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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...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:18 am
A speeding car struck another car head-on, killing four people Tuesday afternoon in Westminster, authorities told 11 News.
The crash was reported around 2:12 p.m. on Route 31 near Old New Windsor Pike.
Carroll County Sheriff's Cpl. Jon Light told 11 News that a deputy traveling west on Route 31 spotted a car traveling east at more than 100 mph. The deputy turned around and came upon the crash scene.
Authorities said the speeding car clipped another car, crossed the center line and hit a third car head-on, killing three of its occupants. The driver of the speeding car also was killed in the crash.
"The suspect vehicle, an Infiniti, was passing another car traveling eastbound ... that was occupied by two people, and that vehicle sustained minor, rear driver's side damage. (Th...
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October 18, 2017 at 10:54 am
Five people have been shot at an office park in the Maryland community of Edgewood, and the shooter is believed to be on the loose, a deputy with the Harford County sheriff’s office said Wednesday morning.
The shooter left the scene — the Emmorton Business Park in Edgewood, roughly 30 miles northeast of Baltimore — and no one has been arrested, the deputy said.
Five schools in the Edgewood area were placed on lockdown — meaning students are being kept in the buildings, and visitors are not permitted — at the advice of the sheriff’s office, the county school system said on its website.
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October 18, 2017 at 8:00 am
1:09PM IL: A lone male terrorist ran towards IDF soldiers stationed at Gush Etzion Junction a short time ago. Soldiers implemented protocol, shouting at him several times to halt. When he did not, a warning shot was fired in the air and when the terrorist continued running towards soldiers, gunfire was directed at his legs.
The wounded terrorist was armed with a knife. He was transported by the IDF to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No additional injuries are reported.
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October 17, 2017 at 4:21 pm
President Reuven Rivlin met this morning (Monday), at his residence with Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University in New York, together with faculty member, Israel’s former Ambassador to the US, and former deputy minister, Danny Ayalon.
The President spoke with Rabbi Berman, who took office in June, about the importance of Yeshiva University, and of the emphasis the institution placed on combining Torah and Jewish studies, with academic excellence in other fields. The President also thanked Rabbi Berman for the University’s unwavering support for the State of Israel and the Jewish people around the world.
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October 17, 2017 at 4:18 pm
A federal judge in Hawaii blocked the Trump administration Tuesday from enforcing its latest travel ban, just hours before it was set to take effect.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson granted Hawaii’s request to temporarily block the policy that was to be implemented starting early Wednesday. He found Trump’s executive order “suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor.”
The judge, appointed by former President Barack Obama, said the new restrictions ignore a federal appeals court ruling that found President Donald Trump’s previous ban exceeds the scope of his authority. The latest version “plainly discriminates based on nationality in the manner that the 9th Circuit has found antithetical to … the founding principles of t...
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October 17, 2017 at 3:19 pm
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s guilty plea to charges of endangering comrades in Afghanistan has set up a dramatic sentencing hearing that could land him in prison for life.
Bergdahl, who was captured and held by the Taliban for five years after leaving his remote post in Afghanistan in 2009, pleaded guilty Monday in North Carolina to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, a rare charge that carries a potential life sentence.
Because Bergdahl had no plea deal with prosecutors, his punishment will be decided by the judge, Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, at a hearing starting Oct. 23.
Bergdahl was thoroughly questioned by Nance at his plea hearing at Fort Bragg, and the soldier acknowledged that his actions — and subsequent military search missions — put fellow service...
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October 17, 2017 at 3:18 pm
The MDA spokesman reports receiving the call at 6:06am on Tuesday, 27 Tishrei for an accident in the Yarkon district between a vehicle and bicycle. The accident occurred on Route 5 near the Kassam Interchange westbound. EMTs and paramedics were dispatched to the call, during which they pronounced a male in his 50s dead on the scene.
Responders explain finding the remnants of the bicycle that was torn apart in the collision and the male supine on the ground nearby. He was in traumatic arrest upon their arrival and had sustained massive head and multisystem trauma.
