A geophysics team from the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa has identified a series of active gas springs on the Haifa Bay sea floor. “Geophysical information enables us to research beneath the sea floor and map out the entire system, from the gas sources to their penetration of […]
Laborers working on the border fence between southern Israel and Gaza were targeted by gunfire and mortar shells on Thursday, the IDF confirms. Soldiers returned fire and a shootout took place for a period of times. IDF officials also confirm that a mortar shell struck a tank, damaging it. B’chasdei Hashem there were no reports […]
Seven members of the secretive Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, have been punished for disclosing classified information, senior Navy officials
One of Bernard Madoff’s longest-serving employees pleaded guilty on Thursday to falsifying records, a conspiracy that a prosecutor said began in the 1970s at the start of the multibillion-dollar Ponzi
The state prosecutor has decided to move ahead with a planned appeal of the acquittal of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the Talansky cash envelopes and the Rishon Tours
A new road was ceremoniously dedicated this week by Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, who cut the ribbon on Road 3507. The roadway connects from the new entrance to Kiryat Arba to the Ma’aras HaMachpela as well as the IDF post near Givat Charsina. In actuality, the road is old but it was significantly widened, now […]
One of the hallmark traits of Israeli politicians is their inability to read the writing on the walls and to know when to get out, to step down with a modicum of dignity before being churned into the political system’s unforgiving elimination process. According to most political analysts, this is the case today with Kadima […]
A delegation of rabbonim and leaders of Agudas Yisrael in the United States met on Wednesday with the Vishnitzer Rebbe Shlita, who is being hosted in Boro Park. The rebbe inquired into the activities of Agudas Yisrael in America and praised the organization’s efforts in combating efforts to ban/limit bris milah. The rebbe reportedly spoke […]
Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced today he would empanel a special Rackets Grand Jury, to investigate claims that certain businesses used Hurricane Sandy as an opportunity
Three mortar shells fired from Syrian landed in Israel’s northern region on Thursday near noontime. One of the shells landed between homes in Kibbutz Elonei HaBashan. Some of the mortars did not detonate. There were no reports of injuries. Amir Duvdevani, a 30-year resident of the community who raises horses and has been the security […]
Twitter said that it mistakenly reset the passwords of “a large number” of its more than 140 million active users while conducting routine security screening to identify accounts that may
Israel has sent a team of rescuers and professionals to Accra, the capital of Ghana following the collapse of a multi-story shopping mall. According to reports from Ghana, at least
Baruch Hashem forecasters are calling for a sharp drop in temperatures from this week’s unseasonably warm and dry days beginning on Thursday night the eve of 24 Cheshvan 5773. Friday is expected to be blustery, accompanied by rainfall and sporadic thundershowers from the north to the northern Negev. Temperatures will plummet 10 degrees Celsius and […]
Councilman David G. Greenfield is thanking Mayor Michael Bloomberg for finally instituting a gas rationing plan to help alleviate the ongoing gas crisis, something he called for nearly a week
New York City and Long Island will begin rationing gas to relieve frustration and long lines at the pump as the region continues to recover from damage to fuel distribution
The Emergency Sandy Chesed Fund advisory committee, with the support of local Hatzalah groups, Shomrim, Misaskim, Chaveirim, Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, Yad Ephraim and neighborhood Jewish Community Councils, are
As New York continues to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, further complicated by a record-breaking November 7 snowstorm, a key concern for many locals as life begins to
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday the age of nuclear deterrence was long gone and any country still stockpiling nuclear weapons was “mentally retarded”. He again denied Iran was
On November 6th, Election Day in the USA, a delegation of 20 North American doctors came to Rambam Health Care Campus and pledged their readiness to be “drafted” to help
The man who pleaded guilty to a deadly Arizona shooting rampage that wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was sentenced to life in prison Thursday. U.S. District Judge Larry Burns
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