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January 13, 2020 at 11:59 am
Qatar’s ruler, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, said during a visit to Iran on Sunday that de-escalation and dialogue were needed to resolve regional crises at a “sensitive” time.
He was speaking at a televised news conference with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a visit to Tehran at a time of heightened US-Iranian tensions that threaten to destabilize the region.
Sheikh Tamim also thanked Iran, with which his country shares a giant gas field, for supporting Doha by providing air and land routes after Saudi Arabia and its allies imposed a trade and transport boycott on Qatar in mid-2017.
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January 13, 2020 at 11:49 am
The Jerusalem District Court ruled that two Muslims who shot fireworks directly at a Jewish family home in the Old City of Jerusalem will compensate the family members for NIS 305,000, as well as pay attorney fees of NIS 40,000.
The ruling answers a civil lawsuit brought by the family, after some of the assailants were convicted in criminal proceedings.
The attack occurred during the night, while the home was occupied by the mother of the family, her newly married daughter with her husband and their baby daughter, who at the time of the attack was only eight days old. This is a family that lost a member in an Islamic attack in Jerusalem a few years earlier.
According to the lawsuit, around 10 pm, the attackers gathered on the roof of a school near the family home, equipped with gloves a...
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January 13, 2020 at 11:48 am
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) — Bernie Sanders found himself on the receiving end of attacks from both President Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren on Sunday, a reflection of his rising status in the Democratic presidential race and perceived momentum just three weeks out from the Iowa caucuses.
In a tweet, Trump declared, “Wow! Crazy Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls, looking very good against his opponents in the Do Nothing Party. So what does this all mean? Stay tuned!” Sanders responded in the same medium: “It means you’re going to lose.”
But it was Warren — who has generally avoided criticizing her fellow progressive over the course of the Democratic primary — who offered the sharpest criticism of the Vermont senator, saying she was &ldq...
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January 13, 2020 at 11:40 am
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s main left-parties have announced they will run on a single ticket in the upcoming March 2 election.
Both Labor and Meretz had been polling dangerously close to the electoral threshold and were under intense pressure to unite into a single bloc so as not to lose valuable votes. Should one of them had failed to enter parliament, it would have all but guaranteed re-election for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his nationalist bloc.
Labor Party chairman Amir Peretz will lead the joint list, followed by Orly Levy-Abekasis and then Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz.
Levy-Abekasis, who heads the more centrist Gesher faction, said on Monday that it was merely a “technical union” dictated by reality to save precious votes. The union helps bolste...
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January 13, 2020 at 11:38 am
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Internet video site YouTube has inexplicably deleted thousands of videos of former Israeli Knesset Member and Jewish Defense League founder Rabbi Meir Kahane, closing an account which had uploaded the videos with no apparent explanation given for the move.
According to a Jewish Press report, Youtube removed 2,600 videos with footage of Rabbi Meir Kahane and his disciples some weeks ago.
The account, which was operated by Michael Miller, an American immigrant to Israel who co-manages the social media pages for Boomerang – Fighting For Israel, a pro-Israel advocacy group, was also deleted at the same time. Miller tried to appeal the closure of the account a number of times but was rebuffed by Youtube. The video site responded to his queries by stating ...
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January 13, 2020 at 11:35 am
NEW YORK (AP) — A water main break flooded streets on Manhattan’s Upper West Side near Lincoln Center and hampered subway service during the Monday morning rush hour.
The Fire Department of New York responded to the flooding around 5 a.m. near Broadway and West 62nd Street. The water spread for blocks and was several inches deep in places.
“It’s crazy, you need a boat or something to get through. I didn’t end wear boots today and now we got all this,” commuter Michael Romero, 27, of the Bronx told the New York Post.
Abigail Marie, 33, of Manhattan, said city workers and firefighters responded quickly after the streets started “flooding a lot and from all directions.”
“You have to be careful, there’s big puddles around and they...
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January 13, 2020 at 11:32 am
LAKEWOOD, N.J. (VINnews) — A gentile woman whose car hit a pothole and burst a tire was witness to an example of selfless Jewish kindness, as a young orthodox man stopped immediately, got out of his car and began changing her tire. The woman, Eboni Hester, decided to publish her experience on Facebook, stating that “it truly made my day.”
So today I was taking Blu (my dog) to the vet to get checked out. Driving thru Lakewood I hit a pothole & caught a flat tire, as I was pulling over a pickup truck slowed down & immediately made a U-Turn. This gentleman hopped out of his truck & told me to just watch for oncoming traffic for him as he changed my tire for me. The entire time he kept asking me if I was okay, & telling me to watch the cars so I wouldn&rs...
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January 13, 2020 at 11:24 am
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday it’s been gut-wrenching to listen to stories from relatives of 57 Canadians who perished in the downing of a Ukrainian jetliner in Iran last week as he attended one of several memorials across the country.
Speaking at a memorial with a capacity crowd of 2,300 in Edmonton, Alberta, Trudeau said he has learned many of the victims came to Canada in search of new opportunities for their families, but those families are now consumed by grief and outrage.
The plane was shot down by an Iranian missile moments after taking off from Tehran on Wednesday. All 176 on board were killed, including 138 who were headed for Canada.
Iran has admitted the plane was mistaken for a hostile target amid soaring tensions wi...
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January 13, 2020 at 11:23 am
Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young plans to sign the plastic bag ban into law Monday in an attempt to crack down on single-use bag pollution, according to a spokesman.
At a National Aquarium event Monday, Young will approve the bill that would ban retailers from using plastic bags in most situations and institute a 5-cent fee for other bags, according to a spokesman.
