The Knesset plenum on Wednesday passed a proposed bill through its first reading that would allow for legal censorship of posts on social media platforms such as Facebook/Meta. Under the proposed bill, a judge, who would be specially appointed for such tasks, would be able to order a private individual or corporation to remove a post from their social media platform if the post was deemed criminal in nature. Alternatively, the judge would also be able to order the removal of any post which is deemed as posing a serious threat to the well-being of another person. The proposed bill angered opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu. “I want to tell you how absurd this is and how dangerous it is. You are talking about democracy? This is a danger to its very existence,” Netanyahu said.

Thousands of opponents of the Bennett-Lapid-Lieberman government gathered at Kikar HaBima in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening to protest the government and its harm to religion under the banner of “We Want A Jewish State.” HaRav Yitzchak Batzri from Yeshivas Hamekubalim “HaShalom” in Jerusalem, led the crowd in Kabbalas Ol Shamayim. Rav Batzri spoke about the abysmal state of Judaism in the US, where the assimilation rate is so high. “They want to bring it here and eliminate the Jewish nation. They feel it when we succeed in being oisek b’Torah. They say not to put on tefillin in Tel Aviv and we do anyway. It hurts them that we’re helping Jews to keep Shabbos in accordance with halacha. I bless the left-wing politicians that you do teshuvah.” עיתון הארץ: 1500 איש.

A U.S. Coast Guard diver braved death Wednesday to enter a submerged vehicle stuck in rushing rapids just yards from the brink of Niagara Falls. The diver was lowered from a hovering helicopter, climbed into the car and pulled out the body of its lone occupant, a woman in her 60s, officials from New York’s State Parks Police said. It was unclear how the car got into the Niagara River. Photos and videos taken by bystanders showed the car almost completely submerged with only part of the roof and open trunk hatch visible through the whitewater in the early afternoon. Authorities said the woman lived in the area. Her name was not released pending notification of relatives.

Following a Knesset vote on Monday night approving the Electricity Law in its first reading, a controversial bill providing electricity to illegal Bedouin homes, Religious Zionist party chairman Betzalel Smotrich spoke about the two recent terror attacks (prior to the one that occurred on Wednesday morning) that took place in the past week, asking Ra’am chairman Mansour Abbas to condemn them. Not only did Abbas refuse to condemn the attacks, he walked out of the plenum in response. “I want to mention the fact that Ra’am chairman Mansour Abbas is here in the plenum and I don’t remember hearing any condemnation from him on the terror attack that happened by Sha’ar Shechem on Shabbos,” Smotrich said.

Far-left darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a handful of other progressive lawmakers joined in a protest outside the US Capitol on Tuesday, demanding that Democratic leadership ignore their parliamentarian and include a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the spending bill being quarreled over in the Senate. “The Senate needs to step up, override the parliamentarian, okay. The parliamentarian is not elected. It is not an elected position, and the parliamentarian has been overridden and dismissed in the past,” she said.

The NYPD is searching for a thief who broke into the same shul 3 times over the past two weeks, swiping at least $2,200 from the shul pushka during the break-ins. The perp first broke into the Congregation Israel of Kings Bay on Nostrand Avenue at around 10 pm on Monday, November 22nd, shattering a rear window to gain entry. He stole approximately $600 during the heist. That Thursday, he struck again, shattering the same rear window, and stealing some $750 in tzedakah. He returned again this Sunday, smashing his favorite rear window yet again, and walking off with another $850-or-so from the shul’s pushka. Anyone with information in regard to the identity of this individual is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

A viral video circulating social media shows the CEO of online mortgage company Better.com firing nearly 900 employees all at once – over Zoom. “I come to you with not great news. The market has changed, as you know. And we have to move with it in order to survive so that, hopefully, we can continue to thrive and deliver on our mission,” CEO Vishal Garg says in the clip. “If you’re on this call, you are part of the unlucky group being laid off. Your employment here is terminated effective immediately.” Better.com is a company valued at about $7 billion, and it does not appear that the CEO or other top company officials took a pay cut from their million-dollar salaries to also allow the company to “thrive and deliver” on its mission. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A Jewish couple traveling to Miami were accosted and cursed at by an anti-Semite as they disembarked from their aircraft. Victoria Zirkiev, the producer for Israeli music star Gad Elbaz, and her husband were traveling to the Sunshine State for business when the incident occurred. She says that as they were waiting in line to disembark from the plane, her husband lowered his mask for a moment to catch his breath, as the plane had become very hot. Immediately as he pulled his mask down, a man in his 20’s yelled at him to put his mask back on. Not wishing to make a scene, the Jewish man politely pulled the mask up again. But the anti-Semite wasn’t finished with them.

Israeli warplanes fired missiles that struck the port of Latakia early on Tuesday, hitting containers and igniting a huge fire, Syrian state media said. It was a rare attack on the city’s port, a vital facility where much of Syria’s imports are brought into the war-torn country. Syria’s state media quoted an unnamed military official as saying that several missiles struck the containers area in the port, setting some of them on fire. There were no casualties from the airstrike, according to the official, who gave no further details. Israeli occupation air force has bombed tonight the civil port in Latakia. WTF!!! pic.twitter.com/AKmdSjLNe9 — Kevork Almassian

Current White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed during the presidential campaign last year that a NY Post story regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation,” despite the fact that it had been corroborated at the time and has since been vindicated in multiple reports. And on Monday, she refused to back down from that claim. The NY Post story revealed that emails on a laptop left by Hunter Biden in a shop showed that he introduced a Ukrainian colleague to then-Vice President Joe Biden, despite the elder Biden claiming that he had no knowledge of his son’s business dealings. Other emails revealed that Hunter arranged a joint Chinese venture in which Joe was to have a 10% stake.