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In a deeply disturbing incident overnight, the beis medrash of the former Rishon LeTzion, Rav Yitzchak Yosef, nosi of the Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah of Shas, was set on fire in the Sanhedria neighborhood of Yerushalayim.
The blaze, which authorities have described as an act of arson, destroyed the rav‘s chair and some sefarim.
Security footage from the scene revealed harrowing images of the fire tearing through the beis medrash, while walls nearby were found vandalized with swastikas and Christian symbols, evidence pointing to an antisemitic hate crime.

Tonight’s Adirei Hatorah event is being held at Wells Fargo Arena in Philadelphia, PA.
The event is taking place as part of the annual campaign to raise funds to cover the kollel budget of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ.
This is the fourth consecutive year that the event is being held, a continuation of an initiative started several years ago. This is also the fourth consecutive year that Matzav.com is providing you with a full broadcast of the event.
There’s no need for you to go anywhere else for full coverage of the event. You can watch it from beginning to end right here on Matzav.com. 
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In a dramatic effort to stabilize the financial future of Gerrer mosdos across the globe, the Gerrer Rebbe departed Eretz Yisroel shortly after midnight on Motzoei Shabbos for a high-stakes fundraising mission in the United States.
The emergency trip comes amid the ongoing political crisis and sweeping cuts to yeshivah and kollel budgets in Israel. With the looming uncertainty surrounding the draft law and the status of bnei Torah, Gerrer leaders have launched a bold campaign to raise a massive sum — enough to support all Gerrer institutions in Israel and abroad for the next two years.

French authorities on Friday arrested a man originally from Gaza after an assault on a rabbi in a suburb of Paris, the latest in a series of troubling antisemitic incidents that have shaken the Jewish community in France.
Rabbi Elie Lemmel reported that while seated at a café in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb just outside Paris, he was suddenly struck in the head with a chair by an unknown individual.
Earlier in the week, Rabbi Lemmel had posted on social media describing a separate attack in Deauville, Normandy, where he said he was punched in the stomach by someone speaking a language he didn’t recognize. “I received a blow and was insulted in a language I didn’t understand,” he wrote.

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A firestorm of controversy has erupted across European Jewish communities following the leaked remarks of Rabbi Yirmiyahu Cohen, a senior member of the Presidium of the Conference of European Rabbis, who was recorded stating that he does not daven for hostages from the October 7 massacre if they are politically aligned with the Israeli left.
In a recording aired by Kan Moreshet, Rabbi Cohen, a longtime leader in European Jewry and a member of the Belzer community, is heard saying: “If you look carefully at the pictures of the hostages who are still being held, they’re all leftists. Should I pray for them?! They brought this on us. Yeish din v’yeish Dayan. (There is justice, and there is a Judge).”

In the Zutchka-Amsana chassidus, grand preparations had been underway for a joyous Shabbos aufruf and festive forshpiel to celebrate the upcoming wedding of the Rebbe’s son. The chosson, Shalom Rosenbaum, a talmid of Yeshivas Mir, is set to marry the daughter of the Trisk-Tolna Rebbe of Monsey. The wedding is scheduled to take place in two weeks in the United States.

[Photos below.] The previously reported trip of Rav Azriel Auerbach, rov of Kehillas Chanichei Hayeshivos of Bayit Vegan in Yerushalayim, has officially begun with his departure from Eretz Yisroel and arrival in the United States, where he is scheduled to address the fourth Adirei HaTorah gathering, to be held in Pennsylvania.
Rav Auerbach’s close talmidim escorted him to the Pateh Lounge at Ben Gurion Airport to bid him tzeischem l’shalom.
On the American side, a group of supporters waited at Newark Liberty International Airport in the early hours of the morning to greet the senior posek.

In a major development amid the ongoing crisis surrounding Israel’s draft law, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s office announced early Friday morning that “significant progress” had been made in negotiations, with efforts underway to finalize an agreed-upon version of the bill before the start of Shabbos.
The statement came following a high-stakes meeting Thursday night that lasted more than seven hours, attended by Prime Minister Netanyahu, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman MK Yoel (Yuli) Edelstein, former Minister Ariel Attias, and Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs.