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Satellite images taken this week over the Syrian port of Latakia show the smoldering wreckage after a reported Israeli missile strike, hours after firefighters contained a massive blaze. The raid
Mayor-elect Eric Adams said Thursday that he will keep New York City’s vaccine mandate for businesses and that the city will set a spring deadline on whether to have a
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New York City will ring in 2022 in Times Square as planned despite record numbers of COVID-19 infections in the city and around the nation, Mayor Bill de Blasio said
As the great campaign of Yavneh V’chachamehah draws to a close… At the last moment: The eyes of the kollel yungeleit in Israel are lifted to the Torah supporters in
Following a storm of outrage after Israel Police banned the hilula for the Baba Sali’s yarzheit next week due to safety concerns, the police reevaluated the situation and announced on
A new mother in Israel this week tested positive for COVID and the flu, Israel’s first documented case of the “flurona,” Ynet reported on Thursday. The woman, who went into
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will leave his office having seen more traffic fatalities this year than any other year in his two terms as mayor of the Big Apple,
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An Israeli judge ruled that a 48-year-old Israeli man who collects tzedaka at the Kosel must pay a fine of only NIS 18. The police had filed five indictments against
Israel on Monday began trials of a fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine in what is believed to be the first study of its kind. The trial began at Sheba Medical
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that he’s worried about the omicron and delta variants of COVID-19 producing a “tsunami” of cases between them, but he’s still
More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to their highest level on record at over 265,000 per day
President Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will speak Thursday as the Russian leader has stepped up his demands for security guarantees in Eastern Europe while maintaining an unsettling buildup of
Israel’s Health Ministry reported on Wednesday that cases of the flu are increasing throughout the country. There are currently 1,894 people hospitalized with the flu, including 124 pregnant women and
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia and Belarus will hold joint war games early next year. Putin welcomed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s proposal to hold another round of
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