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February 19, 2020 at 8:06 pm
Attorney General expected to announce criminal probe of "Fifth Dimension" company which was headed by Benny Gantz.
A criminal investigation may soon be opened into the Fifth Dimension artificial intelligence company, in which Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz served as an executive, Channel 13 News reported on Wednesday.
In recent days, the Prosecutor's Office has completed the investigation into the company, and is set to recommend that a criminal investigation be launched against various parties involved with the company.
Gantz himself is not a suspect, according to Channel 13, but other members of the company who allegedly fraudulently received funds from the police are suspects.
The investigation will likely be opened after March 2 Knesset election, the ...
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February 19, 2020 at 7:59 pm
Hamas official in Gaza says "March of the Return" protests will resume next month.
Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the Hamas political bureau and one of the organization’s senior leaders in the Gaza Strip, is calling for a national action plan to combat the so-called “Deal of the Century”.
Speaking at a conference in Gaza, al-Hayya said that the plan to fight the proposal should be based primarily on stopping the security coordination with Israel and canceling the Oslo Accords.
He stressed the importance of convening the PLO leadership to discuss the fight against the “Deal of the Century”.
"If there is no dialogue, there will be no escape from the establishment of a new representative body with wide national participation, with the participation of Hamas, ...
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February 19, 2020 at 7:56 pm
At least eight people were shot dead in the German city of Hanau, located near Frankfurt, on Wednesday night.
Deutsche Welle reported that the perpetrators opened fire at a shisha bar in Hanau's downtown, killing three people.
They then drove to the neighborhood of Kesselstadt and opened fire at the second shisha bar, where five people died.
Authorities are currently looking for the suspects, who are said to have fled the scene.
The motive for the incident is not yet clear.
Germany has been on a high level of alert due to a series of terrorist attacks in the country in recent years, including a 2016 attack on a Christian market in Berling in which 12 people were killed by an Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist who rammed into a crowd of civilians. Read more at...
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February 19, 2020 at 7:54 pm
Right-wing bloc trails Left-Arab bloc 56 to 57, 60% want to see televised debate between leaders of the big parties in new survey.
A survey conducted for Channel 12 by the Midgam Institute indicates that if elections were held today, the Blue and White Party would win 35 seats and Likud would win 33.
The Joint List would receive 13 seats in the next Knesset, Labor-Gesher-Meretz 9, Shas 8 and United Torah Judaism 8.
According to the survey, Yisrael Beytenu decreases to 7 seats and Yamina wins 7 seats.
Otzma Yehudit receives 1.6% of the vote and does not exceed the electoral threshold.
According to the data, the Left-Arab bloc stands at 57 seats and the Right bloc at 56.
Binyamin Netanyahu has 42% support on the question of suitability to be prime minister, compared to ...
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February 19, 2020 at 7:46 pm
KEW GARDEN HILLS (VINnews) — The Kew Garden Hills community of Queens was inconvenienced on Wednesday, after a construction crew accidentally struck high-pressure gas main, causing evacuations across the area.
The incident occurred on Main St and 68th Drive on Wednesday afternoon.
There were no injuries reported due to the rupture, but authorities evacuated local stores and businesses as a precaution.
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February 19, 2020 at 7:44 pm
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mike Bloomberg will confront the greatest test of his presidential campaign when he faces five Democratic rivals in a debate in Las Vegas that could fundamentally change the direction of the party’s 2020 nomination fight.
The debate debut for the billionaire former mayor of New York is poised to offer fresh insight into whether his unconventional campaign strategy — bypassing early voting states such as Nevada and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to spread his message on the airwaves — is sustainable.
Wednesday night’s debate comes at a pivotal point in the campaign as moderate voters are struggling to unify, with some increasingly looking to Bloomberg to become the clear alternative to progressive Bernie Sanders. And lest there be a...
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February 19, 2020 at 7:36 pm
SPRING VALLEY (VINnews) — The Monsey community was shaken on Tuesday after the news broke that a fatal stabbing had occurred inside the Finkelstein Library in Spring Valley.
As much as such a heinous crime can never ever be justified, the shock and outrage surrounding the incident was escalated dramatically by the revelation of the suspect’s motive.
