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10 Shevat 5768 - January 17, 2008 | Mordecai Plaut, director

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Knesset Votes Down No-Confidence Motion Over Ohr Yehuda School Left Without Electricity
By Eliezer Rauchberger

With a majority of coalition votes, the Knesset plenum defeated a no-confidence motion filed by United Torah Judaism due to "scheming and cutting off electricity at Michtav MeEliahu schools and kindergartens in Ohr Yehuda."

Bais Yaakov School in Har Nof on Strike Until Heating System Fixed
By Yechiel Sever

The Parents' Committee of Bais Yaakov Ibn Denan in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood decided to start a strike following the failure of the school's heating system, forcing the students to sit in unheated classrooms since the beginning of winter.

500 Gravestones Toppled at New Jersey Cemetery by Yated Ne'eman Staff

New Jersey's largest Jewish community was incensed at the desecration of graves on a scale unprecedented in the US when 499 gravestones were overturned and severely damaged at the Poalei Tzedek Cemetery. Only days earlier a similar incident took place at the same cemetery. A community leader who visited the site told a local reporter the cemetery looked as if it had been bombed.

Agudas Yisroel Yarchei Kallah in Jerusalem
By Yechiel Sever

The 8th annual Agudas Yisroel of America Yarchei Kallah was brimming with excitement when it opened at the Renaissance Hotel in Jerusalem on Monday.

Three-Day Education Conference
By Yechiel Sever

A three-day education conference held this week at Kibbutz Nir Etzion near Haifa drew roshei yeshivos, mashgichim, educators, talmud Torah principals and heads of educational institutions representing the broad range of Torah-based educational institutions operating in Israel today.

New Command and Control Center Unveiled at Hatzoloh's Jerusalem Office
by Yechiel Sever

At an evening gathering at the Ichud Hatzoloh offices in Jerusalem designed to foster unity, a command and control center designed to oversee the dispatching of medics and direct emergency calls in Israel was unveiled.

Bodies of Israelis Killed in Plane Crash in Namibia Identified
By G. Lazer

With the help of Israeli ZAKA personnel, Israel Police's Department for Criminal Identification managed to identify the bodies of the Israelis killed in a plane crash in Namibia.

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