Family getting up: Tuesday (5/13/25)Morning R’ Yehoshua SaffrinBrother

POTUS: “This morning, I’m thrilled to announce that we have reached a breakthrough trade deal with the United Kingdom… it’s really in particular, the agreement with one of our closest and most cherished allies and we’re so happy that that’s the way it worked out.”

FBI Director Kash Patel broke with the Trump administration Wednesday over a budget proposal that would dramatically slash funding for the bureau, telling lawmakers, “We need more than what has been proposed.” The 2026 budget proposal released on Friday calls for a funding cut of more than $500 million for the FBI as part of what the White House said was a desire to “reform and streamline” the bureau and reduce “non-law enforcement missions that do not align” with the priorities of President Donald Trump. Patel warned that such a cut would be harmful for the FBI as it reorients priorities to focus on violent crime.

Video showing a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun operated by the Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps being used to counter Indian one-way attack drones over Old Walton Airport in Lahore this morning.

Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu in a meeting with reserve soldiers from Brigade 5: “We need to bring the hostages back home and defeat Hamas…Let them raise a white flag…They can also raise the flag of exile…We are working hard with the Americans to transfer them to a different country.”

The Indian government announced Thursday that its military killed Abdul Rauf Azhar, the Pakistani Islamic terrorist responsible for the death of Jewish-American Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. Officials said Azhar was eliminated in “Operation Sindhoor,” a mission carried out by the Indian Army.

The IDF has released footage of a mid-air refueling of an Israeli Air Force fighter jet on its way to strike Houthi targets in Yemen on Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu held a key meeting with Shas leader Aryeh Deri and MK Yuli Edelstein, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, in a bid to ease tensions over the contentious issue of the proposed chareidi draft legislation.
Individuals familiar with what transpired in the meeting said that Edelstein pushed for a policy that would see at least fifty percent of eligible chareidi men drafted into the IDF. Deri, however, strongly objected to this suggestion and reportedly dismissed the numbers put forward during the discussion.

INDIA – India has confirmed that its precision military operation, Operation Sindoor, has struck a key Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) facility in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, potentially delivering j