Monday, March 31, 2025
Gov Shapiro Grants $5 million to AL Aqsa Islamic Society in Philly ..a nest of antisemites!
Antisemitism Expert Testifies to Senate: Qatar Fueling Campus Riots
Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), testified last Thursday before the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) in a hearing titled “Antisemitic Disruptions on Campus: Ensuring Safe Learning Environments for All Students.”
The hearing, led by Chairman Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), marked a pivotal moment of bipartisan attention to the escalating threats faced by Jewish students in higher education.
Dr. Small’s testimony included details of ISGAP’s findings, showing that Texas A&M received over $1 billion from Qatar, Cornell nearly $10 billion, and Columbia University at least $7.17 million—none of which was fully disclosed to the US Department of Education, violating federal law. He also pointed to Qatari support for satellite campuses, like those in Doha’s “Education City,” where US university research intellectual property is contractually assigned to the Qatari government.
“Our research has also exposed the strategic use of third-party foundations, institutes, and businesses to conceal the identities of foreign donors,” Dr. Small said. “Universities fail to disclose the terms of foreign donations that may compromise academic independence and integrity. When foreign regimes use American universities to promote their ideologies, and those institutions accept this funding without transparency or accountability, we are complicit in undermining our democratic values.”
He called on lawmakers to enforce transparency laws for foreign donations, investigate universities receiving authoritarian funding, adopt the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism, and fully enforce Title VI protections to safeguard Jewish students. Dr. Small also stressed the need for comprehensive programs to critically study contemporary antisemitism.
Dr. Small was joined by a panel of witnesses, including Carly Gammill, Director of Legal Policy at StandWithUs; Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Executive Vice President of American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad); Rabbi David Saperstein, Director Emeritus of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; and Kenneth Stern, Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. Together, they presented compelling evidence of an increasingly hostile campus climate where Jewish students face harassment, intimidation, and exclusion for expressing their identity or supporting Israel.
In his testimony, Dr. Small presented findings from ISGAP’s “Follow the Money” initiative, which highlights a direct link between foreign authoritarian funding—particularly from Qatar—and the rise in antisemitism on U.S. college campuses. ISGAP’s analysis reveals that universities receiving funding from authoritarian regimes, including those from the Middle East, report 300% more antisemitic incidents than institutions that do not accept such funding.
Dr. Small explained that Qatari funding has skewed campus discussions, undermined academic freedom, and created environments where antisemitism is not only tolerated but sometimes encouraged: “ISGAP’s research has shown that donations from Qatar have significantly influenced antisemitic discourse and campus politics in US universities, while also promoting anti-democratic values within these educational institutions. Following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, these influences have raised serious security concerns with both domestic and global implications.”
Michael Rapaport Calls Bernie Sanders a ‘Sick Animal’ and tells him : ‘Cleanse Your Rotten Soul’ for Opposing Arms to Israel with Dozens of Hostages Still in Gaza
Actor and bombastic podcaster Michael Rapaport has trained his sights on socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), suggesting that the Jewish politician’s ancestors “would be disgusted” by his opposition to arming Israel in its current conflict with Hamas — pointedly invoking the deaths of his Polish relatives in the Holocaust.
Sanders set off the veteran character actor with a post Thursday on social media, accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” in response to the Hamas terror attack on October 7, 2023, that saw hundreds of Israelis taken hostages by marauders who indiscriminately killed civilians, including children, and sexually assaulted many women. Even after a punishing military incursion in Gaza (with ample warning for civilians to flee), the Palestinian people recently paraded the coffin of an Israeli child taken hostage at nine months old, illustrating the population’s unapologetic embrace of terrorism and unlimited warfare.
“Netanyahu’s illegal war has killed 50,000 Palestinians. Now, Trump wants to force out 2 million more to build a billionaire’s playground in Gaza,” Sanders wrote on X/Twitter. “That is ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime. Next week, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in new arms sales to Israel.”
