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June 17, 2019 at 4:14 pm
On Monday, June 17 / 14 Sivan, an annual state memorial ceremony was held at Beit Hanasi, in Jerusalem, Israel, with the current Israeli President and Prime Minister remembering deceased former Presidents and Prime Ministers.
This year, the ceremony was dedicated to the memories of President Shimon Peres ז"ל, President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ז"ל, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol ז"ל, and Prime Minister Golda Meir ז"ל. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut, acting Speaker of the Knesset Meir Cohen, led dignitaries attending with President Reuven Rivlin. Large photographs of the past Israeli leaders were posted outside the entrance of Beit Hanasi.
Also at the ceremony awards were presented by the President and by ...
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June 17, 2019 at 4:10 pm
The Vizhnitz development on Route 70 in Lakewood is one step closer to reality now that the permit has been approved, Asbury Park Press reports.
Environmental regulators announced they intend to issue a permit for construction at the site of Route 70 Auction & Flea Market, ending a nearly four-year holdup prompted by concerns the township water supply couldn’t support development there.
A New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection notice says the project will include 166 townhouses with basement apartments, for a total of 332 housing units, a nearly 12,000-square-foot retail building and a 10,000-square-foot community building.
Read more at Asbury Park Press.
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June 17, 2019 at 4:08 pm
The ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was piloted by a "lonely and sad" captain who experimented with a flight profile almost identical to the aircraft's final doomed path -- one that left a slim chance of finding remains or clues to what really happened in the skies that calamitous evening, a new report reveals.
In the July issue of The Atlantic, writer and aviation specialist William Langewiesche delves into what happened to the missing aircraft, including the disclosure that Malaysian officials knew far more about where the aircraft was the night it went missing and that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had "indications of trouble."
The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished March 8, 2014, an...
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June 17, 2019 at 4:02 pm
After leaving a Yerushalayim restaurant, a woman recalled that she had taken off her diamond engagement ring before netillas yodayim and forgotten it on the table. By the time she got back, the table refuse and ring had just been picked up by a garbage truck.
Racing after the vehicle, she begged the driver to wait. At a collecting point in Givat Shaul, the truck disgorged 15 tons of garbage and the search commenced.
Miraculously, she and three sanitation workers, with the help of a tractor, found the ring within 15 minutes.
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June 17, 2019 at 1:33 pm
Cairo - Egypt says it has struck a deal with the state-owned Israel Electric Corp to settle a fine for halting deliveries of natural gas.
A statement from Egypt’s Petroleum Ministry said the settlement deal, which was signed Sunday, would reduce the $1.7 billion fine to $500 million.
It says Egypt will pay the amount over eight and a half years.
In return, the Israeli company would drop other claims resulting from a 2015 arbitration decision.
Israel Electric had sued the state-owned Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation and Egyptian Natural Gas after a 2005 deal to export natural gas to Israel collapsed in 2012 amid militant attacks on a pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula, where Egypt has been battling insurgency for years.
Israel relied on the pipeline to meet its energy needs.
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June 17, 2019 at 1:31 pm
Washington - President Donald Trump’s latest anointment of an acting head of a major federal agency has prompted muttering, but no more than that, from Republican senators whose job description includes confirming top administration aides.
Their reluctance to confront Trump comes as veterans of the confirmation process and analysts say he’s placed acting officials in key posts in significantly higher numbers than his recent predecessors. The practice lets him quickly, if temporarily, install allies in important positions while circumventing the Senate confirmation process, which can be risky with Republicans running the chamber by a slim 53-47 margin.
The latest example is Ken Cuccinelli, who last week was named acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. He...
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June 17, 2019 at 1:29 pm
President Donald Trump’s campaign is cutting ties with three members of his polling team after grim numbers showing him trailing former vice president Joe Biden in several battleground states were leaked to the media last week, according to several officials with knowledge of the matter.
Days ahead of Trump’s official launch of his reelection bid on Tuesday, the campaign is severing its relationship with Brett Loyd, Mike Baselice and Adam Geller while keeping pollsters Tony Fabrizio and John McLaughlin.
The officials, like others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely discuss internal moves. The Trump campaign declined to comment. NBC first reported on the campaign’s actions.
The news follows reports – first by Politico and later by the New Yo...
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June 17, 2019 at 1:26 pm
Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi has collapsed during a court session and died, according to state television.
The state broadcaster said on Monday that Morsi, 67, was attending a session in his trial on espionage charges when he blacked out and then died. His body was taken to a hospital, it said.
Morsi, a senior figure in the now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, was elected president in 2012 and was later ousted by the military.
Read more at The Guardian.
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June 17, 2019 at 1:21 pm
Baltimore, MD - June 17, 2019 - Melissa Hyatt was sworn in Monday as Baltimore County’s 14th police chief and the first woman to lead the department. She is also the first Jew to occupy this position.
Her father, Major Sydney Hyatt (Retired BPD), pinned the badge on his daughter.
In a ceremony at Towson’s Patriot Plaza, Hyatt said she would never forget the sacrifice of first responders who had died in the line of duty and would work hard to get to know the department she now leads.
“Today, I’m going to spend some time getting out into the precincts,” Hyatt said in an interview after being sworn in. She wants to “Spend a lot of time in the community … [and] make sure I get out and spend some time with the troops.”
Hyatt was ...
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June 17, 2019 at 12:54 pm
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt on Sunday expressed his support for recent statements by U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in favor of Israeli annexation of some parts of Yehuda and Shomron.
