Many Israeli yeshivos gedolos arrange organized trips for the bochurim during Bein HaZemanim for several days. This year, a large yeshivah found itself in a halachic dilemma regarding their planned trip. The yeshivah rented a complex for a reasonable price at Mitzpe Ramon, a local council in the Negev, south of Be’er Sheva, which has spectacular views of the Ramon crater, the world’s largest crater. It is a popular tourist attraction and some consider it to be Israel’s most beautiful site. However, after the site was already booked and it was too late to cancel without a considerable financial loss, it was brought to the attention of the yeshivah’s administrators that there are those who question Mitzpeh Ramon’s status as part of Eretz Yisrael.

The Hamas terror group on Tuesday published photos of a dog tag of an IDF soldier it claims it seized in an ambush during Operation Protective Edge in 2014. It also re-published photos of a gun it claims belonged to fallen IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, H’yd, whose body has been held by the terror group since 2014. The photos, which were originally published in December, were republished to mark the ninth anniversary of Goldin’s abduction. The Palestinian Falestin Alan TV also published a video revealing new details of the abduction, including the fact that a group of Hamas terrorists waited for days in hiding prior to the ambush. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Four Israelis were injured in a shooting attack near the mall in Ma’ale Adumim, near Jerusalem, on Tuesday afternoon. The terrorist opened fire at passersby with an M16 assault rifle. B’Chasdei Hashem, he was quickly neutralized by an armed civilian who witnessed the attack. One person was seriously injured and three were moderately wounded and received medical treatment at the scene before being evacuated to Hadassah Har HaTzofim and Shaare Tzedek Hospitals. The terrorist, who was wearing a yellow vest, may have been an employee of the municipality. A large number of security forces are at the scene. The terrorist’s knapsack with ammunition in it was found near the scene.

In an unprecedented move, Supreme Court president Esther Hayut announced on Monday that all 15 justices of the court will deliberate the petitions against the reasonableness law passed by the Knesset last month. A hearing on eight petitions that have been filed against the reasonableness law has been scheduled for September 12. It will be the first time that all 15 justices will deliberate on one case, a case that has the potential to cause a major crisis in Israel as it involves a law that was passed as an amendment to a Basic Law. The sole fact that the Supreme Court is deliberating petitions against one of the Basic Laws, which are the equivalent of the US Consitution, is exceedingly rare.

An Israeli citizen who was abducted in Ethiopia three weeks ago has been successfully freed and is set to return to Israel, Israel’s Channel 12 reported. According to the news report, Francis Adbabayi, a 79-year-old resident of Rishon Lezion, was rescued by Ethiopian special forces in a daring operation near the Sudanese border. The rescue mission reportedly involved a shootout with Adbabayi’s captors, ultimately resulting in his liberation. The Channel 12 report further revealed that Adbabayi’s family took matters into their own hands when they grew dissatisfied with the handling of the situation by the Foreign Ministry. They reached out to National Unity MK Pnina Tamano-Shata for assistance.

Devon Archer, a former business associate and close friend of Hunter Biden, delivered stunning testimony on Monday before the House Oversight Committee. The testimony sheds light on an alleged incident that took place in 2015, involving Hunter Biden and top executives of Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas firm. According to Fox News, Archer disclosed that Hunter Biden and Burisma executives made a series of phone calls to Washington D.C. in a bid to seek the Obama administration’s assistance in removing the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the firm for corruption. The prosecutor in question was Viktor Shokin, who had Burisma Holdings under investigation at the time.

Ron DeSantis is getting trampled by the Trump Train. The latest New York Times-Siena poll shows former President Donald Trump extending his lead over the Florida governor by a staggering 27 points. In a hypothetical head-to-head race, the poll reveals Trump outpacing DeSantis by a 2 to 1 margin. According to the report by Shane Goldmacher for the NY Times, DeSantis’s key campaign arguments, including claims of greater electability and more effective governance, have so far failed to resonate with voters. Even among Republicans who are motivated by issues that have fueled DeSantis’s rise, such as combating “radical woke ideology,” the majority favored the former president.

Denmark’s foreign minister said Sunday the government will seek to make it illegal to desecrate the Quran or other religious holy books in front of foreign embassies in the Nordic country. Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said in an interview with the Danish public broadcaster DR that the burning of holy scriptures “only serves the purpose of creating division in a world that actually needs unity.” “That is why we have decided in the government that we will look at how, in very special situations, we can put an end to mockery of other countries, which is in direct conflict with Danish interests and the safety of the Danes,” he said.

Mossad head Dovid Barnea secretly visited Washington almost two weeks ago for talks with senior US officials about the Biden administration’s efforts to forge a Saudi-Israeli normalization deal, Axios reported on Monday. However, according to the report, which was based on two US sources, the normalization issue is only one part of possible US-Saudi agreements, and the Israeli government wanted to discuss other issues that could affect Israeli security, including possible US support for a Saudi civilian nuclear program and US arms sales to the kingdom.

Media outlets in India and Israel on Monday reported that an attempted terror attack on the Chabad house in Mumbai was thwarted by Indian intelligence officials in recent days. According to reports, Indian security officials, in cooperation with Israeli security services, arrested two Islamic suspects of Pakistani origin who were allegedly planning to carry out an imminent attack on the Mumbai Chabad house, the site of the deadly terror attack in 2008 by an Islamist Pakistani terror group in which six Jews were brutally murdered. The attack was planned as part of a series of bombings by the Islamist Al-Sufa terror group. The suspects, both of Pakistani origin, had photos of the Chabad house in their possession, along with explosives, drone equipment, and terror-related books in Arabic.