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October 19, 2021 at 1:22 pm
HOUSTON, Texas (KWTX) - Firefighters are at the scene of a plane crash in Waller County northwest of Houston.
ABC 13 in Houston reports the crash happened at the Houston Executive Airport. DPS officials told ABC 13 in Houston 21 people were on board and all made it out safe and only person was sent to the hospital with back injuries.
This is a developing story.
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October 19, 2021 at 11:55 am
Several tracks will be employed to help tech companies fill new job vacancies
Two Israeli ministers have announced a new plan to fill tech vacancies in Israel by allowing foreign students studying in Israel to receive a visa to continue working in the country.
Minister of Interior Ayelet Shaked of Yamina List and Minister of Science and Technology Orit Farkash-Hacohen of the Blue and White Party are promoting the plan, which will also allow foreign experts to be granted visas to integrate into the country.
An employment chief will be appointed to the Israel Innovation Authority to employ several tracks to help tech companies fill new job vacancies.
The first track will give visas to overseas specialists, the second track is designed for tech employees enti...
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October 19, 2021 at 11:31 am
Seven air forces participating in 'Blue Flag' aerial exercise at Uvda Air Force Base in southern Israel
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) is currently hosting a multinational military aviation exercise described as "Israel's largest and most advanced aerial exercise ever."
The "Blue Flag' aerial exercise took off on Sunday at Uvda Air Force Base in southern Israel and is scheduled to last for two weeks until October 28.
Seven air forces from around the world are participating: Germany, Italy, Britain, France, India, Greece and the United States.
According to the Israeli military, the event marks the first deployment of a British fighter squadron in Israel since the establishment of the country, as well as the first deployments in Israel of an Indian "Mirage" f...
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October 19, 2021 at 11:29 am
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah declared for the first time on Monday that his group has 100,000 trained fighters, The Associated Press reports.
Nasrallah’s remarks came in a speech appeared to be meant as a deterrent to domestic foes following the nation’s worst internal violence in years.
“We have prepared (those fighters) with their diverse weapons to defend our territory, our oil and gas that is being robbed before the eyes of Lebanese, to protect the dignity and sovereignty of our country from any aggression (and) terrorism and not for internal fighting,” Nasrallah said, according to AP.
In his speech, Nasrallah accused the head of a right-wing Christian party, Samir Geagea, of seeking to ignite civil war in Lebanon.
Addressing Geagea direc...
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October 19, 2021 at 11:28 am
The coronavirus pandemic has led to a new wave of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia online, according to a research study by the Institute for Freedom of Faith and Security in Europe (IFFSE).
Social media companies, including Facebook and Instagram, must do more to combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and this is the central demand of the authors of the study presented in Brussels on Monday.
Even a year and a half after the beginning of the pandemic in Europe, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic content is rampant online, criticizes the Institute for Freedom of Faith and Security in Europe (IFFSE), an initiative led by the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), in the study.
This has spread especially on social media platforms, repackaging existi...
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October 19, 2021 at 10:50 am
Jerusalem - On Monday, The Minister of Social Affairs and Social Services, Meir Cohen, presented a certificate of appreciation to the teenagers with disabilities who volunteer as part of the national service program at United Hatzalah. The young volunteers were excited to receive a special United Hatzalah pin as well as a certificate from the Minister. The commendation came in recognition of all the tireless work that they do managing logistical activities and helping the volunteers of the EMS organization who respond to nearly 2,000 medical emergencies on a daily basis.
The ceremony took place as part of the visit by Minister Cohen to the national headquarters of United Hatzalah in Jerusalem. The visit was led by the organization's CEO Eli Polak, Chairman Moshe Teitelbaum, VP of O...
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October 19, 2021 at 10:44 am
A total of 1,483 new cases of the coronavirus were diagnosed across Israel Monday, according to data released by the Health Ministry Tuesday morning, up from 1,199 new cases reported a day earlier.
The increase in the number of new diagnoses, however, resulted entirely from the larger number of tests performed Sunday, with the percentage of tests coming back positive falling Monday to 1.42%, down from 1.45% on Sunday. That is the lowest level recorded since July 23rd.
The number of known active cases of the virus across Israel dropped to 17,512, down from 17,803 a day earlier. The number of hospitalized COVID patients also fell Tuesday, declining to 488, down from 519 on Monday.
Since the pandemic began, 1,318,478 confirmed cases of the virus have been reported.
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October 19, 2021 at 10:44 am
Israel's defense establishment is taking precautions due to concerns that Gaza terror groups will begin firing towards the Israeli border.
The concern stems from intelligence information regarding the desire of the Islamic Jihad terror group to harm IDF soldiers by using antitank missiles.
As a result, in accordance with a situational assessment, the IDF decided to block several sites and roads near the Gaza border fence.
Entry to the Black Arrow, Bells Hill, Nizmit Hill, Garden of the Fallen, and Lone Ranger Hill memorial sites has been blocked.
As of now, there are no special instructions for residents in towns near the Gaza-Israel border fence.
Agricultural work near the fence was not interrupted, since civilians do not seem to be the target at this stage.
In a st...
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October 19, 2021 at 10:43 am
A 37-year-old Florida man was arrested Monday after traveling down the wrong way on I-95 for eight miles in his tractor-trailer "after fleeing police and endangering the lives of highway workers and motorists in the area," according to the news release.
Around 12:30 p.m. Monday, troopers from the JFK Highway Memorial Barrack responded to the Maryland House Travel Plaza for a reported theft. Once they arrived, police talked to the victim who said his jacket and keys were stolen, which led them to locate the then-suspected Maurice Cooper of Haverhill, Florida.
