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September 28, 2016 at 8:24 am
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed over eastern Ukraine in 2014 by a BUK missile brought from Russian territory into a pro-Russian area of eastern Ukraine, the head of the Dutch National Detective Force, Wilbert Paulissen announced during a press conference in the Netherlands Wednesday.
Nearly 300 people died in the incident.
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September 28, 2016 at 8:13 am
World leaders to converge on Har Herzl this Friday for massive state funeral for Shimon Peres.
A government committee within the Ministry of Culture and Sport charged with planning state events is preparing for what is expected to be the largest state funeral since Nelson Mandela’s in 2013.
President Shimon Peres, who passed away early Wednesday morning, will lay in state in the Knesset on Thursday. Flags at all state institutions, army bases, and police stations will be flown at half-mast.
The funeral is scheduled to take place on Friday at Har Herzl in Jerusalem. Peres will be buried in a plot near Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
“This is a complicated event which requires a great deal of cooperation between different [governmental] bodies,” said Minister of ...
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September 28, 2016 at 8:13 am
'The Palestinian people are happy at the death of this criminal,' says Hamas spokesperson.
Hamas welcomed the death of former Israeli President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres Wednesday, calling him a "criminal", while the Palestinian Authority made no official comment after the death of the elder Israeli statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
In the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for the Islamist Hamas terrorist organization commented on Peres’ death, saying that "The Palestinian people are happy at the death of this criminal.
"Shimon Peres was one of the last Israeli founders of occupation. His death marks the end of an era in the history of the Israeli occupation," spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told AFP.
Tributes to the 93-year-old poured in from across the world, but ...
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September 28, 2016 at 8:13 am
Despite differences over Oslo Accords and Palestinian statehood, Yesha Council remembers Peres' 'contributions to Israel.'
The Yesha Council released a statement in response to the death of Shimon Peres.
“In this hour we remind ourselves of Peres’ greatest contributions to lay the groundwork for Israel’s defense since its inception, and his great contribution to the establishment of Jewish settlements in Samaria,” the statement read.
In the statement, the council noted that Peres was “one of the founders of the state and visionaries of the Israeli people even in the settlements which he developed from their very beginning. Throughout the disputes over the years, we will remember the constant support to the security of the settlemen...
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September 28, 2016 at 8:12 am
Israel’s ninth President and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres dies at 93 after suffering a major stroke.
Israel’s ninth President and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres has passed away at the age of 93, two weeks after suffering a serious stroke and being admitted to the Tel Hashomer Hospital.
His condition deteriorated on Tuesday and family and friends were summoned to the hospital to say their farewell.
Peres served as the Prime Minister of Israel twice and twice as Interim Prime Minister, and was a member of 12 cabinets over a period of 66 years.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu honored the late president in a statement Wednesday morning, calling him "one of our great leaders," and "one of the founding fathers of the State of Israel."
"His name will be foreve...
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September 28, 2016 at 8:12 am
Former president's family speaks out after his death.
The Peres family conducted a press conference outside the hospital where Peres was hospitalized for the past two weeks.
Peres' son, Hemi, opened the conference by saying: “With deep sorrow we are parting from our beloved father, the head of our family, the 9th president of Israel, Shimon Peres.”
Hemi referenced his father's seven decades of public service in Israel
“Father was from the generation of founding fathers of the country. He served his nation even before the inception of the state, and the state of Israel since its inception and until his last day. Throughout 70 years of public service he worked for this state with loyalty and devotion as the ninth President, as the Prime Minister...
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September 28, 2016 at 8:12 am
Prime Minister eulogizes former rival and 1996 election opponent as 'visionary' who 'strengthened Israel's defense.'
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hailed former President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres as a "visionary" and a "champion of Israel's defense" after the 93-year-old elder statesman's death earlier Wednesday morning.
"Shimon dedicated his life to the rebirth of our people," Netanyahu, who was a political rival of Peres, said in a statement.
"As a visionary he looked to the future. As a champion of Israel's defense, he strengthened its capacities in many ways, some of them still unacknowledged to this day," he added, referring to Peres's role in the development of Israel's undeclared nuclear program.
AFP contribute...
