[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] His Cabinet beginning to take shape, President-elect Donald Trump is offering a Thanksgiving prayer for unity after “a long and bruising” campaign season. “Emotions are raw

• Haifa University will remain closed on Friday, 24 Cheshvan • 7,000 homes in the Haifa region without electricity • Fire in Jerusalem Mountains (Shar HaGuy area) moving closer to

4:16PM IL: Every emergency agency in Israel is focused on assisting in battling the fires in the Haifa district and elsewhere in Israel or addressing the needs of over 60,000

Police Commissioner Alsheich reported a short time ago at live media briefing that a special investigation into the fires in underway and arrests will be made. The commissioner would not

[VIDEOS & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE ] The fires in Haifa continue burning out of control as exhausted firefighters continue working 12-hours shifts, hoping to being to see progress. Due

YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of HaRav Eliezer (Elias) Schwartz ZATZAL, the Menahel at Yeshiva Toras Emmes – Kaminetz. He was 99-years-old. Rav Schwartz was the Menahel

[By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times] The media reports the current rise in anti-Semitism, but there is a deeper anti-Semitism that has been with us for

Hundreds of United Hatzalah volunteer EMS personnel assisted firefighters in evacuating residents in the Romeima and Sapir neighborhoods of Haifa during a series of fires that blazed in those areas

Israel Electric Company has joined other agencies in declaring a state of emergency in the northern area. The utility company has been forced to cut power to areas, high tension

12:47PM IL: [VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The fires reported earlier today, Thursday, 23 Cheshvan in the N’vei Ian and Nataf areas continues at this hour, albeit much better than the

2:16PM IL: According to the latest numbers from Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah, forty persons have already been transported to Haifa area hospitals as the fires in the northern

United Hatzalah has declared a state of emergency in light of the deteriorating situation in Haifa, moving to level 1 operational status. All volunteers are urged to increase readiness to

The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States has provoked a “mixed reaction” among European Jews, said Pinchas Goldschmidt, chief rabbi of Moscow and the current president

1:53PM IL: According to combined sources, 27 people have already been transported to Haifa hospitals. It appears most if not all are light condition, suffering smoke inhalation. Haifa’s airport is

According to prominent Israeli Palestinian affairs correspondent Avi Issarharoff via twitter, the Palestinian media report that an organization calling itself “Youth Uprising” is behind the arson fires around the country

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times The look of that crumpled school bus sends a chill down the spine of every parents. Three of the children