The "Malach" Who Averted a catastrophic Bus Bombing: ‘I Was a Messenger of God’

 When 26-year-old Adi Jegna first noticed the white bag on one of the seats at the back of her city bus in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam on the way home from work Thursday evening, something didn’t feel right. So she got up and took a closer look.

Inside the bag, she saw rolls of toilet paper, and a container with some yellowish liquid.

“Frankly speaking I debated whether I should say anything,” she recounted to JNS on Sunday.

However, Jegna moved the bag a bit and saw some lettering in Arabic. “Then I understood I could not ignore it,” she said.

Still worried she was overreacting, she walked up to the bus driver as her stop was approaching and told him that there was a suspicious bag towards the back of the bus, before getting off. Though the bus was almost at the end of its route, there were still some other passengers aboard.

The driver immediately contacted his superiors, who instructed him to head straight to the nearby bus depot while the police bomb squad was alerted. No sooner had he gotten off the bus himself than a huge explosion ripped through it.

Jegna heard the blast from her home, but didn’t immediately connect it to her warning. It was only when a friend texted her that there had been a bus bombing and that someone had alerted the driver to a suspicious object, that she realized.

“I felt incredible,” she told JNS. “I felt that I was the messenger from God to save many people.”

Soon, the enormity of the thwarted attack became clear: Two additional blasts went off prematurely on other city buses— both empty—one in Bat Yam and one in the nearby city of Holon. Security forces subsequently found that an additional bus had been rigged with explosives.

One of the bombs reportedly bore an Arabic message referencing the Palestinian city of Tulkarem which, along with Jenin, has been a hotbed of terrorism. Israeli forces have been carrying out a comprehensive counter-terrorism operation in the area where the two cities are located, for weeks.

Bus explosion Bat Yam Firefighters at the scene of a bus bombing in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, Feb. 20, 2025. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
For older Israelis, the images of the demolished bus just south of Tel Aviv brought back memories of the lethal bus bombings of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

While Jegna is too young to remember that time, she has given Israelis a poignant reminder of the importance of speaking out when they see something amiss.

“When I saw the pictures of my destroyed bus, I realized the extent of the disaster that was averted,” she said. “Really thank God I was a good messenger.”

As word spread of her action, Israelis heaped praise on the young woman for her alertness and quick thinking, but while Jegna is appreciative of the thanks, she insists she is no hero and just encourages everyone to be alert.

As to her future commutes, Jegna is still riding the buses, including this week.

“I have no other choice as I go to work,” she said. “I’m simply more careful.”

How Biden fueled a 200% surge in antisemitism

 

By  Liel Leibovitz (Israel Hayom)

It will be the policy of the United States to fight antisemitism vigorously and to use all legal means at our disposal to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold accountable those who commit unlawful acts of harassment and violence motivated by antisemitism.

This unequivocal declaration comes from President Donald Trump’s executive order issued earlier this month. The order gives all federal agencies exactly 60 days to propose new and muscular ways to eradicate the meteoric rise in antisemitism in the US. In the year and a half since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, the number of antisemitic incidents in the US, according to Anti-Defamation League data, has surged by over 200%, with more than 10,000 cases of harassment, threats, vandalism and outright violence against Jews. Of these, over 2,000 incidents occurred on university campuses – an increase of nearly 500%.

To understand why Trump’s executive order is so important, and what exactly it can do, we must first understand the reality that preceded the election of the 47th president, namely Joe Biden’s years in the White House.

Convicted Criminal Olmert Was Prepared to Give Palestinians 94% of Judea and Samaria

 

Former Prime Minister and convicted criminal Ehud Olmert leaving Maasiyahu Prison. July 11, 2016

A BBC documentary reveals for the first time the map for a two-state solution that former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert said he presented to PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas in 2008.

The Palestinian Authority leader rejected the peace proposal, which would have ceded more than 94% of Judea and Samaria for a “Palestinian” state, with Israel annexing 4.9% of the area to retain the areas of major Israeli communities. In exchange, Israel would cede equivalent territory adjacent to Judea and Samaria and Gaza. The two parts of the “Palestinian” state would be connected via a tunnel or highway.

