The NYPD along with the FDNY Fire marshals made an arrest on Saturday night in the arson fire in Flatbush.
Sources confirmed to YWN that Matthew Karlefsky was taken into custody.
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Yisrael Beiteinu party leader MK Avigdor Lieberman changed tactics on Motzei Shabbos and announced that he would try to force a unity government in the next election. He committed his party to attempt to build a government together with the Blue and White party and Likud, the two biggest parties in the previous Knesset.

16 fires burned in the Gaza periphery over the course of Shabbos due to balloon bombs launched by Hamas activists at Israel. More than 100 dunam of wheat were destroyed in the fires.
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On Tuesday evening, a large fire broke out in a four-story building on Musayof Street in the Bucharim neighborhood of Jerusalem, as reported by YWN-Israel.
Five fire and rescue crews were dispatched to the site, and the firemen entered the building, as heavy smoke from burning wooden beams bellowed from the building as firemen searched for trapped persons, and fighting the fire, which came dangerously close to gas cylinders.

This is how children R”L get killed.
This incident occurred in Boro Park this week, as a school bus had stopped to drop off children returning home from Yeshiva.
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Police are looking for a man that inappropriately touched a woman while walking on a Boro Park street earlier this week.
The NYPD says that on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 7:49AM, a 24-year-old female was walking in the vicinity of 54th Street near 20th Ave when an unidentified male inappropriately touched her.

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com)
There is Chillul Hashem. And then there is something that we can call Avi Avos Chillul Hashem. What happened Thursday in the state legislature can only be described as the latter.
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HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky arrived Thursday for a special visit to Yerushalayim and to the Kosel, as he does each year in the days immediately after Shavuos.
Prior to arriving at the Kosel, he visited the three story Sukkas Dovid Yeshiva Ketana which was founded by Rav Menachem Batzri zt”l.

It is called “Bill 21,” and if this proposed law passes – which it likely will, it will ban all public servants from wearing religious garments and icons while performing their public duties.
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YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Yochi Rubi Z”L. He was a few weeks shy of his 25th birthday.
Yochi lived in Boro Park and moved to Lakewood a few years ago.
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