Social media is exploding in Israel the past 24 hours, over the massive police crackdown enforcing the wearing of masks. Not wearing a mask can cost you a person a 500 Shekel ticket. But local residents are claiming that Police are stalking the Chareidi communities and giving an abundance of tickets, while irreligious people are given warnings and free passes. Whatever the case is, people are on edge, and walking around filming every incident, looking to catch the double standard by the Police. It began with viral video of two policemen who stopped a 13.5-year-old Chareidi girl on Rechov Sarei Yisrael in Jerusalem, who according to witness reports, was wearing a mask but moved it off her mouth for a minute to drink something in the hot afternoon sun.

A motorist who panicked after his SUV was surrounded by a protest Tuesday night in Times Square was released by police with no charges filed. The front of the protest group, mainly bicyclists, surrounded his Dodge Durango westbound on 42nd Street at Sixth Avenue at around 9:10 p.m. The bicyclists were attempting to hold traffic for the protests when the driver appears to have panicked and tried to drive away from the crowd. A bicycle was thrown under his vehicle as he drove away, blowing his tires, and protesters banged on his windows. No one was injured. One of the protesters was taken to the hospital for a panic attack. After driving away from the crowd, the protesters pursued the vehicles two blocks to Broadway, where police took the driver to the local police precinct.

A building partially collapsed on Wednesday morning onto a busy Manhattan sidewalk, and miraculously only one person suffered minor injuries. FDNY and NYPD were on the scene at 203 East 38th Street near 3rd Avenue, and had the area cordoned off. The FDNY says the building is a five story vacant parking garage. Debris was scattered all over the sidewalk, with at least cars crushed from the falling bricks. NYC Department of Buildings and Con Edison are enroute. Video below submitted to YWN by eyewitness: (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

As Israel Police engage in a national campaign to increase enforcement of Health Ministry regulations to combat the spread of the coronavirus, a disturbing incident caught on video went viral on Israeli social media, sparking widespread outrage and condemnation of the police. Two policemen stopped a 13.5-year-old Chareidi girl on Rechov Sarei Yisrael in Jerusalem, who according to witness reports, was wearing a mask but moved it off her mouth for a minute to drink something in the hot afternoon sun. At that moment, the policemen pounced on her and began writing out a fine for not wearing a mask. The girl burst out crying but the policemen paid no attention to her and ignored passerby who stopped and protested their treatment of the young girl.

A young thug was arrested in Boro Park on Tuesday afternoon, after two violent incidents. Sources tell YWN that Boro Park Shomrim received a call on their hotline reporting an attempted robbery of Yossies Heimishe Bakery on 18th Avenue and 57th Street. The owner of the establishment says a young teen walked into the bakery and demanded the money from the cash register, and claimed he had a gun in his backpack. The store-owner told him to get lost, and the suspect left the store. While Shomrim was interviewing the store-owner, Shomrim received another hotline call that a child was just punched in the face in the 18th Avenue Park. The victim stated that the suspect punched him and demanded his money. The description of the suspect matched the description of the suspect in the bakery.

A Netiv Express bus filled with Chareidi girls and teachers in Tzfat that was parked on the side of the road began to move and almost plunged down a cliff. At the very last minute, the driver jumped back on the bus and applied the brakes, averting a mass tragedy. A video of the incident, which apparently occurred two weeks ago but was only publicized on Tuesday, shows the bus beginning to move. As passerby outside flee out of the bus’s path, the driver notices what is going on, runs onto the bus and stops it a minute before it would have plunged down the mountain. The incident happened after the bus driver stopped the bus on the side of the road momentarily for unknown reasons.

A New York Times article on Sunday said that Israel is responsible for the fire in Iran that caused significant damage at the Natanz nuclear site, quoting an anonymous Middle Eastern intelligence official. The intelligence official, who said that the blast at the site was caused by a powerful bomb, added that Israel was not responsible for the other mysterious blasts in Iran last week. Israel admitted on Sunday that the fire caused considerable damage at the Natanz nuclear site. Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesperson for Iran’s atomic agency, confirmed that the site was a new centrifuge assembly center, Kamalvandi added that the blast may temporarily slow down the development of the centrifuges but said that the damaged building will be replaced with a more advanced facility.

A white woman walking her dog who called the police during a videotaped dispute with a Black man in Central Park was charged Monday with filing a false report. In May, Amy Cooper drew widespread condemnation for calling 911 to report she was being threatened by “an African-American man” when bird watcher Christian Cooper appeared to keep his distance as he recorded her rant on his phone. District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement on Monday that his office had charged Amy Cooper with falsely reporting the confrontation, a misdemeanor. She was ordered to appear in court on Oct. 14.

Israel’s Defense Ministry and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced the successful launch of its new Ofek 16 spy satellite on Monday. “The Defense Ministry and Israel Aerospace Industries successfully launched into space the reconnaissance satellite ‘Ofek-16,’ which entered into its orbit,” the ministry said in a statement. The reconnaissance satellite, launched via a Shavit launch vehicle at the Palmachim airbase in central Israel at 4 a.m., will undergo a serious of tests designed to verify its integrity and performance as it orbits around the earth.

Two serious crashes this morning forced the full closure of Route 17 at Exit 119 – both eastbound and westbound. In one incident, one victim suffered serious injuries after a multi-vehicle crash on Route 17 heading Eastbound. Emergency personnel – including Catskills Hatzolah – were dispatched to the crash which happened at around 9:30AM. The crash involved two vehicles, one of which overturned two times. Hatzolah Paramedics requested a Medevac for one of the victims, who suffered serious injuries. The chopper landed on the highway, and evacuated the victim to Westchester Trauma Center. An additional stable victims were transported by Hatzolah to Orange Regional Medical center. Meanwhile, at 8:00AM, a overturned tractor-trailer dump-truck overturned on Route 17 heading westbound.