May 15, 2023

Knesset committee approves city tax plan law

The Knesset Finance Committee on Monday evening approved for its second and third readings the so-called “Arnona Fund” bill. The legislation will be brought for Knesset approval next week as part of the Arrangements Law. The fund would require municipalities to set aside 10-28% of the funds raised from property taxes collected from businesses for

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Lincoln Club: US has same issues as Israel with media bias, judicial system

The Lincoln Club of Orange County, the largest conservative donor organization in the state of California, is in Israel this week. Two of the club’s leaders join Israel National News in the studio to explain about the club and why they are in Israel. “We have just under 400 members, they’re all business owners, political

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Shooter kills three before being killed in Farmington, New Mexico

Four people, including a suspect, were killed and two police officers wounded during a shooting in northwest New Mexico on Monday, authorities said, according to NBC News. Three “civilian victims” were killed, Farmington police said, in addition to a suspected shooter who was “confronted and killed on scene.” One Farmington police officer and one member

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2-year-old in serious condition after eating cannabis cookies

A two-year-old boy was taken to Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer in serious condition after he ate cannabis cookies. His six-year-old brother was also hospitalized in moderate condition. The children’s parents brought them to the hospital after the toddler became dizzy and his older brother began exhibiting similar symptoms. The mother told doctors that the

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Terrorists who killed US citizen Elan Ganeles indicted

The two terrorists who shot US-Israeli citizen Elan Ganeles to death in February were indicted today (Monday). According to the indictments, Luai Ma”arouf and Maher Shalloun jointly planned to carry out a shooting attack. To do so, they purchased a gun, ammunition and a vehicle. The defendants drove along Route 90 and began looking for

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Revealed: Bennett, Lapid, Liberman offered NIS 1 billion to haredim

Former Prime Prime Ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, together with then-Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, offered over one billion shekels to the haredi political parties in an attempt to gain their support for the State budget, according to documents uncovered by Kan News. The funding would have included hundreds of millions of shekels for haredi

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Wisconsin police arrest Jewish teacher for threatening students who drew swastikas

A Jewish Wisconsin teacher has been arrested for allegedly threatening students who drew swastikas. Police in Grafton, Wisconsin said that the teacher threatened to shoot students who drew swastikas in his classroom, according to the Associated Press. The middle school teacher faces felony charges for making terrorist threats and exposing a child to harmful material.

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Beit Hashmonai resident killed in plane crash in north

The man who was killed in a light plane crash in northern Israel earlier today (Monday) has been identified as Tal Ben Yosef, a 50-year-old amateur pilot and resident of Beit Hashmonai. An initial investigation of the crash found that the aircraft suffered technical difficulties as it was attempting to return to the Rosh Pina

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Watch: Tiger shark attacks man fishing off Hawaiian coast

An enormous tiger shark attacked an angler fishing off the coast of Hawaii, taking out a chunk out of his kayak, with the scary incident caught on video. Scott Haraguchi was fishing in his kayak on Friday afternoon near the coast of O”ahu when he heard a “whooshing sound” that he thought was a boat

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Abbas demands UN ban Israel

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas demanded that the United Nations take the unprecedented step of suspending Israel’s membership in the organization if it does not give in to his demands to create a Palestinian Arab state and to accept millions of descendants of refugees from the 1948 War of Independence. Addressing the ‘Nakba Day’ event

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Quebec political party urged to condemn antisemitic statements by member

A Quebec political party is being urged to condemn antisemitism after recent statements and a video by one of its members accusing Israel of “apartheid” that contained “explicitly antisemitic language.” B”nai Brith Canada called on the leadership of Quebec Solidaire (QS), the third largest political party in Qu&eacutebec, to condemn antisemitic statements and to clarify

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Naftali Bennett’s new job

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is joining the board of directors of Quantum Source (QS), which was established in 2021 by a group of renowned scientists and engineers to develop an Israeli quantum computer. According to the report on the Calcalist website, Bennett’s role is to help the company mainly with regards to business development

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Anti-Israel rally outside UK PM’s office features Nazi comparisons, antisemitic speakers

An anti-Israel rally that took place in London, England on Saturday featured numerous comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany, hateful antisemitic slogans and speeches by disgraced figures such as former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. According to Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), the protest against Israel outside Downing Street, the UK prime minister”s office, was thought to

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A Rabbi and a Eurovision star get on a plane…

Rabbi of Gush Etzion Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon happened to encounter Noa Kirel on her flight to Israel, after she won third place in the 2023 Eurovision final. Kirel was moved by the meeting with Rabbi Rimon, and was slightly surprised when Rabbi Rimon did not know her name and was not aware of the

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ADL finds Americans worried emerging AI tech could increase hate and harassment

A new survey by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that most Americans are concerned that emerging AI technologies could worsen hate and harassment in society. Three-quarters of Americans believe that it is likely generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools such as ChatGPT will be “misused or abused” to further hate or harassment, the ADL survey found.

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Islamic Jihad attacks, the Jewish left blames Israel

As Palestinian Islamic Jihad fires hundreds of rockets at Israeli schools and kibbutzim, some on the American Jewish left were firing verbal arrows at Israel, accusing the Jewish state of being the aggressor. Incredible! Anybody who has followed the news in recent days knows that on May 2, an imprisoned leader of the Palestinian Islamic

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Givatayim man arrested for leaking House of the Dragon finale

Central District police have conducted an undercover investigation during the past few months, upon receiving a complaint from HBO regarding a suspected hacking into a satellite company’s servers, while copying and distributing on pirate sites the last and confidential episode of the flagship series House of the Dragon, which is the continuation of Game of

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Austria: Decrease in overall antisemitic incidents, physical attacks remain high

A new study found that while antisemitic incidents in Austria decreased during 2022, physical attacks against Jews remained at an all-time high. A total of 719 antisemitic incidents were noted by the Reporting Centre for Antisemitism (Antisemitismus-Meldestelle) of the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG Wien) for 2022. This represented a decrease of 25.5 percent from

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‘EndJewHatred’ movement to rally outside UN today

The international grassroots movement ‘EndJewHatred’ will mobilize outside the United Nations Headquarters on the corner of 42nd Street and 1st Ave., New York, NY, 10017, at 5 p.m. ET on Monday, May 15 (today) to stand in solidarity with citizens of Israel who were under terrorist attack by Islamic Jihad last week and to protest

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PA man brought lifeless to crossing, revived by guards, EMTs

This morning (Monday), just before 9:00 am, a Palestinian Arab man was brought to the Hashmonaim Crossing by relatives after suffering a cardiac arrest. Security guards at the checkpoint immediately alerted emergency forces and initiated CPR on the 63-year-old. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Moshe Margolis was driving to work, not far from the checkpoint, when

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The assassin was on his way: Police foiled 27 murders

During a meeting of the Knesset’s National Security Committee, it was revealed that since the beginning of 2023, Israel Police have foiled 27 instances of planned murder. The data was revealed by Deputy Police Commissioner Avshalom Feld, during a discussion regarding the police’s handling of crime in the Arab street. During the discussion, it was

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