Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US Senator Lindsey Graham at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on Monday. They first met together with Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and then held an expanded meeting in which the Prime Minister’s Military Secretary, Maj.-Gen. Avi Gil, and National Security Council Deputy Director for Foreign Policy Avivit Bar-Ilan also participated. Senator Graham made the following statement at the meeting: “I told Saudi Arabia I’d like to upgrade our relationship. We have to do it in a way that would be reassuring to our friends in Israel. I want to help President Biden.

In a recent interview, Donald Trump claimed that employees of the Manhattan courthouse where he was recently arraigned on charges relating to 2016 hush money payments were “crying” during the booking process. This prompted Saturday Night Live comedians to roll clips on Trump claiming numerous times that people were crying to him or because of him. This of course begs the question: Why are people always crying around Trump?
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has downplayed his recent disagreement with President Joe Biden over his proposed judicial reforms. In a Sunday `interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Netanyahu spoke about his friendship with Biden, saying that “Friends can have disagreements on occasion, but I share with them the view that we should act.” “President Biden has been a great friend of Israel. I’ve known him for 40 years,” Netanyahu told NBC’s Meet the Press. “I know his commitment to Israel’s security. Friends can have disagreements on occasion, but I share with them the view that we should act — and not only share the view, I’m actually acting on it to try to reach a broad consensus.” “I always say America is Israel’s indispensable and, by far, the best ally, “Netanyahu said.

As YWN reported two weeks ago, A Pesach getaway program scheduled to take place at the Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ, dissolved into disaster due to what the director of the Pesach program described as a “huge financial scam.” On Motzei Shabbos before Pesach, Zev Brenner of talkline Communications interviewed Heshy Goldstein, the owner of Aryeh Hospitality on the Atlantic City Pesach program Debacle. But many people re still demanding answers and wondering what transpired. In a second episode, Zev Brenner interviewed Elan Kornblum of “Great Kosher Restaurants” who has covered the plight of the victims, Yossi Zablocki of “Destinations 613” who was scammed, Doni Schwartz of Passoverlistings.com who’s an expert on Pesach vacations & $700k investor Sinai Rubin.

• Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport has been evacuated after a suspicious package was found at baggage claim. • Thousands of passengers are waiting outside as a bomb squad investigates. • A Sherriff’s K-9 unit was on scene. • The Newark Fire Department also responded. • Newark Airport confirmed the incident saying, “EWR, Terminal C level 1 is temporary closed due to police activity. Please use level 2 and level 3.”
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As superstar conservative Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered a speech on a stage in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Friday, two women stormed the stage in protest of the soon-to-be presidential candidate. DeSantis was speaking at the GOP’s Amos Tuck fundraiser which raked in a record $382,000. “If you looked at governor races, president races, 2010, 12, 14, 16, 18–” DeSantis said before being interrupted by the demonstrators. DeSantis stopped and turned toward the protesters, saying, “Yeah, thank you.” As the two female protesters were escorted off the stage, they shouted in unison, “Jews against DeSantis!” “You gotta have a little spice in the speech, right?” DeSantis quipped. “I mean, you gotta have a little fun. Why you’d wanna pay the ticket to get in just to that, I don’t know.

Police have evacuated some homes in Rockland County as multiple brush fires burn along the CSX train line in Stony Point. At least three structures have caught fire, according to NBC New York. The fires were kicked off by sparks from an S/B train that had been traveling through Stony Point, Haverstraw, and Congers, according to Rockland fire officials. With the fires continuing to burn, CSX has been ordered to halt all train traffic coming and going from Rockland County. Black smoke is visible for miles surrounding the brush fires as strong winds send it billowing outwards in heavy clouds. For now, police are telling residents to avoid the area of Old Haverstraw Road to Route 303 in Congers.   (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

On Tuesday, Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, had a contentious interview with BBC reporter James Clayton. Clayton asked Musk about allegations that the social media platform does not have enough staff to police hate speech. Musk challenged Clayton to provide specific examples of hate speech flourishing on Twitter, which the reporter could not provide. Clayton attempted to defend himself by stating that he had only reported others experiencing hate speech, not that he had seen it himself. However, Musk continued to press Clayton for concrete examples and accused him of lying. WATCH THIS INCREDIBLE CLIP BELOW: (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A bus carrying 32 Israeli tourists in South Korea overturned on Thursday, killing an Israeli woman and injuring 31 others. Two of the victims were critically injured, five were seriously injured, and 24 were lightly injured. The driver told the police that the accident was caused by a mechanical failure in the gearbox. Israel’s ambassador to South Korea Akiva Tor is assisting the victims and their families. Representatives from the Israeli Embassy in Seoul are visiting the victims at the four hospitals they are being treated at. The passengers are reportedly Israelis in their 60s and 70s and are mainly native Russian speakers. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

The Belzer Rebbe, who underwent surgery on Monday morning, Chol Hamoed Pesach, spent Shivii shel Pesach in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital with his son, HaRav Aharon Mordechai Rokeach, grandsons and gabbaim. In a first, Belzer chassidim, many of whom travel to Jerusalem every year to spend shviii shel Pesach with the Rebbe, were asked to remain home. The Rebbe held a small tisch on leil haChag from his hospital ward and held “Neilas HaChag” at tzeis haChag with his children and grandchildren. Baruch Hashem, the Rebbe is doing well and was released from the hospital on Thursday afternoon. He will continue recuperating at home and will not receive the public in the coming days.