A heartbreaking tragedy occurred in Crown Heights on Shabbos afternoon, when 8-year-old Mordica (Mordechai) Keller Z”L, a young Lubavitcher boy, was struck and killed while crossing Eastern Parkway at Albany Avenue around 5:30 PM. According to NYPD, the child was hit by a black Honda Pilot driven by a 69-year-old man. The driver remained at the scene and has not been arrested, though an investigation is underway. Hatzalah rushed to the scene and transported the child to Kings County Hospital, where he was tragically pronounced dead on arrival. Chessed Shel Emes is working to ensure proper Kovod Hames. Boruch Dayan HaEmmes…

ELIMINATED: IDF forces on Friday carried out an airstrike on Friday and eliminated the terrorist Hakham Muhammad Issa Al-Issa in Gaza City. Issa Al-Issa was a founder of Hamas and a senior figure in the terror group’s military wing. Most recently, he served as the head of the Combat Support and Administrative Headquarters of Hamas.

More new drone footage shows the scenes of the Iranian ballistic missile impact at Soroka Hospital last week.

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TRAGEDY IN CROWN HEIGHTS: A heartbreaking tragedy occurred in Crown Heights on Shabbos afternoon, when 8-year-old Mordica (Mordechai) Keller Z”L, a young Lubavitcher boy, was struck and killed while crossing Eastern Parkway at Albany Avenue around 5:30 PM. According to NYPD, the child was hit by a black Honda Pilot driven by a 69-year-old man. The driver remained at the scene and has not been arrested, though an investigation is underway. Hatzalah rushed to the scene and transported the child to Kings County Hospital, where he was tragically pronounced dead on arrival. Chessed Shel Emes is working to ensure proper Kovod Hames.

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Israeli spies had infiltrated deep into Iran’s nuclear and missile programs long before launching recent strikes, conducting years of covert surveillance and gathering detailed intelligence on Tehran’s weapons infrastructure—which was found to be far more advanced and widespread than previously believed. According to leaked intelligence documents obtained by The Times and shared with Western allies including the U.S. and the UK, the Mossad and other branches of Israeli military intelligence concluded that Iran’s nuclear development extended far beyond the known facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Their findings suggested a vast and rapidly advancing network of weapons production sites.

Israeli and US airstrikes on the Isfahan nuclear site in Iran destroyed equipment necessary to produce nuclear weapons, the New York Times reported. According to the report, the equipment would have been used to carry out the process of metallization that converts enriched uranium gas into metal, one of the last steps needed to produce the explosive core inside a nuclear bomb. The report quotes analysts who said that the destruction of the equipment means that Iran is not capable of producing a nuclear bomb in the near future. “It’s a bottleneck,” David Albright, a former UN nuclear inspector, told NYT. “They have to rebuild it.” (YWN’s Jerusalem desk is keeping you updated after tzeis ha’Shabbos in Israel)

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