In a powerful display of gratitude to the Ribono Shel Olam for the miracles witnessed during the recent conflict with Iran, hundreds gathered this past Shabbos at Beis Medrash Mimizrach Shemesh in Beit Shemesh for a communal recitation of Nishmas Kol Chai, expressing thanks to Hashem for His protection and mercy.

During the ongoing Am K’Lavi military operation, Israel’s Chief Rabbi, HaGaon Rav Kalman Meir Bar, visited an Israeli Air Force base, where he met with pilots, UAV operators, and members of the maintenance crew to offer encouragement and deliver a message of gratitude and inspiration.
The visit came amid wide-ranging operational activity and was intended to uplift the spirits of the soldiers and technical teams serving under demanding conditions.

In a deeply troubling incident, seforim authored by Hagaon Rav Avrohom Gurwicz, rosh yeshiva of Gateshead Yeshiva and one of the senior gedolim of our generation, were seemingly removed under suspicious circumstances from multiple batei medrash in the Lakewood, NJ region, Matzav.com learned exclusively this past week.
The disappearance of the ענפי ארז and וענפי ארזי אל volumes comes just months after Rav Gurwicz publicly endorsed participation in the WZO elections on behalf of the Eretz HaKodesh party. Subsequently, an American rosh yeshiva sharply critiqued Rav Gurwicz’s position at a public gathering, a move that apparently led to some doing the unthinkable.

The chareidi parties in the Knesset are once again threatening to halt their support for coalition-sponsored legislation unless progress is made on a bill that would officially exempt yeshiva students from military service.
According to a report by Channel 12, the boycott would apply specifically to private member bills brought forward by coalition MKs. Though the outlet did not cite specific sources, the move is said to mirror tactics used earlier this year to pressure the government into acting on the long-sought exemptions.

The community of Kiryas Yoel is mourning the sudden petirah of Yona Meisels z”l, a 12-year-old boy from the Bloomingrove community, who passed away over Shabbos.
Yona did not have any known medical conditions. On Shabbos, he began feeling unwell and was rushed to the hospital, where, tragically, his condition deteriorated rapidly, and he was niftar shortly thereafter.
Yona was the beloved son of Rav Chaim Yechezkel Meisels, a member of the Satmar kehillah in Bloomingrove.
A talmid at the local Satmar Talmud Torah, Yona was known for his sweet nature and lovable personality.
The levayah was held this morning in Kiryas Yoel.
Yehi zichro baruch.

Popular Israeli actress and children’s entertainer Michal Weizmann, widely known as Michal HaKtanah, made a public commitment to fully observe Shabbos this past weekend, dedicating it as a zechus for the return of the hostages held in Gaza.
“This Shabbos, I chose to stop,” Weizmann wrote on her Instagram account. “A Shabbos of Rosh Chodesh. A Shabbos of new beginnings. A Shabbos I chose to keep in full, turning off my phone, opening my heart, and letting the light in.”

Oded (Dedi) Levinson z”l, a veteran Israeli journalist and longtime media personality, passed away at the age of 64 after battling a serious illness.
Levinson, who served for many years as head of the economic division and a prominent broadcaster on Army Radio (Galei Tzahal), was widely known and respected in the world of Israeli journalism. A lawyer by training, Levinson experienced a profound personal transformation, becoming a baal teshuvah and joining the Amshinov chassidus.

In the wake of Naftali Bennett’s recent interview, in which he claimed credit for Israel’s strike on Iran and blamed MK Idit Silman for the failure to eliminate Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, two of Bennett’s former allies—Silman and Amichai Shikli—fired back with strongly worded public statements, accusing him of shameless self-aggrandizement and distortion of history.

In a communication honoring the day of Gimmel Tammuz, the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, President Donald J. Trump issued a letter to the Rebbe’s Ohel.
President Trump calls the Rebbe “one of the most dynamic and influential faith leaders in modern history,” and relates how he personally drew strength from Rebbe’s legacy during his visit to the Ohel in Queens, NY last year.
The text of the letter:
Dear Rabbis of Chabad-Lubavitch,
Melania and I are honored to send our greetings on the occasion of the yahrtzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, to the Chabad shluchim and the millions inspired by him across our country and around the world.

The Beis Din of Crown Heights has once again sounded the alarm over Tefillin and Mezuzos written by Yaakov Shlomo Itzkovitz of Zinkov, Ukraine, warning that items written by this sofer, whose work was previously deemed questionable, are still circulating in the marketplace.