The attached photos and videos speak for themselves. Following the Monday night Hafganos on Bar Ilan Street, the area was littered with broken glass, smoldering dumpsters and widespread destruction of city property. It was reminiscent of a war zone. Street signs were broken, concrete steps to homes smashed, fences to prevent children and pedestrians from walking in the street were destroyed, traffic lights broken to pieces – all in the name of preventing the Jerusalem Municipality from continuing with their plans to expand the Jerusalem Light Rail through the city. Around 25 people were arrested. See the destruction in the videos and photos belwo. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

At least three Orthodox Jews were the victims of what appears to be some type of hate incident. Boro Park Shomrim tell YWN that the incidents occurred between 5:40AM to around 6:30AM, Tuesday morning. So far, victims at three different locations have come forward to say that a car occupied by three people suddenly stopped, the occupants exited and ran towards their victims as if they were going to attack them, scaring them and causing them to flee in panic. The men just got into their vehicle and drove away. It was still unknown what the suspects yelled at their victims. The incidents took place on 56th Street, 50th Street, and 52nd Street. The NYPD has been notified and is investigating the incident as well.

British health authorities rolled out the first doses of a widely tested and independently reviewed COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, starting a global immunization program that is expected to gain momentum as more serums win approval. The first shot was given to Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 next week, at University Hospital Coventry, one of several hospitals around the country that are handling the initial phase of the program on what has been dubbed “V-Day.” “I feel so privileged to be the first person vaccinated against COVID-19,” said the former jewelry shop assistant, who wore a surgical mask and a blue Merry Christmas T-shirt decorated with a cartoon penguin wearing a Santa hat and red scarf.

Every year thousands of Satmar chassidim celebrate chaf aleph Kislev, the day the Vayoel Moshe of Satmar, z’tl, was saved from the Nazis. This year, the event was held on a smaller scale due to the pandemic. During the event, the Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg criticized the heavy involvement of Chareidi Jews in the recent U.S. elections. “Jews are drawn to US politics and have greatly breached the line between Yisrael and the nations. We need to understand that we’re in galus. We live here but we’re not Americans.” “Rabbeinu [the Ba’al Vayoel Moshe] also used to say this. There was a Jew named R’ Dovid Eichler who once came for the Yamim Hanoraim from Yerushalayim and he told the Rebbe that he also came to collect money in America.

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Thousands of people joined a protest on Bar Ilan Streets in Yerushalayim, as they protested the construction of the Jerusalem Light Rail. Hafganos were held last night, but on a much smaller scale. Tonight, the protest was widely advertised and promoted before, bringing out thousands of people. Some participants lit fires, causing an Egged bus to catch on fire. Shouts of “Nazi” and “Shiksa” were hurled at police as they moved into to try and disperse the crowd. The protesters are against the construction of the Light Rail in the Chareidi neighborhoods. Police responded to the protests with a large contingency, and at least two dozen arrests had been made at the time of this posting.

A 13-year-old Chareidi boy was killed in a tragic incident on Monday when a supportive wall of a fence in the courtyard of a yeshivah ketnana in Beit Shemesh collapsed, causing him to fall from a height of five meters (16.4 feet). Rescue services rushed to the scene and administered resuscitation methods, continuing with the efforts while evacuating him to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem. He was identified as Daniel Madmon Z”L, a student at Yeshivas Mivakshei Breslov in Beit Shemesh. “According to passersby, the fence in the courtyard of the yeshivah collapsed, causing him to fall from a height of five meters,” said Meir Perel, a United Hatzalah paramedic.

Shipments of the coronavirus vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech were delivered Sunday in the U.K. in super-cold containers, two days before it goes public in an immunization program that is being closely watched around the world. Around 800,000 doses of the vaccine were expected to be in place for the start of the immunization program on Tuesday, a day that Health Secretary Matt Hancock has reportedly dubbed as “V-Day,” a nod to triumphs in World War II. “To know that they are here, and we are amongst the first in the country to actually receive the vaccine and therefore the first in the world, is just amazing,” said Louise Coughlan, joint chief pharmacist at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, just south of London.

On Sunday, engineering trucks began to scrap El Al’s last 747 Jumbo aircraft. The large aircraft, which enthusiasts called “The Queen of the Skies” signifies the ending of an era in aviation for the Israeli airline. The aircraft joined El Al’s fleet in 1994 and was in service until 2019. The plane was scrapped as part of the company’s decision to switch to smaller and cheaper aircraft. This was the first 747-400 that entered into service with the Israeli airline and is now the last. 747’s have been in use by El Al as early as 1971 when the national airline purchased and flew a 747-200. That same year, some 700,000 people flew with El Al, an increase of 40 percent from the previous year.

SpaceX launched a newer, bigger version of its Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station on Sunday, marking the first time the company has two capsules in orbit at the same time. The Dragon — packed with Christmas treats and presents — should reach the space station on Monday, joining the Dragon that delivered four astronauts last month. “Dragons everywhere you look,” said Kenny Todd, NASA’s deputy space station program manager. With NASA’s commercial crew program officially under way, SpaceX expects to always have at least one Dragon capsule at the space station. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off with the latest Dragon from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, where coronavirus precautions kept staff to a minimum.