A 19-year-old woman who gained notoriety for ripping down posters of kidnapped Israeli children in the wake of Hamas’ October 7 massacre was arrested early Wednesday after a violent attack on NYPD officers in Times Square, the New York Post reported. Dana Baraket, the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, approached two officers near Broadway and 47th Street around 1:20 a.m., police sources told The Post. Without warning, she sprayed them in the eyes and face with pepper spray, then tried to seize one of their firearms while yelling “kill me,” law enforcement officials said. Baraket was tackled and arrested on the spot before she could get hold of the weapon.

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu paid a visit to Mossad headquarters on Wednesday evening, meeting with Mossad Director David Barnea and the organization’s senior leadership team.
During the meeting, Netanyahu voiced his gratitude to the Mossad personnel for their critical and exceptional role in Operation Rising Lion, as well as for their longstanding work in intelligence and operational activities aimed at countering Iran’s ambitions.
Netanyahu said, “The Mossad operation with the pagers set in motion everything that happened afterward – the elimination of Nasrallah, the collapse of Assad and our subsequent joint action in removing the immediate existential threat.”

A declassified CIA memo released Wednesday challenges the work intelligence agencies did to conclude that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election because it wanted Republican Donald Trump to win. The memo was written on the orders of CIA Director John Ratcliffe, a Trump loyalist who spoke out against the Russia investigation as a member of Congress. It finds fault with a 2017 intelligence assessment that concluded the Russian government, at the direction of President Vladimir Putin, waged a covert influence campaign to help Trump win. It does not address that multiple investigations since then, including a report from the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee in 2020, reached the same conclusion about Russia’s influence and motives.

Amazon has restarted deliveries to Israel after suspending new orders during last month’s military conflict with Iran, which saw the country’s airspace and major airports effectively shut down. The e-commerce giant halted shipments in mid-June, when the 12-day war forced the closure of Ben Gurion Airport to most commercial and cargo flights. With air routes gradually reopening, Amazon is once again processing and shipping orders to Israeli customers. Still, the company warns of continued disruptions. “We are experiencing shipping delays in your area,” Amazon’s Israel website cautions – a message that has been posted for years but underscoring persistent logistical challenges. Customers have been advised to expect longer-than-usual delivery times as operations fully recover.

Two children, a 5-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl, were found in serious condition on Thursday afternoon after being in a closed car for about two hours in Elyakhin, a yishuv south of Hadera. MDA and Hatzalah paramedics and medics who were called to the scene gave them initial medical treatment and evacuated them, showing signs of heatstroke, to Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera. The incident began when a report was received at the Hadera police station that the boy and toddler had left their home and disappeared. Police officers carried out extensive searches in cooperation with volunteers and inspectors from the Elyachin local council and managed to locate the children in the vehicle. The police have opened an investigation into the incident.

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Kentucky has its first measles outbreak of 2025, as the U.S. case count sits just short of a 30-year high. There have been 1,267 confirmed measles cases this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. Texas confirmed three more measles cases this week tied to a major outbreak that raged through the late winter and spring. There are three other large outbreaks in North America. The longest, in Ontario, Canada, has resulted in 2,212 cases from mid-October through June 24. The province logged its first death June 5 in a baby who got congenital measles but also had other preexisting conditions. Another outbreak in Alberta, Canada, has sickened 1,169 as of Wednesday.