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September 28, 2016 at 8:11 am
Obama, Clinton among world leaders set to travel to Israel Friday for funeral of former President Shimon Peres.
Seventeen world leaders representing 11 countries notified the Israeli Foreign Ministry Wednesday morning that they plan to attend the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, scheduled for this Friday.
Peres will lie in state at the Knesset Thursday, a former aide to the president said.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are among the world leaders slated to arrive in Israel later this week for Peres’ funeral.
The US president praised Peres in a written statement Wednesday morning, calling him “My Friend Shimon.”
“There are few people who we share this world with who change the course of human history, not just thr...
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September 28, 2016 at 8:11 am
Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) reacted Wednesday morning to news of former President and two-time Prime Minister Shimon Peres’ death overnight.
Bennett noted that with Peres’ passing, the era of Israel’s ‘founding fathers’ – those premiers and other senior leaders involved in the establishment and governing of Israel in its early years – was now over.
"The last of the founding fathers has left us,” said Bennett.
“Shimon Peres was my Education Minister, and I will miss him very much. He didn't watch history - he wrote it.”
Despite their fundamentally different approaches to resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict, Bennett praised Peres as a “visionary,” and a “peace-seeking” lead...
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September 28, 2016 at 7:52 am
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres was Niftar moments ago. He was 93.
Peres had been hospitalized since suffering a stroke two weeks ago.
Peres held virtually every senior political office in Israel over a seven-decade career, including three terms as prime minister as well as stints as foreign minister and finance minister.
He was the ninth President of Israel from 2007 to 2014. Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and twice as Interim Prime Minister, and he was a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until 2007, when he became President.
Shimon Peres was born Szymon Perski, on 2 August 1923, in Wiszniew, Poland (...
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September 27, 2016 at 11:16 pm
There are few people who we share this world with who change the course of human history, not just through their role in human events, but because they expand our moral imagination and force us to expect more of ourselves. My friend Shimon was one of those people.
Shimon Peres once said that, “I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.” Tonight, Michelle and I join people across Israel, the United States and around the world in honoring the extraordinary life of our dear friend Shimon Peres—a Founding Father of the State of Israel and a statesman whose commitment to Israel’s security and pursuit of peace was rooted in his own unshakeable moral foundation and unflagging optimism.
I will always be grateful that I was able t...
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September 27, 2016 at 10:48 pm
New York - The owner of a Brooklyn bulb company is hoping to shed some new light on an ages old problem with a rabbinically approved bulb that can be switched from full light to darkness without any halachic violations.
Morty Kohn, the owner the Redhook based Sunlite which stocks approximately 9,000 different bulbs and lighting fixtures, said that the idea for the Shabbulb had been brewing in his head for many years. As LED lighting began gaining in popularity, he saw the opening he had been looking for.
“Because LED bulbs rely on a chemical reaction, it isn’t really considered to be aish, so I knew from a technology standpoint it would be much easier,” Kohn told VIN News. “You could never do this with a regular bulb.”
It took Kohn, a 55 year old ...
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September 27, 2016 at 10:25 pm
In Covington, Kentucky, a small city of 40,000 just outside Cincinnati, times could be better. Median household income is just around $35,000. Twenty percent of the population doesn’t have health care. And twenty-five percent of residents live in poverty.
But Covington has at least one reliable industry: processing tax returns filed by individuals and businesses by paper. At an Internal Revenue Service facility there, 1,800 employees, including 700 seasonal workers, deal with the glut of dead trees the agency receives daily. They sort mail. They hunt for checks. They send incorrectly completed Affordable Care Act forms back to taxpayers. And they put the analog data they get into computers.
Until now. The Internal Revenue Service said it will eliminate more than 7,000 job...
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September 27, 2016 at 10:16 pm
After Mrs. Rivka Toledano, 83, was killed in a vehicular accident 10 years ago on Route 70, on Sunday night the eve of 23 Elul while heading to a Bas Mitzvah, her daughter Esther Asig, 57, was niftar a month before her son’s chasenah, also in a car accident and also heading to a bas mitzvah.
The family tells they were traveling to a bas mitzvah of a grandchild of Esther’s A”H, a great grandchild of Mrs. Rivka Toledano A”H.
