HaGaon HaRav Meir Tzvi Bergman, who received the bitter news of his son’s petirah after traveling to the US for the first time in four years, will speak at the Adirei HaTorah event during the week of shiva. HaRav Bergman’s speech was initially canceled due to dinei aveilus. However, he remained in the US to sit shiva since his doctors felt it would be too taxing for the elderly Rosh Yeshivah to make another long plane trip so soon after landing. Meanwhile, the Roshei Yeshivos of Lakewood began discussing the issue of whether HaRav Bergman’s appearance at the event would fall under the halachic category of “רבים צריכים לו” – believing that the success of the event may be impinged by the Rosh Yeshivah’s absence.

A terrorist who was later identified as an Egyptian policeman shot and killed two IDF soldiers who were guarding a military position on the Egyptian border in the early hours of Shabbos morning. IDF forces were deployed to the scene and carried out searches of the area. On Shabbos afternoon, IDF soldiers spotted the terrorist in Israeli territory and a gun battle ensued. The terrorist was killed in the exchange of fire, and tragically, a third IDF soldier was killed and an officer was lightly wounded. One of the soldiers that were killed on Shabbos morning was identified as Sgt. Lia Ben-Nun, 19, H’yd, of Rishon L’Tzion, and the second soldier was named as Staff Sgt. Ori Yitzchak Iluz, 20, H’yd, of Tzfas. The soldier killed on Shabbos afternoon was named as Staff Sgt.

Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky shlit”a, the zkan roshei yeshiva in the US, was released back home on Friday after a bout of pneumonia forced his hospitalization. The pneumonia infection occurred just days after the rosh yeshiva was released from a rehabilitation center following a stroke he suffered after attending the levaya of Rav Meir Hershkowitz zt”l in Lakewood. In a message, the Philadelphia Yeshiva said that Rav Shmuel “is continuing to improve” and “is in good spirits,” permitting for his release from the hospital. “The oilam is requested NOT to come visit as the Rosh Hayeshiva needs to concentrate on his therapy,” the message added.

The Biden administration wants to buy Israel’s silence about a renewed Iran nuclear deal in exchange for brokering a Saudi-Israel normalization deal, Yisrael Hayom reported on Thursday. Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi flew to Washington on Wednesday for talks with Biden administration officials about both the possibility of a renewed nuclear deal with Iran and a Saudi-Israel deal. The report quoted former political officials as saying that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would be interested in such a deal as he has expressed strong interest in the past in achieving a peace deal with Saudi Arabia. However, a source from the Prime Minister’s Office denied it, telling Yisrael Hayom: “Israel has not changed its position.

Minutes after the news of the petirah of HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein, z’tl, the Mekubal HaRav Kook, who learned in Ponevezh Yeshivah as a bochur, spoke out sharply against the owners of Angel Bakery and said that the boycott will last “עד ביאת גואל צדק.” HaRav Kook’s words were published on Thursday in the weekly pamphlet by the Sifsei Cohen Institute, which publishes the Rav’s Torah.

David Spitzer and his wife Sarah visited Maimonides Medical Center, on Thursday, to thank Dr. Alexandra Dadrat for CPR that saved his life after he collapsed outside his 47th Street home just three months ago. In addition to presenting a plaque as an expression of their appreciation, Mr. Spitzer also took the occasion to express his thanks for the life-saving support of Hatzolah of Borough Park and the physicians of Maimonides Emergency Department and Heart and Vascular Center for their respective roles in saving his life and ensuring his recovery. “I am indebted to Dr. Dadrat for saving my life, obviously, but so much more for not ignoring a stranger on the street who needed help,” says Mr. Spitzer.

President Trump, 76, was campaigning in Iowa when he heard about Biden’s stumble at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation Thursday. “He actually fell down? Well I hope he wasn’t hurt,” Trump said after an audience member told him about what had happened to Biden. “The whole thing is crazy. You gotta be careful about that … ’cause you don’t want that, even if you have to tiptoe down a ramp.” The audience laughed as Trump recounted slowly inching his way down what he said had been a slippery ramp at the U.S. Military Academy graduation. “If he fell, it’s too bad,” the former president said. “We gotta just get this thing back on track. That’s a bad place to fall when you’re making, I think it was the Air Force Academy, right? That’s not inspiring.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Republican Congressman Mike Lawler from New York is introducing legislation aimed at preventing universities that allow “antisemitic events on campus” from participating in student loan and grant programs. The proposed legislation, known as the “Stop Antisemitism on College Campuses Act,” is a response to a recent anti-Semitic commencement speech delivered at CUNY Law School. During the speech, student Fatima Mousa Mohammed made accusations of “indiscriminate” murder by the U.S. military and Israel. She also called for students to join a “revolution” against Zionism, capitalism, and racism. Mohammed claimed that Israel continues to use violence against Palestinians, including the elderly and young, even targeting funerals and graveyards.

President Joe Biden on Thursday took a tumble while on stage at an Air Force graduation ceremony. Footage of the incident shows the president shaking a graduate’s hand and then attempting to make his way to another part of the stage. But when he does, he almost immediately tripped, falling head over heels. The president lay on the ground for a few seconds as the crowd awkwardly cheered before going into an uncomfortable silence as Secret Service agents helped him off the stage. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Chana Tova Chaya Nachenberg, H’yd, passed away at the age of 52 on Wednesday, 22 years after she was critically injured in the Sbarro bombing attack in Jerusalem in 2001. Chana, H’yd, born in New York, was a young mother at the time of the attack. One of the many nails placed in the bomb pierced her heart and she has been in a coma ever since. Her death brings the number of fatalities from the attack to 16, including seven children, a woman pregnant with her first child, and five members of one family – the Schijveschuurder family. Over 100 people were wounded in the attack.