Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s consecutive 12-year rule, the longest in Israeli history, is scheduled to end at 4 pm. on Sunday, June 13, with Netanyahu being replaced by his former chief of staff Naftali Bennett, head of Yamina with only seven seats, who will be sworn in as Israel’s 13th prime minister. The new 36th government of Israel will be the first in Israeli history to be supported by an Arab Israeli party and the first since 2013 that won’t include Chareidi parties.

Outgoing Interior Minister Aryeh Deri last week approved a pilot plan to allow individual tourists into Israel from a list of countries to be determined by the Health Ministry. Tourists must be vaccinated to enter Israel and must show proof of vaccination as well as a negative coronavirus test before boarding the plane to Israel. Those who have recovered from the coronavirus but haven’t been vaccinated will not be allowed entry. Tour groups that fulfilled certain criteria were allowed into Israel beginning on May 23.

An 18-year-old teen was R”L killed when a speeding car crashed at an assisted living facility in Brooklyn late Thursday night, police said. The 2021 Tesla sedan was apparently traveling at a high rate of speed when it plowed through a fence and crashed at Sunrise at Mill Basin senior living community on Strickland Avenue in Mill Basin around 11:45 p.m., police said. Jack Levy, of Mill Basin, who was in the rear, passenger-side seat of the Tesla, was killed, according to police. Canarsie Hatzolah rushed him to the hospital in traumatic arrest, but he was unfortunately Niftar at the hospital. Sources tell YWN that the Niftar had graduated High School at Yeshiva of Flatbush just hours earlier.

A Jewish man was threatened by a man hurling anti-Semitic slurs on an East Flatbush Street this week, the NYPD says. The incident happened in front of the Darchei Menachem Yeshiva located at 432 Rutland Road in East Flatbush on Thursday morning. Police said the 30-year-old victim was outside the Yeshiva when a man came up and made threats and anti-Semitic statements to him around 10:15AM. No injuries were reported. The suspect was last seen walking along Rutland Road towards Brooklyn Avenue, police said. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah released a video on Tuesday in response to growing rumors that his health was failing. The rumors began after the last video he publicized that showed him coughing and having difficulty speaking. Israeli intelligence believed Nasrallah was suffering from the coronavirus during the previous video, which was released last month. The videotaping took place in his hiding place and was the first video that Nasrallah published since the previous one that showed his deteriorated health issue. “I thank everyone who cared for me and still hope that we will pray together in Jerusalem,” the terrorist leader said. “I thank all the people who cared for me, who sent me honey and distributed bread. Some people said I was dead and went into a coma.

Over a hundred soldiers from the Chareidi unit in the Home Front Command on Thursday were mechazeik the family of six-year-old Ido Avigal, z’tl, who was killed by a rocket attack during Operation Guardian of the Walls. The soldiers were in the area as part of an all-day seminar held in Israel’s south. When they passed through Sderot, they stopped under Ido’s home, learned mishnayis l’illui nishmaso, recited Kaddish and sang songs of emunah Ido was killed when a piece of rocket shrapnel penetrated the window of the sealed room of his home in Sderot. His mother, 7-year-old sister, and five members of his extended family were also injured in the attack, including a six-year-old cousin. Ido’s father Asaf tearfully said at the levaya: “I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you.

Hundreds of protesters gathered on Wednesday in Bnei Brak in protest against cell phone stores that are operating without being under the auspices of the Va’ad Harabbonim. A group of Admorim and other Rabbonim spoke at the protest. The majority of the rabbonim sat on a mirpeset (porch) on Rabbi Akiva Street above a cell phone store called Didi Phone. One of the Admorim asked that people do not create a mass protest out of this, and he spoke from his own car. Police arrived en masse having estimated that 10,000 people would participate in the protest. In the end, only a few hundred arrived in support of the protest.

The driver who slammed into a Canarsie Hatzolah Amabulance on the last day of Pesach, flipping it over, and causing serious injuries to Hatzolah members, has been arrested and charged with multiple offenses. As YWN had reported, the ambulance was transporting an elderly cardiac arrest patient with CPR in progress to the hospital, when the ambulance was struck by a vehicle as it passed through an intersection. The force of the crash flipped the ambulance on its side. Fazal Zeshan, 18, was arrested on Wersnesday, and arraigned by the Kings County D.A.

Investigators believe that the huge wildfires that broke out in the mountains near Jerusalem on Wednesday afternoon were deliberately set by Arabs. The fires began near the security barrier in Judea and Samaria, the same area where several fires were started by Arabs throwing Molotov cocktails over the barrier during Operation Guardian of the Walls, Kan News reported. There were at least two starting points to the fires, which spread to ten other areas within an hour. Fire and Rescue Services struggled for hours to contain the fire, with over 70 firefighting crews, ten aircraft and two helicopters fighting the flames.

President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday sent a letter to Prince Charles requesting that he intervene in the case of Alta Fixsler. “Your Royal Highness, I am writing to you today on a matter of grave and urgent humanitarian importance,” the president wrote. “As you may know, a recent High Court ruling in the case of two-year-old Alta Fixsler of Manchester has given doctors permission to switch off the life-support treatment that is keeping her alive.” “It is the fervent wish of her parents, who are devoutly religious Jews and Israeli citizens, that their daughter be brought to Israel.