Twitter, reacting to growing concern about misinformation spread on social media, is banning all political advertising from its service. Its move sets it apart from Facebook, which continues to defend running paid political ads, even false ones, as a free speech priority.
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(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com)
A recent viral video, highlighted by New York’s Channel 12 News, shows a young Yeshiva student apparently being kicked on the ground and holding his stomach in pain on account of some possible infraction that occurred in the classroom.
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Israeli embassies and consulates throughout the world closed on Wednesday due to a strike by diplomats and consulate employees. The strike was called following a long-lasting dispute with the Finance Ministry over funding for Israeli diplomats and envoys.

Tonight there will be an open forum hosted by the NYC Regional EMS Council to address the request for a new Certificate of Need (CON) allowing Ezras Nashim (aka Chasdei Devorah Inc.) to operate their own ambulance.

An elderly man is in critical condition after he was struck by a vehicle in Flatbush, Wednesday morning.
The NYPD tells YWN that the 70-year-old man on his bike was hit around 10:15 a.m.
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Two Hasidic men were attacked in Brooklyn on Wednesday, simply for taking a video.
According to one of the victims, the two men witnessed a man having a fight with someone, and began filming the incident while sitting in their vehicle – on Broadway near Madison Street in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

Facebook sued the Israeli hacker-for-hire company NSO Group on Tuesday in U.S. federal court for allegedly targeting some 1,400 users of its encrypted messaging service WhatsApp with highly sophisticated spyware.

Following the rash of tragedies which befell the Chareidi community in Israel on Monday, including the deaths of a baby, yeshivah bochurim and young mothers, the Rosh Yeshivah of Ponevezh, Hagaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein said that the moment that the winter z’man starts, everything will be calm, according to a Kikar HaShabbat report.

On Tuesday evening, the Tel Aviv Municipality Finance Committee approved a budget that makes room for the city to operate a public transportation system on Shabbos. The total sum for the Shabbos transportation part of the budget will come to NIS 12.5 million annually.

MK Moshe Arbel from Shas brought up in the Knesset plenum the issues surrounding the smuggling of Khat, a stimulant drug, which, while not being illegal in Israel, it is illegal in many European countries.