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October 18, 2017 at 12:45 pm
About four years ago, the chareidi city of Elad was in turmoil. A city with a mostly Sephardi population went to the polls and in the run-up to the mayoralty, Yisrael Porush fought against Tzuriel Krisfel. Shas was sure that the elections were in their hands, the main activists who led the campaign promised.
The city underwent an unprecedented jolt and controversy – even in Elad. Finally, on the 19th of Cheshvan, Porush was declared the mayor, albeit by a small margin, but nonetheless a majority and entered the mayor’s office.
A few days later, Porush succeeded – very slowly – in calming the mood in the city, bringing Shas into the coalition and appointing Krisfel as Deputy Mayor, and the city calmed down until new opponents, who usually complain against the...
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October 18, 2017 at 12:43 pm
Egypt’s antiquities agency says archaeologists have unearthed remains of a temple belonging to King Ramses II southwest of Cairo, which may shed light on the life of the 19th Dynasty pharaoh, over 3,200 years ago.
Mustafa Waziri, the head of agency, told The Associated Press on Monday that the discovery was made by an Egyptian-Czech mission in the village of Abusir near the step pyramid of Saqqara.
In a statement on Sunday, Miroslav Barta, the head of the Czech team, said the temple is the only evidence of the presence of Ramses II in the Badrashin area in Giza, part of Greater Cairo.
He said the discovery confirms the continued worship of the sun god “Ra” in Abusir, which started in the 5th Dynasty, over 4,500 years ago.
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October 18, 2017 at 12:41 pm
Ismaeal Azbarga, 46 -year-old resident of Lod was shot on Tuesday evening just after 8:30 p.m. The shooting took place on Ben Yehuda Street in Lod. EMS personnel from MDA and United Hatzalah responded to the incident. Shortly thereafter three of his relatives, having heard about the shooting, took a commercial vehicle and drove to the location of the incident. On the way they drove through a closed train crossing and were hit by a passing locomotive.
Azbarga was unconscious and in critical condition. Two of his relatives was seriously injured in the train crash, while the other person was lightly to moderately injured. No one on the train was injured.
Mendy Shapiro, an ambucycle volunteer with United Hatzalah said following the incident: “I arrived at the scene of the a...
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October 18, 2017 at 12:40 pm
Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital spokesperson Hadar Elboim reports that the terrorist who was shot and wounded as he ran towards soldiers at Gush Etzion Junction with a knife was injured in his abdomen. He is described as a 20-year-old male and listed in moderate-to-serious condition.
B’chasdei Hashem he was shot and neutralized as he ran towards the soldiers, before he could injure anyone.
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October 18, 2017 at 12:38 pm
A Yeshiva bochur was seriously injured when a large rock fell on his head while he was hiking in Ein Gedi on Tuesday afternoon. The hike, which took place in the David Stream of the popular tourist attraction, ended on a very serious note as the bochur was evacuated by an Air Force Helicopter to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.
The bochur was hiking with his friends when a large boulder rolled from on top of the mountainside and struck him in the head. According to eyewitness reports from his friends, the boulder was knocked off the face of the mountainside by a Ibex who had kicked the stone with its legs.
Members of the Ein Gedi Search and Rescue Team together with park officials and rangers extricated the injured 19-year-old bochur out of the stream. A United Hatzalah vo...
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October 18, 2017 at 12:37 pm
The race for the position of Mayor of Jerusalem just heated up. This evening attorney Avi Salmon announced his candidacy for the position running against incumbent Mayor Nir Barkat who will be running for his third term. Salmon said: “Today, the first shot was fired for the candidacy that will define Jerusalem’s future.”
Over the past decade Salmon has filled a number of roles in the Jerusalem municipality. He began as a field advisor for Barkat, then became the legal advisor for the opposition in the city council, for the mayor’s office and for the municipal elections.Later on, Salmon acted as the City Advisor of Business Development and finished off as a City Attorney
In his commencement speech, Salmon claimed that Barkat was more interested in trying to g...
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October 18, 2017 at 12:36 pm
The Chicago Department of Aviation has fired two security officers involved in an incident in which a passenger was dragged off a United Airlines flight after refusing to give up his seat, the city’s Office of Inspector General said in a report released Tuesday.
