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Ben-Gurion University

Israeli Scientists Test Goldfish’s Ability to ‘Drive a Car’

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

A goldfish has successfully driven a robotic car in new research conducted at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Police and Crime / Palestinian Authority / Judea & Samaria

The ‘Mashtuba’ Market: The Deadly and Illegal Arab Vehicles on the Roads

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

3 children were killed on Friday by an illegal unregistered Arab car who made an illegal u-turn.

Israel / Business and Economy

Israel Grants Tesla License to Import Cars

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Tesla’s import permit enables it to import three the Model 3, Model S and Model X.

Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine" / Judea & Samaria

Israeli Who Killed Arab in Lynch Mob Gets His Gun Back

By Jewish Press News Desk

The police confiscated his gun after he defended himself and was extricated from the Arab lynch mob.

Headline / NY / Police and Crime

Update: Times Square Ramming Driver Was High on 'K2'

By D.S. Levi

The driver, a resident of Bronx, appeared to be intoxicated, Mayor DeBlasio said.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Judea & Samaria

20 Stoning Attacks in 24 Hours

By Jewish Press News Desk

The attempts by Arab terrorists to kill Jews on the roads continues.

Terrorism / News Briefs / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Man Wounded, Car Damaged in Stone Throwing Attack

By Jewish Press News Desk

He was hit by stones while driving on Road 60 past the village of Luban a Sharkia.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Judea & Samaria

Arab Almost Shot After Stoning Soldiers

By Jewish Press News Desk

The terrorist didn't know the car he targeted was full of armed soldiers.

Israel / News Briefs

Headlights On

By Jewish Press News Desk

Starting Sunday, headlights are required on intercity roads in Israel.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Settlements

UPDATED: Car Rams Through Gush Etzion Checkpoint, Guard Injured

By Jewish Press News Desk

A car tried to run through the Gush Etzion checkpoint near the tunnel roads.

Potpourri

Vacationing Tip: Get Lost

By Mordechai Schmutter

If you’re looking to get away from the irritations of technology and people in your way, the best place to go is Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Op-Eds

If He Is Released, I Will No Longer Be Able to Live

By Adi Moses

With your decision to release the murderer you spit on the graves of my mother and my brother.

Terrorism / News Briefs / Israeli Arabs

Police Investigating Attempted Jewish Lynch Victims

By Jewish Press News Desk

Not only were they nearly lynched by an Arab mob, the police are reportedly going after them too.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Settlements

Arab on Arab Rock Violence, and Stone Throwers Caught

By Jewish Press News Desk

Arabs mistakenly attacked an Arab car, and a group of Arab stone throwers were captured.

Terrorism / News Briefs / Settlements

Arabs Trying to Cause Car Accidents Near Efrat

By Jewish Press News Desk

Arab youths near Efrat have been escalating their attacks against Jewish motorists driving down the main highway near Efrat. For the second day in a row, Arab youths have been throwing stones at cars driving down Highway 60, near the northern entrance to the town. Earlier today, the Arabs escalated their attacks and also tried […]

Marriage and Relationships

Lessons For Drivers

By Dr. Yael Respler

Dear Dr. Yael: I am a female driver dealing with challenges of derech eretz while driving in my community. Every time the light is about to turn green, the person behind me seems to immediately honk the horn, yet no one has a problem double-parking, making me feel as if I am driving on an obstacle course.

South Florida

Chabad Of East Boca’s Chanukah Festivities

By Shelley Benveniste

A hundred cars with menorahs on top of their roofs are expected to participate in Chabad of Boca Raton's annual car menorah parade on Monday December 10th. The fleet will depart from the Central Boca Chabad on Military Trail at 5:30 p.m. and then head across town for a Chanukah concert and menorah lighting hosted by Chabad of East Boca.

