Australian officials defended their suspension of the fruitless deep-sea sonar search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, insisting on Wednesday that the enormous costs involved played no role in their decision

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley pledged her support for moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a shift firmly endorsed by Donald Trump but one that

President Reuven Rivlin over the weekend will be hospitalized for 24 hours to have a cardiac pacemaker installed. He will resume his presidential authority throughout the entire hospitalization period. The procedure will be done without anesthesia and doctors hope to release him to rest in the President’s Residence upon completion of the procedure. (YWN – […]

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie turned down several jobs in the Trump administration because his wife refused to move to Washington, the governor said Wednesday. Speaking on New York radio

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan responded to the fatal vehicular terror attack and clashes between Bedouins and security forces in Um Chiran in southern Israel Wednesday morning 20 Teves, explaining

An emergency teleconference was convened last week by Rabbi Hershy Z. Ten, (President of Bikur Cholim in Los Angeles) in response to a recent measles outbreak that originated in the

Security authorities have completed their work at the scene of the fatal vehicular terror attack earlier today, and officials have begun with the demolition of illegal buildings in the Bedouin

Three nations shelled out around $160 million and years’ worth of work on the underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The result: No plane. The only tangible — and arguably most important — clues into what happened to the aircraft have come courtesy of ordinary citizens, who bore the costs themselves. The deep-sea […]

[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Following the preliminary investigation into the Wednesday morning events in the Bedouin village of Um Chiran, security authorities have permitted publishing details that were blocked by

President Barack Obama’s decision Tuesday to commute Chelsea Manning’s sentence brought fresh attention to another figure involved in the Army leaker’s case: Julian Assange. On Twitter last week, Assange’s anti-secrecy

President Reuven Rivlin issued the following statement on Wednesday, 20 Teves, following the fatal vehicular terror attack in the Bedouin community of Um Chiran. Staff-Sgt. Erez Levi HY”D was murdered in the attack. “We are in the midst of a terrible event, in which Sgt. Erez Levi was murdered by a terrorist in a abhorrent […]

The above statements to the media were given by the Israel Police Deputy Southern District Commander on Wednesday, 20 Teves 5777. The senior commander spoke to the press about ten hours after the attack, explaining the events as they transpired. (YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)

Vice President-elect Mike Pence pledged to a group of mayors that the Trump administration will make a serious investment in infrastructure, and he told diplomats that Trump and his incoming

TODAY! Thousands are gathering in unity for the community to show solidarity and beseech rachmei shomayim for choilei yisroel. In an unprecedented day of tefilla and tzedaka, thousands have opened their homes, their workplaces, their schools, their kollelim to say tehillim and take part in these auspicious hours. They will all pause for a cause. And you can […]

The Women of the Wall (WoW) organization will on Thursday, 21 Teves, host a “Tefilla gathering” at the Kosel beginning at 7:00AM. The timing is no coincidence, marking almost a

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