Some 5,000 people gathered in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on Shabbos for a demonstration calling for the destruction of Israel and a withdrawal of U.S. support for the Jewish State.

During a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting held in Tel Aviv, Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant provided in-depth insight into Israel’s military objectives and strategy in the Gaza Strip.

The Ministry of Defense and the IDF announced the evacuation of the northern city of Kiryat Shmona’s,

Israel’s Police Chief Kobi Shabtai announced a policy of “zero tolerance” for pro-Hamas demonstrations within Israel, suggesting that those expressing solidarity with the Gaza Strip should consider relocating there.

Ariel Zohar, 13, is the sole survivor of his family after his parents and two sisters were murdered by the Hamas animals on Simchas Torah in Kibbutz Nachal Oz. Early that morning, Ariel had gone for an early-morning run, which saved his life.

HaGaon HaRav Zilberstein, who in recent days has been responding to numerous shailos in the shadow of the ongoing war in Israel, was asked about delaying chasunas. Many chassanim and kallohs are nervous that there will be few guests at their weddings due to limits on gatherings and people’s fears of traveling from city to city at night.

Rosh Yeshivah HaGaon HaRav Baruch Dov Povarsky recently answered a number of shailos related to the war in Israel, Kikar H’Shabbat reported. The Rosh Yeshivah was asked by the head of the Agudas Yisrael in the US about yeshivah bochurim returning to learn in their yeshivos in Eretz Yisrael.

A pair of antisemitic thugs terrorized multiple yeshiva students on Wednesday evening, prompting investigations from the NYPD and Boro Park Shomrim. The first incident occurred at around 7 PM at 18th Avenue and 61st Street, when two Middle Eastern-looking males chased yeshiva boys, forcing them run.

Amid the unprecedented security situation in Israel and heightened anxiety in Jewish communities worldwide, particularly due to calls from Hamas for a global day of jihad, YWN has been providing updates on the situation 24-hours a day to its readers and social media followers.

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that the Hamas attack on Israel “would have never happened” if he were still president. “The attack on Israel – if I were president, Israel would not have been attacked,” Trump told reporters outside a New York courtroom.