Ecuador has granted asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange because it believes he will be politically persecuted if extradited, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño announced Thursday. The UK, meanwhile, has
According to American journalist Richard Silverstein, who spoke with the BBC, he received a classified document leaked by a senior IDF officer to a former senior minister, a document that
Just three years after announcing itself as a new mehadrin hechsher in the Israeli marketplace, the Hisachdus shechita is out of business. The hashgacha was launched on 21 Menachem Av
Airport security officials in Iceland have given the all clear to a Russian Airliner that was forced to make an emergency landing after taking off from John F. Kennedy International
Many Israelis are concerned over the expected significant price hikes in many basic food items, including bread, eggs, and milk. In September 2012, prices will be increasing and gasoline will
Israeli Ambassador to Washington DC Dr. Michael Oren told Bloomberg News that Israel would attack Iran’s nuclear program even if the result would only yield a delay of a number
On Thursday night, the eve of 29 Menachem Av 5772 Klal Yisrael will mark the shloshim for Maran Posek HaDor HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv ZATZAL. Many will visit the
The call for a “man who fell down stairs” came in at 18:40 on Wednesday 27 Menachem Av 5772. Ichud Hatzalah EMTs responded as usual, heading to the Ramot neighborhood
HaGaon HaRav Akiva Ehrenfeld ZT”L was niftar on Thursday 28 Menachem Av 5772 in Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center. He served as the president of Kiryas Shmuel, Mosdos Beis Shmuel
Residents of Beit Shemesh thought the Siyum HaShas held on Wednesday, 28 Menachem Av 5772 would be a respectable Torah event but it appears that according to many participants, the
Ministry of Agriculture officials announced a wave of price increases are necessary in light of the extreme weather conditions that have resulted in the destruction of many crops in the
The rabbonim of the Eida Chareidis shlita have called for 24 hours of uninterrupted tefilos, which began on Thursday 28 Menachem Av at 13:00 and will end IY”H on erev
HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita and HaGaon HaRav Nissim Karelitz Shlita have called for an atzeres tefilla in light of the abolition of the Tal Law. The event is scheduled
Based on reports from residents to police, the two powerful explosions heard in the southern resort city of Eilat at about 22:00 on Wednesday night, the eve of 29 Menachem
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is still polling ahead of her likely Democratic rivals for mayor. The latest Quinnipiac poll gives Quinn– who would be New York City’s first female
Ann Romney said in an interview set to air Thursday that “there’s nothing we’re hiding” in regards to her and husband Mitt Romney’s personal finances, and insisted again the campaign
A resident of the Arab community of Kafr Kassam is in custody and suspected of being the man who made off with dozens of computers from a Bnei Brak seminary.
IDF Homefront Commander Major-General Eyal Eisenberg visited Elad to meet with Mayor Yitzchak Edan. The senior commander was accompanied by Colonel Yoram Lerdo, who is the Homefront Command’s district commander
A Democratic committee chairman overrode his own subpoena three years ago in an investigation of former subprime mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. to exclude records showing that he, other House
The Knesset’s Economic Committee on Tuesday, approved the new criteria for ranking hotels in Israel as submitted by the Minister of Tourism Stas Misezhnikov, with some minor changes. The new
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