YWN regrets to inform you of the tragic Petira of Mrs. Mindy Lapides (76) from Monsey, who was R”L killed in a crash on the NYS Thruway. Mrs Lapidas was the Secretary at Yeshiva Bais Dovid in Monsey. The New York State Police tell YWN that the vehicle she was riding in collided with another vehicle […]
Speaking with Channel 2 News on Wednesday morning 12 Shevat 5773, Bayit HaYehudi MK-elect Ayelet Shaked explained “I understand the political system and I am well aware that there must be compromise, but there are things upon which there can be no compromise. We will not be part of a coalition that removes yishuvim.” Shaked […]
Russia warned Israel and the West on Wednesday against any military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities but suggested Tehran should be quicker to cooperate over inspections of its nuclear sites.
To the casual observer, Bill Thompson dropped off the map following his narrow defeat to Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2009. He remained nearly invisible until last week when, seemingly out of nowhere, Thompson burst back into the 2013 mayoral field as a top contender after raking in $1 million in the latest filing period. “It […]
A Brooklyn man whose beating by police officers was caught on videotape is now suing the officers and the city. Attorneys for Ehud Halevy, 21, filed a civil rights lawsuit against officers Luis Vega and Yelena Bruzzese on Tuesday. The suit stems from Halevy’s encounter with the officers at the Alternative Learning Institute for Young Adults […]
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faces tough questions in her long-awaited congressional testimony concerning the assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens
Three-quarters of New Jersey voters approve of Governor Chris Christie’s job performance and nearly seven in 10 say he deserves to be elected to a second term in November, according
MK Uri Ariel, number two on the Bayit HaYehudi lineup told Channel 2 TV News on Wednesday morning 12 Shevat 5773 that the party consults with “many intelligent and wise people, including rabbonim”. He stated he is selecting his words carefully regarding the role of rabbonim running party affairs, stating clearly the rabbonim will be […]
While most of the votes have been counted, 99.5%, there is still a possibility of change as the votes of the military and prison votes have yet to be tabulated.
According to a Channel 2 TV News scenario, a likely coalition option for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will not include the chareidi parties. 1. Likud/Beitenu (31) 2. Yesh Atid (19)
14:01 IL: IDF soldiers came under attack with firebombs and rocks near el-Aroub on the Gush Etzion-Hebron Road on Wednesday afternoon, 12 Shevat 5773. One of the soldiers was hit
Some Final Results From Modi’in and Beit Shemesh With final voting results in from a number of polling areas, it reveals that Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid Party earned 27.02% of the vote in Modi’in, Likud 22.53%, Labor 15.45%, Bayit HaYehudi 12.11% and The Movement 6.74%. 78% of the city’s residents voted. In Beit Shemesh, Yahadut […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the tragic Petira of 15-year-old Sarah Kishik A”H, who was R”L struck by a vehicle on Tuesday afternoon. The tragic accident happened at the intersection of Avenue O and East 7th Street, around 3:00PM. Flatbush Hatzolah was dispatched to the scene, and transported her to Maimonides Hospital, where she unfortunately was Niftar a short while later. She […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu phoned chareidi party leaders to inform them he wishes to meet with them in the coming days as he enters coalition talks. He spoke with Eli
In his victory address from Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu explained he hopes to form a broad based coalition government that will be based on five major components; (1)
With 90% of the votes in, it appears the exit polls were quite accurate, but there are nonetheless a number of changes. For one thing, Kadima crosses the minimum threshold
The following information is provided by the Central Election Committee website released at 03:27 with 3,191,104 votes counted, of which 33,269 were disqualified. 1. Likud/Beitenu: 737,464 votes (23.35%) 2. Yesh Atid: 449,808 votes (14.24%) 3. Labor: 367.009 (11.62%) 4. Shas: 277,807 (8.80%) 5. Bayit HaYehudi: 267,610 (8.47%) 6. Yahadut Hatorah: 172,491 (5.46%) 7. The Movement: 160,327 (5.08%) 8. Meretz: 146,270 (4.63%) 9. United Democratic […]
Speaking one month ago in an interview with Israel Radio’s Reshet Bet, R’ Amnon Yitzchok stated that his Koach L’Hashpiah Party will earn “double digits” in the next Knesset. He also requested that people do the following, which we did as per his public request: “Write it down – remember, we will sit together on election […]
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, signaled on Tuesday that despite earlier indications to the contrary, he may allow a vote on a possible ban on assault weapons.
A federal judge on Tuesday lifted her order that the New York Police Department stop conducting some “stop and frisk” searches of people outside of privately owned residential buildings in
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