According to the news release, "personnel from the MDTA Courtesy Patrol Unit who happened to be in the area, advised police of a tractor-trailer exiting the travel plaza on the wrong side. The tractor-trailer was trav...
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October 19, 2021 at 10:43 am
There is an increase in the number of homicides in Baltimore County are on the rise.
Police attribute the increase in killings to the COVID-19 pandemic and more behavioral health incidents.
Homicides have increased by nearly 40% in the county. According to police, the sharpest increase is in Wilkens and Woodlawn on the west side and Dundalk and Essex on the east side.
Neighbors are describing a shootout that took place around 1:30 p.m. at a waterfront park over the weekend in Middle River.
"There were about eight or nine shots, then a little pause and then a few more shots after that," said one resident who declined to her give name.
According to residents, the victim, identified by police as 22-year-old Dimarco Johnson, refused to drop his own weapon even after getting shot. Resident...
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October 19, 2021 at 10:41 am
Baltimore is preparing for a presidential visit.
Few details have been announced by the White House, but President Joe Biden will be in Baltimore Thursday for a CNN Town Hall with host Anderson Cooper.
CNN says an invitation-only audience will be present for the town hall and the network will follow all local and state COVID-19 guidance and regulations.
There is no word on where the event will be held.
The visit will occur as Biden pushes his Build Back Better agenda. The president has spent several months traveling the country trying to sell the multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure package.
CNN has announced that the town hall begins at 8:00 p.m. and will last 90 minutes.
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October 19, 2021 at 10:40 am
The National Library of Israel (NLI) has received and has now opened public access to singularly significant archival materials from "Mr. Shushani" (also known as "Monsieur Chouchani"), a mysterious and brilliant man who served as the personal and perhaps most influential teacher to a number of significant 20th century Jewish cultural and intellectual figures, including Elie Wiesel and Emmanuel Levinas.
Shushani had an extraordinary photographic memory, and was reportedly able to recall and cite the entire Hebrew Bible, Talmud and many other Jewish texts from memory, while also mastering various fields of mathematics, physics, modern philosophy and different languages. The disheveled figure attracted students who were captivated by his unexpected charisma. Many of them saw him as one of t...
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October 19, 2021 at 10:40 am
A friend of mine, a mother of several children, wrote me as follows:"When it comes to making sandwiches, washing dishes, and helping our kids with their homework, we really have no choice. Our choice is how we do these things. With joy or with frustration, with bitterness or with enthusiasm. Yet if it is already settled that we have humdrum tasks to complete today - why not resolve to do them wholeheartedly? We need only add positive thoughts to these tasks, remembering we are doing them for those we love.From Avraham Avinu we learned to do routine daily tasks with alacrity and with joy and with excitement. The parasha begins with the famous story of Avraham's hospitality. The commentators ask us to focus on the details: 'And Avraham hastened to the tent to Sarah, and he said, "H...
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October 18, 2021 at 10:54 pm
Baltimore, MD – Oct. 18, 2021 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Yoni Sonnenschein and Estee Billig on their engagement.
Mazel Tov to Rabbi Gershon & Fran Sonnenschein and Aharon & Debbie Billig
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
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October 18, 2021 at 10:49 pm
Almost one in three charedi Israelis has been infected with the coronavirus, more than double the national average, according to a new study.
The Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, a nonpartisan think tank, crunched Health Ministry statistics, and found that from the start of the pandemic until September 2021, 13.7 percent of the Israeli population has been confirmed COVID positive.
The figure for the charedi community, based on figures for the main population centers where charedim are a majority, is 31%.
The figure comes despite strong take-up of vaccines among charedim in recent months, and points to a “failure to control behavior” to fight the virus in charedi areas, according to Alex Weinreb, research director at the Taub Center.
This is shocking,” ...
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October 18, 2021 at 10:46 pm
The US economy is careening into another recession, two noted economists warn, as worries about the labor market and the coronavirus have worsened dramatically over the past two months.
The alarm bells are ringing as bad news piles up at the economy’s door: Prices on everyday goods are rising sharply as inflation is stuck at 30-year highs. Supply chains snarled during the pandemic mean some store shelves are bare. A labor shortage in some industries has left jobs undone. And the ultra-contagious Delta variant has put a damper on the rush back to the office.
“We are entering a recession — we are on the precipice of a recession,” one of the study’s authors, David Blanchflower, told The Post. “It’s always good to have an early warning.&rdq...
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October 18, 2021 at 10:43 pm
A diver found a 900-year-old sword dating back to the Crusader period off the Carmel beach in the north of the country, along with various other artifacts, the Israel Antiques Authority said Monday.
Atlit resident Shlomi Katzin turned over the weapon to the Israel Antiques Authority and was awarded a certificate of good citizenship.
Katzin found the sword during a Saturday dive in an area off the coast where waves and undercurrents had apparently shifted sand, revealing the item, the IAI said in a statement. Spying stone and metal anchors, Katzin also noticed the sword, which was encrusted with marine life.
It has a one-meter blade and a 30-centimeter hilt.
“The sword, which has been preserved in perfect condition, is a beautiful and rare find and evidently belonged to a Crusader...
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October 18, 2021 at 10:41 pm
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock from his personal account on October 1, 2020, according to disclosure forms reviewed by the Prospect. Powell’s sale of shares from a Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund has not been previously reported. This sale occurred right before the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered a significant drop.
A Fed media relations spokesperson was not available for comment. We will report on any Fed statement on Powell’s trades.
Three other senior Fed officials have faced serious criticism for making stock trades during the pandemic. Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren were compelled to take early retirements as a result of the disclosur...
