A woman was burned to death on an F train in Coney Island early Sunday morning after a man set her on fire by throwing a lit match onto her, police sources revealed to the NY Post.
NYPD officers responded to a fire at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station around 7:30 a.m., where they discovered the woman engulfed in flames while seated on the idling train. Emergency responders extinguished the fire, but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sources say the victim appeared to have been sleeping when the suspect, described as a man in his 20s, stood up, walked past her, and tossed the match. Liquor bottles were found near her, though investigators have not confirmed if they contributed to the blaze.
The suspect fled the station immediately after the attack, and police are continuing to search for him. Train service on the F line was suspended through Sunday afternoon as investigators processed the scene.
The shocking incident occurred just as Governor Kathy Hochul ramped up efforts to improve subway safety by deploying 250 additional National Guard troops, increasing the total force to 1,000 for the holiday season.
Despite claims of a 10% drop in transit crime, homicides on the subway have surged by at least 60% this year, with eight murders recorded by September – up from five in the same period last year.
On Sunday afternoon, the Satmar Rebbe held his annual “Chuf Alef Kislev” event, attended by thousands upon thousands of Satmar Chassidim. The event was held at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn.
Chof Alef Kislev is the day Hagon HaRav Yoel Teitelbaum ZATZAL, the founder of Satmar Chassidus in America, escaped from the Nazis during the Holocaust in 1944, with the help of a Zionist!
The Satmar Rebbe, known as the Divrei Yoel, was among 1600-plus people who were transported out of Hungary by train thanks to the efforts of Rudolf Kastner, one of the Zionist leaders of Budapest’s Vaadat Ezra V’Hatzalah, who brokered a deal with Adolph Eichmann to let the passengers leave in exchange for a large sum of money, diamonds and gold.
While Eichmann reneged on the deal and had the train sent to Bergen Belsen, the train was finally released after four months of negotiations and the passengers finally obtained their freedom when they arrived in Switzerland.
Many dignitaries and elected officials have attended Chof Alef Kislev events over the years out of respect for the Rebbe and to show their support for chasidim and other frum communities.
In the footage, the children are seen wearing the distinctive clothing of the cult members, jumping out of the compound through openings in the large gate. One of the cult members appears to be recording the police activity with his smartphone while desecrating Shabbat.
The adult cult members give instructions to the children in Yiddish: “There are police surrounding the whole compound. All the children should push the police at once. You are allowed to hit the police. They are not allowed to hit back. Climb up, get out from the top,” one of them shouted hoarsely.
Another man is heard telling the children: “You are allowed to hit the police, to push them, don’t be afraid of them, they can’t do anything to you.” The clip shows children attacking the policemen and pulling their caps. The man continued to exhort the children: “Kick them, kick them and crawl under their feet fast.”
Hundreds of police participated in the raid to rescue the children from the cult. The police arrived in minivans, patrol vehicles and minibuses which they used to transfer the children to protective custody.
Whether they like it or not, Netanyahu represents the Jews, he represents the Satmar Rebbe from Monroe, he represents Rabbi Dov Landau from Bnei-Brak! To the typical goy, Netanyahu represents the Jews! Just like the Israeli flag represents the Jewish nation and every single goy throughout the world recognizes that flag as a Jewish one, so too, the Prime Minister of Israel represents all Jews!!
The Satmar and their Litvak lapdogs can scream till kingdom comes but to the typical goy Satmar=Netanyahu!
For hundreds of years, Jews put a cheirum on Spain, they wouldn't step foot in that country, but what Spain did to the Jews was far far less than what Poland did to the Jews, yet the Chassidishe ferd keep going back to that blood-soaked cursed land! They are rebuilding homes and shuls and mikvous that the cursed Polish goyim burned down with the Jews still inside! This is an outrage! This must stop!!
How many Jews must a country murder, rape and mutilate until we stop going back there! We have a State now, support that State!
Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski confirmed that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz next month, he will be arrested in accordance with the ICC arrest warrant.
Bartoszewski made his remarks to the Polish economic and legal newspaper Rzeczpospolita regarding preparations for the ceremony on January 27th.