Spring Valley Police Chief Paul Modica revealed on Wednesday that the seemingly random stabbing attack, started with a small interaction.
According to Modica, Finkelstein Library security guard Sandra Wilson was at the computer terminals on the third floor of the library, when she approached Blanchard Glaudin and asked him to turn down the music on his phone.
In response, Glaudin simply stabbed her.
Glaudin was charge...
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February 19, 2020 at 4:25 pm
Baltimore, MD – Feb. 2020 - Every Shabbos table offers every Jewish family an incredible opportunity by which they can share their joy for Shabbos, for Yiddishkeit and for HaShem with their children. Unfortunately, our schedules are hectic and many people don’t have the time to prepare themselves to utilize the Shabbos table to its fullest. Therefore, we at ACHIM created TableTalk as a pre-packaged talking points pamphlet which is attractive, fun and has something for everyone. Limited copies are distributed to many shuls on a weekly basis but they are snatched up very quickly. Get yours ASAP or click on the graphic below and print your own.What’s in it and what’s all the excitement about?TableTalk features:• Weekly halachic dilemma creating l...
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February 19, 2020 at 4:24 pm
A delegation of 30 Jewish American leaders was hosted by senior government officials last week in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for a four-day summit organized by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the first such specifically Jewish delegation to the Sunni Muslim kingdom in nearly three decades.
The mission to the Saudi Arabia took place just a week after a report that efforts are underway to organize a breakthrough public summit between Israel’s prime minister and Persian Gulf leaders in the coming months. The mission also takes place just two weeks after the rollout of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” vision for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians—a plan that is believed to be supported by numerous Gulf S...
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February 19, 2020 at 4:18 pm
North and southbound lanes closed as injured being moved by ambulance, others by bus
An estimated 60 people have been hurt in a multi-vehicle pileup which has closed Highway 15 in both directions in La Prairie on Montreal's South Shore.
Urgence santé de la Rive-sud said it has sent several first-responder teams to the scene. There are no reports yet of the extent of the injuries, although police said at least two people are in critical condition.
The collisions occurred at around 12:30 p.m. in the southbound direction of Highway 15 near kilometre 46. Three hours later, rescue workers were still on the scene trying to extract people from their vehicles.
Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Sgt. Claude Denis said those not hurt were being moved to safety by ...
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February 19, 2020 at 4:14 pm
U.S. equity markets rallied Wednesday helped by momentum stocks, positive housing data, and reports that the number of new coronavirus cases slowed.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite hit fresh records, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average tacked on 115 points.
The momentum stocks that helped drive enthusiasm included Tesla. Those shares rallied above $900 apiece after Piper Sandler raised its price target to $928, the second-highest on Wall Street, citing its batteries and solar power business as the next big thing.
Virgin Galactic shares were higher for an eighth straight day, and are up more than 160 percent since their Oct. 28 stock-market debut. Although there is speculation that Sir Richard Branson's space travel company i...
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February 19, 2020 at 3:44 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - Feb. 19, 2020 -The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (COP) led by Chairman Arthur Stark, Executive Vice Chairman Malcolm Hoenlein and CEO William Daroff are hearing from a range of Israeli political leaders and experts. The COP mission includes 100 leaders representing 50 organizations from across the American Jewish community,
On Wednesday before the closing dinner, at the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem, Israel, Israeli Blue and White political party leader Benny Gantz spoke with confidence that he will be the next Prime Minister of Israel. Gantz had a similar theme in his remarks to the COP as President Reuven Rivlin - the Jewish people are one extended family.
Answering questions concerning th...
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February 19, 2020 at 3:44 pm
Former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich declared himself a “Trumpocrat” Tuesday night hours after the president commuted his federal prison sentence.
“He’s got obviously a big fan in me,” Blagojevich told reporters at Denver International Airport. “And if you’re asking me what my party affiliation is, I’m a Trumpocrat,” according to NBC News.
Blagojevich was freed from a Colorado prison earlier Tuesday after serving eight years of a 14-year sentence stemming from his conviction on corruption charges.
Read more at THE NY POST.
