Will Bashar al-Assad be extradited to Syria?

After 14 years of bloodshed, tears, mass graves, and detention centers, the official legal process began today with the trial of Bashar Hafez al-Assad and several figures from the former regime in Damascus.

The main charges relate to the Syrian people, including:

1. Murder  

2. Torture  

3. Arbitrary arrests  

4. Extortion  

5. Drug trafficking  

6. Atrocities committed during the suppression of protests  

Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia after the fall of Damascus in December 2014, following the capture of the city by forces led by Ahmed al-Sharaa in an operation called “Deterrence of Aggression.”

The next hearing is scheduled for May 10, 2016.

Despite calls for his extradition, the practical possibility remains highly complex under current circumstances due to his  refuge in Russia, the lack of an extradition agreement between Syria and Russia, and certain political considerations.

Song of Menachos !

 

Statue Of Ramesses II Moshe Rabbeinu's Step-Father— Unearthed In Egypt

 Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a statue of Ramesses II — the Pharaoh most widely identified as the Pharaoh of Yetzias Mitzrayim — at the Tel Faraon archaeological site near El Husseiniya in the Nile Delta, Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Ministry announced.

The statue is incomplete, missing both its legs and base, yet remains an imposing find. According to initial assessments by Hisham el-Leithy, Secretary-General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, the statue weighs approximately five to six tons and stands roughly 2.20 meters — just over seven feet — tall. Even in its damaged state, the remaining features display what el-Leithy described as “artistic and royal features,” suggesting the statue was once part of a larger sculptural grouping known as a Triad, similar to ones previously uncovered across the Sharqia Governorate.

Tel Faraon — known in antiquity as the city of Imet, the ancient capital of the 19th Nome of Lower Egypt — is located south of Tanis along the Nile Delta. Archaeologists believe the statue was originally transported from Pi-Ramesses, the capital of Egypt’s 19th dynasty, to Imet, where it was repurposed for use in a local temple. El-Leithy said the discovery “sheds light on aspects of religious and royal activity in the eastern Delta region” and helps historians better understand how royal statues were transferred and reused during the New Kingdom period.

Mohamed Abdel Badie, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities’ Egyptian Antiquities Sector, said the find reflects the “religious and historical significance of the site across different eras.” The statue has since been transferred to a museum storage facility in the San Al-Hajar area for preservation and further study.

The discovery adds to a string of remarkable finds at Tel Faraon. In September 2025, archaeologists at the same site uncovered a sandstone stele bearing a complete hieroglyphic text of the Canopus Decree — a document issued by Egyptian priests in 238 BCE during the reign of Ptolemy III. The decree addressed matters of military affairs, grain distribution during drought, tax relief, and religious festivals. Notably, it proposed adding an extra day to the calendar every four years — foreshadowing what would later become the Julian calendar. Ministry officials called that find a discovery that “opens new horizons for understanding the ancient Egyptian language.”

Large Meron Lag BaOmer Celebrations Cancelled

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the cancellation of this year’s large-scale Lag BaOmer celebrations at Mount Meron, limiting the annual Hillula of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai to a symbolic format only, Israeli officials said Sunday

The decision was driven by security concerns over the fragile ceasefire with Lebanon and the site’s proximity to the border with Hezbollah strongholds. Officials cited the risk of rocket fire into the area and the challenges of evacuating large crowds in the event of an attack.

Netanyahu’s directive comes as government ministries involved in organizing the event have been instructed to freeze preparations for a mass gathering, according to reports. The hillula, which typically draws hundreds of thousands of participants to the tomb of the second-century sage in northern Israel, has been a focal point of Lag BaOmer observances for generations.

“Fear of an event with many victims due to the fragility of the ceasefire with Lebanon,” the prime minister’s office indicated as the background for the order. The site’s location near the Lebanese border, combined with the potential for rocket attacks and difficulties in timely large-scale evacuation, factored into the assessment.

