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January 17, 2017 at 4:34 pm
NORTHEAST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - In a major twist, Tuesday, the charges against a man accused of killing a rabbi who was visiting South Florida have been dropped.
The young man, Deandre Charles, had said all along that he did not kill Rabbi Yosef Raksin in August of 2014.
On Tuesday, the state said that they did not have evidence to charge the suspect.
Furthermore, they said an armed robbery that happened the day before has also played a major role in the state’s decision to drop the case against Charles.
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January 17, 2017 at 4:30 pm
The head of a prominent Israeli think tank said on Tuesday that optimism among politicians and IDF brass in relation to next week’s peace negotiations in Kazakhstan to end the Syrian civil war was “warranted but exaggerated.”
Prof. Efraim Karsh, director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, was responding to a report in the London-based pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat claiming that Israel is confidant that its interests will be represented at the Astana summit by Russia. According to the report, by Tel Aviv correspondent Nazir Majli, this sense of security was born out of the “positive relations” between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the ...
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January 17, 2017 at 4:29 pm
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to dismantle the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is “empty talk,” and that Trump cannot unilaterally end the international agreement.
"The president-elect has shown he is not happy about the nuclear deal, calling it the worst deal ever signed. This is only empty talk," Rouhani said at a news conference on the one-year anniversary of the lifting of international sanctions against Iran, Reuters reported.
"I don't think he can do much when he goes to the White House," said Rouhani. The Iranian leader said he is "optimistic about the future of the nuclear deal," adding that the accord is "good for the United States, but he (Trump) doesn't understand."&nbs...
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January 17, 2017 at 4:29 pm
About half of Americans believe the Russian government interfered with the 2016 election by hacking into Democratic Party computers, but a far smaller share believe this affected the outcome of the election, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found.
Some 51% said they believed Russians intervened in the election through hacking, the poll found. Of that group, only 26% said they believed President-elect Donald Trump would have lost the election had the hacking not occurred, while 63% said they weren't sure.
Some 36% of those surveyed said they didn't think the Russian government conducted hacking into Democratic Party computers to interfere in the election.
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January 17, 2017 at 4:28 pm
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted the administration, and made WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures, famous.
The decision by Mr. Obama rescued Ms. Manning, who twice tried to commit suicide last year, from an uncertain future as a transgender woman incarcerated at the male military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. She has been jailed for nearly seven years, and her 35-year sentence was by far the longest punishment ever imposed in the United States for a leak conviction.
Now, under the terms of Mr. Obama’s commutation announced by the Whit...
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January 17, 2017 at 3:50 pm
Baltimore, MD - Jan. 17, 2017 - Information on dozens of schools and other resources will be on display at an expo for families exploring school options for their child, particularly children with special needs, on Sunday, January 22.
The School Fair will be held from 1:00 - 3:00 pm at the Weinberg Jewish Community Center in Baltimore, Maryland and will highlight educational options for families in Baltimore City and County, including charter schools, magnet schools, private special education schools, and home schooling. In addition, information will be available on legislation proposed this year related to parental educational choice and information on scholarships for private schools.
Maryland Special Needs Advocacy Project and Macks Center for Jewish Education are hosting the event as...
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January 17, 2017 at 3:44 pm
President Barack Obama has made a surprise visit to the final daily press briefing with White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest.
Obama praised Earnest Tuesday for “his smarts and his maturity,” but added that one of his best qualities has been his integrity.
Obama says Earnest is “tough and didn’t always give you guys what you wanted,” but that he tried to make sure to share as much of the administration’s vision and policy as possible.
Earnest praised the journalists attending the briefing, saying that they serve a role that is a “uniquely American feature of our government.
He said, “it’s made President Obama a better president and a better civil servant.”
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January 17, 2017 at 3:43 pm
Four persons were killed and some 15 others left wounded in the vehicular ramming attack in the Armon HaNatziv neighborhood of Jerusalem earlier this month. A soldier was among the wounded, listed in grave condition.
Shaarei Zedek Hospital on Tuesday 19 Teves reports additional improvement in her condition, and that she was transferred from an ICU to a regular unit. This morning, she was successfully underwent another surgical procedure and she is admitted to an orthopedic unit. She is no longer intubated and is breathing on her own.
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January 17, 2017 at 3:43 pm
Backed by growing support in Knesset to oust MK Basel Ghattas, Minister Ze’ev Elkin on Monday presented Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein with a document signed by 72 MKs calling to remove Ghattas from the Israeli parliament.
As reported earlier by YWN-ISRAEL, a minimum of 70 signatures was required to present such a request to the speaker. Now, the matter will be presented to the Knesset House Committee by Edelstein and if the committee has a two-third majority in favor of the motion, Ghattas will be removed from Knesset.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has announced a criminal indictment is going to be filed against Ghattas, who smuggled cellular telephones and components to jailed terrorists serving sentences in Israel’s Ketziot Prison.
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January 17, 2017 at 3:12 pm
The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee has approved a plan to erect a massive compound to house the office and private residence of the prime minister, Israel’s Channel 10 reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, the compound will be built in the “government precinct” — known by Israelis as Kiryat Hamemshala — located in the neighborhood of Givat Ram, where the Supreme Court is situated, and not far from the Knesset and one of the Hebrew University campuses.
