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March 17, 2019 at 8:49 pm
Researchers working with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) uncovered archaeological finds dating from the Byzantine period at the Dudaim Educational and Recycling Park in southern Israel.
The finds included remains of terraces, a water pit, and field guard's post, all from the Byzantine period. They were inspected by the IAA and some of the findings were taken for further research.
The remains were found at the edge of the Dudaim Park, and the area where they were found has been declared a closed archaeological site to allow the researchers to work uninterrupted.
Dudaim Park CEO Nir Bar-David said, "There is great significance in researching the history of this amazing land. Sometimes you need to stop a moment and allow professionals such as the IAA's amazing staff to do ...
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March 17, 2019 at 8:46 pm
A Palestinian Arab teenager was arrested Sunday afternoon, after she attempted to stab Israeli soldiers with a knife in Hevron, south of Jerusalem.
The incident occurred at a checkpoint near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hevron, when a female terrorist 17 years of age attempted to enter the holy site while carrying the knife concealed on her person.
Israeli Border Police officers operating the checkpoint discovered that the terrorist was armed, and ordered her to comply with their instructions. At that point, the terrorist drew the knife and charged the officers.
The officers managed to overpower the terrorist, however, and disarmed her.
The terrorist was taken into custody and handed over to the Shin Bet internal security agency for interrogation.
No injuries were reported in the i...
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March 17, 2019 at 8:37 pm
Hostile elements broke into the mobile phone of former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) is concerned that information from the phone has reached Iran.
According to a report on Sunday on the “Uvda” program which airs on Channel 12, Shin Bet Director Nadav Argaman came last July for an unusual meeting at Barak's home, during which Argaman warned that Iranians were holding information from Barak's mobile phone and computer.
It is possible that the Iranians did not break into the phone themselves but bought the information from foreign hackers who carried out the actual breakout, according to the report.
Sources informed on the matter said that this was not negligence on Barak’s part, and that in any case, the ma...
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March 17, 2019 at 7:00 pm
The Likud is back on top, regaining the lead in an election poll ahead of next month’s legislative election.
For the first time since the Israel Resilience Party and Yesh Atid faction united to form the Blue and White ticket nearly a month ago, the Likud now leads the Blue and White party, according to a new poll.
The survey, conducted by Direct Polls on behalf of Channel 11, shows the Likud leading former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz’s Blue and White by a single seat, 31 to 30.
The right-wing – religious bloc also leads the left-wing – Arab bloc, 63 to 57, giving Netanyahu a narrow path to forming a right-wing government without the Blue and White party.
The Union of Right-Wing Parties, which includes the Jewish Home, National Union and Otzma Yehudit fac...
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March 17, 2019 at 6:38 pm
Baltimore, MD - Mar. 14, 2019 - Reposting upon request:The below was sent this evening (Feb. 27, 2018) to the members of Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion:
Dear Friends:
I hope this letter finds you all well and looking forward to the beautiful Yom Tov of Purim. I address this letter to all of you, and especially to parents of teenagers.
One of the unusual aspects of Purim is the celebration of the day through drinking at the Seudah. Many – including the Rema and the Chafetz Chaim (see OC 695:2, Mishneh Berurah and Biur Halacha), as well as many contemporary Gedolim – have discouraged the literal and liberal fulfillment of this practice.
The mixed feelings about this practice go back generations, to the time of Talmud and its earliest commentaries (TB Megillah 7b; Ran the...
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March 17, 2019 at 6:30 pm
The gunman responsible for a pair of mass shootings at two New Zealand mosques visited Israel two-and-a-half years ago, a new report claims.
Twenty-eight-year-old Brenton Harrison Tarrant, an Australian national, was arrested Friday, after he went on shooting sprees at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 people and wounding 50 more.
During the attacks Friday morning, Tarrant gunned down dozens at the Al Noor Mosque, before attacking the Linwood Islamic Center, using semi-automatic rifles and shotguns while live-streaming the massacres to social media.
According to a report Sunday evening by Israel’s Channel 13, Tarrant visited Israel two-and-a-half years before the massacres.
A senior Israeli official told Channel 13 that Tarrant entered ...
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March 17, 2019 at 6:00 pm
The US is planning on leaving a significantly larger force in Syria even after it withdraws its forces from the civil war-ridden state, according to a report Sunday evening.