Terrorism / News Briefs

UPDATED: Terrorist Killed Near Shavei Shomron

By Jewish Press News Desk

During a GSS (General Security Service) operation in Deir Sharaf, between Shavei Shomron and Einav, a Palestinian vehicle deliberately crashed into the side of the GSS jeep. As a result the jeep flipped, and all five of its occupants were lightly injured. The Palestinian driver of the terror vehicle then exited his car brandishing an […]

News Briefs

Car Blown Up in Gan Yavneh -- by Criminals

By Jewish Press News Desk

Crime must go on, even during a time of war in Israel. This morning, the residents of the town of Gan Yavneh, not far from Ashdod and well within the range of Gazan rockets, woke up to the sound of a loud explosion. An EMT unit rushed to the area and discovered a car that […]

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Israel At War: Operation Amud Anan

Breaking News: Hamas #2 Killed by IDF

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Shabak (Israel's General Secret Service) just announced that Ahmed Jabari, the second in command of the Hamas military, was killed today by the IDF in a surgical strike.

Felafel on Rye

Don’t Tell My Wife!

By Tzvi Fishman

We spent Shabbat in Ashkelon, visiting my wife’s parents. On Motzei Shabbat, my wife stayed in Ashkelon (in the red glare of the rockets fired from Gaza) so that she could take her mother for a medical treatment in the morning. I drove back to Yerushalayim with my children. Along the way, we passed a stretch of fertile farmland. The heavenly rains that had fallen during Shabbat seemed to have awakened the earth, and the pungent aroma of fresh cow manure wafted into the car. My younger boys started gagging and making jokes, the way children do about such things.

My Right Word

Killed for Complaining About Graffiti

By Yisrael Medad

In Los Angeles, gang members have begun targeting residents who complain about "tagging."

Op-Eds

Driving The Iranian Regime Into The Ground

By Bill de Blasio

There’s no question Iran’s corrupt and abusive regime is feeling the bite of tough new sanctions. These sanctions are our only hope short of armed conflict of stopping Iran – the world’s number one sponsor of terror and single greatest threat to the state of Israel – from obtaining nuclear weapons.

News Briefs

Stone Throwers Injure Karnei Shomron Resident

By Jewish Press News Desk

A resident of Karnei Shomron was lightly injured Monday evening by rock throwers. The rocks were thrown as he was driving his car on Route 55 near Maaleh Shomron The victim was treated on site by an IDF ambulance.

Police and Crime / News Briefs

Jewish Gold Dealer Escapes Robbers En Route From Holland To Belgium

By Jewish Press Staff

Driving from Holland toward Antwerp, the dealer noticed that a car was following him, but didn't give it much thought.

News Briefs

Efrat Residents Block Bethlehem Access Road

By Jewish Press News Desk

Residents of Efrat blocked a main access road from Bethlehem on Monday night. The spontaneous protest came in response to an attack on an Efrat driver on that same road, which also leads to the northern entrance of Efrat. The driver, a woman, was in shock after a massive rock was thrown at her car […]

On Our Own/Cheryl Kupfer

Everybody Is a Winner

By Cheryl Kupfer

I recently read a disturbing news article about a social phenomenon that is tragic beyond words. The article stated that more people were losing their lives by committing suicide than by car crashes. This conclusion was based on a recent study by the American Journal of Public Health based on data compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics from the years 2000-2009. Why are so many people killing themselves, or attempting to, since some try but fail? I can only imagine that they are looking for a way out of lives saturated with abject misery; they feel trapped in a cage of never-ending unhappiness.

News Briefs

Shooting Attack on Road 55 (Maaleh Shomron)

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

At least two cars were shot at on Road 55 near Maaleh Shomron on Saturday night. One car was shot at on the curve leading into Maaleh Shomron. The shots were also heard by the guards at the Maaleh Shomron entrance. The marks on that car seemed to indicate the weapon used in the attack […]

Uncategorized

Sukkot, The GPS And Mind/Body Interventions

By Dr. Judith S. Bendheim Guedalia

I sit here mulling over the results of my latest PET Scan (Positron Emission Tomography), a nuclear medicine imaging technique which produces a three-dimensional image or picture (in color) of my innards and of the latest actions of the “bad buggars” that have invaded me (as I live through quite a serious case of cancer).

