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April 28, 2017 at 10:14 am
PM says German Foreign Minister refused his phone call, describes meeting with anti-IDF groups ahead of Memorial Day as 'tactless'.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu slammed German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Friday over Gabriel’s recent meeting with radical left-wing organizations during his trip to Israel, calling the decision to meet with the groups “tactless”.
Gabriel met with representatives of the anti-IDF organizations Breaking the Silence and B’Tselem a day after Holocaust Remembrance Day, despite an admonition by Netanyahu that a high-level meeting between a representative of the German government and fringe groups would not be tolerated by Israel, and would result in the cancellation of planned meetings between the Prime Mini...
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April 28, 2017 at 10:14 am
Head of far-left Meretz party accuses Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria of perpetrating 'pogroms' against Arabs, IDF soldiers.
Members of the far-left Meretz party toured the Jordan Valley Friday together with members of the fringe Peace Now group.
During the tour, Meretz chairwoman Zahava Galon slammed Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria with an unprovoked, bizarre and fabricated accusation, claiming “settlers” had committed “pogroms” against left-wingers, Arabs, and even the IDF.
The Knesset member said: “On a tour with Peace Now in the Jordan Valley, following the pogroms settlers are doing against left-wing activists, against Palestinians, and against IDF soldiers.”
Galon failed to specify which acts by “the settlers&rdquo...
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April 28, 2017 at 10:14 am
U.S. diplomats used a meeting with their Iranian counterparts to press for the release of Americans being detained in Iran, the Trump administration said Thursday, according to The Associated Press.
It is the first public acknowledgment of direct U.S.-Iranian discussions since President Donald Trump took office.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the talks occurred on the sidelines of a meeting in Vienna this week that focused on implementation of the Iran nuclear deal.
Although Trump and his top advisers have publicly criticized Iran for its support of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, Yemeni rebels and other jihadist groups throughout the Middle East, American officials haven't spoken about any continuation of U.S.-Iranian conversations that became routine under the ...
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April 28, 2017 at 10:02 am
University of Wisconsin students who disrupt speeches and demonstrations could be expelled and campuses would have to remain neutral on public issues under a bill Republican legislators are pushing this week.
The bill comes as free speech issues have grown more contentious on college campuses across the country. Conservatives are worried that right-wing speakers aren’t given equal treatment as liberal campus presenters and some students have complained about free expression fanning racial tensions.
In Madison, home to the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus, students shouted down and traded obscene gestures with ex-Breitbart editor and conservative columnist Ben Shapiro during a presentation in November. This week, supporters of conservative commentator Ann Coulter rall...
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April 28, 2017 at 9:59 am
The Tel Aviv municipality on Friday reversed an earlier decision to seize the assets of the city’s historic Great Synagogue.
On Thursday, the Great Synagogue of Tel Aviv’s president, Shlomo Pivko, announced that the historic house of prayer would be closing, noting that the City of Tel Aviv had seized the synagogue’s bank account to cover back taxes.
According to Behadrei Haredim, the synagogue owed a total of 2 million shekels ($550,000), for seven years’ worth of back taxes. While Pivko has raised hundreds of thousands of shekels to help stabilize the synagogue’s finances, he was unable to secure sufficient funds to pay off the debt.
"Unfortunately, I have to close the gates of the Great Synagogue. The Tel Aviv municipality, in the spirit o...
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April 28, 2017 at 9:55 am
A global conference in London promoting trade with Iran has drawn a warning from a leading advocacy group opposed to the Tehran regime’s nuclear program about the “severe political, financial and reputational risks associated with doing business in the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
In a full page advertisement published in the UK’s Telegraph newspaper to coincide with the Global Trade Review’s (GTR) 2017 Iran Trade Business Briefing in London, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) listed ten major risks associated with doing business in Iran. These include the dangers of unwittingly trading with front companies for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), violating international sanctions and money laundering rules, the potential harassment and...
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April 28, 2017 at 9:55 am
The American Heart Association (AHA) boasts some 700 international training centers throughout the world. According to Glenn Vanden Houten, the AHA’s Regional Director for Europe and Africa, “United Hatzalah became one of our authorized training centers. We are proud that you have become part of that family.”
