Recently elected Florida Congresswoman Kathryn “Kat” Cammack (Rep.) said that after she found out that her office will be next door to Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan), she decided she will hang an Israeli flag outside her office so Tlaib will have to walk by it every day. Tlaib, of Palestinian descent, is notorious for her anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric as well as for her support for BDS and ending US aid to Israel.

President Trump railed against impeachment as a continued “witch hunt” and called for “no violence” in his first public remarks to reporters after the insurrection he incited at the US Capitol last week. One day before House lawmakers are expected to vote to impeach him for the second time, Trump called the process “dangerous” and said it is causing “tremendous anger.” “On the impeachment, it’s really a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics. It’s ridiculous, it’s absolutely ridiculous. This impeachment is causing tremendous anger, and you’re doing it and it’s really a terrible thing that they’re doing,” he told reporters on the White House South Lawn Tuesday morning.

An elderly Palestinian man was arrested in the village of Deir Jarir near Ramallah on Sunday morning on charges of rioting against IDF forces, Palestinian media reported. Despite his age, the man, lauded by Palestinian media outlets as a hero, joined rioters decades younger than him in hurling rocks at IDF forces. He was also videoed fighting with a local Jewish resident. Some media outlets dubbed him “The Sheikh of the Mountain.”

The NYS Bar Association is launching an inquiry into removing Giuliani from its membership. NYSBA’s release says “We cannot stand idly by and allow those intent on rending the fabric of our democracy to go unchecked.” The release cites bylaws that “no person who advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States, or of any state, territory or possession thereof, or of any political subdivision therein, by force or other illegal means, shall be a member of the Association.” “Their subsequent attack on the Capitol was nothing short of an attempted coup, intended to prevent the peaceful transition of power.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Melania Trump said Monday that she is “disappointed and disheartened” by the deadly riot at the Capitol last week by supporters of her husband. But in breaking her silence, she also lashed out at people she said have used the tragic event to spread “salacious gossip, unwarranted personal attacks and false and misleading accusations about me.” The statement marked the first lady’s first public comment in the five days since a violent mob of Trump supporters, angry over Trump’s election loss and stirred up by the president himself, stormed the Capitol on Wednesday and temporarily disrupted proceedings certifying that Democrat Joe Biden will be the next president come Jan. 20.

Former Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a former U.S. Attorney and Trump ally turned on the President on Sunday and said he believed the President’s actions before supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol last week amounted to an “impeachable offense.” Christie told ABC that Republicans in Congress would have to “vote their conscience” if an impeachment article is brought forward and “look at what happened.” “What we had was an incitement to riot at the United States Capitol. We have people killed, and to me there’s not a whole lot of question here,” said Christie. “I think if inciting to insurrection isn’t [an impeachable offense], I don’t really know what it is,” he said.

Four cases of the South African coronavirus mutation were found in Israel, the Health Ministry reported on Motzei Shabbos. On Friday, the ministry said that the Infectious Diseases Research Lab at Sheba Medical Center was evaluating the test results of 15 Israelis who returned to Israel from South Africa in recent days and tested positive for the coronavirus as well as five people infected by them. The ministry also reported on Friday that another 117 cases of the British mutation were discovered in Israel, increasing the total number of cases to 147. The coronavirus cabinet voted on Thursday night that all Israelis returning from South Africa, Botswana, Zambia or Lesotho will have to undergo mandatory quarantine in a state-run coronavirus hotel for ten to 14 days. Dr.

The woman shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday has been identified as Ashli Babbit, a Trump supporter from San Diego, California. The gunfire broke out shortly after a group of protesters stormed the building to protest the electoral certification of Joe Biden’s Presidential win. According to KUSI, Babbit was a “14-year veteran, who served four tours with the US Air Force, and was a high level security official throughout her time in service.” She tweeted Tuesday and wrote, “Nothing will stop us….they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours….dark to light!” Babbit died from a gunshot wound to the chest–a round reportedly fired by a law enforcement officer.

For the first time in Israeli history, the Jewish population of the country has dropped below 74 percent.  According to reports which appeared in Israeli media outlets on Sunday, the drop came as a result of the natural growth of the Arab population and the “other” populations of Israel, while at the same time, there was a drastic decline in the number of Jewish immigrants into the country over the past year. At the end of 2019, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) of Israel, the Jewish population numbered 74.1 percent of the total population of the country. Now, in a recent report by the Israeli Immigration Policy Center (IPC), the number dropped by 0.2 percent to 73.9 percent, thus falling below 74 percent for the first time ever.

US Ambassador David Friedman visited the home of HaRav HaGaon Chaim Kanievsky on Sunday morning. HaRav Chaim thanked Ambassador Friedman for his work for Israel and gave him a bracha for continued success. The ambassador requested that HaRav Chaim write a letter in the Sefer Torah he is writing in memory of his parents and in-laws. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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