Young man murdered, yellow scorpion sting in the Dead Sea • Shabbat events

Haredim 10
April 26, 2014   
At least five dead in Syria after bomb launched from helicopter • A 28-year-old man was stung by a 'yellow scorpion' in the Dead Sea • The elections in Afghanistan • And was there a tsunami in the Pacific Ocean? • All Shabbat events
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• A 6.5 magnitude earthquake was felt in the Pacific Ocean this morning. No injuries or damage were reported. It should be noted that there were no previous warnings of a tsunami-type event in the area.

 • Police forces from the Sha'i District, with the assistance of the Civil Administration and the 'Ituran' company, last night located a military vehicle belonging to an IDF officer in Ramallah, which was stolen on Friday from Moshav Matzliah near Ramlah, and returned it to its owner.

 • Or Ribak, 22, was murdered on Saturday night by his roommate. The police are continuing to investigate the incident. Ribak had been living for the past four months in Kibbutz Kfar Haruv in the southern Golan Heights.

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• A 28-year-old man was evacuated by helicopter from Ein Gedi Beach on the Dead Sea to Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva this afternoon, following a report of a yellow scorpion sting. The venom of the yellow scorpion is considered particularly deadly, and the man was injected with an appropriate serum. His condition is stable.

• Over two thousand German citizens blocked the streets of Berlin from a group of people belonging to one of the racist right-wing parties, who were trying to march in the Kreuzberg district. The Kreuzberg district is characterized by an immigrant population. German police arrested protesters and rioters from both groups.

• Police arrested a young man who escaped from the hospital at Tio Beach this afternoon. A knife and an IV needle were found in the young man's possession. Initial investigations indicate that the man was stabbed on Thursday night by another young man known to the police, and fled the hospital with the intention of getting revenge on the stabbing victim. During his interrogation, he claimed that he did not know who stabbed him.

• At least five Syrian civilians were killed today after a government helicopter dropped a bomb on the village they lived in. Reports from the war-torn country indicate that the number of casualties is higher, and that the death toll could rise.

 • With the announcement of the results of the presidential elections in Afghanistan, it became clear that none of the candidates won the required fifty percent of the vote, and they will be required to hold a second round. The candidates in the election were Abdullah Abdullah, who received 44.9 percent of the vote, and Ashraf Rani Hamdazi, who received 31.5 percent. .

• Following the American threat against the Russians seeking to introduce 'peacekeeping forces' into Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists in the city of Slavyansk in eastern Ukraine announced today that they are willing to release the returned German inspectors in exchange for the release of rebels held by the Ukrainians.

 • The spokesman for Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced today that, in light of the serious events in the country, the Prime Minister will return from Rome to Kiev today, a day earlier than planned.

• The British Ministry of Defense said that a helicopter that crashed in Afghanistan belonged to the British army. Five NATO soldiers were killed in the crash. The soldiers' identities were not released and there were no reports of survivors, if any, in the accident.

• The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman issued a statement on behalf of her government on Saturday stating that Iran welcomed the reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah against the "Zionist regime.".

 • An official statement from the Australian search team searching for the Malaysian plane said they would expand their ocean search for the plane beyond the 10-kilometer radius where signals from the black box were received. The announcement comes after the unmanned submarine 'Bluefin 21' scanned about 98 percent of the area, but found nothing.


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