Articles by: JewishNews-David

Washington – Transportation Watchdog: Government Not Ensuring Pilot Skills Are Sharp

Washington – Transportation Watchdog: Government Not Ensuring Pilot Skills Are Sharp

Washington – The government is falling short in ensuring airline pilots keep up their flying skills and get full training on how to monitor sophisticated… Read More ›

San Diego, CA – Florida Man Charged With Stealing $3.2 Million From Armored Car Company

San Diego, CA – Florida Man Charged With Stealing $3.2 Million From Armored Car Company

San Diego, CA – A Florida manager for armored car company Brinks was arrested in California on charges he stole $3.2 million in cash on… Read More ›

Hamas set on carrying out attacks from West Bank

Hamas set on carrying out attacks from West Bank

Analysis: The discovery of two major Hamas terror cells in the West Bank over the past month shows the terror organization’s determination in the face… Read More ›

Gov’t promoting legislation benefitting ultra-Orthodox

Gov’t promoting legislation benefitting ultra-Orthodox

United Torah Judaism demands state to fund life insurance to yeshiva students, set to cost NIS 36 million, while Bayit Yehudi MK stonewalling reform in… Read More ›

NIS 300 million worth of medications added to health basket

NIS 300 million worth of medications added to health basket

Third of budget for medical services and drugs paid for by the state allocated to cancer treatments; other additions include emergency contraceptive for victims of… Read More ›

Israel’s expansion of Gush Etzion settlement bloc harmful to peace, US says

Israel’s expansion of Gush Etzion settlement bloc harmful to peace, US says

US State Department spokesman John Kirby warned such actions undermine the possibility of a two-state solution.   The expansion of the territorial boundaries of the… Read More ›

France pays tribute to victims of Hyper Cacher attack on one-year anniversary

France pays tribute to victims of Hyper Cacher attack on one-year anniversary

On January 9, 2015 a French Islamic gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, took several people hostage in the grocery store after shooting a police officer in the… Read More ›

Taking the matrimonial bull by the horns for Jewish divorcees

Taking the matrimonial bull by the horns for Jewish divorcees

Laws that already exist can also be utilized to prevent agunot, women chained to their marraiges.   It seems that most of what we hear… Read More ›

New Druze town approved

New Druze town approved

Israel’s National Council for Building and Planning approves the establishment of a new Druze town that will initially comprise 400 apartments in the Naftaly Estate… Read More ›

IDF officer killed in training accident at Tze’elim base

IDF officer killed in training accident at Tze’elim base

Mortar shell falls in open area near another training drill that was in process, killing 1st.-Lt. Yishai Rosales and lightly injuring another soldier. An IDF… Read More ›

IDF officer to Saudi paper: Israel has ‘common language’ with moderate Arab states

IDF officer to Saudi paper: Israel has ‘common language’ with moderate Arab states

Second time an Israeli official gives interview to news outlet in recent weeks.   A senior IDF officer told Saudi news outlet Elaph in a… Read More ›

US Jewish groups back Obama on gun control initiatives

US Jewish groups back Obama on gun control initiatives

With his executive actions, Obama is directing federal agencies to take the steps he proposed.   Jewish groups praised new executive actions by President Barack… Read More ›

Germany in shock after dozens of women say were assaulted by ‘North African’ men in Cologne

Germany in shock after dozens of women say were assaulted by ‘North African’ men in Cologne

The demonstration came five days after 90 women reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested at the New Year’s celebrations outside Cologne’s cathedral by young,… Read More ›

Reporter’s Notebook: Sending your kids to school amid hunt for an armed gunman

Reporter’s Notebook: Sending your kids to school amid hunt for an armed gunman

My phone started buzzing with countless text messages from parents in my son’s preschool WhatsApp group. It seemed most of the parents were facing the… Read More ›

Ramadi residents fleeing ISIS: ‘They wanted to use us as human shields’

Ramadi residents fleeing ISIS: ‘They wanted to use us as human shields’

Habbaniyah, Iraq – Standing in the entrance of her tent on a chilly winter night in the Iraqi desert, Nada Saleh describes the terrifying moment her… Read More ›

La Liga: Real Madrid denied vital win by late Valencia equalizer

La Liga: Real Madrid denied vital win by late Valencia equalizer

  Gary Neville’s Valencia denied Real Madrid the chance to move above arch-rival Barcelona in the La Liga standings with a last-gasp equalizer in a… Read More ›

Saudi execution of Shia cleric threatens to deepen regional sectarian crisis

Saudi execution of Shia cleric threatens to deepen regional sectarian crisis

Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was not among the “A-list” of Shia clerics in Saudi Arabia. But his execution has provoked a regional crisis, sparking condemnation from… Read More ›

Anticipating Hezbollah action, Israel shells Lebanon border

Anticipating Hezbollah action, Israel shells Lebanon border

IDF fires artillery for fourth successive day amid concerns terror group will take advantage of poor weather to ‘avenge’ death of Samir Kuntar   The… Read More ›

Father, sister of on-run Tel Aviv gunman questioned

Father, sister of on-run Tel Aviv gunman questioned

Detention of alleged killer’s brother reduced by court; police warn public to be alert as hunt for ‘dangerous’ suspect continues   The father of the… Read More ›

Tel Aviv cabbie murdered in aftermath of Friday shooting laid to rest

Tel Aviv cabbie murdered in aftermath of Friday shooting laid to rest

Amin Shaaban ‘had no enemies,’ says relative; police suspect link to Dizengoff shooting attack an hour earlier   A 42-year-old taxi cab driver who was… Read More ›