North Korea on Thursday displayed apparent progress in the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine, with state media photos showing a largely completed hull, as leader Kim Jong Un condemned rival South Korea’s push to acquire the technology. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim visited a shipyard to inspect the construction of what the […]
What happens when a group of chareidi real estate professionals encounter a large-scale coastal development originally planned for a secular audience—and see the opportunity to rethink it entirely? That question led to the emergence of BlueCliff Netanya, a residential project now taking shape along the city’s coastline, just beyond Kiryat Sanz. The development reimagines […]
Talks between Israel and Syria on a potential security agreement have reportedly made significant progress in recent weeks and could soon lead to a deal according to reports. The momentum is said to be linked to strong U.S. involvement by President Trump, with a possible signing at a high-level meeting in Europe. The Syrian source […]
Rabbi Yaakov Herzog, the self-appointed “chief rabbi of Saudi Arabia,” announced that he was denied entry to the Kingdom, despite holding a valid visa and having spent years traveling in and out of the country. “With profound regret, I announce that I was barred from entering the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia upon arrival,” Herzog wrote […]
For the second day in a row, Jordanian warplanes struck the Suwayda countryside, hitting several drug and weapons smuggling sites, according to Syrian media.
After heavy rainfall in the area, a man was filmed riding a kneeboard that was tied to the back of a pickup truck, sliding through muddy water along Bear Valley Road in Hesperia, California.
The Israeli man suspected of photographing former prime minister Naftali Bennett’s home on behalf of Iran was employed as a maintenance contractor at the Kirya military complex in Tel Aviv, Kan News reported on Thursday. The suspect, Vadim Kupriyanov, worked for the past three years as a maintenance contractor at the Kirya. On the day […]
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the California DMV on behalf of nearly 20,000 immigrant commercial drivers, after the state notified them that their CDLs would be canceled starting Jan. 5, 2026, due to expiration-date issues tied to work-authorization documents. The lawsuit claims the DMV violated state procedures, failed to provide a way to […]
Like many retirement communities, The Terraces serves as a tranquil refuge for a nucleus of older people who no longer can travel to faraway places or engaging in bold adventures. But they can still be thrust back to their days of wanderlust and thrill-seeking whenever caretakers at the community in Los Gatos, California, schedule a […]
Former captive Eitan Mor said on Thursday that Hamas possesses extensive information about the IDF. Speaking at the Bnei Akiva National Education and Makor Rishon conference, Mor said, “They know a lot about the army—sometimes even more than most of the soldiers serving in the army today.” “They have booklets in Arabic with details on […]
For more than half a century, two of America’s most infamous unsolved murders—the Zodiac killings and the Black Dahlia—have occupied a peculiar place in the national imagination: endlessly theorized, officially unresolved, and periodically revived by a new suspect or cipher crack that promises, and usually fails, to bring closure. Now, an unlikely figure is insisting […]
Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura won Honduras’ presidential election, electoral authorities said Wednesday afternoon, ending a weeks-long count that has whittled away at the credibility of the Central American nation’s fragile electoral system. The election is continuing Latin America’s swing to the right, coming just a week after Chile chose the far-right politician José Antonio Kast as its next president. Asfura, […]
Almost a thousand single parents and their children from across the Tri State area gathered at Nickelodeon Park in the American Dream Mall on the fifth night of Chanukah for My Extended Family’s Chanukah Extravaganza. Families came from all over, reflecting the organization’s reach across six branches and its openness to children from every community. […]
Hafganos underway in Yerushalyim after a Yeshiva Bochur was arrested overnight for failing to reply to an IDF draft notice. Protesters are currently blocking the light rail. As YWN reported earlier, the Bochur was pulled put of bed despite suffering from the flu with high fever.
The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudas Yisrael, representing the chassidic leadership, is scheduled to convene on Sunday at 1:00 PM in Moshav Ora, at the temporary home of the Vizhnitzer Rebbe, amid mounting controversy surrounding Israel’s proposed military draft legislation. During the meeting, the members of the Moetzes are expected to formally declare their opposition […]
IDF troops operating along the Yellow Line in northern Gaza dismantled over 4 km of Hamas tunnels in the areas of Jabaliya, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahiya. Soldiers also eliminated dozens of terrorists and found 10 mortar shells hidden in a child’s blanket inside a home in Beit Hanoun.
A bomb exploded during prayers at a mosque in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday night, killing five people in what police described as a likely suicide attack. Police said that 35 people were also injured in the attack. Nahum Daso, spokesperson for police command in the surrounding state of Borno, said in a […]
ISRAELI POLICE GIVE HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR KAVOD ACHARON * Police officers in Tel Aviv discovered the body of 85-year-old Holocaust survivor Igo Margolis, who lived alone with no family. * After efforts to find relatives failed, the officers arranged his funeral and burial at Yarkon Cemetery. * They recited Kaddish and committed to visiting his kever […]
