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A terrorist opened fire at an Israeli civilian on Wednesday near a farm adjacent to the Western Ariel Industrial Zone, leaving one person injured. The victim, a young man in his late teens or early 20s, suffered a gunshot wound to the arm. Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics treated him at the scene before transporting him to Beilinson Hospital in moderate and stable condition. According to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, the wounded civilian managed to reach Ariel’s industrial park, where he was met by security forces and medics. The exact location of the shooting remains unclear. Israeli security forces have launched a manhunt for the assailant, setting up roadblocks and deploying aerial surveillance to track the suspect. Troops continue to search the area as the investigation unfolds.

Ukraine on Tuesday accepted a deal put forward by the Trump administration during a meeting in Saudi Arabia, in a step forward for securing a ceasefire and an end to its war with Russia. “We’ll take this offer now to the Russians, and we hope that they’ll say yes,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters. Rubio, standing alongside National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, did not detail exactly what was in this agreement but said, “Ukraine wants to stop shooting.” “We hope the Russians answer to that,” he added. “The best goodwill gesture the Russians can provide is to say yes.” Rubio said if and once Moscow agrees to this preliminary agreement, the real negotiations can commence. “We’ve gone from if this war is going to end to how this war is going to end, ” Waltz told reporters.

The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah published a letter on Tuesday morning calling for a yom tefillah against the Israeli judicial system’s efforts to draft bnei yeshivos. The letter, written by the Rosh Yeshivah of Slabodka, HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau, calls for the Yom Tefillah to take place in frum communities throughout the world on Thursday, Taanis Esther.

Rockland Hatzoloh and multiple emergency agencies are on the scene of a major accident on the Garden State Parkway near Exit 172, involving an overturned bus carrying dozens of passengers. According to initial reports, at least one individual was trapped, while over 40 others managed to exit the vehicle and were found alert at the scene. Emergency responders, including paramedics and law enforcement, are actively treating the injured. Authorities confirm that 29 bochurim and two adults sustained various injuries, with one patient in critical condition. A medical chopper has airlifted a victim who was pinned under the bus to a trauma center. The bus was reportedly traveling to New Square for a Sheva Brachos celebration of a grandchild of the Skverer Rebbe.

The X social media platform has been hit with a “massive cyberattack” that has prevented some users from accessing the site, platform owner Elon Musk confirmed on Monday. “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved,” Musk said. Musk implied that the attack was still ongoing. At the time of writing, there were more than 33,000 reports of X outages on Monday, according to Downdetector. Musk confirmed the cyberattack in response to a social media user who detailed a series of attacks against the entrepreneur’s interests, from protests against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to vandalism of Tesla stores.

The Olam HaTorah was plunged into mourning on Thursday upon hearing the news of the petirah of HaGaon HaDayan HaRav Shlomo Ben-Shimon Z’tl at the age of 88. HaRav Ben Shimon, the Gaavad of the Neve Tzion Beis Din and a member of the Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah of Shas, has weakened in recent years. His condition took a turn for the worse on Wednesday and he was hospitalized in Hadassah Ein Kerem, where he was niftar today. HaRav Shimon was born in Yerushalayim to his father, Chacham HaMekubal Mantzour Ben Shimon, ztl, who was a Rav in Yeshivat Porat Yosef. As a bochur, he learned in Porat Yosef. After his marriage, he was appointed as a Rav in the Yad Eliyahu neighborhood of Tel Aviv. During that period, he was one of the founders of Yeshivas Torah V’Hora’ah in Tel Aviv.

Take a good, hard look at the images in front of you. Not at the prizes—the dirt bikes, electric go-karts, and “trip of a lifetime” vacations—but at the message behind them. We have commercialized chesed. We have twisted tzedakah into a transaction. We are teaching our children that the only reason to help others is if there’s something in it for them. What happened to Yidden being gomlei chasadim—doing kindness for its own sake? What happened to the values we are supposed to instill in our children—that we give and help raise funds for tzedakah because we care, not because we expect to be rewarded? When did we decide that a child will only collect money if we bribe them with extravagant prizes? It’s no longer about giving to those in need. It’s about winning.

A devastating accident on Route 17 has left the Vishnitzer community in mourning after a horrific collision claimed the life of a beloved Yungerman, returning from a Vishnitzer Rebbeisha chasunah in Monsey. Sources tell YWN that R’ Mordachai Zafir Z”L, 54, and his 17-year-old son were traveling back to the Vishnitz (Gibbers) community in Kiamesha after attending the chasunah of the granddaughter of the Viznitzer Rebbe of Monsey and the grandson of the Viznitzer Rebbe of Kiamesha when tragedy struck. At approximately 1:45 AM, near exits 126/127, a wrong-way driver collided head-on with their vehicle in a fatal crash. R’ Mordachai Z”L was tragically niftar at the scene.

At least four people were injured in a combined shooting and stabbing attack in the Lev HaMeron mall in Haifa on Monday morning. According to initial reports, security forces that arrived at the scene shot the terrorist and neutralized him. Subsequent reports said that there were two terrorists and both were neutralized. This is a developing story. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)