On Friday, Rapaport fired off a response: “While we are under threat on 7 fronts, why would a lifelong politician be calling for a stop to arms to ISRAEL? @SenSanders, your parents and grandparents would be disgusted with you. You’re a self-hating embarrassment.”
The Fallout actor continued with a parting shot at Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who is also Jewish: “You and @SenSchumer need to take colonics together and cleanse your rotten souls. Shame on both of you. Old life long bull shit artists.”
About a half hour later, Rapaport got even more personal, invoking the deaths of Sanders’ extended family in Poland during the Holocaust.
“What kind of sick animal who’s [sic] own family was wiped out during the Holocaust, call [sic] for the stop of arms to Israel, while 59 hostages are being held since the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust,” he wrote. “You’re sick @SenSanders. When you think about his own families [sic] destruction it’s really twisted.”
Tablet magazine reported in 2015 that many people in Sanders’ father’s family were killed in Nazi camps:
[Bernie] and his brother Larry grew up in a modest apartment located off Kings Highway. Like many Brooklyn families, the Sanderses aspired to become middle-class Americans while living in the shadow of the Holocaust.
In 1921, Larry and Bernie’s father, Eli, left his family in Slopnice, a rural village in the South of Poland, and immigrated to the United States. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, Slopnice’s wide-open fields were used for airdrops before the businesses and goods of the town’s local Jews were closed and confiscated. Most of Eli’s family was sent to concentration camps where they were killed.
Rapaport, who is Jewish, can also trace his family tree to Poland. The Deep Blue Sea star was an infamous hater of Donald Trump during his first term but dramatically turned on the Democratic Party after the horrific violence of October 7, eventually admitting he was wrong about Trump and praising the actions of his second administration
Ex-Hostage Yarden Bibas Recounts the Murder of His Wife and Children in Chilling “60 Minutes” Interview
In a searing, gut-wrenching interview aired Sunday night on CBS’ 60 Minutes, former Hamas hostage Yarden Bibas relived the unthinkable horror of losing his wife Shiri and their two young sons, Ariel and Kfir, who were murdered in cold blood while in captivity after being kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023.
The raw emotion in Bibas’ voice was only matched by the chilling cruelty of his captors, who he says taunted him with merciless words as he endured the nightmare of captivity.
“[Shiri and the kids] were murdered in cold blood, bare hands,” Bibas said to journalist Lesley Stahl. “They used to tell me—‘Oh, doesn’t matter. You’ll get a new wife. Get new kids. Better wife. Better kids.’”
Stahl, visibly shaken, struggled to comprehend the cruelty. “They said that to you?” she asked in disbelief.
“Yeah, many times,” Bibas answered, his voice steady, yet filled with pain.
As the ceasefire ended and fighting resumed, Bibas made a desperate plea to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, urging him to halt the war in hopes of securing the release of the remaining hostages. His message was read aloud in the Knesset, a painful reminder of those still trapped in Gaza.
“We can’t keep fighting. There are still people who need to come home,” Bibas told Stahl.
When asked if he believed that continued fighting could lead to more hostage releases, he responded: “No.”
Among those still in captivity is Bibas’ childhood friend, David Cunio, who, along with his wife Sharon and their two daughters, was kidnapped. Though Sharon and the girls were freed in a prisoner exchange in November 2023, David remains in Gaza—a fate that Bibas cannot bear to accept.
Holding up a photo, Bibas spoke of a lifetime of friendship now overshadowed by uncertainty and fear.
“This is David. I know him from first grade. And this is his younger brother, Ariel… They’re both still in captivity. And… I don’t know if they’ve been given enough food, enough water. Especially now, with the war back on.”
His voice cracked with urgency as he made a desperate appeal on behalf of Sharon, who has already endured the unimaginable.
“Sharon must not lose her husband,” he implored. “This is the hardest thing I have to move with in my life, and David is not with me. I lost my wife and kids. Sharon must not lose her husband.”
In an earlier-released excerpt from the interview, Bibas made a direct appeal to U.S. President Donald Trump, pleading for intervention to bring the remaining hostages home.
“Please stop the war and help bring all the hostages back,” he urged.
