Former President Joe Biden in first public appearance since announcement of cancer diagnosis: REPORTER: “How are you feeling?” BIDEN: “I’m feeling good.” REPORTER: Have you decided on your treatment options?” BIDEN: “Yeah, we have. They’re under way. All the folks are very optimistic…It’s all a matter of taking a pill…”

Joe Biden admitted he’s mentally incompetent, can’t walk, and that he would have won the 2024 election: “I’m mentally incompetent, and I can’t walk, and I can beat the hell out of both of them! Why didn’t they run against me then, I woulda’ beaten them!”

President Trump praises Elon Musk’s work on DOGE: “Elon’s delivered a colossal change in the old ways of doing business in Washington.”

At a pre-Shavuos gathering in Ra’anana, the noted posek and member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein, delivered powerful words of chizuk to a group of Brazilian olim, expressing wonder and gratitude over the miraculous survival of the Jewish people in Eretz Yisroel despite overwhelming odds.
The remarks were delivered following Rav Zilberstein’s regular Thursday evening shiur for doctors from hospitals across the country, held at Mayanei HaYeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak.

An Alaska man who was pinned facedown in an icy creek by a 700-pound (318-kilogram) boulder for three hours survived the ordeal with only minor injuries, thanks in part to his wife’s quick thinking and lots of luck. Kell Morris’ wife held his head above water to prevent him from drowning while waiting for rescuers to arrive after Morris was pinned by the boulder, which crashed onto him during a hike near a remote glacier south of Anchorage. His second stroke of luck came when a sled dog tourism company that operates on the glacier overheard the 911 dispatch and offered up its helicopter to ferry rescuers to the scene, which was inaccessible to all-terrain vehicles.

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu underwent a scheduled colonoscopy on Friday morning at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Yerushalayim.
His office later issued a statement confirming that the procedure had gone smoothly. Netanyahu expressed gratitude to the medical professionals involved in the exam, naming Professor Eran Goldin, Professor Yaakov Gozal, Dr. Ariel Benson, and nurse Galit Peres for their care.
The Prime Minister’s personal doctor, Dr. Herman Berkovitz, was also present during the examination to oversee the process.

YWN is please to share the news that the Rosh HaYeshiva of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia, Harav Shmuel Kamenetsky shlit”a, has been discharged from the hospital and is now on his way home. According to an official statement released by the yeshiva, the doctors are very pleased with the Rosh Yeshiva’s progress, noting significant improvement in his condition. This follows his recent hospitalization due to weakness, which prompted a global outpouring of tefillos from Yidden across the world. The yeshiva has requested that Klal Yisroel continue to daven for a complete refuah sheleimah for Shmuel ben Itta Ettil, b’soch sha’ar cholei Yisroel. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

The Department of Homeland Security is putting more than 500 “sanctuary jurisdictions” across the country on notice that the Trump administration views them as obstructing immigration enforcement as it attempts to increase pressure on communities it believes are standing in the way of the president’s mass deportations agenda. The department on Thursday published a list of the jurisdictions and said each one will receive formal notification that the government has deemed them noncompliant and if they’re believed to be in violation of any federal criminal statutes. The list was published on the department’s website.