Advert TRAGIC: R’ Raphael Mordechai Fishoff, hy”D 35 was killed in a terror attack in Chadera A korban tzibbur from Hadera: The holy and pure avreich Rabbi Rafael Mordechai Fishoff left his apartment to go to kollel yesterday with his sefer under his arm A campaign has been set up to help the Almana and 7 children. |
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HORRIFYING: Jewish Man in Chicago Reportedly Shot by Terrorist While Heading to Shul on Shabbos |
39-year-old Jewish man was shot as he walked to shul in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood, home to many Orthodox Jews, on Shabbos morning, neighbors told Fox 32 Chicago.The shooting appears to be a terror attack. Video footage of the incident shows the man apparently yelling Allah Akhbar before shooting and attempting to flee.The Chicago Police Department told JNS that detectives are still investigating the incident, and it could not confirm that the victim was Jewish. Kevin Bruno, deputy chief of the Chicago Police Department detectives bureau, said during a Saturday press conference that at about 9:35 a.m., a 39-year-old man was walking in West Rogers Park “when an armed offender approached from behind and fired shots at the victim, striking the victim in the shoulder.” “Responding officers responded to the scene, and as they were on the scene, at about 9:55, the offender re-emerged from an alley and fired shots at the officers and at the responding paramedics,” including striking an ambulance, Bruno said. “Over the next two-and-a-half minutes, the offender emerged from various locations and exchanged shots with the officers,” he added. Officers shot the 23-year-old gunman “multiple times” in a different location, less than a quarter of a mile away and recovered the shooter’s gun and took the shooter, who is in critical condition, to a hospital, according to Bruno. The 39-year-old, whom neighbors initially came out to help in the street, was treated at a hospital and released, Bruno added. |
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British News |
Labour suspends MP after CCTV appears to show him punching man |
Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been suspended from the party and has had the whip withdrawn, after CCTV footage emerged appearing to show him punching a man to the ground. In footage obtained by the Daily Mail,, external the Runcorn and Helsby MP is apparently seen continuing to hit the man as he lies in the street. Cheshire Police said a 55-year-old man has been voluntarily interviewed under caution in relation to the incident and has since been released pending further enquiries. |
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Tax-hiking Budget will hit workers |
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Rachel Reeves’ tax-hiking Budget will hit workers however Labour frame it, the former governor of the Bank of England has said. Lord Mervyn King, who was head of the Bank of England for a decade until 2013, said that the debate around who Labour are classifying as a “working person” is “a terrible illusion”. Speaking on Sky’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, Lord King said: “Taxes are paid by people, they’re not paid by companies or institutions, ultimately, they fall on the amount that people can spend, and you only can raise significant amounts of money by raising taxes on most people, however you care to define that, but it’s most people will have to pay higher taxes.” He added: “Ultimately, the impact of these higher taxes has to be on the consumption of most people, however you care to define that group.” It comes after education secretary Bridget Phillipson pledged that working people would not see higher taxes on their payslips. What’s likely to be in it – and what isn’t? No rises to income tax, National insurance hike expected The government has confirmed that a large boost in affordable housing will be in the upcoming budget. £1.4bn for crumbling schools Funding for nurseries, breakfast clubs and childcare VAT exemption for private schools to be scrapped Changes to the £2 bus fare cap Billions to be allocated to NHS Carer’s Allowance expansion |
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World News |
British Airways cancels ALL flights between New York and major UK airport until 2025 as it warns travellers it doesn’t believe ‘issue will be solved quickly’ |
The airline has scrapped hundreds of long-haul flights from London Gatwick to New York over the coming months due to delays in their Trent 1000 engine deliveries from Rolls-Royce. The popular route from the UK capital and the Big Apple will be suspended from December 12 to March 25, 2025, with at least 103 flights expected to be affected. ‘We’ve taken this action because we do not believe the issue will be solved quickly, and we want to offer our customers the certainty they deserve. |
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Israel News |
Gedolim Instructs All Bein HaZemanim Trips To Be Canceled |
In response to recent terror attacks in Israel, the loss of numerous IDF soldiers, and the overall challenging security situation, HaGaon HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka, former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has directed the immediate cancellation of all Bein HaZemanin trips for yeshivah bochurim. The Rosh Yeshiva stated: “All plans for Bein HaZemanim trips should be canceled. The bochurim should remain in the Batei Medrash to learn Torah as a merit for Klal Yisrael, for the safe return of the hostages, and for the swift recovery of the wounded.” HaRav Yosef Korlansky, Mashgiach of Yeshivas Beis Medrash Elyon and a member of Ichud Bnei Yeshivos, relayed HaRav Hirsch’s instruction to cancel all trips. In line with this directive, Ichud has canceled its Bein HaZemanim programs and trips for thousands of yeshivah bochurim, resulting in a loss of over a million shekels and months of planning. Municipalities in Chareidi cities, including Bnei Brak and Beitar Illit, also canceled their Bein HaZemanim plans, facing substantial financial losses. Reports indicate that HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau is considering canceling Bein HaZemanim altogether. |
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One dead, 32 wounded in suspected terror truck-ramming at bus stop north of Tel Aviv |
Bezalel Carmi, 72, from Rishon Lezion, who was killed in a car-ramming attack outside the IDF’s Glilot base in central Israel, on October 27, 2024. (Courtesy) |
A man was killed and 32 people were wounded in a suspected terror truck-ramming attack at a bus stop near Herzliya on Sunday morning — five in serious condition, seven moderately wounded, and 20 lightly hurt. Police said that the driver who rammed his truck into people at a bus stop outside the IDF’s Glilot base in central Israel, north of Tel Aviv, was shot and “neutralized” by armed civilians in the area. The victim in the attack was later named as Bezalel Carmi, 72, from Rishon Lezion.Hebrew media outlets named the perpetrator Rami Nasrallah, an Arab Israeli driver from Qalansawe in central Israel. His body was sent to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute for an autopsy to check if he suffered a medical condition that caused the accident, the reports said. According to the police’s initial probe, a bus had stopped at the station outside the base to drop off passengers, and then a truck rammed into the stop, hitting the people there.Many of the injured were senior citizens who had disembarked from the bus ahead of a day trip to a nearby museum to mark the national memorial day for those killed in the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre and subsequent war. |
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As Mossad head goes to Doha, Egypt proposes 2-day ceasefire for release of 4 hostages |
Illustrative: Mossad chief David Barnea attends a farewell ceremony in his honor, at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, on July 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90) |
Mossad chief David Barnea flew to Doha on Sunday to discuss attempts to move toward a hostage release deal with CIA Director Bill Burns and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the officials will discuss “the various possibilities to restart negotiations for the release of hostages from Hamas captivity, based on recent developments.” Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by IDF troops earlier this month, a development Israeli and Western leaders have described as an “opportunity” to make progress on a deal that would see the release of some or all the hostages held in Gaza.Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said in a Cairo press conference on Sunday that his country had proposed a two-day ceasefire in Gaza to exchange four Israeli hostages for some Palestinian prisoners. The Egyptian proposal — which would include 10 days of negotiations after the release of the 4 hostages — was presented by Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar last week to the national security cabinet, Channel 12 reported. Though most of the ministers and all the security chiefs present supported the idea, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir opposed it, according to the news outlet. |
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