One of the fired officers, a sergeant, also was part of an attempt to cover up some details of the incident that happened in April at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, according to the report.
Four officers were involved in the confrontation with passenger David Dao, who was aboard a flight to Louisville, Kentucky. The Aviation Department suspended the two other officers – one for five days and the other for two. The officer who received the five-day suspension resigned.
The Office of Inspecto...
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October 18, 2017 at 12:32 pm
President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Sen. John McCain that “I fight back” after McCain questioned “half-baked, spurious nationalism” in America’s foreign policy.
McCain, a former Navy pilot who spent 5? years in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp and is battling brain cancer, offered a simple response to Trump: “I have faced tougher adversaries.”
Trump said in a radio interview with WMAL in Washington, “I’m being very, very nice but at some point I fight back and it won’t be pretty.” He bemoaned McCain’s decisive vote this past summer in opposition to a GOP bill to dismantle Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, a move that caused the failure of GOP efforts to repeal and replace “Obamacare.”
In...
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October 18, 2017 at 12:27 pm
The topic was bipartisanship. The speakers: former Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
And as their conversation got going at the University of Delaware on Tuesday, both men lamented the Trump administration and the current culture in Washington.
Biden said 14 heads of state from around the world have contacted him for advice, including one European leader he wouldn’t identify, who said President Donald Trump reminds him of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Biden called Trump’s behavior “absolutely bizarre.”
“Violating the norms of personal conduct generates more anxiety and fear than any policy prescription that this president has annunciated,” Biden said. “This breaking down of international and national norm...
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October 18, 2017 at 12:20 pm
Israel’s Security Cabinet held a special session in order to discuss policy in the wake of the recent agreement of peace between Palestinian factions of Fatah and Hamas.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said there would be no talks with the Palestinians unless Hamas agrees to a series of conditions it is unlikely to accept, including recognizing Israel and agreeing to disarm. The reason for this stipulation is that the current Palestinian agreement between the warring factions does not include the disbanding or disarmament of Hamas’ military terror wing.
A statement made by the Prime Minister’s office read: “In keeping with previous decisions, the Israeli government will not hold any political negotiations with a Palestinian government that i...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:53 am
Doctors at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa removed a metallic chain from the stomach of a 4-year-old boy who ingested it.
Children are at times curious, and in this case, it led to a visit to an emergency room and invasive treatment. The boy’s sister saw him playing with it and when it suddenly vanished, she understood that he swallowed it. This was confirmed by hospital personnel who ordered an x-ray.
The child was asymptomatic, not complaining of pain or discomfort. It was decided to hold off with an invasive procedure and admit the boy for observation while following the passage of the chain through the stomach and digestive tract, permitting it to pass through the body on its own, which often occurs in such cases. After two days x-rays saw the chain in his stomach and the ...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:50 am
President Donald Trump says he’s “more than close” to naming a new health and human services secretary.
But Trump tells Fox News Radio’s Brian Kilmeade in an interview Tuesday that he’s not ready to reveal a name because the individual’s background needs to be looked into a little bit more.
Trump says that if the Senate approves his eventual choice “it will be a fantastic, a fantastic nomination.”
Tom Price, Trump’s first HHS secretary, resigned under pressure in late September after his costly travel aboard chartered aircraft triggered investigations and angered Trump.
Price was the first member of Trump’s Cabinet to be forced out.
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October 18, 2017 at 11:48 am
The Senate is moving ahead on a Republican budget plan, a critical step in President Donald Trump and the party’s politically imperative drive to cut taxes and simplify the IRS code.
The nonbinding budget plan would permit Republicans to pass follow-up tax cuts later this year that would cost up to $1.5 trillion over the coming decade. The plan cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate on a party-line vote of 50-47.
The plan breaks with longstanding promises by top Republicans like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker Paul Ryan that the upcoming tax drive won’t add to the nation’s $20 trillion debt. Once the budget plan passes through the GOP-controlled Congress, the House and Senate can then advance a follow-up tax overhaul measure without fear of a...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:46 am
A lawsuit seeking disclosure of FBI files that may detail a U.S.-based support network for the 9/11 hijackers has reached a federal appeals court, which is being asked by a Florida online publication to order a Freedom of Information Act trial on the dispute.
