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February 18, 2018 at 11:46 am
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The request was simple: organize or attend a sign-waving rally supporting Donald Trump. But some of the Florida Republicans on the receiving end of those requests now know that they didn't come from Republican allies, but from Russian adversaries.
Caught up in an elaborate Russian plot without their knowledge, a handful of these small-time Trump supporters said their votes were not swayed and they didn't do anything they weren't happy to do. Still, their interactions with the Russians highlight the ways, both big and small, that the nation's campaign process was infiltrated.
"I was going to do what I was going to do anyway. I was a Trump supporter, they didn't convince me," said Jim Frishe, a real estate development consultant a...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:43 am
A passenger in a vehicle that was fired upon outside the National Security Agency campus says the unlicensed teen driver made a wrong turn, panicked and hit the gas.
Passenger Javonte Alhajie Brown told The Washington Post Friday that the 17-year-old driver was following GPS directions to reach a friend's house in a Maryland suburb, but he turned onto a restricted-access road that leads to the top-secret installation.
"I woke up with him slapping me in the face screaming, 'I'm going the wrong way. I don't know how I got here,'" Brown said.
"I was screaming at him," Brown continued, "'How the hell did you do this? And why aren't you stopping?'"
Brown, 24, told the newspaper that he had been too tired to drive Wednesday morning ...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:41 am
Thousands of angry students, parents, teachers and neighbors of a Florida high school where 17 people were killed demanded Saturday that immediate action be taken on gun-control legislation, insisting they would not relent until their demands were met.
The rallies in Fort Lauderdale and St. Petersburg gave a political outlet to the growing feelings of rage and mourning sparked by the carnage. Authorities say a former student who had been expelled, had mental health issues and been reported to law enforcement, used a legally purchased semiautomatic rifle to kill students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
"Because of these gun laws, people that I know, people that I love, have died, and I will never be able to see them again," Delaney Tarr, a student at the sch...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:35 am
Former Vice President Joe Biden is tiptoeing toward a potential presidential run in 2020, even broaching the possibility during a recent gathering of longtime foreign policy aides.
Huddled in his newly opened office steps from the U.S. Capitol, Biden began a planning meeting for his new diplomacy center by addressing the elephant in the room. He said he was keeping his 2020 options open, considering it a real possibility. He insisted he had made no decision, and didn't need to yet, according to five people who either attended the meeting or were briefed on it by those who did.
Biden also expressed interest in bringing those in the room onto his team if he decides to launch a campaign. At the same time, he gave them an out: There would be no hard feelings if they decided th...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:34 am
'I told him there’s no basis for this comparison, between the act of Poles and the acts of Jews during the Holocaust.'
Prime Minister Netanyahu held a phone conversation with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in the wake of inflammatory comments the Polish leader made over the weekend blaming Jews for the Holocaust.
Netanyahu told Israeli journalists at the Munich security conference that he "told him there’s no basis for this comparison, between the act of Poles and the acts of Jews during the Holocaust". Netanyahu said that he pointed out that "the goal of the Holocaust was to destroy the Jewish people and that all Jews were under sentence of death".
Netanyahu also reiterated to his Polish counterpart that "the distortion regarding Poland could...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:33 am
After Polish PM claims 'Jewish perpetrators' also responsible for Holocaust, Israel cancels planned trips for National Service volunteers.
Israel has nixed plans to send National Service volunteers to visit Poland, following recent claims by the Polish Prime Minister that there were “Jewish perpetrators” in the Holocaust.
On Saturday, Poland’s Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, told journalists at the Munich Security Conference that a recently-passed law banning the phrase” Polish death camp” or reference to Polish complicity in the Holocaust would not impact the condemnation of individual “perpetrators” of the Holocaust who happened to be Polish.
During his comments, Morawiecki added that while there were some “Polish pe...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:33 am
Suspected terrorists planned to detonate roadside bomb targeting Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman's convoy, Shin Bet security agency says • Separate Islamic Jihad cell also arrested • Shin Bet: One suspect motivated by receiving a prisoner's pension.
A recent plot by Palestinian terrorists to assassinate Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman was thwarted in a joint Shin Bet security agency, IDF and police operation, it was cleared for publication Sunday after a court-issued gag order was lifted.
According to the security agency, an Islamic Jihad terrorist cell had planned to place a bomb on a road which the defense minister’s convoy was expected to travel.
A separate Islamic Jihad cell, the Shin Bet said, had also been recruited and operated near Bethlehem ...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:31 am
Police continue crackdown on wild driving on Judea and Samaria roads after tragic accident killed two children from Shavei Shomron.
Israel Police continue its crackdown on traffic offenses in Judea and Samaria, following the tragic deaths of two children in a January traffic accident.
Extra traffic police units were deployed in Judea and Samaria this past week in a special operation aimed at stepping up enforcement of traffic laws on Route 60, Judea and Samaria's main traffic artery. During the week-long crackdown, police issued 616 citations, disqualified 19 drivers licenses and impounded 16 vehicles.
In addition, police ticketed 31 drivers for using their cell phone while behind the wheel, and stopped 996 vehicles. In one egregious incident, an Arab driver was arrested near S...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:24 am
A White House spokesman said today Democrats and mainstream media outlets have “created chaos more than the Russians,” despite a federal indictment outlining a Russian conspiracy to sway U.S. elections.