The Muqata

The Unmentionable Pig

By Jameel@Muqata

One of the stranger aspects of Israel's ultra-Orthodox, "Chareidi" press, is their determination not to use the word "pig."

Israel / News Briefs

2 Dead in Car-Boar Accident

By Jewish Press News Desk

2 dead in Shomron traffic accident caused by animals on a poorly lit road.

This Ongoing War

Saturday's Chicago Bar Car Bomb Latest in Ongoing Muslim Attacks on American Targets

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

Thinking that he had loaded a car bomb into the Jeep Cherokee that he was driving, he parked it outside a bar in downtown Chicago and walked away into an alley after doing everything he thought necessary for it to detonate. Safely distant, he then pressed the trigger mechanism in the presence of the agent, intending an explosion and deaths to follow. He was then arrested. Unknown to him, the bomb was inert and was designed not to explode. A preliminary hearing is set for Monday at a U.S. courthouse in Chicago.

News Briefs

Police Arrest and Release 2 New Taxi Firebomb Suspects

By Jewish Press News Desk

Police stopped a car in Gush Etzion and arrested two brothers 17 and 13 and took them to the Maaleh Adumim station. They were released a few hours later to house arrest after their alibis checked out. Despite the numerous firebombing and stoning attacks against Jewish vehicles and the IDF these past few weeks, the […]

Israel / Global / News Briefs

Israeli Companies Just Can't Make It in the Japanese Market

By Jacob Edelist

Israel and Japan are celebrating sixty years of diplomatic relations, and so, a week ago, the Israel-Japan Chamber of Commerce marked the occasion with a festive event. But the current commercial ties between the two countries gives less cause for celebration. Israeli businesses find it difficult to understand the Japanese market and Japanese companies are not in a hurry to reach Israel.

IDF & Security / Eye on "Palestine" / Settlements

Hero's Funeral to Settler Who Defended Soldiers from Infiltrators

By Malkah Fleisher

Lior Farchi, the 43 year-old chief of security in the Samaria region Jewish community of Shaarei Tikva who was run over by a 25 year old Arab from Kafr Qasem, will be laid to rest at 2pm on Monday in a military ceremony at the Segula Cemetery in Petach Tikva. He is survived by a pregnant wife and three young children.

Daily Living

Confessions Of a Saveaholic

By Sandy Eller

For some of us trying to cut corners is not just something we do to save a few cents, it is practically an obsession. While we may have our little tricks designed to shave a few dollars off our grocery bill and squeeze a penny so tight that it screams for mercy, we each have our own little indulgences, the things we absolutely refuse to do just to save a few pennies. Let’s hope that none of my immediate family members read this column because I am about to share some of my personal secrets and they just might disown me.

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs

Anti-Semitic Attack in Monticello, NY, Bakery

By Malkah Fleisher

Customers at a Hasidic bakery were accosted by two men who yelled ethnic slurs at the them and attempted to run them over with their car.

Police and Crime / News Briefs

Tel Aviv Cop Shoots and Kills Palestinian Car Thief

By Jacob Edelist

From initial reports it appears that the man was engaging in auto theft at the time and threatened the police officer with a knife prior to being shot. He was shot in the neck, and ran a few yards before dropping dead. The exact circumstances of the incident are currently being investigated by Machash—Dept of Policemen Investigation, the police internal affairs unit of the Justice Ministry.

