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December 8, 2016 at 8:56 am
It has been cleared for publication that forces have arrested a Hamas ring which worked to carry out a kidnapping as a bargaining chip.
It has been cleared for publication that an operation of the Shin Bet (GSS) has uncovered a Hamas ring which worked to carry out a kidnapping as a bargaining chip.
The members of the ring, Hamas terrorists from Tzurif and Hevron, south of Jerusalem and both with a long history of terror activity, planned various attacks, including shooting attacks and a kidnapping as a bargaining chip for freeing jailed terrorists.
The terrorists, as part of their preparations, also spied on IDF bases in the area of Tzurif. Significant caches of weapons were seized.
The investigation against the terrorists has finished, and an indictment against them is expecte...
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December 8, 2016 at 8:52 am
Hundreds of police are training for Amona evacuation at Negev army training base which is built like an Arab village.
Hundreds of police have been practicing since the beginning of the week the evacuation of Amona at the Tzeelim army base in the Negev which normally serves military trainees.
This week senior police officers including the Chief of Police came to observe the training from up close.
The training is taking place at the National Center for Land Training, which is built in the form of a civilian town. A senior officer who took part in the training said that names of the families in Amona were written on the buildings in the training facility the in order to make the training more authentic.
The IDF built a training installation 10 years ago near the Tzeelim training base i...
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December 8, 2016 at 8:49 am
A preliminary report on the deadly November crash involving a city school bus and a Maryland Transit Administration bus doesn't come up with a definitive cause but appears to question the medical status of the school bus driver.
The National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday released the preliminary findings in the Nov. 1 crash that killed six, including the drivers of both buses involved.
School bus driver Glenn Chappell, 67, drove for AAAffordable, which had contracts for seven city school bus routes and three in Howard County. Chappell, had a history of hypertension and diabetes, in addition to the seizures that were earlier reported. Investigators found he'd been involved in at least 12 crashes or incidents while behind the wheel of either a school bus...
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December 8, 2016 at 8:43 am
Israeli police say security forces have shot and killed a knife-wielding Palestinian at a West Bank junction.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says an 18-year-old Palestinian disembarked from a bus at the Tapuach Junction, north of Jerusalem, and approached border policemen stationed there in a suspicious manner on Thursday.
She says when the policemen asked him to halt, he pulled out a knife and charged toward them. They then opened fire, killing him.
The incident is the latest in a year-long wave of violence. Palestinian attackers have killed 36 Israelis and two visiting Americans in stabbings, shootings and car ramming attacks. During the same period, 228 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire. Israel says most of the Palestinians killed were attackers while t...
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December 7, 2016 at 7:58 pm
A campaign to get the United Kingdom to apologize for the 1917 Balfour Declaration is “very revealing about the true source” of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Jewish state’s prime minister said on Tuesday.
“The Balfour Declaration recognized this land as a home for the Jewish people, which obviously had consequences later on down the line,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the 2016 Jewish Media Summit in Jerusalem. “But if the Palestinians, 100 years later, are challenging even the idea that the Jewish people have a home here, you know that they are not really gung-ho on…a nation-state for the Jewish people.”
“It’s not about territories, even though that’s an issue,” he continued. &ld...
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December 7, 2016 at 7:52 pm
“Our world is hungry for heroes, people who do the right thing for the right reasons in the right way, regardless of the risks or consequences,” the son of late World War II veteran Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds told The Algemeiner this week. “And that was my dad.”
Chris Edmonds, a Baptist pastor from Tennessee, is a man on a mission — to get his father, who passed away three decades ago, posthumously awarded a Medal of Honor, America’s highest military recognition, for the valor he displayed while protecting Jewish POWs following his capture by the Nazis during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.
At the Stalag IXA POW camp near Ziegenhain, Germany, Roddie Edmonds — who served in the US Army’s 422nd Infantry Regiment &mdash...
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December 7, 2016 at 7:51 pm
British-Jewish students are “fed up with taking a soft approach” to the head of the country’s largest student union — who is embroiled in an ongoing antisemitism scandal — and therefore are taking steps to sever ties with the organization, a leader of the effort told The Algemeiner.
