The Israeli Cabinet approved the normalization deal with the Arab Gulf state of Bahrain on Sunday, a week after the two countries agreed to establish formal diplomatic ties. The deal next requires ratification by the Knesset, Israel’s 120-seat parliament. A date for that vote has not yet been set. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said […]
Qatar and Saudi Arabia could eventually obtain F-35 stealth fighter jets if they want them, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) told Ynet on Sunday. Steinitz, who is a member of
Speaker Nancy Pelosi once predicted she’d have the 2020 House Democratic majority secured by November — of 2019. Now, days before the Nov. 3 election, she seems to have done it, and she’s expanding her reach. With control of the House hardly contested, Pelosi is working to fortify Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and win […]
The Mossad obtained several vials of the Chinese coronavirus vaccine and brought them to Israel to evaluate its components, Channel 12 News reported on Monday. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese
The Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) will begin clinical trials next Sunday on a potential coronavirus vaccine after receiving the necessary approvals from the Health Ministry and Helsinki Committee.
Overpowering Democratic opposition, Senate Republicans voted on Monday night to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in a move that will make the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
With eight days before Election Day, more people already have cast ballots in this year’s presidential election than voted early or absentee in the 2016 race as the start of in-person early voting in big states led to a surge in turnout in recent days. The opening of early voting locations in Florida, Texas and […]
Sudanese and Israeli officials will meet in the coming weeks to discuss a package of cooperation deals to “achieve the mutual interests of the two peoples,” Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday. The ministry statement came three days after President Donald Trump announced that Sudan would start normalizing ties with Israel. The statement said the deals […]
On Sunday morning, the Litvish Cheder in the city of Ma’alot in the Galilee burned down. Miraculously, there were no children present in the building at the time of the
A week before U.S. elections, expectations and attention are unusually low in a foreign country that may have more at stake than any other. Many Mexicans would be glad to see a more neighborly president who hasn’t called Mexicans rapists or threatened to build a wall against them, but the relationship has survived a Donald […]
In the second time in two days, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed French President Emmanuel Macron for his condemnation of Islam and radical Muslims following the beheading of a teacher in France who showed Mohammed caricatures to his class. “The person in charge of France has lost his way,” Erdogan said on Monday, following up […]
A French doctor warned Monday that his country has “lost control of the epidemic,” a day after health authorities reported more than 52,000 new coronavirus cases as nations across Europe enact more sweeping restrictions to try to slow surging infection rates. Spain — the first European country to surpass 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases — […]
The New York Police Department said Sunday it has suspended an officer without pay a day after he was seen on video saying “Trump 2020” over a patrol vehicle’s loudspeaker, a violation of department rules. The suspension is effective immediately and the incident remains under investigation, the police department said. Commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted that […]
As coronavirus infections reached new heights in Iran this month, overwhelming its hospitals and driving up its death toll, the government finally imposed strict health regulations across the country on
In 1969, after completing his life’s work — establishing the yeshivah system on American shores by founding Mesivta Torah VoDaas, Rav Binyomin Wilhelm made Aliyah to Eretz Yisroel. Most people would have assumed that he had done more than his share for the Klal, and that he would now take a well-deserved retirement. Rav Binyomin, however, was heartbroken at the sight of […]
Minnesota Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis was rushed into emergency surgery Monday for a severe internal hernia, just eight days before the election, his campaign announced. The condition is life-threatening if not treated quickly, the campaign said in a statement. An internal hernia is a bulge or protrusion of an organ — often the […]
It’s neck-and-neck, with President Trump just barely ahead in Rasmussen Reports’ first daily White House Watch survey. The latest national telephone and online survey finds Trump edging Democrat Joe Biden 48% to 47% among Likely U.S. Voters. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, while two percent (2%) remain undecided. (To see survey question wording, […]
This should come as no surprise to many, but Kever Rachel is closed to outside visitors this year. Yad L’Achim messengers have received special permission to visit Kever Rachel and
Scientists removed 98 so-called murder hornets from a nest discovered near the Canadian border in Washington state over the weekend, including 13 that were captured live in a net, the
Following 24 hours with no coronavirus data update, apparently because of a technical malfunction due to the change of clocks overnight Motzei Shabbos, Israel’s Health Ministry confirmed less than 1,000
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