Ashdod City Hall had inspectors operating this past Shabbos, issuing a warming to businesses operating contrary to the law. The move follows a meeting initiated last Tuesday by Deputy Mayor
The Trump administration has proposed spending $18 billion over 10 years to significantly extend the border wall with Mexico, providing one of its most detailed blueprints of how the president
The IDF has announced that there were 35 rockets fired from Gaza into Israel in 2017, 99 terror attacks and 20 persons murdered in the attacks and 169 wounded. Most
A man in Stockholm picked up an unknown object from the ground that detonated in his hand Sunday, accidently killing himself and injuring his female companion near a subway station, Swedish police said. The blast took place about 11 a.m. just outside the Varby Gard subway station in Huddinge — a residential district in greater […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May has dismissed concerns about Donald Trump’s mental fitness, saying the U.S. president acts in what he sees as the best interests of his country. A
There was tragic news in Elad on motzei Shabbos as word spread if the tragic death of Rav Asher Schnitzler z”l, 36, after his motorcycle was involved in an accident on Route 5 on his way to work. Schnitzer, the father of seven children, was well-known in the city as he also was a gabbai […]
Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro today announced the city experienced 73 civilian fire deaths in 2017, 25 more than in 2016 when the city had the fewest deaths (48) in 100 years of accurate statistics. In December alone, there were 26 deaths – the highest number in any month in decades. The top three causes […]
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With the close of 2017, New York City marks three new crime reduction benchmarks: the first time the total number of index crimes has fallen below 100,000; the first time the number of shooting incidents has fallen below 800; and the first time the total number of murders has fallen below 300. This reduction in […]
United Hatzalah Emergency Medical Service (EMS) volunteers treated 211 people over the weekend for storm related injuries and illnesses across Israel. The medical emergencies consisted of various injuries due to
Though Egypt has publicly condemned US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and even sponsored a UN resolution rejecting the move, a new report indicates Cairo has quietly sought to convince the Egyptian public to accept it. The New York Times revealed that a high ranking Egyptian security official said during an interview, “In what […]
(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Jerusalem fire department spokesman Udi Gal reports that the weekend storm resulted in a very large tree landing on a school fence in the southern Gilo neighborhood of the capital. B’chasdei Hashem, this occurred at a time the school was empty. Firemen worked hard to remove the large tree without causing […]
It is Sunday morning, 20 Teves, and the clouds are moving aside to permit the sun to shine through, but the picture in Jerusalem is not a pleasant one, with
About 100 million people faced a new challenge after the whopping East Coast snowstorm: a gusty deep freeze, topped Saturday by a wind chill close to minus 100 on New
(VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) President Donald Trump said Saturday that “everything I’ve done is 100 percent proper” regarding the special counsel’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election
President Donald Trump, shelving comparisons about the size of a “nuclear button,” said Saturday he is open to talking with the North Korean leader he’s called “Little Rocket Man” and
While the storm in Israel has passed for the most part, winter weather is still very much here – and with it so is the threat in the riverbeds that are often used as hiking paths. An 11-year-old boy and his father needed rescuing from Nahal Og located near the Dead Sea on Shabbos after […]
Emerging from closed-door meetings with Republican leaders, President Donald Trump on Saturday held out the prospect of a deal with Democrats on the fate of young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children but appeared to put a welfare system overhaul — once a top White House priority — on the back burner. Trump […]
Rabbi Chaim Perl was selected on Thursday morning to be the new Chief Rabbi of the Fire and Rescue Department. The selection was made following Rabbi Perl’s passing through a
A U.N. Security Council emergency meeting on the protests roiling Iran showed Tehran “the world will be watching” its actions, the U.S. ambassador said Friday. But Russia and some other
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