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Doctors issue warning about LED streetlights

Doctors issue warning about LED streetlights

The American Medical Association (AMA) has just adopted an official policy statement about street lighting: cool it and dim it. The statement, adopted unanimously at… Read More ›

Australian commission: Military cadets raped as initiation

Australian commission: Military cadets raped as initiation

Teenage recruits were raped by staff and forced to rape each other as part of initiation practices in the Australian military going back to 1960,… Read More ›

Defense Minister Liberman heads to US

Defense Minister Liberman heads to US

Visit seen as effort to ease Washington’s concerns over hard-liner’s appointment; he’ll also attend F-35 ceremony   Israel’s new Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman set off… Read More ›

Treasury chief urges Netanyahu to sign US defense deal, ‘end saga’

Treasury chief urges Netanyahu to sign US defense deal, ‘end saga’

Moshe Kahlon warns continued foot-dragging could be viewed as interference in US internal affairs   Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon called on the Israeli government on… Read More ›

Liberman says Israel, US close to finalizing deal on defense aid

Liberman says Israel, US close to finalizing deal on defense aid

Defense minister indicates agreement possible by November, will later attend unveiling ceremony of first F-35 fighter jet for Israel delivery   WASHINGTON — Defense Minister… Read More ›

Booklets demonizing IDF draft spread in mainstream yeshivas

Booklets demonizing IDF draft spread in mainstream yeshivas

Anti-IDF propaganda that compares IDF soldiers to Nazis and cannibals are being distributed in mainstream yeshivas, insisting that the students refrain from the draft; ‘for… Read More ›

Baratz appointed to PM’s PR chief through roundabout appointment

Baratz appointed to PM’s PR chief through roundabout appointment

The Civil Service Commission rejected the appointment of Dr. Ran Baratz as public diplomacy chief in the Prime Minister’s Office. But the PM brought Baratz… Read More ›

New red alert for tunnel digging into Israel

New red alert for tunnel digging into Israel

Israel’s southern citizens will now be informed via SMS of Hamas tuunel-digging activity and will be asked to go home and turn off the lights;… Read More ›

Orlando shooter’s alleged lover says attack was out of revenge

Orlando shooter’s alleged lover says attack was out of revenge

“He hates gay Puerto Ricans for all the stuff they did to him.”   A man who claims he was Orlando mass killer Omar Mateen’s… Read More ›

Israel to install its own cyber defenses on F-35 jets

Israel to install its own cyber defenses on F-35 jets

IAF seeking approval to increase number of jets from 33 to 50, with a view of eventually having 75 aircraft.   FORT WORTH, TEXAS –… Read More ›

Hamas: Turkey dropped condition that Israel lift Gaza siege before normalization

Hamas: Turkey dropped condition that Israel lift Gaza siege before normalization

  Amid reports about an approaching normalization deal between Israel and Turkey, Hamas claims that Turkey has renounced the condition that Israel lift the siege on… Read More ›

Watch the Tower Fall: Our Acts of Self-Sabotage

Watch the Tower Fall: Our Acts of Self-Sabotage

Jackie is building a tower with blocks. I watch how she slowly places each block creating a taller and taller tower. Her breath is shallow… Read More ›

Controversy rages after Chief Rabbi of Israeli-Ethiopian community pushed aside

Controversy rages after Chief Rabbi of Israeli-Ethiopian community pushed aside

Rabbi Yosef Hadane was denied an extension to his service as chief rabbi of the community after he reached the age of retirement, 67.  … Read More ›

Senior official says Israel, US close to deal on defense aid

Senior official says Israel, US close to deal on defense aid

Defense minister said hammering out final details of 10-year memorandum of understanding in DC   WASHINGTON — The multibillion-dollar defense aid package being negotiated between… Read More ›

Wall Street thinks ‘cracks’ are forming around Intel’s most important business

Wall Street thinks ‘cracks’ are forming around Intel’s most important business

  Intel chips enjoy a near monopoly in the data-center business, but financial-research firm Bernstein doesn’t believe that it will last long. In a note… Read More ›

All 4 pieces of gun-control legislation proposed in wake of Orlando attack just failed in the Senate

All 4 pieces of gun-control legislation proposed in wake of Orlando attack just failed in the Senate

  All four pieces of gun-control legislationproposed in the wake of the Orlando terrorist shooting failed to garner enough support to pass the Senate on… Read More ›

SOROS WARNS: A vote for Brexit would trigger a crash worse than Black Wednesday

SOROS WARNS: A vote for Brexit would trigger a crash worse than Black Wednesday

  George Soros is clear: A vote to leave the EU would trigger a collapse in the British pound worse than Black Wednesday. Writing in… Read More ›

San Francisco – Judge: Starbucks Customers May Seek Damages Over Underfilled Lattes

San Francisco – Judge: Starbucks Customers May Seek Damages Over Underfilled Lattes

  San Francisco – A federal judge said two Starbucks customers may pursue a lawsuit accusing the coffee chain of cheating patrons by underfilling lattes.… Read More ›

Berlin – Hitler’s Trousers, Goering’s Cyanide Container Sold At Auction

Berlin – Hitler’s Trousers, Goering’s Cyanide Container Sold At Auction

  Berlin – Trousers with leather pockets worn by Adolf Hitler and a brass container that held the cyanide used by a top deputy to… Read More ›

Springfield, IL – Illinois Measure Would Create Advisory Council For Muslims

Springfield, IL – Illinois Measure Would Create Advisory Council For Muslims

  Springfield, IL – Illinois could become the first state in the U.S. with a law giving Muslim-Americans a formal voice in state government. The… Read More ›