The Baltimore City Council passed the bill nearly unopposed in early November 2019. Councilwoman Danielle McCray was the only member to vote against it, stating that she supports the ban, but believes the fee to be a regressive tax on low- and fixed-income residents.
In November, Councilman Bill Henry thanked activists who had fought for the measure, "not just on this most recent incarnation but for all of t...
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January 13, 2020 at 11:21 am
DALLAS (AP) — Mike Bloomberg isn’t going to be the loudest campaigner in the Democratic primary contest, and he’s not planning to spend time talking about his rivals. With the first votes just weeks away, he acts more like he’s running in a general election than a primary.
While the top Democratic candidates campaigned in Iowa and Nevada this weekend, Bloomberg was on a five-stop bus tour Saturday of reliably Republican Texas, which doesn’t vote until March 3. The only rival he spoke about was President Donald Trump, and he talked about Texas as a battleground in November rather than a soon-to-be-voting primary state.
The Texas tour was an early touch-the-flesh foray for Bloomberg, who is trying to reach voters with hundreds of millions of dollars in televis...
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January 13, 2020 at 11:16 am
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has postponed a visit to the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates this month because of security concerns related to increased tensions between Iran and the United States, Reuters reported on Sunday.
Katz had planned to attend the Expo 2020 in Dubai but “on the instruction of security officials” put off the visit, an Israeli diplomat said, according to the report.
Another diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, was quoted as saying that the move was a precautionary measure against Iran possibly attempting to target Katz as retaliation for the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq on Jan. 3.
Israel has a pavilion at the expo, despite the fact that there are no formal diplomatic relat...
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January 13, 2020 at 11:14 am
President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani joins Judge Jeanine Pirro on ‘Justice.’
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January 13, 2020 at 11:12 am
Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) introduced a bill on Thursday to give $3.3 billion in annual U.S. assistance to in accordance with the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United States and Israel.
While the Trump administration has upheld the MOU—the biggest promise of U.S. military aid made to any nation—the bill would put it into law.
Rubio told Reuters the bill was crucial amid “unprecedented threats,” while Coons told the outlet that “the events of the past few days are a stark reminder of the importance of U.S. assistance to Israel’s security.”
U.S. forces killed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a strike at Baghdad Airport on Jan. 3.
Four days later, th...
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January 13, 2020 at 11:10 am
Israel’s budget deficit is projected to be at least 4% of gross domestic product in the next few years if the government does not make tax and spending adjustments of tens obillions of shekels, the Israeli Finance Ministry said in a report on Sunday.
A year-long political stalemate has made it difficult to take proper fiscal steps since the caretaker governments are limited in power. A third election in less than a year in March would mean a 2020 state budget would not be approved until at least the middle of the year.
In the meantime, a pro-rated version of the 2019 budget is being used.
Israel posted a budget deficit of 3.7% of GDP in 2019, above an initial target of 2.9%.
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon has come under fire from economists who say that he and Prime Minister Benja...
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January 13, 2020 at 11:08 am
The New Jersey senator struggled to break into the field's top tier.
Sen. Cory Booker suspended his presidential campaign Monday, the final act of a bid for the Democratic nomination defined by a persistent struggle to catch fire with voters and donors despite his relatively high profile and long-standing presidential ambitions.
The news of the senator’s decision came weeks days before the Iowa caucuses, where, despite a large field organization Booker, D-N.J., was expected to finish outside of the top tier of candidates, based on recent polling. His announcement also comes on the eve of the seventh Democratic debate which he did not qualify to participate in due to a lack of qualifying polls towards Democratic National Committee polling thresholds, accordin...
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January 13, 2020 at 11:05 am
Two cases of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) were reported in Israel Monday morning.
The first incident occurred in Yerushalayim, when the parents of an infant approximately one year-old brought their child to a medical clinic after he did not wake up.
The second case occurred when a one-and-a-half year old did not wake up in his home in Netanya.
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yaakov Ben David who was one of the first responders at the scene said: “When I arrived at the scene I saw an infant with no signs of life.”
“According to his family he did not wake up this morning. Together with other EMS personnel I performed CPR on the infant but after a lengthy attempt to save his life paramedics were forced to pronounce the child dead. Due to the nature of the incident t...
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January 13, 2020 at 11:03 am
Police raided a compound in Yerushalayim Monday morning which is suspected of having been used to house a cult in which dozens of women and children were held against their will.
Ten people were arrested in the raid, including a 60-year-old man who ran the school located on the premises, along with nine female suspects.
Authorities suspect the school, which operated as a separate and tightly knit-community, was in practice a cult which used coercion and abuse to force dozens of women and children to remain there against their will.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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January 13, 2020 at 11:00 am
Rep. Devin Nunes joins ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ to discuss the House Republicans investigating origins of the Ukraine whistleblower complaint.
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January 13, 2020 at 11:00 am
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January 13, 2020 at 10:57 am
A record 2.32 million people visited the sites of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz and Auschwitz II-Birkenau in Poland last year, the Auschwitz Memorial announced on Tuesday.
That number is about 170,000 more than in 2018, which also broke previous records.
Some 81 percent of last year’s visitors learned about the camp’s history with one of the museum’s 340 guides, who conduct tours in 21 languages. More than 14,000 people in organized groups visited the sites as part of study visits, which is approximately a 20 percent increase compared to the previous year.
According to data in the online reservation system, in 2019, the memorial was visited by at least 396,000 visitors from Poland, 200,000 from Great Britain, 120,000 from the United States, 10...
