In a tragic incident on Wednesday, Reb Avraham Levy, z’l, a 35-year-old resident of Bnei Brak, was niftar after falling from the seventh floor of a building in Tel Aviv. Reb Levy, z’l, was installing an air conditioner when the incident occurred. The niftar was born in the southern city of Ofakim and was a resident of the Kiryat Herzog neighborhood of Bnei Brak. He learned in the Maayan HaShalom Kollel in the mornings and worked as an air-conditioner installer in the afternoons. His friends described him as a man completely immersed in Torah who used every free moment to learn. He left behind a wife, three young children, parents and siblings. Yehi Zichro Baruch. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Rabbi Mendy Zirkind, a Chabad chassid who together with his wife Chani, runs a kosher farm on the island of Maui in Hawaii, where the death toll from the deadliest wildfires in the US in over a century reached 99 as of Monday evening, told Israel’s Kan News “that there may have been major safety lapses here.” “On Tuesday morning we started receiving messages asking us if we had electricity, internet, and cell phone connection,” Rabbi Zirkind said. “Then we started hearing that there were some fires in the west. That wasn’t anything new, there are always some fires there.

President Joe Biden says he and first lady Jill Biden will visit Hawaii “as soon as we can” to survey the Maui wildfire damage. He said he doesn’t want his presence to interrupt recovery and cleanup efforts. “My wife Jill and I are going to travel to Hawaii as soon as we can,” Biden said Tuesday in Milwaukee at a White House event held to highlight his economic agenda. “I don’t want to get in the way,” the president said, adding that recovery work being carried about by emergency responders and search and rescue teams is “painstaking work” that “takes time.” Biden said he has assured Gov.

In a bid to win secular votes, the Hitorerut party in the Jerusalem City Council is preparing for the upcoming municipal elections by the trampling of religious values – launching a shuttle service on Shabbos in Ir HaKodesh. The shuttle service, which will be funded by the party, is scheduled to begin this Shabbos, transporting residents within the city and even to Tel Aviv.

A vacation in the serene Catskills turned into a harrowing ordeal for a Jewish woman when her vehicle collided with a pole on Rapp Road on Sunday afternoon. The accident, prompted a swift response from Catskill Hatzolah. The woman was airlifted via helicopter to Westchester Medical Center for immediate medical attention. She was in serious but stable condition. Four other passengers who were involved in the accident received immediate care from Hatzolah and were taken to Harris Hospital for further treatment. They are in stable condition. A name for Tehillim was not available. THIS STORY WAS FIRST PUBLISHED ON THE CATSKILL SCOOP STATUS CLICK HERE SIGN UP TO THE CATSKILL SCOOP WHATSAPP STATUS TO BE INFORMED OF CATSKILL NEWS IN LIVE TIME (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Quizzed by NBC, Trump’s former Attorney General Bill Barr expressed uncertainty about whether he would cast his vote for his former boss, Donald Trump, or President Joe Biden in the general election. Despite serving under Trump’s administration, Barr made it clear that he opposes Trump for the GOP nomination. He went on to criticize the former president for his actions following the 2020 presidential race, condemning Trump’s behavior as “reckless” and referring to him as a “consummate narcissist.” When questioned about his voting intentions in the general election if the candidates were the same as in 2020, Barr humorously replied, “I’ll jump off that bridge when I get to it,” indicating his reluctance to make a decision at this point.

For the past number of years, I had been unable to spend my summers in the Catskills, with work constraints forcing me to remain in the city. This year, for the first time in probably 25 years, I’m back in the Catskills, enjoying the relatively breezy weather. I’m happily stunned by the amenities that now exist in the once-backwards Catskills, but one thing seriously bothers me. I haven’t done a scientific review of it, but it seems to me that many grocery store do not have prices listed! I’m not a multi-millionaire, and even if I were, I imagine I’d be careful about my spending. And when I or my wife have to go grocery shopping, we like checking the prices to inform us whether to purchase an item, and to ensure we know what the bill will be at the register.

A heated exchange between Mayor Eric Adams and a constituent unfolded at a community conversation event held at Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics in Washington Heights. The confrontation stemmed from criticism of the city’s new rent increase rules, with the mayor likening the woman’s behavior to that of a plantation owner. In video footage captured during the meeting, the woman interrupted Adams to accuse him of “raising the rent.” The mayor clarified that he does not have control over the Rent Guidelines Board, which recently faced backlash for approving rent hikes of up to 6 percent on New York City’s one million rent-stabilized apartments.

YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden Petira of R’ Avrohom Moshe Melohn Z”L, one of the leading Baalei Tzedakah in America. He was 65. The Niftar, who lives in Manhattan, was visiting a friend in Monsey on Thursday morning, when he suddenly collapsed. Rockland Hatzolah responded and did everything they could to save his life. Unfortunately he was Niftar in the home he was visiting. The Levaya will be held on Thursday afternoon in Monsey at Ohr Someyach, 244 Route 306. The Kevura will be in Eretz Yisroel. Boruch Dayan HaEmmes… (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Fourteen people were injured when an Egged bus on the way to the Kosel collided with a concrete barricade near  Sha’ar HaAshpos in the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday evening. MDA and Hatzalah paramedics administered emergency medical aid and evacuated 14 people, including the bus driver, to Shaare Tzedek, Hadassah Har HaTzofim and Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospitals. Two women in their 60s are in moderate and stable condition with head injuries and 12 are in light condition. According to the police, the cause of the accident is not yet clear and the district investigators have opened an investigation into the circumstances of the incident. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)