Battling Addictions

Road To Recovery

By Brocha Silverstein

Dear Brocha, Hi, I'm not sure how writing to an advice column can help, but I feel so alone and have nowhere to turn. My 25-year-old daughter is addicted to prescription pain killers (Percocet), and so far she doesn't seem to want help or even acknowledge that she has a problem. About two years ago […]

News Briefs

An Evening of Firebomb and Stoning Attacks

By Jewish Press News Desk

UPDATE: Israeli TV reports that there is a possibility that the attack on the bus was a misthrow, and the taxi was not the target. Ha'aretz is now reporting that police are investigating whether the van was actually hit by a firebomb, or if the car overturned for "other reasons".   A Palestinian taxi was […]

US / News Briefs / Media

'Big Bang' Star Mayim Bialik Nearly Loses Thumb in Car Accident, Gets Artscroll Siddur from Hospital Rabbi

By Jewish Press Staff

Mayim Bialik sustained serious injuries in a car accident in Los Angeles Wednesday afternoon.

Politics / News Briefs

'Jewish Home' Chairman: Bennet Is an Opportunist, His Plans Are Empty Spin

By Jacob Edelist

"The zigzaggy conduct of Naftali Bennet is classic opportunism, and the public will judge him for it, his plan is nothing but empty spin,” said on Monday Minister Daniel Hershkowitz, head of the "Jewish Home" Knesset faction. Hershkowitz was referring to the candidacy of MKs Zevulun Arlov and Naftali Bennet, and quoted an opinion piece published last weekend by Mekor Rishon's pundit Sofia Ron-Moria, where she quipped that she "won’t buy a used car from Bennet or Orlov."

Parenting Our Children

The Ticking Time Bomb: Explosive Children

By Rifka Schonfeld

“But, I want it NOW!” Yankel screamed as his mother lifted his baby sister, Leah, out of her car seat. “Yankel, we can’t get ice cream now. I told you we could have it for dessert. We have to get inside to feed the baby.” “No! I will not go inside! I’m going to sit in the car until you give me ice cream.”

This Ongoing War

Accidental Explosion in Gaza Car Terminates One Terrorist Career Prematurely, Puts Two More on Hold

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

Terrorists inside cars, frequently young men with explosives stuffed into their clothing, are a fixture in streets controlled by Hamas and other like-minded terrorist groups. There's an understandable reticence on the part of the Palestinian Arab terror organizations to own up to the way they place their own communities and neighbours at mortal risk, using them in effect as human shields.

News & Views

The Terrorist Argued with her Husband and Was Blown Up by Remote Control

By Jacob Edelist

New testimony from one of the Israeli women injured in the attack sheds new light on the investigation.

Potpourri

The Valero Tradition

By Debbie Flancbaum

Most couples establish their own routines. They have their own rhythms that may include where they eat, when they vacation, and what they read. My husband Lou and I are no different. We like to eat Israeli food on Tuesday nights and we usually order the same—shwarma for him, grilled chicken for me. Our regular […]

News Briefs

Hit & Run Attempt at IDF Checkpoint

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

A Palestinian tried to run over a female soldier at a Kalkilya checkpoint on Sunday morning. In response, the soldiers fired into the air, and then at the tires of the car. The terrorist got away into Kalkilya. No injuries were reported among the soldiers.

News Briefs

Palestinian Tries to Steal Soldier's Gun

By Jewish Press News Desk

Near Shavei Shomron a Palestinian tried to steal a soldier's gun. A reserve soldier was driving in his car when a Palestinian, mistaking him for a woman because of his long hair, blocked the road in an attempt to hijack the car.  When the soldier got out of his car, the Palestinian then tried to […]

Halacha & Hashkafa

Music During The Nine Days (Part I)

By Rabbi J. Simcha Cohen

Question: Is it prohibited to listen to music in the privacy of one’s home (or car) during the Nine Days?

Middle East / Levant / US / News Briefs

Anti-Islamist Protesters Pelt Hillary's Motorcade with Tomatoes, Shoes

By Jewish Press Staff

As U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's armored car motorcade was riding through the Egyptian port city of Alexandria where she had given a speech on democratic rights, a tomato hit an accompanying Egyptian official in the face, and shoes and a water bottle were thrown at Hillary's car. Clinton herself was not hit, but she may have been able to hear the taunts of "Monica, Monica" which the protesters were chanting. Protesters in Cairo and Alexandria accused Clinton of cutting a deal with the Muslim Brotherhood, at the expense of Egyptian liberals and non-Islamists.

