Israel’s coronavirus cabinet on Sunday night approved a travel outline to Uman for Rosh Hashanah this year. The plan is essentially comprised of the same regulations that apply to all
The guard in a control room at Iran’s notorious Evin prison springs to attention as one by one, monitors in front of him suddenly blink off and display something very different from the surveillance footage he had been watching. “Cyberattack,” the monitors flash. Other guards gather around, holding up their mobile phones and filming, or […]
Egypt closed its main border crossing point with the Gaza Strip on Monday amid tensions with the territory’s Hamas terror group rulers, officials said. It was the first time the Rafah crossing was shuttered during a workday since early this year. Egyptian authorities had kept it open during the 11-day war between Israel and Hamas […]
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Israel on Thursday announced it reached an agreement with Qatar for the Gulf Arab country to resume aid payments to thousands of families in the Gaza Strip, a step aimed
A firefight at one of the gates of Kabul’s international airport killed at least one Afghan soldier early Monday, German officials said, the latest chaos to engulf Western efforts to evacuate those fleeing the Taliban takeover of the country. The shooting at the airport came as the Taliban sent fighters north of the capital to […]
Lakewood Mashgiach HaGaon HaRav Matisyahu Solomon was hospitalized on Sunday evening after feeling ill. Those close to the Mashgiach reported that since being admitted to Jersey Shore University Medical Center, his condition has stabilized. The Mashgiach’s name for tefillah is HaRav Matisyahu Chaim ben Ettel l’refuah sheleimah b’toch sha’ar cholei Yisrael. (YWN Israel Desk – […]
Israel’s government approved Sunday the appointment of a former diplomat and settler leader as the new director of Yad Vashem, the country’s official Holocaust remembrance organization. Yad Vashem announced that Dani Dayan, 65, was tapped as chairman of the organization’s directorate. Until recently, Dayan served as Israel’s consul general in New York. Before that, he […]
The state commission of inquiry into the Meron disaster held its first day of hearings on Sunday, almost four months after the disaster. Northern District Police Commander Shimon Lavie was
Israel’s government on Sunday approved a NIS 12.5 million budget for local authorities to purchase the necessary equipment to prepare outdoor minyanim for the Yamim Tovim. There have also been
A conservative talk radio host from Tennessee who had been a vaccine skeptic until he was hospitalized from COVID-19 has died. He was 61. Nashville radio station SuperTalk 99.7 WTN confirmed Phil Valentine’s death in a tweet Saturday. Valentine had been a skeptic of coronavirus vaccines. But after he tested positive for COVID-19, and prior […]
Cheryl Simpson was supposed to be celebrating her 60th birthday over lunch with friends but instead found herself confined to her Auckland home. The discovery of a single local COVID-19
A Montana school district is dangling $4,000 bonuses and inviting people to test drive big yellow school buses in hopes of enticing them to take a job that schools are
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The Israeli government on Sunday approved an enlistment law that includes lowering the age of exemption for Chareidim from IDF service to age 21 for two years. Lowering the age
Helaina Alati was browsing the spice aisle of an Australian supermarket when she came face-to-face with a huge snake. The head of the 3-meter-long (10-foot-long) non-venomous diamond python emerged through a space in a shelf above the spice jars in the Sydney store. “I was in the spice aisle just looking for something to put […]
Rabbis Sariel Rosenberg & Rosh Beis Din Rav Shmuel Gross are rallying behind a young man who is fighting for his life. The man in question is father of two
The family members of Dovi Steinmetz, z’l, a 21-year-old Mir yeshivah bochur who lost his life in the Meron disaster, arrived in Israel on Wednesday from Montreal for the Hakamas
Crews were digging in and burning out fire lines amid another round of high winds that contributed to the fury to a Northern California wildfire. “We have a firefight ahead of us and the wind today is going to make it very challenging,” said Keith Wade, a spokesman with the California Department of Forestry and […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he has tested negative for COVID-19, just four days after testing positive. “I’m told that my infection was brief and mild because of the vaccination that I received,” Abbott said in a video clip posted on his Twitter account on Saturday. “So I encourage others who have not yet received […]
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