Female terrorist neutralized after attempting to stab security forces north of Jerusalem A female Arab terrorist attempted to stab Israeli soldiers manning Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem Tuesday morning. Alert troops shot and wounded the terrorist before she was able to carry out her attack, however; she was transferred to Shaarei Tzedek hospital in moderate condition. "At the Qalandiya checkpoint a young Arab woman ... started to run toward the guards, who several times ordered her to stop," a police statement said. "When she did not comply and drew close to them they fired at her legs and neutralised her," it said. She was found to have been carrying a knife in her bag, it added. The statement said the woman was a resident of the nearby village of Akab. Police said th...
 Terror group says terrorists who decapitated priest near Rouen today are soldiers for Islamic State. The ISIS terror organization has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on a church near Rouen, France on Tuesday, saying the terrorists involved were “soldiers of ISIS”. Two men who had declared their allegiance to the radical Islamic terror group, took five hostages in a church in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in Normandy. The terrorists killed one hostage and seriously wounded a second. Jacques Himel, 86, a priest, was horrifically murdered in the attack, his throat slit, while doctors are struggling to save the life of the second victim. The Daily Mail has reported that Himel was beheaded during the attack before French police shot an...
Ashdod, Israel - Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot on Tuesday reported its first case of life-threatening incident involving the popular new “Pokemon Go” app.  Ashdod resident Asaf Ben Guzi, 17, was rushed to the Kaplan Medical Center emergency room after nearly drowning while trying to catch a character in the game. He was pulled from the water by his brother, and was later hospitalized in the neurology department. Doctors warned that using the app by the sea is highly dangerous due to users’ lack of awareness of the real world around them while playing. Since the app’s debut, it has caused a number of accidents. In Baltimore, a man drove into an empty parked police car because he was searching for pokemon while driving. In Japan, players have been f...
Tragedy in Germany: A hospital patient in Berlin shot a doctor, before turning the gun on himself. A German shot a doctor at Benjamin Franklin Campus of the Charite university hospital in Berlin, and then killed himself with the same gun. The doctor was critically injured, and has died of his injuries. Police report they were called to the main building of the hospital at 11 a.m. today, in the southwestern Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin. They added that the gunman was a patient at the hospital. Tagesspiegel newspaper reports that a police terror unit has been deployed to the scene. However, German police reject the idea that this was a terror incident. There are "no signs at all" of a link to terrorism, they said. The incident is the latest in a wave of attacks in Germany, whic...
Sagamihara, Japan - A young Japanese man went on a stabbing rampage Tuesday at a facility for the mentally disabled where he had been fired, officials said, killing 19 people months after he gave a letter to Parliament outlining the bloody plan and saying all disabled people should be put to death. When he was done, Kanagawa prefectural authorities said, 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu had left dead or injured nearly a third of the almost 150 patients at the facility in a matter of 40 minutes in the early Tuesday attack. It is Japan’s deadliest mass killing in decades. The fire department said 25 were wounded, 20 of them seriously. Security camera footage played on TV news programs showed a man driving up in a black car and carrying several knives to the Tsukui Yamayuri-en fa...
Brooklyn, NY - New York City police say they had to use a stun gun to subdue a man who was menacing people at a Brooklyn park with swords in both hands. The Daily News reports (http://nydn.us/2a9TFex ) police responded to Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick around 8 p.m. Monday. Authorities say about 50 people pointed out the suspect, who ran from the park. Sgt. Brendan Ryan says officers surrounded the 56-year-old suspect when he unsheathed two swords and told them, “You’re going to have to kill me.” Police fired a stun gun and took the man into custody. They say they also found a machete and two smaller knives in a duffel bag. Authorities didn’t immediately identify the suspect. ___ Information from: Daily News, http://www.nydailynews.com
Winston-Salem, NC - Republican nominee Donald Trump said on Monday that if elected U.S. president he would weigh an alliance with Russia against Islamic State militants but rejected any suggestion Russian President Vladimir Putin might be trying to help him win. Speaking at a rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Trump dismissed any suggestion that Putin’s intelligence services might have had a hand in hacking the Democratic National Committee’s email system. Emails leaked last week disclosed that some party officials had been in favor of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton winning the Democratic presidential nomination over U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and sought ways to thwart Sanders. The uproar over the WikiLeaks revelations prompted Debbie Wasserman Schu...
