An Israeli man murdered in a terror attack in Jerusalem Sunday afternoon was brought to the Kochav Hashahar cemetery Monday morning, as mourners gathered to pay their last respects to the slain father of four. Adiel Kolman, Z'L, H'yd, was stabbed to death in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday by an Arab terrorist. The terrorist, later identified as 28-year-old Abed al-Rahman Bani Fa’adal, a resident of the Palestinian Authority-controlled town of Aqraba, near Shechem [Nabulus] in Samaria, fled the scene, but was shot and killed by security forces shortly thereafter. Hundreds gathered at the Kochav Hashahar cemetery Monday morning, including Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home), who eulogized Kolman and promised that Israel would ‘avenge’ his ...
Jerusalem, Israel - Mar. 19, 2018 - The Jerusalem Great Synagogue marked the dedication ceremony of the Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder Prayer for The State of Israel Wall and the Malcolm and Frayde Hoenlein Prayer for The Security and Emergency Services Wall on Monday morning, 3 Nissan 5788. Among those greeting the honorees as they arrived and entered the synagogue were former Great Synagogue president Ascher Schapiro, current president Zalli Jaffe, and MK Avi Dichter.  The choir led by Chazan Chaim Adler under conductor Elli Jaffee began the ceremony singing "Halleluyah."  The Great Synagogue is popular with tourists from around the world. As President Jaffee said in his opening remarks, it is fulfillment of dreams and vision of founders of Is...
A Washington D.C. council member apologized Sunday evening after he blamed a snow squall on a well-known Jewish banking dynasty. In an Instagram post, Democrat Trayon White apologized to "the Jewish Community and anyone I have offended." White made the comments on a Facebook video which was shot Friday morning through the windshield of a car driving through downtown Washington during snowfall. "Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man," White said, according to The Washington Post. "Y'all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation."  
Read More
AUSTIN, Texas (KWTX) Two male patients have been identified and are being transported to a hospital in Austin after an explosion was reported Sunday night. Austin-Travis County EMS reports the explosion was reported at a residence on the 4800 block of Dawn Song Drive. Authorities are responding to the area in southwest Austin and are investigating. EMS confirms two males in their 20s were injured and transported to South Austin Medical Clinic with serious but not life-threatening injuries and referred all inquiries to Austin police. Police are instructing residents in the immediate area to remain indoors and follow officers' instructions when and if they are given. These reports come nearly a week after three other explosions this month, leaving two dead and three injured.
“Adiel was a dedicated and loyal worker, a beloved staff member and a model family man,” the City of David museum said.Adiel Kolman, 32, a father of four, was killed in a terror attack on Sunday evening as he left his job at the City of David museum in the Old City and headed in the direction of Jerusalem’s light rail. It was a route he took every day to return to his home in the Kokhav HaShahar settlement, just outside of the capital. A terrorist stabbed him in the upper part of his body as he neared the area of the Lion’s Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem. He was rushed to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in serious condition and died just before midnight. Kolman grew up in Moshav Keshet in...read more at JPost...read more at JPost
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN Once again, a chareidi IDF soldier came under attack in Meah Shearim. The latest attack occurred on Sunday, 2 Nissan, in Meah Shearim. The soldier was safely extricated from the area by an avreich. The soldier was passing through the community and suddenly the shouts began. It took a brief few minutes until items began flying in his direction, including bags filled with leftover cholent from Shabbos. The soldier tried to duck into the shuk and fortunately,...read more at YWN
The pregnant wife of a man killed by a boulder that crashed through the window of their car near Los Angeles is pleading for information that leads to the arrest of the person responsible for pushing the rock off an overpass. The California Highway Patrol says someone pushed the 35-pound (16-kilogram), basketball-sized rock off a freeway overpass in Pasadena late Tuesday, sending it smashing through the windshield. Twenty-three-year-old Christopher Lopez, who was in the passenger seat of the Toyota driven by his wife, was killed. Guadalupe Gutierrez was unhurt, as was their 4-year-old daughter in the back seat. Gutierrez fought back tears Thursday as she asked for potential witnesses to come forward. The highway patrol says investigators believe someone purposefully pushed the b...
As crews began removing bodies from beneath a collapsed pedestrian bridge Saturday, a victim’s uncle raged against what he called the “complete incompetence” and “colossal failure” that allowed people to drive beneath the unfinished concrete span. “Why they had to build this monstrosity in the first place to get children across the street?” said an anguished Joe Smitha, whose niece, Alexa Duran, was crushed in Thursday’s collapse at Florida International University. “Then they decided to stress test this bridge while traffic was running underneath it?” Authorities say six people were killed when the structure fell onto a busy six-lane road connecting the campus to the community of Sweetwater. Crews removed two cars Saturda...
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN Beginning Sunday morning 2 Nissan, there are changes in traffic patterns at an entrance to the capital which will remain for the coming years. After 12 days of work at a number of major intersections in the center of the capital, beginning at 4:00AM Sunday morning, 2 Nissan, for the coming four years, the roadway from Shazar Blvd. between Nordau and Aggripas Streets will be closed in both directions. Traffic will be diverted to adjoining roads which have been widened to accommodate the increased flow of vehicles. Included are the streets heading to Heichal HaMishpat Street, Weisman, Herzl, Derech Rabin, and Nasi 6. For those entering Jerusalem...read more at YWN
Jerusalem - A tunnel Israel took out in the Gaza border region on Sunday morning was “disused”, Abu Obeida, a spokesman for the Izzadin Kassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, said on Sunday. Earlier that day, a spokesperson confirmed in a phone call that the IDF had destroyed a tunnel in the Gaza border region which Hamas militants had attempted to rebuild since it was cut it off from the network of tunnels in the 2014 Gaza war. “The tunnel that the enemy is talking about is an old and disused tunnel that was previously targeted after the Qassam Brigades used it…during the battle in 2014,” Abu Obeida said in a tweet. The IDF and the Kassam Brigades spokespersons’ statements appeared to contradict each other, as the former seemed to insinuate the t...