Despite President Donald Trump’s announcement in December that he had ordered the Pentagon to pull all American forces out of Syria within 30 days, the US is now apparently drawing up new plans which would see as many as 1,000 US soldiers remaining in Syria – or roughly half of the force deployed to Syria prior to the December 2018 order.
The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed US officials, said that talks between the US, Turkey, European powers, and Kurdish militias in northeastern Syria had failed to produce an agreement under which Turkey would fill the vacuum left by the US withdrawal....
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March 17, 2019 at 5:39 pm
Baltimore, MD - Mar. 17, 2019 - Taanis Esther is a day of tefillah. The power of the Jewish People comes from the bracha (blessing) of Yitzchok, Hakol Kol Yaakov, the voice is the voice of Yaakov. Our weapon to fight against Eisav is our tefillos. On Purim, Mordechai, the descendant of Yaakov, fights against Haman, the descendant of Eisav. We spent three days fasting and praying that Hashem should send us a salvation. Esther does not tell Achashveirosh her request immediately to teach us that sometimes, the answer to our prayers is not immediate, but Hashem gathers our tefillos and always listens and responds.
Click here to listen
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March 17, 2019 at 5:35 pm
New York - A rabbi who packs a gun. A church installing security cameras. A police car protecting a mosque.
Houses of worship have traditionally been places of refuge where strangers are welcome. But high-profile attacks in recent years on an African-American church in Charleston, a synagogue in Pittsburgh and now mosques in New Zealand have made many worshippers and their prayer leaders rethink how protected sanctuaries really are.
“People are fearful for their lives, for their houses of worship, for the sanctuary of this mosque and other places of worship like the synagogues and African-American churches that are being attacked. People are concerned,” said Imam Mohannad Hakeem while attending Friday prayers at the Islamic Center of Detroit.
He spoke after a horrifying atta...
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March 17, 2019 at 5:34 pm
Jerusalem - An Israeli court has set a 60-day deadline for the Jordanian-appointed council that oversees Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem to respond to its closure of a disputed structure at the city’s most sensitive scared site.
Jordan’s Foreign Ministry called on Israel to rescind its “dangerous” court-ordered closure Sunday, saying that the Al-Aqsa mosque compound “is not subject to Israeli jurisdiction” and falls under the “exclusive authority of the Waqf,” or Islamic council.
The Waqf says it will continue operating in the structure while Jordan and Israel attempt to reach a settlement in the coming weeks.
Israel shuttered the structure in 2003, claiming it was used by a group connected with Islamic militants. The Waqf re-opened the are...
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March 17, 2019 at 5:33 pm
Naeem Rashid, 50, a teacher and father of three who emigrated from Pakistan to New Zealand a decade ago, was busy this month planning the spring wedding of his son Talha, 21.
Neither father nor son lived to celebrate the occasion. Both were killed Friday, along with seven other Pakistanis, when a gunman struck at two mosques in Church, New Zealand, killing at least 50 people and wounding scores.
But since then, Rashid has become a national hero in his native country, after video footage of the shootings showed him trying to tackle the gunman outside one mosque before being shot.
“My brother was a brave man who died to save others. His death showed how he cared for humanity,” Rashid’s brother Khurshid Alam said in a telephone interview Sunday from his home in Abbottabad...
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March 17, 2019 at 5:10 pm
As she waited to meet former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper at a recent house party in Dubuque, attorney Connie O’Connor was anxious about the liberal direction of the Democratic presidential primary.
“I know a lot of people who don’t want to vote for Donald Trump but don’t necessarily want to vote for the presidential version of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez,” she said, referring to the recently elected progressive congresswoman from New York. “I think we forget those people are out there.”
But about 80 miles away, union organizer Eli Shepherd pointed to the thousands of people flocking to a Bernie Sanders rally at the University of Iowa as proof that the self-described democratic socialist is best positioned to beat the Republican now in the White...
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March 17, 2019 at 5:03 pm
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN
The war of words between Turkey and Israel continued Friday when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rebuked the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for suggesting that Istanbul — formerly Constantinople — was under Turkish occupation.
