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October 19, 2017 at 12:13 pm
A Jerusalem police spokesman’s unit official reported on Wednesday morning 28 Tishrei that a burglar who broke into a bank in the southern capital during the night, was apprehended while hiding from police as seen in the accompanying photo.
The call came in during the predawn hours Wednesday for a “Suspicious person hanging out in the shopping center area. A police patrol was dispatched and the team checked out the stores, finding the bank’s door had been forced open. They entered and apprehended the suspected in the act.
The suspect is a 23-year-old resident of the Shuafat refugee camp. He was arraigned on Wednesday.
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October 19, 2017 at 12:12 pm
President Donald Trump says the nation faces a “once in a lifetime opportunity” to overhaul the tax system.
Trump spoke during a White House meeting with a group of senators. The president is convening Republicans and Democrats from the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee to build support for his plan. Trump says it will provide the largest tax cuts in the country’s history and is outlining details of the plan.
It calls for a large cut to the corporate tax rate, reducing it from 35 percent to 20 percent, and an end to the estate tax. The president was seated next to Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Republican, and Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat.
Trump says, “a lot of people are liking” his plan, which still lacks specific legislation.
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October 19, 2017 at 11:57 am
Contrary to widespread perceptions, the IRS still appears to be enforcing the unpopular Obama-era requirement that most people carry health insurance or risk a fine.
The agency says on its website that it will automatically reject electronic returns for tax year 2017 that don’t specify if the taxpayer had health insurance. That insurance requirement, known as the individual mandate, is the top target of so-far fruitless efforts by Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Under the ACA, taxpayers are supposed to specify if they had coverage, or they were eligible for an exemption, or if they will pay the fine. But several million skip over that question and file “silent” returns.
This year the IRS continued to process such returns. However, taxpayers who ski...
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October 19, 2017 at 5:11 am
US Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt says Hamas must disarm, abide by Quartet decisions, recognize Israel.
US Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt on Wednesday issued a statement regarding the Palestinian Authority's (PA) recent reconciliation agreement with the Hamas terror group."All parties agree that it is essential that the Palestinian Authority be able to assume full, genuine, and unhindered civil and security responsibilities in Gaza and that we work together to improve the humanitarian situation for Palestinians living there," Greenblatt said.
"The United States reiterates the importance of adherence to the Quartet principles: any Palestinian government must unambiguously and explicitly commit to nonviolence, recognize the State of Israel, accept p...
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October 19, 2017 at 5:10 am
The European Union on Wednesday unveiled new measures to help counter deadly low-tech attacks following a spate of killings in major cities by extremists driving vehicles into crowds of people.
The European Commission, which proposes and ensures compliance with EU laws, said the measures aim to better protect major gatherings like concerts or sports events.
They include additional funding and training to improve cooperation between police and private security at malls or concerts.
“Terrorists don’t stand still. They change and adapt their methods. We need to be ready to adapt our response,” EU Security Commissioner Julian King said.
The response, he said, is meant to “build our resilience, to limit terrorist access to the means they use to carry out attack...
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October 19, 2017 at 5:08 am
Over several nights in September, some 10,000 men, women and children fled areas under Islamic State control, hurrying through fields in northern Syria and risking fire from government troops to reach a province held by an al-Qaida-linked group.
For an untold number of battle-hardened jihadis fleeing with the civilians, the escape to Idlib province marked a homecoming of sorts, an opportunity to continue waging war alongside an extremist group that shares much of the Islamic State’s ideology — and has benefited from its prolonged downfall.
While the U.S.-led coalition and Russian-backed Syrian troops have been focused on driving IS from the country’s east, an al-Qaida-linked insurgent coalition known as the Levant Liberation Committee has consolidated its control ...
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October 19, 2017 at 5:07 am
Zahava Gal-On informed the Knesset Speaker of her resignation from the Knesset in order to concentrate on her role as Meretz chairman and lead open primaries.
Meretz Chairman Zahava Gal-On on Wednesday, 28 Tishrei informed Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein that she is resigning from the Knesset in order to devote the next few months to her position as Meretz chairman, in order to change the electoral system and lead open primaries.
