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Report: Intensive stage of Gaza maneuver to begin Sunday

Thousands of additional troops will enter Gaza, the civilian population will be evacuated from the northern Gaza Strip, and an American company will begin distributing aid at set distribution centers.

Watch: Yair Golan filmed assaulting elderly man

An elderly protester in Kiryat Shmona told the Democrat Party Chairman to 'remove his ranks.' Golan responded by physically confronting the man.

A-G: Serious concern that Shin Bet chief's appointment process is flawed

The Attorney General, Gali Baharav-Miara, criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's announcement regarding the nomination of Major General David Zini as head of the Shin Bet."The Prime Minister acted contrary to legal guidance, there is serious concern that he acted while in a conflict of interest, and the appointment process is flawed," Baharav-Miara claimed.

Trump Admin bans Harvard from enrolling foreign students

US govt. informs Harvard all international students must find other schools or leave the US in latest escalation over Harvard's failures to confront antisemitism and discrimination at the school.

PM Netanyahu: Major General David Zini to be nominated to be next Shin Bet Director

'New Day Will Rise' | Watch: Israeli Eurovision contestant performs at Hostages Square

Israel's Eurovision 2025 representative, Yuval Raphael, and singer Karen Peles arrived this evening at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, where they performed 'New Day Will Rise' for the first time since it won second place at Eurovision. The performance took place ahead of "Evyatar's Jam," a weekly Thursday evening event organized by the family and friends of Evyatar David.

Qatar condemns murder of Israeli embassy staff in Washington

The Qatari Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday expressing its "condemnation and denunciation of the shooting incident outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., which resulted in the deaths of two employees of the Israeli Embassy in the US capital. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterates the State of Qatar's firm position rejecting violence, terrorism, and criminal acts, regardless of the motives and reasons. The Ministry expresses the State of Qatar's condolences to the families of the two victims."

White House: Trump 'saddened & outraged' over murders of Israeli embassy staff

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt vowed that the murderer of Israeli Embassy staff members Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and declared: 'Hatred has no place in the USA under President Donald Trump.'

DC killer was radical left anti-Israel activist

The man who murdered 2 people in a terrorist shooting shooting in Washington DC, belonged to an extreme left-wing organization and regularly published posts against Israel.

PM Netanyahu: 'Free Palestine' is just today’s version of 'Heil Hitler'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decries antisemitic attack in Washington, DC, warns Western leaders against empowering Hamas.

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Misaskim Responds to Tragic Terror Attack in Washington, DC [PHOTOS]

Washington, DC – Misaskim of Maryland is currently on the scene of the tragic terror attack that occurred in Washington, DC last night. Representatives from the organization are working diligently to ensure Kavod HaMeis is upheld. Aryeh Leib Freedman, President of Misaskim, is on site, coordinating with local and federal authorities to ensure that the scene is handled in accordance with halacha. Misaskim is widely recognized for its swift and respectful response to crises, providing critical support during sensitive and tragic events affecting the Jewish community. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

PHOTOS: The Bobov-45 Rebbe On Lag BaOmer

RFK Jr.: MAHA Report Offers First Clear Federal Assessment of Children’s Health Crisis

RFK JR. on today’s release of the MAHA Report: “This report is the first time in modern American history that the federal government gives a clear-eyed assessment of what is happening to children’s health and the potential causes.”

Shai Graucher, Harel Wiesel Donate Vehicle to Gez Family After Mother’s Murder in Shooting Attack

Shai Graucher and Harel Wiesel donated a brand new vehicle to the Gez family, after their mother was murdered in a shooting attack last week while traveling to deliver a baby at the hospital.

Iran Threatens To Take Undefined “Special Measures” To Defend Its Nuclear Sites Amid Israel Attack Prep

