The Israeli Defense Ministry’s COGAT unit on Thursday approved the resumption of commercial trade with Gaza, with truck deliveries starting the following morning, Walla! News reported on Sunday.
JNS reached out to COGAT for confirmation.
According to the report, 150 trucks loaded with fruits and vegetables from Israel—not humanitarian aid—crossed into Gaza intended for merchants there who purchased the produce “intended for Hamas members and the civilian population.”

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.

(COLLive.com) In what has become an ongoing theme for radio personality Michael Savage, on MotzOei Shabbos he once again extolled My Gulag Life: Stories of a Soviet Prisoner and Reb Mendel Futerfas’s will to survive during his imprisonment.
Savage, as he is known to his millions of followers, read from the book, to what one listener said was the “largest Motzei Shabbos storytelling.”

The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office issued a response to Minister Benny Gantz’s ultimatum directed at the Netanyahu government.

Here are the latest updates regarding the Iranian helicopter crash (all times are in Israel time):
8:16 p.m.: The White House announced that President Biden has been briefed on the reports of the crash of a helicopter carrying Iran’s president.
7:30 p.m.: Al-Arabiya reported Iraq’s Prime Minister offered his country’s help to locate the Iranian President’s helicopter.
7:13 p.m.: Bahram Ainullahi, the Iranian Minister of Health said regarding the latest measures to search for the president’s helicopter crash site: “All the rescue forces are searching, but the area is extremely foggy and it is difficult to search.”

Major Gal Shabbat, from Katzir, succumbed to his wounds he received on May 15th while fighting in northern Gaza, announced the IDF. Shabbat, 24, was a company commander in the 202nd Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade.
Earlier, it was reported that two soldiers of the Givati patrol, First sergeant Nachman Meir Haim Vaknin, 20 years old from Eilat, and Sergeant Noam Bittan, 20 years old from Moshav Yad Rambam – were killed by an explosive device in a pit, east of Rafah. An officer and two soldiers from the Givati patrol were also seriously injured in the same incident. Additionally, a reservist from the 5832th bridging battalion of the Engineering Corps was seriously injured by an anti-tank missile fired at a D9.

CNBC’s Sara Eisen sits down with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu to discuss Israel’s war in Gaza, the impending invasion of Rafah, the strategy against Hamas, and how he’s addressing internal and international divisions over the Israeli military’s response to the Oct. 7 attacks.
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Former President Donald Trump claims that “employers of millions of people” are departing New York after observing his ongoing trial proceedings and how he’s been treated in his current business records case and other court proceedings.
“This is about one man, [Manhattan District Attorney] Alvin Bragg, who puts his political ambition over the rule of law and the judicial system,” Trump told reporters.
He also criticized Judge Lewis Kaplan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and New York Supreme Court First Judicial District Judge Arthur Engoron, both of whom have presided in cases involving him.

After declaring that he wanted to testify in his criminal trial, it appears increasingly unlikely that Donald Trump will do so, as the jury seems poised to hear closing arguments next week.
Defendants rarely testify in their own defense, because their lawyers advise them that the risks of doing so, particularly when it comes to being questioned by prosecutors under oath, are simply too great.
Even so, defense attorneys often try to hold out until the last possible minute to say whether their client will testify, hoping to keep prosecutors guessing.
In Trump’s case, the judge’s discussions with lawyers in recent days indicate that even if the defense calls a small number of witnesses, they do not expect Trump to be one of them.

At a campaign speech in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday, former President Donald J. Trump claimed, “Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole… country.”
During his nearly 90-minute speech, the former president discussed the 2020 election, the US-Mexico border, and the US economy while criticizing several government officials, including Fani Willis, the Atlanta prosecutor overseeing his criminal case in Georgia. He attacked President Joe Biden numerous times, calling him “stupid” and even referring to him as a “dumb son of a—” before trailing off.