President-elect Donald Trump wants to turn the lights out on daylight saving time. In a post on his social media site Friday, Trump said his party would try to end the practice when he returns to office. “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” he wrote. Setting clocks forward one hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall is intended to maximize daylight during summer months, but has long been subject to scrutiny. Daylight saving time was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942. Lawmakers have occasionally proposed getting rid of the time change altogether.

Hatzolah of Central Jersey is pleased to announce that, beginning Sunday, December 22nd, all of its radio communications will be fully encrypted, ensuring the utmost privacy for every patient and caller. This advanced digital upgrade, coming at a cost of $1.5 million and having been a project in the works since 2016, includes new equipment for every Hatzolah member and ambulance, as well as updates to all software and tower systems. The new encrypted system is a monumental improvement over Hatzolah’s older analog system, which allows unauthorized listeners to tune in and even speak over the Hatzolah frequency. Such interference not only poses operational challenges, but also allows for the unauthorized exposure of sensitive details during emergency calls.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ronen made an unannounced visit to Ofer Prison to examine the conditions of detention for Gazan terrorists, Kan News reported on Motzei Shabbos. She requested to visit the wing where “illegal combatants from Gaza” who were captured after the October 7 assault are incarcerated. Ronen has recently held several hearings regarding petitions submitted by terrorists regarding their detention conditions. During the visit, she checked whether the terrorists were provided with adequate winter clothing, examined the toilet paper supply to their cells, and checked whether the guards provided them with paper and pens to file legal appeals.

Residents of six Druze villages in southern Syria held an emergency council meeting over the weekend in the wake of the fall of the Assad regime. In a video of the meeting that circulated on social media, the head sheikh says that it is far better for them to be annexed to the Israeli Ramat Hagolan than to live under the rebels, and the audience yells their agreement. Senior Druze officials are adamantly opposed to allowing the Islamist rebels, many of whom have extremist views against non-Muslims, to enter their villages.  (YWN’s Jerusalem desk is keeping you updated after tzeis ha’Shabbos in Israel)

Syrian rebel leader and the head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Abu Mohammed al-Golani, said on Saturday that the new government in Syria is not interested in entering into a conflict with Israel. Golani made his first public comments about Israel’s airstrikes in Syria in an interview with the opposition TV channel Syria.tv. “The situation in Syria, worn out from years of fighting, does not allow for new conflicts,” he said.

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem made a televised speech on Saturday and said that the terror group’s arms supply route through Syria has been severed due to the fall of the Assad regime, Reuters reported. In his first comments since the Assad regime fell last Sunday morning, Qassem, said: “Yes, Hezbollah has lost the military supply route through Syria at this stage, but this loss is a detail in the resistance’s work.” “A new regime could come and this route could return to normal, and we could look for other ways,” he added. Regarding the rebel groups currently ruling Syria, Qassem said that Hezbollah “cannot judge these new forces until they stabilize” and “take clear positions”, but said he hoped that the Lebanese and Syrian peoples and governments could continue to work together.

The IDF stated on Motzei Shabbos that the Air Force carried out strikes in Lebanon after the Hezbollah terror group violated the ceasefire. “Air Force aircraft targeted loaded rocket launchers prepared for firing aimed at Israel, in violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” the IDF stated. “The IDF continues to be committed to the understandings reached regarding the ceasefire in Lebanon. The IDF remains deployed in southern Lebanon and will act to remove any threat to the State of Israel and its citizens.” The IDF reported on Friday that troops of the 769th Brigade, which are deployed in southern Lebanon, discovered a large cache of weapons, including Kornet missile launchers, missiles, rifles, and other military equipment hidden in a dense mountainous area.

The Hamas terror group fired rockets at southern Israel shortly after 9 p.m. on Friday, triggering sirens and causing Israelis to run to their bomb shelters in the Gaza border area, Ashkelon and Sderot. About 40 minutes later, sirens blared again after Hamas fired additional rockets. Two rockets that crossed into Israel were intercepted by the IDF. The IDF responded to the attacks later on Friday night by carrying out airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, targeting the terrorists at the launch site as well as weapons storage facilities. On Motzei Shabbos, the IDF spokesperson said that the rockets were launched only 50 meters away from an active international aid warehouse in Gaza.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been hospitalized after she “sustained an injury” during an official engagement in Luxembourg, according to a spokesman. Pelosi, 84, was in Europe to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Her spokesman, Ian Krager, said in a statement that she is “currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals” and is unable to attend the remainder of events on her trip. He did not describe the nature of her injury or give any additional details. Pelosi “looks forward to returning home to the U.S. soon,” Krager said.

Daniel Penny, a military veteran who choked an agitated New York subway rider and was acquitted of homicide this week, has been invited by Vice President-elect JD Vance to join Donald Trump’s suite at the Army-Navy football game on Saturday. The Marine veteran was cleared of criminally negligent homicide in Jordan Neely ’s 2023 death. A more serious manslaughter charge was dismissed last week. Vance said Penny, 26, accepted his invitation. “Daniel’s a good guy, and New York’s mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone,” Vance said in a post on X.