News Briefs

Students Fined for Anti-Semitic Taunts and Egg-Throwing

By JTA

Four students were fined for throwing raw eggs and shouting anti-Semitic taunts at groups of Jews in Northwest London. The students were each fined $642, some of which will be paid in compensation to their victims, the London Jewish Chronicle reported. Each was convicted of using religiously aggravated and insulting words likely to cause alarm […]

IDF & Security / News Briefs

IDF Opens Road, Lifts Restrictions After Deadly Attack

By Malkah Fleisher

The IDF has re-opened roads and lifted an order for residents to remain in their homes following a deadly attack killing one Israeli along the Israel-Egypt border.

Israel / News Briefs

Intelligence Minister Injured in Car Accident

By Jewish Press Staff

Intelligence Minister Dan Meridor, his wife and their son were taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital on Saturday with injuries sustained during a traffic accident.

On Our Own/Cheryl Kupfer

Show Me The Service!

By Cheryl Kupfer

I am on a bus as I write this article and the ride will be at least 11 hours. For me, one of the big draws of traveling in a manner most would feel is quite tedious, is that several long distance bus companies offer free WIFI service. This allows me the opportunity to possibly enrich myself financially (by watching the ebb and flow of the stock market); educate myself (by reading various online newspapers, including The Jewish Press); entertain myself (downloading the many humorous, sometimes witty, satirical articles/photos/cartoons available to brighten a person’s day) or write a column, (and for a change not have the pressure of stressfully productive hours before my deadline) – all time consuming activities that should make time pass quickly.

News Briefs

Netanyahu: Israel Will Resolve African Illegal Aliens Situation

By JTA

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday decried violence against African migrants following a night of violent protest and promised the problem of African infiltrators would be solved. "There is no place for either the expressions or the actions that we witnessed last night," said Netanyahu one day after a demonstration in south Tel Aviv […]

News Briefs

Two Women Run Over in Two Different Israeli Cities When Standing at Attention for Yom HaShoah

By Jewish Press News Desk

Walla News reports that a 64-year-old woman was run over by a car Thursday morning, Yom HaShoah, on King Shaul Street in Be'er Sheva, as she was standing at attention during the memorial siren. She was trapped, unconscious, under the car that hit her and was rescued by MDA teams. The woman was rushed to […]

Israel

Jews Attacked in Jerusalem Firebomb Barrage

By Malkah Fleisher

On Sunday evening, Jewish homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Maale HaZeitim were attacked with a barrage of 10 Molotov cocktails, causing damage to property. Resident: "We are not leaving".

Lessons In Emunah

Never Lose Hope

By dvora

It was an ordinary day and Dovid (name changed) was preparing to catch the late afternoon EL AL flight to Eretz Yisrael. He had yahrzeit for his father and planned his trip so he’d arrive there just in time to join his brother at the kever. He parked his car in the area that facilitated a faster trip to JFK for his flight. Little did he know that he was being observed by a team of thieves who were “working” the Diamond District that day in order to rob the merchants of their goods.

News Briefs

Syrian Soldiers Shot Dead Lebanese TV Cameraman

By Jewish Press News Desk

Lebanon's Al-Jadeed television channel reported that Syrian soldiers opened fire on a car carrying its crew on the Lebanese side of the frontier, in the northern Lebanese region of Wadi Khaled. They shot dead a cameraman Ali Shaaban. Reuters reported that Shaaban's colleague Hussein Khreiss said the shooting occurred after the crew had explained to […]

Lessons In Emunah

Spare Change Can Spare A Life

By dvora

It is said that giving charity can save one from death. We also believe that there is no such thing as a “coincidence.”