When asked if he truly believed Trump could make a difference, Bibas did not hesitate.
“I know he can help. I’m here because of Trump.”
As the war grinds on and diplomatic efforts stall, the anguished voices of survivors like Bibas serve as a chilling reminder that for dozens of families, the nightmare is far from over.
The memory of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas is now a symbol of both unspeakable loss and an unrelenting fight for those still waiting in captivity. Their story is not over. Not until every hostage is brought home.
Hamas Tortures And Murders Anti-Hamas Protester, Family Calls For Vengeance
Hamas terrorists kidnapped, tortured and executed a 22-year-old Palestinian man who participated in last week’s wave of protests against the terror group, according to his family. The brutal act has led to calls for vengeance from the family and at his funeral mourners fired guns and made anti-Hamas statements.
Oday Nasser Al Rabay was tortured for hours before being dragged through the streets to his parents house with a rope around his neck. He died of his injuries and his body was left in front of his family’s home over the weekend. On Saturday, many dozens were filmed participating in his funeral procession, shouting, “Hamas out!”
Five other Gazans were allegedly executed over the weekend, according to media reports. Hamas has been threatening Palestinians who participate in the protests against the terror group, but this appears to be the first time that anyone has been killed in connection to them.
The protests were held for three straight days last week, but none were held over the weekend, amid assessments in Israel that Hamas was intimidating protesters.
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Zionists are the largest Supporters of Torah ... 2025 budget includes 656 million shekels (about $178 million) for Chareidie institutions
$178 million Dollars!!! 656 Million Shekel!! All for Chareidie Institutions!
In November of 2016, I made a big deal about how the Zionists were funding Charediem to the tune of 303 Million Shekels, it is now, just 8 years later, more than double!
How much do you think was allocated to rehabilitate the communities destroyed by Hamas???
How much was allocated to rebuild Northern towns affected by Hezbollah rocket fire?
I hope you are sitting for this because the answer is ZERO!!!!!
The vast majority of my readers are from Chareidie communities, I know this from Google Analytics, so let's chap a shmooze like family at a family simcha!
Putting aside all biases against Zionists, against chilonim, I'm asking between us...
Does this make any sense?
That the Zionist Israeli Chilonim, (since they are the majority) are the biggest supporters of Torah now and ever?
Do you blame any chilonie whose children, whose husbands, died so that Chareidiem can learn, .......for saying "this is insane?"
I don't get this, I come from a Charedie background, all I knew until I got married and had children were Charedim. I had little contact with non-frum Jews, even when I went to Brooklyn College, we frummies, hung out together and had little contact with goyim and not-frum Jews. I worked for frum Jews. My first language was Yiddish and I didn't speak English until I was bar-mitzvah!
I only knew survivors and even married a girl whose parents were survivors, but never did I hear such utter hate against other Jews, specifically, Zionists! I'm talking even from Satmar Chassidim, the survivors! They were all quietly proud of the State of Israel, they were all breathing a sigh of relief that we finally had a country after 2,000 years, and they all believed that this was all orchestrated by HKB"H! There was no doubt!
Everything changed in 1967, when a Gadol who was ironically saved by a Zionist downplayed the six-day war success of the IDF and even said that the victory of the Zionists was from the Samach Mem! Just 23 years before, 6 million Jews were brutally murdered, but in 1967 Hashem decided to send that Samach Mem" to help the IDF fight 4 Arab Nations and save the Jews?
I spoke about this a lot! Most survivors did not take him seriously at all, as most of them lost wives and children and all lost their parents! But what he did accomplish was that slowly slowly like a leak ..drop by drop, he embedded a tremendous hatred in Klall Yisrael against the Land of Eretz Yisrael!
Yes, you read that correctly, against the Land of Israel, and slowly the young, the children of these survivors who really had no idea what their parents went through, started slowly accepting this utter nonsense!