The move aligns with broader security evaluations amid ongoing tensions in the north, even as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire extension between Israel and Lebanon remains in effect. Police have been directed to prevent pilgrims from arriving at the site, officials said.

No immediate comment was available from organizers or religious leaders on the scaled-back plans. In past years, the Meron celebrations have drawn massive crowds, though a deadly crowd crush in 2021 that killed 45 people led to heightened safety scrutiny.

Chashmonaim Soldier Attacked On Shabbat In Beit Shemesh By Chareidim

 A shocking incident took place on Friday night in Beit Shemesh. Yosef Rosenberger, a charedi soldier serving in the Hashmonaim Brigade, was violently attacked by dozens of Breslov Hasidim who came to his home.

Friends of Yosef arrived at the scene to try and defend him and were also assaulted. One of them lost his two front teeth. The attackers reportedly threatened: “We will burn your house with your children.”

The incident lasted several long minutes, during which the extremists threatened Yosef that they would return and that he would not be able to continue living in the neighborhood, neither him nor his children. The victim is now filing a complaint with the Beit Shemesh police.

The incident began at the entrance to the building where he lives. When he arrived there, he was met with insults because he had enlisted in the army and had been involved in organizing activities for Independence Day in the neighborhood. The soldier was singled out by the extremists, who later came to his home. Dozens of youths threatened him and began clashing with him and with a group of synagogue worshippers who arrived at the scene and defended him.

Residents in the neighborhood testified that the attackers were a group of baalei teshuva who had recently established a yeshiva inside a residential building. “A group that isn’t connected to the city came here,” they told Ynet.

“They intimidate passersby. They’ve decided they are responsible for enforcing modesty in the neighborhood and ‘guarding’ against things they don’t like, including attacking a woman who was walking with her children because of a dispute with her husband. They don’t belong to Beit Shemesh; they should establish their yeshiva in another city,” residents said.

According to a report by Channel 13 reporter Yoeli Brim, this reflects a worsening trend of extremist groups within Haredi society asserting control in the streets, alongside what is described as a resounding silence from Haredi public officials, who themselves are reportedly afraid.

Part Two of Mizrachi the "Holocaust Denier's" Lies against the Jews Living in Israel

 

PART ONE I posted on April 23!!!!

First before you continue reading it's important to know that this menuval that calls himself Yossi Mizrachi is a Holocaust denier! 

In December 2015, Yossi Mizrachi said the following: 

“In every place, we have become used to hearing that six million Jews were murdered… But the truth, I am telling you, is that not even one million Jews were murdered."

This statement places him even beyond the claims made by Mahmoud Abbas, whose doctoral thesis argued—based on his own disputed “research”—that the number of Jewish victims was around two million.

Let that sink in: Abbas claimed two million; Mizrachi goes further and asserts that even that number is exaggerated, insisting it was only one million.

Anyone who wants to understand the historical record can visit Yad Vashem, where more than five million Jewish victims have been documented and identified by name. These records include parents’ names and family details, establishing clear genealogies. And even this number is incomplete, because entire families and communities were wiped out with no survivors left to record their names.

Nude Jewish Women moments before being shot

Some years ago he posted a  YOUTUBE video  in which he claimed that “secular Jewish women posed nude for Nazi murderers.”

This accusation is deeply disturbing. It shows a complete lack of compassion for victims who were humiliated and terrorized, and it ignores the historical reality that the Nazis forced people to undress before killing them. To suggest that Jewish women—many holding infants—“posed” willingly is not only false but profoundly disrespectful to their memory.

Going back to his recent video 

At the 8:08 mark, the he asks

 "What kind of independence is that, when you have missiles falling on your head from Lebanon from Gaza from Iran, half of the world hates you, they want to see you dead, and they are still celebrating Independence Day! That's delusional people! "

Instead of appreciating the strength and resilience of Jews in Israel — people who, despite war and danger, still find the courage to celebrate their national identity — he chooses to mock them. Rather than showing empathy for his own relatives and fellow Jews living under threat, he responds with coldness and derision.