The case centers around reporting published by the Broward Bulldog on the FBI’s investigation into a Saudi family that abruptly left its home in a gated Sarasota community two weeks before the 2001 terror attacks. One FBI document written in 2002 that was disclosed in court said agents had found “many connections” between the family and some of the hijackers who took flying lessons at a nearby airport, including ringleader Mohamed Atta.
Later, however, the FBI disputed its own document, telling a 9/11 review ...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:45 am
An official says work on an electric cable linking the power grids of Israel, Cyprus and Greece is on track to start in the first quarter of 2018 after Greek and Cypriot regulators approved the project.
Nasos Ktorides, who heads the EuroAsia Interconnector project, said Monday that Israeli regulators are expected to give their approval next month.
The 1,520-kilometer (945-mile) undersea electric cable with a 2,000-megawatt capacity will be able to both receive and transmit electricity.
Work on the cable is expected to last until 2022 and its first phase will have an estimated cost of around 3.5 billion euros ($4.13 billion).
The project emerged amid improved relations between the three counties, coupled with the discovery of gas deposits in the east Mediterranean that could be us...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:43 am
New York is poised to adopt new standards for the treatment of prisoners held in solitary confinement in local jails.
The state’s Commission on Corrections is expected to formally issue the new rules Tuesday. The changes come at the urging of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and must be published in the state register before taking effect, likely later this fall.
Under the new regulations, all prisoners held in solitary at local jails must get at least four hours outside their cell daily.
The rules will also require local authorities to inform the state when prisoners under 18 are placed in isolation or when an inmate is held in solitary for more than a month.
Cuomo says the standards will prevent prisoner mistreatment.
The state has already implemented changes to reduce solit...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:43 am
Britain’s domestic intelligence chief says the country is facing the worst terrorist threat he’s seen his 34-year career.
MI5 Director General Andrew Parker said in a rare public speech on Tuesday that the threat is “multi-dimensional, evolving rapidly and operating at a scale and pace we’ve not seen before.”
Parker says there has been a “dramatic upshift” this year, which has produced attacks in London and the city of Manchester that have killed 36 people combined.
Parker says another 20 attacks were foiled in Britain over the past four years and “many more” were prevented.
He cited a record number of terrorism-related arrests, including 379 during the first six months of 2017.
Parker says it’s impossible for MI5 to st...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:32 am
Multiple people have been injured after a shooting at a business park in Edgewood Wednesday morning, authorities said.
Authorities are asking the public to avoid the Emmorton Business Park area after reports of a shooting.
Harford County authorities are leading the investigation, assisted by state troopers and officers from surrounding counties. Special agents from the ATF are also on the scene, and the FBI is aware of the incident.
Authorities are looking for a man behind the wheel of a red Dodge Charger with Delaware tags. More details should be discussed at a media briefing yet to come.
At least two patients have been sent to Shock Trauma in Baltimore.
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A modified lockdown is in effect at Edgewood High, Edgewood Middle, Deerfield Elementar...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:22 am
Baltimore, MD - October 18, 2017- STAR-K proudly welcomes back Accents and Cocoaccinos (and welcomes the more recently opened Serengeti restaurant) to the STAR-K family, as of November 1. These three Greenspring Shopping Center eateries have been under OU certification over the past several years, however, due to the community’s desire, owners Larry and Lara Franks have decided to resume STAR-K certification. Accents and Serengeti offer glatt kosher cuisine; Cocoaccinos offers a 100% cholov Yisroel menu.
"We are delighted to rejoin the STAR-K family,” says owner Lara Franks. It is something our customers have been requesting for a while, so that their entire families can come together b'simcha and enjoy great meals together in our establishments."
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October 18, 2017 at 11:22 am
The Tower of David Museum (ToD) at Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel, held a grand opening for its new Innovation Lab on Tuesday evening. The ToD Museum housed within the walls of the ancient fortress of King Herrod is to be new home for some of Israel's latest technology development.
Eilat Lieber, Director and Chief Curator, envisions technology coming from the ancient stones as a "leap into tomorrow." Augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) technology is to enhance the visitors' museum experience. The days of walking through a museum and reading signs is of the past. The future involves integrating AR/VR to reach the younger generation who have grown up with interactive games, cell phones, ipads, and apps, to not just observe, but to ex...