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February 19, 2020 at 3:28 pm
More than 23,000 people, including 2,500 in person and several thousand online, from 183 countries gathered for OurCrowd’s 2020 global investor summit on Feb. 13 in Yerushalayim.
Among them were individuals from each of the 22 countries of the Arab league.
“It’s an absolute pleasure that every one of the Arab states is represented here at the OurCrowd summit, either in person or through the live stream,” OurCrowd founder and CEO Jonathan Medved told JNS. “This is long overdue, and the fact that Israelis and Arabs all over the world are now working together for innovation and to bring new technologies to work for the benefit of humankind is a blessing and good news for the world.”
Medved, who spoke in December at the SALT Abu Dhabi global market confer...
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February 19, 2020 at 3:24 pm
President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin has just been received, as the sun rises over Fiji on Thursday 20 February / 25 Shevat (local time) in an official welcoming ceremony at the airport where he reviewed an honor guard and Hatikva was played. During his visit to the island, the president will take part in a summit meeting with Pacific Island states, the first of its kind. The historic summit, held in Nadi, Fiji, will be attended by leaders from Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Tonga and Palau.
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February 19, 2020 at 3:18 pm
President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin received the Israel Studies Award this morning, Wednesday 19 February / 24 Shevat, from the Israel Studies Center at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. The Younes and Soraya Nazarian Israel Studies Center was established at UCLA 10 years ago to promote the study of modern Israel by the tens of thousands of students at UCLA. The center supports research in the academic field of Israel Studies, and organizes frequent public programs, including hosting visiting Israeli academics, conferences, film screenings and other events around life in Israel. and bring leading scholars, policymakers and artists to UCLA. This is the third time the Nazarian Center has awarded the Israel Studies Award, following awards in 2015 to author Amos Oz ז"ל and former President o...
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February 19, 2020 at 3:10 pm
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fired at an Islamic Jihad sniper squad which had opened fire from the Khan Younis area of the Gaza Strip at IDF forces inside of Israeli territory.
The incident occurred after a few days of relative calm in the southern sector and following Israel’s announcement of a significant lifting of some restrictions for Gaza residents.
The coordinator of operations in the Occupied Territories said yesterday that “the policy will continue to be determined only by facts on the ground. Hamas is responsible for what goes on in the Gaza Strip and what comes out of it. If it will not keep the peace, the State of Israel will act accordingly.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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February 19, 2020 at 2:58 pm
Israel has increased the number of workers and merchants allowed to enter the country from the Gaza Strip to 7,000, the largest number of permits granted to residents of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip since 2007, when the terrorist group seized control of the coastal enclave.
On Tuesday, the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announced that it was cancelling a number of measures imposed on the Gaza Strip, and would increase the number of entry permits to Gazan workers and merchants.
“As long as calm is maintained, Israel will extend the fishing zone to 15 nautical miles (on Wednesday) and issue 2,000 new permits” for Gaza residents to enter Israel, said a statement by COGAT.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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February 19, 2020 at 2:57 pm
President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Bernard Kerik, the once-heralded New York police commissioner whose legacy was unraveled by a bevy of allegations that landed him in prison, including tax fraud and lying to White House officials.
Kerik, an Army veteran, joined the New York Police Department in 1986 and was named the 40th police commissioner of New York City at the turn of the millennium, working closely with then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He rose to prominence and was celebrated as a hero for heading the department during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
He was one of 11 figures to whom the president granted clemency or pardoned Tuesday. Others included Edward DeBartolo, the former owner of the San Francisco 49ers who pleaded guilty in 2000 to not reporting a felony, and Micha...
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February 19, 2020 at 2:56 pm
Sen. Bernie Sanders distanced himself Wednesday from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s recent suggestion that compromising on health care would be acceptable, arguing that his Medicare-for-all plan is “already a compromise.”
The comments, coming in a televised town hall hosted by CNN, highlighted a rare difference between the independent senator from Vermont and one of his most prominent supporters over one of the central planks of his presidential campaign platform, no less.
“I love Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” Sanders told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “She has done more in her first year in Congress to transform politics, to get young people involved, than any freshman member of Congress that I can remember. But my view is that Medicare-fo...
