Major European airports reopened Monday after being closed overnight because of an ash cloud from a volcano in Iceland, but travel remained severely disrupted after the six-hour closure. Gatwick Airport

A long-awaited international study has found no evidence of increased risk of brain tumors associated with mobile phones, but said the findings were not definitive and called for more research.

Jerusalem District Court Justice Yosef Shapira on Monday accepted the plea bargain agreement reached between the state and the so-called Meah Shearim mom. As per the agreement, she pleaded guilty

Galei Yisrael Radio reports that in a latest propaganda move, Hamas has released a fabricated interview with IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, in which he speaks of his past, where he

Israel Antiquities Authority officials on Monday announced they have completed the work of removing the bones found on the proposed building site of Barzilai Hospitals fortified emergency room. This clears the way to begin constructing the new fortified emergency room which is intended to serve the area in the event of renewed missiles attacks. The […]

Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim appears to be moving ahead with the investigation into the assassination of senior Hamas officials Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a local hotel. The police chief has pointed a finger of blame at Israels Mossad Intelligence Agency, but Israel has not accepted responsibility. Shortly after being appointed to his new post, […]

In a new audio recording, the leader of the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda has warned Americans they will be harmed by the Obama administration’s alleged decision to authorize the

President Obamas pick of Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court got a surprise stamp of approval today from former First Lady Laura Bush. I think its great. Im really glad that there will be three [women on the Supreme Court] if she is confirmed, Bush said of Kagan, who faces tough Republican opposition to her […]

Speaking with Kol Chai Radio on Sunday afternoon, Deputy Education Minister Meir Porush was asked to comment on Sundays petition to the High Court of Justice to compel chareidi mosdos to learn so-called core subjects such as English, science and math, as was reported by YWN-ISRAEL on erev shabbos. Porush questions Why should they have […]

According to a Channel 10 News report on Sunday evening, a letter presented by Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger and Rishon LTzion Shlomo Moshe Amar Shlita stated that Maran HaGaon Ovadia Yosef Shlita has given his permission to exhume the bones at Barzilai Hospital to clear the way for construction of the hospitals fortified emergency room. […]

At Sunday nights major rally being organized by the Eida Chareidis, rabbonim are planning to call on the tzibur to recite a tefilla composed by Rabbi Chaim Felaje, hoping to stop the actions of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the director-general of his office, Eyal Gabbai. The tefilla addresses those who dare to disturb bones […]

Oil giant BP has succeeded in connecting a mile-long pipe to capture the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, a company spokesman said Sunday. “We are restarting the operation

Two off-duty NYPD officers were killed early Sunday morning in a horrific car crash on the Bronx River Parkway. The cause of the crash was unknown,but four other occupants were transported to Jacobi Hospital, some in critical condition. The 2009 Nissan Altima slammed into a guardrail and overturned near the 233rd St. exit around 6:30 […]

An NYPD officer is listed in critical condition at Lutheran Trauma Center Sunday morning, after getting hit by a motorcycle while chasing a possible suspect. The officer has been identified

A well-dressed gunman told an upper East Side jeweler he needed cash for his sick child – and then he blasted him in the chest, killing him inside a Madison

Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger Shlita has broken the silence, speaking out on Sunday against the violent protests surrounding the exhumation of kevarim at the proposed building site of Barzilai Hospital

The man at the center of the 1991 Crown Heights riot now lives incognito in a New Jersey town, untroubled by memories of his terrible deed. “Up until today, I

Deputy Education Minister Meir Porush on Sunday made a visit to Ashkelon, meeting with the southern commander of Israel Police, who briefed him on the logistics surrounding the operation to

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