In fact Rav Teicthtal speaks about this hate in reference vis-à-vis the opposition of Rabbanim to building the State:
"Not only did they oppose this undertaking, but they caused the simple, frum Jews to despise the rebuilding of the land so much that if one of them began to speak or get enthused about it, they considered him repulsive and abominable. They all rebuke him, saying, "You are a Zionist, an abhorrence, and an abomination." Thus, they have truly caused the desirable Land to be despised and detested. The simple man who does not know enough Torah to decide on his own whether this is true or not, chastises those who rebuild the Land. He shouts, "You are a sinner and a Zionist," for he wants to be considered devout and pious. "
Rav Teichtal adds and talks about those rabbanim who really did believe that frum Jews must partner with Zionists to develop the Land :
"These positive thoughts remain solely in their hearts. They would not dare express their thoughts in words, for they fear that they will be rebuked and considered repulsive, abominable Zionists."
Rabbi Teichtal hy"d wrote this in 1943 ...has anything changed? Nothing!!!
On March 24 I posted an article about how the Aguda signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence!
Someone commented and questioned the motive of the words in the Declaration, "Placing our trust in the "Rock of Israel" and said that the Zionists left it up to the reader to decide who "The Rock" was!
Like the Meshiginar that I am, I argued with him!
In retrospect, I should have just deleted his remarks, because the bottom line is....."Who cares?" Who cares what the author meant? No one is saying that the Zionists were Tzadiikim, but the bottom line is that they built a beautiful country where there is more Torah learned than anywhere in the entire world and where there isn't a visitor who is not amazed and enthralled by the sheer beauty of the Land! People coming for the first time, no matter their religious affiliation, fall in love immediately!
Every single day I thank Hashem that I am living in Eretz Yisrael!
Last week there was an asifa in Lakewood that made headlines!
The Son and sons-in-laws of the late R' Shnuer Kotler z"l, the ones running Lakewood, an institution solely supported by schnorrerei, issued a Fatwa that everyone should close their gemarras and listen to speaker after speaker denounce the State that is the biggest supporter of Torah in the entire world!
They were supposedly talking about the vote. meaning not to vote, but it was all about spewing hate with the vilest descriptions of people who are actually living in Israel! Please note, that Yaakov Aveenu was actually afraid of Eisav because Eisav was living in Israel!!!!!! But these speakers are not afraid to denounce the Zionists living in Israel with the most vile, despicable terms in the English lexicon.
I am not going to go over the merits of voting for the WZO elections, it's been talked to death, and I know that I won't change anyone's mind!
But how do thousands who thank G-d in benching for giving us Eretz Yisrael, who thank G-d in al ha'mechya for Eretz Yisrael, and who learned as children that the very first conversation that Hashem had with a Jew and Who then at this conversation gave him his very first mitzvah, which was for him to go to Eretz Yisrael, and who learned that the very first conversation that Hashem had with Moshe was to tell him to bring the Jews to the Promised Land, how do they daven with a straight face to a G-d that is literally obsessed with the Land of Israel?
How do they sit there listening to speakers for hours, deriding and denouncing that very Land! How do you guys live with yourselves?
For G-d's sake, we are at war!!!! Give it a break already!!!
You don't have other problems?
This week the Chevra Kadish in the USA announced that they bury at least 3 suicide victims in the Charedie community every week, and that's not counting those who accidentally overdosed! We have a pandemic, but they get up to denounce the Zionists!
How sick is this?
I wonder if even one guy at the Asifa in Lakewood thought to himself, "Am I the only one thinking that this is perverted?"
How out of touch with their very own communities were these speakers?
I spoke previously about the Lakewood private chats whose members are in Kollel and who don't believe that Torah is Min 'shamayim r"l! There are women on these chats that say that they are only acting for the sake that their children don't get thrown out of Yeshiva and that their own husbands have no clue that they don't believe in a G-d r"l! One even said that he was a rav in a shul and doesn't know how long he can keep up this charade because he doesn't believe in the Torah r"l, he asks advice on how he should proceed! There are over 1,000 members on this chat!
The Lakewood Vaad knows all about these chats, but is sweeping this under the rug!
