Jerusalem – With more than 500 rockets fired indiscriminately at Israeli communities bordering the Gaza Strip in the last two days, one couple has developed a creative response to transform destruction into hope. Since Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Yedidya and Shiran Harush, residents of the southern village of Shlomit, have collected shrapnel from Qassam [...]

Jerusalem – A tragedy in the community of Gur Hassidim in the city of Ashdod, after Pinchas Menahem Pshuzman was killed in the evening (Sunday) by a rocket fired by terrorists from the Gaza Strip. . Pshuzman, was hit by shrapnel while running to a shelter, Pshuzman was 21, was one of the most prominent [...]

Moscow – A Russian passenger plane has made an emergency landing at Moscow airport after a fire broke out mid-flight, state media report. Videos on social media show passengers using emergency exit slides to escape the Aeroflot aircraft. Other footage shows the plane landing while on fire and black smoke billowing from it on the [...]

Washington – The United States may review its ties with countries it deems as being anti-Israel after what a U.S. envoy said on Sunday was a shift in policy toward equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a March speech that anti-Zionism – opposition to Israel’s existence as a homeland [...]

Washington – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Israelis have “every right to defend themselves” after Gaza militants intensified a wave of rocket attacks into southern Israel. Speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” Pompeo called the violence “pretty serious.” The flare-up was one of the bloodiest rounds of fighting since a 2014 war. Palestinian rocket [...]

New York – U.S. doctors are tapping into their electronic medical records to identify unvaccinated patients and potentially infected individuals to help contain the worst U.S. measles outbreak in 25 years. New York’s NYU Langone Health network of hospitals and medical offices treats patients from both Rockland County and Brooklyn, two epicenters of the outbreak. [...]

Jerusalem – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he ordered the military to continue “massive strikes” against militants in Gaza as a surge in cross-border hostilities ran into a third day. A rocket fired from Gaza killed an Israeli civilian on Sunday while four Palestinians, at least two of them gunmen, were killed [...]

Jerusalem – Moshe Agadi, father of four, is the 58 year-old man who died after being critically injured when a rocket hit a building in Ashkelon on Saturday night. Agadi is the first Israeli fatality since Hamas began firing rockets into Israel on Saturday. Since Saturday morning, more than 430 rockets have been fired from [...]

Jerusalem – A 40 year old man and a 22 year old man were killed Sunday afternoon from a direct rocket hit on a factory in Ashkelon. Another man about 50 years of age was moderately wounded. Medics treated the wounded and evacuated them to Barzilai hospital in Ashkelon, but were ultimately forced to confirm [...]

Los Angeles – A stretch of road in Los Angeles has been renamed after former President Barack Obama. A concert and ceremony Saturday unveiled Obama Boulevard. The street replaced Rodeo Road, a 3 ½-mile street that runs across the city’s historic black neighborhood. It also intersects with Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and further establishes [...]