Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and MK Elazar Stern have reached agreement regarding Stern’s bill, a bill that would permit the families of non-Jewish soldiers to have their fallen loved ones buried alongside Jewish soldiers in an IDF military cemetery. Stern, a retired IDF major-general and head of Personnel Branch feels that the current policy of […]
The Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman says NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s disclosures about U.S. surveillance programs have undermined U.S. relationships with other countries and affected what he calls “the importance
The National Weather Service has issued an extreme heat warning for the New York metropolitan area. It says dangerous levels of heat and humidity are on tap for Sunday. The
Omer Bogomolsky celebrated his bar mitzvah in Moshav Moledet, his home community, a number of weeks ago. “It was a perfect simcha” his grandmother Rena Jacobson-Feldheim told Yediot Achronot. Omer and his father Amnon headed for the United States on June 20th, a short time after the simcha in Eretz Yisrael for Amnon promised his […]
Thousands of frum women are expected at the Kosel on Monday morning, Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av 5773 in line with the wishes of HaGaon HaRav Aaron Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita and other rabbonim shlita, Yated Ne’eman reports. The rabbonim are calling upon the women to attend to counter the “provocation of the Women of the […]
The cabinet on Sunday, 29 Tammuz 5773 passed the Share the Burden Bill, which is intended as the replacement for the Tal Law. The cabinet voted 14 in favor of the bill and four abstentions. Abstaining was Minister (Bayit Yehudi) Uri Ariel, who feels that while he has succeeded in taking a “bad bill and […]
Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita was discharged from Yerushalayim’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital a short time ago. The rav was admitted last week for back surgery, which the medical team reports was successful. The Gadol Hador was released on Sunday morning 29 Tammuz 5773 after doctors agreed he may continue recuperating in his home. […]
For the third time in under 24 hours, a child was pulled from a swimming pool. Sources tell YWN Catskills, that two children, a 22-month old and a 3-year-old, managed
Three months before uninsured people can start shopping for coverage, some big unknowns loom over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. The surprise announcement this past week that the White
Egypt’s new president moved to assert his authority and regain control of the streets Saturday even as his Islamist opponents declared his powers illegitimate and issued blood oaths to reinstate
President Barack Obama on Saturday reiterated that the U.S. is not aligned with and is not supporting any particular Egyptian political party or group and again condemned the ongoing violence
An Asiana Airlines flight crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, killing at least two people, injuring dozens of others and forcing passengers to jump down the
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] At least 80 people are missing in the small Canadian town of Lac-Megantic after a freight train loaded with oil derailed and burst into flames, a
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has instructed Israel Police to launch an investigation into Arab MKs (Balad – National Democratic Assembly) Hanin Zoabi and Dr. Basel Ghattas for their alleged activities to persuade Christian Arabs not to enter the IDF. During a session of the Knesset Interior Committee, Chairwoman (Likud) Miri Regev praised the attorney general’s […]
Legendary Golan Heights leader Sami Bar-Lev, 71, is stepping down, retiring after serving the community for 40 years. Bar-Lev, who was a resident of Haifa, moved to the newly-liberated Golan Heights in 1968, and has been serving that region since. He explains that when he arrived “there was nothing. We started from zero” but with […]
The time of detention earlier reported as “late at night on Monday, July 1” has been corrected to “at dawn on Tuesday, July 2”. A youth under an administrative restraining order issued by the IDF Central District Commander banning him from entering the regions of Yehuda and Shomron was detained in Beit El at dawn […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the tragic Petira of 18-year-old Ayala Shulman A”H, of Chicago. Ayala was struck by a vehicle two days ago just outside Camp Agudah Midwest
5:30PM (Friday): Around the same time as the drowning in Ichud Bungalow Colony, a 14-year-old Bochur in Machne Karlin Stolin in Highland, NY was pulled out of a swimming pool.
[UPDATES IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] 5:10PM (Friday): Catskills Hatzolah is currently on the scene of a drowning in Ichud Bungalow Colony (Satmar) on Route 42. The victim is a child –
Once again, MK Elazar Stern is at the heart of the storm, succeeding in eliciting anger and outrage among many. In his remarks on Wednesday, 25 Tammuz 5773 in Knesset, a special session marking eight years since the expulsion of the Gush Katif communities, he called that enterprise “a failure”. Stern differentiated between the settlements […]
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