Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin handed the mandate to form a new government to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu early Tuesday afternoon. Netanyahu will now have 28 days to try to form a coalition of at least 61 MKs. If he does not succeed in doing so during that period, Rivlin is allowed to grant him a 14-day extension or retract the mandate. In his speech, Rivlin bemoaned the fact that no candidate has a realistic chance of forming a government and in fact if he was legally allowed to do he would grant the mandate to the Knesset. But since Netanyahu has a “slightly higher chance” of forming a government, he is compelled to hand the mandate to him.

In defense of their actions in Orlando Florida on Monday, Spirit Airlines just released one of the most dishonest statements they can possibly write. As YWN published earlier, an Orthodox Jewish couple and their two children, one of them a special needs 7-year-old child, were thrown off a flight because their two-year-old child was not wearing a mask while eating a yogurt as she sat on her mothers lap. The entire episode is well documented on viral videos (POSTED BELOW), where the flight attendant tells the parents “non compliance, and you need to get off.” “But we are wearing masks!”, the parents tell the flight attendant, to which she replies “she’s not wearing a mask” – as she points to the innocent toddler eating her yogurt.

Once again, YWN is reporting a story involving Spirit Airlines and masks. Today, it was an Orthodox Jewish family who was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight from Orlando to NY, because their two-year-old child who was eating, wasn’t wearing a mask. Video footage taken on the flight and provided to YWN, shows a two-year-old child sitting on her mothers lap eating a yogurt, as a flight attendant tells the Mom and Dad they need to exit the flight. The father is heard telling the flight attendant that their other child is “special needs”. The Mom is seven months pregnant. The entire flight was forced to deplane because of the child. Around an hour after the flight was deplaned, the entire flight was allowed to board again – INVCLUDING the family with the child.

Following yesterdays horrific crash involving a Canarsie Hatzolah ambulance, YWN has learned some exclusive details. As YWN had reported, the ambulance was transporting a 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. In security camera footage provided to YWN, one can see the vehicle appearing to be traveling at a high rate of speed in the wrong lane, as it barrels into the intersection and strikes the ambulance. Sources tell YWN that the driver only had a “learners permit”, with another driver licensed driver inside the vehicle.

For the past few months, Israel has been stringently limiting the entry of foreigners. Due to these restrictions, students have been barred from entering the country, even if they have already commenced studies in the country. For this reason, many students, wisely, refrained from travel during the Pesach season, due the the real fear of being prevented from returning to Israel. Over the past several weeks, various parties, led by the indefatigable Rabbi Nechamya Malinowitz of the Igud have labored ceaselessly to obtain permission for students’ return. After intensive efforts, these efforts have now borne fruit. Today, it can be announced that all students will be permitted to enter Israel. This includes families, married couples, and single students.

Israel Police filed an indictment on Sunday against the practitioner who treated the Chareidi father from Kiryat Gat who murdered his 14-year-old son during a psychotic fit, apparently while under the influence of dangerous drugs. The practitioner, a 38-year-old resident of Gush Etzion whose name has so far been banned from publication, was arrested by police investigators for allegedly providing his clients with dangerous drugs without any authorization for doing so. Following the arrest of the practitioner, Attorneys Yehudah Fried and Tal Gabay, who are representing the father, stated that “today it is now clear that it is the practitioner, who drugged the father under the guise of medical treatment, who is guilty of the horrible murder.

One person died and several others were injured after a Canarsie Hatzolah ambulance collided with another vehicle in Brooklyn. According to police, the accident occurred at about 4:00PM at Avenue N and Schenectady Avenue in the Flatlands section of the borough. The Hatzolah ambulance was transporting a 95-year-old woman when it collided with a 2002 Nissan Maxima going in the opposite direction and flipped onto its side. Sources tell YWN that the woman was in cardiac arrest prior to the crash with CPR being performed. The woman was taken to a hospital where she passed away from her cardiac arrest. Six members of the EMS crew, a 67-year-old man riding in the ambulance and two people riding in the Maxima were treated for minor injuries.

A car rammed a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday afternoon, injuring two Capitol Police officers and leading to the driver being shot, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. At least one officer was in serious condition, while the driver was in critical condition, the officials said. The crash and shooting happened at a checkpoint near the Capitol as Congress is on recess. It comes as the Washington region remains on edge nearly three months after a mob of armed insurrectionists stormed the Capitol as Congress was voting to certify Joe Biden’s presidential win. Capitol Police say that someone “rammed a vehicle into two USCP officers” and that a suspect was taken into custody.

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Recently, a sharp-eyed frum reader witnessed something quite bizarre.  It was a kosher bagel store with a prominently displayed kashrus certificate that was doing a brisk business over Pesach. The store, known as Bagel Boss, located at 263 First Avenue in Manhattan, also displayed a prominent Mezuzah on the doorpost. Um, Uh-Oh. So what’s the story?

While Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has not discussed the option of creating a government together with the Arab Ra’am party, either inside the government or outside of it, the Religious Zionist party has come out vehemently against it in every way. At the same time, the Chareidi parties, led by United Torah Judaism, have come out in favor of the possibility. In a discussion together with other members of his party, MK Moshe Gafni who heads the UTJ party said: “There is no problem with creating a government together with Mansour Abbas. we have a lot in common with their party, and we get along better with him than we do with (Betzalel) Smotritch.” B’Chadrei Charedim also reported that Gafni has even been pushing the Prime Minister to make such a government with the Ra’am party.