A majority of Israeli right-wing voters believe Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu should fire Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over his demand that the government hand over Gaza to a Palestinian “alternative to Hamas,” according to a survey Channel 14 published over the weekend.
Seventy-three percent of the coalition’s supporters agree that Gallant should be removed from his position over his “call to allow the Palestinian Authority to control Gaza,” while 22% oppose his firing, according to the survey by Direct Polls, which correctly predicted the results of Israel’s most recent election.
Among the wider Israeli public, 41% think Gallant should be fired, while 54% believe the defense minister should remain in position.

Addressing a Knesset committee on Sunday, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) pledged her support for Israel and the fight against antisemitism amid President Joe Biden’s threats to halt weapons shipments to the Jewish state.
“I will defend George Washington’s vision of religious pluralism and freedom,” she told the Knesset Caucus for Jewish and Pro-Israel Students on Campuses Around the World. “Today, this means crushing antisemitism and home and supplying the State of Israel with what it needs, when it needs it, without conditions, to achieve total victory in the face of evil.”
Total victory, she said, “only starts with wiping those responsible for Oct. 7 off the face of the earth.”

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday called for Israel to give Hezbollah a final notice to vacate the border area, after which the IDF would remove the Iranian terrorist proxy from Southern Lebanon.
“A public ultimatum must be issued to Hezbollah that they completely stop shooting [into Israel] and withdraw all forces to beyond the Litani River,” the Religious Zionism Party head told a faction meeting in the north of the country.

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New York City police arrested 40 people at an anti-Israel mob-like protest in Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge neighborhood on Saturday.
The New York Post described a scene in which activists pushed back against New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers, who were forced to tackle some of them.
Protesters continued to fight with police as they were dragged away. One threw a water bottle at them.
“Don’t talk to the pigs, they don’t deserve our attention,” a woman shouted from the top of a U-Haul truck to loud applause.
Within Our Lifetime, a group that advocates the elimination of Israel and whose top activists have been linked to attacks on Jews, organized the “Flood Brooklyn for Gaza Rally.” About 250 attended.

A child was among the three victims killed when a passenger train hit a pickup truck, officials said. The northbound Amtrak train hit a Dodge truck Friday evening in North Tonawanda, New York, a small town along the Niagara River between Niagara Falls and Buffalo, police said. The victims included a 6-year-old boy, a 66-year-old […]

U.S. President Joe Biden clapped when DeAngelo Jeremiah Fletcher, the valedictorian at Morehouse College’s commencement ceremony in Atlanta, called for an “immediate and permanent ceasefire” in Gaza, per the pool report.
“A few” graduates, faculty and staff at the more than 155-year-old private, historically-back liberal arts school wore keffiyehs during the ceremony, and California pastor Claybon Lea Jr. “made a brief reference to the plight of Palestinians among others,” according to the pool report.
The valedictorian added that “The Israel-Gaza conflict has plagued the people of its region for generations. It is important to recognize both sides have suffered heavy casualties since Oct. 7.”
“We are calling for the release of all hostages,” he said.

At least 11 people were reported killed in attacks in Ukraine’s war-ravaged northeast on Sunday as Russia pushed ahead with its renewed offensive. In the Kharkiv region, the focus of the offensive, the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office said six people were killed and 27 wounded in a Russian strike on the outskirts of the regional […]