Tory Leader Accuses BBC of Funneling Money to Hamas

 

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has demanded to know whether license-fee funds were directed to Hamas terrorists during the production of a contentious BBC documentary, The Daily Mail reported on Sunday. The MP criticized BBC director-general Tim Davie over the BBC2 film aired last week, which was narrated by the teenage son of a Hamas official (UK Culture Secretary Demands BBC Explain Airing Hamas Propaganda).

In a strongly worded letter obtained by the Daily Mail, Badenoch called for an investigation into any “potential collusion with Hamas” and the “possibility of payments” to terrorists.

The BBC was forced to apologize after it was revealed that Abdullah—the child narrator of “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone”—is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture.

James Carville who predicted a day before the election that Kamala would win by the greatest landslide in history now predicts Trump, GOP are in ‘midst of a collapse’ — and gives them 4 to 6 weeks to fully implode

 

Renowned Democratic strategist James Carville has delivered a stunning prediction that the Trump administration is in the “midst of a collapse” and will crumble within four to six weeks.

Carville, 80, on Friday urged his fellow Democrats to play “possum,” stay out of the way and let Republicans implode as President Trump plows ahead with his dramatic overhaul of the federal government.

“What I have said very publicly is that Democrats need to play possum. This whole thing is collapsing,” Carville mused to Mediaite founder Dan Abrams.

The elderly Dem guru was the top strategist in Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign, when Democrats soared back into the White House after 12 years of Republican rule.

His wild prediction comes mere months after Trump became the first Republican to win the popular vote in a presidential election in two decades, making gains in more than 90% of US counties.

Carville, who confidently proclaimed in October he was “certain Kamala Harris will win” and wrote a book in 2009 about how Dems would be the dominant party over the next 40 years, decried progressive hardliners who have a knack for being noisy.

“These people were just useless,” he moaned about certain progressive activist groups during the last election cycle. “They’re actually worse than useless, they’re detrimental. And they never, ever learn to shut up.

“I believe that this administration, in less than 30 days, is in the midst of a massive collapse and particularly a collapse in public opinion.”

Citing polling data, Carville argued that Trump’s approval rating has been taking a nosedive and that within a matter of weeks, Republicans will be almost completely hobbled in Congress.

That prediction comes against the backdrop of protests against GOP lawmakers such as Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) during town hall and other events last week.

Historically, there had been similar occurrences in past off-election years such 2017 and 2010 that served as a harbinger of the minority retaking the House of Representatives in the midterm elections.

Trump, 78, has undertaken a blitz of executive actions over his first month in office and tapped Department of Government Efficiency boss Elon Musk to pursue cuts and other reforms of the federal bureaucracy.

Those actions have alienated government workers and their unions but have generally been met with much fanfare by conservatives.

Carville also suggested that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will struggle to get Republicans on board for Trump’s marquee agenda package, which has already proven to be very challenging given the party’s threadbare majority in the House.

“It’s going to be easy pickings here in six weeks,” Carville added, addressing Democrats. “Just lay back.

“We’re in the middle of a collapse. It’s over.”

Democratic leadership in Congress has been attempting to train their focus on working-class issues. But that cautious approach has drawn groans from progressives who feel that leadership has been going soft on Trump as he barrels ahead with a more ambitious agenda than his first term.

Adding to the woes, progressives have been struggling to mobilize the mass protests they drew eight years ago during the Trump administration, fueling concerns that the base is in despair.

Don’t expect Trump to blink at Iran's escalating provocations

 As the first phase of the Israel-Hamas cease-fire ends, Iran and its pawns are escalating their offenses in a clear test not only of Jerusalem’s will, but Washington’s.

• Last Friday morning, only technical glitches stopped bombs from going off on rush-hour Israeli buses: Hundreds might’ve died. Israeli security is still investigating but believes this was an Iranian plan executed by Hamas terrorists based in the West Bank.

• Over the weekend, the Houthis launched surface-to-air missiles at an American F-16 over the Red Sea, a first that the US military calls a significant escalation over the Yemen-based terror group’s repeated attacks on US warships in recent months.

