Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday his country will respond if a bill in the U.S. Congress imposing sanctions on people involved in Iran’s ballistic missile program becomes law. The House of Representatives passed the bill on Tuesday and it now goes to the Senate. Without giving details, Rouhani said in a Wednesday cabinet meeting broadcast by state TV that Iran will “take any action that is necessary for the country’s expedience and interests” and show “reciprocal” reaction to the law. The U.S. legislation would impose mandatory penalties on people involved in Iran’s ballistic missile program and anyone who does business with them. The measure would also apply terrorism sanctions to Iran’s prestigious Revolutionary Guard...
Celebrating a slim but symbolic health-care win in Washington, President Donald Trump told supporters in Ohio that the nation was one step closer to liberation from the “Obamacare nightmare.” “You think that’s easy? That’s not easy,” he told a crowd of thousands just hours after the Senate took a small but hard-fought first step Tuesday toward Republicans’ years-long promise to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law. Clearly energized to be back in front of a friendly crowd of supporters, Trump said repeatedly that he believes in speaking directly to the American people and not through the “fake news” media. And he joked about accusations that he doesn’t act presidential. “It’s so e...
According to a Channel 2 poll carried out by Midgam and iPanel, 77% of Israelis feel the removal of the metal detectors from Har Habayis represents surrender while 17% feels it does not. In addition, 68% feel placing the metal detectors was the correct move, 23% disagree and 9% do not know. Did PM Netanyahu handle the Har Habayis crisis correctly? 23% yes 67% no – not satisfied with his performance 10% don’t know
Speaking with Kol Berama Radio, attorney Itamar Ben-Givir explained he will wait a week or two to permit the government to act, and then he is taking his case to the High Court of Justice. He said “It’s time to end the apartheid policies against Jews”, adding “the situation on Har Habayis is absurd. The government has removed all the metal detectors except for one, at the gate used by Jews entering Har Habayis”. Ben-Givir maintains if there are no metal detectors for Muslims, then the one at the gate used by Jews must be removed as well.
Officials at the museum of the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz say some exhibits are going on a tour of Europe and North America to bring its tragic truth about the Holocaust to a wider audience. The museum says Wednesday this will be its first-ever traveling exhibition and will include some 600 items. Most of them will come from the museum, but also from other collections, like Israel’s Yad Vashem. The “Not long ago: Not far away” exhibit will include personal items of the victims and an original barrack from the Auschwitz-Monowitz part of the camp, a German freight wagon the Nazis used to bring inmates in. Some 1.1 million people, mostly Europe’s Jews, were killed in the camp that Nazi Germans operated in occupied Poland during World War II.
Coke Zero is getting revamped as Coke Zero Sugar. The new name is intended to make clearer that the drink has no sugar, and a new recipe is intended to make the drink taste more like regular Coke. The company isn’t specifying what it’s changing aside from saying it tweaked the “blend of flavors.” It says the drink will use the same artificial sweeteners. Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. says the new cans and bottles, which will incorporate more red like regular Coke, will start hitting shelves in August. The push behind Coke Zero comes as Americans continue moving away from Diet Coke, which was introduced in the 1980s and has its own taste that’s different from Coke. Coke Zero was introduced in 2005 and is intended to more closely mimic the flagship cola. Coke ...
A Lakewood resident scored an exclusive tour at the White House with the new Communications Director after having some fun on Twitter today. Here’s how it went down. Anthony Scaramucci was recently appointed as Communications Director by President Trump. Dave, of Lakewood, is a huge fan of the President, and was excited about the hiring of Anthony Scaramucci – so he took to Twitter to tweet about it. He then realized that the Communications Director did not open a new twitter account yet using his name with ’45’ – which many at the Administration do when they open an official Twitter account. “I did some research and saw that it is permitted to do such a thing although, I must write in the bio that it is not Mr. Scaramucci, but rather it is a ‘...
Waqf Authority officials are celebrating their victory, the removal of the metal detectors from Har Habayis. However, despite this, the authority is forbidding its people from returning to Har Habayis as it is not done making demands of Israel. The Waqf is demanding Israel open all the gates leading to Har Habayis, while today two gates are opened to Muslim and one to other visitors. Waqf officials met following Israel’s announcement that the metal detectors would be removed, and decided that despite Israel acquiescing to demands, it would not permit Waqf representatives to return to their position, announcing the ban on Muslims visiting for prayer remains until further notice. According to Arab media reports, the Jerusalem Mufti participated in the meeting where the decision was m...
President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman will not be testifying Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, as originally scheduled, after the committee rescinded its subpoena. The committee withdrew its subpoena for Paul Manafort late Tuesday after Manafort agreed to turn over documents and to continue negotiating about setting up an interview with the panel, according to Taylor Foy, a spokesman for Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Judiciary Committee chairman. The committee also removed Donald Trump Jr. from the list of witnesses scheduled for Wednesday’s public hearing. The panel has sought to talk with Manafort about a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting in New York with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, among other issues including his foreign political work on behal...
HaGaon HaRav Meir Mazuz Shlita, Rosh Yeshivas Kisei Rachamim addressed his shiurim that are aired on Kol Berama Radio. In a recent shiur, the rav addressed questions that some disagree with his rulings and do not follow his viewpoint. “I am not the posek hador. I am nothing, a nobody and therefore, one can follow who one wishes. One is not compelled to listen to my words. I am certain of the correctness of my position but one is not compelled to accept what I say for I am a none” stated the rav in response. There is much division in the Sephardi community since the petira of HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef ZT”L . Rav Mazuz backs Eli Yishai, who broke away from Shas after Aryeh Deri returned as party leader. This has also resulted in a boycott of Shas and its affiliates of Kol...