AHHHHH! But they are Zionists!
Let me quote from the grandfather of the Chida, R' Avraham Azulai, in his sefer Chesed LeAvraham (Ma'ayan 3, Nahar 12)
"Anyone who lives in Eretz Yisrael is considered a tzaddik even though he is presumed to be wicked"
The sefer Nachala LeYisrael written by a great talmud chacham, a dayan in Ohel Hungary for more than 40 years, and who later moved to Tverya cites the Chesed LeAvrahanm I just quoted, but adds the following:
"Thus it is clear that we don't properly understand the true nature of the inhabitants of Eretz Yisrael with our physical eyesight. For man sees what his eyes behold, while Hashem sees into the heart. Therefore, we cannot judge or degrade specific individuals and certainly not the entire community, even those who do not favor in our eyes or do not act in a manner befitting our nation."
One of the speakers said that the Chofetz Chayim z"l warned about even speaking to the Zionists!
Not one dummy listening to this nonsense confronted him to tell him that the Chofetz Chayim was nifter in 1933, which was BEFORE the State was established! And the CC was talking about the Zionists living IN Europe, he wasn't talking about the Zionists living in Eretz Yisrael and toiling its land, in fact the CC bought an apartment in Petach Tikvah and was planning to make Aliyah!
This speaker also invoked the name of R' Elchonon Wasserman hy"d, who was murdered in 1941, BEFORE the State was established! If R' Wasserman had made Aliyah he would have survived! In fact, his only surviving son R' Simcha did make Aliyah years later and established a Yeshiva there!
Two years ago the Charedie Media made a big deal when the Satmar Rebbe, R' Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, brought $5 million dollars to Israel to give to those moisdois that claimed they weren't taking money from the Zionists! Looking at the numbers, this must have been a cruel joke, $5 million dollars can only last two weeks!
And Satmar does take money from the Zionists, we pointed that out back in 2019 when we posted positive proof!
But the bottom line is this, and you all may be shocked with this, but I live in Beit Shemesh and I get around and I talk to people all the time. The vast majority support the Zionist State of Israel... there I said it!
It is the Rabbbanim, our leaders who are not reading their congregations right! The Rabbannim are totally disconnected and are clueless! And what is really crazy in Israel if your shul is registered and all Beit Shemesh shuls are, otherwise, they are dismantled, the leaders get a paycheck ...... guess from whom?
Yup the Zionists! Yet they bite the hand that feeds them ..
The Ya'arot Devash (vol 1, on the bracha of Hasheiv Shofteinu) writes that all hardships that befall Klall Yisral are due to improper leaders."
It must be Moshiach time, because the prophecy of the Gemarrah that פני דורו כפני כלב has certainly come true!
list of billionaires who are exclusively contributing to the Democratic Party vs Billionaires to the Repub Party
Here is a list of billionaires who are exclusively contributing to the Democratic Party:
- George Soros - Michael Bloomberg - Reid Hoffman - Hansjorg Weiss - Tom Steyer - Sam Bankman - Fried - JB Pritzker - Marc Benioff - Neil Blum - Mark Cuban - Laurene Powell Jobs - Bill Gates Here is the list that have contributed to Republicans in the last year: - Elon Musk - Zuckerberg - Bezos Oh yes, be afraid of the oligarchs, but not the ones on the right. The ones on the left who have been systemically funneling all of their money through 501(c)(4)s that have been purchasing elections by destroying election integrity measures across the country, investing in insane ballot measures, and overall funneling $2 billion worth of dark money per election cycle. Please tell me some more about oligarchy Bernie Sanders, from one of your 4 mansions no less. Oh and please fact check me.A NATO Threat Rising on Israel’s Border?
Read to what the Judge told the "Shoe Bomber" at his Sentencing!
Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to light it?
Did you know his trial is over?
Did you know he was sentenced?
Did you see/hear any of the judge's comments on TV or Radio?
Didn't think so.!!!
Everyone should hear what the judge had to say.
Ruling by Judge William Young, US District Court.