“I will let David’s comments stand for themselves,” Greenblatt said during the annual Jerusalem Post conference in New York, when asked about an interview with Friedman published in The New York Times last Saturday. “I think he said them elegantly and I support his comments.”
In the article, Friedman said “under certain circumstances, I think Israel has the right to retain some, but unlikely all, of the West Bank.”
He also said he would not “want to prejudge” a scenario of unilateral Is...
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June 17, 2019 at 12:54 pm
COCKEYSVILLE, Md. — York Road is closed in both directions Monday at Ashland Road in Cockeysville due to a water main break, according to the Maryland State Highway Administration.
A 12-inch main broke, affecting 40 water services along York Road, including businesses, said Department of Public Works spokesman Kurt Kocher.
MDOT SHA said there is no estimated time the road could re-open.
Traffic reporter Lacee Griffith said drivers can try to avoid the area by taking McCormick Road to Beaverdam Road or I-83.
This water main break happened just less than 3 miles north of a water main break and road collapse on York Road last week.
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June 17, 2019 at 12:45 pm
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says if he won he wouldn’t reverse President Trump’s controversial decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel back to Tel Aviv from Yerushalayim.
“I think what’s done is done,” Buttigieg told “Axios on HBO” in a clip shared Sunday. “We need a big picture strategy on the Middle East, I don’t know that we’d gain much by moving it to Tel Aviv.”
Despite saying he wouldn’t reverse Trump’s actions, Buttigieg said that “doesn’t mean he did the right thing.”
“Here’s the problem with what he did,” Buttigieg said. “If you’re going to make a concession like that…you don’t do that without getting some kind of con...
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June 17, 2019 at 12:43 pm
MK Yair Lapid met secretly with former Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper reports.
It is possible that Barak is examining the possibility of cooperation with Lapid ahead of the elections for the 22nd Knesset.
On Friday, it was reported that Barak is considering forming a new party that will include prominent figures from the left, such as Tzipi Livni, Dan Meridor and former Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. (res.) Yair Golan.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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June 17, 2019 at 12:41 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Israel will not let Iran obtain a nuclear weapon, as Tehran says it will break the uranium stockpile limit set by the nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days.
“Today Iran threatened to enrich its uranium beyond the limits of the nuclear deal — this does not surprise us,” says Netanyahu. “In the event it acts upon its threats and violates the nuclear deal, the international community must immediately impose the sanctions that were set previously. Israel will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.”
Read more at Times of Israel.
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June 17, 2019 at 12:39 pm
Hamas on Monday confirmed that millions of Qatari aid dollars had entered the Gaza Strip for distribution to needy families, claiming that a new phase of understandings with Israel was now underway, Ynet reported.
The Gaza Strip’s ruling faction said the new understandings would include improvements to the blockaded enclave’s water and electricity supplies, relaxed import and export rules, and expansions to industrial projects in Gaza.
Palestinian media also reported that a delegation of Qatari technical experts was in the strip to meet with the Energy Ministry’s Deputy Chairman Samir Muttair. The team is reportedly to begin work on installing a new electricity line aimed at improving Gaza’s electricity supply.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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June 17, 2019 at 12:37 pm
An Israeli company that specializes in helping law enforcement agencies break into cellphones announced it has found a way to break into any iPhone ever made, as well as many Android phones.
The Petah Tikva-based Cellebrite was reportedly the company the FBI used in 2016 to hack into the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter after Apple refused the US government’s request to build a backdoor into its famously secure operating system.
The announcement from Cellebrite came in the form of an update this week to its website promoting the iPhone-hacking technology, dubbed “UFED Premium,” as “the only on-premise solution for law enforcement agencies to unlock and extract crucial mobile phone evidence from all iOS and high-end Android devices.”
Read more at Ti...
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June 17, 2019 at 12:37 pm
Temporary Annex Space to be Available to Customers with Scheduled REAL ID Appointments through May 2020
GLEN BURNIE, MD (June 17, 2019) – Howard County residents now have 258 additional opportunities each day for an appointment to satisfy the federally mandated REAL ID requirement. Today, Lt. Governor Boyd K. Rutherford and the Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration (MDOT MVA) officially opened its newest customer service space, an office in the Columbia Business Center adjacent to the MVA Columbia Branch. The new Columbia Annex is available for customers who make REAL ID appointments. With the additional capacity, staff at Columbia can provide 2,133 REAL ID appointments weekly. In late May, MDOT MVA opened a similar temporary office space in Parkville t...
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June 17, 2019 at 12:36 pm
Baltimore, MD - June 17, 2019 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Raisey & Tzvi Feigenbaum on the birth of a daughter.
Mazel Tov to grandparents Mr. & Mrs. Fred Weiss.
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בתם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
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June 17, 2019 at 12:01 pm
The BSO management cut off salaries to all musicians at midnight Monday
BALTIMORE — The management of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra locked out its musicians at midnight Monday.
The BSO Board of Directors approved a lockout on Sunday. With no agreement between musicians and management reached, the lockout went into effect at midnight.
"Due to the Baltimore Symphony's urgent need to address longstanding financial issues and change its business model, the BSO has made this extremely difficult decision," said President and CEO Peter Kjome in a statement on the BSO's website.
In a statement from the BSO musicians overnight, they stated the Symphony's management is out of cash and will not pay the musicians' salary. Health insurance will also be cut off at the en...