In an interview on Fox & Friends, Hogan Gidley, the deputy White House press secretary, seemed to echo President Trump, suggesting that Friday’s indictment against 13 Russians is proof there was “no collusion” between Trump’s campaign and the Kremlin. The Democrats and mainstream media, he said, “continued to push this lie on the American people for more than a year, and frankly Americans should be outraged by that.” While the indictment handed down by special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday made no mention of members of Trump&...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:22 am
White House senior adviser Jared Trump has made more requests for classified intelligence information than almost any other member of White House staff, despite not having a final security clearance, the left-leaning Washington Post reports. Kushner’s requests for information are surpassed only by staffers on the National Security Council, a source familiar with the matter was quoted as saying.
Kushner is one of dozens of staffers operating with an interim security clearance. He is allowed access to the president’s daily briefings along with a slew of other top-secret documents.
White House officials have reportedly expressed concerns about Kushner’s security clearance in private, including Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, who on Friday announced major ...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:21 am
The Knesset House Committee convened on Tuesday to mark Gush Katif Day, commemorating the evacuation of Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005.
Nearly 13 years after the settlers were evacuated from 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip and from four others in the West Bank, the Knesset committee was told that 160 families still have not been assigned permanent housing in place of the homes they were forced to evacuate.
However, it emerged that all but 28 of those families are expected to move into new homes within the coming year.
The remaining 28 families have used up the grants they received as compensation from the state after the evacuation and cannot afford to purchase new homes. To assist them, the state has offered to install prefabricated structures on their lo...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:19 am
The Israeli Air Force attacked six Hamas targets all across the Gaza Strip today, including an offensive tunnel running from the Zaytun neighborhood in Gaza towards Israel, Ynet reports. Returning fire, a rocket launched from the strip landed on the roof of a residence in the Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council. The family was home, but no one was harmed as the rocket failed to explode.
Ynet reports that the rocket was launched mere hours after four IDF soldiers were wounded—two seriously and two moderately—when an explosive device detonated near the border fence. The IDF responded to the rocket’s launch by again attacking a Hamas outpost in northern Gaza.
Residents reported hearing explosions after Code Red alarms were triggered in several Sha’ar HaNegev and Es...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:17 am
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Eliezer Zvi Biegeleisen z”l of Lakewood, he was nine years old.
Eliezer Zvi was a son of R’ Meir and Chava Esther Biegeleisen.
The levayah will be held at 10 p.m. at the Congregation Sons of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Chapel, located at 613 Ramsey Street, off of East 7th Street, in Lakewood.
The family will be sitting shivah at 1675 Hidden Lane.
Yehi zichro boruch.
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February 18, 2018 at 11:15 am
Ben Kaspit, author of Netanyahu, A Biography, spoke to Yedi’ot Achronot of what his new book says about Noah Rot, the prime minister’s daughter from his first marriage who became frum in 2003 and lives in Meah Shearim.
Kaspit claims the prime minister’s contact with Noah lessened and almost ceased after the passing of Netanyahu’s mother, Tzilah. When Netanyahu became prime minister for the first time and reporters asked him why her photo wasn’t included among family portraits on his table, he replied, “It’s being framed.”
For a while, Netanyahu would secretly meet his daughter for half-an-hour or so in the back of a restaurant hidden from the street. Netanyahu and his wife Sara attended the bris of No...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:14 am
The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) has called on the United States to make the extradition of known terrorist Ahlam Ahmad Al-Tamimi by Jordan to the U.S. a prerequisite for any new foreign aid to Jordan. President Trump has made clear that the United States is not going to give money while countries that receive such funds act against U.S. interests. Jordan is acting against clear U.S. interests in not extraditing Al-Tamimi to the United States.
Earlier this week, the United States and Jordan signed a memorandum of understanding that obligates the U.S. to provide Jordan with no less than $1.275 billion annually in bilateral foreign assistance. A 27% increase of the United States’ previous bilateral commitment to Jordan, the term of the new agreement was also increased from ...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:12 am
Florida’s state social services agency investigated Nikolas Cruz’s home life more than a year before police say he killed 17 people at his former high school, closing the inquiry after determining that his “final level of risk is low,” despite learning that the teenager had behavioral struggles and was planning to buy a gun, according to an investigative report.
The investigation detailed several unnerving behaviors from Cruz, including that he had cut his arms on Snapchat, had a Nazi symbol and a racial epithet on his backpack and intended to purchase a gun for unknown reasons, according to a Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) report obtained by The Washington Post. Ultimately, the investigation was closed in November 2016, just months before Cruz b...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:11 am
The Hawaii government’s erroneous warning of an imminent ballistic missile attack caused confusion at U.S. military facilities, frustrating senior U.S. military officers and causing them to question procedures for communicating with state officials, according to emails obtained by The Washington Post.
The emails were sent in succession after thousands of people received a text-message warning Jan. 13 that prompted hysteria in parts of Hawaii. The U.S. military had no role in sending the mistaken message, but nonetheless had to deal with the fallout.
“Apparently, they were getting ready to do a drill when the ‘drill’ part was lost in translation,” Adm. Harry Harris, the chief of U.S. Pacific Command, wrote to Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chi...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:06 am
Israel is a year from completing its second largest water project in history, a 102-inch pipeline that will transport water from a coastal desalination plant to Yerushalayim’s westernmost Ein Kerem neighborhood.
The project includes what will be the world’s longest high-pressure tunnel pushing water uphill for four miles from near Beit Shemesh to Yerushalayim.
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February 18, 2018 at 11:00 am
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