According to the annual report by the Israel advocacy group known as Boomerang, Arab terrorists have carried out 2,370 terror attacks against Israeli inside Judea and Samaria in 2019 alone. The report states that these attacks include hurling rocks and fire-bombs at moving vehicles, setting explosive charges, vehicle ramming attacks and more. Some of these attacks have proven fatal. The data compiled by Boomerang is based on reports from seven municipalities in Judea and Samaria, which run emergency first response centers to assist civilians injured in such attacks. According to the data, 2019 saw 1,671 stone throwings, 569 firebombing incidents, 36 incidents involving pipe bombs, 81 instances of arson, 32 violent personal attacks, and 14 shootings. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Seeking to break a deadlock over President Donald Trump’s impeachment, a top Republican said Sunday he will push a change in rules that would allow a Senate trial to move forward immediately if Democrats do not agree to its format this week. It seemed uncertain how receptive Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell might be to an extraordinary rules change to bypass Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is stalling House-passed articles of impeachment against Trump in a bid to get new witnesses to testify. McConnell has been clear he is aiming for Trump’s swift acquittal in the Republican-controlled Senate. GOP Sen.

Israel Police together with the Israel Security Service (Shabak) after a thorough investigation have declared that the hit-and-run incident against two Charedi men last March in Yerushalayim was actually an attempted ramming terror attack. Two Arabs were arrested after the incident and today charged with reparation as befitting a ramming and stabbing terror attack. The incident occurred last March at the Hativat Yerushalaym intersection near the Old City of Jerusalem. The police conducted an investigation at the scene and based on evidence found they arrested two suspects who were released on various conditions. The police believed that the incident was an accident, wherein the driver and a passenger exited the vehicle after the accident and beat the pedestrians who were hit.

Activists said Sunday that Berlin police prevented them from dismantling an art installation that angered Jewish groups after those who erected it claimed it contained Holocaust victims’ remains. A group calling itself Performance Art Committee said about 20 of its members attempted to cut down a pillar holding an urn that was placed in front of the German parliament by the left-wing Center for Political Beauty last month. The Performance Art Committee, which goes by the German acronym AKK, said its members include both Jewish and non-Jewish activists. Berlin police spokesman Martin Halweg confirmed to The Associated Press that a member of the Center for Political Beauty had submitted a criminal complaint for property damage to police.

A 20-year-old woman was killed and three other people were injured to varying degrees in a motor vehicle accident that took place near the entrance to Yafia near Migdal Ha’Emek. A 30-year-old man was listed as being in serious condition and two others were lightly injured in the accident. They were treated at the scene by volunteers from United Hatzalah and ambulance teams from Magen David Adom. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT  Ashraf Ayub who was one of the first responders at the scene relayed: “To our great sadness, a 20-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene after she suffered a full-system trauma as a result of the accident. There were thee vehicles involved in the accident. Together with other EMS personnel, I treated three other people who were injured in the incident.

Al-Shabab extremists overran a key military base used by U.S. counterterror forces in Kenya before dawn Sunday, killing three American Department of Defense personnel and destroying several U.S. aircraft and vehicles before they were repelled, U.S. and Kenyan authorities said. The attack on the Manda Bay Airfield was the al-Qaida-linked group’s first attack against U.S. forces in the East African country, and the military called the security situation “fluid” several hours after the assault. Five attackers were killed, Kenyan military spokesman Paul Njuguna said. Al-Shabab, based in neighboring Somalia, claimed responsibility for the assault. One U.S. serviceman and two contractors with the U.S.

A 15-year-old Charedi boy wanted to take his luggage out of the luggage compartment of a bus when he got off the bus near the El-Al junction on Highway 40. While he was leaning forward into the compartment, the driver closed the door to the luggage compartment which knocked the boy inside the compartment. The driver, not knowing that the boy was inside, began traveling towards Yerushalayim. The boy, who was scared, called the police from inside the luggage compartment and told them that he was trapped inside and that the bus was moving. Police immediately dispatched a squad car from the Yerushalayim traffic division and began chasing after the bus. They also utilized traffic cams to identify where exactly the bus was. The student, a U.S.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu handed out additional ministerial positions to members of the Likud and Shas parties after he resigned this week from all of his ministerial positions. The resignation came as a result of the indictment letter that was handed down against Netanyahu by the Attorney General back in November. The new appointments included MK David Bitton as the new Minister of Agriculture, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzippi Hotovely was appointed Minister of the Diaspora, Deputy Minister Itzik Cohen from Shas was appointed the Minister of Construction and Housing, and Shasha Bitton who was a former MK with the Kulanu party will be appointed as the Social Services Minister.

The blowback over the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general mounted Sunday as Iran announced it will no longer abide by the limits contained in the 2015 nuclear deal and Iraq’s Parliament called for the expulsion of all American troops from Iraqi soil. The twin developments could bring Iran closer to building an atomic bomb and enable the Islamic State group to stage a comeback in Iraq, making the Middle East a far more dangerous and unstable place. Iranian state television cited a statement by President Hassan Rouhani’s administration saying the country would not observe limits on fuel enrichment, on the size of its enriched uranium stockpile and on its research and development activities.

A 72-year-old man drowned on HaNachal Street in Binyamina due to the heavy rains that have poured down on the coastal region of Israel. The man was swept away with his car in a flash flood off of the road and landed in a wadi nearby. His vehicle was found only two hours later. Firefighters pulled the car up out of the wadi with the help of tractors and cranes, but rescue teams were unable to help him due to his elongated time underwater. United Hatzalah volunteer Aryeh Chipkis who was one of the first responders at the scene said: “When we arrived at the scene we found the car submerged in the water after it had been swept off of the road and into the wadi. Firefighters extricated the car from the wadi and got the man out of the car.