Two people lost their lives in a crash on Route 17 in Sullivan County, Tuesday afternoon. Emergency personnel were called to the scene on Route 17 near Exit 106 (Monticello) at around 2:40PM to reports of a serious car crash. Upon arrival, Hatzolah Paramedics and MobileMedics found two victims in traumatic arrest. Another victim needed to be airlifted to a trauma center. A chopper landed on the highway to make the evacuation. It does not appear that Chevra Kaddisha services are needed in this horribly tragic incident. The NY State Police were investigating the cause of the crash. STAY WITH YWN WHATSAPP FOR BREAKING UPDATES IN LIVE TIME!  YWN WHATSAPP STATUS UPDATES: CLICK HERE to join the YWN WhatsApp Status. YWN WHATSAPP GROUPS: CLICK HERE to be dded to an official YWN WhatsApp Group.

The Baltimore Jewish community made a Kiddush Hashem on Monday, following the tragic explosion which left one person dead and others with serious injuries. Dozens of community members were on the scene handing out cold water and slices pizza to local residents effected, as well as emergency personnel (Fire, Police, EMS etc). Their acts of kindness made headlines, and the attached video is from a local TV report. The natural gas explosion destroyed three row houses, and a fourth house in the row was ripped open, and windows were shattered in nearby homes, leaving the northwest Baltimore neighborhood of Reisterstown Station strewn with glass and other rubble.

Jewish music superstar Yaakov Shwekey performed a song praising President Trump last night which has since gained international attention. Video of the song, first published on Monday night by YWN to our 35,000 WhatsApp Group subscribers, went viral in seconds. The performance was done at Camp Teumim Mesivta in Pennsylvania, to the tune of Shwekey’s “We Are a Miracle”, and had new words changed to “We Love America”. The new lyrics were written by Yisroel Besser of Mishpacha Magazine, and the song was intended to have been sung this past Sunday at the fundraiser for President Trump in Deal, NJ. The program on Sunday reportedly ran out of schedule, and the Shwekey performance needed to be cut down.

The United Arab Emirates recently allowed Yemeni Jews who wanted to leave Yemen to move to Abu Dhabi and receive UAE citizenship. The UAE also facilitated a long-awaited family reunion with the couple’s children and grandchildren who had moved from Yemen to London 15 years earlier and hadn’t seen their parents since their departure as traveling to Yemen was not possible. In a rare step, the family members from London also received citizenship from the UAE. The father of the family spoke about meeting his children for the first time in 15 years: “I feel as if I was born again today. I’m so happy that I met all my children and grandchildren.” “We fulfilled a dream that seemed impossible,” one of the children said to Emirates News Agency (WAM).

President Trump was abruptly whisked out of his news conference by a Secret Service Agent on Monday afternoon. The Agent whispered something in the President’s ear, and immediately removed the president as he was addressing the media. The President returned to the podium in the Briefing Room around 10 minutes later and announced that the Secret Service has just shot someone outside the White House. Fox Reporter John Roberts confirmed that he heard shots fired. Trump says it happened outside the Whitehouse grounds. The President says on leaving the Briefing Room, he was taken to the Oval Office, not the “Bunker”. He said he waited a few minutes until the Secret Service said it was safe for him to return to the Briefing Room, where the windows overlook the North Lawn and fenceline.

Hamas fired a barrage of almost a dozen rockets in what is considered to be a sign of the terror group’s determination to end the relative calm on the border in the last few months. The rockets weren’t directed at Israel but rather at the Mediterranean Sea, a training exercise which the terror group routinely carries out but always at night and almost always just one rocket at a time. This time it launched the rockets during the day to the cheers of Gazan residents. Hamas is seemingly determined to escalate tension on the Gaza border in the past week, launching dozens of incendiary and explosive balloons into southern Israel, causing several fires, after a lull of several months when almost no balloons were seen. Balloons were even found in the city of Arad, almost 80 kilometers away.

More than 100 people were arrested Monday following a night of looting and unrest that left 13 officers injured and caused damage in the city’s upscale Magnificent Mile shopping district and other parts of the city, authorities said. Police Superintendent David Brown said it “was not an organized protest” but instead “an incident of pure criminality” that began following the shooting of a person by police the previous day in the city’s Englewood neighborhood. At one point early Monday, shots were fired at police and officers returned fire. Brown said a heavy police presence is expected in the downtown area until further notice. “This was straight up, felony criminal conduct,” said Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Public fury over this week’s massive explosion in Beirut took a new turn Saturday night as protesters stormed government institutions and clashed for hours with security forces, who responded with heavy volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets. One police officer was killed and dozens of people hurt in the confrontations, which played out in streets that were wrecked from Tuesday’s blast at the port that devastated much of the city and killed nearly 160 people. Dozens were still missing and nearly 6,000 people injured. The disaster has taken popular anger to a new level in a country already reeling from an unprecedented economic and financial crisis and near bankruptcy.

Mayor Bill de Blasio told New Yorkers Thursday they don’t need to buy a new car. “The future of New York City is less about the car,” de Blasio said. “I’m never going to own a car again.” De Blasio — who is chauffeured around New York City in a tax dollar-funded SUV — advised New Yorkers Thursday not to fear the subways amid the global novel coronavirus pandemic. “My advice to New Yorkers is, ‘Do not buy a car,” de Blasio said. “Cars are the past, the future is going to be mass transit, biking, walking.” READ MORE: NY1

A woman who has already been arrested once for throwing paint on the Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower was arrested again for doing exactly the same thing. Police say 39-year-old Juliet Germanotta acted alone this time in vandalizing the mural on Fifth Avenue. She was caught on camera Wednesday on her knees, spreading blue paint all over the yellow mural with her hands. The mural supporting the movement for racial justice has been vandalized at least once a week since it was painted on July 9. Germanotta and two other women were arrested the last time the mural was painted over on July 17. The vandalism appeared to be a coordinated effort involving about 10 people. There were plans going around on social media with a group of people discussing pulling off the stunt.