Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other Knesset Members on Friday afternoon condemned an incident in Jerusalem whereby a religious IDF officer from the Givati Brigade was attacked by haredim when he entered the city’s Mea Shearim neighborhood.
NEW YORK – Authorities evacuated Liberty Island as a precaution after a 911 caller claimed they were going to blow up the Statue of Liberty, according to the National Park Service, which oversees the island.
Milan – An Italian prosecutor says Islamic extremists suspected in a bomb attack in a Pakistani market that killed more than 100 people had also planned an attack against the Vatican in 2010 that was never carried out.
New York – U.S. prosecutors unveiled new charges against former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Thursday, accusing him of taking official actions on behalf of an investor who provided access to a high-return, low-risk investment vehicle.
Growing up, Hodaya Levi never thought that at age 20 she would serve as an IDF soldier, and definitely not as an infantry female fighter. Growing up in a Haredi family, the now corporal never thought she would join the army.
Charlotte, N.C. – Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, was sentenced Thursday to two years’ probation and fined $100,000 for giving her classified material while she was working on the book.
Police initially said 21-year old Palak Patel died after her husband struck her several times with an object as they worked at this Dunkin Donuts in Hanover, but that didn’t begin to describe the violent nature of her death.
The delivery of S-300 air defense systems to Iran is not a matter of near future, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told the media on Thursday, according to official Russian news agency Tass.
Washington – An American and an Italian held hostage by al-Qaida, as well as two Americans working with the terror group, were inadvertently killed by U.S. drone strikes earlier this year, the government revealed Thursday.
Prominent Australian businessman James Packer has not become an Israeli citizen, despite claims to the contrary, his office said in a statement on Thursday.