People taking the obesity drug Zepbound lost nearly 50% more weight than those using rival Wegovy (Ozempic) in the first head-to-head study of the blockbuster medications. Clinical trial participants who took tirzepatide, the drug sold as Zepbound, lost an average of 50 pounds over 72 weeks, while those who took semaglutide, or Wegovy, lost about 33 pounds.

US hostage envoy Adam Boehler seen escorting Edan Alexander’s mother to Israel ahead of her son’s slated release on Monday.

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By Ruthie Blum
Israelis awoke to fake news that, in Winston Churchill’s witty words, “got halfway around the world before the truth had a chance to put its pants on.”
The baloney began with coverage by i24News of an item that appeared in The Jerusalem Post. So much of the Hebrew channel’s morning broadcast was devoted to what it was touting as a huge deal that other outlets picked it up and ran with it.
Ditto for social media, of course.
The trouble is that everything about the bulletin was wrong, starting with an inaccurate attribution of its origin. Indeed, anybody who bothered to check could see that the piece in the JPost was a reprint of a write-up in The Media Line.

Margot Friedländer, one of the oldest Holocaust survivors in the world, was niftar this past week in her hometown of Berlin at the age of 103. Friedländer, née Bendheim, was born in Berlin in 1921 and survived the Holocaust after losing her mother and brother in Auschwitz. Her mother’s final words, “Try to make your life,” became a guiding principle for Friedländer in the decades that followed. She was captured in hiding at age 21 and deported to Theresienstadt, where she met her future husband, Adolph Friedländer, also a survivor. The couple moved to New York in 1946 and lived there for over 60 years. After her husband’s passing, she made the remarkable decision to return to Berlin in 2010 to dedicate her life to Holocaust education and remembrance.

With Lag B’Omer’s pilgrimage to Meron approaching, Magen David Adom (MDA), alongside Israel Police and Fire & Rescue Services, will conduct two large-scale drills on Monday night and Tuesday afternoon to prepare for potential mass-casualty incidents. The exercises, led by the police, will simulate scenarios like terror attacks, rocket fire, crowd stampedes, and road closures, following the 2021 tragedy where 45 people R”L died in a stampede. Dozens of MDA paramedics, doctors, EMTs, and volunteers will participate, using ambulances, motorcycles, ATVs, a mobile ICU bus, field clinics, and a helicopter.

The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official , Shira Perlmutter, days after abruptly terminating the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office. The office said in a statement Sunday that Perlmutter received an email from the White House a day earlier with the notification that “your position as the Register of Copyrights and Director at the U.S. Copyright Office is terminated effective immediately.” On Thursday, President Donald Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to be librarian of Congress, as part of the administration’s ongoing purge of government officials perceived to oppose the president and his agenda.

In advance of this year’s hilula of the Tanna Rav Shimon bar Yochai, several leading gedolei Yisroel from the Sephardic community have issued a powerful letter urging the public to avoid traveling to Meron close to Shabbos.
The letter, signed by Rav Yitzchak Yosef, Rav Moshe Tzadka, Chacham Nissim Ben Shimon, and Rav Shlomo Machpoud, declares that visiting Meron in the days surrounding Lag Ba’omer—either before or after—is to be treated as equivalent to visiting on the actual day of the hilula.

UPDATE: The emotionally disturbed individual at Ocean Parkway and Avenue P has been taken into custody and is being transported to a nearby hospital for evaluation.