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October 13, 2018 at 8:25 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Friday the U.S. will uncover the truth about what happened to journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi, whose possible murder at Saudi hands after disappearing in Istanbul has captured worldwide attention. Trump promised to personally call Saudi Arabia's King Salman soon about "the terrible situation in Turkey."
"We're going to find out what happened," Trump pledged when questioned by reporters in Cincinnati where he was headlining a political rally.
Khashoggi, a forceful critic of the Saudi government, went missing more than a week ago after entering a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and Turkish officials have said they believe he was murdered there. U.S. officials say they are seeking answers from the Saudi government a...
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October 13, 2018 at 8:23 pm
First lady Melania Trump in a new interview says she was sending a message to the media when she wore a jacket that said “I really don’t care. Do U?” to the border when she visited migrant children in Texas over the summer.
The jacket was criticized by some who saw it as insensitive given the fact that Trump was visiting children separated from their parents at the border.
Trump told ABC News that it was meant to troll reporters who she said pay too much attention to what she wears.
“I would prefer that they focus on what I do, and my initiatives, than what I wear,” she said. “You know I often asking myself, I would not wear that if I would have so much media coverage. It’s obvious I didn’t wear the jacket for the children. I wore the jack...
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October 13, 2018 at 8:22 pm
IDF Major Ben Halel, who serves as Deputy Commander of the 101st Paratrooper Battalion, described the attack thwarted on Friday in central Gaza.
“In the Battalion area of responsibility in front of the riots in Bureij, a number of assailants hurled explosive devices at the security fence and breached a hole in the security fence,” Halel explained. “From that moment, Battalion troops and additional forces, including Special Unit troops, operated in order to prevent a mass crossing of the security fence and fired warning shots towards the assailants.”
“Most of the rioters returned to Gaza as a result of the live fire.
“During their retreat to the Gaza Strip, a report from field intelligence was received informing that one of the assailants had remained ...
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October 13, 2018 at 8:21 pm
Terrorists on Friday evening detonated a bomb on the Israel-Gaza border fence and attacked an IDF position inside Israel.
All of the terrorists were killed by IDF troops. There were no injuries among the Israeli soldiers. The Hamas-run “health ministry” in Gaza claimed that six Palestinian Arabs were killed in the clashes.
Meanwhile on Friday, the weekly Hamas-sponsored “March of the Return” riots along the Gaza-Israel border continued, as approximately 14,000 rioters and demonstrators gathered along the border.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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October 13, 2018 at 8:18 pm
Rescuers intensified efforts Saturday to find survivors who might be trapped amid the ruins of a small Florida Panhandle community nearly obliterated by Hurricane Michael, where one body has already been recovered, tempers are flaring, and power could be out for weeks.
Crews with dogs went door-to-door in Mexico Beach, pushing aside debris to get inside badly damaged structures in a second wave of searches following what they described as an initial, “hasty” search of the area. About 1,700 search and rescue personnel have checked 25,000 homes, Florida Gov. Rick Scott said.
Authorities say there is little doubt the death toll will rise from the storm, which made landfall Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane with 155 mph winds (249 kph) and heavy storm surge. The tally of ...
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October 13, 2018 at 8:15 pm
Ankara - Turkish officials have an audio recording of the alleged killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi from the Apple Watch he wore when he walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul over a week ago, a pro-government Turkish newspaper reported Saturday.
The new claim published by the Sabah newspaper, through which Turkish security officials have leaked much information about the case, puts more pressure on Saudi Arabia to explain what happened to Khashoggi.
Also Saturday, Ankara’s top diplomat reiterated a call to Saudi Arabia to open up its consulate, from where Khashoggi disappeared, for Turkish authorities to search.
The writer, who has written critically about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, vanished after he walked into the consulate on Oct. 2. The kingdom has maint...
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October 13, 2018 at 8:14 pm
Nablus, West Bank - Israeli police said on Saturday they were investigating the death of a Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank, after her husband said he suspected Israeli settlers had pelted their car with rocks.