The Turkish and Israeli leaders have been trading barbs this week, with Netanyahu calling Erdogan a “dictator” and criticizing the imprisonment of scores of journalists in Turkey. Erdogan brandished the Israeli leader a “thief” and a “tyrant” in reference to corruption allegations and Israeli policies toward Palestinians.
Netanyahu’s son, Yair Netanyahu, jumped into the fray, tweeting this week that Istanbul “is actually a city called Const...
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March 17, 2019 at 4:57 pm
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March 17, 2019 at 4:44 pm
Jerusalem - A group of leading international architects is appealing to Israel’s government to halt its controversial plan to build a cable car to Jerusalem’s Old City.
Some 30 architects, including Spanish Santiago Calatrava, famed for designing Jerusalem’s Chords Bridge, celebrated American architect Thom Mayne and Israeli-born Moshe Safdie added their voices to public outcry against the project Sunday in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
It called the cable car a threat to Jerusalem’s “ancient landscape and precious heritage,” and accused powerful interest groups of prioritizing tourism and political agendas over religious and cultural values.
Approved last fall by Israel’s Tourism Ministry as a way to ferry visitors to Jer...
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March 17, 2019 at 4:43 pm
Argentinian intelligence officers arrested two Iranian nationals in Buenos Aires suspected of traveling on forged Israeli passports, local media reported. The pair, identified by local reports as Sajjad Samiel Naserani, 27, and Mashoreh Sabzali, 30, were arrested on Tuesday travelling on forged Israeli passports under the fake names of Netanel and Rivka Toledano.
The passports’s numbers had been listed by their owners as lost or stolen, under different names. Authorities later concluded the passports were forgeries after finding numerous Hebrew spelling mistakes on the official documents. An investigation involving Israeli police and the counter-terrorism division of Argentina’s federal intelligence agency, AFI, led to the eventual arrest of the two Iranians.
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March 17, 2019 at 4:17 pm
Just half a century ago it might have seemed foolhardy to imagine scores of Orthodox Jewish men and women walking the halls of buildings bearing the names of political greats discussing their concerns with high ranking federal officials and congressional leaders. But as they spent a whirlwind Wednesday in the nation’s capital advocating for the needs of the Jewish community, delegates to this year’s Agudath Israel of America’s Washington Mission are continuing a long standing Agudah tradition of championing these causes and concerns at the highest levels of government.
Day two of the mission began with an inspiring address by the U.S. State Department’s recently appointed U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, the Honorable Elan Carr, who was intro...
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March 17, 2019 at 4:10 pm
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who was once a Democrat, said in an interview broadcast Sunday that the Democratic Party “is not an anti-Jewish party” but that it has members who say anti-Semitic things.
“The Democratic Party is not an anti-Jewish party, but there are some people in the party now, including in Congress as we’ve seen from Congresswoman Omar…who are saying explicitly anti-Semitic things,” Lieberman, who is Jewish, said in an interview with radio host John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York.
Lieberman, a centrist who ran for vice president on Al Gore’s Democratic ticket in 2000.
Read more at The Hill.
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March 17, 2019 at 4:09 pm
Washington - A top White House official says it’s unfair to cast the alleged New Zealand mosque shooter as a supporter of President Donald Trump based on one reference to Trump in a manifesto the suspect released before the attack.
Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney tells “Fox News Sunday” that the shooter was a “disturbed individual” and “evil person.” Mulvaney says attempts to tie the shooter to any American politician “probably ignores some of the deeper difficulties that this sort of activity exposes.”
On another issue, Mulvaney said any resumption of missile or nuclear testing by North Korea would be a “truly disappointing turn of events.”
North Korea had halted such testing as it discussed denuclearization wi...
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March 17, 2019 at 4:09 pm
Renton, WA - Boeing Co’s safety analysis of a new flight control system on 737 MAX jets had several crucial flaws, the Seattle Times reported on Sunday.
Boeing’s safety analysis of the flight control system called MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System) understated the power of this system, the Seattle Times said, citing current and former engineers at the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The FAA also did not delve into any detailed inquiries and followed a standard certification process on the MAX, the Seattle Times reported citing an FAA spokesman.
The FAA declined to comment on the Seattle Times report but referred to previous statements about the certification process. It has said the 737-MAX certification process followed the FAA’s standa...
