Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, a new vote count confirmed Tuesday, cementing his stunning upset of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and sending him to the general election. The Associated Press called the race after the results of the city’s ranked choice voting tabulation were released and showed Mamdani trouncing Cuomo by 12 percentage points. Mamdani said he was humbled by the support he received in the primary and has started turning his attention to November. “Last Tuesday, Democrats spoke in a clear voice, delivering a mandate for an affordable city, a politics of the future, and a leader unafraid to fight back against rising authoritarianism,” he said in a statement.

Agudath Israel of America celebrates the Senate’s inclusion of a permanent and unlimited scholarship tax credit. Earlier today, the United States Senate voted to include a permanent scholarship tax credit in the budget reconciliation bill. The groundbreaking federal school choice proposal survived two attempts to eliminate it and had to be revised in order to comply with the ruling of the Senate parliamentarian. “On Friday, news reports proclaimed that the school choice provision in the reconciliation bill was dead,” said Rabbi A.D. Motzen, Agudath Israel of America’s National Director of Government Affairs. “Thanks to Senator Ted Cruz and Senate champions, the report of its demise was greatly exaggerated.

The Rav of the Divrei Shir shul in Bnei Brak, the esteemed posek Rav Yehuda Aryeh Dinner, addressed the Iranian missile strike on Bnei Brak in a shiur he gave and revealed the reason for the direct hit. “To add to the chessed we experienced last week,” the Rav began, “I heard yesterday that you can see how everything is precise from Hakodash Baruch Hu—every explosion, every bomb, every missile—precise, precise.” “They said that the school in Pardes Katz, on which the missile fell, I heard in the name of the Mashgiach of Tifereta, Harav Noach, HaRav HaTzaddik Rav Noah Palay shlita—that he said that the laying of concrete for that building about 40 years ago was on Shabbos.” “The casting of that building was on Shabbos—that’s it, so that’s the answer.

President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks at the White House next Monday as the U.S. leader steps up his push on the Israeli government and Hamas to broker a ceasefire and hostage agreement and bring about an end to the war in Gaza. The trip will be Netanyahu’s third visit to the White House since Trump returned to office in January, and it comes after the United States inserted itself into Israel’s war against Iran by attacking Iranian nuclear sites. After brokering a ceasefire between the two countries, Trump has signaled that he’s turning his attention to bringing a close to the fighting between Israel and Hamas.

A compensation agreement for the families of young victims of the Meron disaster will be brought before the court for approval, it was reported on Tuesday. This was an agreement reached after the Lod District Court, headed by Judge Irit Cohen, accepted the positions of attorney Eran Becker, who represents a number of the victims’ families in the disaster, who proposed a framework for compensating the families. According to the agreement, which will be submitted for court approval, families of young and minor victims—up to the age of 24—are expected to receive significant financial compensation. One of the families is expected to receive a sum of approximately NIS 2.9 million. Similar amounts have been offered in additional cases—in accordance with the age of the deceased.

Israel’s recent war with Iran caused an unprecedented financial toll in the Jewish state, with an estimated $1.3 billion of damages to property. Some 30,000 homes were destroyed or damaged by Iranian missiles during the recent war, and over 15,000 Israelis are homeless. Tax Authority Director Shai Aharonovich warned at a press conference last week of “challenges of a magnitude we’ve never faced in the history of Israel.” Amir Dahan, the Tax Authority’s head of compensation, said that “there has never before been this level of damage” sustained during a war. “We’re dealing with complex, large-scale damage,” Dahan said. “Normally, we see damage to a single wing or room, and demolition is rare.

Diplomatic tensions between Iran and Azerbaijan are growing after Iranian officials accused Baku of allowing Israeli fighter jets to use its airspace to carry out strikes deep inside Iranian territory during Operation Rising Lion. Tehran has formally demanded an investigation into alleged Azerbaijani complicity in the air raids. Iranian sources claim Israeli jets transited Azerbaijani airspace, particularly over the Caspian Sea, to conduct precision-guided bombings, attacks which Iranian officials believe were supported by close military and economic coordination between Baku and Jerusalem.

Iran on Sunday claimed that an Israeli airstrike last week on Tehran’s notorious Evin prison killed at least 71 people, marking what was likely the deadliest single attacks in the recent war between the two countries. The Iranian judiciary spokesperson, Asghar Jahangir, posted the casualty figures on the Mizan news agency’s website, noting that those killed included prison staff, soldiers, inmates, and visiting family members. Iranian authorities did not break down the numbers further or specify how many were wounded. The Washington-based group Human Rights Activists in Iran said its reporting indicated at least 35 staff members and two inmates died, along with others outside the facility, including a woman who had come to speak with a judge about her husband’s case.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is under fire for her carefully crafted “Bronx girl” image, even after new revelation of her comfortable suburban upbringing. After a Yorktown High School yearbook photo went viral, Ocasio-Cortez took to X on Friday to defend herself, insisting her background is still rooted in struggle. “My mom cleaned houses and I helped,” she posted, claiming she exchanged chores for tutoring help and that splitting time between the Bronx and the suburbs shaped her views on inequality. But critics say the congresswoman is twisting her personal story to fit a political brand that never matched the facts.

Harvard University failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, the Trump administration concluded after an investigation, threatening to cut all federal funding from the Ivy League school if it fails to take action. A federal task force sent a letter to Harvard on Monday finding the university violated civil rights laws requiring colleges to protect students from discrimination based on race or national origin. It says investigators found Harvard was at times a “willful participant in anti-Semitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff” and that campus leaders allowed antisemitism to fester on the campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.