In what is likely a first, the FBI has released ads in outreach to the Jewish community. The ads have been designed and written in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew, making sure they hit all segments of the Jewish community in the United States. The ad campaign calls on people who were victims of hate crimes to report them to the FBI. “Did you know many hate crimes are not reported?”, the ad reads. “The FBI wants to help, but we need to hear from you. If you believe you’re the victim of or a witness to a hate crime, contact your local police department, call 1-800-CALL-FBI, or go to tips.fbi.gov.” See the ads below: (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

The leader of the free world, President Joe Biden has referred to the Department of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms as the “AFT” at a press conference on Thursday. Biden repeated it twice. For good measure. See the video below: President Biden, in his first gun control measures since taking office, announced a half-dozen executive actions Thursday aimed at addressing a proliferation of gun violence across the nation that he called an “epidemic and an international embarrassment.” “The idea that we have so many people dying ever single day from gun violence in America is a blemish on our character as a nation,” Biden said during remarks at the White House.

The opinion of the district psychiatrist was presented at a hearing held at the Ashkelon Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday stating that the Kiryat Gat father who murdered his son amid a psychotic fit is unfit to stand trial. The psychiatrist stated his opinion that the father is not capable of following legal proceedings, elaborating that after the father took drugs that were presented by his therapist as a natural remedy, he suffered a significant change in his mental state. The practitioner was arrested by police investigators for allegedly providing his clients with dangerous drugs without any authorization for doing so. In light of the father’s state, the court ordered an extension of his hospitalization.

Heads of the Chareidi parties of Shas and UTJ, Aryeh Deri together with Moshe Gafni and Yaakov Litzman, met together with Prime Minister Netanyahu on Tuesday and Wednesday, and told him that they would not commit themselves to joining together with the Likud should a fifth election come about. The meetings, which took place after Netanyahu received the mandate from President Rivlin to form a national government, marked the first time since the first election in 2019, where the Chareidi parties were not wholeheartedly committed to joining with Netanyahu’s Likud to form the government. According to Israeli law, Netanyahu has 27 days after receiving the mandate to form a coalition over which he would preside and get it approved by the Knesset.

Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City Mayor and ex-Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, is “strongly considering” running for governor in New York in 2022,” he told Fox News Wednesday. “I am strongly considering it,” Giuliani told Fox News in a phone interview. “I will be going up to Albany on April 19.” Giuliani said county chairs will be invited to Albany on April 19 by New York State Republican Committee Chairman Nick Langworthy, as well as “potential candidates” to give their “pitches.” “I’ll make a decision at that point,” Giuliani said.

Israel informed the United States on Tuesday that it carried out an attack on the Iranian military ship MV Saviz in the Red Sea at about 7:30 a.m, the New York Times reported, quoting an unnamed US official. The US official added that the Israelis had said that the attack was in “retaliation for earlier Iranian strikes on Israeli vessels and that the Saviz had been damaged below the water line.” The Saudi Al Arabiya reported on Tuesday that Israeli commandos were behind the attack on the Saviz. Arabic media outlets assert that the Saviz is linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and is involved in intelligence gathering.

Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, the head of the Health Ministry’s Public Health division, said on Tuesday that despite a recent increase in Israel’s reproduction number, the pandemic is beginning to die out in Israel, Ynet reported. Israel R number, how many people each carrier infects, has increased from 0.52 to 0.78 but Alroy-Preis isn’t worried. “The R number is still well below 0.8 and is certainly below 1,” she said. An R number below 1 is an indication that the virus rate is receding. Dr. Alroy-Preis believes that the spike in the R number is due to the increase in the number of virus tests being performed after Pesach. “The pandemic is dying out, albeit at a slower pace. We currently have a little over 300 daily COVID cases.

On Monday, YWN published a video on our Instagram and WhatsApp Status accounts of two Yeshiva Bochrim making a Kiddush Hashem. The story was now published on Facebook by the woman who was helped by the two boys. The following is what she wrote: “After a great Easter visit with my folks in FL, we loaded up a golf cart they were getting rid of, and I headed home to SC. Half way through my trip, I began to struggle with what I thought was a tall load and wind gusts! Thankfully two young Jewish men waved me over and alerted me to a flat tire! They stopped alongside me and offered me help I am so grateful for their positive, persistent, gracious attitude!

As Israel’s successful vaccination program continues to result in a dramatically reduced infection rate, more and more hospitals across the country are closing their coronavirus wards. Laniado Hospital in Kiryat Sanz in Netanya announced on Tuesday morning that it is closing its coronavirus critical care unit, with the last remaining patient transferred to the general ICU. Mayanei Hayeshua Hospital in Bnei Brak also closed its coronavirus ward. On Monday, Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel’s second largest hospital, reported that for the first day since the coronavirus pandemic begin, there were no new coronavirus patient admissions. Furthermore, there are no remaining ventilated virus patients in the hospital and no coronavirus patients passed away on Monday.

Kiddush Hashem in the air. JetBlue Flight 957 from Newark to Las Vegas landed on Monday night, but with some medical drama during the end of the flight. An eyewitness tells YWN that an an elderly man fainted around 45 minutes out of Vegas, and then went into cardiac arrest 10 minutes before landing. Two Las Vegas residents in Yarmulkas preformed CPR and used a defibrillator, shocking the victim multiple times, as the entire plane watched in horror. Both men were in Yarmulkas (and wearing masks). One is a former Queens Hatzolah Volunteer (“Q-266”) and the other is a male nurse from the Las Vegas community. An ambulance was waiting to rush the man to the hospital. It was unknown if he survived the cardiac arrest. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)