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March 23, 2019 at 10:20 pm
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took off for Washington on Saturday night, where he will meet US President Donald Trump and speak at the AIPAC annual policy conference.
Before taking off, Netanyahu said, “I’m going to talk to President Trump about the historical recognition of the Golan Heights and about Iran. The cooperation is unprecedented. ”
Netanyahu added, “There has never been such a connection between an Israeli prime minister and an American president.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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March 23, 2019 at 10:17 pm
York Regional Police is seeking public assistance to locate a 24-year-old man missing from the City of Vaughan.
Simi Abrams was last seen on Thursday, Purim day, March 21, at 12:30 p.m., when he left on foot from Mackenzie Health Hospital, located at 10 Trench St. in the Town of Richmond Hill. He has not been in touch with family since.
Police and his family are growing increasingly concerned for his well-being.
A ground search is underway and a command post has been set up at 888 Teston Rd. in the City of Vaughan.
Description:
Simi Abrams
White
24 years
5’4”, 140 lbs.
Long curly dark-coloured hair
Brown eyes
Last seen wearing a white toque with a blue stripe, dark winter coat and jeans
Anyone with information is asked to contact the York Reg...
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March 23, 2019 at 10:04 pm
The mainstream media seemed to suffer a collective shock Friday evening after the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller handed its final report of its Russia investigation to the Department of Justice.
MSNBC host Chris Matthews seemed livid that neither President Trump, his children, nor his “henchmen” would face any criminal charges from the special counsel.
“Maybe he missed the boat here,” Matthews said of Mueller. “Because we know about the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016, we know about the meeting at the cigar bar with Kilimnik [Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian political consultant]. My God, we know about all of those meetings with Kislyak [Sergey Kislyak, a Russian diplomat] at the Republican conventio...
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March 23, 2019 at 9:49 pm
President Donald Trump’s move to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights turns the tables on decades of U.S. diplomacy and international law and threatens to further inflame regional tensions.
It is unlikely, though, to have much impact on the actual status of the territory, where Israel acts with full military control despite the lack of international recognition for its annexation 38 years ago.
A look at the Golan Heights:
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WHAT IS ITS POLITICAL AND STRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCE?
The Golan Heights is a strategic high ground at the southwestern corner of Syria with stunning, broad views of both Israel and Syria below. It is roughly about 1,200 square kilometers (460 square miles) and borders the Sea of Galilee. Israel captured the terri...
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March 23, 2019 at 9:47 pm
An IDF aircraft on Saturday night attacked two observation posts of the Hamas terrorist organization in southern Gaza.
The attack was carried out in response to multiple explosive devices that were hurled and exploded during Gaza riots near Israel’s border fence on Saturday evening. There were no injuries.
Earlier, the “Red Alert” siren was activated in the Eshkol Regional Council as a result of an explosive device that was hurled at the security fence as part of a riot that took place in Gaza.
The explosive device did not cross the security fence.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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March 23, 2019 at 9:45 pm
Helsinki - Rescue workers off Norway’s western coast rushed to evacuate 1,300 passengers and crew from a disabled cruise ship by helicopter on Saturday, winching them one-by-one to safety as heaving waves tossed the ship from side to side and high winds battered the operation.
The Viking Sky issued a mayday call as bad weather hit and engine problems caused it to start drifting toward the rocky shore, the Norwegian newspaper VG reported. Police in the western county of Moere og Romsdal said the crew, fearing the ship would run aground, managed to anchor in Hustadvika Bay, between the Norwegian cities of Alesund and Trondheim, so the evacuations could take place.
Rescue teams with helicopters and boats were sent to evacuate the cruise ship under extremely difficult circumstances, ...
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March 23, 2019 at 9:45 pm
London - British Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a full-blown cabinet plot to remove her and 11 cabinet ministers have said they want her to resign, The Sunday Times’s political editor said.
“A full blown cabinet coup is under way tonight to remove Theresa May as prime minister,” Tim Shipman said.