The Senate’s days-long debate on health care features a dynamic that’s relatively rare on Capitol Hill. Genuine suspense. Debate kicked off Tuesday without an obvious endgame. Several Republicans voted to start debate but said the bill will have to be changed for them to vote to actually pass the legislation later this week. The amendment process promises to be extensive and freewheeling. And victory for Republicans and President Donald Trump is not guaranteed. The Senate has started off by taking up the House-passed bill — which doesn’t have enough support to pass the Senate — and it’ll take near-unanimity among Republicans for them to alter the measure. Right now, they’re deeply divided. “We obviously don’t have consensus on where...
Passengers at all U.S. airports will soon face new measures for screening electronic devices bigger than a cellphone. Security officers will ask travelers in regular lanes to take all larger devices out of their bag and put them in a bin by themselves, similar to the screening of most travelers’ laptops. Officials say it gives X-ray screeners a clearer picture of the devices. The change won’t apply to Precheck lanes. The Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday the new procedure will go nationwide in the coming weeks and months. TSA has been testing it at 10 airports for more than a year. The Department of Homeland Security has been changing rules for electronics on international flights because of the threat that terrorists could hide bombs inside laptop or t...
Baltimore’s new transportation director said Wednesday the city will begin issuing speed camera fines Monday — the first time since 2013. Transportation Director Michelle Pourciau said 10 speed cameras will begin issuing $40 fines and eight red light cameras would begin a month-long warning phase before they begin issuing $75 fines. “We’re going to start fining,” she said. “So slow down.” Pourciau said the 10 speed cameras have been giving out a total of about 1,000 warnings per day since they went back online weeks ago. “This is no joke,” she said....read more at Baltimore Sun
IDF soldier accidentally shot in third incident in 2 months. A soldier was lightly injured when a bullet was accidentally fired at a base in central Israel Wednesday. The soldier was evacuated to the hospital. The IDF Military Police opened an investigation into the incident. Earlier this month, Lieutenant David Golovenchich, 22, was killed by an accidental firearm discharge during a training exercise at the Gilber checkpoint in Hevron. The commander of the Central Command, Major General Roni Numa, appointed a committee of experts headed by Colonel Ronen Tamim, the head of the Idan division, to investigate the circumstances of the incident. The Military Police opened its own investigation into the incident. About a month and a half ago, a 19-year-old soldier on leave was wounde...
Mikhael Mirilashvili, freed in 2009 after imprisonment on trumped-up charges, elected president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress. Eight years after his release from wrongful imprisonment in Russia, the Israeli billionaire Mikhael Mirilashvili was elected to lead the World Jewish Congress Euro-Asian affiliate, representing communities from Ukraine to Singapore. Mirilashvili, who had spent eight years in a Russian prison until 2009 on trumped up charges connected to his father’s abduction, was voted president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Monday, the organization said, replacing the Austrian baking magnate Julius Meinl. Mirilashvili, a 57-year-old physician turned industrialist who was born in the Caucasian republic of Georgia, presented a relatively conservative age...
Member of Nazi unit which butchered 90,000 Jews stripped of Canadian citizenship for hiding Nazi past. A 93-year-old ex-Nazi stripped of his Canadian citizenship for an unprecedented fourth time is vowing to appeal the decision yet again. Last week, Canada revoked the citizenship of Helmut Oberlander, a retired developer in Waterloo, Ontario, who has been accused of hiding his Nazi past before obtaining citizenship in 1960. The government had stripped Oberlander of his citizenship in 2001, 2007 and 2012, but the decisions were repealed after appeals by his lawyers. Born in Ukraine, he was forcibly conscripted as an interpreter for the Nazis with Einsatzkommando 10a, a mobile killing unit that executed thousands of Jews in the former Soviet Union. Oberlander has consistently mainta...
After 15 years, European soccer league again considering having Israeli teams hold their European tournament 'home games' outside of Israel. After 15 years of quiet from Europe’s soccer association UEFA on the matter of Israel’s hosting of European teams in Israel, the current security situation has again caused the association to raise the issue. In light of the terror attacks on the Temple Mount and the community of Halamish, as well as other terror-related incidents in Israel, UEFA turned to the international soccer federation, FIFA, requesting “guarantees” for European tournament qualifying games hosted in Israel - namely, qualifiers for the European Championship and the Champions League. UEFA indicated that it does not rule out the possibilit...
'The State of Israel will not allow the establishment of a Palestinian state whose capital is eastern Jerusalem.' The Knesset approved this evening, Wednesday, in its first reading the “United Jerusalem Law” spearheaded by Jewish Home party Chairman Naftali Bennett and Jewish Home MK Shuli Moalem-Refaeli. The Bill seeks to require an 80-MK supermajority for any division of Jerusalem in future peace agreements. Now, the Bill goes to the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee in preparation for second and third readings. Bennett praised the development this evening, claiming that the Law’s passage will knock down any possibility of Jerusalem being divided again. “The capital city was twice saved from the tragedy of division led by [f...
'State Department fears its own words would be used by Congress to cut funding to the PA, so it intentionally slants reports.' Two prominent former Israeli diplomats accused the US State Department of copying parts of old reports into newer reports in order to whitewash the Palestinian Authority's (PA) incitement to violence, the Jewish News Service (JNS) reported. Last week, the State Department released its annual assessment of global terrorism for 2016. Former Ambassador Alan Baker and ex-diplomat Lenny Ben-David, noted that the report used nearly identical language to defend the PA from accusations of incitement for the tenth consecutive year. “The PA has taken significant steps during President [Mahmoud] Abbas’s tenure (2005 to d...
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