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January 24, 2022 at 9:04 am
CNN reports that a man with a handgun opened fire in a lecture hall in the University of Heidelberg in southwestern Germany, Several people are injured.
Police forces have secured the scene. The gunman was reported dead of unknown causes.
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January 24, 2022 at 8:53 am
Miriam Naor, the former president of the Israeli Supreme Court, passed away Monday at the age of 74.
Born in Jerusalem in 1947, just months before the establishment of the State of Israel, Naor graduated from Hebrew University's law school in 1971.
Naor was appointed to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court in 1980, where she was among the judges who found former Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (Shas) guilty of bribery.
From 2003 to 2017, Naor served on the Supreme Court, including as chief justice from 2015-2017.
President Isaac Herzog eulogized Naor in a statement released Monday morning.
“The State of Israel bows its head with the untimely passing of the former President of the Supreme Court, Justice Miriam Naor," Herzog said. "Justice Miriam Naor will be remembered in Isra...
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January 23, 2022 at 10:09 pm
Agudath Israel of America, today, shared a Kol Korei from the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of America:
(Free translation)
Shevat 5782
We hear cries of pain from our brothers who dwell in Eretz Yisroel as the Israeli government plans decrees that will seriously affect the Torah population there. Examples include:
· desecrating the Kosel HaMaaravi – the last remnant of the Beis Hamikdash and the place from which the Divine Presence has never left – by permitting in it mixed prayer services and desecrations of our holy religious values;
· acting to remove the safeguards for modesty accepted by the chareidi population upon themselves with respect to the use of “kosher” phones;
· &nb...
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January 23, 2022 at 10:08 pm
A D.C. police officer was shot Sunday in Northwest, the Metropolitan Police Department confirmed.
In a tweet, the department said the officer was transported to a hospital and a "barricade has been declared in the 1400 block of Quincy Street NW."
The officer, whose name has not been revealed, is from the 4th District.
More information about the suspect and circumstances of the shooting was not provided.
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January 23, 2022 at 9:33 pm
Thousands of protesters from across the country – including some of the biggest names in the anti-vaccination movement – gathered Sunday for a rally against vaccine mandates in the nation’s capital.
Almost two years into a pandemic that has killed more than 860,000 Americans, the gathering on the National Mall was a jarring spectacle: A crowd of demonstrators, many unmasked, decrying vaccine mandates in the middle of a city that has adopted mask and vaccine mandates to reduce sickness and death from the surge of the virus’s omicron variant, which has battered D.C. for weeks.
Organizers estimate that 20,000 people will attend the rally, marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, according to a permit issued by the National Park Service. D.C. pol...
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January 23, 2022 at 9:29 pm
Golan says 'Yair Golan is not the problem. I might be the solution, but not the problem'
Yair Golan, a lawmaker from Israel’s left-wing Meretz party, received pushback after calling some members of Israel’s settler community “subhumans.” The legislator sat down with i24NEWS to discuss his recent remarks.
“These people behave in an unacceptable way - destroying property and hitting innocent people - and from my perspective, as a Jew, as a Zionist, this is totally unacceptable,” Golan told i24NEWS.
“I think the military was much more proactive until 2009, and since Benjamin Netanyahu’s government… well, I see a clear deterioration in the situation.”
The lawmaker faced criticism from within the governm...
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January 23, 2022 at 9:28 pm
Cabinet votes in favor of probe into corruption allegations around Netanyahu-era purchase of German vessels
The Israeli government on Sunday approved the establishment of a commission of inquiry to examine allegations of corruption in the “submarine affair,” an agreement signed between Israel and a German naval shipbuilder in 2016.
The commission will be tasked with investigating how Israel purchased submarines and missile ships from Germany's Thyssenkrupp.
Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not been linked as a suspect in the scandal, referred to as "Case 3000," however some of his closest associated were implicated in the case involving accusations of bribery and conflict of interest in the $2 billion deal.
A majority 26 government ministers backed t...
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January 23, 2022 at 9:28 pm
A Muslim man who promoted what he called “jihad fighting by sword” was found guilty on Wednesday of encouraging terrorism at his local mosque in the United Kingdom, reported the Evening Standard.
Abubaker Deghayes, 53, of East Sussex addressed 50 or so worshippers, including children and young adults, at the Brighton Mosque and Muslim Community Centre on Nov. 1, 2020.
In a video of his speech that was played to the court, Deghayes, who is originally from Libya, makes a stabbing gesture and says in part “Jihad, jihad, jihad. Jihad is compulsory. Jihad is fighting by sword. That means this jihad is compulsory upon you, not jihad is the word of mouth but jihad will remain compulsory until the Day of Resurrection.”
He further said: “Send to the sea. They c...
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January 23, 2022 at 9:27 pm
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday said Senate Republicans are “laughing all the way to Election Day” because “they have not had to cast one bloody vote” on the Democrats' roughly $1.2 trillion social spending and climate package, which is stalled in the upper chamber.
“What has bothered me very much is the Republicans are laughing all the way to Election Day. They have not had to cast one bloody vote ... which shows us where they're at. And we have got to change that,” Sanders told co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
The House-passed spending package has languished in the Senate because of opposition from Republicans and centrist Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and ...
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January 23, 2022 at 7:37 pm
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 23, 2022 - It is with regret that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petira of R' Yisroel Meier Weitzner, z'l, brother of Mrs. Esther Rivkah Wiener.
