While navigating the complexities of international travel, a group of Jewish students in Jerusalem found themselves with an unexpected and unfamiliar backpack, one that none of them recognized as their own.
Luckily, these students are committed to performing good deeds, or mitzvahs, as an integral part of their everyday routines.
After returning to Brooklyn for the Yomim Tovim, an exchange student—who wishes to remain unnamed—had no idea that a lost bag, and the ensuing attention, would find him at Newark Airport.
A New York automotive technology competition had recently seen local students participate.
While unloading luggage, a cab driver mistakenly handed over a backpack that had been left behind.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Biden administration regulation on the nearly impossible-to-trace weapons called ghost guns, clearing the way for continued serial numbers, background checks and age verification requirements to buy them in kits online. Seven justices joined the opinion, authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, upholding the rule. Two justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented. Ghost gun sales have grown exponentially since kits that let people build them easily at home came into the market, Gorsuch wrote. “Some home hobbyists enjoy assembling them. But criminals also find them attractive,” he said. The number of ghost guns found at crime scenes around the country has also soared, according to federal data.

ISRAEL KATZ: Residents of Gaza, the IDF will soon intensify operations in Gaza, requiring evacuations from combat zones as approved plans unfold, while Hamas endangers lives, sacrifices territory to Israel’s defenses, and clings to power—its leaders hiding in tunnels or luxury hotels with billions stashed abroad, using civilians as hostages—prompting a call to follow Beit Lahia’s example, reject Hamas, and demand the release of Israeli hostages to end the conflict.

The Israeli Air Force releases new footage from several of its strikes in the Gaza Strip this past week, as well as strikes in Syria. Over 430 targets were hit by IAF fighter jets, drones, and helicopters in Gaza since the military resumed its offensive against Hamas a week ago, according to the IDF.

Another clip released by the IDF shows airstrikes on “military capabilities” at the Palmyra military airport and the nearby T-4 airbase in central Syria on Tuesday and Thursday. Over the past week, the IAF says it struck 18 targets in Syria and another 40 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

Four U.S. soldiers from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, based in Fort Stewart, Georgia, were found dead in Eastern Lithuania near Belarus. Their M88A2 Armored-Recovery Vehicle likely sank in a swamp during a training exercise on Tuesday near Pabradė.

Palestinian protests against Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip are proof that Israel’s approach to the terrorist organization is working, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared today.
“In recent days, we have seen something we have never seen before—public protests against Hamas rule in Gaza,” the premier said during a 40-signature debate, which the opposition can call once a month and which he is obliged to attend. “This shows that our policy is working.”
On Tuesday, hundreds of Palestinians staged protests in northern Gaza, demanding an end to the ongoing war with the Jewish state and calling for Hamas terrorists to relinquish their control of the coastal enclave.

NEW YORK CITY (VINnews)-In a year marked by exceptional financial gains, Wall Street bonuses rea

CIA Director John Ratcliffe: “There’s so much talk about this, Atlantic article and about, things that were said and that could have happened instead of a focus on what did happen. My responsibility as CIA director, one of its responsibilities is to kill terrorists. And that’s exactly what I did, along with President Trump’s excellent national security team.”

Col. Haim Cohen, commander of the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade, has submitted his resignation to IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor, accepting responsibility for his brigade’s failures during Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack, as he stated in his letter, “The results show, I failed!!!”

Chuck Schumer on the Trump economy: “The economic chickens are coming home to roost, and I fear this is just the beginning.” (Wholesale egg prices have gone down over the past four weeks consecutively)

*HISTORIC BLUNDER:* A major security breach involving top Trump administration officials has erupted into a full-blown crisis after The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published additional text messages from a Signal group chat, revealing detailed plans for a U.S. military strike on Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The revelations, which contradict earlier denials from senior officials, have sparked widespread condemnation and calls for accountability, exposing significant lapses in the handling of sensitive information.

President Trump clowns Rep. Crockett: “She’s a lowlife and she’s a very low IQ person… To be smart, you do need a brain… She truly is a very low-level person on the very important chart of intelligence.”

FOX on Egg Price drops: “Egg prices have definitely turned a corner… with large egg prices, on average, down 59% since February 28th.”

President Isaac Herzog expressed concern that the country had lost focus on the hostages being held in Gaza, as attention appeared to shift toward the government’s recent controversial actions. “I am quite shocked how suddenly the issue of the hostages is no longer at the top of the priority list and at the top of the news — how can this be?” he said during his speech at the first international conference hosted by the Defense Ministry Rehabilitation Department at Tel Aviv University.
He emphasized the importance of keeping the issue of the hostages in the forefront, stating, “We must, throughout this entire time, not lose touch — as a nation and of course as a governing system — with everything related to bringing the hostages home, down to the last one.”

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Rabbi Eliyahu Fink of Monsey was tragically killed in a car accident on Thursday. The post Rabbi Killed in Terrible Car Accident first appeared on Matzav.com.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte w

Four U.S. Army soldiers have gone missing at a training area outside of Lithuania’s capital, and a search is underway, the U.S. military said Wednesday. A statement from U.S. Army Europe and Africa public affairs in Wiesbaden, Germany said the soldiers were conducting scheduled tactical training at the time. It said further information will be provided as new information becomes available. Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT reported that four U.S. soldiers and vehicle were reported missing Tuesday afternoon during an exercise at the General Silvestras Žukauskas training ground in Pabradė, a town located less than 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the border with Belarus.

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