Prior to sentencing, the Judge asked the defendant if he had anything to say His response: After admitting his guilt to the court for the record, Reid also admitted his 'allegiance to Osama bin Laden, to Islam, and to the religion of Allah,' defiantly
stating, 'I think I will not apologize for my actions,' and told the court 'I am at war with your country.'
Judge Young then delivered the statement quoted below:
Kamisha Hart a Nurse from Portland Univ Hospital said that Bibas Family should be "be grateful" to Hamas that members of the Bibbs "were not returned in blue body bags and handcuffs".
Kamisha Hart, a nurse from Portland University Hospital, one of the leading hospitals in the US, was fired after her shocking antisemitic expressions were exposed and after it turned out she justified the murder of Shiri Bibas, and the abduction of her children.
The nurse wrote, among other things, on her Instagram account,
"I refuse to take care of you (a Jewish man), I don't take care of animals, dogs, rats and wasps of any kind."
In addition, she wrote that Shiri Bibas "was a legitimate target" following her military service, adding that the Bibbs family should "be grateful" to Hamas that members of the Bibbs "were not returned in blue body bags and handcuffs".
Here we go again!! Columbia’s new prez called Congress hearings on antisemitism ‘Capitol Hill nonsense’
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Columbia University’s new president once called Congressional hearings on campus antisemitism “Capitol Hill nonsense.”
Claire Shipman, a former CNN White House correspondent whose ex-husband is former Obama Administration press secretary Jay Carney, served as co-chair of the University’s board of trustees before she was appointed Friday night to replace interim school president Katrina Armstrong.
In a Dec. 28, 2023, text message, Shipman wrote to then university president Minouche Shafik she thought Columbia would be spared from the “capital hill nonsense,” referring to December 2023 Congressional hearings that saw the presidents of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania and MIT testify about campus protests against the war in Gaza.
The tense hearings famously resulted in Harvard’s Claudine Gay and Penn’s Liz Magill resigning after they were grilled on whether calling for the killing of Jews would violate their school’s bullying and harassment policies — and answered that it depended on the context.
Shipman’s text messages about the hearings were revealed in a 325-page October report from the Republican House Committee on Education and the Workforce that included leaked messages between university officials.
Columbia’s leaders had expressed contempt for the congressional investigation, according to the report.
In the same text message, Shipman also suggested reinstating student groups that had participated in the protests.
“I do think we should think about unsuspending the groups before semester starts to take the wind out of that,” she wrote to Shafik.
Armstrong’s resignation was the second in less than a year over the university’s handling of campus protests.
Armstrong left days after she caved and told President’s Trump’s administration she would implement a mask ban during campus protests as a condition for keeping $400 million in federal funding — while allegedly privately promising faculty she would not.
Shafik had resigned from the school’s top post in August amid the furor over the campus protests.
Shipman and Columbia could not immediately be reached for comment.
Katrina Armstrong’s resignation as Columbia’s interim prez is another Trump win against lefty insanity
Maybe the third time will be the charm.
Columbia University obviously subscribes to the belief that Friday night is the best time to put out bad news.
How else to explain the fact that, at 8 p.m. Friday, it announced that its interim president had quit?
If members of the Board of Trustees hoped nobody would notice, they’re more delusional than advertised.
The resignation of Dr. Katrina Armstrong is yet another bombshell development in the Trump administration’s crackdown on universities violating the civil rights of Jewish students, with Columbia a serial offender and top test case.
The announcement gave no reason why Armstrong is returning to the medical school or why she is being replaced by Claire Shipman, co-chair of the trustees.
Shipman, a former television journalist, will be Columbia’s third president in a year.
The first, Nemat Shafik, was overwhelmed by campus chaos after the Hamas terrorist invasion of Israel and the Jewish state’s response, and fled to London.
Then again, no explanation for the latest change was needed.
Numerous reports show Columbia mired in internal turmoil over the White House plan to strip it of at least $400 million in federal grants and contracts unless it makes changes that will subject disruptive students to arrest and provide responsible oversight to two departments that are hotbeds of antisemitism.
