An 80-year-old liquor store owner was having none of it when a would-be robber carrying a rifle entered the store. The elderly man opened fire, prompting the suspect to run out screaming, “he shot my arm off!” The incident occurred on Sunday at Norco Market & Liquor in Norco, which lies just east of Los Angeles. Surveillance footage shows the masked suspect pointing a rifle at the storeowner before the victim reaches behind the counter, grabs a shotgun, and goes all Wild West on the robber. The 23-year-old suspect was later tracked down at a hospital “suffering from a gunshot wound consistent with a shotgun blast,” the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said. He is in critical but stable condition and will be booked into jail upon his release.

Masih Alinejad, an Iranian opposition activist and writer in exile in New York City, had already been identified as the target of an alleged kidnapping plot. A year later, it appears the threats against her keep coming. Federal prosecutors in New York charged a man last week with driving around Masih’s Brooklyn neighborhood over the weekend with a loaded assault rifle and dozens of rounds of ammunition. Alinejad said Monday that authorities told her the man was looking for her, and that a home security video had caught him skulking outside her front door. “It is shocking that someone came to my house with a loaded assault rifle,” Alinejad told The Associated Press in an email. “Last year, the FBI foiled a kidnap plot.

Mayor Eric Adams was questioned on Monday by veteran Hamodia reporter Reuvain Borschardt over soaring crime in New York City, noting that the mayor’s campaign platform placed an overarching focus on combatting the Big Apple’s crime crisis. “When can we expect crime to drop?” Borschardt asked. “You have been in office for seven months, you ran on a platform of lowering crime. When can we expect to see those decreases in crime?” “When we get all our partners on board,” Adams responded, insisting that “we’re doing our job.” “The NYPD is taking thousands of guns off the streets. We are making arrests – a high level of arrests for violent crimes… What is in our control we are doing the maximum,” he asserted. “What we need to do: judges, lawmakers, prosecutors.

A section of Beirut’s massive port grain silos, shredded in the 2020 explosion, collapsed in a huge cloud of dust on Sunday after a weekslong fire, triggered by grains that had fermented and ignited in the summer heat. The northern block of the silos toppled after what sounded like an explosion, kicking up thick gray dust that enveloped the iconic structure and the port next to a residential area. It was not immediately clear if anyone was injured. Assaad Haddad the General Director of the Port Silo, told The Associated Press that “everything is under control” but that the situation has not subsided yet. Minutes later, the dust subsided and calm returned.

The Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror group on Sunday published a video warning Israel of potential attacks on its gas rigs at the offshore Karish field. The publication of the video corresponds with the arrival of U.S. energy envoy Amos Hochstein in Beirut to mediate talks between Lebanon and Israel about the disputed Karish gas field. The video begins with the words in Hebrew [and Arabic]: “Playing with time won’t help.” The video then shows photos taken from reconnaissance drones of the Karish gas rig and other ships and their coordinates. It ends with one final Hebrew word of warning: בטווח – “within range.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

The levaya of HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss, z’tl, the Gaavad of the Eidah HaChareidis, who was niftar on Shabbos, began on Sunday morning from his home in the Givat Moshe neighborhood in Jerusalem. Prior to the levaya, the Gaavad’s talmid, HaGaon HaRav Pinchas Breuer, appointed the Gaavad’s only son, HaGaon HaRav Shalom Zalman Weiss, as the Rav of the Gaavad’s Beis Medrash and the Nasi of the Kollel. The Badatz Eidah HaChareidis announced a “bittul melacha” and ordered all stores along the route of the levaya to close their doors. All mosdos chinuch, yeshivos and kollelim affiliated with the Badatz throughout Israel were closed on Sunday and students, bochurim, and avreichim traveled to Yerushalayim for the levaya.

Israel Police’s investigation is continuing following the sinkhole disaster at the private pool on the Karmei Yosef moshav last week, which tragically took the life of Klil Kimchi, z’l, 32. The first to locate Kimchi, z’l, was “Inga,” a rescue dog from the Magen unit in the IDF’s Oketz Unit, the canine special forces unit. Inga was sent into a dark tunnel about 50 feet below the surface until even her operator couldn’t see her. The video below was taken from the operator’s helmet camera. The owners of the villa and pool, who were arrested following the incident and subsequently released to house arrest, are being brought to the court on Thursday, where the police will request an extension of their house arrest.

The tenth yahrtzeit of HaGaon HaRav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, z’tl, was marked on Tuesday night and Wednesday. The petirah of the Posek HaDor occurred ten years ago, a few minutes before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, the 28th of Tammuz. The mitah was brought to the Beis Medrash next to his home at 9:30 p.m. with only the family members allowed inside. Rosh Yeshivas Mir HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Ezrachi began the levaya with the recital of Tehillim and Selichos. HaGaon Harav Don Segal continued reciting Selichos and then recited the pessukim of Ol Malchus Shamayim and Shema Yisrael. Afterward, HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein said that although his father-in-law requested that there be no hespedim, he would say just a few words to honor him.

President Joe Biden ended his COVID-19 isolation on Wednesday, telling Americans they can “live without fear” of the pandemic if they take advantage of booster shots and treatments, the protections he credited with his swift recovery. “You don’t need to be president to get these tools to be used for your defense,” he said in the Rose Garden. “In fact, the same booster shots, the same at-home test, the same treatment that I got is available to you.” And he paid tribute to vaccinations, which he said allowed him to stay in the White House in contrast to President Donald Trump who had to be airlifted to hospital. ‘Here’s the bottom line: “When my predecessor got COVID, he had to get helicoptered to Walter Reed Medical Center.” “He was severely ill.

In a speech to the Young Americas Foundation’s national student conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, former Vice President Mike Pence addressed his relationship with Donald Trump. “There seems to be a divide between the two of you on your outlook on what the future of the conservative movement might be,” a student said to Pence during a Q&A session. “Do you think that this divide extends to the rest of the conservative movement, like the general public? And what do you think we can do to alleviate it?” “I don’t know that our movement is that divided,” Pence responded. “I don’t know that the president and I differ on issues. But we may differ on focus.