The Gerrer Rebbe arrived in the United States for a historic and urgent mission to rescue the Gerrer Olam HaTorah. The “Keren Hatzalas Olam HaTorah – Gur” campaign was launched with the Rebbe’s arrival, rallying the support of leading philanthropists across the U.S. to stand with Ger amid unprecedented financial hardship.
When the Rebbe’s plane touched down, in accordance with Gerrer tradition, there were no welcoming banners or public fanfare, only a devoted group of several hundred chassidim who came to greet their Rebbe.

Nine people were killed in a shooting at a school in the Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, and the suspected perpetrator also died, authorities said. Police said they believe the assailant acted alone. They said on social network X that 10 people were dead, including the shooter, and “several” were seriously wounded. Mayor Elke Kahr described the events as a “terrible tragedy,” the Austria Press Agency reported. It added that the fatalities included students and at least one adult. Officials didn’t immediately give information on the perpetrator. Special forces were among those sent to the BORG Dreierschützengasse high school, about a kilometer (over half a mile) from Graz’s historic center, after a call at 10 a.m.

President Donald Trump’s trade wars are expected to slash economic growth this year in the United States and around the world, the World Bank forecast Tuesday. Citing “a substantial rise in trade barriers’’ but without mentioning Trump by name, the 189-country lender predicted that the U.S. economy – the world’s largest – would grow half as fast (1.4%) this year as it did in 2024 (2.8%). That marked a downgrade from the 2.3% U.S. growth it had forecast back for 2025 back in January. The bank also lopped 0.4 percentage points off its forecast for global growth this year. It now expects the world economy to expand just 2.3% in 2025, down from 2.8% in 2024.

The IDF this evening released the identities of two of the four soldiers from the elite Yahalom Unit who lost their lives earlier this week during fighting in Gaza.
Sergeant First Class Tom Rotstein, 23, a resident of Ramat Gan, and Sergeant Uri Yhonatan Cohen, 20, from Neve Yarak, were part of the Yahalom Unit under the Combat Engineering Corps. Both were killed in combat operations taking place in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Their deaths occurred during the same combat operation that claimed the life of Sergeant Major Chen Gross, 33, from Gan Yoshiya. Gross was a reservist serving in the Maglan Unit, which is part of the Commando Brigade.