A Turkish Jew who visited Israel last month was arrested, fired from his job at Turkish Airlines, and banned from flying abroad pending a trial, JNS reported. Umut Ataseven, 29, visited Israel as a tourist from April 6-12. During his visit, he posted a photo of himself next to an Israeli flag on a Tel Aviv beach. Someone then posted a screenshot of the photo on X and made false claims that Ataseven was dual citizen who was participating in the “genocide” in Gaza as an IDF soldier. Siyonist Avraham Levi/Umut Ataseven, Gazze’deki soykırımda asker olarak bulunduktan sonra çifte vatandaşlık hakkından elini kolunu sallayarak Türkiye’ye özgürce gelip gezdi.

Four of the eight suspects, including seven Iranians, who were arrested over the weekend in the UK for an alleged plot to attack an unspecified target in London, were “hours away” from committing a major attack, UK media outlets reported on Monday. According to the reports, speculation is rising that the target was a shul or another Jewish target. The government called the suspects the biggest “counter-state threat and counterterrorism” operations for years. It said the premises were being given “advice and support.” The Israel-based IntelliTimes blog reported that the UK confirmed that the attack was planned against a “major Jewish target,” adding that in such a case,  Israeli intelligence agents were likely involved in helping to foil the plot.

Some intelligence analysts believe that the “attack” on the so-called Gaza “freedom flotilla” overnight Thursday was a self-inflicted attack designed to divert attention from another vessel on the same route—an Iranian cargo ship en route to Lebanon to deliver weapons and ammunition, Ynet reported. According to the theory, the “Conscience” ship was not attacked by Israeli drones, as the organizers alluded to, but instead suffered self-inflicted explosions. Regardless of the origin of the attack, the behavior of the ship’s crew following the incident was highly suspicious, choosing to be stuck at sea on a damaged ship rather than allow representatives of the Maltese government to board the ship to confirm that it is carrying “humanitarian aid” as they claimed.

Two suspects were arrested next to Ben Shemen Forest on suspicion of arson on Sunday The suspects, a minor and a 19-year-old, both residents of East Jerusalem, were arrested after an Israeli citizen called the police and reported seeing the two suspects on the side of the road, lighting something and throwing it into a wooded area. The suspects were arrested on the spot. Later on Sunday, Modi’in police officers brought them to a hearing in court, where the judge agreed to extend their detention for two days. Ben Shemen Forest, near Modi’in, is the largest forest in central Israel and one of the largest in the entire country.

The IDF on Monday morning announced that a reserve soldier was killed on Sunday morning in an operational accident near the Gaza border. He was identified as Sgt. Maj. (res.) Dejen Daniel Sahalo, H’yd, 41, from Rechovot. He served as a heavy equipment operator in the Combat Engineering Corps’ 5067th Battalion. He was killed in the overturning of a military truck near Kibbutz Nachal Oz. Reservist forces from the Jerusalem Brigade are currently operating in the area to expand the buffer zone in the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF said that it is investigating the incident. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Israel’s security cabinet unanimously approved a decision to expand the military operation in the Gaza Strip in light of the lack of progress in reaching a hostage release deal. The decision was made early Monday morning following a seven-hour overnight discussion. It should be noted that Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar did not attend the meeting, with his deputy attending in his place. According to a political source, the plan includes the conquest of the Strip, with IDF forces to remain in the Strip for an extended period. “The plan will include, among other things, the conquest of the Strip and holding the territories, moving the Gazan population south to protect them, denying Hamas the ability to distribute humanitarian supplies, and powerful attacks against Hamas,” the source said.

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years. In a post on his Truth Social site Sunday evening, Trump wrote that, “For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering. When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm.

President Donald Trump on Sunday said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected his proposal to send U.S. troops to Mexico to help thwart the illegal drug trade because she is fearful of the country’s powerful cartels The comments by Trump came a day after Sheinbaum confirmed that Trump pressed her in a call last month to accept a bigger role for the U.S. military in combating drug cartels in Mexico. Trump said it was “true” that he proposed sending the troops to Mexico and lashed into Sheinbaum for dismissing the idea. “Well she’s so afraid of the cartels she can’t walk, so you know that’s the reason,” Trump said in comments to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. “And I think she’s a lovely woman.

Channel 14 commentator Yaakov Bardugo, who is considered a close confidant of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, revealed on Sunday evening that a deal to release about ten Israeli hostages that was already closed was thwarted by Qatar. “The time has come to declare Qatar as an enemy state of the Jewish people,” Bardugo said. These remarks follow the Prime Minister’s Office’s unusual statements against Qatar in recent days. The Prime Minister’s Office published a rare official statement on Motzei Shabbos, saying: “The time has come for Qatar to stop playing both sides with its double talk and decide if it’s on the side of civilization or if it’s on the side of Hamas barbarism.

Seventy to eighty percent of mothers experience the “baby blues,” but a staggering one in seven go on to develop postpartum depression—making it the most common complication of childbirth. The perinatal period—from the start of pregnancy through the first year after childbirth—can be a time of great excitement and joy, but for many, it is also marked by mental health challenges. In frum communities, where we place a strong value on having children and have high birth rates, awareness of perinatal mood disorders is especially important. Postpartum depression is a form of clinical depression that occurs after giving birth, typically within the first few weeks or months, but can last for quite a while if untreated.