The Tatzpit Agency reports that on Tuesday night the eve of 26 Shevat 5773 at about 20:50, a vehicle ran the Rantis Checkpoint in Shomron. The checkpoint leads from yishuvim
Mayor Bloomberg staunchly defended a controversial anti-Israel forum sponsored by Brooklyn College, saying pols opposing it should back off because they are just giving the group more attention. Bloomberg maintains the CUNY college has a free speech right to host the gathering Thursday on the Flatbush campus. “If you want to go to a university […]
So what are chareidim doing visiting PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) in his Ramallah office? The meeting held earlier this week surrounds the machlokes over arrangements to visit Kever
The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services committee said on Wednesday the panel’s vote on Chuck Hagel’s confirmation as President Barack Obama’s next Pentagon chief has not been scheduled
It appears that the meeting of the Moetzas Gedolei Yisrael of both Agudas Yisrael and Degel Hatorah will be meeting together as hoped. The meeting is set for Thursday, 27
The United States said on Wednesday it has sanctioned state-sponsored broadcasters in Iran for helping the government censor its opposition, part of a broader U.S. effort to pressure Teheran over
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Last week YWN-ISRAEL reported that Captain Ziv Shilon, who was critically wounded in a bomb blast along the Gaza border was discharged from rehabilitation. Shilon lost
New York – Councilman David G. Greenfield today introduced City Council legislation requiring the city to provide drivers with at least 24-hours of notice before converting legal parking spaces to a temporary tow-away zone, which often happens to accommodate special events like movie shoots, block parties and street fairs. The city currently is not required […]
Retired Supreme Court President Professor Menachem Alon Z”L was niftar in Yerushalayim at the age of 90. The levaya took place at 4:00PM and kvura in Har Menuchos. The niftar was the father of former MK Rabbi Binyamin Alon, born in German in 1923, making aliyah to Eretz Yisrael in 1935. He learned in Yeshivas […]
The White House says President Barack Obama won’t be unveiling a specific new peace proposal when he visits Israel this spring. The White House announced Tuesday that Obama would travel
Shas leader Eli Yishai is continuing efforts to form a religious bloc. As such, he is scheduled to meet with Kiryat Arba’s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Dov Lior Shlita, a prominent posek in the dati leumi community. Despite calls from Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and Naftali Bennett that Shas apology for disparaging remarks made during the election […]
Scottie dog has a new nemesis in Monopoly after fans voted in an online contest to add a cat token to the property trading game, replacing the iron, toy maker
Following her meeting on Tuesday night the eve of 26 Shevat 5773 with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Labor Party leader Shelly Yacimovich is signaling that entering the coalition is highly unlikely. The two met in private in Mr. Netanyahu’s Jerusalem office. Following the meeting, Yacimovich told the press that there are major differences in hashkafa […]
When President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term on Jan. 21, it’s a decent bet that one of the flags fluttering behind him on the U.S. Capitol
[By Daniel Perez] We live in an age of cultural sensitivity run amok – to the point where political correctness supersedes actual correctness as a matter of course. For example, I live in the United States, where people, out of a fear of offending the Black community, will refer to any and all Black persons […]
The United States is operating a secret base out of Saudi Arabia and used it to launch a CIA drone strike in 2011 that killed U.S.-born al Qaeda leader Anwar
Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway/Howard Beach) announced the New York City Hurricane Sandy Assessment Relief Act legislation that he not only sponsored, but strongly advocated and defended on the Assembly floor,
There was a bit of speculation when the photographers captured a shot of Yahadut Hatorah’s Rav Yisrael Eichler speaking with Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid in Knesset on Tuesday 25 Shevat 5773, during the 19th Knesset swearing-in ceremony. Ladaat.info managed to speak with Eichler to ask if he would disclose the nature of that conversation, and […]
New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman has urged lawmakers to overhaul the state’s bail laws, saying the current system was unfair to indigent defendants charged with low-level crimes. During his
While Shas works to form a religious bloc with Yahadut Hatorah and Bayit HaYehudi as coalition talks move ahead, Aryeh Deri has not closed the door on running for mayor
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