Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy delivered a historic speech (in Hebrew) at the German Parliament in Berlin on Thursday to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the first ceremony to include a senior Israeli official. In a voice choked with tears, Levy announced that he will recite Kaddish l’zeicher the six million kedoshim from a siddur borrowed from Yad Vashem that a Jewish boy used at his Bar Mitzvah in October 1938, shortly before Kristallnacht the next month changed the reality for Jews throughout Europe He then recited the Kaddish in a voice choked with tears and broke down after completing it.

In a ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid spoke about this grandfather Bela Lampel in the very place he was murdered, the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Lapid said: “I came her today to remind the world that Bela Lampel wasn’t a number. He sent me to say in his name that the Jews haven’t surrendered. The Nazis thought that they were the future and that Jews would be something only found in a museum. Instead, the Jewish state is the future, and Mauthausen is a museum.” During Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s speech, he apologized to Lapid in the name of Austria for the murder of his grandfather and other Jews at Mauthausen.

An Israeli bus driver of the Egged 22 line in Jerusalem finished his route on Wednesday, and as usual, carried out an inspection of the empty bus. To his surprise, he found a baby stroller on the bus. But he was even more shocked when he peeked inside the stroller and found the baby inside the stroller! The bus driver filmed a video in which he’s heard saying. “This is unbelievable. Someone forgot their stroller with the baby. I’m not showing the baby’s face.” The bus driver is then heard talking to another driver and instructing him to take the stroller with the baby to the office and to call the police. The driver, Chaim Manor, later said that he’s worked as a bus driver for 45 years but this is the first time that he found a baby on the bus.

Members of the Lev Tahor cult have found a new residence after wandering from Guatemala to Iraq, Turkey, Albania, and Moldova, with a group of them having apparently settled in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Local Bosnian media outlets reported on the cult, quoting residents who expressed fears about their presence in the city, noting that “the leaders of this cult have been charged with the worst crimes.” One resident was quoted as saying: “The women are dressed in burqas, covered, as well as the girls. Men and boys are dressed the same. The moment I open my door, I see one of them watching me from the porch or the yard. I feel anxious and worried.

Many Israeli children’s dreams were fulfilled when they woke up to a blanket of white on Thursday morning after the snow, which began falling in the city at about 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday evening, continued most of the night, accumulating to about 20 centimeters (8 inches) by Thursday morning. Of course, schools had already been closed since 3 p.m. on Wednesday as the city moved into high gear preparing for the snow, deploying 250 snow plows. Jerusalem municipality workers toiled throughout the night clearing roads, spreading almost 150 tons of salt. Below is the Jerusalem Municipality’s control room on Wednesday night: Public transportation in the city stopped on Wednesday evening and several main roads to Jerusalem were partially closed but were reopened by early afternoon on Thursday.

Two frum Jews were beaten by an assailant in an unprovoked attacked in Stamford Hill, London, on Wednesday night. Security footage from the incident shows two Jews talking to each other on Cadoxton Avenye in Stamford Hill, when a black male approaches them and apparently makes a comment as he passes. The perp then returns to the men and begin punching them, causing one to fall to the fall. Thankfully, neither was seriously injured, but they were still transported by Hatzolah to a local hospital for treatment. The suspect was immediately tracked down by London Shomrim, and arrested by police a short time later. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Donald Trump appears to be fully confident that he will be reelected as President in 2024, jokingly declaring himself the 47th US president while playing a round of golf. As Trump walked up to the first tee, one of his playing partners played the role of sports announcer. “First on tee, the 45th president of the United States,” Trump’s partner said. “The 45th and 47th,” Trump fired back without missing a beat, followed by cheers from his playing partners. Trump hasn’t publicly announced that he is running for president in 2024, but all signs point in that direction. The former president has been far more involved in politics since leaving office than his predecessors, including often releasing statements on political issues. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A frum man who was in Turkey as a kashrus mashgiach was forced to spend the night in a mosque after becoming stranded in a severe snowstorm. The Chief Rabbi of Turkey, Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, said that the mashgiach was on the E-5 highway when a paralyzing snowstorm caused hundreds of motorists to become stranded. After sitting for hours on the road, Turkish Army trucks came and evacuated the motorists to a mosque near Instanbul Airport. “The people were very nice and helped us at the heated mosque,” the mashgiach, Rabbi Yisroel Elbaum told Bchadrei Chareidim. “At 11 in the morning they took us back to our car, and from there we drove back to the hotel. We were on the road for 25 hours we were on the road.

As predicted, snow began to fall in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, part of the “Elpis” storm, which began on Wednesday in Northern Israel. Police closed Route 1 in both directions (Jerusalem to Tel Aviv) due to dangerous road conditions. Some forecasts have said Jerusalem may get 8 inches of snow. School has been cancelled for Thursday. The snow is expected to stop early Thursday morning. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced she will seek reelection in this year’s midterms. “While we have made progress much more needs to be done to improve people’s lives. This election is crucial: nothing less is at stake than our Democracy,” Pelosi said in an announcement on Twitter Tuesday. Pelosi, who will turn 82 in March, had previously vowed to step down as the leader of House Democrats after the 2022 election. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)