On Friday, Netanyahu already indicated he would not attend the event, given Poland’s earlier statements in support of executing the arrest warrants, and that Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar would attend instead.
In November, Netanyahu, along with former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, were charged by the ICC for crimes relating to the war in Gaza, and arrest warrants were issued.
Although the United States, Hungary, and Argentina resolved not to execute the arrest warrants, many other countries, even those that disagreed with them, said they would have to arrest Netanyahu or Gallant if they entered their countries.
Shortly after the ICC arrest warrant was issued, the Polish Deputy Foreign Minister said, “We are committed to respecting the decisions of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.”
Israel has appealed the ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu and former Foreign Minister Yoav Gallant, arguing that prosecutor Karim Khan had insufficient evidence and committed errors during his investigation and that the ICC has no jurisdiction over Israel.
Canada was one of the first countries to say it would comply with the ICC warrant and arrest Netanyahu and Gallant.
“First of all, as Canada has always said, it’s really important that everyone abide by international law. This is something we’ve been calling on from the beginning of the conflict,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters in the Toronto area.
Trudeau pointed out that Canada was one of the founding members of the ICC, and added, “We stand up for international law, and we will abide by all the regulations and rulings of the international courts.”
An Iranian plane heading to Syria was forced to turn back after the new Syrian regime denied it access to Syrian airspace.
INSANE! Kamala campaign advisor Lindy Li quits the Democrat Party: I don’t want to be part of this tent anymore. I don’t want to be part of this craziness. I want to be part of the team that treats me with common decency.
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) December 21, 2024
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🚨Mark “White Rage” Milley lied about Joe Biden’s mental fitness a year ago in a 60 Minutes interview because he didn’t want President Trump to win the election. This was a massive cover-up:
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) December 21, 2024
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Hamas proudly posts propaganda videos showing they’re digging up water pipes in Gaza to use as rockets.
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) December 20, 2024
At the same time, anti-Israel governments are blaming Israel for “genocide” through “dehydration.”
You can’t make this stuff up!pic.twitter.com/N2yTUiT5Bs
When they said “DC swamp creatures”, I thought it was just a metaphor 😳 https://t.co/9Qmn92BGkO https://t.co/w7e0Gp1trv
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2024
Over 480 police officers, soldiers and psychologists took part in the operation, during which computers, phones and other equipment were confiscated as potential evidence.
According to a source from the prosecution who spoke with local media, “Coordination was carried out with the Jewish community in Guatemala to ensure that the humanitarian needs of the affected children would be met, while ensuring their security and protection throughout the entire process.”
The raid was initiated after four children and teenagers, who are not Guatemalan residents, escaped the site last month and gave testimonies about abuse and human trafficking taking part in the sect. Authorities added that buried bodies were also found at the compound, some of which may belong to minors.
The rescue operation in the agricultural municipality of Oratorio, 78 kilometers (48.47 miles) southeast of Guatemala City, highlights ongoing concerns over the controversial practices of the Lev Tahor sect, which has faced similar allegations in the past.
“Based on the statements of the complainants, the evidence obtained, and the medical examinations, it was possible to establish that there are forms of human trafficking against these minors, such as forced marriage, abuse, and related crimes,” Nancy Paiz, a prosecutor at Guatemala’s Prosecutor’s Office Against Human Trafficking, said at a press conference.
The Lev Tahor community, founded in 1988 in Israel, practices an austere form of Judaism with interpretations of Jewish law that include long prayer sessions and arranged marriages for minors. The community has faced multiple allegations of kidnapping, child marriage and physical abuse since it was founded in the 1980s. Currently three of the leaders of the sect are serving lengthy prison sentences in the US for kidnapping and child exploitation.
The Jewish community of Guatemala said in a statement that the sect was foreign to its own organization and expressed support for Guatemalan authorities in carrying out necessary investigations “to protect the lives and integrity of minors and other vulnerable groups that may be at risk.”
It called on the “government and diplomatic corps of countries from whose nationalities make up members of Lev Tahor, to join forces to protect those whose rights may be violated.” The minors are now under the protection of the government and investigations remain underway.
On Sunday, a retired Mossad agent reveals how they engineered the pagers to explode.