Iran’s top diplomat warned Thursday that his country would take “special measures” to defend its nuclear facilities if Israel continues to threaten them, raising the stakes further ahead of a new round of talks with the United States. The comments by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi offered no specifics on what Tehran would do, but international inspectors already have seen their access limited to Iran’s program. That’s even as Tehran enriches uranium to 60% purity, a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%. “I have called on the international community to take effective preventive measures against the continuation of Israeli threats, which if unchecked, will compel Iran to take special measures in defense of our nuclear facilities and materials,” Araghchi wrote on the social platform X after sending letters to United Nations officials. “The nature, content and extent of our actions will correspond and be proportionate to preventive measures taken by these international bodies in accordance with their statutory duties and obligations.” Iran’s mission to the United Nations later posted Araghchi’s letter online, which included a warning to the U.S. as well. “We are likewise of the firm conviction that — in the event of any attack against the nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Zionist regime — the government of the United States shall bear legal responsibility, having been complicit therein,” the letter reads. It added any change involving Iranian nuclear sites would be communicated to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog. Araghchi’s remarks follow a CNN report Tuesday that described the U.S. as having “new intelligence suggesting that Israel is making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.” Israel has not acknowledged any preparations, though officials up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have repeatedly threatened to strike Iran’s nuclear sites to prevent it from being able to obtain a nuclear weapon, should it choose to pursue one. Israel and Iran have been archrivals in the Mideast for decades. Araghchi’s warning come as the U.S. and Iran are due to meet Friday in Rome for their fifth round of negotiations over a possible deal that would see Tehran limit or end its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. The U.S. will be again represented in the talks by Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and Michael Anton, the State Department’s policy planning director. (AP)

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U.S. Existing Home Sales Hit 15-Year April Low Amid High Mortgage Rates

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in April, as elevated mortgage rates and rising prices discouraged prospective homebuyers during what’s traditionally the busiest time of the year for the housing market. Existing home sales dropped 0.5% last month, from March, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday. The sales decline marks the slowest sales pace for the month of April going back to 2009 in the wake of the U.S. housing crisis. March’s sales pace was also the slowest for that month going back to 2009. Sales fell 2% compared with April last year. The latest home sales fell slightly short of the 4.10 million pace economists were expecting, according to FactSet. Home prices increased on an annual basis for the 22nd consecutive month, although at the slowest rate since July 2023. The national median sales price rose 1.8% in April from a year earlier to $414,000, an all-time high for the month of April. “The affordability condition is clearly hurting the market, particularly higher mortgage rates,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. For the past three years, sales of previously occupied U.S. homes have been at about 75% of what they were before the pandemic. The market slump began in early 2022, when mortgage rates began to climb from pandemic-era lows. Homes sales fell last year to their lowest level in nearly 30 years. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage has remained relatively close to its high so far this year of just above 7%, which it set in mid-January, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac. The average rate’s low point so far was five weeks ago, when it briefly dropped to 6.62%. Homes purchased last month likely went under contract in March and April, when the average rate on a 30-year mortgage ranged from 6.62% to 6.83%. High mortgage rates, which can add hundreds of dollars a month in costs for borrowers, have frozen out many would-be homebuyers struggling to find a home they can afford. Homeownership is out of reach for many Americans after years of surging home prices. The median U.S. home sales price has jumped 53% over the past six years. Home shoppers who can afford to buy at current mortgage rates are benefiting from more homes on the market when compared with recent years. There were 1.45 million unsold homes at the end of last month, a 9% increase from March, and 20.8% higher than April last year, NAR said. That’s the most homes on the market since September 2020, but it’s still well below the roughly 2 million homes for sale that was typical before the pandemic. The latest unsold inventory snapshot translates to a 4.4-month supply at the current sales pace, up from a 3.5-month pace at the end of April last year. Traditionally, a 5- to 6-month supply is considered a balanced market between buyers and sellers. One reason the inventory of homes for sale has been rising is that properties are taking longer to sell. Homes typically remained on the market for 29 days last month before selling, up from 26 days in April last year, NAR said. The wider selection of homes on the market likely helped boost sales among first-time homebuyers. They accounted for 34% of […]

Defying Attorney-General, Netanyahu Appoints New Shin Bet Chief

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday evening appointed a new Shin Bet chief, ignoring Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara’s directive on Wednesday banning him from being involved in the appointment. Netanyahu announced his intention to appoint Maj.-Gen. David Zini to the position, replacing Bar, who is scheduled to resign on June 15. “Zini has served in many operational and command positions in the IDF, including as a fighter in the Sayeret Matkal commando unit, commander of Battalion 51 in the Golani Brigade, commander of the Egoz unit, commander of the Alexandroni Brigade, founder of the Commando Brigade, and commander of the Training and Doctrine Command and commander of the General Staff Corps,” the Prime Minister’s office said. “In March 2023, Zini prepared a report for the commander of the Gaza Division to examine the division’s preparedness for a complex surprise event, with an emphasis on a surprise raid, and to identify weaknesses. As part of the report’s conclusions, Zini wrote that it is possible to carry out a surprise raid on our forces in almost every sector.” After the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Netanyahu’s dismissal of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar was “unlawful,” Baharav-Miara wrote a letter to the Prime Minister forbidding him from being involved in appointing the next Shin Bet chief due to what she claims are “conflicts of interest.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Former President Joe Biden Breaks Silence On Last Night’s Terror Attack in D.C.

