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The infighting and backstabbing that plagued President Donald Trump’s first term have returned as a threat to his second, with deepening fissures over trade, national security and questions of personal loyalty. The latest turmoil threatens to engulf the Pentagon, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has pushed out top advisers and faces fresh controversy over sharing sensitive information about airstrikes in Yemen outside of classified channels. A former Pentagon spokesperson who was ousted last week wrote in Politico that Trump should fire Hegseth for presiding over a “full-blown meltdown.” The interpersonal drama is not — at least yet — a dominant plot line of Trump’s return to the White House.

During remarks on Monday in Yerushalayim, Rav Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Tzfas, spoke critically about recent decisions issued by the Israeli Supreme Court, asserting that such rulings lack halachic legitimacy when they run counter to Torah law.
Rav Eliyahu emphasized that these types of rulings carry no halachic authority and explained that his position is firmly grounded in classical Jewish sources.

The Petach Tikvah community is mourning the passing of Rabbi Avraham Chaim Grossman zt”l, a beloved askan and baal chessed who was a pillar of chessed and Torah in the city. He was 70 years old.
Rabbi Grossman passed away following a brief and sudden illness, having suffered from pulmonary edema.
His levayah took place Monday evening, departing from his home in Petach Tikvah to the Segulah Cemetery, where he was laid to rest.
Born on 8 Iyarin 1954, Rabbi Grossman was the a of Reb Yitzchok Dovid Grossman zt”l, founder of the Gan Construction Company, and tbl”c Mrs. Pesia Grossman.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday as New Delhi looks to avoid American tariffs, negotiate a bilateral trade deal with Washington and strengthen ties with the Trump administration. Vance, who is on a largely personal four-day visit to India, met with Modi at his residence in New Delhi and the two leaders “reviewed and positively assessed the progress in various areas of bilateral cooperation,” Modi’s office said in a statement. They also “welcomed the significant progress” in the negotiations of an expected trade deal between the two countries, the statement said.

Qatar and Egypt have reportedly put forward a fresh initiative aimed at halting the conflict in Gaza and securing the release of the remaining hostages, according to a report published Tuesday by the BBC, which cited a high-level Palestinian Arab source involved in the negotiations.
The proposed arrangement, as outlined in the report, includes a ceasefire lasting five to seven years, the return of all Israeli hostages currently held by Hamas, the release of Palestinian Arab prisoners incarcerated in Israeli facilities, a formal declaration ending the war, and the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.

Two lawsuits filed in Los Angeles allege major home insurance companies have colluded to limit coverage in California communities at high risk for wildfires and force homeowners onto the state’s last-resort insurance plan that offers basic coverage and high premiums. Insurers, including State Farm and 24 other companies that hold 75% of California’s home insurance market, were part of an “illegal scheme” in violation of California’s antitrust and unfair competition laws, according to one of the lawsuits, filed last week.

The Conservative movement in Israel led a fake campaign on Israeli streets in the name of Gedolei Yisrael to convince Chareidim not to vote in the elections for the World Zionist Organization, spending tens of thousands of shekels to print and distribute pashkevilim against participating in the elections, a Kikar Shabbat investigation revealed. As many YWN readers know, a machlokes broke out last month in the Chareidi sector about whether to participate in the WZO elections. Members of the Eretz HaKodesh party presented the support of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky zt’l, along with other Rabbanim in Israel and the United States who supported voting in the previous election.