13:29 IL: Preliminary information from Yehonai Jabotinsky Street in Beersheva – A bank robbery occurred in which guns were fired. Unconfirmed reports from the scene indicate four or five people are wounded. Their condition is not known. Ichud Hatzalah reports that there may be hostages. Israel Radio Reshet Bet adds a female is being held […]
Header yeshiva roshei yeshiva and administrators are learning that the planned national government cuts by the treasury don’t single out chareidim, but will deliver a serious blow to the dati leumi yeshivot gevoha and hesder yeshivot as well. While many in the dati leumi community supported the new legislation to draft bnei Torah from the […]
Transportation Minister (Likud) Yisrael Katz announced on Sunday, 10 Sivan 5773 that he plans to move ahead with planned tenders to build new ports in Israel. Katz told Galei Tzahal
Last week, on 29 Iyar 5773, a number of people gathered in Hebron on the day marking the liberation of the Holy City. The participants traveled from all areas in
As the infrastructure of the area is complete, 300 families are moving into the Green Park section of eastern Modi’in Illit. Community leaders stress the area is built on a high standard, pointing to the new higher standard of community infrastructure to the benefit of the families moving in. Officials add that in addition, one […]
Another detention in the case of the assault on police detectives in Kiryat Moshe, Jerusalem ended quietly with the release of the detainee, Honenu reports. Following a raid on Monday,
The White House on Sunday accused Republicans of conducting political “fishing expeditions,” while Republican lawmakers showed no let up in attacking President Barack Obama’s administration for a culture of what
Students at Oberlin College in Ohio recently passed a divestment resolution against the Middle East’s sole democratic state. The college is a liberal arts institution situated in Oberlin. In a press release, Oberlin College Students for a Free Palestine noted that a majority of the student senate passed the resolution after a three-hour debate. The […]
Despite an effort to win sufficient support in the Jordanian parliament to oust Israeli Ambassador to Jordan Daniel Nevo, Jordanian lawmakers voted to permit the ambassador to remain in Amman.
The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain
Prominent rabbonim shlita in the dati leumi community are pressuring party leader Minister Naftali Bennett to support the deal approved by Shas last week. This refers to the deal brokered
President Barack Obama complained on Sunday that partisan battles in Washington are holding back stronger U.S. economic growth as he tried to recover from one of the most difficult weeks
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday 8 Sivan 5773 in Jerusalem, met with German Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westrwelle. Mr. Netanyahu said at the start of the meeting: “It is
A top White House adviser insisted Sunday that President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had targeted tea party groups only “when it came out in the news” while
MK (Labor) Omer Bar-Lev expressed his disapproval over Finance Minister (Yesh Atid) Yair Lapid’s proposed state budget vis-à-vis the chareidi community. “Lapid has decided to use force, to go head-to-head with the chareidim and while he may be correct, it is unwise.” Bar-Lev feels “the chareidim have been shoved into a bunker” and as a […]
The federal judge overseeing the stop-and-frisk trial that has put New York Police Department officers in the spotlight says she knows she’s not the government’s favorite judge. But U.S. District
After being hit with hundreds of rockets during the Second Lebanon War, it appears that Haifa Mayor Yonah Yahav is not taking any chances amid reports of stepped-up Syrian military action threatening Israel. The mayor has stepped-up the state of preparedness for relative city agencies. The city’s war situation room is operating and there is […]
Authorities are reporting that two chareidi males seen defacing Khan Theater ads were pursued and apprehended by police. The two are suspected of causing “thousands of NIS in damage” in their campaign, defacing and destroying Khan Theater posters in the area to the entrance to Yerushalayim from Highway One. Theater officials expressed outrage, adding the […]
Bayit Yehudi MKs Shuli Moalem-Refaeli and Moti Yogev are sponsoring a bill that seeks to prohibit civil service rabbis from charging to perform a chasenah in the confines of their
Minister of Religious Affairs Naftali Bennett (Bayit Yehudi) and his deputy, Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, held a joint press conference during which they announced their reform that will establish regional marriage registration in Israel. Bennett began by addressing the upcoming elections for the nation’s chief rabbis, explaining “it is trivial for me. The chief rabbis must […]
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