הרבי מרחמסטריווקא במוצ”ש באלעדצילום: שוקי לרר
הרבי מרחמסטריווקא במוצ”ש באלעדצילום: שוקי לרר
הרבי מרחמסטריווקא במוצ”ש באלעדצילום: שוקי לרר

The Slabodka Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Dov Landau, successfully underwent surgery on Friday to repair a fracture at Maayanei HaYeshua Hospital in Bnei Brak.
As previously reported on Matzav.com, Rav Landau had suffered a fall at his home and was subsequently transported to the hospital.
Following medical consultation and a series of tests overseen by the renowned medical advisor Rav Elimelech Firer, the decision was made to proceed with surgery to address the fracture.
The procedure was performed by Dr. Itay Holzer, director of the hospital’s Orthopedic Department. Boruch Hashem, the Rosh Yeshiva emerged from surgery and was transferred to the recovery room, where he remained over Shabbos.

Minister Meir Porush paid a visit to the home of Maran Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, one of the Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka, and during the visit, a conversation unfolded between the minister and the Rosh Yeshiva, centering on the grave situation currently facing Eretz Yisroel. Porush asked Rav Hirsch about the challenges surrounding the ongoing war and the looming gezeirah of forced conscription.
In the conversation, Porush asked, “What will be with our situation?”
Rav Hirsch replied, “Hashem will help. What can we say? We have no one to rely upon except Avinu Shebashomayim. That is clear in such a situation. The entire Eretz Yisroel is in a terrible state.”

In his first televised interview aired Friday, former hostage Ron Krivoi opened up about his time in Hamas captivity and shared chilling details about the abuse suffered by another hostage, Matan Angrest, who remains imprisoned in Gaza, Times of Israel reports.
Krivoi, who holds dual Israeli-Russian citizenship, was kidnapped from the Nova music festival and later freed during the November 2023 ceasefire, reportedly as a gesture by Hamas toward Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“As a person, I’m a quiet man, I live my life. That’s why I didn’t give interviews, I just continued my life as it was before – that’s what I asked for, to return to my life,” Krivoi told Channel 12 news during the interview.

Tonight, Israel Police and the Border Police announced the death of Sergeant Neta Yitzchok Kahana, an undercover officer with the Border Police’s Southern District, who was killed during a confrontation with terrorists in southern Gaza on Friday.
Authorities confirmed that Kahana’s family had been notified and pledged that both the Israel Police and Border Police would offer their full support to the grieving relatives throughout this difficult time.
“Israel Police bows its head and mourns the fall of the brave fighter who fell while defending the security of the State of Israel and its citizens,” the police said in an official statement.

Israel has employed artificial intelligence on a scale never seen before in its military campaign in Gaza, with many of the systems created through partnerships between active-duty intelligence soldiers and reservists employed at major tech companies, The New York Times reported Friday, citing sources from European, American, and Israeli defense circles.

By preventing the enlistment of chareidim, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s government had been holding Israel back from achieving a decisive victory over Hamas in Gaza, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett charged.
In a detailed tweet, Bennett argued that Israel’s persistent military “stumbling in Gaza stemmed directly from government policy that deprived the IDF of the main tool required for victory: fighters.”

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu condemned a protest in Tel Aviv where demonstrators displayed masks of his face surrounding a protester wrapped in faux-bloody bandages during an anti-government rally.
“This needs to be said in a clear voice. The severed heads, as well as the protests today, have nothing to do with the hostages. On the contrary, these are people who decided to sacrifice the hostages in an attempt to overthrow the government,” the conservative Tikva Forum wrote in a post that Netanyahu’s official Twitter account shared.

President Donald Trump expressed doubt Saturday that Russia’s Vladimir Putin truly wanted to end the war in Ukraine, casting fresh skepticism over the possibility of a peace agreement. Just one day earlier, Trump had said Ukraine and Russia were “very close to a deal.”
“There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,” Trump wrote in a social media post as he traveled back to the United States following his attendance at Pope Francis’ funeral at the Vatican, where he briefly met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Trump also suggested the possibility of new sanctions targeting Russia.

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