Thursday, July 30, 2026
Dramatic arrest: Lakewood and Toms River Chardeim Arrested for having $3 Million Worth of Drugs
Dramatic arrest:
Two ultra-Orthodox men from New Jersey were arrested by Pennsylvania police after drugs worth more than $3 million were found in their car.
The detainees are Yaakov Bitan, 19, of Lakewood, and Joseph Marchett, 32, of Toms River.
Man whose birth was declared a ‘miracle’ by Pope Leo XIV arrested for double shooting
A Rhode Island man — whose birth was recognized by Pope Leo as a miracle after he was deprived of oxygen for over an hour before recovering without medical intervention more than a decade ago — has been arrested in connection with a double shooting.
Tyquan Johnson, 19, was captured by the US Marshals fugitive task force at an apartment in Virginia Wednesday morning after he was wanted for allegedly shooting two people, the Newport Police Department announced.
Johnson is accused of committing the crime in Newport, RI on July 19 and allegedly fled to Virginia as officials issued a warrant for his arrest.
Both victims sustained non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Johnson has been charged with felony assault with a firearm and firing in a compact area, police said.
The arrest comes almost exactly a year after Pope Leo XIV declared Johnson’s 2007 birth the first miracle of his papacy and the first ever recognized miracle in Rhode Island, the Boston Globe reported.
The stunning connection came to light when law enforcement released his arrest warrant with Johnson’s photo, name and date of birth matching those of the man Pope Leo had recognized in July 2025.
Johnson was born prematurely on Jan. 14, 2007, at the former Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island in Pawtucket.
The newborn was suffering from oxygen deprivation and other symptoms that showed no improvement after 65 minutes, leaving doctors with little hope he would survive, according to the Diocese of Providence.
The attending physician, Juan Sanchez-Esteban, prayed to 19th-century Spanish priest Valera Parra for intervention in saving the child’s life, according to the Boston Globe.
Just as Sanchez-Esteban was about to deliver the devastating news to the child’s parents, a nurse stopped him and told him the child “suddenly recovered” and his heart had started beating without medical intervention, he told the outlet.
The doctor — who is from the same region of Spain where Parra was a priest — said the boy should have suffered permanent brain damage from the lack of oxygen, but instead lived a life completely free of any complications.
The investigation into the miracle began more than 10 years ago — with a bishop in Valera Parra’s native Spain sending investigators to Rhode Island in 2014, Father Timothy Reilly, Chancellor of the Diocese of Providence, told WJAR last year.
The Diocese of Providence announced that Pope Leo XIV declared Johnson’s recovery a miracle on July 18, 2025.
“The cool thing is, the more you think about the miracle itself, Father Valera lives in the 19th century,” Reilly said. “He never came to the US. We have no knowledge of him coming here. Never came to Rhode Island. And yet, because the doctor called out and called upon his name for help in the situation back in ’07 on behalf of that little baby, he decided to intervene and ask God for a miracle.”
Parra was a diocesan priest, archpriest and parish priest of Huércal-Overa who lived from 1816 to 1889.
Ben Gvir fires back at Eisenkot: Defeatist morality
A social media clash erupted between National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Gadi Eisenkot, chairman of the "Yashar!" party.
The spat began when Eisenkot posted a tweet featuring an interview clip alongside the caption: "There is no leadership there, no strength, and no Judaism."
Minister Ben Gvir was quick to respond, posting a reply tweet accompanied by an old video of Eisenkot from his tenure as Head of the IDF Operations Directorate.
In the footage, Eisenkot is seen describing how he halted an airstrike that could have led to the elimination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during the Second Lebanon War, citing concerns over potential civilian casualties near the target building.
In his rebuttal tweet, Ben Gvir wrote: "Gadi, here is a video where you boast about how, as Head of Operations, you prevented the elimination of Nasrallah in 2006 due to 'morality' considerations. That same 'morality' kept Nasrallah alive - and directly led to the murders of hundreds of northern residents and soldiers at the hands of Hezbollah."
"You tried to instill that same defeatist 'morality' during the current war as a Cabinet minister," Ben Gvir added. "Fortunately, you left, allowing us to eliminate Nasrallah - with immense strength."
Israel cracks down on Uman-bound draft evaders
The Population and Immigration Authority has recently changed its enforcement procedures at Ben Gurion International Airport, effectively preventing individuals subject to exit bans, including haredi draft evaders, from leaving Israel through the country's main international airport.
According to a Wednesday report by Galei Zahal (Army Radio), the move is intended to stop thousands of draft evaders from traveling to Uman ahead of Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year).
Until now, exit-ban checks were conducted only at passport control, after passengers had already completed check-in and reached the departure gates.
The method allowed them to bypass the control system and board their flights despite being subject to an exit ban.
Under the new procedure, the check is carried out during the check-in process. Passengers subject to an exit ban will be unable to complete their flight registration, and the airline will be notified immediately, effectively closing the loophole.
The Population and Immigration Authority said, "In recent months, the departure process has been streamlined. It was decided that anyone subject to an exit ban will be informed at the beginning of the departure process from Israel rather than at the end, enabling them to resolve the matter before proceeding."
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New Details Emerge Regarding Trump and Netanyahu’s Meeting
New details emerged about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Trump, in which the Israeli premier presented Trump with a map of Syria highlighting that Israel’s troop presence constitutes just 0.1% of the territory, compared to Turkey’s occupation of 5% of the country.
He also reiterated his opposition to the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey.
Herzl’s Grandparents Exhumed in Belgrade for Final Journey to Jerusalem
The remains of Shimon and Rivka Herzl, grandparents of Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl, were exhumed from the historic Jewish cemetery in Zemun, Belgrade, ahead of their transfer to Israel.
They will be laid to rest beside their grandson on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem during a state ceremony on August 5—exactly 77 years after Herzl’s own remains were brought from Vienna and reburied in the Jewish state he had envisioned. President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to attend.
Herzl’s grandfather was deeply influenced by Rabbi Judah Alkalai, an early advocate for the Jewish people’s national return to the Land of Israel. Those ideas helped shape the family environment that preceded Herzl’s creation of modern political Zionism.
More than a century later, another chapter of the Herzl family is finally coming home.
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
The "settler violence" libel
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| Israeli hikers before the terrorist attack on them July 24 |
by Melanie Philips
This is how murderous Arab attacks against Jewish residents in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, aka the “West Bank”, are being reframed as Jewish “settler violence” against Arabs by enemies of the Jewish people.
Last Friday morning, a group of Jewish hikers walked into the village of Tel in Area B, an area under joint Israeli-Palestinian Authority security control and where Israelis aren’t allowed to enter without prior co-ordination, not having been cleared by the IDF to do so.
According to accounts by Jewish community organizations and in the Israeli media, verified by video footage, they came under attack from Arabs throwing stones and swinging clubs, striking one hiker in the face. The hikers fired warning shots in the air and retreated towards Israeli-controlled Area C.
One hour later, dozens of Arabs converged upon them from three directions. IDF soldiers arrived, the Arabs started shooting but, according to the hikers, the Israeli soldiers refused to open fire. Video footage shows them hesitating in an attempt to de-escalate. Only when an Arab wrestled a rifle from a civilian guard and shot dead (warning: distressing footage) an IDF soldier and a civilian guard did the IDF troops open fire, killing four Arabs.
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