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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 […]

A short while ago, IDF observation posts and the IAF aerial control center identified two drones that crossed from the west into Israeli territory in a smuggling attempt. Following the identification, an IAF combat helicopter intercepted the two drones upon their entry into Israeli territory.

Israel overnight returned the body of Abd al-Muttalib al-Qaisi, the Jordanian truck driver terrorist who killed two IDF soldiers at the Allenby Crossing in September. His family held a dawn funeral procession and buried him in Wadi al-Shita, in the Amman district.

A powerful winter storm is bearing down on the Tri-State area, with forecasters warning of significant snowfall, dangerous travel, and possible ice from Friday evening through Shabbos morning. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Watch for New York City, much of New Jersey, and southern Connecticut as an area of low pressure […]

Saudi Arabia on Thursday formally called on Emirati-backed separatists in Yemen to withdraw from two governorates their forces now control in the country, a move that threatens sparking a confrontation within a fragile coalition battling the Houthi rebels. The statement from Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry appeared aimed at putting public pressure on the Southern Transitional Council, a […]

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The U.S. Supreme Court is nearing a decision that could eliminate race-based congressional districts.

Turkish authorities detained 115 suspected Islamic State members, saying the group was planning attacks targeting Christmas and New Year celebrations across the country.

ELIMINATED: IDF and ISA kill senior Iranian Quds Force terrorist Hussein Mahmoud Marshad al-Jawhari in southern Lebanon. Israel says he planned Iran-backed attacks from Syria and Lebanon under the IRGC’s direction.

RISHON LEZION MAN CHARGED WITH ACTING ON BEHALF OF IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE * A 40-year-old resident of Rishon LeZion has been charged on suspicion of acting on behalf of Iranian intelligence. * Prosecutors say he filmed near the home of former PM Naftali Bennett in Ra’anana as part of the activity. * An indictment has been […]