Two children, a 5-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl, were found in serious condition on Thursday afternoon after being in a closed car for about two hours in Elyakhin, a yishuv south of Hadera. MDA and Hatzalah paramedics and medics who were called to the scene gave them initial medical treatment and evacuated them, showing signs of heatstroke, to Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera. The incident began when a report was received at the Hadera police station that the boy and toddler had left their home and disappeared. Police officers carried out extensive searches in cooperation with volunteers and inspectors from the Elyachin local council and managed to locate the children in the vehicle. The police have opened an investigation into the incident.

Saudi Arabia secretly participated in intercepting Iranian drones during the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, according to Gulf sources cited by Yisrael Hayom. The Saudi air force reportedly scrambled helicopters to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles crossing regional airspace over Iraq and Jordan, halting their advance before they could reach Israel. While Riyadh has not publicly confirmed its involvement — and even condemned Israel’s strikes against Iran — the revelations point to a dramatic realignment in the Middle East, where Sunni powers increasingly see Iran as a shared threat worth countering, even if unofficially.

President Donald Trump announced Monday that Israel has agreed to the conditions necessary to finalize a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza. In a post shared on his social media, Trump said his representatives had a “long and productive meeting” with Israeli officials, and that during the ceasefire period, efforts will be made to end the war entirely. He emphasized that the Qataris and Egyptians — who have been involved in mediation efforts — will now deliver the final proposal to Hamas. “I hope, for the good of the Middle East, that Hamas takes this Deal, because it will not get better — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE,” Trump warned.

Mayor Eric Adams just released a blistering statement criticizing the State Education Department’s refusal to approve special education services to students at six yeshivas. Those schools were deemed non-equivalent by SED earlier this year, and on May 15 SED issued a statement declaring that these yeshivas are no longer schools and are therefore ineligible for the protections contained in the legislation enacted to protect yeshivas. Ten days ago, after the New York Court of Appeals held that SED does not have the authority to close schools that are non-equivalent or to direct parents to unenroll their children from those schools, the Adams Administration informed SED that those children should now receive the services they need. SED refused to engage, or to issue written guidance.

US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is not speaking with Iran or offering them anything, in contradiction to earlier reports that the US will hold negotiations with Iran now that the war is over. Trump wrote his remarks on Truth Social in response to criticism from Democratic Sen. Chris Coons. “Tell phony Democrat Senator Chris Coons that I am not offering Iran ANYTHING,” Trump wrote. “Unlike Obama, who paid them $Billions under the stupid ‘road to a Nuclear Weapon JCPOA (which would now be expired!), nor am I even talking to them since we totally OBLITERATED their Nuclear Facilities.” (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

Recent satellite images reveal ongoing activity and fresh evidence of significant damage at Iran’s underground Fordow uranium enrichment facility following last week’s Israeli and U.S. airstrikes. The site was struck by Israeli forces on June 23, just one day after the U.S. conducted airstrikes using bunker-buster bombs. High-resolution imagery from Maxar Technologies shows an excavator and several personnel near the northern shaft on the ridge above the underground complex. A crane is also seen operating at the entrance to the shaft, with multiple vehicles parked along an access path built to reach the site. Maxar’s photos also show the complete destruction of a facility north of the main compound, surrounded by impact craters and a cloud of dust.

Socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is standing firm on his controversial plan to raise property taxes on what he calls “richer and whiter neighborhoods” — and went even further Sunday, saying billionaires shouldn’t exist at all. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Mamdani claimed his tax plan was “not driven by race” — despite his campaign platform explicitly targeting white homeowners. “That is just a description of what we see right now. It’s not driven by race. It’s more of an assessment of what neighborhoods are being under-taxed versus over-taxed,” Mamdani said. “We’ve seen time and again that this is a property tax system that is inequitable. It’s one that actually Eric Adams ran on, saying that he would change in the first 100 days,” he added.

The IDF has announced the tragic death of Sgt. Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld HY”D, a 20-year-old soldier from Ra’anana, who was killed earlier today during active combat operations in the northern Gaza Strip. Sgt. Rosenfeld served in the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion.

A heartbreaking tragedy occurred in Crown Heights on Shabbos afternoon, when 8-year-old Mordica (Mordechai) Keller Z”L, a young Lubavitcher boy, was struck and killed while crossing Eastern Parkway at Albany Avenue around 5:30 PM. According to NYPD, the child was hit by a black Honda Pilot driven by a 69-year-old man. The driver remained at the scene and has not been arrested, though an investigation is underway. Hatzalah rushed to the scene and transported the child to Kings County Hospital, where he was tragically pronounced dead on arrival. Chessed Shel Emes is working to ensure proper Kovod Hames. Boruch Dayan HaEmmes…

For the second time in the past three days, President Trump said the United States was “not going to stand” for the continued prosecution of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on corruption charges. “The United States of America spends Billions of Dollar a year, far more than on any other Nation, protecting and supporting Israel. We are not going to stand for this,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. “It is terrible what they are doing in Israel to Bibi Netanyahu,” Trump writes on Truth Social. “He is a war hero, and a prime minister who did a fabulous job working with the United States to bring great success in getting rid of the dangerous nuclear threat in Iran,” Trump continues.