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A guard said no renewals have been issued in six months.
The Israeli embassy is in contact with French authorities, Ynet reports.
Almost all Jewish families in France are discussing the possibility of moving to Israel due to the terrible antisemitism they have been experiencing and the lack of a firm response from the authorities, a leading Jewish communal figure told Ynet on Sunday.
Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) Executive Director Robert Ejnes blamed the Swords of Iron war for the sharp deterioration in the Jewish community’s sense of safety.
“There is a very strong rise in antisemitism since October 7 [2023],” Ejnes said. “The extreme left has made Gaza a major political argument in their campaigns. And they’re really pushing for the hate of Israel — and by the way, the hate of the Jews.”
AOL, the company previously known formally as America Online, is discontinuing its Dial-up internet service after 34 years.
The service will shutter on September 30, meaning "the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued," the web service provider said on its website.
"We are discontinuing the dial-up internet service component included in certain legacy AOL Advantage, CompuServe, and Netscape Connect Plans as we innovate to meet the needs of today’s digital landscape," a spokesperson for Yahoo – which counts AOL among its brands – said in a statement to FOX Business.
"This change does not impact the numerous other valued products and services that these subscribers are able to access and enjoy as part of their plans. There is also no impact to our users’ free AOL email accounts," the statement continued.
According to Yahoo, very few customers were still using the dial-up service, as broadband connections have become the norm.
The company said AOL still maintains a strong customer base with traffic growing from year to year.
A Sunday reminder that UK Muslims are 6.5% of our population but are responsible for:
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) August 10, 2025
97% of terror deaths since 2000
90% on MI5's terror watch list
75% of terror threats
84% of child gang rapes
18% of prisoners
6000 FGMs a year
1.5x birth defect rate
48.6% of 16-64 not employed… pic.twitter.com/nd1sXV5hd4
According to Australian news outlet News.com.au, Leifer, 58, has been “sent to solitary confinement at the facility in Melbourne’s north over an alleged incident involving a younger inmate” that was caught on the prison’s cameras.
After allegations arose of Leifer raping female students while serving as principal of the Adass Israel School in Melbourne, she fled to Israel in 2008. She was ultimately extradited to Australia in 2021 and, two years later, convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexual abuse.
The alleged victim is said to be an Aboriginal woman in her 20s, the Australian outlet reported, and the misconduct in the prison occurred in late July in a unit where inmates are placed for their own protection. She will now be confined alone for nearly the entire day.
In response to an inquiry from News.com.au, an Australian Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment on Leifer specifically but said, “All allegations of sexual assault or violence in Victorian prisons are referred to Victoria Police for investigation.”
In 2023, Leifer was found guilty on 18 of 27 charges of sex abuse against sisters Dassi Erlich and Elly Sapper. A jury acquitted Leifer of sexually assaulting a third sister, Nicole Meyer. The most serious convictions were for six counts of rape, each carrying a potential maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.
The charges spanned from 2004 to 2007 when Leifer was in charge of the Adass Israel School and the two sisters were teenagers. The school is part of a Jewish community on the outskirts of Melbourne.
Australian police filed charges against her in 2012 and requested her extradition from Israel two years later, sparking a lengthy legal saga.
Leifer claimed that crippling depression had left her catatonic and that she was mentally incapable of standing trial.
The extradition process was suspended until a private investigator secretly filmed Leifer going about her daily chores, apparently uninhibited by the mental illnesses she claimed.
“I guess part of me always wanted to believe there was some remorse, some understanding of her wrongdoing,” Sapper told News.com.au upon the news of Leifer’s alleged misconduct in prison. “Obviously that belief has diminished now, but mostly, I feel defeated and helpless at the knowledge there will be many other young vulnerable girls in the future that she will groom and take advantage of.”
Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett condemned Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri, who told young haredi students last week not to enlist in the IDF, and said that his remarks harm the soldiers' morale.
Speaking to IDF reservists, Bennett stated, "What did Deri say here? Don't be tempted to lend a hand to your brothers in the Armoured Corps who are being burned, don't be tenpted to lend a hand to your brothers in Yahalom who are going into tunnels, don't be tempted to lend a hand to bereaved families who lost their sons in this war, don't be tempted to work to get hostages out, don't be tempted to help your brothers."
The former Prime Minister added, "How can this person be in the War Cabinet? How does this government dare? This abhorrent government dares to send us and give us commands. It's like a knife in the heart to hear this."
In remarks revealed last week by journalist Ari Kalman on i24NEWS, Deri told students at the Shaar HaMelech Yeshiva: "God forbid, let no one here — especially in such a time when the Jewish people are in a state of war, may God protect us — think that maybe we need to reconsider, perhaps we should do something else, perhaps we should contribute, heaven forbid.
Deri then clarified his stance on the role of yeshiva students, saying, "It is you, the Torah learners, who bear the burden."
Senior Religious Zionist Gedoilim sent a letter to the Prime Minister and Cabinet ministers in light of the ongoing war in the south.
In their letter, they emphasized that victory in the war against Hamas is not limited to harming terrorist capabilities and freeing the hostages held by Gaza terror groups. Instead, they stressed, victory must be substantive and long-term — complete occupation of Gaza, promoting the enemy's emigration, and renewing Jewish settlement in every part of Gaza.
According to them, the Gaza Strip is an inseparable part of the Land of Israel, with an ancient Jewish history, and relinquishing it would be a "moral, security, and national catastrophe." The rabbis noted that "only a full return to it will restore spirit and justice to the Jewish people."
The letter stressed that students and soldiers have approached the rabbis, asking them to act to push decision-makers to ensure that the fighting leads to a clear goal, and not to a situation where "we return again and again to capture lands we’ve already captured just to give them back to the enemy."
They added, "So long as Hamas or any hostile force remains on our borders, Israel has no real deterrence."
The Gedoilim called for a change in the political outlook towards Gaza, to begin settling the northern perimeter area, and to instruct the IDF to fully conquer all of Gaza. They concluded their appeal with a call to the Prime Minister and Cabinet to "state a clear truth: Victory in this war will only be achieved when the Jewish people return to Gaza, not as visitors but as owners, with security and faith."
Among the Gedoilim who signed:
Rabbi Dov Lior, Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi Oury Cherki, Rabbi David Hai Cohen, Rabbi Noam Waldman, Rabbi Menachem Borenstein, Rabbi Elishama Cohen, Rabbi Dovid Fendel, Rabbi David Turgeman, Rabbi Abraham Yitzhak Schwartz, Rabbi Hagay Lundin, Rabbi Dror Twil, Rabbi Ariel Bareli, Rabbi David Dudkewitz, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, Rabbi Dror Aryeh, and Rabbi Uziyahu Sharbaf.
