BROOKLYN – A career firebug with a history of arson has been arrested for setting off a raging three-alarm blaze that destroyed a residential building in Bedford-Stuyvesant last week, the FDNY announce

Family getting up: Tuesday (6/17/25)Morning Mrs. Suzanne Schwartz Daughter

El Al is facing a bombshell class action lawsuit accusing the national carrier of exploiting a time of national tragedy for massive financial gain. Filed Wednesday in the Central District Court in Lod, the lawsuit alleges that El Al engaged in widespread price gouging in the immediate aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks, when most foreign airlines suspended operations and El Al became the dominant — and often only — option for air travel in and out of Israel. The suit, led by attorney Ilan Verednikov and backed by legal heavyweights Dr. Tal Rotman and Adi Zitron of the Perl Cohen law firm, accuses El Al of leveraging its monopoly status to hike ticket prices well beyond what was justified by operational costs.

Yamam special forces and IDF and Shin Bet forces eliminated the terrorist Raed Basharat, the head of Islamic Jihad in the Palestinian town of Tamun, overnight Tuesday, Israel Police announced on Wednesday morning. “He was involved in planning and carrying out attacks against security forces and Israeli civilians,” the police statement said. “During the operation, two additional terrorists were arrested in their hideout.”

Inflation in May came in LIGHTER THAN EXPECTED for yet another month. Inflation has come in BELOW economists’ expectations every single month since President Trump took office.

AG Pam Bondi: “After the October 7 anniversary, they added new drinks to the menu. One was ‘Sweet Sinwar’ in honor, of tribute to the leader of Hamas … You can’t do that. And so we’ve sued them and we’re gonna stop this from happening. And anywhere in the country, if you do this, we’re coming after you”

Antisemite Greta Thunberg returns to Sweden, celebrated by other pro-terrorist supporters as a hero after what they claim is her “victory” over Israel.

Speaker Mike Johnson will address a special session of the Israeli Knesset on June 22 at the invitation of Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana.

President Trump on California governor Gavin Newsom: “All I want him to do is do a good job. I’d rather have him do a good job than a bad job…It is the one of the worst-run places. We have a lot of them — and in almost all cases, run by Democrats.”

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir met with troops in the Gaza Strip earlier today, telling them of plans he recently approved to expand several units and change the military’s structure.

WATCH: A building that was previously targeted in an IDF air strike in Burj Al-Barajan, Beirut, has been fully demolished.

Harav Yitzchak Yosef shlit”a, the nasi of the Moetzes Chachmei Hatorah, seen visiting the Ohr Chaim kehilla in Montreal, Canada.

SOUTH BLOOMING GROVE NEAR KJ: A three-car crash on Route 208 during Wednesday morning rush hour brought traffic to a standstill, effectively cutting off the Village of South Blooming Grove for nearly an hour. The accident, which occurred as children headed to school and commuters hit the road, created gridlock with no viable detours, delaying buses and stranding residents. Locals once again called on officials for urgent infrastructure improvements, warning that the village remains dangerously vulnerable whenever Route 208 is blocked.

Elon Musk issued a public apology on social media for comments he made last week targeting President Donald Trump, admitting that some of his remarks were overly severe.
“I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,” Musk shared in a post on X.
Tensions between Musk and Trump ignited when Musk blasted the president’s budget plan and expressed concerns over how it might harm the electric car sector. Musk even resurfaced older statements made by Trump about the national debt and followed them up with mocking commentary.

Three kedoshei elyon had one common concept when it came to learning Torah – they were the Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh (Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar 1696-1743) when he came to Eretz Yisroel; the Ramchal (Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto 1707-1746) when he lived in Padua, Italy;  and Hagaon, Harav Chaim Volozhiner, (1749-1821) the famous talmid of the Gaon of Vilna. They each had a yeshiva with ‘around-the-clock’ Torah learning, 24-hours a day, so that there would be no minute when the sound of Torah learning would not be heard in this world. The 24-hour period would be divided into shifts, and as one ended the next would begin. Torah-24 A “Torah-24” Center has been opened in Yerushalayim and the Nasi is Maran Sar Hatorah, Harav Chaim Kanievsky, zt”l.

President Donald Trump is looking to cancel $9.4 billion in spending already approved by Congress. That’s just a sliver of the $1.7 trillion that lawmakers OK’d for the budget year ending Sept. 30. The package of 21 budget rescissions will have to be approved by both chambers of Congress for the cuts to take place, beginning with a House vote expected Thursday. Otherwise, the spending remains in place. The White House is betting that cutting federal investments in public media and some foreign aid programs will prove politically popular. Republicans say if this first effort is successful, they hope more rescission packages will follow as they look to continue work by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency once run by billionaire Elon Musk.

South Korea’s military shut down loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korea propaganda along the inter-Korean border on Wednesday, marking the new liberal government’s first concrete step toward easing tensions between the war-divided rivals. The South resumed the daily loudspeaker broadcasts in June last year following a yearslong pause in retaliation for North Korea flying trash-laden balloons toward the South in a psychological warfare campaign.

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