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 crowd of thousands that packed Manhattan’s Union Square for a popular livestreamer’s hyped giveaway got out of hand Friday afternoon, with some clambering on vehicles, hurling chairs and throwing punches, leaving police struggling to rein in the chaos. Aerial TV news footage showed a surging, tightly packed crowd running through the streets, scaling structures in the park and snarling traffic. Shouting teenagers swung objects at car windows, threw paint cans and set off fire extinguishers. Some people climbed on a moving vehicle, falling off as it sped away. Others pounded on or climbed atop city buses.

A serious incident occurred in Binyanim at the beginning of Shabbos when dozens of Arabs from Burka violently attacked a Jewish shepherd from Oz Tzion with explosives, clubs, and rocks. A number of Jewish residents of the area ran to help them and were also violently attacked, with the Arabs throwing fireworks and rocks at them at point-blank range. One of the Jews was hit in the head by a rock and severely injured, suffering from cerebral hemorrhage and skull fractures. In order to defend himself, he pulled out his gun and shot a Palestinian, killing him The Jews alerted the security and emergency forces and the wounded victim was rushed to Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem. He underwent emergency surgery and is now hospitalized in the intensive care unit.

A Chareidi family was b’chasdei Hashem saved at the last moment from certain deaths when their car got stuck right before the train tracks near Zurich, Switzerland. The driver and his wife ran from the car seconds before the train hit the car and destroyed it. The incident happened on Thursday morning at 9:30 am. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Former D.C. Metropolitan police officer and CNN analyst Michael Fanone compared the recent federal indictment of former President Donald Trump to the feeling he had when the U.S. military killed Osama bin Laden in 2011. Fanone, who was present during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and testified before the U.S. House select committee investigating the incident, shared his thoughts during an interview with CNN host Laura Coates. The interview took place shortly after Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith announced the indictment of Donald Trump on charges related to his actions surrounding the 2020 presidential election.

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.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday undermined a key pillar of his old boss’ defense in the special counsel’s probe into 2020 election interference, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that Donald Trump “knew well he lost the election.” The former attorney general also described Trump’s alleged actions as detailed in the indictment as “nauseating” and “despicable,” saying on “The Source,” “someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process that is fundamental to our system and to our self-government shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office.” A central premise of the special counsel’s case is that Trump knew the election claims he was making were false after being told by several close aides that he had lost the election.

A day after the searing tragedy of the death of a father of ten while on a Bein Hazemanim hike, the head of the Chassidish Chevra Kadisha in Jerusalem spoke out on Thursday. In a video message, HaRav Kletzkin said: “It’s tes zayin Av and Bein Hazemanim just began this week. Since Sunday, I already cut the clothing of 80 aveilim at levayos, including five children – and that’s only the males.” “Hashem Yishmor, you think the pain ends after the levayos? I can’t eat or sleep.” “It’s Bein HaZemanim. I’m very afraid of it. Everyone who goes on tiyulim during Bein Hazemanim must daven beforehand for shemirah, give tzedakah – that everyone will be safe. Halevai that everyone will be safe, that Hashem will help that everyone who leaves will return b’shalom.

Mossad head Dovid Barnea attended the chasunah of his Chareidi nephew on Tuesday evening in Modiin Illit. His nephew is the son of his brother, Reb Zohar Barnea, who became frum when he was 13 and later became a Breslover chassid. The video below shows him dancing with his brother and the Breslover mashpiah Reb Elimelech Zilbiger, the son-in-law of Hagaon HaRav Yizchok Tuvia Weiss, z’tl. Reb Barnea and his son were at Meron the year of the disaster and almost lost their lives in the crush. He later said in an interview with the Hebrew Mishpacha that “people around me were being crushed to death but I myself was sort of in a protected side bubble.” He added that he went to Meron that year at his brother’s request.

Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday began playing with fire with the start of a hearing on petitions against the Incapacitation Law, passed as an amendment to a Basic Law in March. Israel’s Basic Laws have never been struck down by the court and many legal scholars are of the opinion that the Supreme Court does not have the authority to do so. Last week, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara filed an opinion seeking to strike down the law, which prevents an attorney-general from declaring a prime minister as “incapacitated” [unfit for office] except in exceptional circumstances.