Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk issued a rare public mea culpa Wednesday, admitting that his social media attacks on President Donald Trump last week had crossed the line. “I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,” Musk wrote on his platform X, just days after igniting a firestorm by suggesting that Trump was named in the sealed Jeffrey Epstein files and had suppressed their release. Musk also endorsed calls for Trump’s impeachment, urging his removal in favor of Vice President J.D. Vance — a post that has since been deleted.

Dramatic conversations are taking place in the halls of the Knesset and l’havdil in the homes of Gedolei Yisrael on Wednesday, after the opposition parties announced earlier in the day that they are advancing the bill to dissolve the Knesset, with the hope that the Chareidi parties will help them bring down the government. As YWN has reported, HaRav Landau and HaRav Hirsch have instructed the UTJ members to vote for the dissolution of the government due to the lack of a bill to regulate the status of lomdei Torah. The bill being advanced by Yuli Edelstein, the head of the Knesset’s Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, calls for draconian financial sanctions against bnei yeshivos and was not approved by the Chareidi MKs.

The Trump administration on Tuesday slammed the “extremely unhelpful” sanctions imposed on Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich by the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway. “They should focus on the real culprit, which is Hamas,” State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said. “We remain concerned about any step that would further isolate Israel from the international community,” she continued. “If our allies want to help, they should focus on supporting special envoy Witkoff’s negotiations and backing the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation when it comes to food and aid.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio also issued a statement slamming the move.

Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb, a senior official in the IDF’s Personnel Directorate, declared on Wednesday morning in a discussion in the Knesset’s Subcommittee on Human Resources in the IDF that beginning on June 30, approximately 54,000 conscription orders will be sent to bnei yeshivos. “During the month of July, 54,000 summons for initial conscription will be issued, spread over the coming year until June 2026, in addition to the 24,000 orders that have already been sent,” Tayeb said. Tayeb also revealed that IDF policy has been changed in order to significantly shorten the process of declaring draft dodgers and enable the military police to carry out increased enforcement measures.

President Donald Trump held a tense 40-minute phone conversation with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday night, telling him that the “war in Gaza has run its course” and demanding that Israel refrain from attacking Iran, Channel 12 News reported. The report, based on unnamed sources, said that Trump demanded that Netanyahu make efforts to end the war in Gaza, emphasizing that the end of the war would help the US in its negotiations with Iran and in promoting normalization with Saudi Arabia. Regarding the US talks with Iran, Netanyahu told Trump that Iran “is deceiving you” and that the negotiations should be halted as they are futile.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a strong rebuke on Tuesday against the move by five allied nations—Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway—to sanction Israeli Ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. Rubio urged these governments to reconsider their decision immediately.
“The United States condemns the sanctions imposed by the governments of United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, New Zealand, and Australia on two sitting members of the Israeli cabinet. These sanctions do not advance US-led efforts to achieve a ceasefire, bring all hostages home, and end the war,” Rubio said in a public statement.