There was good news at Hadassah Har HaTzofim Hospital in Jerusalem on Tuesday – the release of HaRav Avraham Noach Paley, who was seriously injured three months ago in the Ramot terror attack, which took the lives of his two young sons, H’yd. After about a month in the hospital and two months in rehabilitation, Rav Paley, who suffered serious injuries to his legs, was able to walk out of the hospital on crutches. He was accompanied by Reb Motti Fried, the head of the Sa’ad V’Marpeh nonprofit medical organization, who has supported Rav Paley and constantly been at his side since the attack. Rav Paley finally returned to his home in Ramot, a happy but bittersweet occasion for the family, whose joy is marred by the absence of Ushi and Yaakov, H’yd.

A group of Chasidic Lakewood residents received a tour of Beth Medrash Govoha on Monday morning, Lakewood Alerts reports, during which they visited the yeshiva’s batei midrashim, met Rav Malkiel Kotler shlit”a, and were addressed by BMG CEO R’ Yosef Heinemann. In describing the resources necessary to keep the largest yeshiva in the United States running smoothly, R’ Heinemann made a startling revelation: in the past 12 months alone, BMG’s talmidim and yungerleit consumed around 3.6 million coffees. “For somebody who hears that, it sounds like a crazy number. But if you times it by 8,500 and [do the math], it’s only about about 1.5 cups of coffee per day per talmid,” he said.

Lag B’Omer 2023 at Meron was a tremendous success, B’Chasdei Hashem, and was celebrated with the joyous atmosphere of past years while upholding stringent safety regulations. However, the success of the event was eclipsed by Operation Shield and Arrow, which was launched on Lag B’omer. The success of the event can be attributed to Jerusalem Minister Meir Porush, who despite his reluctance to break with tradition by being appointed a minister, did so in order to receive authority over Meron in compliance with the recommendations of the state commission of inquiry into the Meron disaster that a minister be appointed over the event. Porush then appointed former Jerusalem mayoral candidate Yossi Deitsch as the Meron project manager.

As he’s done multiple times before, Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott on Sunday had a bus loaded with migrants who illegally crossed into the United States dropped off outside Vice President Kamala Harris’s official residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. Abbott first began sending migrants to Washington in April 2022 to pressure the Biden administration to take the crisis at the southern border seriously. “Texas has borne a lopsided burden caused by your open border policies,” Abbott wrote in a letter to the president when the shipments to Washington first began. Now, with Title 42 expiring, Abbott says he will continue sending migrants to liberal cities. “There will be more coming,” Abbott said.

Former GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie tore into CNN for allowing Donald Trump to steamroll his way through a town hall last week – and accused the network of making it essentially a Trump rally. Specifically, Christie said CNN obviously made a deal with Trump to have the audience consist almost entirely of people who already support him, allowing the ex-president to avoid taking any hard-hitting questions from undecided Republicans. “Let’s face it, CNN went in the tank to get Trump on there,” Christie said. “They allowed him to negotiate who was going to be in that audience, and those were all Trump supporters.” “I don’t care how they introduced them.

Anti-judicial reform protesters broke into the dining room of a hotel in the Galil on Monday morning where Economy Minister Nir Barkat (Likud) was staying for a conference along with members of the conservative Kohelet Forum. The “protesters” physically pushed the hotel employees in order to reach Barkat but the hotel employees fought back and pushed the protesters back. One protester hit a security guard in the shoulder with his flagpole and when the employee tried to protect himself, the protester fell to the floor. Another protester threw a chair, hitting a hotel employee on his back. A third protester fell down while backing away from the employees.

The FDNY was on the scene of a working structure fire in Flatbush on Sunday afternoon. The fire started just after 2:00PM in a garage behind a home on East 12th Street between Avenue M and Avenue N. Dramatic footage showed a fast moving fire burning out of control, and quickly spreading to a second garage. Thankfully, the FDNY was able to contain it without spreading to nearby homes. Flatbush Hatzolah staged on the scene, but Bichasdei Hashem, it did not appear that anyone was injured. THIS STORY WAS FIRST PUBLISHED ON THE FLATBUSH SCOOP STATUS CLICK HERE SIGN UP TO THE FLATBUSH SCOOP WHATSAPP STATUS TO BE INFORMED OF FLATBUSH NEWS IN LIVE TIME (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Israeli security forces raided the city of Shechem early Sunday morning in a special arrest operation under the intelligence guidance of the Shin Bet. IDF soldiers, Border Police officers, and Yamam officers surrounded a home in the kasbah (Old City) and the two wanted suspects, the terrorists who carried out the shooting attack in Huwara in March, injuring two IDF soldiers, surrendered themselves to Israeli forces without resistance. The terrorists were transferred to the Shin Bet for interrogation. The manhunt for the terrorist had stretched out for a month and a half. The operation was launched on Sunday morning in the wake of intelligence information that the two were planning another attack. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opened the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday morning by praising Israel’s accomplishments during Operation Shield and Arrow, which ended with a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group on Motzei Shabbos. “Last night we successfully completed five days of fighting against the terrorist organization of the Islamic Jihad. Before the start of the operation, the instructions I issued together with the Defense Minister to the IDF and the Shin Bet can be summed up in two words: ‘Initiative and surprise’. Yesterday I congratulated the IDF Chief of Staff and the head of the Shin Bet – also with two words: ‘Well done’. And the execution was indeed perfect.

Just hours after Rep. George Santos – who claims to be Jewish – was indicted on money laundering, wire fraud, and other charges, an audio of the disgraced congressman came to light in which he jokes about “a room full of Jews. “If you sit in a room with a lot of Jews, you’re [expletive],” Santos says in the audio clip. “It’s funny when the -isms start coming out, right? ‘Oh, he’s such a mentsch, he’s such a mentsch.’ Then they go on to the next thing,” Santos is heard saying. A former roommate of Santos said the congressman used Jewish-sounding names on online fundraisers because he thought that “the Jews will give more if you’re a Jew.” And after his bogus claims of being Jewish were revealed, he insisted that he was simply saying he was “Jew-ish.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)