Following a lengthy overnight discussion by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the head of the coalition parties overnight Sunday, and after three months of unprecedented protests and threats of army refusal across the country, the coalition on Monday morning presented a moderated judicial reform and the freezing of the majority of the legislation until after Yom Haatzmaut in over two months.

Ichilvo Hospital in Tel Aviv on Monday announced the death of Or Ascher, h’yd, 33, who was critically injured in the shooting attack in Tel Aviv a week and a half ago. Prof. Ronni Gamzu, the director of the hospital, said: “Or came to us after prolonged resuscitation at the scene which continued in the hospital and he was immediately taken to the operating room where against all odds, the doctors managed to stabilize his condition. Unfortunately, his injury was critical and after a heroic struggle of many days, in which we saw a determined man fight for his life, we had to pronounce his death today.” “I would like to thank Or’s noble family for their request to donate his organs and save a life.

A resident of the Sharon area was arrested over the weekend after he published a video on social media inciting against Chareidim and calling for the murder of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The man said in the video: “Some people should die. I want blood to be spilled. If only they would throw grenades…kill someone – only then will they understand. There’s a stupid Bibi there – what’s important to him is [expletive] and Sara his wife and his retarded child – they must be killed! They must be killed!” He then began spewing vitriol about Chareidim and religious Israelis. “There’s a train line nearby, there are cables there – they should hang themselves with their tefillin from here until Bnei Brak.” “I hate anyone who wears a kippah. They caused it.

Republicans in the Florida House on Friday passed a “universal school choice” bill which, if enacted, would expand Florida’s school voucher program, making all students eligible to receive state funds for private tuition. It is the largest expansion of the program since its establishment under former Governor Jeb Bush. The bill, also known as HB1, is the largest expansion of the progam since its establishment under former Gov. Jeb Bush, and would eliminate the low-income requirements of the Family Empowerment Scholarship, allowing any public school-eligible student to apply. However, low-income families will still receive priority. Moreover, families who choose to homeschool their children can also receive state funds for things such as online lessons or private tutoring.

The American expatriate community in Israel has been roiled in recent weeks over the ongoing difficulties in obtaining US passports in Israel. Wait times for appointments at the US Embassy in Jerusalem can be many long months. The problem is particularly acute leading up to the pre-Pesach travel season. Especially affected are parents of babies born in recent months. The inability to obtain Consular Reports of Birth Abroad and first time passports are preventing many families from traveling home to the US for Pesach. The situation has been been further exacerbated by a new rule cancelling emergency passport appointments for newborns. Until recently, emergency passports had been a solution for families with newborns seeking to track home for Pesach.

A Chareidi driver from the UK was killed and 18 passengers were injured in a traffic accident between a minibus and a car outside Antwerp overnight Motzei Shabbos. The minibus, filled with chassidim from London who had traveled to visit the Pshevorsk Rebbe in Antwerp for Shabbos, hit a passing car and then overturned. The driver was killed on the spot and one of the passengers, a child, was seriously injured. Most of the other passengers were lightly injured. Hatzalah paramedics from Antwerp quickly arrived at the scene and evacuated the injured passengers to local hospitals. Volunteers of the Chaveirim Antwerp branch worked throughout the night assisting the passengers by dealing with authorities and providing food and places to sleep for passengers who didn’t require hospitalization.

Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that his arrest is imminent and issued an extraordinary call for his supporters to protest as a New York grand jury investigates hush money payments with the former president. Even as a Trump’s lawyer and spokesperson said there had been no communication from prosecutors, Trump declared in a post on his social media platform that he expects to be taken into custody on Tuesday. His message seemed designed to preempt a formal announcement from prosecutors and to galvanize outrage from his base of supporters in advance of widely anticipated charges.

The International Criminal Court said on Friday it issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes because of his alleged involvement in abductions of children from Ukraine. The court said in a statement that Putin “is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.” It also issued a warrant Friday for the arrest of Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, on similar allegations.

An utterly sickening and blatant display of vitriolic antisemitism shocked attendees and viewers earlier this week when a demented man went on an anti-Jew tirade during an official hearing of the Maryland House of Delegates Judiciary Committee regarding bill that would create a Hate Crimes Grant Fund. The grant would apply to shuls, mosques, and other nonprofits at risk of hate crimes, the Baltimore Scoop reports. Ayo Kimathi spoke at the hearing and blasted the proposed bill as a “Protect the Jew” piece of legislation. “This is in a group of bills that are very disturbing and concerning to me. I call them the ‘Protect the Jew’ bills,” Kimathi said.

A day before the yearly conference of Ichud Bnei Hayeshivos that was held on Tuesday evening, the head of the Ichud, HaRav Yehudah Weisfish, and the Mashgiach of Yeshivas Beis Medrash Elyon, HaGaon HaRav Yosef Shlomo Koralansky, asked a number of shailos b’inyanei chinuch to HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein. HaRav Koralansky: In all the shuls in Eretz Yisrael, there are yeshivos bein hazemanim and there are avreichim who arrange shiurim and other activities. If an avreich finds out something about a bochur that may be important to relay to his yeshivah, should he do so, or perhaps not? Rosh Yeshivah: Something that the bochur needs to fix? HaRav Koralansky: Yes. Rosh Yeshivah: The question is whom he should speak to and what they’ll do.