Lessons In Emunah

Red Miracle Van

By dvora

The Schwartzes had three vehicles but only two drivers. At any given time the third vehicle, the 2005 red Ford van, could be seen on different driveways throughout the neighborhood – and sometimes even in Miami Beach and Hollywood, Florida. The Schwartzes kept a third vehicle, knowing that not everyone had a car.

News Briefs

Gunman Merah's Brother, Sister-in-Law, Interrogated in Paris

By Jewish Press News Desk

Gunman Mohamed Merah's brother was questioned by France's domestic intelligence in Paris on Saturday, after saying he was "proud" of his brother's murders, according to a French police source. Abdelkader Merah was transported from Toulouse to Paris along with his wife, whose name was not revealed. Prosecutor Francois Molins told Reuters that Police had found […]

Global / News Briefs

Toulouse Day 2: Maybe the French Need Some Israeli Commando Help?

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Three explosions were heard around midnight from the apartment building in Toulouse where the Muslim gunman suspected of murdering Jewish children and their father has been holed up. reporters described seeing Police moving the gunman Mohammed Merah under a blanket to a waiting car and driving away. But then French Interior denied the news.

Middle East / Levant / News Briefs

Heavy Fighting in Damascus May Mark Beginning of the End for Assad

By Jacob Edelist

A heavy firefight has broken out in a main district of the Syrian capital Damascus, between Free Syrian Army rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. On Monday the sound of heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades echoed throughout the night from the most heavily guarded neighborhood of the capital, which is home to a number of security facilities.

Lessons In Emunah

Was It Eliyahu Hanavi?

By Sherry Ackerman

I lost control of my car while driving in Brooklyn when a speeding taxi slammed into me. I thought my life was about to end when my car slammed directly into a tree. Baruch Hashem I survived, even though the taxi driver never stopped to help me.

News Briefs

Jewish Man Harassed Out of Maine Home

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Bangor Daily News reports that the Maine Human Rights Commission found Monday that a Lewiston, Maine, man was harassed out of his home by another tenant last spring because he is Jewish. Bruce Brown of Lewiston said a tenant in the apartment building he lived in drove him out of his home by painting […]

Business/Finance / SciTech

Is It A Car? Is It A Network? No -- It’s Both

By Brian of London

If Israeli electric car company, Better Place, only gave the world an electric car that could switch an empty battery for a full one in five minutes that would have been enough! But Better Place is also the key to making renewable energy production practical all over the world. Dai aynu!

On Our Own/Cheryl Kupfer

Find A Solution – But Not On My Cheshbon

By Cheryl Kupfer

If certain elements of the charedi community have issues with the way women dress, let them figure out a way to alleviate their obvious spiritual and mental distress in a way that does not encroach on other people’s rights. It's their problem - they need to resolve it, instead of demanding that a huge segment of society change their lives and the way they do things just to accommodate them.

Global

Latest Developments on Bomb Attack in India, Failed Attack in Thailand

By Solomon Burke

Israeli diplomat's wife in serious but stable condition after Monday's bomb attack on her car in New Delhi, while an Iranian man blew off his legs Tuesday in a failed bomb attack in Bangkok.

News Briefs

Breaking News: Violent Carjacking Near Karnei Shomron

By Jewish Press News Desk

A Jewish woman was violently carjacked by three Arab men, while driving on Road 55 from Karnei Shomron to Kfar Saba.

News Briefs

Israeli New Delhi Blast Victim Comes Out of Surgery

By Jewish Press Staff

Are prayers are with her for a full and complete recovery.

Global

Israeli Intelligence Monitoring Iran from Azerbaijan

By Tibbi Singer

Baku is a few hours by car from the Iranian border, and is known as the "gray zone" of intelligence operations, where Israeli and Iranian agents monitor each other.

Teens and Twenties

Perfect

By Tirtza S.

Daven brachos. I hardly knew where the thought came from. I was lying in bed, so weak I could not move, too tired to contemplate getting up. But it's better to say brachos lying down then not to say them at all.

Serials

Persuaded – Chapter III

By Barbara Bensoussan

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