Reuters was unable to verify the circumstances of the incident independently. However, footage of the car, which a Reuters cameraman said bore Palestinian license plates, showed what appeared to be a blood-stained broken brick at the foot of the passenger seat, which was covered in shattered glass.
A doctor at the Palestinian hospital where Aisha al-Rawbi was brought said the 47-year-old was dead on arrival and that she had suffered a head injury. Her relatives said an autopsy was to be carried out.
The woman’s husband, Aykube al-Rawbi, 52, said he was driving by...
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October 13, 2018 at 8:14 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Freed American pastor Andrew Brunson fell to one knee in the Oval Office and placed his hand on President Donald Trump’s shoulder in prayer on Saturday, asking God to provide the president “supernatural wisdom to accomplish all the plans you have for this country and for him.”
Trump welcomed Brunson to the White House to celebrate his release from nearly two years of confinement in Turkey, which had sparked a diplomatic row with a key ally and outcry from U.S. evangelical groups.
Brunson returned to the U.S. aboard a military jet shortly before meeting the president. He was detained in October 2016, formally arrested that December and placed under house arrest on July 25 for health reasons.
“From a Turkish prison to the White House in 24 h...
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October 12, 2018 at 5:49 pm
The first pasuk of this week's parsha declares Noach an ish tzaddik tamim, a man of complete righteousness. Later on, however, when HaShem is speaking with Noach, (7:1) He says to him "for I have seen you as righteous before me..." The word tamim is left out. Rashi teaches us from this discrepancy that one should only give partial praise of an individual in his presence. His complete praise may only be expressed when he is not present.
R' Chaim Kanievsky makes a simple, yet important clarification of this concept. One should not mistakenly understand this to mean that half the praise should be given in the presence of the praisee. If this were the case, the praisee need only multiply the praise by two to know ...
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October 12, 2018 at 5:13 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rebounded Friday, clawing back some of the week's steep losses, but the turbulent trading of the last few days left no doubt that the relative calm the markets enjoyed all summer had been shattered.
Major U.S. indexes ended the week down about 4 percent, their worst weekly loss in six months. An index measuring the performance of small-company stocks had its worst week since early 2016.
Big technology and consumer-focused companies led the recovery Friday. Longtime favorites of many investors, they had plunged in the last few days.
A major factor cited by market watchers for the pullback was a sharp increase in interest rates, which can slow the economy and make bonds more attractive to investors relative to stocks.
Apple climbed 3.6 percent to $222.11...
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October 12, 2018 at 4:18 pm
Any surgeon removing a cancerous tumor stares down immense risk. They face a dilemma—balancing the removal of all present cancer cells while sparing as much healthy tissue as possible. Walking that tightrope necessitates caution, which can lead to lingering cancer cells that spread elsewhere and increase the risk of recurrence.
Excision of a primary malignant tumor requires uncanny precision—and perhaps a dose of Israeli innovation.
The research of Professor Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, Ph.D., head of Tel Aviv University’s Cancer Research and Nanomedicine Laboratory, marks a potential turning point in the art of tumor excision. Her new study is highlighted by the development of a smart probe for cutting edge image-guided surgery.
Using near-infrared technology, the probe fu...
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October 12, 2018 at 4:17 pm
Women working in high-tech companies posed around a cardboard cutout of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday to protest against a meeting she held with an all-male group of entrepreneurs in Israel last week.
Merkel noted at that session that Israel’s start-up industry appeared to be “very male-dominated,” adding: “It would be better if next time, there was a woman among all those hopeful pioneers of the future.”
Israel’s Foreign Ministry subsequently apologized for the all-male attendance at the meeting, where Merkel was the only woman in a group photograph, and said Israel has many female high-tech entrepreneurs.
That was also the message the protesters said they wanted to get across at Rabin Square, where more than 50 women posed for photogr...
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October 12, 2018 at 4:16 pm
President Trump is reportedly considering multiple candidates to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The Journal said Trump is mulling five people to serve as the nation’s highest law enforcement official. The five are Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, Transportation Department general counsel Steven Bradbury, retired Judge Janice Rogers Brown and former Attorney General Bill Barr.
