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Analysis: China is really worried about unemployment. Here’s what it’s doing to avoid mass layoffs

Analysis: China is really worried about unemployment. Here’s what it’s doing to avoid mass layoffs

Hong Kong – The Chinese government wants to do whatever it can to protect the economy in 2020. It’s got an enormous task ahead of… Read More ›

In nod to Israeli sovereignty, IDF grip on Civil Administration weakened

In nod to Israeli sovereignty, IDF grip on Civil Administration weakened

For settlers the IDF’s Civil Administration is symbolic of Israeli military control over the lives of over 420,000 Israelis who live in Area C of… Read More ›

Edelstein rejects Knesset legal adviser’s opinion over Netanyahu immunity

Edelstein rejects Knesset legal adviser’s opinion over Netanyahu immunity

Yinon issues opinion that Edelstein cannot prevent establishment of Knesset committees to weigh PM’s immunity bid; Edelstein warns convening committees so close to elections ‘grave… Read More ›

From Ebola to hurricanes, mom in uniform keeps people safe while keeping kosher

From Ebola to hurricanes, mom in uniform keeps people safe while keeping kosher

As an officer in the US Public Health Service, Cpt. Dana Hall provides disaster relief to victims the world over, and is the only Orthodox… Read More ›

Trump, Pelosi Square Off Ahead Of Impeachment Trial

Trump, Pelosi Square Off Ahead Of Impeachment Trial

  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi faced off Sunday ahead of his impeachment trial, as she said senators will “pay… Read More ›

7 bombs struck an Iraqi joint military base housing US soldiers, wounding 4

7 bombs struck an Iraqi joint military base housing US soldiers, wounding 4

  At least four Iraqi soldiers were reportedly wounded on Sunday in the latest rocket attack on an Iraqi military base. Reuters reported that eight… Read More ›

Israeli intel helped the US assassinate Soleimani – report

Israeli intel helped the US assassinate Soleimani – report

According to the report, informants in Damascus were able to tip off the CIA about exactly which plane Soleimani would be on, which Israeli intelligence… Read More ›

Israelis’ overseas romance

Israelis’ overseas romance

Travel has become part of local culture, in no small part due to overseas voyages by young adults after completing their mandatory military service, but… Read More ›

East Jerusalem’s Issawiya boils as residents decry months of police intervention

East Jerusalem’s Issawiya boils as residents decry months of police intervention

Security officials say they’ve stepped up operations because of escalating violence emanating from the Palestinian neighborhood, home to 18,000 Since the start of the school… Read More ›

Can Cash Buy The Dem Nomination? Two Billionaires Are Trying

Can Cash Buy The Dem Nomination? Two Billionaires Are Trying

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaires Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer are testing an unproven theory in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination: that their… Read More ›

Iranian protesters take to streets after Tehran admits Ukrainian plane was unintentionally shot down

Iranian protesters take to streets after Tehran admits Ukrainian plane was unintentionally shot down

Anti-government protesters took to the streets of Iran Saturday after Tehran admitted that it mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing 176 people. Thousands… Read More ›

US House passes measure to limit Trump’s ability to wage war on Iran

US House passes measure to limit Trump’s ability to wage war on Iran

If passed by the House and Senate, the measure does not need Trump’s signature to go into effect.   The US House of Representatives passed… Read More ›

Israel to release 2 Syrian inmates as part of swap deal with Russia

Israel to release 2 Syrian inmates as part of swap deal with Russia

Israeli Prison Service confirms Sidqi al-Maqt and Amal Abu Salah are to be freed on Thursday and Friday; the release is believed to be the… Read More ›

Celebrating Soleimani killing, Trump says Democrats would have leaked strike

Celebrating Soleimani killing, Trump says Democrats would have leaked strike

At first campaign rally of 2020, President alleges that Iranian general was planning attacks against US embassies outside of Baghdad, mocks Democrats for wanting to… Read More ›

Trump To Hold 1st Campaign Rally Of Election Year In Ohio

Trump To Hold 1st Campaign Rally Of Election Year In Ohio

  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump heads into his first campaign rally of the election year flush with cash, chafing at impeachment and hoping… Read More ›

Video appears to show the moment a missile hit the Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed in Iran

Video appears to show the moment a missile hit the Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed in Iran

  As US and Canadian officials said on Thursday that Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashed outside Tehran likely because it was shot down, a… Read More ›

Israel unveils breakthrough laser to intercept missiles, aerial threats

Israel unveils breakthrough laser to intercept missiles, aerial threats

Technology expected to take down a variety of aerial threats including rockets, drones, anti-tank missiles.   The Defense Ministry has made a technological breakthrough in… Read More ›

Man dies trying to save baby in mass Nahariya floods

Man dies trying to save baby in mass Nahariya floods

Moti Ben Shabbat, 38, came to the rescue of passengers trapped inside a car stuck in floodwater but mistakenly believed he left behind a child… Read More ›

Trump and Netanyahu discuss ‘critical’ issues after Iran missile strikes

Trump and Netanyahu discuss ‘critical’ issues after Iran missile strikes

Brief statement from White House says says two leaders spoke of ‘bilateral and regional issues,’ without giving further details, PM earlier warned Tehran against hitting… Read More ›

Monsey Rabbi Who Survived Stabbing Attack Gives Invocation At New York State Of The State Address

Monsey Rabbi Who Survived Stabbing Attack Gives Invocation At New York State Of The State Address

  NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg, whose home was the site of a stabbing last month on the holiday of Hanukkah, delivered an… Read More ›