A large-scale counterterrorism operation was launched yesterday afternoon in Jenin and surrounding areas, involving the IDF, Shin Bet, and Israel Border Police. The IDF says an aircraft targeted and eliminated four terrorists in the Jenin area, while ground forces eliminated an additional seven terrorists and wounded others. The terrorists were reportedly armed, hurled explosive devices at security forces, and attempted to plant explosives in the area. During the operation, security forces successfully dismantled multiple explosive devices planted under roads to harm them. Several wanted suspects were apprehended, and an M-16 rifle was confiscated. One IDF soldier was moderately injured during the operation and was evacuated to a hospital for medical treatment.

Extremist Chareidi protesters on Tuesday who were holding a protest against the Chareidi draft for the second consecutive day at the Tel HaShomer induction center in central Israel broke into the base on Tuesday afternoon. Videos of the scene show the situation spiraling out of control as soldiers and police officers try to forcibly remove the protesters. A large number of police and IDF forces were called to the scene to restore order. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Former Ambassador to Israel David Friedman stated on Monday that Israel is in danger of an Iranian attack due to the Biden administration’s appeasement policies and its refusal to allow Israel to carry out a preemptive attack against the Islamic Republic. In an interview with The Hill, Friedman added that the Biden administration, which continues the policies of the Obama administration, is intentionally empowering Iran. “Judging from Iran’s behavior over the past 12 hours, Iran clearly knows that America will not permit Israel to act preemptively, or even to go on offense at all — that’s the price Israel must pay for American defensive support,” Friedman wrote on X. “That’s why Iran is so dismissive of all the diplomatic efforts — it has nothing to lose.” “Think about it.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once retrieved a bear that was killed by a motorist and left it in New York’s Central Park with a bicycle on top, sparking a mystery that consumed the city a decade ago. Kennedy describes the incident in a video that was posted to social media Sunday, adding it will be included in a forthcoming New Yorker article that he expects to be damaging. It’s the latest bizarre incident in Kennedy’s quixotic campaign that has divided his famous family and left Republicans and Democrats alike concerned about his potential impact on the presidential contest. Kennedy has acknowledged a parasite that lodged in his brain and died.

A Frontier Airlines flight that had been set to go from Houston to the Dallas area last week got canceled not because of weather, but because one of its pilots got arrested. The pilot, Seymour Walker, was arrested by officers around 4 p.m. Thursday before passengers began to board the plane at Bush Intercontinental Airport, according to Houston police. Walker was taken “into custody without incident,” Houston police said. Walker, 45, was wanted on an assault-family violence arrest warrant that had been issued by the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Department of Public Safety. It was not immediately known if Walker was still in custody Monday.

Tel Aviv saw hundreds of people take to the streets to mark the 5th birthday of Ariel Bibas, who is still being held captive by terrorists in Gaza along with his baby brother and parents. In a heartfelt open letter published by The Daily Mail, Pnina Bibas, the grandmother of the abducted children, wished a happy birthday to her “dear Luli”, saying: “Five years… Do you even know that this big day is approaching?” Ariel, his baby brother Yarden, and their parents were abducted by terrorists on October 7, with Hamas claiming that the children are no longer alive. However, the IDF says that they had found no evidence to support this claim. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Rav Aharon Olshin, the eldest son of Rav Yeruchem and the next in line to become a BMG rosh yeshiva, delivered his first Shiur Klali in the yeshiva today. Rav Aharon is also the son-in-law of Novominsk Rosh Yeshiva Rav Yossel Mermelstein shlit”a. BMG officials told Lakewood Alerts that although this shiur is a historic first, there are no plans to install Rav Aharon as a full-time member of BMG’s hanhala at this time. Other children and sons-in-law of BMG roshei yeshiva also delivered their own shiur following Rav Aharon’s. The BMG roshei yeshiva were in attendance for all of them.

Newly released footage shows the late Bobover Rebbe, Rav Shlomo Halberstam zt”l, recounting in Yiddish [and some English] his miraculous rescue from the Holocaust. The video, released in commemoration of the Rebbe’s Yahrzeit, shows the Rebbe describing his capture by Nazis in Neimark, Poland, and his narrow escape. The footage provides a rare glimpse into the Rebbe’s experiences during World War II. The Bobover Rebbe passed away on Rosh Chodesh Av in 2000 at the age of 92, leaving behind a generational legacy as Rebbe and survivor of the Holocaust. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Former President Donald Trump has attributed Monday’s sharp decline in the stock market to Vice President Kamala Harris, labeling it “the Kamala Crash.” Trump’s comments came after the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 1,000 points in morning trading on Monday, following a significant drop of more than 600 points on Friday. “Of course there is a massive market downturn. Kamala is even worse than Crooked Joe,” Trump wrote on social media Monday. He linked the market turmoil to Harris’s rise as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, adding, “Markets will NEVER accept the Radical Left Lunatic that DESTROYED San Francisco and California, as a whole. Next move, THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024! You can’t play games with MARKETS.

On Thursday evening, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yechiel Stern climbed a burning building in Jerusalem and saved an entire family. The fire erupted in Jerusalem’s Beit Yisrael neighborhood, where residents immediately alerted the emergency services. Noticing a family stranded on the top floor of the building complex, Stern rushed to scale the building and help the family escape. Holding on to the railing with one hand, Stern helped the family climb down the building and escape the raging fire, which ultimately caused the roof of the building to collapse. Eli Beer, President and Founder of United Hatzalah, posted the footage on X. “One of United Hatzalah’s bravest, Yechiel Stern from Jerusalem, heroically climbed a burning building to save an entire family,” wrote Beer.