Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday issued a temporary injunction against the Incapacitation Law following last week’s unprecedented hearing on the law, which was passed as an amendment to a Basic Law. The court also stated that it will hold an extended hearing on the law, with an 11-judge panel versus the three-judge panel that deliberated the law on Thursday. The Incapacitation Law prevents an attorney-general from declaring a prime minister as “incapacitated” [unfit for office] except in exceptional circumstances. The injunction orders Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Knesset to justify why the court shouldn’t rule that the implementation of the law be postponed until the next Knesset so it won’t be viewed as a personal law designed to aid Netanyahu.

The IDF on Sunday evening opened fire on a car in the Jenin area carrying three terrorists on the way to carry out a terror attack. “In a joint operation by the IDF, the Shin Bet, and the Border Police, a vehicle containing a terrorist squad that left the Jenin refugee camp on its way to carry out an attack was identified a short time ago,” the IDF spokesperson stated. “The security forces acted to remove the immediate threat and thwarted the squad.” “The head of the squad that was killed is Naif Abu Suias, a 26-year-old resident of the Jenin refugee camp, a prominent military operative who was involved in military activity against our forces and in promoting military activity directed by terrorist elements from the Gaza Strip.

We all knew it was coming, and finally it happened. Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday to lash out at his Republican primary rival and former Vice President Mike Pence for his recent comments concerning Trump’s indictment over the events of January 6th. Earlier this week, Trump faced an arraignment in Washington, D.C., for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election on January 6th. Throughout the proceedings, Trump and his supporters have placed blame on Pence for not intervening to prevent Congress from certifying the election results on that fateful day. In contrast, Pence has repeatedly stated that he prioritized upholding the constitution over his loyalty to Trump.

One person was killed in a serious crash on Route 52 near Caston Road, between Woodbourne and Ellenville early Sunday morning. The crash occured at around 4:00am and involved one vehicle which overturned. Catskills Hatzolah was on the scene in seconds, and were unable to reach the victim until the fire department extricated him from the vehicle. Hatzolah used their drone unit to search the area for a second vehicle or possible additional victims who may had been ejected from the vehicle. The drone has infrared technology and can spot anything with heat. Unfortunately, the victim was pronounced DOA. It did not appear that Chevra Kaddisha services were needed in this tragic incident. The NY State Police were on the scene investigating.

A terrorist opened fire at two municipal security guards at the Nachalat Binyanim pedestrian mall in Tel Aviv on Shabbos afternoon, critically injuring one of them. The terrorist aroused the suspicion of the security guards when he arrived at the area, and they approached him in order to question him, calling out to him. The terrorist, ignoring their calls, opened fire at them, shooting one of them in the head and critically injuring him. The second guard immediately fired back, neutralizing the terrorist. The wounded victim, in his 40s, was treated at the scene and evacuated to Ichilov Hospital, where the doctors fought for his life. Sadly, his death was announced on Motzei Shabbos and he was identified as Chen Amir, h’yd. Chen, z’l, 42, was married and a father of three daughters.

A Chareidi ten-year-old from the UK fell off a fourth-floor balcony in a hotel in the town of Zermatt in southern Switzerland on Sunday night. The boy, who was on vacation with his family, woke up in the middle of the night and sleepwalked onto the porch, and somehow fell off the porch in his sleepy state, hitting the concrete below and seriously injuring himself. Meanwhile, his parents were sound asleep in bed, totally unaware that their son lay seriously injured outside, crying softly. In an incident of Hashgachas Pratis, another Chareidi family from the UK arrived at the hotel at 3:30 a.m. after being delayed for many hours their the way due to heavy rain. One of the children heard the sound of crying and ‘Mommy, Mommy’ and asked his father to look for the source.

Journalist Avi Ravina posted a video this week of the men’s section of a separate beach in Ashdod that is overcrowded with hundreds of men and boys in a small area. Ravina wrote: “Only about 10% of the beaches in Israel are separate beaches for the Dati and Chareidi public although they make up 23% of the population. This has to change!” Haaretz journalist Chaim Levinson commented: “Opinion: My friend Avi is correct. Some separate beaches should be added just for Bein HaZemamin. This state of affairs isn’t reasonable.” According to a Kikar H’Shabbat report, the separate beach in Netanya was so crowded one day this week that the municipality blocked the entrance. At other beaches, it was difficult for people to find a spot to enter the water.

Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to trying to overturn the results of his 2020 presidential election loss, answering for the first time to federal charges that accuse him of orchestrating a brazen and ultimately failed attempt to block the peaceful transfer of presidential power. Trump appeared before a magistrate judge in Washington’s federal courthouse two days after being indicted on four felony counts by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith. The charges accuse him of trying to subvert the will of voters and undo his election loss in the days before Jan. 6, 2021, when supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a violent and bloody clash with law enforcement.

The tragic petirah of a father of ten this week is only one of many tragedies in this week alone, the first week of Bein Hazemanim. Sadly, in recent years, every Bein Hazemanim seems to be marked by a rise in terrible tragedies. Last year, HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein, z’tl addressed the issue by saying that “the Torah is humiliated during Bein Hazemanim.” “There were several tragedies, rachmana litzlan after Tisha B’Av, during Bein Hazemanim,” HaRav Edelstein, z’tl said last Bein Hazemanim. “[The tragedies] were in a strange way, not usual tragedies. It’s incomprehensible. Many people lost their lives.” “What is this that Hashem Elokeinu is doing to us? Why this? Apparently, during Bein Hazemanin, the zechus of Torah is lacking.

In a heroic cross-continental operation, a missing Jew was found in a wartorn country and brought across the border in order to grant his wife a get. The story began in Israel with a marriage between two Israeli-Ethiopians. About eight years ago, the husband suddenly disappeared, leaving his wife an agunah. The wife opened a file in the Beis Din in Tel Aviv and the case was transferred to the Ethiopian Immigrant Department. Efforts were first made in Ethiopia and via intelligence and diplomatic means, it was discovered that the husband may have immigrated to Canada. However, extensive efforts in Canada yielded no results.