The Peleg Yerushalmi (Eitz) sector held protests in three cites on Wednesday evening over the arrest of a yeshivah bochur from Ponevezh due to draft dodging. Following the arrest, Peleg Yerushalmi issued an announcement that it will be holding protests in three cities. “In light of the criminal arrest of the prisoner of the Torah world, Rabbeinu Maran HaGaon Harav Asher Deitsch has instructed us to go out and protest and make noise around the world about the arrest of a talmid yeshivah who did not show up at the conscription office as a protest against the conscription law.” “The protests are planned for today at 4:30 p.m.

Tragedy has struck the Monsey community with the heartbreaking Petira of Reb Hershy Gross Z”L on Wednesday morning, two days after collapsing in Ben-Gurion Airport upon his arrival in the country. The niftar, Reb Avraham Tzvi (Hershey), z’l, 39, had traveled to Israel with his wife to spend the month of Tishrei in their apartment in Jerusalem. They had arrived at the airport on Monday and were standing in line to rent a car when he collapsed and lost consciousness. Hatzalah and MDA paramedics rushed to the scene and carried out resuscitation techniques, continuing them as they evacuated him in an ECMO mobile intensive care unit to Assaf HaRofeh Hospital near Tel Aviv. Sadly, despite the best efforts of the medical staff, his death was pronounced on Wednesday morning.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who had a years-long friendship with Dedi Graucher, z’tl, who was niftar on Monday, was maspid him at the levaya. “We’re parting today, in deep pain, from Dedi, a warm Jew, a loving husband, a loving father, a loving grandfather, a talented singer, a close and beloved friend of mine and my wife Sara and our two sons, a close and beloved friend of everyone here and of many many others here and around the world,” Netanyahu began. “Dedi lit up our lives with his light, he had a sharp sense of Jewish humor, a great neshama, and all these attributes touched us. Dedi knew how to bring laughter to the world. Dedi would enter the room and before he said a word, I would smile.

Thousands of Israeli leftists have urged U.S. President Joe Biden and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to shun Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during his visit to the United States next week. In an open letter published Wednesday, over 3,500 signers, including well-known left-wing Israeli writer David Grossman, called on Biden and Guterres not to meet with Netanyahu or invite him to speak at the U.N. General Assembly’s yearly meeting of world leaders. The prime minister’s office has said Netanyahu will travel to the U.S. next week to visit high-tech leaders in California before flying to New York to address the U.N.

New whistleblower testimony delivered to Congress has raised allegations that the CIA attempted to offer financial incentives to analysts in order to suppress findings suggesting that COVID-19 may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. A senior-level CIA officer revealed to House committee leaders that the agency had made efforts to provide financial incentives to six analysts if they altered their position and asserted that the virus had originated from animals rather than a Wuhan laboratory. These revelations were detailed in a letter addressed to CIA Director William Burns.

Former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden for the recent release of funds as part of a hostage exchange deal with Iran, an action that coincided with the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. In his remarks, Trump suggested that President Biden might be receiving a “kickback” related to the $6 billion sent to Iran. Taking to the Truth Social platform on Tuesday, Trump questioned the terms of the hostage exchange, stating, “So, let’s get this straight! We did a hostage TRADE with Iran. We gave them 5 very tough, smart people that they desperately wanted. We likewise got back 5 people BUT, we also gave them 6 BILLION DOLLARS!” Trump continued, “How much of a kickback does Crooked Joe Biden get? Does anyone realize how much money 6 Billion Dollars is?

An unprecedented 15-judge panel on Tuesday began deliberating petitions against the reasonableness law passed by the Knesset in July. The debate marks the first time in Israel’s history that a full panel of Supreme Court judges are deliberating a case – that is another historic first – invalidating one of Israel’s Basic Laws. The vast majority of legal scholars believe that the Supreme Court does not have the authority to invalidate a Basic Law and doing so risks sending Israel into a constitutional crisis. The chairman of the Knesset’s Constitution Committee, MK Simcha Rothman, told the court that it has no right to interfere with a Basic Law: “The Knesset has the right to establish Basic Laws, in line with the will of the people,” he said.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams doubled down on his concerns on Sunday, warning of an imminent “financial tsunami” that he believes will be triggered by the ongoing migrant crisis in the city. In an interview with PIX 11’s “PIX on Politics,” Adams expressed his candid assessment of the looming financial crisis, asserting that New York City was not equipped to handle the influx of approximately 10,000 people each month indefinitely. He stressed that such a scenario would undermine the city’s overall stability. The mayor refused to backtrack on his previous controversial assertion that the ongoing crisis would “destroy” the city.

President Joe Biden commemorated the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks Monday at a military base in Anchorage, Alaska, during which he recalled “looking at the building” as he stood at Ground Zero the next day. The problem? He was in Washington, D.C. on 9/12/01, not New York City. “I join you on this solemn day to renew our sacred vow, ‘never forget,” Biden said. “I remember standing [at Ground Zero] the next day and looking at the building. I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell.” The Senate was in session on 9/12/01, and Joe Biden voted at 1:45 pm on a resolution condemning the attacks after speaking on the floor. He wasn’t in New York; just tack this statement on his growing mountain of lies.

Paul Landis, a former Secret Service agent who stood mere feet from President John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963, has raised questions about the Warren Commission’s long-standing single-bullet theory in a new interview published by The New York Times. Landis, now 88 years old, provided a recollection that differs from the two written statements he filed immediately after the tragic event, leaving many to wonder about the historical mystery surrounding Kennedy’s death. Landis’s startling account could breathe new life into the lingering suspicions of a conspiracy in the assassination of President Kennedy, with some believing there might have been more than one gunman in Dallas on that fateful day, November 22, 1963.