Thousands of bnei Torah — yeshivah bochurim, avreichim, rabbanim and roshei yeshivah — gathered in the streets of Yerushalayim on Thursday to protest the ongoing government efforts to force lomdei Torah into the army. The peaceful protest, held at a major intersection in the capital, was led by the gedolei Torah of the Sefardi tzibbur […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in a televised interview Wednesday that Israel intends to take full military control of the Gaza Strip, but stressed that the IDF has no desire to permanently govern the territory. Speaking to Fox News, Netanyahu said Israel’s goal is to establish a security perimeter and eliminate threats emanating from Gaza […]
The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose modestly last week, a sign that employers still retaining workers despite economic uncertainty related to U.S. trade policy. Jobless claims for
Lesley Mathis knows what her daughter said was wrong. But she never expected the 13-year-old girl would get arrested for it. The teenage girl made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates, triggering the school’s surveillance software. Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, strip-searched […]
It was an unprecedented experience and an unprecedented kiddush Hashem! The US Ambassador to Israel visited the two senior Gedolei Hador of Bnei Brak, HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau, shlita, Rosh
HaGaon HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch sent a personal letter of chizzuk to the two brothers, Rafael and Baruch Yitzchakoff, students of the Maorot HaTorah yeshiva in Kiryat Yearim, who were
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is vowing to “fix” the federal program for compensating Americans injured by vaccines, opening the door to sweeping changes for a system long targeted by anti-vaccine activists. Health experts and lawyers say updates are needed to help clear a backlog of cases in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, created by Congress in […]
President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to change the way the Census Bureau collects data, seeking to exclude immigrants who are in the United States illegally, he said Thursday. The census’ data collections will be based on “modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential […]
The video caused a buzz on Haredi internet in the U.S. — and reignite the conversation about purchasing an apartment in Jerusalem It was filmed like a sketch. It started
It is with deep regret that YWN reports the petirah of Harav Avrohom Gurwitz zt”l, Rosh Yeshivas Ner Moshe, who was niftar this morning at the age of 87. Rav Gurwitz was born in Yerushalayim on 6 Elul, 5697 (1937). His family emigrated when he was a child to America, where his father received a […]
A disruption to a system housing United Airlines’ flight information that caused more than 1,000 delays has been resolved, but delays continued into Thursday. The impacted system, called Unimatic, houses flight information that is fed to other systems including those that calculate weight and balance and track flight times, according to United. It’s not clear […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he hopes to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in latest bid by the White House to broker an end to the 3-year-old war in Ukraine. Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said Thursday a meeting could take place as early as next week, although he noted that such events take […]
Pro-Hamas thugs vandalized the El Al office in Paris overnight Thursday, spraying the building with red paint and writing antisemitic statements, including “El Al: Genocide Airline” and “Free Palestine.” El Al issued a statement saying that the incident occurred while the building was empty and there was no danger to employees. “El Al views this […]
Israel’s Health Ministry revealed on Thursday that following the discovery of the polio virus in sewage samples in the Jerusalem district, positive samples were also found in central Israel—in Bnei Brak, Ramle, Lod, and in the Dan region. These findings indicate the transmission of the polio virus among the population in these areas. The ministry […]
The world experienced its third-warmest July on record this year, the European Union agency that tracks global warming said Thursday, with temperatures easing slightly for the month as compared with the record high two years ago. Despite the slightly lower global average temperature, scientists said extreme heat and deadly flooding persisted in July. “Two years […]
The military police arrested another yeshivah bochur overnight Wednesday at his home in Tel Aviv following the arrest of two bochurim earlier this week, also in Tel Aviv. According to
Hours-long consultations were held at the home of HaGaon HaChacham Moshe Tzadka, the Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivas Porat Yosef, on Wednesday evening in the wake of the arrest and imprisonment
The Sephardi and Litvish Gedolim have declared a war against the persecution of Lomdei Torah in the wake of the arrests and imprisonment of two Sephardi bochurim this week on
A military helicopter crashed in Ghana on Wednesday, killing all eight people on board, including the West African country’s defense and environment ministers and two other top officials, the government said. The crash was one of Ghana’s worst air disasters in more than a decade. The Ghanaian military said the helicopter took off in the […]
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