However, White House officials told the Journal there are no immediate plans to remove Sessions and despite the president’s frequent attacks on the attorney general. Trump has rarely talked about a replacement.
Read more at Washington Times.
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October 12, 2018 at 4:14 pm
Newport, RI - The congregation at the oldest synagogue in the United States says it will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court this month in an attempt to overturn an appeals court’s decision granting control of the synagogue to a New York congregation.
Attorney Gary Naftalis, who represents Congregation Jeshuat Israel, which worships at the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, tells The Newport Daily News he’ll file the petition with Supreme Court by Oct. 22.
Naftalis said after the appeals court’s decision in June that he would go to the Supreme Court.
A federal judge in Providence had found that the Newport congregation owned the 250-year-old synagogue and a set of valuable bells valued in the millions.
An appeals court overturned the ruling and granted control to ...
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October 12, 2018 at 4:04 pm
MEXICO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities fielded a barrage of calls about people missing in Hurricane Michael’s aftermath as search-and-rescue teams Friday made their way through flattened neighborhoods, looking for victims dead or alive. The death toll stood at 13 across the South.
The number of dead was expected to rise, but authorities scrapped plans to set up a temporary morgue, indicating they had yet to see signs of mass casualties from the most powerful hurricane to hit the continental U.S. in nearly 50 years.
Residents, meanwhile, began to come to grips with the destruction and face up to the uncertainty that lies ahead.
“I didn’t recognize nothing. Everything’s gone. I didn’t even know our road was our road,” said 25-year-old Tiffa...
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October 12, 2018 at 4:01 pm
Beirut - The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah made no mention of weapons capability on Friday in his first speech since Israel claimed that the Islamic militant group has a missile-launching facility near Beirut’s international airport.
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah’s comments were his first since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month— holding up an aerial image of the alleged missile sites — accused Hezbollah in a speech before the U.N. General Assembly of setting up rocket factories near Beirut’s airport and using civilian infrastructure to hide them.
Nasrallah made no direct comment about the allegations, only saying “we should not help the enemy in its psychological war against our country, people and government.”
“Deliveri...
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October 12, 2018 at 3:35 pm
Today, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization, submitted comments to the U.S. Treasury Department expressing deep concern over proposed tax regulations that would undermine state-sponsored scholarship programs that enable thousands of students to attend Jewish day schools.
The proposed regulations are to implement the new limits to the deductibility of the State and Local Tax (SALT) payments contained in the new tax law Congress passed last year. The proposed regulations would provide that individual taxpayers who receive a state or local tax credit for contributing to state-supported scholarship programs would have to reduce any charitable deduction for that contribution on their federal taxes by the amoun...
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October 12, 2018 at 3:31 pm
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN
Rishon L’Tzion HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef, during a recent shiur, told a remarkable story of how a meeting between him and the head of the Mossad led to releasing an agunah, for the Mossad confirmed her husband was dead, murdered in Belgium.
According to an exclusive Kikar Shabbos News report, a meeting between a dayan selected by the Russian mafia led to the information, and the Mossad confirmed the man in question had indeed been murdered in Belgium, permitting the Chief Rabbi to release the agunah.
The Rishon L’Tzion explained, there was a young chareidi woman named Chana, who was in her 30s. Her husband, who was Bukharin, disappeared. The case was brought before former Rishon L’Tzion HaGaon HaRav Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron during his tenure, but...
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October 12, 2018 at 3:30 pm
Brooklyn, NY - The lawyer for a Williamsburg resident whose conviction in the 2013 early morning beating of an aspiring fashion designer was overturned by an appellate court called the decision a disturbing lesson on the misuse of DNA evidence.
Mayer Herskovic, the only man to stand trial in the assault on Taj Paterson that left the then 22 year old bruised, bloodied and blind in one eye, was sentenced to four years in prison in March 2017 and was facing a maximum 15 year sentence, as previously reported on VIN News (http://bit.ly/2ydTkGu).
Herskovic’s lawyer, Donna Aldea, filed an immediate stay of execution of judgment that kept him out of jail while the appeal was pending.
The decision to overturn Herskovic’s conviction came on Wednesday, with the appeals court ru...
