A chareidi man on Thursday won NIS 500,000 from a lottery ticket that he purchased in a Bnei Brak store, the first card that he ever bought, spending NIS 50 on the ‘Chish Gad’ scratch ticket.
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When Chad Johansen voted for Donald Trump in 2016, he hoped he was picking someone who could help small-business owners compete with bigger companies. But that hasn’t happened, and now the 26-year-old owner of NH iPhone Repair feels what he calls “Trumpgret.”
The Republican president has done little to address health care issues for a small employer, he said, and the Manchester man remains on edge about how Trump’s tariffs could affect his business, which employs fewer than 10 people.

A Hatzolah Paramedic responding to an emergency was detained by an NYPD Officer on Thursday.
Sources tell YWN that the Paramedic was responding to a cardiac emergency in the Forest Hills section of Queens at around 5:00PM, when he was pulled over by an officer of the NYPD Highway Patrol (Division 3 – Queens).

Yahadut Hatorah has launched its election campaign and there are already billboards around Israel showing Gedolei Yisrael, including HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita. Billboards have already been seen on the Ayalon Highway.

MK (Blue & White) Moshe Ya’alon, who holds the third slot on the Blue & White party list, spoke out against “secular coercion”, prompted by the Moti Steinmetz concert in Afula on Wednesday night.
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Refuah Institute Trains Hundreds to Become Catalysts for Change in Their Communities
Refuah Institute’s unique Torah-based coaching program combines scientific methods with Torah wisdom, empowering graduates to enable others to achieve success and fulfillment in their work and life.

A former Blackwater security contractor was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for his role in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq that left 14 people dead.
Federal judge Royce Lamberth issued the sentence after a succession of friends and relatives requested leniency for Nicholas Slatten, who was found guilty of first-degree murder by a jury in December.

U.S. health officials are making a new attempt at adding graphic images to cigarette packets to discourage and Americans from lighting up. If successful, it would be the first change to U.S.
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Philadelphia police say at least five people were shot in the city’s Ogontz neighborhood Thursday.
Cops were called to the scene in the 5800 block of North 15th Street around 5:00 p.m.

United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center received an emergency phone call on Thursday afternoon regarding a Jet Ski that had stopped working in the middle of the Kinneret stranding two children and an adult family member.