Tensions within the governing coalition escalated this week as United Torah Judaism (UTJ) declared that it would maintain its boycott of Knesset votes, a move aimed at pressuring the government over its failure to pass legislation that would safeguard military draft exemptions for chareidi yeshiva students.
The boycott, which began last week, came in response to statements by Brigadier General Shai Taib, the IDF’s head of manpower, who raised alarms about an urgent shortage of personnel. Taib emphasized the military’s immediate need for an additional 12,000 soldiers, including 7,000 for combat roles—figures that underscore the mounting push to broaden conscription and potentially eliminate longstanding exemptions.

New details were released on Sunday about the risky and complex operation carried out in the heart of Syria to recover the body of fallen IDF soldier Tzvi Feldman, H’yd, whose recovery 43 years after his death was announced on Sunday morning. Five months ago, shortly before the fall of the Assad regime,  the Mossad dispatched a team of non-Israeli Mossad agents to Syria, where their lives were constantly in danger, Ynet reported. The agents used deceptive tactics to explain their presence in the area where Feldman’s remains were thought to be located, in a cemetery dozens of kilometers from the border. There, the team progressed little by little, fostering relationships with the cemetery guards. Eventually, they found Feldman’s overalls.

President Donald Trump celebrated what he described as a major breakthrough in relations with China after the first round of high-level discussions took place in Geneva between American and Chinese officials. The talks were aimed at easing the strain caused by Trump’s recent imposition of sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports.
Calling the meetings “very good,” Trump said they marked “a total reset negotiated in a friendly, but constructive, manner.” In a Truth Social post from late last night, he added, “We want to see, for the good of both China and the U.S., an opening up of China to American business.” He also wrote, “GREAT PROGRESS MADE!!!”

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that the body of missing IDF soldier Staff-Sergeant Tzvi Feldman, who fell

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The UK-based Al-Quds newspaper and other Arab media outlets reported on Sunday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will be joining the meeting in Riyadh with U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday. Trump is visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE this week in his first overseas trip to the Middle East, but not Israel. According to sources quoted in the report, Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will also be joining the meeting. The summit was the initiative of Bin Salman and was accepted by Trump. The report also claimed that the Crown Prince “expects Trump to accept the Saudi condition for the establishment of a Palestinian state.” However, U.S.

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan issued arrest warrants to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant two weeks after his female aide accused him of severe assault and a day after he abruptly canceled a critical visit to Israel and Gaza, the Wall Street Journal reported. According to the aide’s testimony, Khan began assaulting her in March 2023 and continued for months, even after she told him she was feeling suicidal due to the abuse. On April 29, 2024, the aide, a Muslim lawyer from Malaysia in her 30s, tearfully shared the abuse with Thomas Lynch, a close American adviser to Khan, and another individual, saying she can no longer endure it.

The body of Sgt. First Class Tzvi Feldman, H’yd, who fell in battle at Sultan Yacoub in June 1982, during the first Lebanon War, was returned in a special operation by the Mossad and IDF. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced the news on Sunday morning: “For decades, Tzvi was missing, and the efforts to locate him, alongside the others missing from that battle, never ceased,” he said. “About six years ago, we returned Sgt. First Class Zachary Baumel, H’yd, to Kever Yisrael. Today, we returned Tzvi, z’l, and we will not stop working to return Sgt.

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rav Yechezkel Shraga Dovid Halpern zt”l, who served as the Rav of the Sanzer Beis Medrash in the Ramot neighborhood of Yerushalayim. He was 59 years old.
Rav Halpern passed away at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital after battling illness.
Born in London, Rav Halpern came from an illustrious rabbinic dynasty. His father, Rav Yitzchok Aryeh Leibush Halpern, is the Gaavad of Radomishla, and his grandfather, Rav Elchonon Halperin, served as the Gaavad of Radomishla in Golders Green.

(AP) – A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus.

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to end humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from four countries, setting them up for potential deportation. The emergency appeal asks the justices to halt a lower-court order keeping in place temporary legal status for more than 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The Republican administration argues that the decision wrongly intrudes on the Department of Homeland Security’s authority. “The district court has nullified one of the administration’s most consequential immigration policy decisions,” Solicitor General John Sauer wrote. The order from U.S.

New York Attorney General Letitia James told a crowd that she is being surveilled on orders from President Trump, making the claim just days before it was reported that Trump’s Department of Justice had initiated a criminal investigation into mortgage fraud allegations against her.
“They got individuals coming to my house, standing outside my house. Last Sunday – church Sunday while I was in church – these individuals were in front of my house, taking pictures and then streaming it, putting it on social media,” she told the audience during a rally at the National Action Network’s Harlem headquarters, led by Rev. Al Sharpton.

WASHINGTON – On Saturday, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee made the media rounds, aiming to reassure the Jewish community that former President Donald Trump’s connection to Israel remains as strong as ever. In a series of high-profile interviews aired across Israeli television and American conservative platforms, Huckabee responded to growing concerns about the state […]

President Trump, together with a number of top European leaders, issued a clear demand to Vladimir Putin: agree to a 30-day cease-fire in Ukraine starting Monday, or face heavy sanctions and expanded military backing for Ukraine.
The announcement followed high-level talks in Kyiv, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hosted French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to deliberate over a U.S.-driven cease-fire initiative.

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