A 25-year-old Palestinian man, Ahmed Abu Maria, who fled to Israel and was granted asylum two years ago due to his sexual identity, was reportedly abducted and taken back to the West Bank city of Hebron, where he was beheaded yesterday.
— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) October 6, 2022
May his memory be a blessing. pic.twitter.com/EDd5xf7IDl
New York Governor Kathy Hochul was photographed alongside a Democratic Party fundraiser with a history of sharing antisemitic social media posts, Fox News reported on Friday.
According to Fox, the photos of Hochul alongside Maher Abdelqader were taken at the Harvard Club fundraiser event in New York City last month and posted on his Twitter account.
Abdelqader – vice president of the New York City-based AI Engineers – removed the photos after Fox questioned Hochul’s campaign.
“A great fund raiser by a small group of entrepreneurs and business leaders at the prestigious Harvard Club of NYC for NYS Governor Kathleen Hochul,” Abdelqader wrote in his now-deleted tweet. “Governor Hochul is an American politician serving as the 57th Governor.”
Fox reported that Abelqader previously shared a video claiming that Jews are “satanic,” control the media, and questioned whether six million Jews really died in the Holocaust.
He also advocated for the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign while promoting posts that claimed Jews are not really from Israel.
New York’s gubernatorial election pits Hochul against Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin, who is Jewish.
This morning, I took a look at my calendar to discover there are only 23 days until Israel’s national elections (and 30 until the US midterm, which is a different ball of knotted yarn). To mark this day, Ma’ariv and Panels Politics on Friday morning published a poll that points to an already established trend: while Likud is losing a few mandates compared to its standing in the summer, the right-wing bloc as a whole is increasing, and so, Benjamin Netanyahu should be able to forge a coalition government of (at least) 61 Knesset seats.
The US has stocked up on radiation sickness drugs just weeks after Vladimir Putin threatened to use nuclear weapons against the West.
Officials said the deal — worth $290million — was ‘part of ongoing work’ and ‘has not been accelerated’ by the Kremlin leader's escalating rhetoric.
The US Health and Human Services (HHS) - whose motto is to 'improve the health, safety, and well-being of America - announced the purchase of romiplostim Tuesday.
Sold under the brand name Nplate, it is used to reduce bleeding caused by acute radiation syndrome (ARS), also known as radiation sickness.
Putin issued a chilling warning late last month that he was prepared to use Russia’s nuclear arsenal to protect Ukrainian territory annexed after sham referendums.
But the US Health and Human Services (HHS) said the drug order was ‘part of ongoing work’ and ‘has not been accelerated’ by Putin’s warning.
However, the timing will likely raise questions given that this is the first time the US Government has bought Nplate.
It is unclear how many doses the order covers, but the drug normally fetches between $1,000 and $2,500 per dose.
Israeli support is growing for the possibility of a ministerial post for right-wing Otzma Yehudit chair and MK Itamar Ben Gvir, as seen in the latest poll by Israel Hayom and Ma’agar Mochot conducted at the start of the week — but the deadlock between the right and left remains.
The question arises in light of Israel’s upcoming national elections on November 1 — the fifth time Israelis are being asked to cast their ballots in less than four years.
In the poll, 44 percent of those surveyed responded that Ben Gvir’s appointment as a government minister would be “legitimate.”
The administration of US President Joe Biden has expressed its adamant opposition to any appointment of Itamar Ben Gvir as a minister in the next government.
She filed an objection to the will that established her youngest son as the heir of her late husband Israel Moshe Friedman, the Rebbe of Sdigora
This rift of more than two years has agitated Sdigora Hassidism and the entire ultra-Orthodox Hasidic world, with assets at stake worth hundreds of millions of shekels.
According to Rebitzin Friedman, the documents that crowned her youngest son YitzhakYehoshua Hashil as the Rebbe of Hasidism was signed by her husband while he was in a very serious medical condition, where his younger son and his associates were using severe pressure and threats.
It should be noted that Yitzhak Yehoshua Hashil was 24 years old when he was "appointed" to the position of Rebbe, and overtook his brothers who are about 15 years older than him
Rabbi Israel Moshe Friedman z"l served as the rebbe of the Sedigura Chassidim community for about seven years when he became sick with pancreatic cancer
When the father passed away, his wife announced that her husband's wish was for the three respective sons to serve as rebbes. The family's children signed the agreement, but the youngest son and his chassidim relied on the will which clearly stated that he would serve as the sole and only rebbe
The Rebitzin, who for the past two and a half years remained silent, decided to present her version of the events that has divided the community, stunned the ultra-Orthodox sector, and even led to actual violent incidents
According to her, during her husband's illness, and in particular in the last year of his life, moves were made by those who wanted the "twirp" to be rebbe, to change the accepted practice in Hasidic courts, in which the eldest son fills the father's place in the leadership of Hasidism
