JERUSALEM—Seven people were killed and 10 were injured in a synagogue shooting attack on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Friday, Israel’s foreign ministry said. Israel’s ambulance service put the death toll at five and said another five people were wounded and transported to hospitals, including a 70-year-old woman. Israeli police described it as a “terror…

JERUSALEM—Seven people were killed and 10 were injured in a synagogue shooting attack on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Friday, Israel’s foreign ministry said. Israel’s ambulance service put the death toll at five and said another five people were wounded and transported to hospitals, including a 70-year-old woman. Israeli police described it as a “terror…

NEW YORK—Social media posts about attacking a synagogue represented a real danger to the city’s Jewish community, Mayor Eric Adams said Monday. “This was not an idle threat,” Adams said at a news conference where he was joined by officials from the FBI, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and other agencies involved in the arrests early…

CHICAGO—A synagogue and an affiliated Jewish school in Chicago were vandalized over the weekend with swastika images and antisemitic graffiti, officials said. The incidents occurred Sunday at the FREE Synagogue and Hanna Sacks Bais Yaakov High School. “We’ll get through it,” Rabbi Levi Notik told WFLD-TV. “I want to thank law enforcement, they did a…

The man who is accused of selling a firearm to the British national who took four hostages at a Texas synagogue earlier in January has been arrested. Henry Dwight Williams, 32, was taken into custody on Jan. 24 and was ordered held until his next court appearance on Jan. 31, according to court documents. Authorities…

The man accused of taking hostages in a Texas synagogue over the weekend was screened before entering the United States but the screenings raised no red flags, according to the White House. “Our understanding—and, obviously, we’re still looking into this—is that he was checked against U.S. government databases multiple times prior to entering the country,…

COLLEYVILLE, Texas—An armed man who took four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue had spent time in area homeless shelters in the two weeks leading up to the attack, and was dropped off at one by someone he appeared to know. Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British national who authorities identified…

Two teenagers have been arrested in the United Kingdom, in connection with a British national who took four hostages at a Texas Synagogue on Saturday, police have said. “As part of the ongoing investigation into the attack that took place at a Synagogue in Texas on 15 January 2022, Officers from the Counter Terror Policing North…

A man has taken hostages during services at a synagogue near Fort Worth, Texas, and FBI crisis negotiators are trying to negotiate with the man, according to the local police department in Colleyville in a statement. After 5 p.m. local time, a male hostage was “released uninjured” from the “major incident,” according to the statement from…

Hostages were rescued from inside a Texas synagogue following standoff that lasted nearly 12 hours, Gov. Greg Abbott announced late Saturday. “Prayers answered. All hostages are out alive and safe,” the governor announced on Twitter. Abbott’s post came moments after a loud bang and what sounded like gunfire was heard coming from the synagogue—Congregation Beth…