Philadelphia - Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren says Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has excited Americans who are rightfully angry. But she says he’s offering no solutions for their problems. She tells the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that Trump can see voter anger “from the top of Trump Tower” and tells voters that “he and he alone can fixed the rigged system.” Warren says the only actual clear policy proposal Trump offered in his own nomination acceptance last week was “a stupid wall” that “will never get built.” Trump wants to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. But she says there was nothing in his speech about improving children’s education, increasing incomes or creating ...
West Bank - The Palestinian president says he will sue Great Britain over the 1917 Balfour Declaration and its support for a Jewish national home in the Holy Land. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki made the announcement on behalf of Mahmoud Abbas at Monday’s opening of the Arab League summit in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott. Malki said the suit would be filed in an international court. He didn’t elaborate. The Balfour Declaration laid the vision for the future state of Israel and sparked waves of Jewish migration to the British mandate in Palestine. Israel declared its independence in 1948 after the mandate expired and won a subsequent war against its Arab adversaries. Malki said the declaration was a “fateful promise from the ones who don’t...
Vientiane - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday brushed aside accusations that Moscow was behind the hacking of Democratic Party emails. “I don’t want to use four-letter words,” Lavrov told reporters, when asked whether Russia was responsible for the hacking of emails. He was speaking at the start of talks with Secretary of State John Kerry on the sidelines of a meeting of Southeast Asian nations in Laos.
Roanoke, VA - Donald Trump has a new, derisive nickname for his Democratic rival: Hillary “Rotten” Clinton. Addressing backers Monday in an overly warm ballroom in Roanoke, Virginia, the Republican presidential nominee lashed out at Clinton as low-energy and needing naps. He argued that she dropped her maiden name, Rodham, because it sounds like “rotten.” “Why did she get rid of it? Hillary Rotten Clinton, Rotten Clinton. Hillary Rotten Clinton, right?” Trump told the crowd. “Maybe that’s why, it’s too close.” Trump has repeatedly referred to Clinton as “Crooked Hillary.” The event was held in the home state of Clinton’s new running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, whom Trump derided as a “weird little dude&...
Baltimore residents would pay about 33 percent more for water — and be charged two new fees — under a three-year plan under consideration by city officials. Officials propose raising water rates by 9.9 percent each year through fiscal year 2018; sewer rates by 9 percent each year through 2018; and creating new charges for "infrastructure" and "account management." Under the plan, a typical water bill for a residential customer could increase from $233.12 per quarter to $275.53 by 2019. The city's finance and public work directors are recommending the rate increases to the Board of Estimates, which is controlled by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. A public hearing on the new charges is expected to be scheduled for 9 a.m. on Aug. 31. Additionally, city officials ...
Dear Ramaz Students, Last week, over 830 of you signed a petition to Ramaz dean and spiritual leader Rabbi Haskel Lookstein to protest his decision to give the invocation at the Republican convention. In the petition, you accuse Donald trump of every social ill on the face of the earth: racism, anti-Semitism, sexism, and, for good measure, chillul Hashem. As a result of your petition, Rabbi Lookstein was forced to back out of attending the convention. My questions to you are: As a Torah organization, if you are truly concerned about chillul Hashem, how about the chillul Hashem of publicly humiliating a rabbi – your rabbi – in public? What about the chillul Hashem of a massive rebuke to someone who could be the next president of the United States? What about the mitzvah o...
