She introduced herself as “Anna Elena,” supposedly a Canadian citizen engaged in road safety advocacy in the United Kingdom. She reached out asking for assistance with her “life-saving work in Israel.” But, as revealed by Israel’s Shin Bet security service, she was actually working for Iranian intelligence. Her initial instructions seemed harmless—putting up posters—but they gradually turned into more dangerous assignments, including digging up a planted phone, paying others to carry out tasks, and even proposing acts of violence and sabotage.

While completing a master’s degree in data analysis, Palwasha Zahid moved from Dallas to a town near Silicon Valley. The location made it easy to visit the campuses of tech stalwarts such as Google, Apple, and Nvidia. Zahid, 25, completed her studies in December, but so far she hasn’t found a job in the industry that surrounds her. “It stings a little bit,” she said. “I never imagined it would be this difficult just to get a foot in the door.” Young people graduating from college this spring and summer are facing one of the toughest job markets in more than a decade. The unemployment rate for degree holders ages 22 to 27 has reached its highest level in a dozen years, excluding the coronavirus pandemic.

Some moments in life last for more than a moment. There are moments that can be pivotal in giving someone a sense of purpose, belonging or safety. Times that last in their memories and make an impact far deeper than the day to day of life. A person may remember the time when someone showed up for them when they were in a truly vulnerable state and it made all the difference. And devastatingly, the moment that they learned that the world wasn’t safe and that people can’t be trusted. In Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an attachment injury occurs when someone is going through intense hardship and desperately needs their primary attachment figure to be there for them- and they’re not.

The Knesset Subcommittee on Foreign Policy and Public Diplomacy, led by Yesh Atid MK Moshe Tur-Paz, held a session on Wednesday to evaluate global perceptions of Israel following Operation Rising Lion, the military campaign against Iran.
Prior to the session, the committee reached out to the Harris-Harvard polling institute for data intended to gauge the effectiveness of Israel’s international messaging efforts. According to the committee, the purpose was “to understand the state of Israel’s public diplomacy, the challenges it faces, its successes in crafting effective campaigns, and how well it understands key target audiences in the US.”

The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, ferried there by SpaceX on a private flight. The crew of four will spend two weeks at the orbiting lab, performing dozens of experiments. They launched Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. America’s most experienced astronaut, Peggy Whitson, is the commander of the visiting crew. She works for Axiom Space, the Houston company that arranged the chartered flight. Besides Whitson, the crew includes India’s Shubhanshu Shukla, a pilot in the Indian Air Force; Hungary’s Tibor Kapu, a mechanical engineer; and Poland’s Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski, a radiation expert and one of the European Space Agency’s project astronauts on temporary flight duty.

President Trump on Thursday alleged that members of the Democratic Party in Congress were behind the leak of a classified Pentagon assessment regarding the effectiveness of recent U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear sites.
“The Democrats are the ones who leaked the information on the PERFECT FLIGHT to the Nuclear Sites in Iran. They should be prosecuted!” Trump posted on Truth Social.
So far, there is no confirmation that Trump possesses direct evidence identifying who leaked the Defense Intelligence Agency’s early report, which was released after the strikes and suggested Iran’s nuclear program might only have suffered a temporary delay.

New details are emerging about the extent of American involvement in Operation Rising Lion, Israel’s military campaign to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program and cripple its military might. It has now been revealed that U.S. Air Force refueling planes assisted the Israeli Air Force throughout the campaign, conducting mid-air refueling for Israeli fighter jets on their long-range missions to strike targets inside Iran. The American support helped ease the burden on Israel’s aging and limited fleet of aerial tankers as Israeli warplanes executed hundreds of sorties deep into enemy territory.

Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz said in a televised interview Wednesday night that Israel had been prepared to assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but never had a viable opportunity. “If he had been in our sights, we would have taken him out,” Katz told Channel 13. “We wanted to eliminate Khamenei, but there was no operational opportunity.” The comments mark the first public confirmation that the Israeli war cabinet seriously considered targeting Iran’s highest-ranking figure — a move that would have shattered diplomatic norms, likely triggered a regional war, and tested the outer limits of U.S.-Israeli coordination.

President Donald Trump stated that Iran’s nuclear materials remained in place at the sites struck by American forces, reinforcing comments made earlier in the day by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said there was no indication that Iran relocated its uranium stockpile ahead of the weekend’s military operation.
“Nothing was taken out of the facility. Would take too long, too dangerous, and very heavy and hard to move!” Trump wrote.
Despite those assertions, The Financial Times reported Thursday that European officials believe Iran’s reserves of highly enriched uranium were not significantly damaged in the strikes.

* Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell now heads into his next challenge: a potential threat that President Donald Trump could undermine his authority by soon naming his pick to head the central bank. * In the wake of the intense criticism, Wall Street has been buzzing over the potential for a “shadow chair,” or someone Trump could install as a central bank gadfly until Powell’s term expires. * A report indicated that Trump is considering naming the successor sooner than expected in an attempt to influence interest rate policy.

The Trump administration is preparing to enter next week’s renewed nuclear negotiations with Iran armed with a fresh set of hardline demands, aiming to cement the gains made during the recent joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Tehran’s nuclear infrastructure. According to reports, the U.S. will insist on three non-negotiable conditions before any substantive talks can resume: a total ban on uranium enrichment inside Iran, the removal of all highly enriched uranium currently in Iranian stockpiles, and new limitations on Tehran’s missile development program.

Baby Moishy, just 9 months old, is fighting for his life. His father already gave part of his liver to save him. Now, Moishy needs emergency heart surgery — but the only doctors who can help are far beyond what the family can afford. From his hospital bed, his father cries: “I gave my son my liver. I’d give him my heart if I could… but now, I have nothing left except this plea.” ⏳ Urgent Need: \$200,000 ❤️ Every bit counts With a blessing from Rabbi Meir Sirota: “This is pikuach nefesh. May helping bring bracha to your home.” 📍 Donate now:

The Trump administration’s vaccine advisers are bringing up an old flu-shot debate: whether it’s time to wipe out the last small fraction of those vaccines that contain a controversial preservative called thimerosal. It’s a question seemingly laid to rest years ago, as studies showed no evidence that the preservative causes any health problems. “This is really a nonissue,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here are some things to know about the substance. What is thimerosal? Thimerosal is a preservative used in certain vaccines since the 1930s, as well as in some other medical products. It was mostly used in multi-dose vials of vaccine, to prevent bacterial contamination as the vessel was repeatedly punctured to withdraw a dose.

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