Boro Park is blessed with dozens of organizations dedicated to caring for families during health crises. From home-cooked meals to Hatzalah two minutes away in the middle of the night, residents know they can count on their community’s thousands of volunteers to be ready to help. I am proud to be the founder of Renewal Organization, which has grown to an extensive medical organization dedicated to making a positive change in the lives of people who desperately need a life saving kidney transplant in order to stay alive. Renewal was built by dedicated members of the community who learned how to navigate the healthcare system, all for the sake of saving a life. So why can’t our local hospital’s executives manage basic competence? Maimonides Medical Center is failing.

The UTJ party signed a coalition deal with the Likud party in the early morning hours of Thursday morning following Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu’s call to President Herzog before midnight on Wednesday night informing him that he successfully formed a new government. The agreement includes 139 clauses, including the revocation of the taxes on disposable tableware and sweet drinks, the revocation of the kashrus reform advanced by Matan Kahana, and the revocation of the laws of the election of municipal Rabbanim, which led, among other things, to the removal of a number of Rabbanim appointed before 1973. Within 30 days of the establishment of the government, the kosher cell phone reforms advanced by Yoaz Handel will be revoked.

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy told cheering U.S. legislators during a defiant wartime visit to the nation’s capital on Wednesday that against all odds his country still stands, thanking Americans for helping to fund the war effort with money that is “not charity,” but an “investment” in global security and democracy. The whirlwind stop in Washington — his first known trip outside his country since Russia invaded in February — was aimed at reinvigorating support for his country in the U.S. and around the world at a time when there is concern that allies are growing weary of the costly war and its disruption to global food and energy supplies. Zelenskyy called the tens of billions of dollars in U.S.

The secular lady from Ramat Gan who was videoed calling Chareidi children “termites” refuses to retract her harsh statements. In an interview with Channel 13 News on Tuesday, she said: “That’s what I think about them – I don’t like religious people and definitely not Chareidim. That’s who I am. I definitely stand behind my words.” She claims that the Chareidim are causing a decline in the value of the apartments in her area. “I bought an apartment in a luxury neighborhood for millions in order to have these facilities for my standard of living.

Binyamin Netanyahu nearly ran out the clock on his mandate to form a new government with him as prime minister, calling Israeli President Yitzchok Herzog with just minutes left to the midnight deadline to inform him that he had successfully cobbled one together. Netanyahu announced his accomplishment in the briefest of statements that simple read, “I succeeded.” Netanyahu was at first given 30 days to form a government but requested and was given an additional 10 days by Herzog. The government Netanyahu has now formed is the 37th in Israel’s history and the sixth led by Netanyahu. The government will consist of 6 right-wing political parties: Likud, Shas, UTJ, Otzma Yehudit, Religious Zionism, and Otzma.

One member of Iran’s Jewish kehilla in Tehran is still in police custody after he was arrested when passing by the area of protests in the city, Times of Israel (TOA) reported on Tuesday. Two other Jews were also arrested in Tehran but they have since been released. A leader in the Jewish kehilla told TOA that a Jew who was arrested in Shiraz earlier this month was released last week. Protests have spread across the Islamic Republic since the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16th after being arrested by the morality police. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Former President Donald Trump went on One America News (OAN) to berate America as “corrupt,” praising Elon Musk for using his newly acquired Twitter platform to show that the United States is “a sad and sick country.” “This week Twitter files seven now shows it goes beyond collusion. The FBI, it turns out, was paying Twitter to the tune of $3 million. Would you characterize the payment as an incentive or a bribe?” OAN host Chanel Rion asked Trump. “Well, I’d characterize it as terrible. Yeah, 3.7 million or something like that, and possibly a lot more, because that’s only what they have right now,” Trump replied. “It’s terrible. I’m just telling you, the country can’t believe what they’re seeing. And Elon Musk did a big service when he released all of this stuff.

The Rav of the Old City, HaGaon HaRav Avigdor Nebenzahl, was in a car at the Ramot Intersection in Jerusalem at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning when suddenly the driver collided with a car coming from the opposite lane. Rab Nebenzahl’s car was hit with great force, causing some of the airbags to deploy, but the Rav continued learning as if nothing had happened. The driver got out of the car to exchange details, but HaRav Nebenzahl, who b’chasdei Hashem was uninjured, remained in the car and continued to learn. Hatzalah volunteers who rushed to the scene were amazed to see HaRav Nebenzahl sitting in the car with an open Gemara as if nothing had happened, despite the serious damage to the car.

President Joe Biden and his aides have formulated a strategy for how to respond to the “far right, anti-Palestinian tilt of the incoming Israeli government: make it all about Binyamin Netanyahu,” Politico reported on Tuesday. Two US officials told Politico that the “Biden administration will hold the presumptive Israeli prime minister personally responsible for the actions of his more extreme cabinet members, especially if they lead to policies that endanger a future Palestinian state.” According to the report, US officials will refer only to Netanyahu in public and not to any of his partners. “Bibi says he can control his government, so let’s see him do just that,” said one of the U.S. officials. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

The vigilance of a passerby saved a Chareidi boy from the clutches of a 50-year-old Arab early Tuesday morning in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem. A passerby called the police, saying that she heard screaming from between two cars and noticed a suspicious person leaning over a child. It is believed that the suspect fled when he realized the passerby has seen him. The police quickly arrived at the scene and launched a search, locating the suspect, a resident of Abu Ghosh, shortly later. The nine-year-old boy had meanwhile fled to his Cheder, where he reported the incident to the teaching staff.