Jerusalem - Israeli police say they have arrested dozens of members of an extremist soccer fans’ group. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said on Tuesday that 56 suspected members of the “La Familia” group of Beitar Jerusalem fans were arrested in an overnight raid. She says stun grenades, firecrackers and other banned pyrotechnics were confiscated. An undercover agent who had infiltrated the group over the past six months led to the breakthrough. Beitar has long tried to contain the tightly knit fan group whose behavior has had the team docked points and forced it to play before empty stadiums. The group is routinely abusive toward opposing players, taunting them with racist and anti-Arab chants. Beitar has asked police to help rein in the group, which is also su...
At least two unidentified attackers take hostages in church in northern France. Hostage-takers killed by police SWAT team. Two men armed with knives took a number of hostages in a church located near Rouen in northern France, murdering one victim before they were eliminated by armed police. The identities of the knifemen and their motives are not known at this stage, but the course of the investigation thus far indicates the incident was likely an Islamist terror attack. According to Reuters, police said that five people were held hostage at the Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray church in Normandy. France 3 news network identified a priest, two nuns and at least two worshipers as among those held captive. France's Le Figaro reports that the attackers murdered the priest by slitting h...
Philadelphia - Michelle Obama says she wants a president who knows issues “cannot be boiled down to 140 characters.” Once again she’s not mentioning Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by name in her speech at the Democratic National Convention. But she is citing his penchant for communicating on Twitter and says she wants someone who understands that issues aren’t always clear. And, she adds, “That’s why in this election. I’m with her.”
Berlin - Four attacks in a week — three of them carried out by asylum seekers — have left Germany on edge and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policies of welcoming refugees under renewed criticism. The unprecedented bloodshed began July 18, when a 17-year-old from Afghanistan wielding an ax attacked people on a train near Wuerzburg, wounding five people before he was shot to death by police. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility. On Sunday, a 21-year-old Syrian used a machete to kill a 45-year-old Polish woman in the southern city of Reutlingen. Authorities said assailant and victim knew each other from working in the same restaurant, and the incident was not related to terrorism. Also Sunday, a 27-year-old Syrian who was denied asylum detonated a backpack...
Roanoke, VA - Donald Trump eagerly injected himself into the Democratic Party’s email controversy on Monday, calling the revelations that the party apparatus backed Democrat Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders proved his charges that the system is rigged. Trump, kicking off a three-day campaign swing with his vice presidential running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, returned to his freewheeling style after giving a scripted speech on Thursday accepting the Republican presidential nomination. During an hour-long event in Roanoke, Virginia, Trump labeled Clinton “low-energy,” the same characterization he lobbed at Republican rival Jeb Bush; attacked her running mate, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia; and complained about the air conditioning in the hotel bal...
Las Vegas - A Las Vegas judge has ordered a cosmetologist to cover up a defendant’s neck and facial tattoos that include a swastika and the words “Most Wanted” on each day of his robbery trial. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2abZVGg ) that District Judge Richard Scotti decided that Bayzle Morgan’s tattoos should be concealed in an effort to get him a fair trial. Morgan has tattoos including a swastika inside a clover under his eye, the words “Skin Head” on his eyebrows and “Baby Nazi” written across his neck. It comes after an entire group of potential jurors said last month that they couldn’t be impartial after seeing Morgan’s tattoos. A new group will see him in makeup starting Monday. Defense at...
Baton Rouge - Baton Rouge police officer Montrell Jackson’s pleas for the city to unite and “don’t let hate infect your heart” echoed Monday throughout the funeral service that grieved a man who only four months earlier had been celebrating the birth of his son. Jackson wrote those words days before he was shot to death, in a Facebook post that described the difficulties of being both a black man and a police officer. His younger brother, Kedrick Pitts, repeated the words again at Jackson’s funeral. “All I wanted to do was be like you,” Pitts said, speaking to his brother. “Now I can brag about you being an angel.” Then, he told the overflowing church: “God bless you all. Don’t let hate infect your heart.” A ...
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