YWN has exclusively obtained a copy of a letter from the State Education Department directing New York City to cease providing special education services to children at six local yeshivas. SED’s letter comes as parents whose children receive special education services are faced with a rapidly approaching deadline to submit their Parental Notice of Intent advising which school their child will attend in the upcoming school year. If SED has its way, parents will not be able to submit a PNI listing any of these six yeshivas.

The resumption of humanitarian aid into Gaza was part of a US promise to Hamas as part of the deal for Edan Alexander’s release, Yisrael Hayom reported on Monday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The report follows Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s controversial decision on Sunday to resume the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza. Hamas had said that it released Alexander as a “goodwill gesture” during President Trump’s visit to the Middle East but according to the sources, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff directly committed to Hamas leaders that the US would pressure Israel to immediately resume aid to Gaza. Israel had promised not to resume aid to Gaza until the IDF’s new distribution centers were operational in order to prevent Hamas from commandeering the aid.

The Palestinian who spat on an IDF officer on a public bus in Ramat Gan was transferred to Israel Police overnight Sunday after he surrendered himself to the IDF’s Civil Administration on Sunday evening. The transfer was facilitated by the IDF and Shin Bet, which coordinated the move with the Palestinian Authority. The police initially reported that the suspect turned himself in to the Palestinian Security Services but later corrected the statement, saying that he surrendered directly to Israeli forces. The police said that the culprit is a 24-year-old resident of the town of Huwara, a notorious hotbed of terrorism in the northern Shomron. The police initially had difficulty locating him because he failed to pay for the bus, leaving no records to identify him.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday approved the resumption of humanitarian aid into Gaza due to intense international pressure on the issue. Netanyahu announced the decision in a meeting of Israel’s security cabinet on Sunday evening, sparking a prolonged debate on the matter. According to a Kan News report on Monday morning, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said at the meeting: “We need to bring in aid immediately. There’s enormous pressure in the European Union and threats of sanctions, also from the Americans. A series of foreign ministers spoke with me about the issue.

Israeli special forces carried out a daring raid early Monday monring in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza amid massive airstrikes in the Gaza Strip following the launch of Operation Gideon’s Chariots on Sunday evening, Arab media outlets reported. As the IDF bombarded the area with dozens of air strikes, machine gun fire from helicopter gunships and artillery, special forces entered the area disguised as displaced Gazan women pushing a “wagon” loaded with mattresses [and some operatives hiding inside a special compartment in the wagon].

New Jersey Transit’s train engineers reached a tentative deal Sunday to end their three-day strike that had halted service for some 100,000 daily riders, including routes to Newark airport and across the Hudson River to New York City. The union said its members would return to work on Tuesday, when trains would resume their regular schedules. The walkout that began Friday was the state’s first transit strike in over 40 years, forcing people who normally rely on New Jersey Transit to take buses, cars, taxis and boats instead or consider staying home. The main sticking point had been how to accomplish a wage increase for the engineers without creating a financially disastrous domino effect for the transit agency.

As a therapist working in the Lakewood community, I recently attended a professional networking event, hoping to connect with colleagues in the mental health field. Instead, I walked away with something far more disheartening: a growing sense that basic social skills—simple decency, acknowledgment, and presence—are disappearing among professionals in our community. I attempted to strike up a conversation with another therapist. She paused, saying, “Hold on, let me just say bye to them.” I waited—but she never came back. No follow-up. No courtesy. Just… gone. This wasn’t an isolated incident. I’ve begun to notice a troubling pattern—not just at events, but in shul, at simchos, even at everyday interactions.

Sources in the Shin Bet and the defense establishment believe that the steep decline in the number of terror attacks in Yehuda and Shomron in recent months stems from a combination of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s prison reform and targeted operations in the field, Artuz Sheva reported last week. According to the sources, after entering his position, Ben-Gvir spearheaded a fundamental change in terrorists’  prison conditions, which has led to a reduction in Palestinians’ motivation to carry out terrorist acts. “The terrorists understand that the picnic is over,” the sources told Arutz Sheva.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched another vicious verbal assault against Israel on Saturday, calling the Jewish state “a dangerous, deadly cancerous tumor in the region” that “must be uprooted [and] will be uprooted.” Speaking at a public event in Tehran, Khamenei accused Israel of being “the source of corruption, the source of war, and the source of discord” in the Middle East, according to Iran’s state news agency IRNA. The Iranian dictator also turned his ire toward U.S. President Donald Trump and his recent diplomatic visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Khamenei called the visit “a disgrace to the American nation.” “Trump said he wanted to use power for peace; he lied,” Khamenei declared.

The Arab who spat on a female IDF officer on a bus in Ramat Gan turned himself to the Palestinian Authority’s security forces on Sunday evening. He turned himself in after realizing he was being pursued by Israeli security forces. The Arab had entered Israel illegally. Earlier in the day, Ramat Gan Mayor Carmel Shama Hacohen offered an NIS 18,000 reward for anyone who could provide information on the identity of the suspect. Israel is putting pressure on the Palestinian Authority to hand him over to Israeli security forces. Defense  Minister Yisrael Katz said, “The despicable terrorist who attacked and spat on the IDF officer in uniform must be punished to the fullest extent of the law. We will not allow harm to our soldiers.