At the 8:43 mark, he says:

 "They made a survey (while laughing like a hyena) I can't believe that, ...that 90% of Israelis are satisfied of their situation, they are happy of their life. I don't understand that almost everyone is divorced, almost 80% have negative balances in their bank accounts, 80% are mentally destroyed from this two-half year war, they live on pills, they cannot afford psychiatrists so they pop pills for depression, traffic, terrorism, baseless hatred, cultural wars between religious and not religious...yet they are happy of their situation! They cannot anymore tell the difference between good and bad! "

 This is astonishing. He speaks negatively about Jews living in Israel and then supports his claims with invented “statistics.”

He cannot accept that, even during war, "90% of Israelis report satisfaction with their lives "— something that reflects resilience, not delusion. And he certainly does not mention the thousands of Israelis who were abroad when the war broke out and were desperate to return home. Only Jews would rush back to a country under attack because it is their home.

But someone who denies the Holocaust and consistently belittles Israelis cannot understand that deep love and commitment.

So let's look at his statistics .... 

Mizrachi: "Almost everyone is divorced"

Facts: In Israel, the lifetime chance of a marriage ending in a divorce is 26% whereas in the US, where Mizrachi "the pligasher" lives, there is a 40-50% chance for a first marriage to end in divorce.

Mizrachi:  "80% have negative balances in their bank accounts"

Facts: 39% of Israeli adults have overdrawn bank accounts, now that is still a lot, but this number of 39% includes Charedim that do not work, that produce zero GNP and remember that this 39% was taken at a time of war, when many are serving in the reserves! 

 In the US 28% of adults and households paid an overdraft fee, with no war!

Mizrachi: "80% are mentally destroyed from this two-half year war,"

Facts: 32% of Israelis said they needed specialized mental health support according to the most recent Maccabi Healthcare Services report! 

In the US 23.4% of Americans experienced mental illness in 2022 and 2023 and this in a country where its mainland has not been attacked by war.

At the 10:53 mark he says 

"that there is nothing Jewish about the Jews living in Israel, they have long hair, tattoos everywhere, earrings everywhere, ponytails, eating everything that moves.. nothing Jewish about them, zero connection to Hashem, so many drug addicts" 

So let me first address his statement about Israel "having many drug addicts"

In the USA 48 million people, roughly about 17% of adults are drug addicts as opposed to Israel that has about 14% that faced some kind of addiction, but that figure of 14% also includes prescription and behavioral addictions. 

Next let me address his statement denigrating Israelis, on how they dress or their appearances. What he describes one can find primarily in Tel Aviv and many are foreigners, I live in Israel and travel all over, and seldom find what he described; I find this statement disgusting and despicable!

This week's parsha Kedoishim we read the dictum ואהבת לרעך כמך, Rebbe Akiva states that this statement of the Torah is כלל גדול בתורה!

I was always wondering about R' Akiva's statement, I would think that .........כלל גדול בתורה would be ואהבת  את ה' אלוקך ? I would think that loving Hashem would be on a higher plane than loving your friend?

After listening to this menuval, I have my answer! 

It is a lot easier to love Hashem than your fellow Jew!  He does not compete with us, He does not trigger our jealousy, and our relationship with Him is built on gratitude.

Loving another Jew, however, is far more challenging. We judge each other. We resent differences. We look down on those who do not resemble us.

That is why loving one’s fellow is the greater test — and the greater commandment.

Mizrachi the unmitigated liar failed that test miserably!

Chazal state: מי שפוסל במימו פוסל ..... "he who finds fault in another Jew, is reflecting his own faults" ..... Mizrachi sees Jews living in Israel as "non-Jews" and that is because his own heart is contaminated and sick beyond repair!