Even by the horrifying standards of Middle East savagery, the mass grave discovered in Syria with 100,000-plus bodies stands out for its hideousness.
Indeed, the world hasn’t seen anything like it since the days of Hitler and Stalin.
And it’s just one of several such graves, courtesy of the country’s recently ousted barbaric strongman, Bashar al-Assad.
Since 2012, Assad is suspected of torturing and killing possibly hundreds of thousands of his own citizens and foes.
It’s a testament to his depravity, following in the footsteps of his father, Hafez al-Assad, who similarly slayed dissenters with abandon.
“We really haven’t seen anything quite like this since the Nazis,” marvels former US war crimes ambassador at large Stephen Rapp.
How’d Bashar Assad get away with it?
Simple: The world let him.
It closed its eyes to his evil, preferring to focus on pet targets like . . . Israel.
Those “enlightened” stooges setting up encampments on college campuses? They weren’t protesting Assad’s murder machine; they wanted to stop Israel.
Democrats like President Biden, Veep Kamala Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez weren’t outraged by the long-running Assad death factory but by an imaginary “genocide” the Jewish state is supposedly waging against Palestinians.
No, it didn’t start with them: Who can forget President Barack Obama’s “red line,” threatening a US military response if Assad deployed chemical weapons against his enemies?
Yet when the Syrian Army fired missiles laced with sarin gas into neighborhoods controlled by the opposition, killing more than 1,400 civilians, Obama did . . . nothing.
Actually, he and then-Secretary of State John Kerry invited in Vladimir Putin — asking Russia to help “resolve” the crisis (well, end Obama’s embarrassment) by coming in and saying it had collected Syria’s chems.
Moscow had been pushed out of the Middle East decades before; now it became a key ally of Assad, and proceeded to back him mercilessly in the civil war, bombing civilians (especially hospitals) with abandon.
With nary a peep on US campuses, nor at the United Nations, International Criminal Court and so on.
Elsewhere in Syria, Ankara is even now masterminding a fresh assault on the Kurds — a completely stateless people who survive despite decades of oppression from the rulers not just of Turkey and Syria but also Iran, Iraq and even ISIS.
Meanwhile, the sadistic Kim family in North Korea is notorious for slaughtering and starving to death millions; terrorists and despots have offed hundreds of thousands more in Africa and Asia.
Still, the one nation sacrificing its soldiers to defeat Middle East savages — Israel — somehow winds up the one smeared in headlines by much of the left and at the UN and ICC as a “war criminal.”
Assad’s mass graves are a reminder not just of he evil that still walks the world, but of the perverse hypocrisy of all the supposed moralizers waxing furious about a “genocide” that doesn’t exist.
One block of President Street in Brooklyn will be renamed "Lubavitcher Rebbe Way."
City Council Member Crystal Hudson, who proposed the legislation, stated, “Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, was the seventh leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and one of the most transformative figures in modern Jewish history."
“After escaping the Holocaust and arriving in the United States in 1941, the Rebbe’s leadership expanded Chabad-Lubavitch’s global reach, establishing countless institutions: kindergartens, schools, drug rehabilitation centers, care homes, and synagogues,” Hudson added. “His ability to meet people where they were—engaging them with warmth and heartfelt communication regardless of their background or status—set him apart."
Chabad Public Relations official Yaakov Berhman praised the move to honor the Rebbe, writing on X, "Today, the @NYCCouncil officially named President Street, located between Brooklyn and New York Avenues, as 'Lubavitcher Rebbe Way.' This is the block where the rebbe lived during his leadership and where his home remains as a sacred place of prayer and inspiration. I am honored to have delivered the invocation to open the city council session. Thank you, @CMCrystalHudson, for naming the street, for honoring me with the invocation, and for your tribute to the Rebbe."
Singer and composer Eliezer Botzer was killed in an accident while on reserve duty this morning (Friday) at the age of 43, his family announced. Botzer was married and a father of eight, and lived in Amuka.
In 2002, after completing his service in the IDF, Botzer was appointed a state security officer in the settlement of Yitzhar. He worked for security cooperation between the security forces and the settlers and even received a certificate of appreciation for his performance during the Second Intifada.
