounded his horn and demanded she move her car because […]
Army Radio reports that Noam Glick, the 9 year old girl who was attacked in Psagot, by a Palestinian Authority terrorist, will be going home today, after recuperating from her surgery.
Overnight Wednesday, a rocket launched from Gaza landed in the Kissufim area. No injuries were reported in the attack. The rocket alert system worked, and the siren went off as soon as the launch was detected.
An Israeli Air Force drone crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast south of Tel Aviv Tuesday, the second drone crash in three months. The Navy picked located the debris of the Hermes 450 UAV and brought it experts to analyze the reason for the malfunction, which probably was in the engine, according to […]
A new law Turkish law breaks a 90-year-old ban on Muslims wearing the veil at university or at government work offices and reflects the growing Islamic influence on the once secular government. The secular Turkish republic in 1925 banned civil servants from wearing overt symbols of religious affiliation, That presumably includes the kippa, for those […]
Efforts to bring Hollywood stars to Israel have extended to include Latin America, with a delegation of TV personalities and news executives arriving Monday from Central and South America as well as from the United States for a week-long visit. The trip was announced by America’s Voices in Israel (AVI), part of the Conference of […]
Jewish professor wins Nobel prize in physics.
The Hamas terrorist organization has scolded Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas for sending condolences to the family of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Abbas sent his message of sorrow via 12 visiting Knesset Members who met with him in Ramallah. Abbas told them he has previously met with members of the revered rabbi’s family. One of Rabbi […]
The Israeli government’s deficit shrank by 30 percent, from $5.7 billion in the first nine months of 2013 to only $4 billion in the same period this year, Globes reported on Monday. September’s deficit was only $250 million. The deficit for the past 12 months represents 3.2 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), slightly […]
American authorities said Monday they will question an Al Qaeda terrorist, re-captured in Tripoli over the weekend, while he is on a Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea and without reading him his rights, making it impossible to use the information at a trial. If the terrorist, Abu Anas al-Libi, reveals the same information after […]
Mortar shells from pro and anti-Assad forces landed next the border fence at the Golan Heights Tuesday morning, forcing Israelis to halt maintenance work and vacate the area. Ten Syrian civilians crossed the border where there is no fence to take refuge, and the IDF so far has not sent them back.
Hundred of people continue to stream to the graveside of Rav Ovadia, in Jerusalem.
The 300-year-old manuscript that was found in a heap of garbage.
A mourning tent has been set up next to the home of Rav Ovadia Yosef on Kablan street, Har Nof for the duration of the Shiva (week of mourning). Visiting hours are between 10 AM and 1 PM, and between 4 PM and 7 PM. The family asks that all visitors restrict themselves to those […]
A Jewish-owned car was shot at near the town of Emanuel in the Shomron. No one was injured in the attack. An alert level was raised in the town in light of the shooting.
IDF troops entered the village of Al-Bireh near Psagot, and arrested two brothers.
Two more Jews, both from the United States, and a German non-Jew won the Nobel Prize in medicine in Monday, while two Israel contenders lost out. The newest Jewish Nobel Prize winners are James Rothman of Yale University and Randy Schekman of the University of California. The Israeli hopefuls were Hebrew University professors Howard Cedar […]
Violence in the Syrian Civil War knows no borders and has spillover as far as away as Australia, where shooting and arson attacks have taken place. A Melbourne-based nurse visited Syria twice to help with humanitarian efforts on behalf of rebels and said her husband’s car had been firebombed and their hem shot at, the […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is a brilliant speaker but not perfect. He goofed in his interview with BBC’s Persian service last when he stated, "I think if the Iranian people had freedom, they would wear jeans, listen to Western music, and have free elections.” Pictures and Tweets from Iran flooded the Internet, with pictures and […]
Israel provides new proof that cigarette smoking has a bad effect on children. A woman took her baby, age 18 months, to the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa Saturday night after the toddler chewed up and swallowed two cigarettes. The mother had left the room and left a package of cigarettes on the table. When […]
Hillary Clinton, an undeclared candidate for the Democratic nominee for president in 2016, has told Human Abedin to ditch Anthony Weiner if she wants to advise her former boss at the State Dept., The New York Post reported Monday. The ultimatum has been given before but has greater meaning following Weiner’s embarrassingly poor finish in […]
Fat busters who participated in the Dubai Your Weight in Gold campaign, are set to receive a total of 35 pounds of gold worth about just under $800,000, Gulf News reported. More than 10,000 residents participated in the 30-day program, launched by Dubai Municipality from July 19 to August 16. "The one-month-long health awareness campaign […]
Egyptian forces killed four armed men near a checkpoint on the Cairo-Ismailia road after an exchange of gunfire with several vehicles, Egyptian officials told Ma'an. Soldiers searched one of the assailants' vehicles following the incident and found two automatic rifles and ammunition. An Egyptian officer and soldier were killed in the gunfight, and two others […]
David Kashdan, a Russian born mathematician, McArthur fellow, Israel Prize winner and tenured professor at Hebrew University, was run over by a truck on Sunday, in a hit and run accident while riding his bicycle outside the Malcha mall in Jerusalem. Kashdan's son, Eli, who was riding with his father, called MDA which took the […]
