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November 7, 2018 at 3:53 pm
In a video address Tuesday to a group of Israeli journalists and other guests, fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden slammed Israel’s burgeoning cyber-surveillance industry, singling out the Herzliya-based company NSO Group for his harshest criticism.
Suggesting a link between the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi use of NSO Group’s Pegasus software, Snowden asked the Israeli audience, “How is it that we have… industries in developed countries using their powers not for saving lives but for making money to such an extent and to such a level of recklessness and irresponsibility that it actually starts costing lives?”
Snowden described Israel’s NSO Group as “the worst of the worst” of cyber-surveillance companies, and said it...
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November 7, 2018 at 3:33 pm
An avowed Nazi running as a Republican lost a House race in suburban Chicago on Tuesday.
Arthur Jones, who called the Holocaust “the biggest, blackest lie in history” and described himself as a former leader of the American Nazi Party, lost by a 50-point margin to incumbent Democrat Dan Lipinski.
Jones still managed to get more than 40,000 votes, according to official figures.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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November 7, 2018 at 3:31 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, emboldened by Republican election wins in the Senate and scornful of GOP candidates he felt didn’t sufficiently embrace his support, delivered a stark warning to the new Democratic House majority on Wednesday: Investigate me, and I’ll investigate you — and the government will grind to a halt.
Noting that his Republican Party retained control of the Senate on Tuesday, he said that if Democrats in the House come after him, “we’ve got” a thing called the U.S. Senate.
Speaking at a wide-ranging White House press conference, Trump, by turns combative and conciliatory, said Democrats and Republicans should set aside partisanship to work together.
Some House Democrats have threatened to use the subpoena power t...
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November 7, 2018 at 3:28 pm
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The smartphone industry has been searching for a breakthrough to revive a market mired in an innovation lull and a sales slump.
A potential catalyst is coming with the introduction of phones featuring flexible screens that can be folded in half without breaking. That feat could make the devices more versatile for work and pleasure, by increasing screen space without making phones too big.
On Wednesday, Samsung provided a glimpse at a foldable-screen device that it will release next year. It's expected to compete against several other flexible-screen phones.
But it's unclear whether the flexibility will have mass appeal, especially when the bendy devices are expected to cost more than $1,000.
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November 7, 2018 at 3:26 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Jeff Sessions' resignation as attorney general (all times local):
3:15 p.m.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says it is "paramount" that the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller be protected by President Donald Trump's new attorney general.
Trump forced Jeff Sessions out as attorney general on Wednesday after the midterm elections. The president said Sessions' chief of staff, Matt Whitaker, would replace him for now, with a permanent replacement coming later.
Schumer says he finds the timing of Sessions' departure "very suspect." The New York Democrat says it would spark a "constitutional crisis" if Trump forced out Sessions as a "prelude" to ending or limiting Mueller's investigation.
Trump and Sessions had...
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November 7, 2018 at 3:24 pm
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can officially start packing her bags for Washington.
The 29-year-old ran on a Democratic-Socialist platform. Ocasio-Cortez, whose parents are Puerto Rican, has called for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Medicare-for-all and a federal jobs guarantee, as well as a crack down on Wall Street.
Ocasio-Cortez’s ultra-progressive agenda has caught on in a district that is 75 percent nonwhite, according to U.S. Census data.
Read more at ABC News.
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November 7, 2018 at 3:23 pm
In a moving ceremony held in Beit Shemesh this evening, 54 policemen, policewomen, and civilians were awarded medals and honors for their performance and heroism on 21 different occasions, including thwarting terror attacks and saving lives over the past two years.
The event was attended by President Reuven Rivlin, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan, and Police Commissioner Roni Alshich, and offered awards and medals were given to policemen and civilians who acted with determination, courage, and sometimes even to the point of self-sacrifice.
Ari Fuld, H'yd, who was murdered in the Gush Etzion attack last September, was awarded the Civil Medal of Honor after spending the last of his strength chasing the terrorist who stabbed him, managing to shoot him with his personal weapon be...
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November 7, 2018 at 3:14 pm
The Habayit Yehudi party is expected announce their endorsement of Moshe Lion for mayor.
Leon is one of two candidates in the run-off election for Jerusalem mayor next week Tuesday, after he failed to garner more than 50% of the vote in the first elections earlier this month.
Leon will be going up against the second place candidate, Ofer Berkowitz, of the Hitorerut party.
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November 7, 2018 at 3:11 pm
Roughly 1,000 Israeli Jews were escorted by the IDF to Kever Yosef Hatzaddik in the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Shechem overnight.
During last night’s pilgrimage, Israeli security forces found two hand grenades inside the tomb complex. The explosive devices appeared to have been manufactured in an underground weapons lab, and placed at the site by Arab terrorists targeting Israeli visitors.
According to an army spokesman, terrorists operating in Shechem also opened fire on an IDF jeep, and a number of rioters hurled firebombs and stones at Israeli soldiers deployed to protect the convoy of visitors.
No injuries were reported and one suspect was taken into custody.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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November 7, 2018 at 3:09 pm
Arab sources report that Israeli security forces surrounded building in hometown of Barkan terrorist. However, he was not inside.
Arab media outlets reported Wednesday that Israeli security forces had entered the Palestinian Authority-controlled town of Shweika in northwestern Samaria and surrounded a building there, possibly the hiding place of Ashraf Naalwa, the 23-year-old terrorist responsible for the murder of two Israelis in Barkan one month ago.
