In a powerful and impassioned address delivered on the last day of Chol Hamoed Pesach at his home, HaGaon HaRav Meir Tzvi Bergman, Rosh Yeshivas Rashbi and Zakein Chevrei Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah, issued a resolute call to action against the looming threat of a mandatory draft for yeshiva students. His words were delivered amidst growing concerns over recent arrests of yeshiva bochurim and stalled efforts to formulate a conscription law acceptable to the Torah community. Speaking to a gathered audience, the Rosh Yeshiva opened by acknowledging the gravity of the current situation: “Everyone knows that Klal Yisroel is in great danger today.

Antisemitic hate in the United States has reached a new peak, with 2024 marking the highest number of reported incidents ever recorded, according to a disturbing new report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The watchdog documented 9,354 cases of harassment, vandalism, and assault — a 5% rise from the previous year’s record, and the most since the organization began tracking in 1979. That staggering figure translates to more than one antisemitic incident every hour, every day. New York and California led in reported cases, but all 50 states saw incidents. Most troubling is the surge in physical assaults, up 21% to 196 incidents targeting at least 250 individuals — nearly a third of them Orthodox Jews. Vandalism spiked 39%, and bomb threats against Jewish institutions numbered 647.

At a climate-focused event in San Francisco on Monday, former Vice President Al Gore delivered a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump’s administration, drawing comparisons to Nazi Germany and issuing warnings about the dangers of political manipulation and unchecked power.
Speaking at the opening of Climate Week in San Francisco, Gore accused the Trump administration of shaping a distorted version of reality to serve its agenda, likening the strategy to the tactics employed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime during the 1930s and 1940s.

A massive explosion has hit Russia’s 51st GRAU arsenal in Vladimir Oblast, a facility believed to store over 100,000 tons of munitions, including artillery shells, rockets, and missiles.

Qatari and Egyptian mediators have proposed a new ceasefire framework to Hamas that includes a long-term truce, the release of all Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian security prisoners, and a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the BBC reported Monday, citing a senior Palestinian source familiar with the negotiations. The reported plan envisions a five- to seven-year truce and the creation of a new governing authority in Gaza, which could replace Hamas. According to the BBC, Hamas has signaled a willingness to hand over control to another Palestinian body, provided it gains approval at both the national and regional levels. There has been no confirmation or comment on the proposal from the Israeli government.

Swiss pharmaceuticals powerhouse Roche announced Monday it plans to invest $50 billion in the United States over the next five years, creating 12,000 jobs. The Basel-based company, whose array of products includes cancer medicines and multiple sclerosis treatment Ocrevus, said the investment would go toward high-tech research and development sites and new manufacturing facilities in places including California, Indiana, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The announcement comes as U.S. President Donald Trump has urged foreign businesses to invest more in the United States, and announced sweeping tariffs earlier this month on imports as part of hopes to reduce a large U.S. trade deficit when it comes to sales of goods.

Dramatic footage captures an IDF drone strike that killed Hezbollah terrorist Ali Qaid Hashem in southern Lebanon. The terrorist escaped the first missile; the second one obliterated him.

During overnight operations in East Jerusalem Palestinian town of A-Ram, the IDF says it demolished the home of a terrorist who carried out a deadly car-ramming attack outside a military base in central Israel in July.

A camel seen heading to Shacharis this morning in Rosh Ha’ayin. It wasn’t immediately clear where it came from.

Vice President JD Vance announces that the United States and India have officially agreed on the terms to begin trade negotiations.

An Israeli air strike near the Beirut area has reportedly eliminated Sheikh Hussein Atawi, a senior terrorist linked to both Hamas and Hezbollah.

Sec. Of Defense Pete Hegseth responds to latest allegations of sharing war plans on signal: “This is what it’s all about — trying to get at President Trump and his agenda.”

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirms for the first time this morning to Fox News that the three senior staffers fired last week from the Pentagon, Dan Caldwell, Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll; were fired for accusations of leaking classified information.

Some 40 construction vehicles in the Gaza Strip, which the IDF says were used by Hamas for terror activities, were destroyed in airstrikes overnight and this morning.

Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said in an interview with Newsmax on Monday that Harvard’s new lawsuit is likely a strategic move intended to pressure the Trump administration into negotiations, and warned that the university stands little chance of prevailing if the case reaches the Supreme Court.
Harvard filed the legal action in an effort to stop a federal decision freezing more than $2.2 billion in grant money. Speaking on The Record With Greta Van Susteren, Dershowitz explained that the government isn’t legally obligated to provide such funding to any academic institution.

According to new demographic research from the Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the global community is expected to lose 70% of its Holocaust survivors within the next decade, and 90% over the next 15 years. The findings will be unveiled at a major conference scheduled for Tuesday.
The report, titled Vanishing Witnesses: An Urgent Analysis of the Declining Population of Holocaust Survivors, estimates that by the year 2040, the number of survivors worldwide will dwindle to approximately 21,300.

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