El Al will operate about 900 weekly flights worldwide this summer, including a record 55 weekly flights to North America — the most in the airline’s history. That includes three more weekly flights to New York (JFK & Newark), bringing the total to up to seven daily flights, plus one more weekly flight to Miami. […]
Police conducted searches of the phones of key figures in the Likud campaign without the appropriate warrants in the case concerning the harassment of then-state witness Shlomo Filber, Kan News reported on Sunday evening. The searches of the phones of Likud campaign figures, including Topaz Luk and Erez Tadmor, were carried out six and a […]
Israeli soldiers discovered what appears to be a Hamas tunnel after heavy rains caused the ground to collapse near the Gaza border. The site was found about 800 meters (roughly half a mile) from the security fence, near the Israeli community of Kissufim. The IDF says it is now examining the tunnel’s route and is […]
UPDATE: Authorities now confirm a second fatality from yesterday’s midair helicopter collision in Hammonton, NJ. Both pilots’ friends who lived in New Jersey were killed in the crash.
Syria’s Central Bank, with President Ahmed al-Sharaa present, introduced a new currency as part of a monetary reform that cuts two zeros from the Syrian Lira and permits a 90-day period of dual circulation.
President Trump’s top Middle East envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, also took part in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s meeting earlier with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Florida, according to a newly released photo distributed by the Prime Minister’s Office. Prime Minister Netanyahu is expected to meet President Trump later today at Mar-a-Lago at […]
Authorities on Monday identified two pilots who died after their helicopters collided midair in southern New Jersey. Kenneth Kirsch, 65, and Michael Greenberg, 71, were friends who both lived in New Jersey and would often have breakfast together at a cafe near the crash site in Hammonton, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) southeast of Philadelphia. […]
When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipeable plastic card infused much-needed modernity into one of the world’s oldest and largest transit systems. Now, more than three decades later, the gold-hued fare card and its notoriously finicky magnetic strip are following the token into retirement. The last day to buy or refill a […]
New York City officials on Monday announced plans for NYC Health + Hospitals to move forward with a partnership that would bring Maimonides Health into the city’s public health care system, a move they say is aimed at stabilizing one of Brooklyn’s largest hospital networks and expanding access to care. As previously reported by YWN, Hatzolah […]
Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in artificial intelligence has lit a spark under long-simmering visions to build humanoid robots that can move their mechanical bodies like humans and do things that […]
Ahmed al-Ahmed, the man credited with disarming one of the terrorists during the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, has given an interview to CBS News, recounting the moments he confronted the terrorist and helped stop the attack.