In 2013, his first album "Disruptions. Attention. Concentration" was released. In 2014, his second album, "Am Ha'aretz," was released. In 2021, he produced the song "Amaraya" with Indian singer Lucky Ali.
Just a few days ago, Botzer eulogized his friend and fellow musician Gilad Vital, saying, "I was privileged to take my first steps in recording songs with the late Gilad Vital. How much light and love you gave to everyone. It is unbelievable that you are no longer with us. A man of light, your songs and your uplifting image are engraved in our hearts forever. May your memory be blessed, dear friend."
Minister Amichai Eliyahu eulogized him: "My dear brother Eliezer Botzer returned his rich soul to the Creator tonight, as he was on his way back home from the reserves. He left me memories and talks about joy in serving God, carrying a wounded man up the steps of the Old City of Safed, meeting with navigators at the IDF commanders' course, melodies, art, hope and dreams."
He spoke about his last meeting with the singer. "On Wednesday, we met while he was in uniform and talked about the tourism potential that the heritage of the city of Safed has. I will miss my brother Eliezer. May your soul be bound in the bonds of life."
Botzer's friend, Rabbi Oded David, wrote: "With sorrow and astonishment I am forced to announce that my dear and beloved friend, singer and spiritual man Eliezer Botzer, has passed away suddenly. He was a man of great soul, who inspired faith in many."
Millions of Israelis evacuated early Saturday morning to bomb shelters, as sirens sounded in central Israel.
Sixteen people were lightly injured after the Houthi-launched ballistic missile exploded in Jaffa.
According to the IDF, "one projectile launched from Yemen was identified and unsuccessful interception attempts were made. A fallen projectile was identified in the area."
The IDF later confirmed that the projectile had fallen in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. The hit created a crater in a playground between two residential buildings.
"Several lightly injured individuals were evacuated to receive medical treatment, and Home Front Command teams are currently operating with the security forces in the scene," the IDF added.
Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that 16 people were lightly injured by broken glass and evacuated to Wolfson Medical Center in Holon and to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. Another 14 people were injured while running to shelter, and seven others suffered shock. Home Front Command teams, as well as police, MDA, and firefighters, arrived at the scene.
MDA paramedic Yosef Kurdi, who lives in the area, said, "I was at home and I heard a loud explosion. I immediately went to the scene and I heard significant blast hits in buildings near the scene of the strike. Large numbers of MDA teams quickly arrived. We immediately began to search the buildings and injured people began to arrive from their homes."
MDA paramedic Noam Weisboch and EMT Noa Shimoni said, "The scene was complex because the blast hits were in apartments in nearby buildings. At the beginning a number of people lightly injured from broken glass and suffering shock arrived. We searched apartments, treated [victims], and evacuated 16 lightly injured victims from the scene, including a girl of about three, and we also treated shock victims."
"Following an IAF and IDF Home Front Command initial inquiry regarding the incident of a fallen missile fired from Yemen early this morning (Saturday), the incident is still being thoroughly examined. Some of the conclusions have already been implemented regarding interceptions and alerts," a later IDF statement read.
"No further details regarding aerial defense activities and the alert system can be given due to information security considerations. We emphasize that aerial defense is not hermetic and the public must follow the Home Front Command instructions."
On Friday, Romanian low-cost airline Biz Airlines, which only started flying to Israel in August, will renew flights to Ben-Gurion International Airport after suspending them for several weeks, Israeli business site Globes reported.
Spanish carrier Air Europe and Hungarian airline Wizz Air will also restore flights (Wizz Air will start operating flights first only to Cyprus until mid-January, Globes reported).
Polish airline Lot and Air Baltic will renew Israel flights at the end of this week. Bulgaria Air will again fly to Israel at the start of next week.
Air France announced on Monday that its suspension of Israel flights will remain in effect until Jan. 9. It made its decision after Ben-Gurion Airport sirens warned of an incoming missile from Yemen.
According to Israel Hayom, United Airlines has canceled flights to Israel until further notice, and British Airways and Delta Airlines won’t fly to Israel until the end of March.
American Airlines has canceled flights until March. It has also taken down from its site all flights to and from Israel until the end of the summer of 2025.