His identity was not immediately available.
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October 17, 2017 at 3:17 pm
Microsoft has begun rolling out an update to its Windows 10 operating system, hoping to spark enthusiasm for its virtual- and augmented-reality ambitions.
The Windows 10 update became available Tuesday.
Several of Microsoft’s partners — Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo — are simultaneously launching their first “Windows Mixed Reality” headsets Tuesday. Samsung is also releasing one early next month.
Microsoft is also announcing a new generation of laptops in its Surface line. Two versions of the new Surface Book 2 — one 13.5 inches and the other 15 inches — will go on sale next month.
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October 17, 2017 at 3:14 pm
The body of seventy-year-old Elkana resident Reuven Schmerling HY”D was found in his place of business, in the Israeli Arab municipality of Um el-Fahm on erev Sukkos. He had been stabbed and beaten to death and placed in a locker.
The government earlier this week announced it was recognizing his murder as an act of terrorism. Defense Ministry officials made the announcement, which they explain was based on the findings of the Shin Bet murder investigation.
At the time of the murder, the Shin Bet was unwilling to state definitively that the murder was an act of terror, indicating it may have been motivated by a business dispute.
The levaya took place on erev Shabbos Chol Hamoed Sukkos, and the family released a statement to the media, calling on the releva...
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October 17, 2017 at 12:54 pm
A foreign Ukranian citizen (51), is suspected of attempting to sell a stolen Israeli I.D. card. The man was arrested on Thursday night, just after Simchas Torah ended and is suspected of using social online networks to sell the I.D. known in Israel as a Teudat Zehut. The I.D. was stolen on Erev Yom Tov
A Bat Yam resident notified police on Wednesday, Erev Simchas Torah, that someone had broken into her car and stolen her purse that held her I.D. and other personal documents. She also publicized the theft online. Following the online public notice by the victim, a concerned citizen contacted her and told her that she saw the woman’s I.D. being offered for sale online.
The woman contacted the suspect via the ad and notified police of the development. The suspect set up a meetin...
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October 17, 2017 at 12:53 pm
Reporters were seated in the White House briefing room awaiting an appearance by press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday when a call went out over a loudspeaker to head to the Rose Garden. There was no time to lose: President Donald Trump wanted to talk. Again.
Chaos briefly ensued as the press corps quickly repositioned itself along a ropeline among the famous garden’s fall mums and foliage in front of a podium marked by the presidential seal.
While Trump rarely holds formal, stand-alone news conferences, his freewheeling, last-minute Rose Garden scrum was the latest example of his penchant for talking to journalists on the fly. For nearly 40 minutes, the president held forth on everything from tax policy to the Russia investigations to Hillary Clinton. Trump revele...
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October 17, 2017 at 12:51 pm
Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell have reaffirmed their alliance of necessity in a raucous Rose Garden news conference that also underscored their sharp differences. The garrulous president claimed they were longtime friends, now closer than ever; the reserved Senate Republican leader allowed that they share goals and speak often.
It was a spectacle that mesmerized Washington, as Trump and McConnell appeared side by side for more than a half-hour, the president tossing off answers — sometimes mini-speeches — on all topics while McConnell, disciplined as always, delivered brief, scholarly explanations about the legislative process and the risks to their party of nominating candidates who can’t win.
At various points, the president denounced the Russia-Trump campaign inves...
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October 17, 2017 at 12:44 pm
Former presidential strategist Steve Bannon is rebuffing President Donald Trump’s plea for him to retreat in his war on the Republican establishment, personally boosting the candidacy of a challenger to incumbent Sen. Jeff Flake.
Bannon plans to appear with Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward on Tuesday as she announces another bid for the Senate, this time against freshman Flake. Ward lost last year to Republican Sen. John McCain, who went on to won a sixth term.
The pair will participate in a program headlined by conservative radio host Laura Ingraham in Scottsdale, Arizona, a day after the political action committee affiliated with Bannon said it would support Ward, a former Arizona state senator.
Bannon has said he is “declaring war on the Republican establishment&...
