POTUS: “After so many decades of conflict, finally it is within our grasp to reach the future that generations before us could only dream about— a land of peace, safety, harmony, opportunity, innovation, and achievement right here in the Middle East.”

By all moral accounts, this should be simple. The Orthodox Jewish community stands at a critical juncture as New York City’s mayoral race heats up. On one side: Mayor Eric Adams—a proven friend who’s stood up for us when it mattered most. On the other: disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo—a man whose policies killed thousands and whose lockdown-era rhetoric fueled antisemitism well before it became hip for college kids to run around in keffiyehs. Yet somehow, instead of locking arms with the mayor who had our back, some in our community are cozying up to Cuomo. It’s an outrage, a betrayal, and a chillul Hashem. Let’s not dance around the truth. Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-era nursing home policies led to the deaths of 15,000 elderly New Yorkers.

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President Trump takes the stage at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh for the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum

Israeli President Yitzchok Herzog speaks to Edan Alexander: “We thought about you all the time; you were in the hearts of half the world.”

POTUS: “With this historic state visit, we celebrate more than 80 years of close partnership between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia… Today, we reaffirm this important bond—and we take the next steps to make our relationship closer, stronger, and more powerful than ever before.”

Major preparations underway in Meron, ahead of a flood of visitors arriving to celebrate Lag BaOmer.

President Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman arrive at the US Saudi Investment Forum where Trump is set to speak.

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