Hamas’ leader in Gaza left for talks with Egyptian officials Thursday after a new outbreak of violence, as the terror group accused Israel of slowing down the implementation of Egyptian-mediated understandings aimed at easing the situation in the Palestinian enclave. The visit by Yehiyeh Sinwar to Cairo came hours after the Israeli military struck several […]
Following the YWN report of the arrest of chareidi girls upon their arrival in Manchester for smuggling in Khat (a drug), it has been learned the matter is gaining notoriety throughout areas of Europe, and there are two girls currently under arrest in Oslo. As YWN-Israel reported, over the past few months, dozens of young charedi […]
Attorney General William Barr skipped a House hearing Thursday on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report, escalating an already acrimonious battle between Democrats and President Donald Trump’s Justice Department. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Barr had already lied to Congress in other testimony and called that a “crime.” Barr’s decision to avoid the hearing , made after […]
Yahadut Hatorah is demanding from the Likud a deputy minister in the Ministry of Labor & Welfare in the next government in order to prevent the Chilul Shabbos, News12 reported
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a London court on Thursday that he wouldn’t agree to be extradited to the United States, where he is accused of conspiring to hack into a Pentagon computer. Assange, appearing by video link from a London prison, said he wouldn’t “surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won […]
There is a sizable effort underway to boycott James Richardson in Ben-Gurion International Airport, explaining the stores have not sold their chametz on Pesach and therefore, it is prohibited from
Israel came to a standstill on Thursday morning with a two-minute siren wailing across the country in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Pedestrians stood in place, buses stopped on busy streets and cars pulled over on major highways — their drivers standing on the roads with their heads bowed. In […]
No longer burdened by territory and administration, Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi outlined the new path forward for his group: Widen your reach, connect with far-flung militant groups and exhaust your enemies with a “war of attrition.” The deadly Easter attacks in Sri Lanka a week before his video appearance underscored this message […]
Police on Wednesday night were summoned to the tziyun of the Rashbi in Meron after a brawl erupted between persons at that location. A large force of police was required to restore order. The cause of the brawl is not reported. There are no reports of arrests. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem/Photo Credit: Media Resource […]
Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand has announced a plan to give every voter up to $600 in vouchers to donate to a spate of federal candidates. But those candidates accepting such contributions would have to forgo contributions larger than $200 per donor. The New York senator’s “Democracy dollars” would provide every eligible voter $100 to […]
President Donald Trump’s frequent criticism of the media and of judges who rule against his policies undermines the public’s confidence, New York state’s top legal officer said Wednesday amid several state investigations of him or entities linked to him. Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, didn’t mention the Republican president’s name during a speech she […]
A college degree has long been a ticket to the U.S. middle class. It typically confers higher pay, stronger job security, greater home ownership and comparatively stable households. Those benefits have long been seen as worth the sacrifices often required, from deferred income to student debt. Yet college graduates aren’t as likely as they once […]
YWN-Israel regrets to inform you of the petira of HaGaon HaRav Yeshayahu Kravitz ZT”L of the Ezras Torah neighborhood of Jerusalem, a known talmid chacham, who was niftar on Thursday
R’ Dov Feivish Z”L, 92, a survivor, was niftar on Thursday morning, on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Rav Dov was born in Romania, and was 16 during the Holocaust, seeing the
Our Child is an Addict – A Parent’s Story, Recovery at the Crossroads “So which seminaries did your girl apply to?” “They are telling us that the answers should be
Recently reports in the Israeli media state that members of the Likud party are trying to woo new MKs from the Blue and White Party to jump ship and join
The situation that is a parent’s worst nightmare and has claimed the lives of dozens of children in the past occurred again today in a Rishon LeZion parking lot on Moshe Dayan Street. A 4-year-old girl was discovered locked in a car parked in the lot near Home Center. Volunteers from United Hatzalah and an ambulance […]
If anyone thought that the fact that there is no coalition yet will slow the 21st Knesset down from getting to work early, they were wrong. A total of some
The fear was persistent. As the Russia investigation heated up and threatened to shadow Donald Trump’s presidency, he became increasingly concerned. But the portrait painted by special counsel Robert Mueller is not of a president who believed he or anyone on his campaign colluded with Russians to interfere in the 2016 election. Instead, the Trump […]
A man was arrested in Washington on Wednesday after reportedly making death threats against conservative talk show host Ben Shapiro. Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew, told Fox News he couldn’t comment
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