It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petira of Mrs. Adelaide Friedman, mother of U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman. She was 91 years old.
The Levayah will take place on Tuesday, August 6th, at 11:00am at Boulevard Riverside Chapels, 1450 Broadway, in Hewlett.
Ambassador Friedman will be sitting shiva in Hertzliya, Israel from Thursday night through Monday morning.
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The new Blue & White election campaign has succeeded in eliciting the ire of the chareidi politicians. The new campaign, released on Sunday, represents “a new level of anti-Semitism” according to Yahadut Hatorah Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman.

A man who accidentally tossed $23,000 into the recycling bin reunited with his life savings Saturday after a worker at a recycling facility in Northern California spotted a shoebox stuffed with money.
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Representatives from the anti-assimilation organization Yad L’Achim managed to prevent a mass Christian baptism on the Kinneret last Shaboos. The organization’s volunteers, many of whom are Yeshiva students, rushed to the Kinneret on Shabbos to stop the mass-baptism.

Matanyahu Englman, Israel’s newly-appointed state comptroller, is planning a comprehensive reform in his office. Conflicting reports have already led to internal criticism, but now, his plan has been revealed, as reported in Monday’s Yisrael Hayom newspaper by correspondent Moti Tuchfeld.

The Carmel program is the name given to the development of new armored attack vehicles to be used by the IDF in future combat scenarios. the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D) and the Office of the Armored Corps, were tasked by Israel’s Defense Ministry to develop the program to create a new vision for combat using advanced technology platform.

As authorities in Ohio try to pin down a motive for the weekend’s second U.S. mass shooting and dig into the slain shooter’s life, what they find might also help answer another big question looming over the tragedy: What, if anything, could have stopped it?
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Minister of Transportation (URWP) Betzalel Smotrich is opposed to the Otzma Yehudit party running in the upcoming election, as a Walla News poll just released shows the right-wing party receives only 2.2% of the vote, requiring 3.5% to enter Knesset.

Gibsonton – On August 4, 2019 at 1:17 p.m., an employee at the Gibsonton Walmart received a phone call, the male on the line said he would be at the store in five minute and was going to “shoot up your store.” Management immediately called 911 and began to evacuate. Deputies were on scene within [...]