Israel’s leader says the American decision to withdraw its forces from Syria will not affect Israeli policy. Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will “continue to act against Iran’s attempts to entrench itself militarily in Syria, and to the extent necessary, we will even expand our actions there.” Israel, like others, was caught off-guard by President Donald […]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged on Saturday to implement a court ruling and dissolve the parliament controlled by his rival Hamas movement, triggering warnings of chaos from the Islamic militant group. Abbas’ announcement is the latest in a series of bitter splits and rivalries between his Fatah party and Hamas, which began in 2007 when […]
(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Members and supporters of Peleg Yerushalmi on Motzei Shabbos held protests at a number of venues, including at Shmuel HaNavi/Bar Ilan Street in Yerushalayim, causing a
After almost 10 years, Wall Street’s rally looks like it’s ending. Another day of big losses Friday left the U.S. market with its worst week in more than seven years. All of the major indexes have lost 16 to 26 percent from their highs this summer and fall. Barring huge gains during the upcoming holiday […]
(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Jerusalem Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi HaRav Aryeh Stern visited Machane Yehuda in Yerushalayim close on Friday, close to the start of Shabbos. The rav decided to visit
SpaceX has launched the U.S. Air Force’s most powerful GPS satellite ever built. A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday, hoisting the satellite into orbit. The satellite was supposed to soar Tuesday but rocket concerns and then weather delayed the flight. Heather Wilson, secretary of the Air Force, says this […]
London’s Gatwick Airport operated without problems Sunday, but the fugitive drone operators who brought incoming and outgoing flights to a standstill over multiple days remained at large — and a potential threat — after police cleared two local residents who were arrested as suspects. Sussex Police were hopeful they had halted the disruptive and costly […]
A White House official says tension between a president and the interest-rate setting Federal Reserve is “traditional as part of our system.” Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says it
The extraordinary resignation letter that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis handed to a surprised President Donald Trump was not just a product of two years of accumulating frustration with an impulsive
Coalition chairman MK (Likud) David Amsellem is working hard to advance a new draft bill, and to have it passed into law by the Knesset before the High Court of
Officials in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital on Sunday morning provided an update on the condition of Nachal Chareidi soldier Netanel Felber, who was critically wounded in the Givat Assaf shooting
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will now leave his post on Jan. 1, tweeting that deputy Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan will take over as
President Donald Trump’s relationship with the Republican Party, always a marriage of convenience, is showing signs of serious strain. The president threatened his bond with virtually every GOP constituency this past week. His move to withdraw troops from Syria led to the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and left Washington’s Republican foreign policy establishment […]
Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the global coalition fighting the Islamic State group, has resigned in protest over President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, joining Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in an administration exodus of experienced national security figures. McGurk described Trump’s decision as a “shock.” Only 11 days ago, […]
The deadly tsunami struck in the dark, without warning. At least 222 people were killed as waves smashed into houses, hotels and other beachside buildings Saturday night along Indonesia’s Sunda
Simcha Rotem, an Israeli Holocaust survivor who was among the last known Jewish fighters from the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis Y”MS, has died. He was 94. Rotem, who went by the underground nickname “Kazik,” took part in perhaps the single greatest act of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Though guaranteed to fail, […]
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The Trump administration has formally scrapped an Obama-era policy that was meant to curb racial discrimination in schools but that became tangled in a national debate over school safety. Officials
(VIDEO AND PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Hikers on motzei Shabbos were rescued from a shaft in the Atarot area, not far from the Atarot Industrial Area, as members of the
A majority of Americans say they believe President Donald Trump has tried to obstruct the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia, though the public is divided on whether he should be removed from office if he’s found to have stymied the probe, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public […]
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