The new authorization provided by the AHA recognizes the United Hatzalah education and training of its EMTs and paramedics as well as other community-based training initiatives such as the “Family First” project, which teaches basic CPR skills to the general public in a four-hour class.
“Both the basic life support (BLS) education as well as the advanced life support (ALS) training that United Hatzalah does will now come with international standar...
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April 28, 2017 at 9:54 am
The Jerusalem Municipality launched a plan to construct 1,000 new classrooms throughout the city, offering a solution to the shortage of classrooms in all sectors of the city.
For the past few years, the city has suffered from a shortage of approximately 3,800 classrooms, as determined by a recent mapping project of the city’s educational system: 505 in the general sector, 1,938 in the Arab sector and 1,410 in the chareidi sector. The cost of closing this gap is estimated at roughly NIS 5 billion. This shortage is the result of a number of interrelated factors, including a lack of state funding and a city growth rate which dictates the need for an additional 186 classrooms per year.
Mayor Barkat led this breakthrough through the development of a unique financial model, in which var...
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April 28, 2017 at 9:54 am
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that China has threatened to impose sanctions on North Korea if it conducts further nuclear tests.
“We know that China is in communications with the regime in Pyongyang,” Tillerson said on Fox News Channel. “They confirmed to us that they had requested the regime conduct no further nuclear test.”
Tillerson said China also told the U.S. that it had informed North Korea “that if they did conduct further nuclear tests, China would be taking sanctions actions on their own.”
Earlier Thursday, the senior U.S. Navy officer overseeing military operations in the Pacific said the crisis with North Korea is at the worst point he’s ever seen, but he declined to compare the situation to the Cuban missile cr...
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April 28, 2017 at 9:53 am
House Republican leaders have delayed a vote on an Obamacare replacement plan until next week at the earliest, denying President Donald Trump a major victory during his first 100 days in office.
At least 15 House Republicans remain solidly opposed to a revised leadership health-care plan, and another 20 are leaning no or still undecided, according to GOP lawmakers and aides. House GOP leaders can only lose 22 votes.
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April 28, 2017 at 9:53 am
The Tourism Ministry is working with airlines in Russia to incentivize them to open new routes into Israel, using grants and marketing assistance, while at the same time working with tour operators and wholesalers. Most of the large and medium-size tour operators in Russia are already offering vacation packages to Israel.
The Tourism Ministry in Russia recently launched the Two Cities One Break campaign, designed to encourage incoming tourism to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in particular. Half of the campaign’s 3 million euro budget has been allocated to advertising on TV, radio, billboards and print media, with the other half to online marketing. The marketing program is concentrated on Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Samara.
The Tourism Ministry Director-General Amir Halevi h...
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April 28, 2017 at 9:53 am
The United Nations’ cultural organization UNESCO is to vote next Tuesday, May 2, on a resolution introduced by the Palestinians and several Arab states rejecting Israeli sovereignty over the entire city of Jerusalem, including its majority Jewish western half.
The draft resolution, submitted by Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan on behalf of the Palestinians, with input from European Union countries as well, states that “any action taken by Israel, the Occupying Power, to impose its laws, jurisdiction, and administration on the City of Jerusalem, are illegal and therefore null and void and have no validity whatsoever.”
Both the Israeli government and the Trump Administration, which has frequently hinted that it will recognize Jerusalem as ...
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April 28, 2017 at 9:52 am
British police said Friday they had disrupted an active terror plot with raids in London and southeastern England. One woman was shot and seriously wounded as heavily armed counterterrorism officers stormed a house in a residential London street.
Six suspects were arrested on terrorism-related charges, police said. The injured woman, who is in her 20s, was in serious but stable condition in a hospital.
The woman, whose name hasn’t been released, was under police guard but had not been arrested because of her condition, police said.
Armed officers fired CS gas into the house in the Willesden area of northwest London, which had been under observation as part of an anti-terrorism investigation, Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said. He didn’t give det...
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April 28, 2017 at 9:50 am
Today the New York City Police Department began the rollout of its police officer body-worn camera (BWC) pilot program in the 34 Precinct, covering the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. The Vievu cameras will initially be worn by each of the approximately 50 officers on patrol assigned to the 4 P.M. to midnight shift. The rollout will continue to additional precincts through the end of 2017, with a total of 5,000 cameras deployed through 2018, and approximately 22,000 by the end of 2019.
