Israel Police on Sunday arrested a 16-year-old in Mea Shearim suspected of being involved in overturning the dumpster that careened out of control and seriously injured a Chareidi mother during a protest almost a week and a half ago. The teen is also suspected of being involved in setting a cell phone store in Geula on fire a few months ago. Several suspects were previously arrested in the case.

YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of HaRav Chaim Druckman zt”l, the foremost dati leumi rav in Eretz Yisroel. He was approximately 90 years old. Rav Druckman was born in Kuty, Poland (today in Ukraine) in 1932. He and his parents managed to survive in a hideout during the Nazi occupation of Poland. In 1942, the family fled to Chernivtsi, then under Romanian rule, where they stayed for a year. His parents then allowed a childless Jewish couple who obtained certificates to Eretz Yisrael to adopt him and they brought him to Israel in 1944. His parents joined him in Israel after the war. In Israel, he quickly became known for his brilliance and hasmada and quickly rose the ranks of rabbanus.

The community in Kiryas Joel is reeling from the tragic news of a 5-year-old boy having been R”L struck and killed by a school bus on Sunday morning. The horrific incident unfolded near Forest Road and Seven Springs Mountain Road. Hatzolah rushed to the scene and valiantly attempted to save the boy, but were sadly unable to do anything. The young victim is the son of R’ Yoel Lebowitz and a grandson of R’ Shulem Lebowitz and R’ Mendel Schwimmer. Levaya details will be published when available. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A hotel in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, rented out for about 800 guests celebrating Shabbos Chanukah had to be evacuated after a pipe burst, leaving the guests outside in frigid temperatures motzei Shabbos. Rockland Hatzolah and Chaveirim rushed to the Hilton of Woodcliff Lake immediately after the zman on motzei Shabbos to assist the guests, with Chaveirim providing multiple school buses allowing guests to remain warm and out of the frigid weather. Woodcliff Lake had a RealFeel temperature below 0 degrees Fahrenheit motzei Shabbos. A Woodcliff Lake FD official said a burst pipe on the fourth floor of the Hilton hotel caused a massive leak, causing all heating in the structure to be turned off.

An NYFD firefighter has been charged in connection with a disgusting act of vandalism on a sukkah that occurred in October. According to the NYPD, Marty Party, a 37-year-old NYFD member, approached a sukkah near E. 92nd Street and Second Avenue on the Upper West Side and began kicking it, causing damage to the structure. He then went inside the sukkah and urinated in it. Party has been suspended by the FDNY for four weeks – the maximum allowed – over the incident, also noting that he was not on duty during the incident. The NYPD charged him with criminal mischief, after finding that he was apparently heavily intoxicated when carrying out his act of vandalism and defilement. According to public records, Party enjoys a $92,000 annual salary for his job as an NYFD firefighter.

Donald Trump released a new video repeating his claims about the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents. Trump made a series of claims throughout the video including: “They pushed an absurd and discredited story where I supposedly lunged for the steering wheel in an attempt to commandeer a presidential limousine. Think of it. I lunged for a steering wheel and they believe that story. Nobody believes that story. The committee barely even discussed the catastrophic security failures at the Capitol, and they didn’t discuss the other thing. The reason that everybody went there, the election, which was a corrupt disaster.” “The events of January six were not an insurrection.

When your hatred for someone is so great, it takes up all your headspace and interferes in everything you do. This phenomenon was on full display as Nancy Pelosi gave her last-ever press conference as Democratic House Leader. With her Trump hatred always burning red-hot, Pelosi couldn’t help but take a shot at the former president. “I just want to ask you in this time of transition, have you had any conversations with Leader McCarthy or do you intend to? And if he prevails as Speaker, what advice would you give him?” a reporter asked Pelosi. Her lengthy answer showed her Trump Derangement Syndrome. “Well, I don’t think anybody needs any advice from anybody,” she said.

Conservative commentator Sean Hannity, who repeatedly allowed 2020 election fraud theorists onto his show following the election, admitted under oath that he never believed Trump’s claims of fraud in the election. Hannity was asked in a deposition about claims by Sidney Powell that Dominion voting machines were rigged against Trump. Hannity had Powell on his show and allowed her to spread those claims. Fox News is now being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for $1.6 billion in restitution, and Hannity was forced to sit for a deposition. The New York Times reported: “At the center of this imagined plot were machines from Dominion Voting Systems, which Ms. Powell claimed ran an algorithm that switched votes for Mr. Trump to votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr.

A child in Boro Park is miraculously alive after his carriage was struck by a 24-foot truck and the youngster getting caught between the truck’s wheels, BORO PARK SCOOP reports. The terrifying incident occurred on 20th Avenue and 52nd Street at around 5:15 pm Thursday when the child was sitting in a stroller and was slammed into by the massive hauler. The carriage was mangled beyond recognition and the child thrown from it, landing underneath the truck. Hatzolah paramedics rushed to the scene fearing the worst, only to find that the child had suffered no more than minor scrapes and bruises. “This is a true neis Chanukah,” an astounded Boro Park Hatzolah paramedic remarked.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday published a video showing young Palestinian children “training” to become terrorists. The ministry issued a warning that the video contains “disturbing images.” But sadly, anyone familiar with Palestinian society will not be too shocked by the images of children being indoctrinated to hate and kill from a young age. “Children in Jenin were filmed carrying rifles during an ‘operational” exercise,” the foreign ministry wrote.