Gal-On says she has reached the understanding that she must work full-time as chairman of the party and invest all her time in the struggle to increase Meretz’s powerbase by opening the ranks to new audiences. Mossi Raz will serve in the Meretz faction in the Knesset and will serve as secretary-general of the party.
In a letter to party members, Gal-...
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October 19, 2017 at 5:06 am
Washington - The White House says President Donald Trump has sent a $25,000 check he promised to the father of an Army sergeant killed in Afghanistan.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Trump offered the money during a telephone conversation with the father of Dillon Baldrige a few weeks after the 22-year-old was killed in Afghanistan on June 10. The Post reported that White House officials declined to discuss the matter when contacted Wednesday morning.
White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said later Wednesday that the check has been sent. She did not say when.
Walters also criticized the news media and accused reporters of using a “generous and sincere” gesture made privately by Trump to advance what she describes as a “biased agenda.” Walters calle...
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October 19, 2017 at 5:04 am
Yishuv Amichai, the new home of the uprooted Amona, was finally approved Wednesday by the High Planning Council of the Civil Administration. For nearly a year since they were evacuated from their homes, where they lived for about two decades, the Amona residents will be able to start packing up in hopes of leaving the Midrasha (high school) dorms in Ofra.
Within the framework of the HEPC meeting, 102 units were approved for construction, following a stubborn struggle by the headquarters of the struggle for Amona, which demanded that the government ministers quickly promote the establishment of their settlement as promised.
Avichai Boaron, chairman of Amona’s campaign for the struggle, said he was pleased with the decision and said it was a formative one. “The decision t...
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October 19, 2017 at 5:03 am
President Donald Trump emphatically rejected claims Wednesday that he was disrespectful to the grieving family of a slain soldier, as the firestorm he ignited over his assertions of empathy for American service members spread into a third contentious day. “I have proof,” he insisted.
The controversy over how Trump has conducted one of the most sacred of presidential tasks generated new turmoil in the White House and left chief of staff John Kelly, a retired Marine general whose son was killed in Afghanistan, angry and frustrated at the way the issue has become politicized. It was fresh evidence of Trump’s willingness to attack any critic and do battle over the most sensitive of matters.
The aunt of an Army sergeant killed in Niger, who raised the soldier as her so...
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October 19, 2017 at 5:02 am
North Korea’s deputy U.N. ambassador said Tuesday the country plans to launch many more satellites and accused the United States of trying to block its efforts to help peacefully develop outer space.
Kim In Ryong told a U.N. General Assembly committee meeting on “International Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space” that the country’s five-year plan for 2016-2020 includes development of “practical satellites that can contribute to the economic development and improvement of the people’s living.”
As a party to several space treaties, North Korea’s space development activities are “all ground on legal basis in all aspects,” Kim said.
But he said the United States is “going frantic to illegalize our developmen...
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October 19, 2017 at 5:00 am
IDF forces and Shin Bet agents during the night raided a number of PA (Palestinian Authority) TV stations and shut them down for broadcasting and distributing inciteful material.
The raids too place Tuesday night, the eve of 28 Tishrei, as soldiers confiscated communications equipment and closed down eight PA TV stations and production facilities.
PA reports stations that were shut include al-Quds in Hebron, Pal Media in Bet Lechem, the al-Aqsa & Palestine Alyum channels in Ramallah, as well as the offices of the Trans Media & Pal Media production companies.
Two PA residents were arrested during the raids.
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October 19, 2017 at 4:59 am
President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the CIA’s independent watchdog has told Congress that he’s never read the Senate’s so-called torture report, an exhaustive, classified report of the agency’s treatment of terror suspects after 9/11.
Christopher Sharpley, who has been deputy inspector general at the CIA since July 2012, told the Senate intelligence committee Tuesday that the classified disc containing the 7,000-page report was lost for a time and later found, but that he never took time to read the full document.
The Senate intelligence committee spent years investigating the CIA’s detention and harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists captured by the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on U.S. soil. The techniques au...
