Teveria Mayor Ron Kobi has adopted an aggressive attitude towards religious observance in Israel in general and towards one of the leading Rabbonim of the city of Teveria Mekubal HaRav Dov Kook in specific.

The Islamic State group declared a new leader Thursday after it confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi days earlier in a U.S raid in Syria.
In its audio release by the IS central media arm, al-Furqan Foundation, a new spokesman for IS identifies the successor as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi — tracing his lineage, like al-Baghdadi, to the Prophet Muhammad’s Quraysh tribe.

An international operation conducted by the agunah department of the Rabbinical Court returned an Ethiopian woman to Israel who had been abducted by missionaries, according to a Kikar HaShabbat report.

During a right-wing rally in Petach Tikvah, Dr. Kedar, a scholar of Arabic culture at Bar-Ilan University and notable advocate for Israel, claimed that Yigal Amir, although convicted for the crime, was not the person who murdered Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser was interviewed on Tuesday by Israeli media for the first time.
Kushner spoke about a wide-ranging variety of topics, including the political deadlock in Israel, Trump’s peace plan, and the situation in Syria.

The number of U.S. vaping illnesses has jumped again, reaching more than 1,800 cases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that 1,888 confirmed and probable cases have been reported in 49 states.
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Three pedestrians were struck by a vehicle that jumped the curb in Flatbsuh, Thursday afternoon.
It happened at the intersection of Coney Island Avenue and Avenue M at around 4:00PM.
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Transportation Security Administration agents at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty Airport uncovered a more decorative than deadly item when they checked a passenger’s carry-on.
Agents on Tuesday thought there was a gun in the bag when they put it through the X-ray machine.

It appears many, if not most Har Nof residents are less than pleased with the decision by Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon to change the name of the neighborhood to Neot Yosef, in memory of Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef ZT”L and Maran HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv ZT”L, as reported by YWN-Israel.

The Jerusalem District Prosecutor handed down a criminal indictment against Div Abdullah, 48, a resident of Ein Naqquba in Central Israel, for allegedly abusing and beating a patient in his charge in a nursing home in Maale HaChamisha.