An anti-Hezbollah Lebanese legislator said Sunday that the terrorist organization has chemical weapons and missiles buried underground in bunkers that were built under the supervision of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Khaled Daher told the Saudi Arabia newspaper al-Watan Saturday that the existence of chemical weapons is behind Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s threat two months ago that […]
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is scheduled to undergo critical and complicated surgery Monday morning, doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital said Sunday night. Earlier in the day, doctors put Rav Ovadia back on a breathing machine after his condition worsened following his breathing on his own for a period of time. The spiritual head of the […]
Egyptian military forces killed at least 28 supporters of Mohammed Morsi Sunday and would dozens of others after they crowded the streets of Cairo to “celebrate” the English anniversary of the Egyptian invasion of Israel at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War 40 years ago. Egyptians celebrated the anniversary, a national holiday, every year, […]
Iran said it has arrested 4 people suspected of plotting to sabotage one of its nuclear facilities, Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization chief Ali Akbar Saleh told the Iranian Student’s News Agency (IRNA). "Some time ago, we uncovered sabotage activities by several people at a nuclear plant," Saleh said in comments carried by the Mehr news […]
Warren Buffett has lived up to his love for Israel’s companies and his Berkshire Hathaway company has announced the acquisition of Lod-based Ray-Q Interconnect for an undisclosed sum of money. Ray-Q provides electrical interconnect solutions to military, aerospace and other industries. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Buffett made a splash in the […]
The Obama administration’s $3.2 billion annual military aid has been suspended due to the U.S. government shutdown over the debt ceiling. The sum for 2104 was to be transferred to Israel on October 1, but this is not the first time budget crises in the United States have delayed aid to Israel. “We are not […]
Intruder alert was sounded at 8:18 AM, Sunday, in the town of Alfei Menashe in Samaria. The level of alert in all Jewish towns and villages east of the "green line" has been raised, following the attack on a child in Psagot. The searchers found an Arab resident of Qalqilia hiding. He was arrested and […]
Following her surgery, Noam Glick is now listed in light to medium condition.
Schools closed in Psagot until searches complete in the morning.
A 9 year old girl in the town of Psagot has been shot in the chest, on Saturday night.
During a press conference with President Shimon Peres on Thursday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte unequivocally stated that products made over the 1967 Green Line, will continue to be labeled "Made in Israel" in the Netherlands, according to a report in JPost.com. The Dutch position is unlike that of the Germans, who definitely plan to […]
A supersize ambulance to cope with the growing number of obese patients in the emirate has been unveiled by the Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services, Gulf News reports. The Dh1 million vehicle, the first of its kind here, features a lift gate capable of hoisting 650 lbs. and an extra wide stretcher. The corporation received […]
Praying in a minyan on an airplane is forbidden if it robs others passengers of their sleep or interferes with the duties of stewards and stewardesses, ruled newly elected Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, son of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Replying to a congratulatory letter from El Al CEO Eliezer Shkedy on the election of the […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu focused the Iranian nuclear threat on the United States Thursday, telling Americans through a CBS interview that Iran is developing Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) to threaten them. "The American intelligence knows as well as we do that Iran is developing ICBMs not to reach Israel. They want to reach well beyond," […]
An IDF soldier is in stable condition after being struck in the face by a machine gun bullet that was fired from a tank in his unit near Gaza on Thursday. The tank unit was involved in a military operation, but it is not known why one of the battalion’s soldiers fired the gun and […]
Assad’s army has surrounded a village near Damascus that the regime gassed with chemical weapons last month, and it is not letting basic food supplies into the town, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. One of the newspaper’s reporters managed to overcome the government ban on foreign journalists and visited the village of Moadhamiya, home […]
President Shimon Peres and Knesset Members Moshe Feiglin and Avigdor Liberman were shared the same podium Thursday on the 12th anniversary of the assassination of Tourism Minister Rechavem (Ghandi) Ze’evi at the hands of three Arab terrorists in a Jerusalem hotel. “Ghandi,” as he was popularly known, fought in the War for Independence and was […]
Six Syrian rebel groups came out with a call to the two major rebel factions – al-Qaida's Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant on one side and the Western-supported Free Syrian Army's Northern Storm Brigade on the other – that are fighting each other in Syria to end their internal strife, AP reported. The […]
The gigantic (as it was billed) pro-Settlement rally in Binyanei Ha’uma on Wednesday night, was a gigantic success.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef regained consciousness at Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem Wednesday but his condition remains very serious, doctors said. He woke up and recognized family members, who helped him put on tefillin. His physician, Dr. Dan Gilon, said that the rabbi may not have suffered brain damage. The 93-year-old Torah sage and spiritual […]
PM Netanyahu said Israel will not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons, even if it must stand alone to do so.