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October 19, 2017 at 4:58 am
Toyota Motor Co. is recalling 347,120 Sienna minivans worldwide because they can shift out of the “park” position and roll away.
The recall involves Siennas from the 2005-2007 and 2009-2010 model years. Most are in the U.S. Toyota also is recalling 24,000 in Canada, 13,000 in Mexico, 100 in Europe and 20 elsewhere.
Toyota says the grease used in the shift lever assembly could transfer to other components, causing them to work improperly. In particular, the shifter can move out of “park” even if the driver isn’t pressing the brake pedal. It won’t move out of position if the parking brake is activated.
Toyota won’t say if it knows of any accidents related to the defect.
The company will notify owners by mid-December. Dealers will repair the...
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October 19, 2017 at 4:57 am
A Hungarian who printed thousands of passports allowing Jews to flee the country during World War II has been honored with a memorial plaque.
Emil Wiesmeyer’s printing company initially made 4,000 of the basic passports, part of efforts by Swedish special envoy Raoul Wallenberg to save Jews from Nazi death camps.
He then produced about 20,000 more on his own to help Jews make it out of Hungary.
The plaque honoring Emil Wiesmeyer was unveiled Wednesday in Budapest by Szabolcs Szita, director of the Holocaust Memorial Center, and Swedish Ambassador Niclas Trouve
Some 550,000 Hungarian Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
Wiesmeyer later suffered persecution and was jailed in the 1950s, during Hungary’s communist era.
Wiesmeyer died in 1967. His son Gabor attended the ce...
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October 19, 2017 at 4:56 am
A Charedi family from Jerusalem accidentally entered Shechem this afternoon while on their way to the Jewish town of Har Bracha located nearby. The family, who quickly understood that they had made a mistake in directions, called Israeli security forces and told them that they were in the heart of Shechem. Only after some very long and tense moments were the family evacuated from the city by security forces. In the meantime, the father had drawn and cocked his gun.
The family was comprised of Avraham Levi, the Gabbai of Beit Knesset “Zechor l’Avraham” in Jerusalem, his wife, and their daughter. Levi said: “I was traveling with my family towards Har Bracha in the Shomron, the trip was relatively uneventful. I had been given directions that told me that I needed to p...
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October 18, 2017 at 8:20 pm
An especially lenient plea bargain agreement was accepted between a police officer who drove drunk, crossed an intersection on a red light, hit and injured a victim and then fled the scene without calling for help, Shelly Tapieroof of Israel News reports on Kikar Shabbos News.
The accident occurred in February this year, in Tel Aviv, and this week, the Transportation Court was presented with a plea bargain according to which the defendant would send six months of community service only in addition to his license being suspended for four years. This is a particularly lenient punishment, since the punishment prescribed by law for a hit-and-run accident is three years in prison.
As noted, only Tuesday, 27 Tishrei, the sentence of the driver David Amar, who struck a child at Bar Ilan J...
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October 18, 2017 at 8:20 pm
Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday urged Europe to do more to back the 2015 nuclear deal after President Donald Trump refused to re-certify the pact.
European companies have rushed into the Iranian markets since the landmark accord, which lifted international sanctions in exchange for restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program.
“The European governments have underlined the nuclear deal’s issue and condemned the U.S. president’s remarks,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, according to comments posted on his official website. “We welcome this approach but it is not enough that they only tell him not to tear up the deal.”
“The nuclear deal is to their benefit”, Khamenei said.
Khamenei also said of Trump: “I will not spend time...
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October 18, 2017 at 8:19 pm
Twitter vowed to crack down further on hate speech and sexual harassment, days after CEO Jack Dorsey said in a tweet-storm that the company was “still” not doing enough to protect its users.
The policy changes were specifically aimed at protecting women who unknowingly or unwillingly had nude pictures of themselves distributed online or were subject to unwanted sexual advances. They would also aim to shield groups subject to hateful imagery, symbols and threats of violence.
In an email Twitter shared with The Associated Press Tuesday, Twitter’s head of safety policy outlined the new guidelines to the company’s Trust and Safety Council, a group of outside organizations that advises the company on its policies against abuse.
The company said it would enact th...