The accident occurred on 12 Elul on the road near Yishuv Netiv HaShaiyara, (מושב נתיב השיירה) in the Western Galil. The road is one lane in each direction without a divider. This led to the head-in collision as one of the vehicles veered out of its lane. Rivka was killed on the spot and her daughter seriously injured and her husban...
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September 27, 2016 at 10:10 pm
SEATTLE (AP) - A cardboard cutout of a head in a passenger seat definitely caught the attention of a Washington State Patrol trooper Tuesday morning.
That's because it wasn't just any old cardboard head, but that of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
A trooper stopped the motorist who was driving with the cardboard likeness...read more at KARE
Washington State Patrol spokesman Rick Johnson says every now and then they get somebody trying to be funny and says they've seen everything from teddy bears to mannequins all sitting beside drivers.
But Trump's head? That was, to borrow a catchphrase -- huge.
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September 27, 2016 at 8:25 pm
We continue our discussion about Shema and accepting Hashem as our King on Rosh Hashana with the possuk in Parshas Nitzavim describing a person whose does not inwardly accept the covenant. It is critical for our heart and mouth to be aligned-we must believe what we say. When we do teshuva, we are trying to align our heart and mind. As we declare the unity of Hashem in Shema, we try to align our thoughts, actions, and feelings, so that we too can experience the harmony of 'echad'.
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September 27, 2016 at 8:24 pm
Two months after a historic delegation of prestigious rabbonim traveled to Toronto to raise funds to provide the recent waves of French immigrants to Israel with a solid education within the Charedi school system comes a second trip to benefit the recently established French Children’s Fund, this time to Chicago.
The Satmar Rebbe, HaRav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum and HaRav Malkiel Kotler will be joined by Hagaon HaRav Dovid Feinstein on their Tuesday journey to Chicago. Although the days preceding Rosh Hashana are extraordinarily busy for all involved, the need to provide for the spiritual health of the French Jews was significant enough to warrant making the trip during the final days of Elul.
Over the past few weeks, more than 1,000 French children were placed within Charedi schools ...
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September 27, 2016 at 8:23 pm
The first Jewish ghetto was established in Venice 500 years ago this year, and for the first time, Jewish artifacts from the ghetto are on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; this ghetto was the first time that Jews had a permanent, designated place to live in Europe.
It has been 500 years since the founding of the Jewish Ghetto, the first in the world, in Venice in 1516. “People don’t understand the significance of the word ghetto, where it comes from and how the Jews lived there,” explained Gioia Sztulman of the Israel Museum, where an exhibition showing artifacts that survived centuries of exile and ghettos is currently on display.
One of the more moving artifacts is a curtain from 1601, not long after the ghetto was established, displaying symbols...
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September 27, 2016 at 8:23 pm
The FBI is investigating suspected attempts to hack mobile phones used by Democratic Party officials as recently as the past month, four people with direct knowledge of the attack and the investigation told Reuters.
The revelation underscores the widening scope of the U.S. criminal inquiry into cyber attacks on Democratic Party organizations, including the presidential campaign of its candidate, former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
U.S. officials have said they believe those attacks were orchestrated by hackers backed by the Russian government, possibly to disrupt the Nov. 8 election in which Clinton faces Republican Party candidate Donald Trump. Russia has dismissed allegations it was involved in cyber attacks on the organizations.
The more recent attempted ...
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September 27, 2016 at 6:55 pm
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 27, 2016 - There is hardly a name that carries as much meaning to every Jew as that of Rav Yisrael Meir Kagan, the saintly Chofetz Chaim. Each of his many accomplishments would be legendary on its own; when combined, they are beyond our comprehension. The Chofetz Chaim was niftar 83 years ago today, the 24th of Elul. The first known dedication to his memory in America took place just a few weeks later. In a small room in Baltimore, Rabbi J. Heffland, the chairman of the Board of Directors of Talmudical Academy, which was founded in 1917, organized a meeting to discuss what could be done to preserve the legacy of the Chofetz Chaim. Rabbi Heffland suggested that they rename the Yeshiva and call it Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim of Baltimore. The resolution was unanimously...