The NYPD body-worn camera program is the culmination of exhaustive research that began in 2014 with a best-practices visit to the Los Angeles Police Department and review of roughly 50 other law enforcement agencies’ programs. Since then, the NYPD has sought the input of more than 30 key...
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April 28, 2017 at 9:49 am
A driver who transports small children to daycare was questioned by Tel Aviv police on Wednesday, 30 Nissan, after forgetting a 4-year-old onboard. The driver told police “Certainly I forgot him because he fell asleep”.
The child’s mother, who lives in a community in the Gezer Council, is accustomed to receiving a notification from the kindergarten teacher regarding her son being picked up for the trip back home. She received such an alert last Friday, which happened to be accompanied by sharav heat-wave conditions.
About 50 minutes after being notified her son is heading home, the mom phoned her mom to tell her that her son has yet to arrive. She told Channel 2 News “I was nervous and immediately phoned the driver to ask where he is”.
According to mom, the...
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April 28, 2017 at 9:49 am
Were it not for Rabbi Nisson Wolpin, zt"l, who passed away this past Tuesday morning, neither the English Yated Ne'eman nor the host of other weekly magazines aimed at the Torah community might have ever come into existence.
When the late Rabbi Moshe Sherer took over running Agudath Israel of America, the first concrete goal he set for himself was the creation of a Torah magazine of ideas in English through which the gedolei Yisrael could address the masses. The Jewish Observer, whose first issue appeared in 1963, was that vehicle. It was central to Rabbi Sherer's conception of an independent Orthodoxy, that would speak forcefully and proudly for itself, and no longer allow others to speak about it without fear of rebuttal.
Rabbi Wolpin was not the founding editor of the Jewish...
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April 28, 2017 at 5:56 am
Baltimore, MD - Apr. 28, 2017 - Due to heightened infestation issues, the availability of STAR-K certified iceberg from Dole is going to decrease for at least the next few weeks. Many bags will not bear the STAR-K symbol and they are NOT certified. Please check each and every bag for the STAR-K symbol.
Cabbage/cole slaw mixes seem to be fine, at least for the time being, but we are monitoring them closely as well and the status may also be subject to sudden change.
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April 27, 2017 at 9:22 pm
Southwest Airlines plans to stop overbooking flights — an industry practice implicated in an ugly incident on a United Airlines flight that has damaged United’s reputation with the flying public.
Last year Southwest bumped 15,000 passengers off flights, more than any other U.S. airline. Carriers say they sometimes sell more tickets than there are seats because often a few passengers don’t show up.
The practice of overbooking flights has come under intense scrutiny since April 9, when a passenger was dragged off an overbooked United Express plane after refusing to give up his seat for a crew member.
Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said Thursday that the airline had been thinking about ending overbooking for “a long time” because of fewer and fewer no-shows. But the...
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April 27, 2017 at 9:06 pm
As seen in the accompanying video, enforcers walk the streets of PA (Palestinian Authority) occupied Beit Lechem, compelling businesses not complying with the general strike ordered by Ramallah to do so.
PA leaders in Ramallah called for a general strike to show solidarity with the hunger strike being held by some terrorists imprisoned in Israel, an effort headed by Fatah Tanzim faction leader Marwan Barghouti. Barghouti himself is serving five life sentences for his acts of terror.
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April 27, 2017 at 8:59 pm
According to a report appearing in dati leumi BaSheva weekly last week, IDF Chief Rabbi Eyal Karim and his predecessor Rabbi Rafi Peretz were both partners in the formulation of the plan to integrate combat units to permit women and men to serve side-by-side. The new plan has led to widespread condemnation among the overwhelming number of rabbonim including the dati leumi community. A number of prominent poskim in the dati leumi community have already announced religious soldiers may not serve in or command such units, even if they are compelled to resign their command and lose the source of their parnasa.
In response, Rabbi Karim instructed a member of his staff to pen a letter, which was sent to military rabbis clarifying his position.
“The work of the IDF staff in relation to th...
