A crane owner was cleared by a Manhattan judge this morning on all charges in connection with the 2008 collapse on the Upper East Side that killed two workers. James

Sixty-four years ago, the United States became the first country in the world to recognize the State of Israel–the realization of a modern day state in the historic homeland of

The Israeli flag flown at the Ponavez Yeshiva in Bnei Brak�every year on Yom Ha�atzmut. (Reposted from YWN archives 2011,�2010,�2009, 2008, 2007, & 2006) (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

One Yerushalayim talmid torah found a most unique way to circumvent the annual dispute surrounding Independence Day by giving out its own version of the national flag. The move seems

In the midst of the Independence Day celebrations on Wednesday night, eve of 4 Iyar 5772, residents of several communities in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council were compelled to abandon

The problem of birds living near some of the nation’s busiest airports is coming under renewed scrutiny after two emergency landings in a week and more than three years after

Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita announced after shachris today, Independence Day, that if one wishes to honor the day one should immerse oneself in Torah study �for Torah protects us from those wishing to harm us�. The rav added that Baruch Hashem today, the center of Torah study is in Eretz Yisrael, where there […]

About 2,000 people participated in a special Independence Day maariv at the Kosel on Wednesday night, the eve of 4 Iyar 5772. Among the mispallalim was Rishon L�Tzion HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Moshe Amar Shlita. After the tzibur completed Shmona Esrei, as the chazzan was about to recite the bracha on Hallel, the chief rabbi told […]

Just days before the one-year anniversary of Usama bin Laden’s death, federal authorities are telling partners around the country there is no specific, credible threat to the U.S. homeland but

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a week after being named among Time’s 100 most influential people, says he won’t fuel speculation that he might run for president in 2016. The comment came

Members of Netzach Yehuda, the IDF Nachal Chareidi Brigade as it is more commonly known learned Torah on Memorial Day in memory of the fallen, including the single Nachal Chareidi soldier that fell in the line of duty, Sergeant Ro�i Farjon HY�D. He was killed on 25 Av 5766 in an encounter with terrorists, becoming […]

10-month-old Techiya Shalhevet Pas HY�D was murdered while being held in her mother�s arms outside their Hebron home in 2001, another victim of the Oslo War. Her parents would have marked her bas mitzvah on Yom Yerushalayim this year, but instead, she was counted Wednesday, Memorial Day among the kedoshim in Eretz Yisrael. Following is […]

The Cabinet on Sunday, 30 Nissan 5772 unanimously approved the establishment of a ‘Hall of Names’ for the fallen of Israel’s wars, in the military cemetery on Mt. Herzl in

Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday morning, 3 Iyar 5772 placed a closure that restricts residents of PA (Palestinian Authority) autonomous areas from crossing the so-called Green Line into �Israel proper�. The move coincides with the observance today of Memorial Day and Independence Day on Thursday. The closure will be lifted on Friday. They are […]

Independence Day begins on Wednesday night, the eve of 4 Iyar 5772 at 20:00. At that time the single national holiday that is observed that is not a yomtov or

German police raided over 20 homes and offices of suspected neo-Nazis and made three arrests Wednesday in the government’s crackdown on ultra-right-wing racist groups, Deutsche Welle reported. According to a

Every year between Holocaust Remembrance Day and Memorial Day, 84-year-old Yosef Ben-Yitzchak finds himself hospitalized. He needs the assistance to get through the difficult days, never recovering from the traumas