• Hamas’ release of the bodies of tiny Kfir and little Ariel Bibas allowed Israeli doctors to determine the two tots had been strangled to death roughly a month after the terrorists seized them on Oct. 7, 2023, falsifying Hamas’ claims that they’d died in Israeli bombings.

The belated release of the remains of their mom Shiri —  after the calculated insult of turning over the wrong body —  also showed that Hamas had lied about her death as well.

On top of the ever-more-grotesque celebrations Hamas has made of every hostage release, this is all-out psychological warfare on the Israeli public —  and an obvious bid to turn the cease-fire’s second-round talks into a total impasse.

Since the Trump team pushed hard for this cease-fire, Iran and its proxies are plainly testing the new president: How much will he ask Israel to swallow —  how much pain, how many terror attacks —  in his quest for peace?

How closely will he hew to the Biden policy of pampering the Houthis?

Team Trump is talking tough on Iran and its terror proxies; Tehran is daring it to actually do something about it, clearly hoping Washington will blink.

But this administration knows these enemies will only keep upping the ante if neither Israel nor America responds.

For all President Trump has on his plate just now, we doubt turning a blind eye is on his list of options.

Just like in the times of "Yerovom ben Navot" Security forces recommend restricting access to Har Habyit

 

After the demise of Shlomo Hamelech, there was a civil war in Klall Yisrael and the nation split, Rechavim, son of Shlomo Hamelech reigned over two and half shevatim and the Aseres Hashvatim were under the leadership of Yeravam ben Navot! Yeravom at first was a nice guy, in fact, the gemmarah calls him an "Adom Gadol", the gemmarah in Sanhedrin 102 states:

תורתו של ירבעם לא היה בה שום דופי    "The Torah from Yerovom had no defect!"

Can you imagine? ....very difficult to digest this, but what was his biggest sin? 

He stopped his citizens from going up to be "Oleh Regel" I know that there are Gedoilim that prohibit Jews from going up to the Har Habayis, but there are many Gedoilim that say that it is a mitzvah in the here and now! 

I don't want to really get into this now but there was a Chashiver Rav, also an Adom Gadol, in the States, that didn't even let his followers go to the Kotel! 

If there are Jews that have a Rav that permits them to go up to the Har Habayit then כל הכבוד ! 

 I know I'm going to get a million e-mails bringing me proof from Rabbanim, even the Psak of Harav Kook z"l that prohibited it, and I have explanations to all of that, but now is not the place to discuss it. But I find it interesting, that suddenly those who mamash curse Rav Kook z"l, suddenly bring him as proof if it follows their agenda!

Just last week Rav Landau in a rant dismissed Rav Kook, as if he was a piece of garbage רחמנה לצלן ! I plan to dedicate a post on what he said! 

Ironically the Chareidim against going up to the Har Habayis are now on the same page as the Zionist Government and the Arabs!

Security agencies will recommend that the government limit the number of worshipers who are permitted to visit the Temple Mount during the month of Ramadan, Channel 12 News reported on Sunday evening.

According to the report, the restriction will apply to men over the age of 55, women over the age of 50, and children under the age of 12.

In recent days, Defense Ministry, Israel Police, Shin Bet, IDF, and Prison Services have held discussions and formulated recommendations regarding the policy for visiting the Temple Mount during the month of Ramadan.

It was reported that the goal is to allow Muslim worshipers freedom of worship, in accordance with security restrictions.

This involves a slight change from last year's policy, but a significant change from the situation in previous years, which included a reduction in the ages of those permitted to visit the Temple Mount.

Israeli officials told Channel 12 News that "the explosiveness of the Ramadan holiday will depend mainly on the situation that develops in the Gaza Strip. If there is a ceasefire, they estimate that the situation will calm down, and if not, they will prepare with much larger forces for fear of escalation."

Be'er Sheva Mayor: 'Hide our Tefilin? What's wrong with us?'

 

Mayor of Be'er Sheva, Rubik Danilovich, responded with surprise and sorrow to requests to remove Tefilin stands from public areas.

The stands are a common sight in Israel, consisting of seveal pairs of Tefilin on a small table to allow any who need to do so to fulfill the daily commandment to don Tefilin. The stands frequently include prayer books and occasionally a charity box to donate to their upkeep. They are maintained most notably but not exclusively by the Chabad movement.

