The IDF held a large-scale surprise exercise simulating terror attacks in Israels various sectors on Sunday, 15 Tammuz 5773. Thousands of soldiers participated in the drill, mostly members of special forces. The Military Intelligence Directorate also played a large role in the drill. The exercise was led by Chief of the General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny […]
Microsoft is giving people a peek into Windows 8.1, a free update that promises to address some of the gripes people have with the latest version of the company’s flagship
Hasan Rouhani knew there was an element of risk. Just a week before Iran’s election gatekeepers announced the presidential ballot, Rouhani said one-on-one talks with Washington are the only way for breakthroughs in the nuclear standoff, given that the United States as he put it is the world’s “sheriff.” Such a public portrayal […]
He was a wheeler-dealer pardoned by another consummate dealmaker, a working-class Jewish boy who left Belgium to escape the Nazis and rose to become the billionaire “King of Commodities.” Marc
Tzfas Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu announced that if elected as the next Rishon LTzion, he will not sell Israeli fields to goyim for shmitah year as has been done in the past, Maariv reports. Eliyahu is sending a clear message to the chareidim that he will not support the heter mechira. Maariv reports the […]
Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger told police that he never took bribe money nor did he become rich. If nonprofit funds were taken by his aide and driver Rav Eisenstatt he
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has decided he is ready to release additional PA (Palestinian Authority) terrorists in another goodwill gesture to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). Such a move
The 24 Americans living in Israel who had sued the State Department over US aid to the Palestinians have filed their opposition brief to the government’s motion to dismiss. The
The Israel Empowered organization has released a comprehensive report of the Israel job market. The report, initiated by Minister of the Economy Naftali Bennett, is based on mounds of data gathered by the Israeli government which surveyed thousands of employers currently seeking workers. Learn the starting salary for your profession in Israel Learn […]
Longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Edward Markey defeated Republican political newcomer Gabriel Gomez in a special election on Tuesday for the state’s U.S. Senate seat long held by John Kerry, a
Aliza Block will on Wednesday, 18 Tammuz 5773, announce her candidacy in the Beit Shemesh mayoral race. The 46-year-old mother of four and member of the dati leumi community will
Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz explained to members of the Knesset Finance Committee on Monday, 16 Tammuz 5773, that Israel has committed to evacuate the Sdei Dov and Herzliya Airports and there is an immediate need to build new airports. Katz explained that Ben-Gurion International Airport is built to accommodate a maximum of 16 million […]
Once again a child in Yerushalayim was taken to a local hospital following a fall from a significant height. The latest incident occurred on 17 Tammuz 5773, when Ichud Hatzalah
At a Likud faction meeting in Knesset, Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon backed IDF Central District Commander Major-General Nitzan Alon, who last week saidhe fears if negotiations between Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority) dont get underway soon, the security situation in Yehuda and Shomron is likely to deteriorate. Alon made his comments to foreign diplomats, […]
Rebuffed by Russia’s president, the Obama administration toned down demands Tuesday that fugitive National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden be expelled from a Moscow airport in a sign that the
There is a dispute taking place between the Ministries of Health and Defense over which ministry is responsible to pay for treating 50 Syrians wounded in the civil war, brought
Jim Willett remembers the night of Dec. 6, 1982, when he was assigned to guard a mortuary van that had arrived at the death house at the Huntsville prison. “I
After a four week charm offensive tour, newly entered mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner completed his comeback kid mission with new poll showing him leapfrogging into the lead as the preferred
A document was presented to the Knesset Finance Committee attesting to the fact that the price of fruits and vegetables increased tens of percent from 2005 to 2013, primarily due
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