Tucker Carlson emerged Wednesday, two days after Fox News fired him, with a two-minute, campaign-style monologue that didn’t address why he suddenly became unemployed. He posted a video on Twitter shortly after 8 p.m. Eastern, the time his Fox show used to begin, that talked about a lack of honest political debate in the media. Carlson said one of the things he noticed, “when you step away from the noise for a few days,” is how nice some people are, and how hilarious some are. “The other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are,” he said. “They’re completely irrelevant. They mean nothing. In five years we won’t even remember we heard them.

Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to Jerusalem on Thursday to attend the “million-man march” which began at 7 p.m. outside the Knesset. Train stations throughout the country filled up with the thousands on the way to Jerusalem, with some already chanting “the Am demands judical reform.” Channel 12 News reported that Israel Railways increased the lines to Jerusalem due to the high demand. Over 1,000 buses also brought people from all over the country to Jerusalem. In the video below, Chareidim can be seen standing on the sidewalk offering refreshments to those who on the way to the protest. Prior to the rally, dozens of professors, including Israel Prize winner Prof.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended the NYPD’s overtime spending during his executive budget rollout on Wednesday, suggesting that critics of the department’s fiscal outlay are either “anti-overtime” or “anti-police.” Adams had just unveiled his updated $106.7 billion spending plan when he launched into a tangent about police overtime spending, which has faced scrutiny for being excessive. The NYPD’s overtime costs in 2022 were the highest of any city agency, with uniformed cops costing the city $670 million in overtime for that fiscal year, almost double the $354 million allocated in the adopted budget. The fire department spent $392 million on overtime, the second-highest actual overtime cost for that year.

Several left-wing protesters came to the home of UTJ MK Yitzchak Pindrus in the Old City of Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, Yom Ha’atzmaut, in order to create a provocation. The leftists hung Israeli flags on the windows of Pindrus’s neighbors without permission. However, Pindrus refused to be drawn into a fight and instead came outside with a tray of hot coffee and invited the protesters to join him for Shacharis. They refused both the coffee and the tefillah. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Donald Trump took a brief moment away from attacking his fellow Republicans on Tuesday to launch a blistering attack at the “Biden crime family” whose actions he asserted are “Watergate times ten.” His comments came on the heels of Rep. James Comer, chairman of the Oversight Committee, saying that up to a dozen Biden family members were involved in “influence peddling.” “What Congressmen James Comer and Jim Jordan have revealed about the ‘Biden Crime Family’ would be Watergate times 10, if this news was revealed just 10 years ago,” Trump said in a video posted to Truth Social. “Our fake news media is corrupt at a level like never seen before,” he continued. “There has never been anything like it.

Israel’s annual Air Force flyover began on Israel’s 75th Yom Ha’atzmaut on Wednesday at 9:20 a.m. and ended in the early afternoon. In a first in 25 years, 11 fighter jets from foreign airforces joined the airshow, including the US, UK, Germany, and Italy, as a sign of the relationship between Israel and the participating countries. Another “first” was that the aircraft flew over the Shomron, following a four-year battle by Yossi Dagan, the head of the Shomron Regional Council. Last year, the flyover was expanded to Chevron and Gush Etzion for the first time. Aircraft of Israel Police and Israel’s Fire and Rescue Services also participated in the flyover.   (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

A group of talmidim from Yeshivas Torat Etzion recently visited the Beis Medrash of the Rosh Yeshivah of Pnei Menachem, HaGaon HaRav Shaul Alter, and listened to a shiur in chassidus, Arutz Sheva reported. During the shiur, the talmidim were surprised to hear the Rosh Yeshivah asking them a question about physics in order to glean a lesson about avodas Hashem. The shiur revolved around the sefer of the Sfas Emes, with HaRav Altar expanding on the creation of the world, saying that every creation needs to receive chiyus (חיות) from Hakadosh Baruch Hu at every moment. The talmidim were surprised when he asked them if they know what “perpetuum mobile” [perpetual motion] is, referring to the ceaseless movement that physicists tried to find in creation.

Yeshivas Ponevezh continued its annual minhag on Wednesday of hanging an Israeli flag on the yeshivah’s roof on Yom Ha’atzmaut. The minhag began after the establishment of the state on the order of the Ponevezher Rav, HaGaon HaRav Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, z’tl, to fly the flag on the roof of the yeshivah for eight hours. Since then, the flag is hung from the yeshivah’s roof every year on Yom Ha’atzmaut from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. Apart from the flag, there is no indication of Yom Ha’atzmaut at the yeshivah, with tefillos, shiurim, and sedarim taking place as usual. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis went on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program on Sunday night to discuss his relationship with former president and current 2024 candidate Donald Trump, which has soured into outright animosity, particularly from Trump. “The last time I interviewed President Trump, I was there in 2018, and I always saw the two of you as friends,” Hannity said. “And I said to him a very simple question. I asked him. I said, ‘What happened?’ And I think it’s only fair to ask you the same question. What do you think happened?” DeSantis explained that he hadn’t done anything to Trump, and the former president had simply begun attacking him after the 2022 midterm elections.

A Yom HaZikaron ceremony was held in Bnei Brak on Monday evening in memory of the 413 residents of the city who were killed al kiddush Hashem. The event was attended by the members of bereaved families, Mayor Avraham Rubinstein, Rabbanim, public figures and many residents. Among those present was the wife and toddler of Avishai Yechezkel, h’yd, who was killed in the Bnei Brak terror attack a year ago as he protected his son from gunfire with his body.