Netanyahu Appoints Maj. Gen. David Zini, IDF Training Head, as Next Shin Bet Chief

JUST IN: PM Bibi Netanyahu says he has appointed Maj. Gen. David Zini as the next Shin Bet chief. Zini currently serves as the head of the IDF Training Command and General Staff Corps. He has also been responsible for advancing the draft of Haredi soldiers to the military.

WATCH: Netanyahu On D.C. Shooting “Free Palestine Is The New Heil Hitler”

“Last night in Washington something horrific happened. A brutal terrorist shot in cold blood a young beautiful couple – Yaron Lischinsky and Sara Milgrim. Yaron had just bought an engagement ring for Sarah. He was planning to give it to her in Jerusalem next week. They were planning to start a new and happy life together. Well, that tragically did not happen. Yaron and Sarah weren’t the victims of a random crime. The terrorist who cruelly gunned them down did so for one reason and one reason alone – he wanted to kill Jews. And as he was taken away, he chanted, ‘Free Palestine!’ This is exactly the same chant we heard on October 7th. On that day, thousands of terrorists stormed into Israel from Gaza. They beheaded men. They raped women. They burned babies alive. They butchered 1,200 innocent people and took 251 innocent people hostage to the dungeons of Gaza. A short time afterwards, Chancellor Scholz of Germany visited Israel. And after he saw the horrors, he said to me, ‘These Hamas terrorists are exactly like the Nazis.’ He was right. And if they could get away with it, these Hamas terrorists would have slaughtered every last Jew on earth. For these neo-Nazis, ‘Free Palestine’ is just today’s version of “Heil Hitler.” They don’t want a Palestinian state. They want to destroy the Jewish state. They want to annihilate the Jewish people, who have been in the Land of Israel for 3,500 years. I could never understand how this simple truth evades the leaders of France, Britain, Canada and others. They are now proposing to establish a Palestinian state and reward these murderers with the ultimate prize. Well for 18 years we had a de facto Palestinian state. It’s called Gaza. And what did we get? Peace? No. We got the most savage slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. You won’t be surprised to learn that Hamas thanked President Macron and Prime Ministers Starmer and Carney for demanding that Israel end its war in Gaza immediately. Hamas was right to thank them. Because by issuing their demand – replete with a threat of sanctions against Israel, against Israel, not Hamas – these three leaders effectively said they want Hamas to remain in power. They want Israel to stand down and accept that Hamas’s army of mass murderers will survive, rebuild and repeat the October 7th massacre again and again and again because that’s what Hamas has vowed to do. I say to President Macron, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer: When mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers thank you, you’re on the wrong side of justice. You’re on the wrong side of humanity and you’re on the wrong side of history. Now, these leaders may think that they’re advancing peace. They’re not. They’re emboldening Hamas to continue fighting forever. And they give them hope to establish a second Palestinian state from which Hamas will again seek to destroy the Jewish state. And mind you, it’s not going to be a state free of Hamas. When you establish a Palestinian state, we’ve seen it, the radicals take over. Iran sends them in and they take over. So don’t give us this talk, “It’ll be a peaceful Palestinian state”. It won’t be. But the hypocrisy doesn’t stop there. […]

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NJ Police Bodycam Shows Dramatic Rescue of Unconscious Man Seconds Before Train Obliterates Car

DRAMATIC RESCUE: Police in Piscataway, NJ, have released dramatic bodycam footage showing officers rescuing an unconscious man from a vehicle stalled on train tracks — just seconds before a speeding train slammed into the car, obliterating it.

Trump Admin Blocks Harvard from Enrolling International Students

BREAKING: The Trump administration on Thursday has blocked Harvard University from enrolling international students.

