IDF Chief of Intelligence Major-General Amos Yadlin on Wednesday told members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee that Iran has crossed the “technological threshold” and is indeed capable of building a nuclear device, stating it is now a matter of the government making a decision, nothing more.
Yadlin explained what has been reported to date the Iranian officials are not forging ahead to build a bomb, a move that will bring the international community down on Tehran, but instead, continues to work enriching low grade plutonium until enough material is ready to produce significant quantities of higher grade matter towards the buildings of several nuclear devices.
Regarding what action should be taken, he stressed the Iranian problem is far from just an Israeli problem, but a world issue, with potential of radically impacting the world order as we know it, and Israel is compelled to show the international community enough evidence to compel the required action against Tehran.
Yadlin feels the opportunity to change realities is not lost, perhaps still achieved through the proper channel of diplomacy and sanctions.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
Lawrence, NY – The parents who packed the auditorium for the Lawrence board of education came to hear the decision on one controversial and long-awaited agenda item: which elementary school would be closed.
B&H electronics retailer in New York City has settled a job discrimination lawsuit on behalf of 149 Latino warehouse workers for $4.3 million.
Perhaps Yahadut HaTorah waited a tad too long to sign a deal, now aware, the ‘day after’ that it has lost a significant amount of bargaining power with Labor on board, adding 13 seats to the coalition.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) labeled a syndicated cartoon by Pat Oliphant appearing today in newspapers across the country and on the Internet as “hideously anti-Semitic” because of its use of Nazi-like imagery and hateful evocation of the Jewish Star of David.
City Hall - Council Member Simcha Felder (D – Brooklyn) is outraged by reports that proposed cuts to the City Medical Examiner’s budget may affect Jewish and Muslim burial rituals. City Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch told the City Council that State budget cuts would mean the closing of outer borough offices; a move that would force families to travel to Manhattan to identify bodies of loved ones and receive death certificates before burial. This would delay the process for Jewish and Muslim families whose burials customarily take place within 24 hours of death. The state is threatening to withhold the $18.4 million that allows for the City Medical Examiner’s office to fulfill these religious rituals, calling them “optional” services.
Police running checks on mall security inspections are expressing concerns over the painful reality that three fake bombs were brought in Krayot and Haifa area shopping malls in the north just three days after the failed major car bomb attack in Haifa’s Cinemall. The fake explosives were placed in bags in the trunk of vehicles, in large enough quantity that a reasonable inspection should have revealed their presence.
A Brooklyn Law School student from Dix Hills got an order temporarily freezing the assets of Bernard Madoff’s brother, Peter, in connection with a nearly $500,000 inheritance allegedly lost in the massive Wall Street Ponzi scheme, according to court records.