A mortar shell landed in the Golan Heights on Wednesday morning 8 Cheshvan. B’chasdei Hashem there was no loss of life, injuries or property damage. The mortar shell is viewed as stray fire attributed to the ongoing civil war in Syria. There was no report of an IDF response to the shell, which landed in […]

[COMMUNICATED CONTENT] This appeal is endorsed by prominent Rabbonim. A terrifying fire has made one family’s difficult circumstance even more dire. During the past Succos Yom Tov a serious fire broke out on 49th St in Boro Park devastating the full interior apartment of a young kallah still living with her parents. Fire began in […]

A fractured, discontented electorate handed Donald Trump the presidency, allowing him to breach a region that Democrat Hillary Clinton was banking on in her bid for the presidency. Key battleground

Mr. David Friedman, an advisor to President-elect Donald Trump on Jewish & Israeli affairs, spoke to the Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, 8 Cheshvan. The J. Post quotes Friedman saying that Mr. Trump will be an ally the likes of which Israel has “never seen before”, sending a clear message to Jerusalem. According to Friedman, the […]

Despite losing Tuesday’s presidential election, Hillary Clinton appears to be on pace to win the popular vote, an ironic twist in an election in which her opponent repeatedly said the

Deputy Defense Minister (Bayit Yehudi) Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan calls on police and other agencies to do more to halt attacks directed at chareidi soldiers. Ben-Dahan sent a letter to Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich in which he addresses the attacks against so-called ‘chardakim’, stating police are not doing enough to protect these soldiers. Ben-Dahan explains that […]

Elated congressional Republicans pledged swift action Wednesday on President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda as they heralded an extraordinary new era of unified GOP control in Washington. “He just earned a mandate,”

A lawsuit was filed in the Ramle Magistrate Court against Prof. Yehuda Hiss, Israel’s former chief pathologist at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute. The NIS 400,000 lawsuit alleges that Hiss his body parts which as a result were not interred with a niftar, doing so without permission from any state body or the family of […]

Pollsters and election modelers suffered an industry-shattering embarrassment at the hands of Donald Trump on Tuesday night. Trump had long said the polls were biased against him. His claims – dismissed and mocked by the experts – turned out to be true. “It’s going to put the polling industry out of business,” said CNN anchor […]

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Another thirty chareidim earlier this week joined the Israel Air Force ‘Blue Shachar’ program which has been designed to accommodate the chareidi way of life. The new recruits will complete basic training and then a preparatory course for their program including a crash course in English and math. After being certified, […]

Following the election of Mr. Donald Trump and Governor Mike Pence to the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States, Rabbi David Zwiebel, Agudath Israel’s executive vice president, issued

It turns out that President Donald Trump might not be bad for the stock market after all. Asian stock markets tumbled shortly after Trump overtook Hillary Clinton in the presidential electoral vote count early Wednesday. From there, all signs quickly pointed to a big stumble for Wall Street — that never materialized. Soon after Trump […]

Rabbi David Stav is angered over the decision that the selection committee appointing the chief rabbi of a city or community will contain additional representatives from the Ministry of Religious

Facebook and Twitter are reporting massive Election Day engagement on social media. Facebook says 115 million people worldwide generated over 716 million likes, posts, comments and shares related to the

With the news of the election success of Donald Trump as the 45th President-elect, Israel’s right-wing is optimistic and already signaling to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to end the construction freeze. Bayit Yehudi party head Minister Naftali Bennett did not waste any time, announcing “the era of a Palestinian state is over”, explaining the victory […]