Indiana Woman Found Dead With 8-Foot Python Wrapped Around Her NeckOxford – Yesterday evening around 8:51 P.M. at 609 North Dan Patch Drive in Oxford, IN a 911 call was received by the Benton County Dispatch of a woman found unresponsive with a Reticulated Python wrapped around her neck.
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Rav Kook Son-In-Law “Excommunicates” Tiveria Mayor Ron Kobi With Sifrei Torah and ShofarsTeveria 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.

ISIS Announces Successor To Al-BaghdadiThe 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.

 Palestinian Attacker of an Elderly Woman IndictedA criminal indictment has been handed down against a 48-year-old suspect in Jerusalem who was arrested a week ago on suspicion of attacking and abusing an 89-year-old woman R”L, leaving her injured and as a result, she had to be placed in a nursing home.
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Kidnapped By Missionaries; An Israeli Woman Returns To Her Family After 3 YearsAn 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.

Approval for an Additional Lane on the [Jerusalem/ Gush Etzion] Tunnel HighwayThe IDF Civil Administration has approved the paving of an additional lane on the Tunnel Highway, which connects southern Jerusalem to Gush Etzion. The additional lane will be from the tunnels to Elazar Junction.
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 Dr. Moti Kedar Says Yigal Amir Did Not Assassinate Yitzchak Rabin, Says Man Is “Y.R.”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.

Frozen In Time, US Embassy A Monument To Iran Hostage CrisisThe U.S. Embassy in Tehran remains frozen in 1979 as the 40th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis approaches, a time capsule of revolutionary graffiti, Underwood typewriters and rotary telephones.
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The Night That Maran HaRav Ovadia Yosef “Forgot” To SleepHagaon HaRav David Yosef, member of the Moetzes Chachmei Torah, gave a special interview in honor of the aproaching sixth yahrzeit of his father’s death, Maran Rav Ovadia Yosef, z’tl, a Kikar HaShabbat report said.
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