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While Shas and Degel Hatorah are portraying a genuine desire for peace in the chareidi camp, one may opine that in the community of Elad, this is not the case, as the two parties toppled a second attempt to create a coalition government in the city.

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Just two months after a wildfire wiped out Paradise, California, officials are gearing up for this year’s fire season and fear the government shutdown could make it even more difficult than one of the worst in history.

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Surele is the sweetest little 3 years old girl, diagnosed with cancer r’l two year ago.

Upon recommendation, we were told to fly from Israel to New York for her treatments.

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Yair Netanyahu, a son of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, has spoken out harshly against former senior party official, former Minister Gideon Saar, who is vying for a realistic slot on the Likud lineup ahead of the Knesset elections.

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Doctors are trying to save the leg of a 14-year-old boy, after a large rock fell on him at Kever Shmuel Hanavi.

United Hatzolah say that the horrifying incident happened on Thursday night at the Kever, when the boy was climbing or trying to sit on a stone wall, when suddenly, a massive piece of rock fell off, knocking the boy down.

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The Israeli judicial community has exploded after police of the Israel Police Major Crimes Unit, Lahav 443, arrested the head of the Israel Bar Association, Effie Naveh.

Effi Naveh, a member of the committee that appoints judges, appeared in court for an extension of his arrest in a case that has rocked the country’s legal system.

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Due to snowfall accumulating during the night in Gush Etzion, area schools began at 10:00AM.

** The level of the Kinneret rose 6 centimeters (2,3 inches) in the past 24 hours, Kinneret Authority officials report.

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Buckingham Palace says the 97-year-old husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, has been in a car accident but wasn’t injured.

The palace said the two-car accident happened Thursday afternoon near Sandringham Estate, the queen’s country retreat in eastern England.

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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem with 60 members of the AIPAC leadership including AIPAC President Morton Fridman and past President Lilian Pinkus.

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Numerous vehicles collided in a foggy mountain pass as a storm system passed through Southern California on Wednesday.

The San Bernardino County Fire Department said 19 vehicles collided on the southbound side of Interstate 15 in Cajon (kuh-HOHN) Pass, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) east of Los Angeles.

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Of all the issues at stake as President Donald Trump and Democrats wrangle over his prized border wall, the latest snag is whether bargaining over the proposal should come before or after shuttered government agencies reopen.

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President Donald Trump hit back at Speaker Nancy Pelosi a day after she asked to reschedule his State of the Union address, saying a trip she planned to make to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan has been postponed.

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The Spring valley Fire Department was battling a blaze at 22 Lawrence Street on Thursday afternoon. The fire department was called at around 1:30PM reporting the fire. They arrived to find heavy smoke and flames blowing out of the windows and roof.

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Sears will live on – at least for now.

Its chairman and biggest shareholder, Eddie Lampert, won tentative approval for a $5 billion plan to keep the ailing, 132-year-old department-store chain in business, fending off demands from creditors that it throw in the towel, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.

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President Donald Trump’s estranged former lawyer is acknowledging that he paid a technology company to rig Trump’s standing in two online polls.

Michael Cohen tweeted Thursday that “what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of” Trump.

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Lebanon’s army intelligence have detained a man on suspicion that he crossed into Lebanon from Israel, a military official said Thursday. The country’s state news agency said the detainee is a U.S.

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A grand Washington ritual became a potential casualty of the partial government shutdown as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Donald Trump to postpone his Jan. 29 State of the Union speech.

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This past December, Fidelity Payment inaugurated its new office in the Brooklyn Navy Yard with the presence of the community’s Rebbes. Attended by Fidelity management, stakeholders, and communal figures, the Kvias Mezuzah event truly encapsulated the merchant service company’s perfected approach: that is, the seamless fusion of community loyalty with industry-leading technological innovation.

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Former Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger has complained of becoming a victim of extortion in prison, News13 reported.

According to the report, Metzger informed Israel Prison Service personnel that he and his family were threated by other inmates.

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This past Tuesday New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo released his executive budget for the 2019-2020 fiscal year which contains a number of positives for the yeshiva and nonpublic school community.

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