Shipman quoted one unidentified cabinet minister as saying: “The end is nigh. She will be gone in 10 days.”
May’s de-facto deputy, David Lidington, is one contender to be interim prime minister but others are pushing for Environment Secretary Michael Gove or Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Shipman said.
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March 23, 2019 at 8:51 pm
According to an internal document of Israel’s Great Rabbinical Court, women are to begin serving as judicial assistants to dayonim within the precincts of botei din. Until now, they only worked in rabbinical courts’ administrative offices.
Opposed in the past by Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman and other gedolim, the change is the result of an agreement between Rav Dovid Lau and the heads of the botei din.
Rav Lau’s office noted that women advisors have been advising dayonim for two years and that the change was made for convenience sake.
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March 23, 2019 at 8:47 pm
About 13 million people in the U.S. could face major flooding this spring in what federal scientists have warned could be a “potentially unprecedented” flood season. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, about two-thirds of the lower 48 states face an increased risk of flooding until May, with 25 states that could be hit with “major or moderate flooding.”
“The flooding this year could be worse than anything we’ve seen in recent years, even worse than the historic floods of 1993 and 2011,” Mary C. Erickson, deputy director of the National Weather Service, was quoted as saying by The New York Times.
Scientists are reportedly attributing the greater risk to expected “above-average rainfall” in coming months al...
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March 23, 2019 at 8:46 pm
President Donald Trump has a low approval rating. He is engaging in bitter Twitter wars and facing metastasizing investigations. But if the election were held today, he’d likely ride to a second term in a huge landslide, according to multiple economic models with strong track records of picking presidential winners and losses.
Credit a strong U.S. economy featuring low unemployment, rising wages and low gas prices — along with the historic advantage held by incumbent presidents. While Trump appears to be in a much stronger position than his approval rating and conventional Beltway wisdom might suggest, he also could wind up in trouble if the economy slows markedly between now and next fall, as many analysts predict it will.
“The economy is just so strong right now and b...
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March 23, 2019 at 8:44 pm
President Donald Trump said Friday that he would scrap action his administration took only a day earlier to crack down on companies accused of helping North Korea evade sanctions.
“It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea,” the president tweeted on Friday, though the Treasury announcement he appeared to reference took place Thursday and did not involve “large scale” sanctions. “I have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!”
In explaining the president’s sudden announcement, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, “President Trump likes Chairman Kim and he doesn’t think these sanctions will be...
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March 23, 2019 at 8:42 pm
U.S.-backed forces have pushed the Islamic State out of its final foothold in Syria, the White House said Friday, making a long-awaited victory announcement but defying eyewitness accounts of continued fighting.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the group’s “territorial caliphate has been eliminated in Syria.”
President Donald Trump, making brief remarks to reporters after landing in Palm Beach, Florida, showed reporters a map comparing Iraq and Syria at the height of Islamic State power in 2014 with today.
“That’s what we have right now,” he said, indicating areas no longer controlled by the militants.
The announcement, more than four years after the United States launched its first airstrikes...
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March 23, 2019 at 8:41 pm
Jerusalem - Rafi Eitan, a legendary Israeli Mossad spy who led the capture of Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann, died Saturday. He was 92.
Eitan was one of the founders of Israel’s vaunted intelligence community and among its most prominent figures in Israel and abroad.
“Rafi was among the heroes of the intelligence services of the State of Israel on countless missions on behalf of the security of Israel,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “His wisdom, wit and commitment to the people of Israel and our state were without peer.”
The 1960 operation to capture Eichmann in Argentina and bring him to trial in Jerusalem was the Mossad’s most historic mission and remains one of the defining episodes in Israel’s history. His trial brought to lif...
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March 23, 2019 at 8:40 pm
A top Senate Democrat on the Judiciary Committee conceded in a conference call with reporters Saturday that when the special counsel's principal findings are released by Attorney General William Barr, there may well be cause for celebration among President Trump's supporters -- many of whom have stood by the president for more than two years amid a torrent of unproven allegations that the Trump campaign illegally conspired with Russia in the 2016 election.
