According to a State Department report, lax enforcement of sanctions by President Joe Biden during his first year in office allowed $23 billion to flow into Iran’s coffers, even as the country armed the Taliban, attacked U.S. forces in the Middle East, and financed terror plots across five continents, the Free Beacon reports. Iran’s illicit oil trade with China jumped from just $6.6 billion in 2020 to more than $23 billion in 2021 when Biden took office and stopped enforcing sanctions on Iran’s oil trade with China. The decision to halt sanctions came as part of the administration’s efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, which has not been successful.

Left-wing protesters, including senior politicians, have crossed red lines in their protest against the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, including besmirching Israel to Western media outlets But former prime minister (convicted criminal) Ehud Olmert managed to cross a red line that has yet to be crossed when he called on world leaders to boycott Netanyahu, in an interview with Channel 12 News. Even the show host, not known for his right-wing views, was visibly shocked by Olmert’s words. The former jail-sitting Olmert began by calling to turn to the international community, saying “every prime minister who categorizes himself as a friend of Israel needs to protest with all their might against the government of Israel.

A group of seven bipartisan Congressmen have sent a letter to the State Department demanding answers over the ongoing crisis at the US Embassy in Israel, where numerous young families have found it impossible to receive an emergency passport for their newborn children which would allow them to fly to the U.S. for Pesach. In the letter, Reps. Mike Lawler, Anthony D’Esposito, Josh Gottheimer, Dan Goldman, Pat Ryan, Marcus Molinaro, and Yvette Clark, write that many of their constituents have reached out to their offices “to share their frustration with the U.S. Citizen Services provided in Israel.” “These Americans are having trouble making appointments, as walk-ins are unavailable and appointment times are few and far between,” the letter reads.

Widespread left-wing protests against the Netanyahu government took place across Israel for the third consecutive week on Thursday. However, it was the first week that protesters demonstrated in Bnei Brak, blocking the entrance to the municipality and setting up a mock military recruitment center. Some of the protesters continued walking to other areas of Bnei Brak and protested in front of Yeshivas Ponoevezh as first seder was beginning. Despite the nuisance to the public, at least a couple of Bnei Brak residents saw the protest as an opportunity for kiruv and ahavas Yisrael and offered to lay tefillin for any protesters that were interested. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Left-wing protesters arrived in Bnei Brak early Thursday morning as part of an “escalated national disruption day” against the government’s judicial reform plan. At about 7:30 a.m., the protesters blocked Rechov Yerushalayim near the Bnei Brak municipality. Army reservists belonging to the “Brothers in Arms” movement” blocked the entrance to the municipality with barbed wire and established a mock army recruitment office outside the building. Some of the protesters continued walking to other areas of Bnei Brak and protested in front of Yeshivas Ponoevezh as first seder was beginning.

A moving ceremony was held at a Siyus Shas Mishnayos l’illui nishmas the Paley brothers, h’yd in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem on Tuesday evening. Tzviki Paley, 16, led the siyum for his younger brothers, whose sheloshim was marked on Monday. A new song was composed for the siyum to the words: “.בשעת פטירתו של האדם, אין מלווים לו – לא כסף ולא זהב, ולא אבנים טובות ומרגליות – אלא מעשים טובים בלבד” The song was sung at the event by all the children of the Talmud Torah that the Paley brothers, h’yd, attended. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

On a flight to Poland for the Yartzheit of Reb Elimelech of Lizensk Zt”l, the Pinsk Karliner rebbe engaged in conversation with a passenger on the flight. The man told the Rebbe that he was Jewish, but had not put on tefillin in many, many years. The Rebbe immediately got his pair of Tefillin, and helped the man put the Tefillin on. SEE THE VIDEO BELOW: (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)  
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Speaking at the ongoing Agudah Israel Leadership Mission to Washington, D.C., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)  said he is working on resolving issues that have recently cropped up with Americans seeking to fly home for Pesach. As reported earlier by YWN, many couples who gave birth to children in Eretz Yisroel over the past several months have found it exceedingly difficult to get passports for their newborns. Many couples who arrived at the US Embassy on David Flusser Street in Yerushalayim on Monday morning were denied entry, with embassy workers telling them that anyone without previously documented US citizenship cannot receive an emergency passport. These new rules precluded the newborns from being awarded passports, despite the obvious illogicity of it all.

It was cleared for publication on Wednesday evening that the explosion at the Megiddo Junction on Monday which severely injured an Israeli-Arab was carried out by a terrorist who infiltrated Israel from Lebanon. It is still unknown how the terrorist succeeded in crossing the border from Lebanon into Israel and the possibility that he was assisted by Hezbollah is being investigated. The terrorist planted a bomb that was unusually powerful and sophisticated, which indicated to security forces that it was not the work of Palestinians or Israeli-Arabs. After the bomb detonated, an extensive manhunt was launched in northern Israel, with roadblocks set up on all roads.

A little over a month after the Ramot terror attack in which the two Paley brothers, h’yd, were murdered, their parents, Reb Avraham Noach and Devorah, welcomed a baby boy to the family. As is known, Chazal say that the midas hadin hovers a bereaved family but the birth of a baby boy within the year brings healing to the entire family. The baby was born at Hadassah Har HaTzofim Hospital, where the father of the family, Reb Avraham Noach, was transferred on Monday for rehabilitation. Reb Paley’s transfer corresponded with the sheloshim of his sons and on his way to Har Hatzofim, he was brought to Har Hamenuchos to visit the kevarim of his sons. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)