Israel

winter weather brought the first snow on the summit of Mount Hermon • floods in valleys in the south of the country • serious accident in Haifa • B'Chadrei Charedim presents: Summary of Shabbos events

Serious security default • F16 aircraft engines disappeared from an IDF base in central Israel • Gang which stole the engines was helped by a factor from within the base, due to the fact that there were no holes found in the fence

Lighting the first candle of Hanukkah yards Kratsnif, Alexander, Derag, Nadvorna Vizhnitz • intentions, blessings, power and mass excited followers • See the documentation

Shas surface burning • tussle between activists camps of Eli Yishai and Aryeh Deri - with a peak: Eli Yishai's nephew attacked and admitted to hospital - has led the two leaders to launch a joint statement at 1:00 am- "to act responsibly in cooperation and unity." "Provocateurs will be removed immediately" • Photos

Initial release • Eight committee of Agudath Yisrael decided to postpone a decision on the rotation delegate of 'Degel HaTorah, stationed in seventh place

After months of frustration, Israeli police managed to place their hand on the Motorbank 2 • Police detectives ambushed him outside the bank branch in Ness Ziona, and caught him after a robbery operation

Hatzalah motorcycle was stolen from the Sharon region and reached Palestinian territories • Security forces feared that it might be used for terrorist purposes

Economic commentator Nehemia Shtrasler said in a TV program: "You know that there's no Hareidi doctor in Israel? Not even one, no" - and jolted hareidi viewers • "Take a tour of the hospitals"

Yahadut HaTorah calls on Hareidi residents to flood the mayor's office: Do not send the attached brochure for property tax billing to Hareidi neighborhoods • Municipality: careful not to offend

8 soldiers forged marriage certificates of the Rabbanut to win grants • A young woman from Haifa collaborated with them and staged a fictitious marriage • the fraud was discovered thanks to an alert bank teller

Netzach promises a varied list and '5 mandates' • "Changing lanes: No banning the Internet • ensuring to explain Hagr"o Yosef was hurt • and in respect to Hagray"l? "Better not talk"

After decades of teaching hassidus and yiras shomayim, Harh"c Baruch Shmuel Heishrik zt"l died at the age of 76 • Raised and shaped generations of students at 'Beis Rivka'

Avner Mori, head of the regional council regions in the last 18 years, and won the support of the Tifrach Rosh Yeshiva - lost to Moshe Shai Chajaj • "devastating moral blow to the Yeshiva"

Minister Yishai will be No. 1 on the list of Shas, and will receive senior portfolio and member in the nines; Deri - Chairman of the Movement

After the bed of Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Amram Yitzchak Zacks zt"l • Students talk about the great figure • his tremendous persistence of the Torah, his humility and his great devotion to his students

An orthodox resident of Jerusalem, who left for a trip in the Judean Desert this morning, with three friends, called Zaka this evening - and reported: "we cannot find the path"

Video of Aish HaTorah, circulated on the Internet wins popularity • See what happens when a woman from Jerusalem, in preparation for birth calls her husband and says: "It is time"

Hgr"d Shmidel and activists invaded the disputed compound in Beer Sheva and rioted • police were forced to arrest him • his men threaten: "We'll burn the country" • and how it relates to the discussion in Badatz?

A Jerusalem resident, lost an envelope with 15 thousand dollars, which were designated for a couple who are relatives • Using the B'Chadrei Charedim forum, he asked: Please, return the loss

'Bet Hillel' organization of rabbis and female rabbis with rulings which have generated a storm: Those who eat Kosher may eat – with certain restrictions – by someone who does not eat, a man

Another anti-Semitic incident in France • On the walls of a kosher pizzeria in the north of Paris, swastikas were painted • graffiti was discovered praising the perpetrator of the massacre in Toulouse in a street nearby

After pressure from the Eda and Agudath Israel, Israeli police agreed to release the Hgr"d Shmidel from detention without restrictive conditions • Suspected to have violated order and attacked a police officer

An end to the historical alliance? • Coalition chairman Ze'ev Elkin reveals likely next government of Benjamin Netanyahu will be composed without sharing with the religious parties

Reciprocal action threatening letters were sent from a the Association for the Prevention of desecration of graves Aharaleh Yekter and from Nesher: The parties accuse each other of harm

Women's organizations demand block of running ultra-Orthodox parties - Shas and Yahadut Hatorah • Reason: the exclusion of women in the party lists, and damage to the Knesset Basic Law

The House Committee approved the split of Kadima • Mofaz tried to change the composition of the committee members but failed • 7 moving to Livni • Rabbi Chaim Amsalem's retirement from Shas approved

Thousands accompanied the Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka, Hagaon Rabbi Amram Yitzchak Zacks zt"l, one of the greatest Gedolim of our generation to his burial place. The funeral left from the Yeshiva in Bnei Brak

Rabbi Menachem Taizi, a late 34 year old Chabad chassid, known from his illustrations and comic books he created, was found dead near the Dung Gate in Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter • he left six orphans

Hours before the Moetzet convened to approve the third candidate of Degel to the Knesset, Yaakov Asher's phone rang - and he was informed: "You are the candidate"

Exposure: Hagaon Adas signed the decisions of the Moetzet • Sari Roth reports on what happened behind the scenes of the saga of third place of 'Degel' at 5 Chazon Ish Street