Armstrong’s sin was that she tried to play for two teams at the same time.
She initially promised the White House that Columbia would forbid demonstrators from wearing masks, then said the opposite to faculty members.
She later reassured the White House she would keep her initial promise, but her credibility was ruined.
So now she’s gone, and Shipman is left to clean up the mess.
Cabinet approves: Maale Adumim - Jerusalem route - with no Palestinians
The Security Cabinet has approved the laying of the third section of the "Sovereignty Road" in the area surrounding Jerusalem. The move, promoted by Defense Minister Israel Katz, will enable Palestinian Arabs to travel between population centers while bypassing Israeli checkpoints. In practice, it has other implications, i.e. diverting all Palestinian vehicles from the existing roads connecting Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim.
The decision was made for two main reasons – one for security, to prevent terrorism in this area. About one year ago, Matan Elmaliah was murdered and seven others were wounded in a shooting attack carried out by three terrorists on the section of the road in question.
The second reason is political, in order to create a continuum of roads in this area without Palestinians, and preventing them from accessing various areas by foot, such as the Khan al-Ahmar outpost, against which a demolition order has been pending for years and which the Palestinians define as strategic in an attempt to break Israel's territorial continuity.
The road will also remove a significant obstacle to the application of full Israeli sovereignty over Ma'ale Adumim, and has therefore been delayed by the political echelon over the years.
Guy Yifrach, mayor of Ma'ale Adumim, commented this morning: "We are delighted to reach a time like this. A historic-political decision that we brought to the Security Cabinet, the paving of the Sovereignty Road, was approved tonight. This will significantly improve the security of the residents of Ma'ale Adumim and the surrounding area, and will drastically reduce traffic congestion in the area.”
“Since I took office, this has been the city’s most important project. Over the past year, I have conducted dozens of observations, tours and discussions with senior government officials, the defense establishment and the IDF. Tonight, after persistent efforts, one of the most important decisions was made for the city of Ma'ale Adumim, for Jewish residence in Judea and Samaria and for the capital of Israel – Jerusalem."
"Beyond the diplomatic breakthrough that has been blocked for decades, this is also an unprecedented budgetary achievement: 303 million shekels were approved for the construction of the road. The project will include a connection between al-Azariya and a-Zaim through an underground tunnel, and will allow Palestinian traffic from southern Judea and Samaria to the north – without passing through Israeli roads. This is a historic moment, which proves how determination, cooperation and faith in the justice of our path has paid off," Yifrach concluded.
Netanyahu's Plane to DC Had to divert European Countries Due to ICC Warrant
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most recent flight to Washington took longer than it should have due to the arrest warrant issued against him by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter said on Thursday.
“When the prime minister arrived here last month, he had to fly 13.5 hours, a trip that should take 12 hours. People don’t know it, but the reason was that he can’t land anywhere in Europe,” Ynet cited Leiter as saying during a webinar.
Netanyahu “had just had surgery. He came with two doctors, and they told him he may have to land for treatment,” the envoy explained in an online conversation with the One Israel Fund, an American organization dedicated to supporting Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria.
“But if he were to land anywhere in Europe, he could be arrested as a war criminal. So he had to fly over American army bases [for] 13.5 hours,” Leiter added.
Netanyahu had undergone a surgery to remove his prostate, less than six weeks before he took flight to the U.S. on Feb. 2 to meet with President Donald Trump. It was the first official visit of a foreign leader following Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant against Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip during the war that broke when Hamas carried out one of the largest terrorist attacks in history against the Jewish state, murdering roughly 1,200 people and kidnapping 251 more into the enclave on Oct. 7, 2023.
“You can’t fight antisemitism if the No. 1 Jew in the world is branded as a war criminal,” Leiter said during the webinar.
“So, as I told the joint session of the Senate leadership, if you are all fighting antisemitism—the first thing you must do is remove the mark of Cain from the prime minister’s forehead. That is the first step, because if he is a child murderer, then we are all child murderers, and we deserve the hatred,” the ambassador said.
