NYC Mayor Eric Adams shared a shocking video on Twitter showing the moment two robbers held up a mother and her baby at gunpoint in a NYC apartment building. “Mother and baby held at gun point during a recent robbery,” Adams tweeted. “And a small group of people in this city are asking why put an anti-gun unit in place.” Adams didn’t state when the incident had occurred or whether the perps had been apprehended. The NYC mayor launched the first of his anti-gun units two weeks ago across 28 areas where shootings increased during the pandemic. Adams’ move has been criticized by Public Advocate and gubernatorial candidate Jumaane Williams who said the anti-gun units would turn into a replica of previous anti-crime units that were dissolved in 2020. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A collision involving as many as 40 vehicles closed a portion of Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania and sent more than a dozen people to area hospitals on Monday, according to the Schuylkill County Office of Emergency Management. The crash in northeast Pennsylvania happened around 10:30 a.m. and John Blickley, the deputy emergency management coordinator for the agency, said officials believe a snow squall clouded visibility and likely contributed to the accident. About 40 vehicles including multiple tractor trailers were involved in the initial crash, he said. No fatalities had been reported to the Schuylkill County agency, but Blickley said emergency personnel from four different counties responded and took about 20 patients to area hospitals for treatment.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is in Israel for a historic summit with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid along with their counterparts from Bahrain, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, held a joint press conference on Sunday with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Jerusalem prior to the summit. During the press conference, Bennett, the former chairman of the Yehudah and Shomron council, called Yehudah and Shomron by its left-wing term of “the West Bank.” One former Bennett supporter wrote on Twitter: “What a bushah!

Former VP Mike Pence noted that North Korea’s missile tests subsided during President Trump’s tenure and only resumed once Biden became president, adding that the president’s “message of capitulation” to Iran emboldened North Korea. North Korea on Thursday successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile since 2017. The test was believed to be Hwasong-17 rocket, which has the ability to hit anywhere in the United States. During the test, it flew some 671 miles, reaching an altitude of 3,728 miles before landing in the Sea of Japan. “The fact that for the first time in more than four years Kim Jong Un fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that went into space and landed in the Sea of Japan is a great concern,” Pence said in a Fox News interview.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders went on a tear against billionaires blasting off to outer space while many Americans are struggling and living paycheck-to-paycheck. “Today, while the working class of this country is struggling with higher gas prices, higher food prices and higher housing prices, the billionaire class and large corporations are doing phenomenally well and have never had it so good,” Sanders said on the Senate floor. “In America today, while the average worker is making $44 a week less in inflation based dollars than he or she made nearly 50 years ago, corporate profits are at an all-time high and CEOs have seen huge increases in their compensation packages. We have never seen in this country the level of corporate greed that we are seeing right now.

At least two Israelis were killed after two terrorists opened fire in Chadera. Multiple others are injured. The terrorists have been neutralized by responding Israeli security forces. Developing. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday tried to soothe the fears of Israel and its Gulf Arab allies ahead of the possible renewal of global powers’ international nuclear deal with Iran. Blinken made the comments shortly before joining his counterparts from Israel and four Arab countries at a special gathering where the Iranian nuclear deal was expected to top the agenda. Israel and many of its neighbors are fiercely opposed to the deal, which they believe will embolden and enrich Iran. “When it comes to the most important element, we see eye-to-eye,” Blinken told a news conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem.

About a month and a half before her petirah, Rebbitzen Kanievsky, a’h, explained at a conference how she and HaRav Chaim, z’tl began reciting Birchos Hashachar together. A video of her speech was published on Wednesday on Kikar H’Shabbat. “One day, an avreich told me that he dreamt about a dear friend, Reb Horowitz, who learned together with HaRav Chaim in the Kollel Chazon Ish. Reb Horowitz, who had passed away at a young age, appeared to him in the dream and told him that in Shamayim they’re extremely makpid when people are mezalzel (make light of) the answering of Amen.” “I heard the story and I decided I have to do something,” Rebbetzin Kanievsky, a’h, said.

Baruch Ben-Yigal is the father of Amit Ben-Yigal, h’yd, the 21-year-old IDF soldier who was murdered by an Arab during an operation in an Arab village west of Jenin on Lag B’Omer 2020. Amit was his only child and his whole world. After HaRav Chaim’s petirah, Ben-Yigal told Channel 14 News about his moving meeting with HaRav Chaim, z’tl. “We had a personal meeting,” he said. “They brought me into the room with the Rav. And his grandson Yanky said: ‘Saba, do you know who this is? This is the father of a hero in Israel.” “HaRav Chaim, z’tl, touched Amit’s dog tag that I wear around my neck and patted my face and began to cry.

Among the thousands of people being Menachem Avel the Kanievsky Mishpacha was R’ Shlomo Werdiger, chairman of Agudath Israel’s Board of Trustees Reb Shlomo told YWN that the family related how the Gadol Hador ZATZAL was overjoyed to be given the honor to recite the Kaddish at the last Siyum HaShas, which was broadcast via video. In the video below, which was aired at the Siyum, Rav Chaim was told that thousands upon thousands of Yidden were finishing Shas, and perhaps he could give them a Bracha in honor of them finishing Shas. Reb Chaim smiled and said “they should have the Zechus to know Shas!”.