On Tuesday evening, the Tel Aviv Municipality Finance Committee approved a budget that makes room for the city to operate a public transportation system on Shabbos. The total sum for the Shabbos transportation part of the budget will come to NIS 12.5 million annually.

MK Moshe Arbel from Shas brought up in the Knesset plenum the issues surrounding the smuggling of Khat, a stimulant drug, which, while not being illegal in Israel, it is illegal in many European countries.

Border police on Wednesday morning neutralized a Palestinian terrorist armed with a knife, as she attempted to stab security forces at the holy site.
The female terrorist arrived and pulled out the knife as she tried to stab soldiers.

Two men claiming to be repairmen attempted to get into Yeshiva Darchei Torah of Toronto.
The men were dressed in construction vests.
Thanks to proper security measures in place at the Yeshiva, the men never got inside.

A Hatzolah vehicle belonging to a Hatzolah volunteer in Boro Park had his car stolen, before it crashed a few blocks later, Tuesday night.
Sources tell YWN that the vehicle was parked on 50th Street and 13th Avenue where the Hatzolah member had gone inside a home (not on a call).

Sophie Wilmes became the first female and first Jewish prime minister of Belgium when she entered office on Sunday.
Wilmes, who is a center-right liberal from Belgium’s French-speaking community, is taking over a caretaker government from Charles Michel, whose Cabinet dissolved last year.

A video has gone viral of a Rebbe in a Yeshiva in Monsey beating a student, who appears to be around 15 years old. The boy is seen (in the very unclear video) on the floor, and the Rebbe then screaming at him to leave the classroom.

Dear YWN Editor and the People of Israel,
As an Israeli-American and the mother of a Netzach Yehuda (Nahal Haharedi) soldier serving in the Shomron, I am writing to protest the treatment of my son and his comrades who are sitting in jail for the past week over an altercation with several Bedouin.

Following the publication of a compensation package deal that the airline El Al had offered to passengers of flight LY002 from November 22nd last year, attorneys representing the airline announced that the compensation would now be canceled.

A small plane crashed and exploded in a residential neighborhood in the New Jersey suburbs of New York City on Tuesday morning, setting two houses ablaze and leaving the pilot unaccounted for.
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