Speaking on Israel Radio on Sunday, 7 Menachem Av 5773, Deputy Minister of Religious Services Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan commented on the statements made by Rosh Yeshivat Porat Yosef, HaGaon HaRav Shalom Cohen Shlita, calling the dati leumi community “Amalek”. He began “I am proud to be a representative of Amalek”. Ben-Dahan stated “I am embarrassed […]
Jerusalem police have completed preparations for Tisha B’Av, including enforcement of the law prohibiting stores in the capital from opening during the mourning day. Officials in the Operations Branch explains hundreds of police and border police will take up position in the Old City as tens and tens of thousands are expected to visit the […]
Tri-state residents are being warned to brace for the hottest and longest heat wave of the summer so far. The temperature hit 90 degrees in Central Park Sunday, marking the
Heads of religious councils who are numbered among the 150 voters who will select Israel’s next chief rabbis accuse Bayit Yehudi party leaders of pressuring them to vote for the party’s candidates, Rabbi David Stav and Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu. A number of these individuals told Maariv that Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan […]
Thousands of Israeli Arabs took part in a Saturday rally in Kafr Kana on July 13, 2013 to show their support for ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the Islamic Brotherhood. Many carried photos of the ousted leader as the blocked the main road, shouting “We will sacrifice our lives for Morsi”. Officials in Israel’s […]
Israel on Thursday, 4 Menachem Av opened the Kunetra Crossing to Syria to permit Druse students to leave that country and return home to their Golan Heights communities. The 23
Former senior Israel Police officer Dan Ronen has been appointed director-general of the Ministry of Homefront Affairs. Interestingly, less than a year ago in an opinion column Ronen wrote the establishment of the new office “is politically motivated”, stating the new office interferes with other bodies already responsible for the same issues and it should […]
This year’s Ramadan prayers for the Muslim community in Hebron included damaging and pulling out mezuzos in the Ma’aras HaMachpelah. Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan traveled to Hebron, visiting the Machpelah to get a firsthand look at the vandalism. The discovery was made on erev Shabbos Parshas Chazon 5773 when Jews arrived […]
The Guardian journalist who first reported Edward Snowden’s disclosures of U.S. surveillance programs says the former National Security Agency analyst has “very specific blueprints of how the NSA do what
A 22-year-old Jewish male spent Shabbos in jail after he reported a bogus price tag attack. The man was visiting friends in the Kiryat Moshe area of Yerushalayim on erev Shabbos. He summoned police on Friday, 5 Menachem Av 5773 to report that “slaughter the Jews” was painted on his vehicle and sugar and silicone […]
Over a thousand people gathered in Manhattan’s Union Square to protest the Florida verdict acquitting George Zimmerman in the death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. The protesters chanted “Justice
Proposed changes to Senate rules would either ease the way for President Barack Obama to assemble his second-term team or permanently threaten the body’s deliberative style, the chamber’s top Democratic
The incoming governor of the Bank of Israel, Professor Yaakov Frenkel, is being probed by the Turkel Committee, suspected of stealing an item from a Hong Kong duty free store seven years ago. While Frenkel’s appointment has already been approved, there is now a measure of doubt surrounding it, Globes reports. It appears that after […]
UPDATE 10:50PM EST: YWN has been informed that the Joseph Weiss has B”H been found not far from his home, and will be reunited with his family shortly. Earlier this
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says guns laws like those in Florida can “inspire dangerous vigilantism and protect those who act recklessly.” He didn’t offer a direct comment on the jury verdict
The Tourism Ministry announced a new tender for selecting the service provider for rating hotels in Israel according to the Hotelstars system. This is in accordance with the commitment taken
Movement for Quality Government chairman attorney Eliad Shraga has called on Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon to abandon plans to possibly excuse thousands of talmidim born in 1994-1995 from the draft in light of the new draft law. Ya’alon last week signaled he is contemplating such a possibility in light of the August 2013 draft, which […]
With all the fears that Superstorm Sandy created, here’s one that never materialized: huge tax increases to make up for property destroyed along the coastlines of New Jersey, New York
Three-year-old Adele Chaya bas Adva injured in March 2013 in a car accident in which the family vehicle slammed into the rear of a parked truck near Ariel in Shomron. The cause of the accident was Arabs who hurled rocks on the road, resulting in Adele’s mom to lose control and veer into the rear […]
After a year and a half of living as a hermit, George Zimmerman emerged from a Florida courthouse a free man, cleared of all charges in the shooting of 17-year-old
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