An increasing focus by the US National Security Agency (NSA) on penetrating Israel’s secure communications network indicates the Biden administration’s fear that an Israeli strike on Iran could lead to a full-scale Middle East conflict, a Ynet article states. The article refers to a recent report by Yediot Achranot that cites “knowledgeable sources” that the NSA has recently recruited dozens of Hebrew speakers. Additionally, the agency now employs about 250 wiretappers, monitors, analysts, linguists and translators of Israeli electronic communication traffic including telephone calls, digital messaging and coded transmissions.

Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to Jerusalem on Thursday to attend the “million-man march” which began at 7 p.m. outside the Knesset. Train stations throughout the country filled up with the thousands on the way to Jerusalem, with some already chanting “the Am demands judical reform.” Channel 12 News reported that Israel Railways increased the lines to Jerusalem due to the high demand. Over 1,000 buses also brought people from all over the country to Jerusalem. In the video below, Chareidim can be seen standing on the sidewalk offering refreshments to those who on the way to the protest. Prior to the rally, dozens of professors, including Israel Prize winner Prof.

A blatantly anti-Semitic product posting on Amazon has been removed following a notice from YWN to the retail giant, though an earlier complaint to Amazon from a YWN reader went ignored. The product in question was a linen set emblazoned with multiple swastikas, including on the bedsheet and pillowcases. A YWN reader emailed the company several days ago and was told that an investigation into the matter was underway, but the product posting remained live as of Wednesday morning. The reader then contacted YWN about the issue, which in turn contacted Amazon for an explanation – including a note saying that an article would be published on the matter within the coming hours. Amazon was immediately responsive to YWN, informing us that the product had now been removed from its website.

When you’re 80 years old, you can be forgiven for needing to read off a paper to understand someone’s question. Not so much when you’re president of the United States. And that’s exactly what Joe Biden was caught with on Wednesday. A photo snapped during a Joe Biden joint press conference session showed that the president had a cheat sheet on which a question from a reporter was clearly written out. “How are YOU squaring YOUR domestic priorities — like reshoring semiconductors manufacturing — with alliance-based foreign policy?” the sheet said Los Angeles Times reporter Courtney Subramanian would ask.

Right-wing activist Guy Levy visited Bnei Brak on Yom HaZikaron with his soldier son and was moved by the reception he received in the city. “So following the demonization of our Chareidi brothers in the last few days [referring to calls by some people that Chaeidi MKs would not be welcome at Yom HaZikaron ceremonies], I took my oldest son to the ceremony in Bnei Brak,” Levy wrote on Twitter. “The ceremony was moving but the real amazing and personal experience happened a few minutes later.” “At the end of the ceremony, my son [dressed in uniform] and I went to a local restaurant named Muchan U’Muzman on Rechov Chazon Ish.

Rabbi Leo Dee, who lost his wife Lucy, hy’d, and two daughters Maya and Rina, h’yd, in a terror attack on Chol Hamoed Pesach, was asked to write a letter in the “Sefer Torah of Am Yisrael.” The Sefer Torah is the initiative of Rabbi Dovid Avraham Pressman of Elad, who launched the project as a means of creating unity among the members of Klal Yisrael.

Donald Trump took a brief moment away from attacking his fellow Republicans on Tuesday to launch a blistering attack at the “Biden crime family” whose actions he asserted are “Watergate times ten.” His comments came on the heels of Rep. James Comer, chairman of the Oversight Committee, saying that up to a dozen Biden family members were involved in “influence peddling.” “What Congressmen James Comer and Jim Jordan have revealed about the ‘Biden Crime Family’ would be Watergate times 10, if this news was revealed just 10 years ago,” Trump said in a video posted to Truth Social. “Our fake news media is corrupt at a level like never seen before,” he continued. “There has never been anything like it.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the biggest cheerleader for masks and their associated mandates over the past three years. In the face of scientific evidence and research suggesting that masks were ineffective when worn by the general population, Fauci initially dismissed their usefulness. However, without any new randomized controlled trials or evidence to justify his change of opinion, Fauci suddenly flip-flopped, promoting masks as a necessary tool to prevent the spread of COVID. Fauci claimed that masks were meant for source control and then later argued that they protected the wearer as well. Despite providing low-quality evidence, Fauci continued to support his recommendation that the public should wear two masks.

A group of talmidim from Yeshivas Torat Etzion recently visited the Beis Medrash of the Rosh Yeshivah of Pnei Menachem, HaGaon HaRav Shaul Alter, and listened to a shiur in chassidus, Arutz Sheva reported. During the shiur, the talmidim were surprised to hear the Rosh Yeshivah asking them a question about physics in order to glean a lesson about avodas Hashem. The shiur revolved around the sefer of the Sfas Emes, with HaRav Altar expanding on the creation of the world, saying that every creation needs to receive chiyus (חיות) from Hakadosh Baruch Hu at every moment. The talmidim were surprised when he asked them if they know what “perpetuum mobile” [perpetual motion] is, referring to the ceaseless movement that physicists tried to find in creation.

Yeshivas Ponevezh continued its annual minhag on Wednesday of hanging an Israeli flag on the yeshivah’s roof on Yom Ha’atzmaut. The minhag began after the establishment of the state on the order of the Ponevezher Rav, HaGaon HaRav Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, z’tl, to fly the flag on the roof of the yeshivah for eight hours. Since then, the flag is hung from the yeshivah’s roof every year on Yom Ha’atzmaut from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. Apart from the flag, there is no indication of Yom Ha’atzmaut at the yeshivah, with tefillos, shiurim, and sedarim taking place as usual. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)