Leiter added that the Trump administration has demonstrated a “commitment to assisting us and ensuring that no international entity undermines our right to defend ourselves. This also includes direct engagement with European countries to prevent unilateral actions against us.”
The ambassador also discussed his office’s work against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The fight against antisemitism includes the fight against decisions made by local U.S. governments and districts to suspend their investments in Israeli government bonds—a phenomenon that has grown since the start of the current war in Gaza, he noted.
Leiter stepped into the ambassador role on Jan. 27. A U.S.-born former chief of staff to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Leiter founded the One Israel Fund in 1994.
His son Maj. (res.) Moshe Yedidyah Leiter was killed while fighting against Hamas terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip on Nov. 10, 2023.
Leiter, a 39-year-old father of six from Kibbutz Ein Tzurim, was killed along with three other Israel Defense Forces reservists while inspecting a booby-trapped tunnel entrance in the northeastern Gaza Strip’s Beit Hanun area.
Miriam Elisheva Yarimi Accused of Horrific Fatal Brooklyn Crash Is Luxury Wigmaker with History of Traffic Violations
Miriam Elisheva Yarimi, the 32-year-old driver accused of fatally running down a mother and her two daughters in Brooklyn on Shabbos, is a wigmaker with a luxurious lifestyle and a history of legal and traffic issues. Yarimi was driving her Audi with a suspended license on Ocean Parkway in Gravesend when she collided with a Toyota Camry, then careened into a crosswalk, killing the family as they left Shabbat services.
Known for flaunting her affluent lifestyle on social media, Yarimi has posted pictures of vacations, luxury cars, and nights out. She also gained attention after winning a $2 million settlement in 2023 from the NYPD over a misconduct claim.
In addition to her legal troubles, Yarimi has accumulated over 93 traffic violations, including 20 speeding tickets and fines exceeding $10,000. Authorities have not yet disclosed whether she will face charges in connection with the fatal crash.
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A tragic accident in Brooklyn claimed the lives of a mother and her two young daughters as they walked home from synagogue on Shabbos. The crash, involving a driver with a suspended license, left the woman’s 4-year-old son critically injured and sent shockwaves through the local community.
The collision occurred around 1 p.m. on Ocean Parkway near Quentin Road in Gravesend, a neighborhood with a large Orthodox Jewish population. The 35-year-old mother and her daughters, ages 8 and 6, were pronounced dead at the scene. Nine people were injured in total, authorities said.
A witness described the moment of impact as overwhelming. “The sound was like an explosion,” the witness said. “Everything just stopped.”
According to police, the crash involved a Toyota Camry operating as an Uber and an Audi driven by 32-year-old Miriam Yarimi. After the initial impact, the Audi veered into the crosswalk, striking the family. Images from the aftermath showed shattered vehicles, scattered belongings, and emergency responders working frantically to aid the victims.
“This was a terrible tragedy caused by someone who shouldn’t have been behind the wheel,” said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
Yarimi and the 62-year-old Uber driver were transported to Coney Island Hospital in stable condition. Authorities have not yet filed charges but are conducting tests to determine if impairment played a role.
The father of the children was at home with the couple’s infant when he received the devastating news. “A neighbor had to go to him and tell him his wife and two daughters were gone,” a resident said. “He lost his wife and two of his four children in one instant.”
The close-knit community has been deeply affected by the tragedy. First responders, visibly shaken, were seen consoling one another at the scene. One was reportedly on his knees, overcome with grief.
“It’s unthinkable,” said a witness. “The streets were filled with families walking home from synagogue, and in an instant, everything changed.”
Mayor Eric Adams described the incident as “a tragedy of immense proportions.”
“A mother and her children were simply enjoying a beautiful day, and now a family has been shattered,” Adams said. “The pain they are enduring is beyond words.”
The two young girls were pronounced dead at Maimonides Medical Center, while their brother remains in critical condition.
As investigators continue to examine the circumstances, the community is left mourning an unimaginable loss and seeking answers about how such a devastating event could have occurred.
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