Trump, Senate GOP Dismantle Biden-Backed California Climate Agenda

The Senate voted on Thursday to block California’s first-in-the nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, acting to kill the nation’s most aggressive effort to transition toward electric vehicles as President Donald Trump’s administration has doubled down on fossil fuels. The resolution approved by the Senate goes to the White House, where Trump is expected to sign it, along with two other measures blocking California’s rules that the Senate is poised to pass. The House approved the three resolutions earlier this month. The GOP effort to kill the rules could have a profound impact on California’s longtime efforts to curb air pollution. The push comes after Senate Republicans established a new exception to the filibuster on Wednesday to allow them to weigh in on the issue. California makes up roughly 11% of the U.S. car market, giving it significant power to shape purchasing trends. Vehicles are one of the largest sources of planet-warming emissions. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state air regulators say that what Congress is doing is illegal and they will likely sue to keep the rules in place. The two other resolutions would block rules to cut tailpipe emissions from medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and curb smog-forming nitrogen oxide pollution from trucks. Democrats charge that Republicans are acting at the behest of the oil and gas industry and they say California should be able to set its own standards after obtaining waivers from the Environmental Protection Agency. Republicans say the phaseout of gas-powered cars, along with other waivers that California has obtained from the EPA, is costly for consumers and manufacturers, puts pressure on the nation’s energy grid and has become a de facto nationwide electric vehicle mandate. “The waivers in question allow California to implement a stringent electric vehicle mandate, which – given California’s size and the fact that a number of other states have signed on to California’s mandate – would end up not just affecting the state of California, but the whole country,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., before the vote. Newsom, a Democrat, announced plans in 2020 to ban the sale of all new gas-powered vehicles within 15 years as part of an aggressive effort to lower emissions from the transportation sector. Plug-in hybrids and used gas cars could still be sold. The Biden administration approved the state’s waiver to implement the standards in December, a month before Trump returned to office. The California rules are stricter than a Biden-era rule that tightens emissions standards but does not require sales of electric vehicles. Biden’s EPA said in announcing the decision that opponents of the California waivers did not meet their legal burden to show how either the EV rule or a separate measure on heavy-duty vehicles was inconsistent with the Clean Air Act. Through a series of votes on Wednesday, Republicans set a new precedent for the Senate to reject the state EPA waivers with a simple majority vote, as opposed to the 60 vote threshold on legislation that is subject to a filibuster. The votes were a workaround that enabled them to hold the votes after the Senate parliamentarian agreed with the Government Accountability Office that California’s policies are not subject to the Congressional Review Act, a law that allows Congress to reject federal regulations under […]

WATCH: Chicago Mayor Calls Trump a “Monster,” Despite Having Lowest Approval Rating in U.S. History

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) viciously attacked President Trump on Wednesday, calling him a “monster” after the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a probe into the city’s hiring practices for potential racial bias. The investigation follows Johnson’s recent comments at a church in Woodlawn, Ill., where he boasted about hiring more Black people in his administration. “As far as, you know, the president’s animus towards women, people of color, working people, we have always known who he has been,” Johnson said during a Wednesday press conference. “This is not a surprise. He’s a monster.” “We have the most diverse administration in the history of Chicago, and he is threatened by that,” he added. Johnson’s approval rating, however, tells a different story. Recent polls show him with a dismal 6.6% approval and a staggering 80% disapproval, marking one of the lowest ratings of any elected official in U.S. history. The DOJ’s inquiry was sparked by Johnson’s Sunday remarks at the Apostolic Church of God, where the mayor, who is Black, claimed he hired more Black people because they’re the “most generous people on Earth.” Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon responded in a letter to Johnson on Monday, writing, “If these kind of hiring decisions are being made for top-level positions in your administration, then it begs the question whether such decisions are also being made for lower-level positions.” Johnson’s office released a demographic breakdown of his staff, showing 34.3% Black, 30.5% white, 23.8% Hispanic, and 6.7% Asian employees, according to local outlet ABC7. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Chicago Mayor Johnson Calls Trump a “Monster” Despite Own 6.6% Approval, 80% Disapproval Rating

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says President Trump is a monster. Someone should remind this racist that his approval rating was recently 6.6% approval with a staggering 80% disapproval rating. One of the lowest of any elected official in U.S. history.

WH: Massive Military Parade Set for June 14 to Mark U.S. Army’s 250th Anniversary

WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirms there will be an enormous military parade on June 14th for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. army.

WH Press Sec: Trump Admin Condemns Hatred, Prays for Families of Sarah Milgrim, Yaron Lischinsky

WH Press Secretary on the devastating loss of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky: “Hatred has no place in the United States of America under President Donald Trump—everyone here at the White House is praying for the victims’ friends and families during this unimaginable time.”

Dramatic Video Captures Israeli Airstrike on Hezbollah Site in Toul, Lebanon

WATCH: Wild footage shows the moment an Israeli airstrike struck a Hezbollah site embedded in the southern Lebanese village of Toul.

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