Shiva is being observed at 6316 Cross Country Blvd., between Strathmore and Bancroft, from Monday morning through Thursday morning.Visiting Times:
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Mrs. Wiener can be reached by phone at 410-585-1209.
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach…
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January 23, 2022 at 2:15 pm
A man was pushed onto subway tracks at a Lower Manhattan station Sunday, suffering minor injuries, police said.
The 61-year-old victim landed on the roadbed on the southbound A/C line at the Fulton Street station around 11:30 a.m., cops said.
The victim was able to climb back onto the platform while not making any contact with a train, an NYPD spokesman said.
He suffered minor injuries and was taken to Presbyterian Hospital.
The pusher, who was described as a man in his 20s wearing a camouflage jacket, fled the station on foot, the spokesman said.
No further information was available.
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January 23, 2022 at 2:13 pm
Israeli Internal Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev on Saturday night denied a recent press report that the Israel Police has been using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware against citizens, without a court order, through use of a legal loophole.
“I can tell you that all the examinations, including those by the attorney-general … other than the fact that the police use advanced technologies, turned out to [reveal that the accusations are] incorrect,” he told Channel 12.
He said that within three days of the publication of the report in the business daily Calcalist, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit got involved and the assertions—including that the Israeli technology firm’s spyware was used to hack the phones of mayors, gover...
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January 23, 2022 at 2:13 pm
For the first time in Israel, donor liver machine perfusion (MP) was performed before transplantation, and the improved liver was successfully transplanted into a patient, reported Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center on Wednesday.
MP is a preservation method that has been developed to reduce the incidence and severity of donor liver injury and to improve outcomes after organ transplantation, said Dr. Yaacov Goykhman, head of the Organ Transplant Unit at the hospital.
“Liver transplantation is a life-saving and complicated procedure because of the patients’ medical conditions, the complexity of liver transplantation and because the organ can only survive outside the body for a short period of time,” he told JNS. “This [liver MP] is a significant event that could revol...
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January 23, 2022 at 12:10 pm
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 23, 2022 - It is with regret that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petira of Nachum Eilberg, z’l, husband of Pnina Eilberg, father of Pesach (Shir) Eilberg, Reva (Avi) Eilenberg, Chaim Eilberg, Chavie Eilberg, son of Rachel Eilberg, and brother of Sara (Yoel) Yankelewitz, Yocheved (Eliyahu) Eskenazi, and Deena (Jordan) Katz.
Shiva is being observed at Rehov Haim Koberski 3, Nof Tzion, Yerushalayim.
Pnina Eilberg and family may be contacted at 410 844-0530, Rachel Eilberg 917 341-2291 and Yocheved Eskenazi 443 739-2550 . (Israel is 7-hours ahead of Baltimore.)
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach…
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January 23, 2022 at 11:55 am
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit initially offered former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu a far more lenient plea deal in his corruption trial than the one currently being discussed, but backed away due to a flood of pressure from key figures in the prosecution, Channel 12 reported Friday.
According to the report, Netanyahu, 72, the current opposition leader, would only have had to commit to stepping away from public life for two years, with the charges also being significantly lowered in two of the cases against him and dismissed in the third.
Since reports of the negotiations emerged last week, they have generally said that Mandelblit has been demanding that any plea deal with Netanyahu include a clause of “moral turpitude” — which would bar the former prime mini...
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January 23, 2022 at 11:48 am
Law enforcement reportedly tapped the phones of at least three mayors and heads of local councils
Israel’s police used the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware on mayors of local authorities as well as their relatives and close associates, according to a report by the business newspaper Calcalist.
A multi-part exposé last week revealed how the police’s SIGINT unit allegedly used the controversial Pegasus malware to spy on Israeli civilians.
New reports indicate that law enforcement tapped the phones of at least three mayors and heads of local councils for the purpose of “phishing” - a tactic used to steal data - all under the guise of intelligence activities.
The three local mayors who were reportedly tracked were susp...
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January 23, 2022 at 11:45 am
Country facing surge in energy demand as citizens crank up heaters to cope with frigid temperatures
Iran's oil ministry on Sunday urged people to wear warm clothes to reduce a surging demand for gas, as people turn up their heaters to cope with bitterly cold winter temperatures.
Iran has the world's second largest gas reserves after Russia, and the fourth largest oil reserves. Gas is almost free in Iran because it is heavily subsidized.
"Gas consumption can be managed by wearing warm clothes and turning off heating appliances when leaving home and work," Oil Minister Javad Owji said Sunday, according to the ministry's Shana news agency.
"We ask people to save gas consumption so that we can pass the next 10 days without any problem."
On Thursday, Iran's ...
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January 23, 2022 at 11:41 am
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has submitted a request to the Tel Aviv District Court asking that the Netanyahu family – former premier Benjamin, his wife Sara, and son Yair – be subjected to psychiatric evaluation.
Olmert is currently being tried for defamation with the plaintiffs being the Netanyahu family, after Olmert publicly suggested that they suffered from mental illness. According to a report in the Haaretz newspaper, the chances of the judge granting Olmert’s request are low.
As part of his request, Olmert had a questionnaire sent to the various Netanyahu family members, asking them details related to their mental health. One question, posed to Yair Netanyahu, asked: “Is it true that in recent years – dating back to 2015 at least ...
