The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is delaying the elimination of the carpool discount program, just weeks before the agency had planned to end it and as backlash grew in recent weeks from New Jersey commuters and a U.S. congressman.
“The Port Authority believes, for safety, efficiency, and environmental reasons, transitioning to cashless tolling will have a positive impact on our customers, our facilities and the region. But we’re also listening when our customers speak up,” the Port Authority said in a statement Wednesday morning. “That’s why this week we are bringing before our board a proposal to phase out the carpool discount at the Hudson River crossings only as each facility actually implements cashless, all-electronic tolling.”

An infant girl about a year old, lost consciousness while being supervised by a daycare worker in Bnei Brak.

United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Aharon Lehrer, who was one of the first responders at the scene relayed: “We performed CPR on the infant who lost consciousness while she was at her daycare located in the home of the daycare worker. She was transported by an intensive care unit ambulance to the hospital while still undergoing CPR efforts to resuscitate her.”

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A few weeks ago, Ayelet Wasserman, a 17-year-old girl originally from Los Angeles who now lives with her family in Jerusalem, visited the Jerusalem headquarters of United Hatzalah of Israel to donate an emergency ambucycle. Ayelet started raising money for United Hatzalah four years ago when, after a series of terror attacks in Jerusalem, she decided to do something to help protect the people in Israel. She had always had a dream of learning the entire bible and so she committed to learning two chapters a day – every day and to review the weekly portion every Shabbat (Saturday) with the goal of finishing the entire Bible within the year.

Israel is set to hold a third round of elections within 12 months, after a deadline to form a government passed with no politician able to bring together the disparate parties, The Guardian reports.
A time limit to forge a majority coalition in the country’s parliament, the Knesset, expired at midnight on Wednesday, automatically triggering a fresh national ballot.
By law, the poll cannot be held for three months, extending a political deadlock that has paralysed the country deep into next year. Lawmakers were debating late into the night on holding the vote on 2 March.

The 22nd Knesset officially dissolved at midnight on Wednesday, after no MK was able to secure 61 signatures to form a government in the 21-day time period allotted for this.

The two Jersey City shooters who got out of their U-Haul and approached a kosher supermarket with their rifles drawn before killing three people inside were Francine Graham, 50, and David Anderson, 47.
The murderers killed Leah Mindel Ferencz, 33, Moshe Hirsch Deutsch, 24, and Miguel Douglas, 49, before police arrived. Graham and Anderson had already killed Detective Joseph Seals in a cemetery a mile away after he reportedly approached them to ask questions about the murder of 34-year-old Uber driver Michael Rumberger whose body was found in his the trunk of a car.
Police sources say Anderson was once a Black Hebrew Israelite, a group that believes black people are the true descendants of ancient Israelites.

A deadly shooting at a Jersey City Kosher Market has prompted an increase in police patrols in Lakewood, New Jersey. NBC10’s Jersey Shore Bureau Reporter Ted Greenberg gets reactions from community members.
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An 18 year law enforcement veteran and married father of five was tragically murdered in the Jersey City attack on Tuesday December 10.