A major diplomatic uproar has erupted following police raids in Antwerp, Belgium, during which bris milah instruments were confiscated from mohalim. In response, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset MK Moshe Roth urgently appealed to Belgium’s Ambassador to Israel, Mr. Stephan Thomaes, as well as to Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, demanding immediate intervention.
According to sources eports, during this morning’s raids, Belgian authorities not only seized knives and tools used for bris milah, but also demanded detailed information about children who had undergone brisos in the past year.

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A former food delivery driver pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to steal more than $2.5 million from DoorDash by getting the company to pay for deliveries that never occurred, federal prosecutors said. Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in San Jose to a single count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Devagiri, 30, of Newport Beach, California, admitted to working with three others in 2020 and 2021 to defraud the San Francisco-based delivery company, federal prosecutors said. Prosecutors said Devagiri used customer accounts to place high-value orders and then used an employee’s credential to gain access to DoorDash software and manually reassign the orders to driver accounts that he and others controlled.

Agudath Israel of America applauded the historic inclusion of the Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) in a draft budget document unveiled yesterday in the U.S. House of Representatives. Agudath Israel said it looks forward to continuing to engage members of Congress as lawmakers debate and build upon this proposal in the days and weeks ahead. Following a model already operating successfully in more than twenty states, this game changing legislation will provide $5 billion in K-12 scholarships per year. It does this by allowing a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit for donors who contribute to Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGO). These SGOs would then provide scholarships for a range of educational expenses, including private school tuition.

The Israeli military is hunting for a terrorist who shot and injured two Israelis, including a pregnant woman, as they drove near the small community of Bruchin, in Samaria, the Israel Defense Forces stated.
The Rabin Medical Center’s Beilinson Hospital said on Wednesday night that its medical teams were fighting in the trauma room to save the life of the woman. The baby was delivered in hospital, but its condition has not been made public, Ynet reported.
The woman and her husband were en route to the hospital when the shooting occurred, Hanan Greenwood, of Israel Hayom, wrote.

U.S. Sec. of State Marco Rubio has arrived in Antalya, Turkey, for an informal NATO ministerial meeting, aiming to address the Russia-Ukraine conflict and strengthen Allied defense commitments.

Lawyers for a 2-year-old U.S. citizen who was deported with her mother to Honduras said on Tuesday that the family was lifting its lawsuit against the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. The girl -– one of three U.S.-born children who were deported alongside their Honduran-born mothers -– had been at the heart of one of the mounting legal battles playing out in the United States weighing if the Trump administration broke the law in implementing its new deportation policies.

In advance of Lag Ba’omer, former Chief Rabbi of Israel and President of the Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah Rav Yitzchak Yosef met in Yerushalayim with senior officials from Israel’s Fire and Rescue Services. Participating in the meeting were Fire and Rescue Commissioner Eyal Caspi and the service’s Chief Rabbi, Rav Chaim Perl.
The meeting focused on safety concerns related to bonfires typically lit during Lag Ba’omer celebrations. Fire officials warned of the serious risks involved in lighting unauthorized or unsafe fires, especially given the recent large wildfire that broke out in the Jerusalem hills just two weeks ago.