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France honors Americans, Briton who disarmed train gunman
French President Francois Hollande on Monday awarded France\’s highest honor, the Legion d\’honneur, to three U.S. citizens and a Briton who helped disarm a machine gun-toting suspected Islamist militant on a train last week.
Police say Palestinian stabber acted alone
The Palestinian held for stabbing an Israeli female soldier this month is suspected of acting alone.
A chosen rail line?
In a city where nothing ever seems to come easy, the arrival this summer of Jerusalem’s long-delayed light-rail Red Line was seen by some as nothing short of a miracle. At many points over the past 10-plus years of construction, it looked as though the Messiah would pass through the Old City’s Golden Gate before the train might arrive. And like many good land-use battles in Jerusalem, this one featured national political aspirations, terrorism concerns and the secular-religious divide, as well as conflicting views of fiscal and corporate accountability and arguments over the best transit solutions for a culturally and religiously diverse city of 800,000.
Tel Aviv-bound train catches fire, injures 121
Some 121 passengers were injured after a fire broke out in a train traveling south toward Tel Aviv.
Survivor, rabbi recall horror of Metrolink train crash
Rabbi Leonard Muroff was driving to his home in Agoura Hills after conducting services at Temple Ner Tamid in Downey, when he heard that families of those thought to have been on the train were told to assemble at Chatsworth High School and wait for news.
Come dive with me — Israeli skydivers training in SoCal
Sharon Har-noy and Adi Freid make up the only all-female Israeli skydive team in the advanced category, which includes just six teams.