A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” sold after a 20-minute bidding war at Sotheby’s in New York, where the flashiest item of the night was a solid […]
US envoy Steve Witkoff’s scheduled meeting with Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya in Istanbul has been called off, American sources told Yisrael Hayom on Wednesday. According to the report, Washington is furious with Hamas for its attempt to garner Arab support to oppose Trump’s peace plan before it was brought to a vote in the UN […]
Batsheva Sadan, the daughter of the kedoshim Rabbi Eli and Dina Horowitz, H’yd, who were murdered in their home in Kiryat Arba in 2003, shared a heartbreaking post about the building where her late parents lived—following the murder of another resident of the building, Aharon Cohen, H’yd, in the Gush Etzion terror attack on Tuesday. […]
Sunset on Tuesday marked the final appearance of the sun over Utqiagvik, Alaska, in 2025 as the town enters “polar night,” a stretch of roughly 65 days of darkness.
A trench collapsed today at a sewer-construction site on South Shore Drive in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, killing one worker and injuring two others, triggering a prolonged rescue effort.
A Washington state resident has been hospitalized in critical condition with a dangerous and “unpredictable” strain of bird flu never before detected in a human being — a development infectious-disease experts are calling deeply alarming. Health officials confirmed that the unidentified older man, who lives in rural Grays Harbor County on Washington’s Pacific coast, tested […]
A former aide to outgoing New York Mayor Eric Adams was sentenced Tuesday to three years’ probation, including a year of home confinement, for soliciting illegal campaign contributions for Adams. But as a federal judge announced the sentence for Mohamed Bahi, a liaison to the city’s Muslim communities, he also addressed the “elephant in the […]
Justice Minister Yariv Levin has appointed retired district court judge Yosef Ben-Hamo to oversee the criminal investigation into the Sde Teiman video leak, following a High Court ruling that cleared the way for him to make the selection. Levin’s original choice — State Ombudsman for Judges Asher Kula — was rejected by the High Court […]
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is slated to meet Wednesday in Istanbul with senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya to discuss efforts to uphold the current ceasefire in Gaza, an Arab diplomat tells The Times of Israel. This marks Witkoff’s second sit-down with al-Hayya. The first came on October 9 in Egypt, when Witkoff — alongside […]
What was once seen as a near-certain cut in interest rates next month now looks more like a coin flip as Federal Reserve officials sharply disagree over the economy’s health and whether stubborn inflation or weak hiring represent a bigger threat. In several speeches in the past week, some policymakers have registered greater concern over […]
MK Meir Porush spoke on Tuesday in the Knesset plenum, marking the special day for children’s rights—and attacked the violation of the rights of Chareidi children. “We gathered here today to mark Children’s Rights Day,” Porush said. “The question arises: why is there a need for a special day to mark children’s rights? In my […]
TRUMP: “I’m pleased to announce that we are taking our military cooperation to even greater heights by formally designating Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally.”
Axios reports the U.S. is drafting a 28-point Ukraine peace plan with Russian input, led partly by Trump-aligned envoy Steve Witkoff, who met Russia’s Kirill Dmitriev in Miami in late October. The plan focuses on four areas – peace in Ukraine, security guarantees, European security, and future U.S. ties with Russia and Ukraine, though Axios […]
A-I POWERED FLIGHT DEALS: Google is rolling out its AI-powered Flight Deals tool worldwide this week, expanding it from a limited U.S./Canada/India pilot to more than 200 countries and over 60 languages. The feature lets users describe a trip in plain language and instantly get matching cheap-fare options generated by Google’s AI. This global launch […]
THE TRUMP ACCOUNT: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says every American child born in the next 3 years, starting January 1st, will receive a government-backed investment account tied to the stock market, giving young people a stake in the economy.
BREAKING: The U.S. Senate has passed, by unanimous consent, a measure requiring the release of the Epstein files — sending the House bill straight to President Trump once it arrives.