Mayor Danilovich related how a woman said "Mayor, you know there's Tefilin on the guard's table at the public school?' He replied, "So what?" The woman claimed "He's forcing the kids to wear Tefilin."

"I asked her: Excuse me, has Tefilin become something in the Jewish state that we need to hide? To conceal? It's absolutely fine if you are less religious and your lifestyle is secular, do you want me to order the school guard to hide the Tefilin?"

"There is no place to fear or shy away from Jewish symbols in a Jewish state. If a child wants to lay Tefilin, let him do it; what's happened to us? Why are we here in this Jewish state? What have we forgotten? You don't have to be a religious Jew, there's a certain value that connects all of us even if you're not a man who wears a kippah, do we want to be just another Western country without any common moral foundation among us? Judaism connects us all, a Jewish state first and foremost," he concluded.

in Germany Merz from the Conservative Party Claims Victory

 

Friedrich Merz, with the microphone, the candidate of the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union party, shakes hands with Markus Soeder, leader of CSU and Minister-President of Bavaria, at the party headquarters in Berlin, Germany,

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives were on course for a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while Alternative for Germany nearly doubled its support, the strongest showing for a far-right party since World War II, projections showed.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats after what he called “a bitter election result.” Projections for ARD and ZDF public television showed his party finishing in third place with its worst postwar result in a national parliamentary election.

Merz vowed to move quickly to put together a coalition government. But it wasn’t immediately clear how easy that would be.

The election took place seven months earlier than originally planned after Scholz’s unpopular coalition collapsed in November, three years into a term that was increasingly marred by infighting. There was widespread discontent and not much enthusiasm for any of the candidates.

The campaign was dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of Europe’s biggest economy and pressure to curb migration — something that caused friction after Merz pushed hard in recent weeks for a tougher approach. It took place against a background of growing uncertainty over the future of Ukraine and Europe’s alliance with the United States.

AfD’s candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel, said that “we have become the second-strongest force.” The party’s strongest previous showing was 12.6% in 2017, when it first entered the national parliament.

She said that her party is “open for coalition negotiations” with Merz’s party, and that “otherwise, no change of policy is possible in Germany.” But Merz has repeatedly and categorically ruled out working with AfD, as have other mainstream parties.

AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla told cheering supporters that “we have achieved something historic today.”

“We have gained 100%,” he said. “We are now the political center and we have left the fringes behind us.”

Scholz decried AfD’s success. He said that “that must never be something that we will accept. I will not accept it and never will.”

More than 59 million people in the nation of 84 million were eligible to elect the 630 members of the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, who will take their seats under the glass dome of Berlin’s landmark Reichstag building.

Judge Orders Anti-israel Protesters to Pay Rabbi $182,000 Over False Stalking Claim

 

Hazami Barmada (center) and Atefeh Rokhvand (right) protesting the Israel embassy

A judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled against two anti-Israel activists who sought a restraining order against a rabbi, ordering them to pay $182,000 in legal fees after their claims were deemed baseless.

The dispute began when Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld regularly prayed outside the Israeli embassy, where activists Hazami Barmada and Atefeh Rokhvand had been leading protests. They accused Herzfeld of stalking, but the judge found no evidence supporting their claims. Instead, video footage reportedly showed Herzfeld engaged in peaceful prayer while Barmada used a megaphone to taunt him.

Judge John McCabe determined that the activists’ legal action lacked merit and that Herzfeld’s presence at the location was protected under free speech laws. His ruling cited the District of Columbia’s anti-SLAPP statute, which protects individuals from lawsuits designed to suppress political expression.

Barmada and Rokhvand have been involved in high-profile demonstrations, including outside the residence of a U.S. government official. Court filings noted that their protests included disruptive tactics such as throwing red liquid at vehicles entering and leaving the premises.

The decision marks a significant legal setback for the activists, reinforcing protections for peaceful expression in public spaces. Herzfeld had also filed a separate civil lawsuit, alleging that protesters attempted to disrupt his prayers by using high-decibel sirens.