A shooting attack took place on Har Habayis on Thursday about noon. An Arab terrorist shot a policeman near Har Habayis. Other policemen on the scene responded with gunfire and the terrorist was neutralized. MDA paramedics provided emergency treatment to the policeman, in his 20s, who was lightly wounded. “When we arrived at the scene…the victim was standing and was fully conscious; he suffered an injury on his hand,” MDA paramedic Yisrael Weingarten said. This is a developing story.

A plane skidded off the runway Wednesday as it tried to land in bad weather in Istanbul, crashing into a field and breaking into pieces. Passengers had to evacuate through cracks in the smashed plane and authorities said 120 people were sent to the hospital with injuries. The low-cost Pegasus Airlines plane with 177 passengers and crew on board was arriving at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport from the western Turkish city of Izmir when it had what the Transportation Ministry described as a “rough landing.” The ministry said no one died in the incident. Istanbul Gov. Ali Yerlikaya said the plane landed in bad weather, failed to “hold onto the runway” and skidded some 50-60 meters (yards) before crashing into a ditch from a height of some 30 meters.

Numerous people were injured in what appears to be a terror attack in Jerusalem early Thursday morning. Police say a vehicle slammed into the victims near “First Station”. United Hatzalah and Magen David Adom treated at least 8 victims on the scene. Some were taken to Hadassah Har Hatzofim and Hadasah Ein Kerem hospitals, and some treated on the scene and released. All were reportedly in stable condition. Police say the driver fled the vehicle, and a manhunt was launched. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Aharon Pomp who was one of the first responders at the scene said: “Together with other EMS personnel, I treated one young man who was in serious condition after he suffered a full-system-trauma. I also treated two other young people who sustained moderate injuries.

An impaired driver taking a “joy ride” Wednesday along the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade route was put into a forced spin by law enforcement officers who then arrested the driver and another person at gunpoint, according to officials and video footage of the incident. Clay County Sheriff’s deputies threw out Stop Sticks and several patrol cars surrounded the car and stopped it as it approached the crowd near Union Station, police said. Video posted by WDAF-TV showed officers approaching the car with weapons drawn before taking two people into custody. The arrest happened around three hours before the parade began, and no one was injured. Mayor Quinton Lucas told the TV station that it was an impaired driver taking “a joy ride” and was not terrorism-related.

Five Israelis who arrived in Moscow on an Aeroflot flight from Tel Aviv on Wednesday were detained at the Sheremetyevo Airport for five hours and then sent back on a flight to Israel. According to a Kikar Ha’Shabbos report, two of the Israelis detained at the airport were two Lubavitcher chassidim, the musician Yossi Zoldan and the singer Eli Chafetz, who were traveling to Russia to perform at a gathering in Moscow to mark Yud Shevat, the yahrtzeit of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe and the beginning of the leadership of the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rav Menachem Mendel Schneerson zt’l. Zoldan told Kikar HaShabbos that his flight landed around noon in Moscow and as soon as he arrived at passport control he was instructed to wait on the side together with four other Israelis.

The Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump on the first article of impeachment, clearing him of a charge that he abused his power when he pressured Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. The vote was 52-48. Democrats fell well short of the two-thirds majority required to convict and remove the president from office. The Senate will now vote on a second article of impeachment. DEVELOPING STORY – REFRESH FOR UPDATES
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While many find videos like this disturbing, it should be used as a learning lesson. This frightening incident occurred on “Beirach Moshe Street” in Kiryas Joel on Tuesday. Watch how a young child runs across the street directly in front of a car. The driver is heard shrieking in fear on his dash-cam as he slams on the breaks. Bichasdei Hashem the child makes it across in a hair-splitting second. LESSONS TO BE LEARNED: The driver was driving at a safe speed and was alert of his surroundings and had sufficient time to stop in time. Children should be taught how to properly cross a street, and parents should be aware where their children are at all times. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

About 3,700 people – 2,666 passengers and  1,045 crew members – aboard the Japanese cruise ship “Diamond Princess” anchored off Yokohama port near Tokyo are being quarantined on the ship for two weeks, including 15 – 17 Israelis, after ten passengers were found to be infected with the coronavirus. The ten passengers, covered in white sheets to hide their identity, were transferred by Japanese health workers from the cruise ship to a Japanese coast guard boat which took them to a dock, where they were evacuated to a hospital by ambulances. Israel’s Foreign Ministry stated on Wednesday: “This information is based, among other things, on a briefing held by the Japanese Foreign Ministry for foreign representatives in Tokyo and received from Israeli consul Revital Ben-Naim.

After lots of effort to shut down a vile anti-Semitic Facebook page operating in Ocean County (near Lakewood), New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Attorney General Gurbir Grewal today announced that Rise Up Ocean County has been shut down permanently. “We just learned that Facebook has decided to take down the public page on the company’s social network called ‘Rise Up Ocean County.’ Facebook’s action comes ten months after the Director of our Division on Civil Rights, Rachel Wainer Apter, first sent a letter to Facebook expressing concerns about racist and anti-Semitic statements on the page.

Text of President Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address, as delivered, provided by the White House: Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States and my fellow citizens: Three years ago, we launched the great American comeback. Tonight, I stand before you to share the incredible results. Jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and highly respected again. America’s enemies are on the run, America’s fortunes are on the rise, and America’s future is blazing bright. The years of economic decay are over. The days of our country being used, taken advantage of, and even scorned by other nations are long behind us.