Palestinian refugees should capitalise on the wave of popular revolts in the Middle East by massing peacefully on the borders of Israel until it gives in to their demands, Libyan
Rich Bradley missed the call for his liver transplant because he didn’t have cell-phone service. The Bradleys’ land line in the northern Sullivan County hamlet of Willowemoc was out on
The following article about the Kiryas Joel School District was written by Matt Schaertl, and appears in the Webster Post. Canandaigua, NY – There is a need for serious review of school funding, but if you think there is waste in the Finger Lakes, take a look downstate. In Assemblywoman Annie Rabbitt’s district, just northwest of […]
If you lost your luggage on a flight in the past 40 years it likely ended up in Scottsboro, Alabama. The small town in the northern part of the state is home to Unclaimed Baggage – a 40,000 square foot store that can only be described as a bargain hunter’s paradise. “The airlines, by law […]
Brooklyn’s embattled Long Island College Hospital was again saved from threatened closure after Gov. Cuomo said the state would come through with $62 million in promised grants. The owners of
The Stuxnet software worm repeatedly sought to infect five industrial facilities in Iran over a 10-month period, a new report says, in what could be a clue into how it
9:55AM EST: The Capital One Bank on 13th Avenue has just been held up at gunpoint, YWN has learned. The man reportedly walked into the bank located at 4612 13th
Egypt’s military dissolved parliament and will run the country for six months or until elections are held, it said in a statement Sunday, two days after President Hosni Mubarak resigned.
When Google, the world’s largest search engine, joined forces with Yad Vashem, keeper of the world’s largest Holocaust archive, the first thing one Google employee here did was search for his grandfather’s name. A link took the employee, Doron Avni, to a Google-operated page on the Yad Vashem Web site showing a photograph of his […]
The following is a Ynet report: In response to concerned traveler who feels he can’t concentrate on prayers at airport, Rabbi Efrati says ‘best option’ is to go to Muslim
Israel and Egypt’s new military rulers have made initial contact and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday welcomed their pledge to stand by Cairo’s peace treaty with the Jewish state. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt’s Higher Military Council, spoke by telephone on Saturday, a ministry spokeswoman said, declining […]
Hundreds of anti-government protesters marched toward a presidential palace in Yemen on Sunday, calling for regime change in the Middle Eastern country. Some of them chanted, “First Mubarak, now Ali,”
Mayor Bloomberg’s icy relations with the teachers union just hit sub-zero. The union announced plans to spend more than $1 million to air a new commercial – called “Blizzard” – that blasts the mayor for cutting teachers instead of supporting the millionaire’s tax. “Mayor Bloomberg sees things differently than the rest of us,” a gravelly […]
Just before Shabbos started, YWN had posted a breaking incident regarding a double stabbing, a pedestrian struck, and a carjacking. The incident left 4 people dead, and a manhunt which left most of Flatbush wondering what was the cause of police cars driving down every street looking for a suspect, and an NYPD Chopper hovering overhead […]
4:40PM EST: There is heavy police activity in Flatbush on Friday afternoon, after a vehicle was carjacked, two people stabbed – 1 fatally, and a pedestrian struck by the vehicle.
Israel’s former ambassador to Egypt was particularly pessimistic Friday after hearing of President Hosni Mubarak’s dramatic resignation. “It’s over, Egypt is no longer a superpower,” former Israeli Ambassador to Cairo
The Israeli government has so far remained mum on Mubarak’s resignation, but former Israeli officials are expressing consternation about what the longtime ruler’s departure might portend. Their biggest concern is whether the regime change in Egypt could impact its peace agreement with Cairo. And more broadly, they wonder whether, as part of a wider transformation […]
Switzerland has frozen assets possibly belonging to Hosni Mubarak, who stepped down as president of Egypt Friday after 30 years of rule, a spokesman for the foreign ministry said. “I
Smokers don’t need to worry about the city’s new law banning smoking at beaches and parks – because Mayor Bloomberg said Friday the NYPD won’t police it. “The police will not be enforcing this. That’s not going to be their job,” Bloomberg told a caller to his WOR-AM radio show. “This is going to be […]
The following is from the Huffington Post: This story has been updated to reflect breaking news A tourist in Cairo spots three photographs on the wall of a restaurant: one
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