A 66-year-old man who saved himself from a rampaging U-Haul truck driver with a frantic leap on a Brooklyn sidewalk said he doesn’t know how he managed to escape. Mohamed Abdelmagid, a car service driver, was strolling to his dispatch office Monday morning when he looked up from his phone just in time to see the truck barrel onto the sidewalk. His reaction was caught on surveillance video — an attempt to sidestep the rushing truck and then a desperate dive to the concrete that sent him to the hospital with cracked ribs and a fractured ankle. The truck passed so close, Abdelmagid said it clipped his foot as he dove. Then, the prone Abdelmagid was nearly run over by a police car flying up the sidewalk in pursuit of the U-Haul.

The incredible gevurah and emunah of Devorah Paley, who lost her two young sons in the Ramot terror attack and whose husband is hospitalized in serious condition, has garnered international attention, with CNN dedicating a special report to her. The report focused on Devorah’s faith and her acceptance of her sons’ deaths as Hashem’s will, without looking for anyone to blame. Of course, since it’s CNN, it couldn’t help but include its liberal agenda in the report, such as failing to identify the attack as a “terror attack” – rather saying “what Israeli authorities call a terror attack” and calling the recent wave of terror attacks “a wave of violence” without identifying the perpetrators. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Recently released audio recordings have revealed the tense moments when F16 fighter jets attempted to shoot down a UFO over Lake Huron in Michigan. The event occurred as the mysterious flying object entered sensitive Defense Department bases over the Great Lakes. This was the third incident of its kind in US airspace in three days, prompting officials to take action. Despite a Pentagon memo stating that the object was a ‘small, metallic balloon’, the pilots struggled to define the UFO in the in-cockpit communication. One of the pilots noted, “I wouldn’t really call it a balloon… I can see it outside with my eyes.” The object’s octagonal structure, size, and shape caused confusion among the pilots, and they had a hard time discerning its color.

In a rare handwritten letter, Rav Gershon Edelstein shlit”a implored Yidden to accept changes upon themselves in the wake of recent tragedies and terror attacks that have befallen individuals and families in Eretz Yisroel. In the letter, the revered rosh yeshiva writes that the devastating earthquake in Turkey was a message to Am Yisrael to wake up, as Chazal state that all bad things that happen in the world are intended to be a message for Klal Yisroel. Additionally, he writes that the murder of multiple yidden in recent terror attacks compels us to increase our zechusim and beseech Hashem for the injured. “While we don’t know the cheshbon of Hashem, it is our duty to search our actions and correct them,” Rav Gershon writes.

Some people think so deeply into things that they end up losing their minds. One of those people is Charlie Kirk, a MAGA conservative who rose to fame thanks to Donald Trump. On his eponymously named show, Kirk played a clip from an Air Force general saying that he is not ruling out anything about the balloons’ origins, including that they might be from aliens. “But should we even trust anything that the government is saying?” Kirk asked in response to the clip. “Could this all just be a false flag operation to fake an alien invasion or fake a UFO hysteria crisis to try to justify more power — lockdowns — control?” he suggested, “These are all rational questions, but I do believe this.

An Israeli entered the Arab village of Qalandiya on Tuesday morning and was attacked by an angry Arab mob. The Arabs attacked the Jew’s car with iron bars and rocks, wounding him on his head. While he was being attacked, he managed to flee toward the Qalandiya checkpoint. The video below was taken by an Arab at the checkpoint as the Jew called for help: MDA paramedics called to the scene administered emergency medical aid at the checkpoint and then transferred him to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in light condition with a head wound. The circumstances of the Jew’s entry to Qalandiya are under investigation by the police. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

United Hatzalah of Israel inaugurated today its air medical unit (medevac) comprised of three helicopters and 30 flight paramedics. The unit will provide immediate air medical assistance in the north, center, and south of Israel. The helicopters, which are operated by pilots who previously served in helicopter units of the Israeli air force, will be staffed by United Hatzalah paramedics all of whom received extensive training with the airborne vehicles and evacuation techniques. The helicopters are specially equipped to provide emergency transport by air of patients in critical condition and are outfitted with special equipment from the Swiss company Bucher Industries.

Call it close encounters of the balloon kind. Speaking to reporters on a conference call, Air Force General Glen VanHerck, the commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), was asked whether he could rule out that the “unidentified objects” which jets shot out of the sky over the past week could have extraterrestrial origins. The question was prompted by a curious paragraph in a New York Times article which stated: “The incursions seemed to become so common that Biden administration officials have found themselves issuing private assurances that there is no evidence that they involve extraterrestrial activity.

Panic spread among the residents of the central Israeli city of Ramat Hasharon when they heard what sounded like gunfire on Monday morning. Numerous residents frantically called the police and reported a shooting attack. In a video of the incident, a woman can be heard yelling: “They’re shooting, call the police! I’m videoing it! Hurry! Bring me the phone!” Police quickly arrived at the scene and fortunately, it turned out that the “shooting” was part of some type of prank carried out by two 18-year-old residents of the city. “This morning, the police hotline received many reports from citizens about hearing gunshots in Ramat Hasharon,” a statement from the police said.

With the participation of more than 100 Flatbush Hatzolah members, a joyous siyum on Maseches Nedarim was held last week at Flatbush Hatzolah headquarters – its third such siyum since launching its learn siyum initiative just over a year ago. The event was a tremendous event of Achdus and to be Mechazek Limud Hatorah. HaRav Avrohom Schorr shlit”a provided inspiring chizzuk to the siyum attendees, stressing the important of limud torah and describing how doing so transforms a person into a better and loftier human being, as well as a better Hatzoolah member. Flatbush Hatzolah Coordinator Moshe Wulliger also introduced Naftoli Zansberg (F-72) who announced the Dirshu mishnayos initiative, to which more than 80 members have already signed up to learn two Mishnayos a day.