Snowfall estimates have been released for the first day of spring in Maryland. BALTIMORE, MD — While Sunday gave us a taste of spring, the work week is another round of winter, with some snow and cool temperatures for the first two days of spring. Bundle up for a snowy start to the season with overnight lows below freezing. We likely won't see nearly as much precipitation or the damaging winds that the nor'easter brought to kick off March, but it certainly won't feel like spring. A total of 1-3 inches of snow is expected to fall on the first day of spring Tuesday in parts of Maryland. We're talking about a nor'easter flirtation, with chances of snow on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service and other weather outlets. Snow estimate...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the dismissal of Andrew McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, and the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election (all times local): 8:30 p.m. The White House says President Donald Trump isn't thinking about or talking about firing special counsel Robert Mueller. That's the late word from White House lawyer Ty Cobb, who released a statement late Sunday after a series of Trump tweets led members of Congress and others to speculate that the president may be considering orchestrating Mueller's firing. Mueller has been investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election - a probe Trump believes is politically motivated. Mueller is also looking at Trump for possible obstruction of justice related to his decis...
Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin is dismissing British accusations of Russia’s involvement in an ex-spy’s poisoning as “nonsense,” adding that Moscow is ready to cooperate with London in the probe. Putin on Sunday referred to the attack on ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter as a “tragedy,” but added that if the British claim that they were poisoned by the Soviet-designed nerve agent were true, the victims would have died instantly. He said that it’s “nonsense” to think that anyone in Russia could have staged such an attack shortly before Sunday’s presidential vote and before the World Cup that Russia is set to host this summer. In his first comments about the poisoning, the Russian leader said that Moscow was ready...
A Gallup poll released on Tuesday found a surge in American support for Israel that hasn’t been seen since the early 1990s. According to the poll, some 74 percent of Americans view Israel favorably: 83 percent of Republicans and 64 percent of Democrats. “As the Trump administration prepares to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and is reportedly finalizing its broader Middle East peace plan, Americans’ stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is as strongly pro-Israel as at any time in Gallup’s three-decade trend,” wrote senior Gallup editor Lydia Saad. However, a favorable view of the Palestinian Authority was recorded among 27 percent of Democrats, with only 12 percent of Republicans expressing a favorable view and 21 percent of independents. O...
A framed and dedicated copy of US President Donald Trump’s speech recognizing Yerushalayim as the capital of Israel is kept up on the White House office wall of his daughter, Ivanka. The Dec. 6, 2017 speech — “Remarks Regarding the Capital of Israel,” signed by the president, “To Ivanka, Love Dad” — is positioned alongside the handwritten lyrics of the band Journey’s rock classic “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” and pictures of her children, according to a report in Sunday’s Washington Post. Ivanka underwent an Orthodox conversion to Judaism before marrying her husband, Jared Kushner. The couple joined the president in a visit last May to Israel, where Ivanka noted how meaningful it was for her to have the opportunity t...
Researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University have revealed that off-the-shelf smart devices like baby monitors, air conditioners, robot floor cleaners, cameras and doorbells can be corrupted by malware and used to spy on users. In a paper appearing in Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, Yossi Oren of Ben-Gurion University’s software and information systems engineering department revealed that almost any nonstandard computing device that can connect to a wireless network can be used to transmit data. The senior lecturer noted that many web-connected devices “lack even basic security protections such as secure password authentication,” and that thousands of “Internet of Things” devices are infected with malware, with many more left vulnerable...
Israel has become the world’s first country to approve cannabis vaporizers for medical use. The Israeli Ministry of Health has granted initial approval to the VapePod vaporizer developed by Kanabo Research, a Tel-Aviv-based medical cannabis research and development company, according to a report by Israel21c. Most medical marijuana patients receive the benefits of cannabis from smoking. The approved vaporizer will free users from the detriments of smoking and deliver consistent, accurate dosing in a more effective manner. “We expect that due to the transition of most of the cannabis consumers to the use of vaporizers, our company is projected to reach $10 million in sales within three years in the Israeli market, while the Israeli cannabis market is expected to reach $100 mi...
Doctors at Shaare Zedek hospital tried to stabilize him into the late evening, after which they announced "with deep regret" that he died as a result of the stabbing wounds. Adiel Kolman, Z'L, H'yd, a 32 year old Israeli, was seriously wounded Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem’s Old City by a Palestinian terrorist who repeatedly stabbed him.On Sunday night Shaare Zedek hospital reported that Kolman had succumbed to his wounds, despite the hospital team's resuscitation efforts. Kolman, a married father of four, was from the West Bank settlement of Kokhav HaShaharThe stabber was shot and killed by a nearby police officer. First responders who rushed to the scene at Hagai Street in the Muslim Quarter, not far from one of the entries to the Temple Mount, treated Kolman&rsqu...
Moscow -  Russian President Vladimir Putin, re-elected on Sunday to a new six-year term, thanked voters for their support at a victory rally and said Russia had a great future ahead of it provided its people stayed united. Putin, speaking from a stage just off Moscow’s Red Square in front of a cheering audience, said the election result was a recognition of what had been achieved in the past few years, despite difficult conditions. Before leaving the stage to applause, he led the crowd in a chant of “Russia, Russia!” Putin won a landslide re-election victory on Sunday, extending his rule over the world’s largest country for another six years at a time when his ties with the West are on a hostile trajectory.
More articles