New details continue to emerge from the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Tuesday night.
Two officials confirmed to Axios correspondent Barak Ravid the earlier report from the New York Times that Haniyeh was killed by an explosive that had been planted in the room where he had been staying two months before the assassionation.
According to the latest report, Israeli intelligence learned which room Haniyeh stayed in during each of his visits to Tehran and planted an explosive that featured artificial intelligence technology. The device was then detonated remotely by alleged Mossad agents in Iran after they received word that Haniyeh was in the room.
The report also stated that the American government had not been informed of the assassination ahead of time.
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Jerusalem, Israel:
300 days.
For 300 days our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, grandparents, have been languishing in the dungeons of Hamas in Gaza.
Each second of every minute of every hour of these 300 days is a crime against humanity. And each second that passes the need to bring them home becomes more and more urgent.
To all the leaders of the world who wish for peace in our region, I say clearly: help us bring our hostages home - all of them, young and old, men and women, Jews, Muslims and more.
Help us bring them home now.
Jerusalem, Israel - Aug. 1, 2024 - (TOI) Seven airlines, including Delta, United Airlines, Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, and Air India, have canceled flights to Israel amid rising tensions with Iran. This follows a Lufthansa flight from Munich to Tel Aviv, which diverted to Cyprus and returned to Germany after the crew refused to fly to Israel. FlyDubai has also canceled some flights. Around 70,000 passengers are currently at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport, either trying to catch the last flights out or canceling their plans due to concerns about returning. The cancellations come as Israel braces for a response to the assassinations of Hezbollah military chief Fuad Shukr and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh earlier this week.
Baltimore, MD – Aug. 1, 2024 - (WMAR2News) Attorney General Anthony Brown announced appointments to the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention, adhering to changes from this year's legislative session. The AG is now required to appoint 15 individual members, confirmed by the Maryland State Senate, based on their representation or advocacy for groups identified under Maryland's hate crime law, including race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and homelessness.Of the fifteen members named, one was Deborah Miller of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington.Notably absent from the list are Dr. Zainab Chaudry of CAIR and Meredith Weisel of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Chaud...
Russia freed wrongly convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as part of the largest and most complex East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War, in which he and more than a dozen others jailed by the Kremlin were exchanged for Russians held in the U.S. and Europe, including a convicted murderer.
Gershkovich and other Americans left Russian aircraft moments ago at an airport in Turkey’s capital, Ankara. Russia had kept the 32-year-old behind bars for more than a year on a false allegation of espionage. It sentenced him in a hurried and secret three-day trial to 16 years in a high-security penal colony.
Moscow also released former Marine Paul Whelan, journalist Alsu Kurmasheva and Vladimir Kara-Murza, a British-Russian dissident and ...
Baltimore, MD - Aug. 1, 2024 - Scorching summer temperatures return to Maryland Thursday after a short reprieve from last month's heat wave. A new heat wave could be on the way, as highs exceed 90 degrees until at least Wednesday.
The real-feel heat index could hit 108 degrees Thursday and Friday in the Old Line State. That drew a heat advisory and a code orange air quality alert.
Storms are also possible daily through Sunday.
AccuWeather said the jet stream will dip Friday and mix with a storm and tropical moisture. This will bring thunderstorms to the Mid-Atlantic through the weekend.
"There is the likelihood of slow-moving and repeating thunderstorms along the busy Interstate 95 corridor and other major highways in the region, which may lead to are...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Thursday, 1 August 2024), held an in-depth assessment of IDF Home Front Command activity from the outbreak of the war until today, together with Interior Minister Moshe Arbel. The briefing was delivered by the Head of IDF Home Front Command, Maj.-Gen. Rafi Milo, and National Emergency Authority Director Brig.-Gen. (Res.) Yoram Lardo.
Prime Minister Netanyahu following the discussion [translated from Hebrew]:
"I am now finishing a visit to IDF Home Front Command. General, I am impressed by the important work that has been done up until now. Of course, we are prepared for what may come.
Israel is in a state of very high readiness for any scenario – on both defense and offense. We will exact a very high price for any act of aggression against...
The multi-billion-dollar education spending plan that Maryland lawmakers overrode a veto to get through is underway, yet many leaders in jurisdictions across the state have raised concerns about footing the bill and now, Gov. Wes Moore signaled adjustments will have to be made.
The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future was passed by the General Assembly in 2021. The plan calls for spending an additional $3.8 billion in education funding each year over the next decade, and then an additional $4 billion each year thereafter.
There are five pillars included in the Blueprint: expanding pre-Kindergarten to all 4-year-olds in Maryland, as well as low-income 3-year-olds; college and career readiness changes to curriculum, expanding funding for teacher salaries, improving teacher workforce, and ...
Colonel Richard Kemp, the former commander of the British military forces in Afghanistan, spoke to Israel National News - Arutz Sheva today about the assassinations of Hezbollah leader Fuad Shukr in a Beirut suburb and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran this week.
Col. Kemp called the assassinations "very significant," because they show "Iran, Hezbollah and the other terrorists ranged against Israel that Israel can strike them whenever and wherever it chooses. This is particularly significant in Tehran which is heavily protected with advanced Russian air defence systems."
He explained why, in his opinion, Israel claimed responsibility for the assassination of Shukr but not for the assassination of Haniyeh. "Israel had to declare responsibility for Shukr to prove its readines...
Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh was killed by an explosion device that detonated in his room and not by a missile as previously believed, the New York Times reported on Thursday citing seven Middle Eastern officials, including two Iranians, and an American official.
According to the report, the bomb was planted approximately two months ago in the guesthouse, which is managed and protected by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and is part of a large compound, known as Neshat, in northern Tehran.
According to IRGC officials, the explosion shook the building, shattered some windows, and caused the partial collapse of an exterior wall.
Iranian media had reported on Wednesday that the Hamas leader was killed by an Israeli-made Spike short-range missile was launched ...
Imprisoned American journalist Evan Gershkovich will be freed from a Russian prison Thursday as part of a prisoner swap with Moscow, according to reports.
Gershkovich will return to the US after spending 16 months in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo Prison alongside serial killers and other political prisoners, sources told Bloomberg News.
A senior Biden administration also told ABC News that Gershkovich will be released alongside former US Marine Paul Whelan in the extraordinary deal.
Gershkovich and Whelan are expected to be released as part of the largest multi-country prisoner exchange since the Cold War, Good Morning America said.
The US and four NATO allies are reportedly swapping a total of 24 prisoners with Russia, the outlet explained.
Russian-American journal...
Baltimore, MD - Aug. 1, 2024 - Read the current issue of Baltimore Jewish Home by clicking on the graphic below:
Baltimore, MD - July 31, 2024 - Dry wall, door frames, and drop ceiling installation in our main lobby are some of the most recent developments toward the completion of our Mikdash Mi'at. Upon entry, two sets of double doors greet members between a spacious vestibule leading into the magnificent grand lobby space. A sefarim room can be found immediately off the lobby entrance, symbolizing the ease and accessibility of Torah study immediately upon entry. A row of elegant sinks lie against the right lobby wall, ready to be used for Birkas Kohanim. These exciting developments help frame a realistic vision of the incredible beauty and functionality of our new building.
Russia may be preparing to free between 20 and 30 political prisoners and journalists in an imminent exchange with the United States and Germany, a source familiar with the planning said, in what, if confirmed, would be the largest swap since the end of the Cold War.
Previous reporting by independent Russian media suggested that up to 10 high-profile political prisoners were being readied for the rumored exchange.
“I know of more people than those who have already been mentioned publicly,” the source told Politika.Kozlov.
“My estimate is that Moscow will extradite about 20 to 30 people to the West.”
The source spoke on condition of anonymity in order to share details about a sensitive diplomatic matter.
Speculation has been growing in rece...
The names have no meaning. Forty-two unknown and historically insignificant desert locations. Forty-two sand dunes along our winding journey to the promised land. Who knows where these sandbanks are, and quite frankly, who cares? The sooner we forget about these doomed deserts the better. Each stop on our trail of misery evokes painful memories of a depressing forty-year odyssey. Our national death sentence had already been decided upon and was irrevocable. During those long and dreary years, prophecy was suspended, and Hashem seemed distant. These desert stops possess meaning only for historians and archaeologists. The pit stops of the desert are cursed regions of Jewish history.
Astonishingly though, the Torah provides an extensive list of each desert location. Moreover, instead of ju...
Baltimore, Md – July 31, 2024 - 25 Tammuz 5784 - Pictured is Chaim Fink making a Siyum this morning on Mesechta Krisus on the 18th yahrzeit of his grandfather, Rabbi Beryl Fink. Rabbi Fink was a rav in Chicago, Edmonton, New Orleans, and Baltimore from 1959 until 1974. After Rabbi Fink went into business, he remained close friends and learned regularly with the Ner Yisroel Rosh HaYeshiva, Harav Yaakov Weinberg ZTZL, Harav Yitzchok Sternhell, ZTZL, Harav Mendel Feldman ZTZL, Rav Nachman Klein, ZTZL and Rabbi Dr. Hersh Weinreb, shlita.
The Fink, Dubin, Englander, Frankel, Elman, Feldbaum, Kohen, Spatz, and Abramson families are all descendants or are married to descendants of his proud legacy. His grandson Chaim learned at Yeshivas Mercaz HaTorah in Yerushalayim for 3 years after...
Baltimore, MD - July 31, 2024 — In response to forecasts predicting dangerously high temperatures this weekend within the Baltimore region, the Interim Health Commissioner, Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Simone Johnson, has declared a Code Red Extreme Heat Alert for Thursday, August 1st through Saturday, August 3rd. With temperatures expected to reach over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the declaration aims to ensure the safety and well-being of the community during this string of severe heat – especially if residents and visitors plan to visit Artscape this weekend. The heat index is a measure of air temperature and relative humidity and indicates how hot it feels to the human body.
“I urge all residents to take the necessary precautions to protect themselves and t...
Jerusalem, Israel - July 31, 2024 - Major American and British airlines have told passengers that flights to Israel are canceled, Hebrew media reports, amid spiraling tensions with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
Delta is said to cancel its flights until August 2, as is British Airways. The reports say United has canceled its flights until August 6.
Tens of thousands of Israelis are reportedly estimated to remain stranded in the United States due to the cancellation of flights to Israel.
The cancellation by United and Delta, respectively the second- and third-largest airlines in the world, will likely spark a wave of cancellations by other airlines, according to some reports.
