Veteran journalist and Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn has accused former First Lady Jill Biden of “elder abuse” for supporting her husband, former President Joe Biden, in his 2024 re-election campaign despite concerns about his health and cognitive decline. Quinn, a well-connected D.C. insider, blasted Jill Biden for not discouraging her husband from seeking another term, particularly after his widely criticized performance in the June 2024 presidential debate against President Donald Trump. “I blame Jill Biden for this. Jill Biden is his wife. And if Jill Biden had stood up and gone to him and said, ‘Joe, you can’t do it’… He wouldn’t have run,” Quinn told journalist Tara Palmeri.

Donald Trump Jr. is no longer ruling out a run for the White House. At a panel discussion during Bloomberg’s Qatar Economic Forum on Wednesday, the eldest son of President Donald Trump offered his most suggestive comments yet about a possible presidential bid. When asked whether he could see himself running to succeed his father, Trump Jr., 47, smiled and paused before responding: “You never know.” “It’s an honor to be asked and an honor to see that some people are OK with it,” he said to scattered applause from the audience. “I don’t know, maybe one day, you know, that calling is there.” The comments marked a subtle but significant shift for the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, who has long been one of his father’s most vocal and aggressive political surrogates.

Israel’s Supreme Court of Justice ruled in a verdict published on Wednesday evening that the government’s decision to terminate the tenure of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar was made in an “improper and unlawful” process. In addition, the decision stated that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had a conflict of interest given the investigations into his aides as part of the Qatargate affair, and that the dismissal decision was made without a factual basis and without a proper hearing. The decision was reached despite the fact that the distrust between Bar and Netanyahu since the October 7 massacre was public knowledge, well before the launch of the Qatargate investigation. The decision has no practical bearing since Bar already announced his intention to end his term on June 15.

IDF forces in the Jenin refugee camp on Wednesday fired warning shots in the air during a tour of a delegation of foreign diplomats in the city, causing them to flee the area. According to Palestinian reports, the delegation included 25 representatives from European and Arab countries. Yisrael Hayom reported that the delegation was provided with an approved route as the area is considered an active combat zone. Nevertheless, the delegation deviated from the route and approached an area banned to civilians, causing the IDF soldiers to suspect the delegation members were terror suspects. The commander of the Yehudah and Shomron Division immediately investigated the incident and ordered IDF representatives to hold diplomatic contacts with international diplomats to explain the incident.

Former Knesset member Moshe Feiglin on Tuesday responded harshly to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s decision to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. Speaking in an interview with Channel 14, Feiglin said:  “Ultimately, this aid is direct aid to the enemy – let’s stop lying to ourselves. Providing aid to the enemy while we send our soldiers to fight is a crime against IDF soldiers, no less than that.” It should be noted that Feiglin’s grandson, Yair Levin, H’yd, was killed in Rafah last year. “Every child in Gaza is the enemy. And I’ll tell you more than that. Every child, every baby in Gaza is the enemy.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Tuesday slammed the joint statement by the UK, Canada and France on Monday threatening to implement sanctions on Israel if it doesn’t stop its war in Gaza. Speaking at the 17th Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress in Jerusalem,” Sa’ar said: “The declaration from yesterday is totally connected to  Macron’s initiative for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state in June.” Sa’ar accused Macron of using the current reality to push for his agenda of the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state and added that, in any case, Macron already implemented sanctions on Israel when he banned Israel from participating in an arms exhibition in Paris. Sa’ar continued by saying: “What I want to tell every country, mainly those who had a colonial past.

A senior Hamas official is facing a storm of fury from residents in Gaza after dismissing the Strip’s soaring war death toll as little more than “material calculations” — remarks that many are calling dehumanizing and disgraceful. Sami Abu Zuhri, a high-ranking Hamas spokesperson based in Qatar, made the comments in a podcast interview originally aired in late March but which resurfaced this week, quickly going viral across social media platforms in Gaza and beyond. Abu Zuhri noted that Gaza’s birth rate — reportedly around 50,000 since the war began — exceeds the number of people killed in the conflict. “The martyrs — the wombs of Gaza’s women will give birth to twice as many,” he said. “This is the price that must be paid.

President Donald Trump on Monday questioned the timeline and transparency surrounding Joe Biden’s newly revealed cancer diagnosis, implying that the former president’s aggressive prostate cancer may have been hidden from the public for political reasons. The remarks came just a day after Biden’s office confirmed he had been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer — a disclosure that sent shockwaves through the political world and triggered a wave of well-wishes, including from Trump himself. “Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis,” Trump wrote in a public statement Sunday. “We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.” But by Monday, Trump’s tone shifted.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee spoke on Monday at the 17th Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress in Jerusalem. “I hear people saying often that Israel is facing a seven-front war,” Huckabee began. I beg to differ,” he emphasized. “Well, there may be seven different servers [waiters] coming out of the kitchen, all bringing a different plate, some named Hamas, some Hezbollah, and some Houthi. Just remember one thing. All of the plates came from the very same kitchen —Tehran.” “Tehran is the chef, it is the server, it is the one that brings the poison to all the rest of the world. If we ever forget who our real enemy is – it will be a fatal mistake.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing the Democratic New York attorney general’s real estate transactions, Director Kash Patel confirmed in an interview with Fox News on Sunday. The investigation is focused on whether the state Attorney General, Letitia James, committed fraud on a mortgage application. A grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia has issued subpoenas on the matter. James, who won a civil case last year against the Trump Organization and Trump himself over allegations of faulty business practices, is the first public official who investigated the president to now face potential criminal prosecutions themselves.