A delegation from the New York State Police Police Benevolent Association (PBA), accompanied by Law Enforcement Chaplain Rabbi Abe Friedman, visited Chaverim of Rockland’s headquarters on Thursday afternoon to learn more about the organization’s operations and explore ways to strengthen cooperation. The tour was led by Chaverim of Rockland Coordinator Yossi Margaretten, who was joined by other dedicated Chaverim volunteers. The delegation included top PBA officials and heads of various State Police Troops, among them 1st Vice President Andrew Davis, 2nd Vice President Jason Sheridan, Troop T Head Anthony Nigro, Troop F Head Paul Catrona, and Troop G & H Head Thomas Kuchark.

Turkey conveyed an early warning to Iran about a Mossad assassination plan shortly before Operation Rising Lion was launched, a report published in the Arab newspaper Rai al-Youm on Sunday morning revealed. According to a Turkish diplomatic source quoted in the article, Ankara warned Tehran of Israel’s intention to carry out a series of assassinations, including Revolutionary Guards officials, in the Iranian capital. The report claims that Pakistan also provided detailed warnings, but according to the source, the Iranian authorities chose to ignore them as well.

Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg on Sunday rejected the petitions seeking to halt the hearing for Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and freeze the process of her dismissal. The decision comes after the government submitted a response to the Supreme Court earlier on Sunday regarding the petitions against the dismissal, arguing that issuing an interim order to freeze the process would constitute an overreach of the court’s authority. Sohlberg wrote in the decision: “The well-established rule, which has been applied only recently, is that this court does not address claims relating to a particular matter before a final decision has been made by the authorized body regarding that matter.

Yisrael Frey, a far-left chareidi journalist whose inflammatory celebration of the deaths of five IDF soldiers sparked national outrage, was released to house arrest earlier today following a week of detention in a high-security prison. Frey, who had been held under the rare designation of a “security prisoner,” will remain confined to his home until at least Friday, according to police. Frey’s arrest followed a tweet in which he said, “The world is a better place” after five Israeli soldiers were killed by roadside bombs in Gaza. Four of the soldiers belonged to the Netzah Yehuda battalion, a unit composed largely of frum troops.

A disturbing new report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reveals a dark undercurrent in American public opinion: nearly one in four Americans believe attacks targeting Jews are “understandable.” The findings, released Friday by the ADL’s Center for Antisemitism Research, come in the aftermath of three chilling incidents: the arson attack on Jewish Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s home on Pesach, the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy workers in Washington, D.C. in May, and the firebombing of a hostage solidarity rally in Boulder, Colorado, just last month. All three attacks were carried out by suspects claiming to act in the name of Palestine.

President Donald Trump came to the defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi in a fiery Truth Social post Saturday, pushing back against growing backlash from within his own base over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. In a nearly 400-word statement, Trump dismissed renewed demands for answers about Epstein’s 2019 death in federal custody and the alleged high-profile names linked to his trafficking network, telling supporters bluntly: “Nobody cares about Epstein.” “What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’” Trump wrote. “They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB!

A video of Rabbi Eli Stefansky addressing public questions about the $8 million Aron Kodesh built for Ateres Shlomo—under the leadership of Harav Sholom Ber Sorotzkin shlit”a—is rapidly going viral. In it, Rabbi Stefansky lays out the financial and spiritual rationale, and how the investment spurred unprecedented donations in support of Torah.

A second pro-Hamas protest flotilla departed for the Gaza Strip from Siracusa, Italy, on Sunday morning, a little over a month after a previous attempt to breach Israel’s naval blockade was peacefully intercepted by the Israeli Navy. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), the group behind the earlier mission, is behind the launch of the new vessel, the Handala. French Member of the European Parliament Emma Fourreau and French MP Gabrielle Cathala are among those on board. In the previous attempt last month, the Madleen, with high-profile figures aboard such as Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and MEP Rima Hassan, was intercepted by Shayetet 13 naval commandos. The activists were peacefully detained, taken to Israel, and later deported. (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

Hamas is expected to ramp up efforts to kidnap Israeli soldiers and recover the bodies of fallen troops in Gaza in a bid to gain leverage in ceasefire negotiations, according to experts cited by The Guardian. “There is no doubt Hamas will increase its attempts to take new hostages, including the bodies of dead soldiers and civilians,” said Michael Milshtein, head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University. His comments follow the death of St.-Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Avraham Azulay, 25, who was killed last week in Khan Yunis after Hamas terrorists emerged from a tunnel and attempted to abduct him. The IDF said Azulay fought back before being fatally shot. Other soldiers engaged and eliminated several attackers, preventing the abduction.

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)’s Dror 1 communications satellite was successfully launched into space early Sunday morning from the SpaceX launch facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch took place shortly after 8 a.m. (Israeli time) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher. The Dror 1 satellite, Israel’s first communications satellite, weighs 4.5 tons, has a wingspan of 17.8 meters, and bears the largest transmission and reception antennas ever built in Israel. It is intended to serve Israel’s strategic and civilian communications for about 15 years.   (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)