President Obama is set to give a press conference at this afternoon about the U.S. government shut down. Obama's speech, which is expected to be covered live by all the major networks, will conflict and overlap with Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech at the UN, which the major networks were supposed to be covering at the […]
Warsaw Ghetto survivor and researcher Israel Gutman has died in Jerusalem at the age of 90. He was born in Warsaw, where he was wounded in the Jewish uprising against the Nazis in 1943. He is survived by two daughters and three grandchildren. Gutman survived three concentration and death camps, including Auschwitz, but his parents […]
Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday it will cancel its scheduled speech at the United Nations General Assembly this week to protest the new soft glove approach of the United Nations and the United States towards Iran and Syria. Citing sources in Saudi Arabia, the Italian ANSA news agency reported that Riyadh is unhappy over President Barack […]
More than two-thirds, 68 percent to be exact, of Palestinian Authority Arabs believe that American intervention in Middle East policies harms stability in the region, according to a new poll carried out in mid-September by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion. The same survey also revealed that a tiny majority of 50.3 percent favors the […]
Hey, buddy! Can you spare 14 dimes for a cup of coffee? That is the price for a cut of caffeine at a new low-cost tale-away chain that plans to take Israel by storm with 300 branches in three years. The “Cofix" chain opened its first café in Tel Aviv Monday, charging at least half […]
Terrorists in the Sinai, south of Gaza, killed three Egyptian policemen, a soldier and one civilian and wounded at least six others Monday in three separate sniping attacks. Masked gunmen shot at policemen in El Arish, attacked a checkpoint near the border with Gaza and shot at a police car in an El Arish neighborhood. […]
The unemployment rate in Israel fell to a 20-year low in August, and unlike in the United States, participation in the job market is increasing, according to the latest data from the Central Bureau of Statistics The jobless rate in August was 6.1 percent, compared with a 7.3 percent in the United States. The rate […]
Feiglin claims the legitimacy for an Israeli preemptive strike has dissipated.
Denmark on Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of the escape of 7,300 Jews during World War II to prevent their deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. At Copenhagen's synagogue, Jewish community leader Finn Schwarz told several hundred people it was "almost a miracle" that the October 1943 operation in Nazi-occupied Denmark avoided the German patrol […]
New York State Police from the Wappinger barracks, East Fishkill, are currently investigating a Bias-related criminal mischief complaint. Two vehicles that were parked at the Holiday Summer Homes Camp, located in East Fishkill, were targeted during the overnight hours on September 27, 2013 through September 28, 2013. An unknown person(s) entered the Camp property and […]
Tunisia's Islamist government agreed on Saturday to negotiate with their secular opponents to form a caretaker administration, then resign and prepare for new elections. The talks could end weeks of crisis for the Islamist-led coalition government and the secular opposition parties that are threatening to end the fledgling Tunisian democracy where the Arab Spring began […]
A shark attacked a fish pond worker at the port city of Ashdod Sunday and bit off part of his hand before he was rescued and rushed to a hospital in Tel Aviv., where his is recovering from moderate wounds. The man, described to be in his late 20s, was working in fish cages when […]
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