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July 26, 2016 at 12:23 pm
Residents of the town of Carmel, in the Har Hevron region, were shocked on Shabbat to discover their new Palestinian neighbors.
The European Union has expanded its illegal building activities - to the southern Har Hevron area.
Until now, the EU has sponsored illegal construction mostly in the Adumim region, east of Jerusalem.
However, last Shabbat, residents of the town of Carmel were shocked to discover two new, large, EU-sponsored trailer homes, placed over Shabbat, only ten meters away from the town.
The trailers, mostly provided for Palestinian citizens, break international law and are a security threat for Israelis.
Recently, the Palestinian Authority have invested massive funds and resources in the Har Hevron region. Last week, the PA planted groves right up to the fence of ...
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July 26, 2016 at 12:20 pm
A new plan, called "Yachad," will allow the IDF provide for every soldier - while preventing them for providing for themselves.
A new initiative, pushed by MK Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin (Zionist Union), will allow donors to contribute directly to the IDF.
Called "Yachad," the plan will allow the IDF to receive donations, and distribute official equipment to its soldiers - while disallowing any individual soldiers from receiving equipment privately.
At a presentation to the Foreign and Defense Ministries, Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot explained that the IDF is obligated to provide all equipment necessary for IDF soldiers. Therefore, it is now illegal for a soldier to use equipment not provided by the IDF.
Nahmias-Verbin argues that the IDF isn't doing enough to provide for its perso...
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July 26, 2016 at 12:16 pm
Georgia Democratic Congressman Rep. Hank Johnson acknowledges 'poor choice of words' but fails to issue full apology.
A Georgia Democratic congressman apologized for calling Jewish "settlers" who live in Judea and Samaria "termites" at an anti-Israel event near the Democratic national convention.
“There has been a steady [stream], almost like termites can get into a residence and eat before you know that you’ve been eaten up and you fall in on yourself, there has been settlement activity that has marched forward with impunity and at an ever increasing rate to the point where it has become alarming,” Rep. Hank Johnson said Monday at a Philadelphia event organized by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
The Washington Free Beacon, a news websi...
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July 26, 2016 at 12:13 pm
Lake George, NY - Authorities say a 9-year-old girl has been killed and her mother injured in a hit-and-run boating accident on an Adirondack lake.
Officials say two power boats collided around 9:30 p.m. Monday on Lake George near Cramer Point on the west shore of the lake located in the southern Adirondacks about 55 miles north of Albany.
Warren County Sheriff Bud York says Tuesday that the girl and mother were among seven relatives in a 28-foot boat that was run over by a 22-foot vessel that left the scene. He says the girl died at the scene and her mother suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
York says the girl and mother were visiting family members on vacation. The victim’s names haven’t been released.
Police located the other boat and its operator at a nearby...
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July 26, 2016 at 12:09 pm
Updated: July 26, 2016 - 12:07PM - 15-year-old David Horowitz, who went missing from Camp Sha’arei Chemle in Roundtop New York has been found alive and well, b"H!
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There is an ongoing search for a missing person in Upstate New York, and hundreds of volunteers have joined the search.
Missing is 15-year-old David Horowitz, who went missing from Camp Sha’arei Chemle in Roundtop New York (Green County).
The camp is part of the Satmar [Kiryas Joel] Camp network
David is a special needs child. He was last seen at the camp at around 8:00PM on Monday night.
He was wearing the clothing seen in the attached photo of him.
The search is being coordinated by The NY State Police, NY Forest Rangers as well as Catskills Hatzolah, Kiryas Joel Hatzolah and the Misaskim Organization.
A...
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July 26, 2016 at 12:05 pm
Dear Congressman Hank Johnson, it has come to my attention that you believe that we Jews of Judea and Samaria are "termites." I fear you have been misinformed.
Dear Congressman Hank Johnson,
It has been brought to my attention that you believe I am a termite.
Not just me, but my family, neighbors, and many of my friends - in fact, all of the Jews currently living in the ancient Jewish lands of Judea and Samaria (unless, that is, like many of the anti-Israel activists you were speaking to at the time, you believe that Jews anywhere at all in Israel qualify as "settlers.")
Congratulations: you have just added to the litany of dehumanizing characterizations of Jews promulgated by anti-Semites throughout history.
Your worthless excuse of an "apology" not...
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July 26, 2016 at 12:04 pm
Baltimore, MD - July 26, 2016 - Crime in our neighborhood is ongoing.
Last night on the 6100 block of Greenspring, a door was kicked in, with computers and other electronics stolen.
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Also last night, Shomrim received reports of an attempted lock-picking off of Seven Mile Lane.
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Sunday night several cars on the 3900 block of Pinkney were burgled between 12 and 12:45 AM, and bicycles were stolen.
