The Chevra Kadisha’s work never ends and must be performed with mesiras nefesh under all circumstances. The members of the Chevra Kadisha in Sderot held three levayos on Wednesday as hundreds of rockets rained down on the city. The levayos were carried out in cooperation with the Sderot Religious Council, the Home Front Command, and the Sderot Municipality. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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During a contentious CNN town hall Wednesday night, former President Donald Trump dug in on his position about the 2020 election, downplayed the violence on Jan. 6, 2021, and repeatedly insulted the woman whom a civil jury this week found him liable of abusing and defaming. Trump, returning to the network after years of acrimony, also refused to say whether he wants Ukraine to win the war against Russian aggression and said the U.S. “might as well” default on its debt obligation, despite the potential devastating economic consequences. The live, televised event — held in early-voting New Hampshire — underscored the challenges of fact-checking Trump in real time.

Hatzolah of Boro Park has launched a new campaign urging drivers to take it slow and heed the law – especially on Friday afternoons. A flyer released by Hatzolah stated that 52 drivers blew through red lights this past Friday alone, adding, “How much grief can we prevent?” “Safety doesn’t stop before the zman – no matter what time Shabbos starts,” the flyer reads. “Join us in a Boro Park effort to keep our children and community safe by following traffic laws, driving within city speed limits, and obeying road rules. Keep Boro Park safe.” The campaign comes just weeks after the tragic petirah of 23-year-old Chaim Bloom z”l, a recently married man who was sadly niftar on Erev Pesach after being struck when two vehicles rushing to beat the zman collided and wound up on a sidewalk.

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer on Wednesday released a bank records memorandum detailing new information obtained in the committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling and business schemes. The Oversight Committee has obtained thousands of pages of financial records revealing the Biden family and associates’ complicated network of companies set up during Joe Biden’s vice presidency and the millions the Bidens received from foreign sources. The financial records also reveal how the Bidens used complicated transactions to hide payments from foreign nationals, including CCP-linked associates, and provide clear indications of influence peddling schemes during then-Vice President Biden’s tenure.

Following is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement to the media this evening (Wednesday, 10 May 2023): “Citizens of Israel, we are still in the midst of a campaign. At this very moment, our forces are fiercely attacking the Gaza Strip and exacting a heavy price from the terrorist organizations. I would like to reiterate: Whoever harms us, whoever sends terrorists against us, will pay the price. This principle, that whoever attacks us and tries to attack us will pay the price, was significantly strengthened today in Operation Shield and Arrow. The development of new technological capabilities, and the parallel development of new operational capabilities, in combination with our initiative, is creating a new equation.

A 72-year-old Jewish bus driver who was returning from Meron on Tuesday evening accidentally entered the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya and was violently attacked by local Arabs. Arabs threw Molotov cocktails and stones at the bus, which caught on fire. Police forces who were in the area quelled the rioters and rescued the driver from the bus right before it burst into flames. United Hatzalah paramedics who were called to the scene administered emergency medical aid to the bus driver while being guarded by Israel Police and Border Guard officers. He was evacuated to Hadassah Har HaTzofim Hospital in light condition. The bus driver said that he had given tzedakah l’zechus Rashbi in Meron and it saved him from certain death. “They were beating me,” he said.

U.S. Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican infamous for fabricating key parts of his life story, has been indicted on charges that he embezzled money from his campaign, lied to Congress about his income and cheated his way into undeserved unemployment benefits, prosecutors said Wednesday. The indictment says Santos induced supporters to donate to a company under the false pretense that the money would be used to support his campaign. Instead, it says, he used it for personal expenses, including to buy designer clothes and to pay his credit cards and car payments.

Red alert sirens were heard in Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Netivot and multiple nearby communities early Wednesday afternoon, the first rockets to be launched from Gaza since Israel launched Operation Shield and Arrow overnight Monday. As the rocket barrage continued, sirens were heard in the Tel Aviv area, including Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Rishon L’Tzion, Bat Yam, Holon and Giv’atayim. Dozens of rockets were fired into Israel. Nine rockets fired at Sderot were intercepted by the Iron Dome. As the rocket barrage continued, a house in Sderot suffered a direct hit but b’Chasdei Hashem, there were no injuries. The house suffered damage. Rockets continue to fall as Israeli fighter jets simultaneously bomb rocket launchers and mortar positions throughout the Gaza Strip.

Mourning has gripped the Belzer community in Lakewood as word spread of the tragic petirah of 15-year-old Batsheva Cohen a”h, who was struck and killed by a vehicle on Tuesday night. The accident occurred at the intersection of Route 70 and Vermont Avenue in Lakewood just before 10 pm. Hatzolah paramedics rushed the critically injured teenager to Monmouth Medical Southern Campus in Lakewood where doctors attempted to save her life. Sadly, Batsheva a”h passed away a short time later. Levaya details will be published when they become available to YWN. Boruch Dayan HaEmmes… (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A Tunisian naval guard shot and killed a colleague and two civilians Tuesday near the El Ghriba shul on the island of Djerba during the community’s Lag BaOmer event, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said. The attacker was killed by security guards seeking to prevent him from entering the shul, the ministry said in a statement. Ten people were injured in the attack near the 2,500-year-old Ghriba shul. The assailant, a guard affiliated with the National Guard naval center in the town of Aghir on Djerba, first killed a colleague with his service weapon and then seized ammunition and sought to reach the Ghriba shul, the ministry said.