The leader of the free world, President Joe Biden has referred to the Department of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms as the “AFT” at a press conference on Thursday. Biden repeated it twice. For good measure. See the video below: President Biden, in his first gun control measures since taking office, announced a half-dozen executive actions Thursday aimed at addressing a proliferation of gun violence across the nation that he called an “epidemic and an international embarrassment.” “The idea that we have so many people dying ever single day from gun violence in America is a blemish on our character as a nation,” Biden said during remarks at the White House.

Israelis stood in silence on Thursday as a two-minute siren wailed across the country in remembrance of the Holocaust’s 6 million Jewish victims. Public buses and cars stopped on the streets and highways, and pedestrians stood in place in memory of those killed in the Nazi genocide. The annual memorial is one of the most somber days in the Israeli calendar, marking the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising — the most significant act of Jewish resistance against Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The Holocaust is a keystone element of Israeli public consciousness. Israel was founded in 1948, three years after the end of World War II and the genocide.

Libyan authorities have quietly made a decision to convert the ancient shul in the Old City of Tripoli into a modern library, according to a report by Kan News, which obtained footage of the damage in the shul. In response to an inquiry, Libyan officials told Kan that the damage was caused by maintenance work to renovate the building but did confirm that there was an attempt to erect a building next to the shul that could have damaged the shul but the work was halted. Dr. David Gerbi, a representative of an international organization for Jews of Libyan origin, told Kan that he still fears the authorities will convert the shul into a library, destroying an integral part of the history of Libyan Jewry, which dates back 2,300 years.

On Monday, YWN published a video on our Instagram and WhatsApp Status accounts of two Yeshiva Bochrim making a Kiddush Hashem. The story was now published on Facebook by the woman who was helped by the two boys. The following is what she wrote: “After a great Easter visit with my folks in FL, we loaded up a golf cart they were getting rid of, and I headed home to SC. Half way through my trip, I began to struggle with what I thought was a tall load and wind gusts! Thankfully two young Jewish men waved me over and alerted me to a flat tire! They stopped alongside me and offered me help I am so grateful for their positive, persistent, gracious attitude!

Kiddush Hashem in the air. JetBlue Flight 957 from Newark to Las Vegas landed on Monday night, but with some medical drama during the end of the flight. An eyewitness tells YWN that an an elderly man fainted around 45 minutes out of Vegas, and then went into cardiac arrest 10 minutes before landing. Two Las Vegas residents in Yarmulkas preformed CPR and used a defibrillator, shocking the victim multiple times, as the entire plane watched in horror. Both men were in Yarmulkas (and wearing masks). One is a former Queens Hatzolah Volunteer (“Q-266”) and the other is a male nurse from the Las Vegas community. An ambulance was waiting to rush the man to the hospital. It was unknown if he survived the cardiac arrest. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

With all the hate against Spirit Airlines, as YWN reports one incident after the next, our readers may enjoy this video, taken on a JetBlue flight on Monday night.
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President Joe Biden is thanking naturalized Americans for “choosing us” in his official video message to the nation’s newest citizens. In the brief remarks, Biden references the “courage” of immigrants coming to the U.S. and his own heritage as a descendant of Irish immigrants. He also praises the contribution they will make to American society. “First and foremost, I want to thank you for choosing us and believing that America is worthy of your aspirations,” Biden says in the video, calling the U.S. “this great nation of immigrants.” “You all have one thing in common — courage,” Biden says in the video, released on Monday. “The courage it takes to sacrifice and make this journey.

Once again, YWN is reporting a story involving Spirit Airlines and masks. Today, it was an Orthodox Jewish family who was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight from Orlando to NY, because their two-year-old child who was eating, wasn’t wearing a mask. Video footage taken on the flight and provided to YWN, shows a two-year-old child sitting on her mothers lap eating a yogurt, as a flight attendant tells the Mom and Dad they need to exit the flight. The father is heard telling the flight attendant that their other child is “special needs”. The Mom is seven months pregnant. The entire flight was forced to deplane because of the child. Around an hour after the flight was deplaned, the entire flight was allowed to board again – INVCLUDING the family with the child.

Following yesterdays horrific crash involving a Canarsie Hatzolah ambulance, YWN has learned some exclusive details. As YWN had reported, the ambulance was transporting a cardiac arrest patient with CPR in progress to the hospital, when the ambulance was struck by a vehicle as it passed through an intersection. The force of the crash, flipped the ambulance on its side. In security camera footage provided to YWN, one can see the vehicle appearing to be traveling at a high rate of speed in the wrong lane, as it barrels into the intersection and strikes the ambulance. Sources tell YWN that the driver only had a “learners permit”, with another driver licensed driver inside the vehicle.

A car rammed a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday afternoon, injuring two Capitol Police officers and leading to the driver being shot, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. At least one officer was in serious condition, while the driver was in critical condition, the officials said. The crash and shooting happened at a checkpoint near the Capitol as Congress is on recess. It comes as the Washington region remains on edge nearly three months after a mob of armed insurrectionists stormed the Capitol as Congress was voting to certify Joe Biden’s presidential win. Capitol Police say that someone “rammed a vehicle into two USCP officers” and that a suspect was taken into custody.