Foreign hackers broke into a water plant control system in Illinois last week and damaged a water pump in what appears to be the first reported case of a malicious

Telecommunications giant Sprint has announced the launch of its Wireless Emergency Alerts program that will deliver messages from the federal government directly to millions of Americans as part of a system set to become mandatory on all new cellphones. �Wireless Emergency Alerts allow the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to accept and deliver warning messages […]

City agencies have submitted budget-saving proposals to the mayor, and the list includes raising ambulance transport rates, eliminating the city’s popular free nicotine kit program and hiking commercial parking rates,

Muammar Qaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam has been captured in southern Libya, a source in Libya confirms to Fox News. Saif al-Islam was captured along with two of his aides who

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said ahead of a meeting Friday with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak that he would warn his Israeli counterpart about the global economic consequences of a

They didn’t occupy Wall Street for long, shut down the Brooklyn Bridge, or win many new fans. And by Thursday night, the thousands of protesters flooding lower Manhattan seemed to

Religious and community organizations rallied and held prayers Downtown Friday to protest what they say is the undercover profiling of Muslims by the New York City Police Department. Muslims from

Arab workers have resumed work on an illegal expansion of a Mosque on Har Hazeitim, according to new evidence obtained by the International Committee for the Preservation of Har Hazeitim. The Jerusalem Municipality, headed Mayor Nir Barkat, had issued a �Stop Order� on construction of a mosque a mere ten feet from the gravesite of […]

YWN-ISRAEL reported last week that it appears the last phone call made by the late Mir rosh yeshiva, HaGaon HaRav Nosson Tzvi Finkel zt�l was to Minister of the Interior Eli Yishai. The rosh yeshiva wished to personally thank him for lifting such a heavy burden from the shoulders of roshei yeshiva, referring to the […]

Forty Republicans sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday pushing him to ask for Attorney General Eric Holder�s resignation. The letter, spearheaded by Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), highlights Holder�s role in the botched gun-tracking operation known as Fast and Furious, which was run under the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Republicans […]

The IDF Rabbinate is working to improving the standard of kashrus in the military, planning to bring most military kitchen�s to a �mehadrin� standard in the coming years. Today, the majority of products used have a mehadrin hechsher. According to a report in the IDF�s weekly BaMachane, mashgichim in the IDF will enter a course, […]

Con Edison wants a judge to give it the green light to evict the would-be developer of a controversial community center and mosque near Ground Zero, arguing he doesn’t have

Earlier in the week, YWN-ISRAEL reported that an 18-year-old male was killed, the result of an accident. A roof of a balcony in Eilat�s Meridian Hotel collapsed, striking the young man. The victim, Matan Ben-Simon z�l was killed in the fatal event on Tuesday, only days prior to his enlistment into the IDF. He was […]

Baruch Hashem after weeks of being in a weakened state, Maran HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita visited the Kosel on Thursday, 20 Cheshvan. In the old days, before the liberation of the Kosel in 1967, Maran Rav Elyashiv would go to HaNevi�im Street to catch a glimpse at the site of the Har HaBayis […]

IDF Personnel Branch officials are pleased over the record number of Orthodox females entering military service, reporting 1,500 this year, which represents a 25% increase from last year. The figure

More and more employers are demanding that workers who smoke, are overweight or have high cholesterol shoulder a greater share of their health care costs, a shift toward penalizing employees

Channel 2 News correspondent Chaim Rivlin reported an �unbelievable story� of two children that have been cut off from society for their entire lives, now both adults. The report states �this takes place under the radar of everyone, school officials, social workers, friends and neighbors alike�. According to professionals, this is not a one-of-a-kind story, […]

HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Zalman Ulman, a dayan and mo�etz (Moreh Tzedek) on the beis din of the Shevet Halevy Shlita, as well as av beis din in Kiryat Sefer explains that one should give tzedaka to those in need in one�s own community before looking elsewhere. The rav explained that it has already been discussed […]