The structure is expected to have between five and eight stories, and an area designated for official ceremonies. It will also include a huge underground “bunker,” to be used by the prime minister and representatives of the civil and defense esta...
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January 17, 2017 at 3:10 pm
In saying goodbye to outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said the two countries have “had some differences of opinion” in recent years, characterizing the stormy relationship between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Rivlin spoke Tuesday with Shapiro, who is expected to stay in Israel for a few months after his term ends Jan. 20.
“Although from time to time we have had some differences of opinion, friends will take care one of each other, and sometimes criticize one of each other, but we have done that as friends, and the people of Israel appreciate this very much,” Rivlin said.
Rivlin presented Shapiro with a letter to Obama, in which he thanked the departing president for his ...
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January 17, 2017 at 12:19 pm
Agudah Yarchei Kallah, Divrei Pesicha, HaRav Pinchos Friedman, Rosh Hakollelim, Belz.
HaRav Pinchos Friedman -- Divrei Machshava from Agudath Israel on Vimeo.
Agudah Yarchei Kallah, Shiur Hakdama, HaRav Asher Weiss, Av Beis Din, Darchei Hora'ah and Rosh HaYeshiva. Yeshiva Darchei Torah.
Agudah Yarchei Kallah, Divrei Machshava - Koach haTefillah, HaRav Asher Weiss, Av Beis Din, Darchei Hora'ah and Rosh HaYeshiva. Yeshiva Darchei Torah.
Photo Credit Shmuel Heinemann
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January 17, 2017 at 11:50 am
The organizer of an anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) conference being held next week at the European Parliament in Brussels told The Algemeiner that the groundbreaking event seeks to “unclog the gears” of the movement’s influence on the continent.
Dafna Friedman — communications and campaigns officer of the advocacy group Europe Israel Public Affairs (EIPA) — said that activists participating in “Israel: Include. Invest. Involve” aim to “debunk false claims about the Jewish state, and show clear democratic support for upgrading relations with Israel.”
“The conversation between Israelis and Europeans is currently stuck between reverse and first gear, mainly because of ...
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January 17, 2017 at 11:31 am
The United Kingdom’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is calling for an investigation into Israeli “interference” in the British government.
The call by Corbyn, whose party has been dogged by allegations of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, came following a four-part documentary by Al Jazeera. In the documentary, an undercover reporter filmed an Israeli embassy employee, Shai Masot, discussing his intention to “take down” several British politicians, including Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Alan Duncan, and calling Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson an “idiot.”
Following the report, Corbyn wrote to U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May that the so-called Israeli influence “undermines the integrity of our democracy.”
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January 17, 2017 at 11:30 am
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump will become president Friday with an approval rating of just 40%, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll, the lowest of any recent president and 44 points below that of President Barack Obama, the 44th president.
Following a tumultuous transition period, approval ratings for Trump's handling of the transition are more than 20 points below those for any of his three most recent predecessors. Obama took the oath in 2009 with an 84% approval rating, 67% approved of Clinton's transition as of late December 1992 and 61% approved of George W. Bush's transition just before he took office in January 2001.
Trump's wobbly handling of the presidential transition has left most Americans with growing doubts that the President-elect will be able to h...
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January 17, 2017 at 10:31 am
Baltimore, MD - January 17, 2017- When Seven Mile Market owner, Hershel Boehm, opened his mail earlier this month, the last thing he expected was a “musar sefer” in the form of a letter written by a young child. Apparently, while the parent he/she accompanied to the store was shopping, he/she was doing his/her own shopping….except, they skipped the checkout process.
Once home, presumably, the parent saw that the child possessed an item that was not paid for. The parents taught their child that the right thing to do would be to own up to the transgression and pay for it.
Mr. Boehm was touched by this gesture and Seven Mile Market is so proud of both the child and the parents for doing the right thing.
Mi k’amcha Yisrael, and mi k’amcha Baltimore!!!
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January 17, 2017 at 10:13 am
Beirut - The Lebanese group Hezbollah has located an Israeli drone that crashed in Lebanese territory and has taken it to a secure location for inspection, a source in Hezbollah said on Tuesday.
The Israeli military said that the drone had came down in Lebanese territory on Monday near the border with Israel, identifying the drone as a “tactical Skylark UAV”.
Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Shi’ite group, has fought numerous conflicts with Israel. Their most serious flare-up in recent years was in 2015 when Hezbollah guerrillas killed two Israeli troops in retaliation for a deadly air strike in Syria.
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January 17, 2017 at 10:09 am
Awareness of Border Police led to arrest of illegal resident in East Jerusalem who revealed that he has intended to attack security forces.
Sharp reactions by Border Police in East Jerusalem led to the arrest of a terrorist who stated under interrogation that he had intended attacking security forces in the vicinity.
Border Police operating yesterday in the A-Tur neighborhood in East Jerusalem performed initiated actions in the course of which they checked a bus belonging to an East Jerusalem public transportation company.
While conducting a search of the bus they detained a youth who aroused their suspicions. Initial investigations revealed that he was a resident of the Palestinian Authority residing illegally in Israel. He was arrested and interrogated.
The interrogation revealed...