Binyomin Gilbert, president of Goldsmiths, University of London’s Jewish Society, was referring to a motion he is co-sponsoring at the upcoming Union of Jewish Students (UJS) national conference, which seeks to officially split with the National Union of Students (NUS) over what he says is the failure of its president, Malia Bouattia, “to address her antisemitic rhetoric” and her “continual dismissal of our concerns.”
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December 7, 2016 at 7:03 pm
Plus 3 farhers on Shas in One Night – True Shas Yiden
The learning of Torah, especially the Shas, is getting more and more devotees across the Jewish world –Daf Hayomi (Shas in seven and a half years), Amud Yomi (fifteen years), chaburas in shuls, increased attendance in yeshivos, shiurim – a virtual renaissance after the devastation of the Holocaust. However, nothing rivals, in quantity and quality, the Shas Yiden project based in Bet Shemesh, Israel, under the leadership of the Nasi, Hagaon Harav Avrohom Eisen, Pozna Rov, and the Rosh Hakollel, Hagaon Harav Moshe Isaac Samet.
For the eighth year in a row, last Wednesday evening there was a Siyum Hashas by each of the twenty-one avreichim hage’onim. As they are each committed to a minimum of 5 chazoras on each bl...
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December 7, 2016 at 5:52 pm
When President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that Japanese corporate giant SoftBank had agreed to invest $50 billion in the U.S. and create 50,000 new jobs, he presented it as a triumph for American workers. But economists and analysts who have been scrutinizing the announcement suggest it might be a bigger win for the Japanese telecom and Internet conglomerate, SoftBank, and its billionaire founder, Masayoshi Son.
Analysts said the Japanese telecom and Internet conglomerate could be angling for lucrative benefits, including the regulatory approval to carry out one of the largest telecom mergers in recent history, between Sprint, which SoftBank owns, and rival carrier T-Mobile. It could also be cultivating a friendly environment for further technology investments Son ...
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December 7, 2016 at 5:45 pm
U.S. equities closed sharply higher on Wednesday as the Dow and S&P hit new record highs, while investors awaited a monetary policy announcement from the European Central Bank.
The S&P 500 erased earlier losses to gain around 1.3 percent, with telecoms rallying around 2.4 percent to lead advancers.
"This 2,219 level [on the S&P] was on where a lot of people were expecting to see some resistance, and we went through it like a hot knife through butter," said JJ Kinahan, chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade, adding stocks were also boosted by some short covering. "A lot of people have been saying 'this is the end' and have ended up with very little money in their hands."
The Dow Jones industrial average gained nearly 300 points, with Home Depot, IBM...
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December 7, 2016 at 5:36 pm
Two juveniles have been charged with aggravated arson in connection with the East Tennessee wildfires that killed 14 people last week and left nearly 150 others injured, authorities said Wednesday.
During an investigation, "information was developed that two juveniles allegedly started the fire," the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a news release.
A petition was filed Wednesday in juvenile court charging the juveniles with aggravated arson, the TBI said.
Both were taken into custody Wednesday morning and are being held at the Sevier County Juvenile Detention Center.
Additional charges "are being considered," District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn said at a news conference in Sevierville, Tennessee. "Everything is on the table."
The suspects are Tennessee residents, Dunn ...
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December 7, 2016 at 4:22 pm
The Histadrut national labor union on Wednesday, 7 Kislev, declared a ‘labor dispute’ over the ongoing dispute with Bnei Brak City Hall. Doing so starts the countdown timer which permits launching a strike after two weeks. During the period of the ‘labor dispute’, both sides are expected to enter into intensive negotiations in the hope of averting a strike.
According to Histadrut officials, meetings have been held with officials in Bnei Brak in the hope of settling the labor dispute, albeit without progress. The city is unwilling to accept demands from kindergarten teachers and their assistants not to work on Chanukah and other holidays, explaining they signed a contract which specifically compels they do so. However, the Histadrut feels this is a violation of thei...
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December 7, 2016 at 4:20 pm
A federal judge in Detroit has ordered a new trial for a convicted Arab terrorist who lied on her application for U.S. citizenship.
Rasmieh Odeh, 69, of Chicago, was granted U.S. citizenship without disclosing her conviction by an Israeli military court for involvement in two bombings, one of which killed two Israelis at a supermarket in Jerusalem in 1969.
