Darchei Binah seminary girls were incensed after being denied access to the Auschwitz gas chambers during a tour of the infamous camp on Friday, with some girls accusing the site’s administrators of antisemitism. One of the people on the tour told YWN that the group was surprised to find a gate leading to the gas chambers locked, as it had never been locked in the close to 20 years that Darchei Binah girls have gone on tours of Auschwitz. The group went around the locked gate and stopped by the Photographs of Our Lost Ones on the trail leading to the gas chambers. As the girls listened to a speech, a camp guard came walking up to them holding a camera and speaking in Polish. After asking him to speak in English, he finally told them to leave and walked away.

Channel 12 News published a video on Thursday night of the lynching attempt of off-duty Border Police officers and a civilian in French Hill late Wednesday night. In the video, the Arabs can be seen smashing the windshields of the car and removing the driver from the car, and then strangling him and beating him. The Arabs also stole one of the officer’s guns. The other cop shot in the air, dispersing the Arabs. The officer who was beaten was evacuated to the hospital for medical treatment. The two police officers and a civilian had made a wrong turn into the Issawiya neighborhood, where Arabs chased after them into French Hill and attacked them. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

In the first public hearing Thursday night from the House Select Committee investigating the events of January 6th of last year, several shocking revelations were made. In one, Rep. Liz Cheney, one of just two Republicans on the committee, revealed that upon hearing rioters shout “Hang Mike Pence!” then-President Trump said “our supporters have the right idea” and that “Pence deserved it.” Cheney also revealed that Ivanka Trump, who was a senior adviser to Donald over the course of his presidency, said that she believed Attorney General Bill Barr when he said there was no evidence that Trump’s claims of election fraud were true. The hearing is still ongoing as of this writing. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Two off-duty Israeli police officers and a civilian who were in an unmarked car near the entrance to the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya late Wednesday night were violently attacked by dozens of Arabs. The Arabs chased after them to the adjoining neighborhood of French Hill while throwing rocks and cinderblocks at them and spraying pepper spray. One of the Arabs even managed to nab one of the officer’s weapons from the car. Eventually, the officers, who felt their lives were in danger, shot in the air in order to disperse the Arabs. One Border Police officer was lightly injured from stones thrown at him and the car sustained heavy damage. A large number of police forces were called to the scene and launched a search for the suspects and the stolen weapons.

A Palestinian driver on Wednesday morning snatched the rifle of an Israeli police officer at a junction in southern Har Chevron and sped off. In a video of the incident, the driver is seen trying to bypass a traffic checkpoint, leading the police officers to unstrap their weapons and attempt to stop him. The Arab grabbed one of the officer’s rifles and drove off, throwing the police officer to the ground. A large number of Israeli security forces launched a manhunt for the Arab, who had driven off in the direction of Chevron. Shortly later, the Arab turned himself in to Palestinian Authority security forces and returned the stolen weapon. The PA returned the weapon to the Israeli police. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

As the cost of living in Israel soars, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine leads to wheat shortages, Berman Bakery, the largest bakery in Israel, announced this week that it is raising its bread prices by 8%. Another bakery made a similar announcement the next day. During a discussion in the Knesset on Wednesday on rising food prices, Shas MK Moshe Abutbul protested against the hike in bread prices, unwrapping bread as a prop. “You’ve lost it completely!” he cried. ” Give the Finance Minister bread. You raised the price of bread. Have you no shame?” The Knesset Speaker angrily ordered that Abutbul be ejected from the plenum as according to law, MKs are prohibited from displaying props. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

A fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon in the wadi between Mevaseret Tzion, Beit Nekofa and Har Adar in the Jerusalem hills. The residents of one of the streets in Mevasert Tzion have been evacuated from their homes. Twenty-one firefighting crews and six aircraft are working to quell the flames toward with a fire brigade of the Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael. Police have closed the area to vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and the public has been requested not to approach the areas of the fire. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Israel Police on Tuesday published a video of a chase after an Arab suspected of planning to imminently carry out a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem. “Earlier this week, Israel Border Police officers at Sha’ar Shechem in Jerusalem spotted a suspicious individual running into the Old City,” the police stated. “The officers began to pursue the suspect, who then threw a bag which contained a knife.” “The suspect was taken for questioning, which revealed that he had purchased a knife near Sha’ar Shechem with the intention of stabbing an Israel Police officer.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Hundreds of Jews at the Kosel sang and danced together as Chag Matan Torah came to an end on Sunday evening. Over 50,000 Jews visited the Kosel over the two days of Shabbos and Shavuos, with the peak, about 12,000 people, at Shacharis at Vasikin on Shavuos morning. The number of visitors to the Kosel this year was the highest in years, according to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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HaRav Moshe Moskowitz, Chabad Rav in Kharkiv, returned to his beleaguered city last week, three months after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. Kharkiv was the first city that the Russians tried to conquer and suffered from heavy shelling, which killed at least two Jews. Fortunately, the Russians were eventually pushed back from Kharkiv and the surrounding towns by the Ukrainian army. Rav Moskowitz, who returned to the city together with two of his children, was greeted with great excitement by members of his kehilla. He immediately began making the rounds of the city and visiting housebound and elderly Jews. In the moving video below, he’s seen visiting Yitzchak, one of the elderly Jews of the community.