At a special ceremony that was held in the Hall of Remembrance on Mt. Herzl on Sunday in memory of those who died during Operation Protective Edge in 2014, the bereaved families sat next to the incoming and outgoing Presidents of Israel as well as Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and former Prime Minister and Head of the Opposition Binyamin Netanyahu. When Prime Minister Bennett approached the podium in order to speak to the gathered crowd, he was heckled by a bereaved father regarding his actions during Operation Protective Edge, stating that Bennett’s actions during Operation Guardian of the Waals, proved that his actions during Protective Edge were faulty. “We learned from Operation Guardian of the Walls, that an operation could be done without sending ground forces into Gaza.

A fast-moving fire left a supermarket in Lakewood totally destroyed. It happened just after 4:30AM, when the fire broke out at the Picnic Grocery Store on Squankum Road. Arriving firefighters found heavy fire in the building. Multiple fire departments from surrounding towns were called to assist in extinguishing the blaze. By the time the fire was placed under control, the entire building appeared to have been totally destroyed. There were no injuries reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation. PHOTOS VIA N.W. And TLS: (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Numerous people were injured when a fire truck collided with a civilian vehicle in Williamsburg, Friday afternoon. It happened at around 3:00PM, when an FDNY truck responding to an emergency with its lights and sirens on, slammed into a vehicle on Driggs Avenue and South 5th Street. Williamsburg Hatzolah and FDNY transported 8 victims to the hospital. All are in stable condition. Six are adults, and two are children. Police are investigating the incident.

HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein spoke publicly about the new government for the first time on Wednesday during his weekly sicha from his home. “The situation is known now about the new government – that they intend -and they said this openly – that they want to enact anti-religious laws that are not according to dinei Torah,” the Rosh Yeshiva said. “That’s the plan.” ” So what do we do? What’s the eitzah? It’s dependent on our zechuyos! When there’s zechuyos, there’s no disturbances. Someone who intends to purify is assisted [by Heaven].” “So it’s dependent now on what our zechuyos will be. How much we’ll do what we’re obligated to do – Torah, good deeds, all 613 mitzvos – bein adam l’chaveiro u’bein adam l’Makom.

Liberal comedian Jon Stewart is under fire from the left for making an impassioned argument in favor of the Wuhan lab-leak theory during his Monday night appearance on “The Late Show.” Stewart shocked Stephen Colbert’s audience when he suggested it isn’t far-fetched to believe that the coronavirus pandemic originated from a Chinese coronavirus lab, comparing it to an “outbreak of chocolaty goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania.” Making an appearance CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday—the show’s first episode with a live studio audience since the pandemic upended production in March 2020—Stewart pointed the finger at the Wuhan Institute of Virology as he discussed the origins of the virus, which has gripped much of the world since early 2020.

U.S. reporters and producers were aggressively pushed and shoved by Russian security officials Wednesday at the start of the highly-anticipated meeting in Geneva between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, denying the press full access to what was expected to be a short press availability before the hours-long summit. Inside the room, Biden and Putin were seated with a small wooden table in between them, and a large globe was just behind the table. Large U.S. and Russian flags were erected on each side of the globe. Organizers at Wednesday’s summit in Geneva opened the meeting room to journalists for what’s normally a few minutes of news media filming and shouting questions before talks start. On Wednesday, however, Russian and U.S.

Israeli forces launched multiple airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, early Wednesday morning, the first offensive since a new coalition government took power, coming just weeks after an 11-day conflict with the terrorist enclave. Blasts were heard at multiple locations in Gaza around 1:00am local time on Wednesday. The IDF confirmed launching the airstrikes, and said it was in response to over two dozen fires in southern Israel caused by incendiary devices and terror balloons launched from Gaza. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Cell phone video taken Monday shows some of the brazen crime that has been driving retailers out of San Francisco. The video shows that three people used their cellphones to record a man filling a garbage bag with items in a San Francisco Walgreens. But the recordings didn’t discourage the theft, nor did the security guard’s attempt at grabbing the bag. The man got away with everything on a Lyft bike that he rode down the aisle and out the front door. The video was taken by Lyanne Melendez, a reporter for KGO-TV in the city, and posted the video on Twitter. This just happened at the @Walgreens on Gough & Fell Streets in San Francisco. #NoConsequences @chesaboudin pic.twitter.com/uSbnTQQk4J — Lyanne Melendez (@LyanneMelendez) June 14, 2021 (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that he believes the coronavirus pandemic originated with a leak out of a lab in Wuhan, China, and that under the Trump administration the U.S. came close to uncovering the details of how it began. “We have a really good idea what happened here,” Pompeo said. “There is an enormous amount of evidence that there was a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. There is a pile of evidence a hundred feet high, I have high confidence that that’s the case.

Joe Biden repeatedly confused Syria with Libya while discussing ways of working with Russia during a G-7 press conference on Sunday. The 78-year-old gaffe machine spoke of working with Vladimir Putin to provide economic assistance to the people of Libya, prompting some confused glances from the press pack at the G7 summit in Cornwall, England. ‘I’m hopeful that we can find an accommodation where we can save the lives of people in — for example, in — in Libya,’ the president said, mentioning the north African country for the third time instead of Syria, which is in the Middle East. The blunder came days after he called Britain’s Royal Air Force the ‘RFA’ while addressing US military personnel at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk during his first-ever speech as President on British soil.