Rabbi Mendy Zirkind, a Chabad chassid who together with his wife Chani, runs a kosher farm on the island of Maui in Hawaii, where the death toll from the deadliest wildfires in the US in over a century reached 99 as of Monday evening, told Israel’s Kan News “that there may have been major safety lapses here.” “On Tuesday morning we started receiving messages asking us if we had electricity, internet, and cell phone connection,” Rabbi Zirkind said. “Then we started hearing that there were some fires in the west. That wasn’t anything new, there are always some fires there.

Wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui killed at least 96 people, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Emergency management officials say the death toll is expected to rise as cadaver dogs and searchers make their way through the ashes of Lahaina, a historical town of 13,000 where almost every building was destroyed in the blaze. The Maui wildfires are currently the nation’s fifth-deadliest on record, according to research by the National Fire Protection Association, a nonprofit that publishes fire codes and standards used in the U.S. and around the world. Authorities have not yet determined the cause of the three separate wildfires that were fueled by dry weather and the winds of a nearby hurricane. — What spurred the fires?

Two bochurim from the Munkatch Yeshiva in Monsey were seriously injured when the 15-passenger van they were in crashed on the NJ-287 northbound near Riverdale, NJ, late Monday night. Sources tell YWN that the bochurim were returning from an outing at Dorney Waterpark in Allentown, PA, when the driver lost control, resulting in a devastating wreck. Multiple emergency agencies, including Rockland Hatzolah, responded to the scene and began treating the injured bochurim. Two seriously hurt bochurim – including the driver – were subsequently taken to Morristown Medical Center, while four were transported by Rockland Hatzolah to Good Samaritan Hospital, and an additional four brought to St. Joseph’s in Paterson.

Startling revelations have emerged from a transcribed interview under oath conducted by the House Oversight Committee, as a retired FBI supervisory special agent disclosed that the Biden transition team and Secret Service headquarters were informed about an impending interview with Hunter Biden in December 2020. This revelation ultimately resulted in the cancellation of the interview with the son of then-President-elect Joe Biden, even as he remained the prime subject of a long-running federal investigation, according to a report from Fox News. The veteran agent, who had served in the FBI for over two decades and retired last year, provided his testimony behind closed doors to congressional investigators.

Like Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, Deranged Jack Smith, and New York AG Letitia James, Fulton County, GA’s radical Democrat District Attorney Fani Willis is a rabid partisan who is campaigning and fundraising on a platform of prosecuting President Trump through these bogus indictments. Ripping a page from Crooked Joe Biden’s playbook, Willis has strategically stalled her investigation to try and maximally interfere with the 2024 presidential race and damage the dominant Trump campaign. All of these corrupt Democrat attempts will fail.

A grand jury in Georgia that has been investigating former President Donald Trump over his efforts to undo the 2020 election results in that state returned at least one indictment Monday, though it was not immediately clear against whom. Documents were presented around 9 p.m. by the county courts clerk to the Fulton County judge who for months has been presiding over the investigation. The grand jury heard from witnesses into the evening Monday in the election subversion investigation into Donald Trump, a long day of testimony punctuated by the mysterious and brief appearance on a county website of a list of criminal charges against the former president that prosecutors later disavowed.

A group of five secular teenagers, including three secular teenage girls dressed for the beach, purposely boarded a Chareidi bus line near Ashdod on Sunday, with one of the girls confirming with the bus driver that it was the Chareidi bus line before boarding. The bus driver told the girls to cover themselves up with their towels and asked them to sit in the back in order to show respect to the Chareidi bus passengers. The girls reported the incident to the press who blew up the story in a “Israel is turning into Iran” incident. The girls told the press that the Chareidim on the bus did not make any negative statements to them and were even friendly to them when the bus stopped at a rest stop.

Former President Donald Trump says he has proof that Tanya Chutkan, the federal judge overseeing his 2020 election interference case, is biased and wants him thrown behind bars. In social media posts, Trump wrote: “The following TRUTH is a quote by highly partisan Judge Tanya Chutkan, angrily sentencing a J-6er in October of 2022. She obviously wants me behind bars. VERY BIASED & UNFAIR!” He then quoted her in all-caps: “I SEE THE VIDEOTAPES. I SEE THE FOOTAGE OF THE FLAGS AND THE SIGNS THAT PEOPLE WERE CARRYING AND THE HATS THAT THEY WERE WEARING, AND THE GARB.

The medical staff at Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem are fighting for the lives of a 38-year-old Charedi woman and her twin newborn babies. The mother, a resident of the Romema neighborhood, began feeling unwell on Sunday, complaining about severe shortness of breath. Paramedics were called to the scene and she lost consciousness as they began evaluating her. They began carrying out CPR and continued advanced resuscitation techniques as they evacuated her to the hospital in very serious condition – 24 hours before her scheduled C-section to deliver twin babies. At the hospital, a medical team of specialists continued emergency lifesaving procedures, including an emergency C-section.

It was released for publication on Monday morning that the Shin Bet thwarted an advanced attempt by Hamas terrorists to kidnap an IDF soldier and carry out deadly terror attacks against IDF forces in Binyamin. Over the past month, the Shin Bet, in cooperation with the IDF and Israel Police, arrested nine Palestinian Authority terrorists for allegedly establishing a Hamas terror infrastructure in the village of Biddu in Binyamin. During the suspects’ interrogations, the Shin Bet discovered that the terrorists were planning to carry out a “soldier kidnapping terror attack.” The terrorists obtained weapons, prepared explosives, mapped out escape routes, and conducted reconnaissance tours in order to familiarize themselves with the soldiers’ activities in the Binyamin area.