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If everybody paid to ride the subway, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority may not have to raise fares.
New York City Transit says 19-million people hop turnstiles or enter through emergency exits each year, far more than the previous estimate of about five million a year.
If all of those 19 million cheats paid a regular cash fare, [...]

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Fare Beaters Cost NYC Transit $43 Million

Widespread rock-throwing attacks are being reported throughout Yehuda and Shomron, as well as in eastern areas of the capital and of course, Har Habayis. At least 15 Arabs have been arrested so far on Tuesday morning and police are using teargas and other riot-control adjuncts to restore order. It appears tens of Arabs have been [...]

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11:30AM IL: Update on Arab Violence in Eretz Yisrael

10:17AM IL: Police report sporadic Islamic violence in eastern areas of the capital on Tuesday morning, compelling the use of teargas to disperse participants. Rock-throwing attacks are reported in a number of areas, including around the Old City and near Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital.
One Jew was detained by police after he insisted he wished to [...]

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Islamic Violence in Jerusalem on Tuesday Morning

Some 3,000 police have been on alert status in and around Har HaBayis since the weekend in expectation of widespread Islamic violence. Today, Tuesday, police explain will be the true test, a day on which violence may reach its peak as Hamas declared Tuesday a Day of Rage.
Restrictions on the Temple Mount remain today, barring [...]

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Security Remains High – Hamas Declares ‘Rage Day’

9:00PM IL: The body of a woman was found on Monday evening on Geula Street in Pardes Chana. A MDA physician pronounced the female dead on the scene. Suspecting foul play, crime scene investigators were summoned.
Police are indicating it appears her death was a murder. Zaka volunteers from the organization’s northern area are on the [...]

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Murder Suspected in Pardes Chana

The former chief executive of The Park Avenue Bank in New York, which was closed by regulators on Friday, was arrested Monday, according to media reports. Charles Antonucci Sr., who resigned last year, was taken into custody and charged with fraud on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., making false statements on a TARP application, and [...]

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Ex-The Park Ave Bank President Arrested & Charged With Fraud, Other Crimes

Kfir Brigade Sgt. Binyamin Carmel was cleared of charges of assaulting Arabs. Four other soldiers in the case who admitted to their actions were convicted and demoted in rank.
Defense attorney Shlomi Tzipori expressed harsh criticism regarding the fashion in which military police conducted themselves during the investigation, leveling harsh allegations pertaining to their lack of [...]

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IDF Sgt. Carmel Cleared in Striking Arabs

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Heightened Alert Status on Har HaBayis

Following the failure of LibertyPointe Bank on Thursday, the FDIC has announced another New York bank failure, The Park Avenue Bank, bringing the 2010 bank failure total to 28.
The bank, which has 4 branches and an estimated $520.1 million in assets as of last year, was closed by the New York State Banking Department late [...]

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Park Avenue Bank Follows LibertyPointe Bank Failure; Taken Over By Valley National Bank

Vandals targeted a Holocaust memorial in Poland, situated near Krakow, spray painting anti-Semitic epithets. They messages were painted in German and English local media reports, including messages including “Jews out!” and praising Adolph Hitler YS”V.
Today, Sunday, a memorial is planned to mark 67 years since the dismantling of the ghetto from which many were deported [...]

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Vandals Target Holocaust Memorial in Poland