In the new trial, Odeh reportedly will be allowed to show she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder when she was interviewed in Detroit during the citizenship process. In February, a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals found that testimony about her PTSD was wrongly excluded from her first trial.
Odeh, an associate director at the Arab American Action Network, was found guilty in November 2014 of covering up...
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December 7, 2016 at 4:08 pm
Search and rescue efforts are underway for a Marine pilot who ejected about 120 miles off the coast of Japan on Wednesday.
The pilot ditched his F/A-18 at approximately 6:40 p.m. local time southeast of Iwakuni, Japan, the Marine Corps said in a statement. The aircraft was assigned to 1st Marine Aircraft Wing based out of Okinawa.
The cause of the incident is under investigation.
It is the fourth Marine Corps F/A-18 to crash since July. In August, because of an increasing number of training mishaps, the Marines temporarily grounded their entire fleet of F/A-18s.
First debuted in the 1980s, the F/A-18 is a multi-role fighter and is primarily used by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. It comes in a number of variants with both single- and two-seat configurations and has been expor...
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December 7, 2016 at 4:04 pm
Chief Rabbinate commits to creating standards for recognizing rabbis it trusts on conversions,including the Rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate committed to creating standards for recognizing which Diaspora rabbis it trusts to handle Jewish conversions.
The Ashkenazi and Sephardi chief rabbis announced separately Wednesday afternoon that they would convene a meeting next week with the Chief Rabbinate Council and the Supreme Rabbinical Court to determine the standards. The conversion of Ivanka Trump, the daughter of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, will be recognized under the new standards, Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef promised in his statement.
“This reform is expected to stop the suffering of many converts who have been through a conversion ...
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December 7, 2016 at 3:57 pm
One police officer was killed and another was seriously injured in a shooting near the campus of a Georgia university on Tuesday, locking down the campus and prompting a manhunt, according to authorities.
The shooting took place not far from Georgia Southwestern State University, a school in Americus, Georgia, about 150 miles south of Atlanta, officials said.
Both officers were responding to a call about a domestic dispute at an apartment complex at about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, said Americus Police Chief Mark A. Scott.
The two officers - one with the Americus Police Department, the other a public safety officer with the school - encountered a suspect outside the apartment complex and were shot there, Scott told reporters during a briefing.
The Americus officer was killed, ...
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December 7, 2016 at 3:51 pm
The Danish Medical Association intends to ban the performance of circumcision until people are 18 and decide for themselves to circumcise.
The Danish Medical Association intends to pass a law banning the performance of circumcision until the age of 18, since "this is a decision which must be taken by a mature person themselves."
Will Danish Jews be able to perform a circumcision on their children? The heads of the Danish Medical Association demand legislation which will proscribe circumcision before the age of 18. At that point people will be allowed to make a decision about whether they wish to undergo the procedure.
Liza Muller, director of the Ethical committee in the Danish Medical Association said that "Circumcision must be an informed and personal decision which young people mak...
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December 7, 2016 at 3:28 pm
Donald Trump intends to nominate a chief critic of the EPA to be its next head, a source confirmed Wednesday.
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt will be named the next Environmental Protection Agency administrator, the source said.
Pruitt, who was elected in the 2010 tea party wave, has filed lawsuits targeting the environmental policies of the Obama administration.
He also won big rulings in fights against the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan and the Waters of the United States rule.
The appointment will be sure to frustrate President Obama and his left-wing allies.
“The left is going to hate him in the EPA. What they want is a bureaucrat they can push around, or a liberal governor like Christie Todd Whitman. They definitely don’t want Pruitt, a...
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December 7, 2016 at 3:18 pm
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 275 points as U.S. stock indexes powered to all-time highs after an easing of the bond selloff boosted dividend-yielding equities. Treasuries fell with European debt as speculation mounted that the region's central bank will prolong its asset-buying program.
The 30-member blue-chip index jumped to a record as phone and REIT shares joined the post-election rally that'd been led by cyclical shares. Biotechnology companies in the S&P 500 Index tumbled the most since October after Donald Trump declared himself an opponent of high drug prices.
European equities advanced for a third day. Bonds rose across the euro area, with the yield on the benchmark German bund falling from the highest in almost three weeks. Treasuries slipped a...