"It's the end of the beginning but it's not the beginning of the end," Delaware Democrat Sen. Chris Coons said, echoing his party's strategy of moving forward on to other investigations, including probes into Trump's financial dealings. "Once we get the principal...
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March 23, 2019 at 8:39 pm
Sydney Aiello, who survived the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, has died from suicide, people close to the family told CNN.
Her mother, Cara, told CNN affiliate WFOR that Aiello suffered from survivor's guilt after one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history and had recently been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Aiello, a student at Florida Atlantic University, died Sunday. Her funeral was Friday in Davie, Florida.
Aiello had been on campus the day of the mass attack but was not in the building where the shootings took place, her mother said, according to WFOR. Aiello, a cheerleader in high school, graduated just months after a troubled teen gunned down 14 students and three teachers there.
The fa...
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March 23, 2019 at 8:32 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr scoured special counsel Robert Mueller’s confidential report on the Russia investigation with his advisers Saturday, deciding how much Congress and the American public will get to see about the two-year probe into President Donald Trump and Moscow’s efforts to elect him.
Barr was on pace to release his first summary of Mueller’s findings on Sunday, people familiar with the process said.
The attorney general’s decision on what to finally disclose seems almost certain to set off a fight with congressional Democrats, who want access to all of Mueller’s findings — and supporting evidence — on whether Trump’s 2016 campaign coordinated with Russia to sway the election and w...
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March 22, 2019 at 6:34 pm
In this week's parsha, the korban todah is discussed. The todah is brought as a thanks to HaShem for one of four reasons discussed by Chaza"l. The todah consists of a sacrifice and 40 loaves of bread. Netzi"v, in Ha'amek Davar points out that even though the todah is a shelamim sacrifice whose prescribed time for eating is a day and a half, the todah may only be eaten that night. This, in addition to the excessive bread requirement will make it impossible for the one bringing the korban to consume everything on his own and thus he will be compelled to make a gathering for all his friends wherein he will praise HaShem in public, in order that he not leave over any of the korban after the night. This, s...
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March 22, 2019 at 5:27 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation (all times local):
5:15 p.m.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report concluding the Russia investigation was delivered by a security officer early Friday afternoon to the office of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
That’s according to Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec. It was then delivered within minutes to Attorney General William Barr.
The White House was notified around 4:35-4:40 p.m. that the Justice Department had received the report.
The letter was scheduled to be delivered at 5 p.m. to staff members on Capitol Hill.
Rosenstein was expected to call Mueller on Friday to thank him for his work in the last two years.
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5:07 p.m.
Attorney General William Barr s...
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March 22, 2019 at 5:11 pm
WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has delivered a report on his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election to Attorney General William P. Barr, according to the Justice Department, bringing to an apparent close an investigation that has consumed the nation and cast a shadow over President Trump for nearly two years.
Mr. Barr will decide how much of the report to share with Congress and, by extension, the American public. The House voted unanimouslyin March on a nonbinding resolution to make public the report’s findings, an indication of the deep support within both parties to air whatever evidence prosecutors uncovered.
Since Mr. Mueller’s appointment in May 2017, his team has focused on how Russian operatives sought to s...
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March 22, 2019 at 5:05 pm
"When I was wounded, I did not know what life was awaiting me," Dana said. "I went through a long rehabilitation and today, I know that this is it, I won."
23 years after Dana was seriously injured in a terrorist attack on Purim, to the day, she gave birth to her son at the same hospital in which she was hospitalized.Dana was 15 years old when she was heavily injured during a terrorist attack at Dizengoff Center on Ta'anit Ester, 1995. She went to celebrate Purim, but came out in an ambulance headed for Ichilov Hospital. She went through rigorous hospitalization and treatments before gradually being released.
Now at age 37, on the same day that she almost lost her life, Dana has instead brought one into the world at the very same hospital to which she was carted away all th...
