Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted on Thursday that his platforms, Facebook and Instagram – suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story in the weeks before the 2020 election at the behest of FBI officials, noting that “it sucks” that the story wound up being 100% real. “The background here is the FBI basically came to us — some of the folks on our team —and said, ‘Hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert: We thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election, we have it on notice that basically there’s about to be some kind of dump that’s similar to that, so just be vigilant,” Zuckerberg told popular podcaster Joe Rogan. The Zuck pointed out that Twitter fully blocked the story, whereas his platforms only suppressed them from being spread widely.

Since the petirah of HaGaon HaRav Shalom Cohen, much mention has been made at the shiva house about the special connection the Rosh Yeshivah, z’tl, had with HaGaon HaRav Menachem Man Shach, zt’l. On Tuesday night, when Bnei Brak Mayor Avraham Rubinstein and UTJ MK Uri Maklev visited the shiva home, the Rosh Yeshivah’s sons spoke about their father’s relationship with HaRav Shach, z’tl. “We remember the personal phone calls in the middle of the night between Abba, z’tl and HaRav Shach, z’tl,” they said. “They had a heart-to-heart relationship.” Only several hours after HaRav Cohen’s petirah, Maklev spoke about HaRav Shach’s great kavod for HaRav Cohen, z’tl, at a summer camp program for Yeshivah Ohr Yisrael.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday excoriated the US plan to renew the Iran nuclear deal amid reports that the US is drawing closer to signing a deal. Speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, Netanyahu said that the agreement is “a horrible deal, a dangerous deal, that will pave Iran’s path with gold, a golden-paved highway to a nuclear arsenal.” “If Iran has nuclear weapons, they don’t merely threaten my country Israel, or the entire Middle East and America’s allies. They threaten you directly,” Netanyahu said ominously. “Simultaneously with their developing nuclear weapons, they are developing the means to deliver them across continents.

President Biden told reporters on Wednesday that he had no idea that the Justice Department was planning a raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, pushing back against accusations that he gave the green light for it. “I didn’t have any advance notice,” Biden insisted. “None, zero, not one single bit.” Biden’s comments came just a day after it was revealed that the White House counsel’s office asked the National Archives in April to “provide the FBI access” to the initial 15 boxes of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago and ignore Trump’s claims of executive privilege. It isn’t known whether Biden himself knew about or personally approved the request.

The last video taken in the home of HaGaon HaRav Shalom Cohen, ztl, was on Tisha B’Av. In the video, the Rosh Yeshivah, z’tl, can be heard bemoaning the Churban in a heartbroken tone and a broken voice. Those around him are sitting on the floor but the Rosh Yeshivah, z’tl, who was frail at the time, sat on a chair. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Laura Loomer, a far-right agitator who became infamous for expressing her explicit support for white nationalism and calling mass shootings false flags, lost her Republican primary on Tuesday to represent Florida’s 1st Congressional District, failing in her bid to unseat Rep. Dan Webster. However, Loomer is refusing to concede because, she says, “I’m a winner.” “I’m not conceding, because I’m a winner,” she told supporters. “And the reality is, the Republican Party is broken to its core.” What we have done tonight is really, honestly shocked the nation,” she asserted. “We have further exposed a corruption within our own feckless, cowardly Republican Party.

The retiring Dr. Anthony Fauci is hoping you have memory loss, because he doesn’t want you remembering the fact that he pushed for nationwide shutdowns in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, he explicitly denies it ever happened. In an interview on Fox News, Fauci was faced with some difficult questions from host Neil Cavuto. “Do you regret the shutdown, the sweeping shutdown that some said made things worse?” Cavuto asked. “No, I don’t, Neil,” Fauci responded, going on to incredulously claim that he isn’t responsible for them. “And, in fact, I think we need to make sure that your listeners understand, I didn’t shut down anything.

Tens of thousands of Jews from all walks of life streamed into Kiryas Joel Tuesday to mark the 43rd Yahrtzeit of the Satmar Rebbe, Reb Yoel Teitelbaum Zatzal, the founder of the Satmar Chasidic movement and namesake of the Satmar village in Orange County. Thousand visit the Kever each year on his Yartzheit. The Satmar Rov was Niftar at age 92 in 1979, two years after Kiryas Joel was created. The Satmar Rav, a direct descendant of both the famed Yismach Moshe and the Chavas Daas, was recognized as a young man for his unusual lomdus, hasmadah and tzidkus – Torah scholarship, diligence and piety – assuming his first rabbinical position as Rav of Muzheyer at the age of seventeen.

The NYPD is on the lookout for two thugs who knocked a man unconscious in Kings Plaza in Brooklyn last weekend. The NYPD tells YWN that “unknown individuals approached the victim and unprovoked, punched the victim in the face, causing serious physical injury. EMS responded and transported the aided male to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center in stable condition. The individuals fled the mall.” But the most shocking part might not have been the attack itself, but rather the aftermath. Surveillance video shows that people standing next to the 36-year-old victim when he was sucker punched did nothing to help him. Not one person came to the victim’s aid – not even the mall security guard, who simply walked past the unconscious man!

A swastika was found scrawled on a hiking trail used by many Orthodox Jews in Rockland County. The hate symbol was found on a trail at Kakiat Park, just outside of Monsey, NY. County Executive Ed Day sent the following statement to YWN: “On Tuesday, my office was alerted to anti-Semitic graffiti found in Kakiat Park along the Mahwah River. The Rockland County Sheriff’s Office and Division of Environmental Resources were immediately notified and took swift action to investigate and cover up the symbol, because lack of visibility does not diminish the hate behind the message. I am disgusted and angered by this abhorrent vandalism once again surfacing in our beautiful County. Words matter and hateful language such as this is an insult to the people of Rockland.