Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments, which he made earlier this evening on the massive fire currently raging on Mt. Carmel, near Haifa: “At this hour a terrible fire
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The trustee seeking to recover funds for the victims of Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme sued JPMorgan Chase on Thursday for $6.4 billion, accusing it of profiting from the huge
The following is a CNN report: Amazon dumped the controversial site WikiLeaks from its computer servers on Wednesday. But WikiLeaks, which is known for publishing state secrets, apparently has found
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The Census Bureau will announce later this month that the New York Congressional delegation will shrink to the smallest it has been in 200 years, continuing to erode the state’s
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A major fire broke out in northern Israel Thursday, setting thousands of acres of land alight and forcing the evacuation of two villages and a prison. The blaze, in the
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The following is a Baltimore Sun article: Members of Shomrim, an Orthodox Jewish citizen patrol group, take their volunteer job seriously: with matching jackets and radios, they have a phone
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YWN Israel has just been informed that a 65-year-old woman from Yerushalayim has R”L just drowned in the waters of Ein-Gedi. Sources tell YWN Israel, that the woman was pulled
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