 Mizrachi should be very careful how he speaks about that "pony-tailed, tattooed, drug-addicted Jew, because that Jew lives in Erez Yisrael, and even Yaakov Aveenu feared Eisav, because, as Rashi points out, Eisav lived in Eretz Yisrael and he Yaakov lived in Chutz Le'aartz! 

We are only 10 minutes into his 2 hour orgy of hate against the Jewish people living in Israel, and I already wrote two parts .... More to come! 

Part One of my response had over 15,000 views! 

Gunman at White House Correspondents’ Dinner identified as California teacher

 The gunman who opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night has been identified as Cole Allen of Torrance, Calif. — with President Trump calling him a likely “lone wolf whack job” who “looked pretty evil.”

The 31-year-old, identified by federal law enforcement sources, was arrested after allegedly entering the Washington Hilton hotel and charging toward the ballroom where Trump and roughly 2,500 guests had assembled.

The gunfire broke out near the event’s indoor security screening area just after 8:30 p.m. — as salad was being served. The Secret Service rushed Trump out of the room as members of his cabinet ducked under tables before they too were evacuated.

A LinkedIn profile matching his name and photo described him as a teacher at C2 Education, a tutoring and test prep company. C2 awarded him the “teacher of the month” in December 2024, according to social media posts

Allen graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, according to the LinkedIn profile.

A spokeswoman for Caltech told the New York Times that a person named Cole Allen had earned an undergraduate degree in 2017, but the school did not have any further information immediately available.

The New York Times has some serious explaining to do

 There are editorial decisions that make you scratch your head. And then there are decisions so staggering in their moral recklessness that they demand a public accounting. 

The New York Times' choice to publish an op-ed on April 23, 2026 by University of California, Berkeley history professor Ussama Makdisi - positioning him as a credible, sober commentator on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - falls firmly, irredeemably, in the second category.

This is not a close call. 

This is not a matter of reasonable people disagreeing about which voices belong in the public square. This is the Times conferring the prestige of its op-ed page - the most coveted platform in American journalism - on a man whose public record on this subject is not merely controversial, but morally indefensible. The editors who authorized this piece owe their readers an apology.

Supreme Court - that was never elected -increasingly treat democratic choice itself as a dangerous force to be contained by a permanent enlightened class. And the outrage is growing

 The hearing is over. The threats were not carried out in full. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was not thrown out of office as Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara wished despite it not being within her purview. But anyone tempted to breathe even half a sigh of relief has missed the deeper scandal.

Israel’s High Court of Justice has now made unmistakably clear that it sees itself as entitled to sit in judgment not only over laws, regulations and administrative procedures, but over the composition, direction and practical freedom of an elected government. 

The court may have stopped short, for now, of ordering Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire Ben-Gvir. Yet it still moved to narrow the minister’s operational latitude and pushed for a renewed arrangement, brokered through the attorney general, to limit his involvement in "sensitive" policing matters, appointments and law-enforcement decision-making.

That is not restraint in the ordinary democratic sense. It is the tyranny of judicial rule strategically advancing by increments.

“On October 7, SETTLERS came to save us"...Ein HaShlosha resident says

 Meirav Cohen from Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha thanked Bezalel Talia from Talia Farm in the southern Hebron Hills for saving her life on October 7.

On the program Not What You Thought on Keshet 12, Cohen turned to Bezalel and told him, 

“Thank you. You saved my life." He responded in surprise, “Me?" and she answered, “I’m from Ein HaShlosha." Bezalel modestly replied: “There were many others there. I was only part of it."

Later, Cohen recounted:

 “On October 7, the terrorists stood beneath my safe room and shouted. They terrified us - we saw death. Bezalel came to save us when there was no army. Masses of people from the settlements came to save us. I have tears in my eyes. This is a person who is the most different from me in the world, from a religious family, a true right-winger. It only shows how much we and they are the same. In the end, we are people who care deeply about this country."