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Saturday night we received an email:
On Saturday morning my apartment was attempted to be broken into at about 2:30am but after about 20 minutes, the person left. The police came after an hour and did not do anything due to the person not being there. I live a block away from Seven Mile Lane.
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Last Thursday night multiple cars were broken into on Ivymount and around the Woodcrest area...
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July 26, 2016 at 11:34 am
[Ed. Note]: BJL readers are urged to share this as much as possible
Shalom. My name is Esther Caplin, from Neve Daniel, Israel.
After a year of treatments for stage 4 breast cancer which has spread to my liver, my oncologist decided to put me on Ibrance (with Faslodex) providing me with a free 3-month supply of Ibrance that he had obtained from a former patient.
Unfortunately, Ibrance is not one of the cancer drugs supplied on the health plan in Israel and my oncologist hoped to use the three month period to assess its effectiveness on me and to try to acquire more of the drug from Pfizer on compassionate grounds.
While the Ibrance has succeeded in halting the spread of the cancer, the request to Pfizer did not work out. As buying the drug was not a viable option, I began a search in m...
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July 26, 2016 at 11:20 am
One day before a pre-trial hearing in the case of a police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray, the defense is worried about a "tainted prosecution."
In motions unsealed on Monday, defense attorneys for Officer Garrett Miller have advised the Court that they have issued subpoenas to six Baltimore City prosecutors, to determine if they discussed Miller's case.
CLICK HERE to read the defense motion.
Miller was offered immunity when he testified for the prosecution on May 16 at the trial of Officer Edward Nero.
Under an immunity agreement none of what Miller said on the stand at Nero's trial, and no evidence resulting from that testimony, can be used at Miller's trial.
As part of that agreement Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mos...
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July 26, 2016 at 11:03 am
Jerusalem - The Knesset Education Committee met on Tuesday to discuss the final ratification of a bill passed in its first reading that would nullify the requirement that Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) elementary schools teach a minimum of basic courses in English, math, and science in order to receive government funding.
The first reading of the new bill had been approved on Monday by a majority of 37 lawmakers in favor versus 33 who opposed it. The bill has yet to pass a second and third reading in order to be ratified into law.
The bill revokes a previous law passed in 2013 by Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid in collaboration with former Education Minister Rabbi Shai Piron. The law had mandated that a portion of state funding for Haredi schools be conditioned upon compliance wit...
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July 26, 2016 at 10:56 am
Washington - Donald Trump is complaining about hot air at a Virginia hotel, and the hotel is pushing back.
The Republican presidential nominee said he felt like he was “in a sauna” speaking to supporters at the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center on Monday and warned he might not pay the bill.
Onstage, Trump, owner of luxury hotels, interrupted his remarks about free trade to berate the hotel about its air conditioning system.
“I don’t know what hotel this is, but you ought to try turning on the air conditioning or we’re not going to get you paid,” Trump said.
Hotel officials told WDBJ in Roanoke that the air conditioning system “was on and working properly throughout the event.” The hotel said temperatures in the 90s did pose &ld...
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July 26, 2016 at 10:51 am
Waze has developed a warning that will remind drivers to check whether they have left their children behind
Children left behind in cars is one of the worst plagues of the summer. According to figures from Beterem – Safe Kids Israel (Hebrew), the media reported 293 cases of children being forgotten in various vehicles in 2009-2014, with 15 cases ending in the child’s death. We have now learned that Waze, one of the world’s most popular navigational apps, is on the road to launching a new feature that may be able to prevent the next forgotten child.
Have you finished your journey? Waze will show you a reminder to check the back of the car
Photo credit: Geektime
Screen captures we have obtained from Waze’s recent beta version show that the compa...
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July 26, 2016 at 10:25 am
Washington - Donald Trump is talking about polls again.
The Republican presidential nominee had recently avoided the subject, given that many preference polls showed him in a close race with Hillary Clinton.
But on Monday, Trump cited polls following the Republican National Convention that show “the biggest bounce that anyone can remember.”
Yet while all preference polls taken months before the November vote should come with a grain of salt, those published around the conventions are often especially volatile. They require a shaker.
And, by the way, those national polls don’t reflect the way America chooses its president. The White House isn’t decided by a popular vote, but in state-by-state votes that make up the Electoral College.
Here’s a deeper...
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July 26, 2016 at 10:17 am
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...
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July 26, 2016 at 10:15 am
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...
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July 26, 2016 at 9:59 am
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...
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July 26, 2016 at 9:54 am
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...
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July 26, 2016 at 9:26 am
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...
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July 26, 2016 at 9:13 am
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.
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Information from: Daily News, http://www.nydailynews.com
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July 26, 2016 at 8:50 am
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...
