HY’D: An additional two names of the five soldiers killed in Gaza have been cleared for publication. – Sergeant First Class (res.) Benyamin Asulin, aged 28, from Haifa, a soldier in the Northern Gaza Brigade, Gaza Division, fell during combat in the northern Gaza Strip. – Staff Sergeant Noam Aharon Musgadian, aged 20, from Jerusalem, a soldier in the Netzah Yehuda Battalion (97th), Kfir Brigade, fell during combat in the northern Gaza Strip.

In a major shift to airport security procedures, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will no longer require travelers to remove their shoes at security checkpoints, beginning July 7, 2025. The change applies to all passengers, regardless of TSA PreCheck status, and marks the end of a nearly 20-year policy widely criticized as inconvenient and outdated. The original shoe removal rule was introduced in August 2006 in response to the 2001 attempted shoe bombing by Richard Reid on a transatlantic flight. Until now, only PreCheck members, children under 13, and seniors over 75 were exempt from the requirement.

R’ Binyomin Kobani attends the Gleiberman-Tress wedding tonight to thank both baalei simcha – R’ Moshe Glieberman and R’ Moshe Tress – for helping secure his release from Ocean County Jail earlier today.

Roman Starovoit, Russia’s sacked transport minister, was found dead in his car hours after President Putin fired him. Analysts raised the possibility that he may have been dismissed in connection with an investigation into corruption in the Kursk region

POTUS: “We’re going to send some more weapons [to Ukraine.] We have to, they have to be able to defend themselves.”

HY’D:;The IDF has released the names of two soldiers who were killed in Gaza. Staff Sergeant Meir Shimon Amar, aged 20, from Jerusalem, a soldier in the Netzah Yehuda Battalion Sergeant Moshe Nissim Frech, aged 20, from Jerusalem, a soldier in the Netzah Yehuda Battalion The incident in which they fell also claimed the lives of three additional soldiers, whose names have not yet been cleared for publication. In addition, two soldiers from the Netzach Yehuda Battalion (97), Kfir Brigade, were seriously wounded in the same incident. They were evacuated to the hospital for medical treatment, and their families have been updated.

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Gaza: “We have an opportunity to finally get a peace deal … and I’m hopeful for it very quickly.”

Trump on Zohran Mamdani: “He’s not a socialist, he’s a communist, and he’s said some really bad things about Jewish people … It’s a philosophy that this country is not ready for — and it NEVER will be.”

REPORTER: What might make you have the desire to do another strike on Iran? POTUS: “I hope we’re not going to have to do that. I can’t imagine wanting to do that. I can’t imagine them wanting to do that. They want to meet … they want to work something out.”