2 Injured in Shabbos Rocket Attacks
A number of Kassam rocket attacks were reported in the Greater Sderot Area on Shabbos. In one attack, at about 13:15, a rocket slammed into a chicken coop in a Moshav in the Eshkol Regional Council injuring a Thai worker moderately in a hand. A second male was injured less seriously in the attack. There […]
Miki Goldwasser Believes Her Son is Alive
Miki Goldwasser, the mother of captured IDF soldier Ehud Goldwasser, told reporters she believes her son and fellow soldier Eldad Regev are alive. She explained that to date, there is no proof indicating otherwise. Telling a Moshav Vitkin crowd that she is aware one of the boys was seriously injured during the July 2006 attack, […]
Hanegbi Calls for Early Elections
Kadima MK Tzachi Hanegbi is calling to set a date for early elections and to form an emergency government in the interim. Hanegbi chairs the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee. Hanegbi stated that when the prime minister returns from Washington, a date for elections must be decided upon. He told Israel Channel 2 that […]
Residents of Shvut Ami Attacked with Rocks on Shabbos
Several dozen Arabs on Shabbos morning approached the Shvut Ami outpost near Kedumim in Shomron and began shouting and throwing rocks. Soldiers dispersed the attackers. Later on Shabbos, towards evening, a crowd of over 100 Arabs returned but were once again driven back by soldiers. A Kedumim security person was lightly injured by a rock […]
Election ’08 News: Obama Quits Church
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have resigned their 20-year-membership at the Trinity United Church in Chicago, after controversies stemming from the church created a persistent distraction for Obama�s campaign. Obama said Saturday that he made the decision with �some sadness,� but that he had been discussing it with his family for �quite some time� […]
The Remaining Jews of Baghdad
The following are excerpts from a NY Times article regarding the remaining Jews in Baghdad: � �I have no future here to stay.� Written in broken English but with perfect clarity, the message is a stark and plaintive assessment from one of the last Jews of Babylon. The community of Jews in Baghdad is now […]
Flatbush: Man Shot & Killed on Friday Night
At approximetly midnight on Friday night, a man was fatally shot on a Flatbush Street, YWN has learned. The NYPD apparently found a man -�identified as 30-year-old Michael Rizzo [from New Jersey] -�with a gunshot wound to the head in the intersection of East 10th Street and Avenue I. He was transported to�Maimonides Hospital by […]
Crown Heights: Bitter Feud Between Shmira & Shomrim Makes it to NY Times
THE NY TIMES REPORTS: In mid-April, a young black man in Crown Heights was struck with a baton and sprayed with Mace by two white men, according to the police, and ever since, tensions have run high in the Brooklyn neighborhood. Jews and blacks who live there eye one another warily, and police patrols and […]
YWN Eretz Yisrael Erev Shabbos News Roundup � 5/30/08
SECURITY/DEFENSE: ��� �07:30 � A number of rockets landed near Netiv HaAsarah. No injuries were reported. POLITICS, DOMESTIC & MORE: ��� �Firefighters in Yerushalayim on Friday morning successfully extricated eight people who were trapped in a factory fire in the Har Chotzvim area. Two of the victims sustained light injuries. Fire marshals are inspecting to […]