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Washington – Trump Meets Senator Ernst Amid Vice Presidential Speculation

Washington – Trump Meets Senator Ernst Amid Vice Presidential Speculation

  Washington – Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump met with U.S. Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa on Monday, feeding speculation she could be on… Read More ›

New York, NY – Authorities: Tests Conducted On Explosive That Hurt Man In Central Park

New York, NY – Authorities: Tests Conducted On Explosive That Hurt Man In Central Park

  New York, NY – Investigators are conducting a forensic examination to identify the explosive compound that blew up in Central Park, seriously injuring the… Read More ›

To repair a broken world: The words of Elie Wiesel

To repair a broken world: The words of Elie Wiesel

The prolific author, scholar and humanitarian, who has died at 87, leaves a legacy of memory   As a witness to the horrors of the Holocaust,… Read More ›

Obama: Elie Wiesel was ‘the conscience of the world’

Obama: Elie Wiesel was ‘the conscience of the world’

US president eulogizes deceased Holocaust survivor and activist, whose life, he says, was an example to humanity to ‘never be bystanders to injustice or indifferent… Read More ›

Elie Wiesel gave the Holocaust a face and the world a conscience

Elie Wiesel gave the Holocaust a face and the world a conscience

Perhaps more than any other figure, the late scholar and activist came to embody the legacy of the Shoah and the community of survivors  … Read More ›

Reporting for reserve duty—in their second trimester

Reporting for reserve duty—in their second trimester

Two six-month-pregnant reservists spoke with Ynet from their army base during their reserve service; while many look for excuses to get out of reserves, ‘I’m… Read More ›

New bill to strengthen Security Cabinet at expense of PM

New bill to strengthen Security Cabinet at expense of PM

Yesh Atid has proposed a new bill that depends on Bayit Yehudi to put it on the agenda; the proposed law would, inter alia, require… Read More ›

Haredi parties threaten PM to cancel Western-Wall agreement

Haredi parties threaten PM to cancel Western-Wall agreement

The heads of Shas and United Torah Judaism met on Wednesday with Netanyahu to insist that he back down from the agreement to create a… Read More ›

Erdogan blasts 2010 Gaza flotilla organizers for undermining deal with Israel

Erdogan blasts 2010 Gaza flotilla organizers for undermining deal with Israel

The IHH denounced the agreement for the restoration of diplomatic ties between Ankara and Jerusalem as amounting to the acceptance of Israel’s blockade of the… Read More ›

Jerusalemites remain unmoved by diplomatic reconciliation with Turkey

Jerusalemites remain unmoved by diplomatic reconciliation with Turkey

“It’s too dangerous there, and they don’t like us,” says one Israeli.   The restoration of diplomatic ties with Turkey held little sway over a cross-section… Read More ›

Two Israelis wounded in attack after terrorist infiltrates Kiryat Arba

Two Israelis wounded in attack after terrorist infiltrates Kiryat Arba

Security forces shoot, kill attacker at scene of West Bank attack; teen girl in critical condition.   Two Israeli civilian were wounded after a terrorist… Read More ›

Euro 2016: Last-gasp Ricardo Quaresma goal sinks Croatia

Euro 2016: Last-gasp Ricardo Quaresma goal sinks Croatia

  Portugal conjured up a last-gasp extra time winner through Ricardo Quaresma to break Croatian hearts Saturday and secure a quarterfinal place at Euro 2016.… Read More ›

Bodies identified as 2 missing family members in Florida, officials say

Bodies identified as 2 missing family members in Florida, officials say

Two bodies recovered in the search for a missing Florida family have been identified and rescue crews have ended search operations, Coast Guard Capt. Gregory… Read More ›

Brexit: An often rocky marriage ends in sudden divorce

Brexit: An often rocky marriage ends in sudden divorce

London – As marriages go, 43 years is not bad. But ever since Britain and Europe tied the knot in 1973, the relationship has been… Read More ›

Iceland: Island’s saga just got ‘crazy’ with England up next

Iceland: Island’s saga just got ‘crazy’ with England up next

Written off by Cristiano Ronaldo as having a “small mentality,” Iceland struck it big at Euro 2016 after beating Austria in dramatic finish to reach… Read More ›

Cristiano Ronaldo: Portugal star throws reporter’s microphone into lake

Cristiano Ronaldo: Portugal star throws reporter’s microphone into lake

  Without a win or a goal at Euro 2016, is Cristiano Ronaldo starting to crack under the pressure? The Portugal star was out for… Read More ›

Inside the Pennsylvania home where 12 girls were kept for years

Inside the Pennsylvania home where 12 girls were kept for years

Feasterville, Pennsylvania – Police knocked on the bright blue door of Lee Kaplan’s home in Feasterville, Pennsylvania. When the detective stepped inside, the children scattered.… Read More ›

Pro-settlement NGO urges Brexit over EU’s West Bank policies

Pro-settlement NGO urges Brexit over EU’s West Bank policies

Regavim’s parody video features Hamas operatives advising Britons who ‘hate Isra-Hell and the Jews’ to vote ‘stay’ An Israeli pro-settlement group is campaigning for Britain… Read More ›

British Jewry faces Brexit vote with fear and trepidation

British Jewry faces Brexit vote with fear and trepidation

For Jews there are three big questions regarding a continuing relationship with Europe: its attitudes to Israel, ritual slaughter and circumcision   LONDON — As… Read More ›

UK politicians make final appeals ahead of Brexit vote

UK politicians make final appeals ahead of Brexit vote

Two polls show the ‘Leave’ camp with the slimmest of leads, both within the margin of error   LONDON (AFP) — Prime Minister David Cameron… Read More ›