In what can only be described as bitter irony, CNN reporter Kyung Lah revealed that her team was robbed in San Francisco – while they were at City Hall to film a story about crime in the city. “Got robbed. Again,” Lah wrote on Twitter. “[CNN producer Jason Kravarik] & I were at city hall in San Francisco to do an interview for @CNN,” Kah tweeted. “We had security to watch our rental car + crew car. Thieves did this in under 4 seconds. Security stopped the jerks from stealing other bags. But seriously- this is ridiculous.” She said security tried to get the crooks, but were only able to grab a picture of the vehicle the criminals got away in and said she hopes someone will identify them based on the license plate and the car.

In an appearance on Fox & Friends Sunday, conservative radio personality and Fox News host Mark Levin expressed his dismay over the possibility of former President Donald Trump being arrested. Levin’s comments were in response to reports that the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is considering indicting Trump for allegedly falsifying his business records to conceal a possible violation of election law. The indictment stems from a $130,000 hush money payment made by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen to a woman. Cohen has claimed that he made the payment at Trump’s direction to prevent Daniels from speaking publicly about her alleged meetings with the former president.

Two German tourists who entered Shechem on Shabbos were violently attacked by Palestinians. The tourists had rented a ride-share car from the Tel Aviv Municipality with Israeli license plates and a sticker of the Israeli flag on it. When Palestinians spotted the car, they began throwing stones at it, attempted to open the doors, and attacked the drivers. According to a Kan News report, the two escaped from the vehicle on foot and were rescued outside the city with the assistance of an Israeli-Arab. IDF medics treated them for minor injuries. “We just wanted to drink coffee,” the tourists said. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)  

Leftists launched protests across Israel against the Netanyahu government on Motzei Shabbos. Protesters who blocked the Route 65 highway in northern Israel at the Karkur Junction refused police orders to move to the side of the highway. The police dispersed the crowd with water cannons and arrested seven protesters for disturbing the public and refusing police orders. Protesters in Tel Aviv blocked the Ayalon Highway. A number of protesters were arrested as police officers attempted to disperse the crowd. Right-wing supporters of the judicial reform protested in several places across the country. In Tel Aviv, clashes broke out between left and right-wing protesters and police had to separate the two groups.

An utterly sickening and blatant display of vitriolic antisemitism shocked attendees and viewers earlier this week when a demented man went on an anti-Jew tirade during an official hearing of the Maryland House of Delegates Judiciary Committee regarding bill that would create a Hate Crimes Grant Fund. The grant would apply to shuls, mosques, and other nonprofits at risk of hate crimes, the Baltimore Scoop reports. Ayo Kimathi spoke at the hearing and blasted the proposed bill as a “Protect the Jew” piece of legislation. “This is in a group of bills that are very disturbing and concerning to me. I call them the ‘Protect the Jew’ bills,” Kimathi said.

Left-wing protesters, including senior politicians, have crossed red lines in their protest against the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, including besmirching Israel to Western media outlets But former prime minister (convicted criminal) Ehud Olmert managed to cross a red line that has yet to be crossed when he called on world leaders to boycott Netanyahu, in an interview with Channel 12 News. Even the show host, not known for his right-wing views, was visibly shocked by Olmert’s words. The former jail-sitting Olmert began by calling to turn to the international community, saying “every prime minister who categorizes himself as a friend of Israel needs to protest with all their might against the government of Israel.

The Pentagon has released footage of what it says is a Russian aircraft conducting an unsafe intercept of a U.S. Air Force surveillance drone in international airspace over the Black Sea. The 42-second video, released Thursday, shows a Russian Su-27 approaching the back of the MQ-9 drone and beginning to release fuel as it passes, the Pentagon said. The U.S. military said it ditched the MQ-9 Reaper in the sea on Tuesday after the Russian fighter jet poured fuel on the unmanned aerial vehicle, in an apparent attempt to blind its optical instruments and drive it out of the area, and then struck its propeller. The released excerpt does not show events before or after the apparent fuel-dumping confrontation. w Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen.

Left-wing protesters arrived in Bnei Brak early Thursday morning as part of an “escalated national disruption day” against the government’s judicial reform plan. At about 7:30 a.m., the protesters blocked Rechov Yerushalayim near the Bnei Brak municipality. Army reservists belonging to the “Brothers in Arms” movement” blocked the entrance to the municipality with barbed wire and established a mock army recruitment office outside the building. Some of the protesters continued walking to other areas of Bnei Brak and protested in front of Yeshivas Ponoevezh as first seder was beginning.

On Wednesday, James O’Keefe, the former founder of Project Veritas who was recently ousted due to accusations of financial mismanagement and unkind behavior, announced the launch of his new venture, the O’Keefe Media Group (OMG). During an interview on the Charlie Kirk Show, O’Keefe claimed that OMG consists of “some of the top journalists in the world” and aims to restore ethics to journalism by creating a “citizen army of journalists” who use the hidden camera content he is known for. OMG will provide subscribers with tools to record and report on their own operations, and these subscribers will also sponsor independent journalists around the country.

A moving ceremony was held at a Siyus Shas Mishnayos l’illui nishmas the Paley brothers, h’yd in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem on Tuesday evening. Tzviki Paley, 16, led the siyum for his younger brothers, whose sheloshim was marked on Monday. A new song was composed for the siyum to the words: “.בשעת פטירתו של האדם, אין מלווים לו – לא כסף ולא זהב, ולא אבנים טובות ומרגליות – אלא מעשים טובים בלבד” The song was sung at the event by all the children of the Talmud Torah that the Paley brothers, h’yd, attended. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)