It could be a parent’s nightmare. You send your 4-year-old off happily to school in the morning. Mid-day, you get the call, “School is closed until further notice because of a broken window.” Mild annoyance and surprise turn into dismay as it takes days or weeks for school to reopen. Because of one broken window. […]
Democrats spent more time making the case for their ability to beat President Donald Trump than trying to defeat each other in their fifth debate. Civil in tone, mostly cautious
The Yesh Atid party, headed by MK Yair Lapid, was set to hold party primary elections for a first time before the 23rd Knesset. Israel News12 political correspondent Amit Segal
Israel’s attorney general on Thursday formally charged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a series of corruption cases, throwing the country’s paralyzed political system into further disarray and threatening the long-time leader’s grip on power. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit charged Netanyahu with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three different scandals. It is the […]
Navy officials on Wednesday notified a SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State militant and three of his superior officers during a 2017 deployment to Iraq that all
Millions of shekels have been defrauded from innocent Israelis by a resident of the PA (Palestinian Authority) who had a forged Israeli identity card. Police began an investigation after receiving
British Airways says flights are being disrupted by a “technical issue.” Information from Heathrow, Britain’s busiest airport, shows some trans-Atlantic flights delayed Thursday by several hours. The airline said in a statement that “our teams are working hard to resolve a technical issue which is affecting some of our flights.” It didn’t disclose the nature […]
Post-Holiday, Pre-Occupancy Jerusalem Estates is wrapping up another successful holiday season as we embark on the final stages of the project. We had guests, both local and from abroad, taking
The Jerusalem Fire Department on Thursday afternoon provided an update on the forest fire that was burning out of control on Wednesday, dangerously near Mevasseret Tzion, a local municipality in
House impeachment investigators will hear on Thursday from two key witnesses who grew alarmed by how President Donald Trump and others in his orbit were conducting foreign policy in Ukraine,
President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday, November 21, 2019, officially notified Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein that the presidential mandate has been returned and the 21-day period during which any MK has the right to form a coalition begins. The current situation marks the first time in Israel’s history that no candidate was able to form a […]
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration sidestepped questions Wednesday on the future of a 2-month-old proposal to ban most flavored electronic cigarettes. Dr. Stephen Hahn told Senate lawmakers that a recent wave of underage vaping is an “urgent, important crisis” and demands “aggressive action.” But he said he is not […]
Back in May, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, mentioned a connection between a Ukrainian gas company and Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, to The New York Times. Giuliani hammered his point relentlessly on cable news and he discussed Biden at a private breakfast with associates and a diplomat. […]
As he moves toward a presidential announcement, New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg is rolling out plans to spend an estimated $15 million to $20 million on a voter registration drive designed to weaken President Donald Trump’s reelection chances in five battleground states. News of the large investment, confirmed by Bloomberg’s team on Wednesday, comes less […]
A persistent buzz about Mike Pompeo stepping down as the top U.S. diplomat to run for an open Senate seat in Kansas has built to a roar as impeachment hearings
The deception was easy to pull off and came with barely any consequences. Britain’s Conservative Party changed the name of its press office’s Twitter account to “factcheckUK” during a televised election debate between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn this week. The renaming made the account look like a neutral […]
Israel’s Consumer Protection Council explains that despite the fact the Ministry of Communications has informed cellular telephone companies that they are acting contrary to the law by not verifying a
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. turned off electricity Wednesday for about 120,000 people in Northern California to prevent power lines from sparking wildfires as the region faced a new bout
Some 30 heads of state from around the world, invited by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, will attend the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, taking place on January 23, 2020, at Yad
Most Federal Reserve officials believed last month that the three rate cuts they have made this year would be enough unless the economy weakened significantly. The minutes of the October Fed meeting, released Wednesday, reveal that “most participants” thought that this year’s rate cuts would be sufficient to support moderate growth, a continued strong job […]
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