With Donald Trump being arraigned in New York on hush money payment charges on Tuesday, analysts are already looking ahead to the expected trial and wondering how things will play out. Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who served under President Trump, has a word of advice for the former commander-in-chief: don’t take the stand to defend yourself. “I’m not his lawyer. Generally, I think it’s a bad idea to go on the stand, and I think it’s a particularly bad idea for Trump because he lacks all self-control, and it would be very difficult to prepare him and keep him testifying in a prudent fashion,” Barr said on Fox News.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams is telling New Yorkers not to worry about the drama that will unfold in Manhattan on Tuesday when Trump is indicted, saying that the NYPD will maintain peace and calm. “New York City is our home, not a playground for your misplaced anger,” he said to anyone who is planning to protest Trump’s arrest. Adams also warned conservative firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to “be on your best behavior.” Greene has been planning to protest Trump’s indictment during Tuesday’s proceedings. The mayor said that everyone has a right to protest, but it most be done peacefully, a sentiment that was echoed by NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell.

Former President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Sunday evening that he will be heading to New York on Monday before making an appearance at a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday. “I will be leaving Mar-a-Lago on Monday at 12 noon, heading to Trump Tower in New York,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “On Tuesday morning I will be going to, believe it or not, the Courthouse. America was not supposed to be this way!” Trump has repeatedly hammered Bragg over the investigation into his 2016 hush money payments, including earlier in the day on Sunday. “The Corrupt D.A. has no case. What he does have is a venue where it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to get a Fair Trial (it must be changed!),” Trump wrote. “And a Trump Hating Judge, hand selected by the Soros backed D.A. (he must be changed!).

Undercover Border Guard officers and IDF forces entered Shechem on Monday morning and surrounded the home of terrorists suspected of perpetrating the terror attack in Huwara over a week ago, in which two IDF soldiers were injured, one seriously. A heavy gun battle erupted during the operation between Palestinians and IDF forces. Two terrorists were killed, one was seriously injured, and two were captured alive. B’Chasdei Hashem, there were no injuries among IDF forces. The moments of the arrest: (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Former President Donald Trump has reportedly received over $5 million in donations in the 48 hours since he was indicted on Thursday. According to Axios, Trump’s supporters contributed $4 million in the first 24 hours alone, with an additional $1 million the following day. The surge in funding appears to confirm Trump’s and his allies’ claims that an indictment would only endear him further to his base. Trump campaign advisor Jason Miller said, “There’s a whole new group of Trump supporters who are angered by what they see as this political persecution.” Trump is expected to surrender himself to authorities in New York on Tuesday, with the Secret Service accompanying him as New York authorities book the president, take his fingerprints, and photograph him.

IDF Brig.-Gen. Daniel Hagari, a senior Navy officer, was appointed as the new IDF spokesperson in a ceremony in Tel Aviv last week, replacing Brig.-Gen. Ran Kochav. Hagari is the first IDF spokesperson with a naval background. On the background of reports of IDF reservists refusing to show up for training “in protest” of the government’s plans for judicial reform, Hagari promised to “keep politics out of the IDF.” In an interview with Kan News on Friday, Kochav said: “I don’t know of a single case of refusal, certainly not regularly.

Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested on Thursday morning and charged with espionage by the Federal Security Bureau (FSB), the successor to the KGB, the first time Russia has accused a foreign journalist of espionage since the Cold War. According to a Wall Street Journal report published on Friday, Gershkovich, 31, is the American son of Soviet-born Jews who emigrated to the US in the late seventies. His mother, Ella, fled the Soviet Union when she was 22 via Israeli documents [there was no further explanation of this fact], and his father, Mikhail, left the Soviet Union in the same Jewish migration wave. The two met in Detroit and later moved to New Jersey, where they raised Evan and his older sister.

A group of radical left-wing activists broke into the offices of the conservative think tank Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem on Sunday at noon and confronted the employees. The incident was an escalation of a similar incident last month, when anarchists blocked the front entrance of the offices early in the morning. The protesters, waving signs stating: “Kohelet advances the hatred of poor people” and “There is no G-d for racists” confronted the employees. One employee, Moran Amitai, told Makor Rishon about the disturbing incident.  “All the employees were busy, like every day. The activists arrived at one of the entrances with a bouquet of flowers, they said they were looking for Debbie, the office manager.

As YWN reported last week, A Pesach getaway program scheduled to take place at the Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ, has dissolved into disaster due to what the director of the Pesach program described as a “huge financial scam.” Many people are wondering what happened, and on Motzei Shabbos, Zev Brenner of talkline Communications interviewed Heshy Goldstein, the owner of Aryeh Hospitality on the Atlantic City Pesach program Debacle. Was it a bad gamble or Fraud? Scam or was the owner conned? What happens to the money for those that paid for the Passover program? Was the owner scammed as he claimed or is there more to the story? Listen to the show below: Click here to listen on all podcast platforms (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

It was released for publication on Sunday that the Shin Ben and Israel Police uncovered a Hamas plot to carry out a shooting attack at a bus carrying police officers in the Har HaBayis area. In the past month, the Shin Bet and the Jerusalem police carried out an investigation of Omar Abedin, a 21-year-old resident of east Jerusalem who was suspected of terror-related activities. The investigation revealed that Abedin was a member of the Hamas terror group and was participating in terror activities as part of the Hamas-identified student cell at Birzeit University. It was also revealed that several months ago, he began communicating with a terrorist operative from Lebanon, first via Facebook and then switching to Telegram.