However, the terrorist was not found inside, and thus the search for him continues.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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November 7, 2018 at 3:06 pm
Berlin - Austria has taken a big step closer to building a memorial to some 66,000 Austrian Jews who were killed during the Nazi era.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s government agreed Wednesday to finance most of the cost of the memorial wall, which would feature the names of the victims.
The announcement of the increase followed a meeting between Kurz and the project’s initiator, Holocaust survivor Kurt Tutter.
The Austria Press Agency reported that the federal government will contribute up to 4.5 million euros ($5.1 million) of the cost, expected to total up to 5.3 million euros. The government previously envisioned covering half the cost.
The memorial is to be built in a park next to the Austrian central bank headquarters in Vienna.
Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 19...
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November 7, 2018 at 3:01 pm
Orange County, NY - Pulling no punches in his victory speech, Senate-elect Assemblyman James Skoufis took aim squarely at both the Village of Kiryas Joel and Governor Andrew Cuomo, telling a crowd of cheering supporters that they were the only ones he owed anything to, after a race that he categorized as “long and acrimonious.”
Skoufis, a Democrat, said that he and his family had been personally attacked over the course of the campaign to take over the 39th District Senate seat being vacated by Republican Bill Larkin.
Kiryas Joel’s main voting bloc had publicly endorsed Skoufis’ opponent, Republican Tom Basile prior to the election, but Skoufis beat out his opponent by nearly 6,000 votes according to unofficial results as reported by the Poughkeepsie Journal (http...
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November 7, 2018 at 2:57 pm
Baltimore, MD - Nov. 7, 2018 - Please be advised that various products from Molino Nicoli, Italy, including polenta, cereal, granola bars, and a dairy chocolate snack are labeled with an unauthorized STAR-K. These products are not certified. They are being distributed in Europe and Israel.
Corrective measures are being taken.
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November 7, 2018 at 2:55 pm
Washington - Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned as the country’s chief law enforcement officer.
Sessions announced his plan to resign in a letter to the White House on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump announced in a tweet that Sessions’ chief of staff Matt Whitaker would become the new acting attorney general.
The attorney general had endured more than a year of stinging and personal criticism from Trump over his recusal from the investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign.
Trump blamed the decision for opening the door to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, who took over the Russia investigation and began examining whether Trump’s hectoring of Sessions was part of a broader effort to obstruct justice.Trump
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November 7, 2018 at 2:51 pm
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Submits Letter of Resignation to President Trump. The undated letter is below.
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November 7, 2018 at 2:45 pm
Paris - President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday it was “legitimate” to pay tribute to Marshal Philippe Petain, who led the French army to victory in World War One’s Battle of Verdun but decades later collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War Two.
Macron’s plan to honor Petain alongside seven other French marshals who directed military campaigns during World War One, which ended 100 years ago on Nov. 11, has unleashed criticism from Jewish groups, political opponents and on social media.
“I consider it entirely legitimate that we pay homage to the marshals who led our army to victory,” Macron said in the eastern town of Charleville-Mezieres that once lay on the front line between French and German troops.
“Marshal Petain was a great sol...
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November 7, 2018 at 2:43 pm
Berlin - Jewish students in Berlin on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” when Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria.
Some 30 students from the Jewish Traditional School lit candles and recited prayers at their school as Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal urged them to jointly overcome Germany’s past by building a secure future for Jews in the country.
“This is the city where the Holocaust was planned and executed from,” said Teichtal, a community rabbi and the head of the Jewish outreach group Chabad in the German capital.
“What better answer is there than that in this very city the students of the Jewish school from Berlin should jointly pray and light candles showing that the answer to darkne...
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November 7, 2018 at 2:42 pm
Brooklyn, NY - Detectives at the NYPD’s 70th Precinct are searching for a suspect who deliberately attacked a Jewish man in broad daylight in the heart of Flatbush as he walked down the street talking on his cell phone on Tuesday afternoon.
Police said that the incident took place at 3:10 PM in front of 1314 Avenue J. Video surveillance obtained from the scene show the suspect walking down the street carrying a blue shopping bag and muttering to himself “[obscenity] kicking his [obscenity],” just seconds before mumbling something unintelligible and bumping into his victim, punching him repeatedly and kicking him in the back. Staring the victim down, the suspect repeating loudly, “[obscenity] kicking his [obscenity],” before calmly walking away from the ...
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November 7, 2018 at 2:40 pm
Washington - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday mocked Republicans who avoided campaigning with him before congressional elections and who were not elected during their races, referencing a list of candidates by name.
“Those are some of the people who decided for their own reason not to embrace - whether it’s me or what we stand for,” Trump told reporters. “They did very poorly. I’m not sure that I should be happy or sad but I feel just fine about it.” Read more at Reuters
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November 7, 2018 at 2:38 pm
Washington - President Donald Trump has sparred with reporters at his post-election news conference, ordering several to sit down and telling another he’s a “rude, terrible” person.
He told yet another reporter he’s “not a fan of yours, either.”
The president’s mood turned sour Wednesday after reporters pressed him on why he referred to a migrant caravan making its way to the U.S. on foot through Mexico as an “invasion.” Trump ramped up his anti-immigrant rhetoric against the caravan in the final days of the midterm elections.
Trump was also pressed on why his campaign aired an ad featuring a Mexican immigrant convicted of killing American police officers and linking the man’s actions to the caravan.
Several television network...
