Three Jewish boys were subjected to a violent antisemitic assault at Hampstead Underground Station in North West London. According to Shomrim North West London, the teens were attacked by a group of six to seven males. One of the victims required hospitalization for observation following the assault. Shomrim has issued a public appeal for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward, urging them to contact 0300 999 1234 and reference case number NW209 – 26 May 2025. The organization is collaborating closely with the British Transport Police to support the ongoing investigation. Shomrim is encouraging anyone who has experienced or witnessed antisemitic crimes to reach out. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
Three more of the 10 inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail earlier this month were re-arrested Monday in two different states after more than a week on the lam, authorities said. One of the men was arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by local police and two others were arrested in Walker County, Texas, by officials there, Louisiana State Police posted on the platform X. Two more inmates are still on the run, state police said. No other details were immediately released about Monday’s arrests. Authorities have been scouring the New Orleans area for the men after they escaped in an audacious May 16 jailbreak. The men yanked open a faulty cell door inside a jail, squeezed through a hole behind a toilet, scaled a barbed-wire fence and fled into the coverage of darkness. The inmates’ absence wasn’t discovered until a morning headcount, hours after they bolted for freedom. Graffiti left on the wall included the message “To Easy LoL,” with an arrow pointing to the gap. City and state officials have pointed to multiple security lapses in the jail. Louisiana authorities named the latest inmates who were recaptured as Lenton Vanburen, Leo Tate and Jermaine Donald. Jail escapees Dkenan Dennis, Corey Boyd, Gary C. Price, Kendell Myles and Robert Moody were previously taken into custody by authorities. Many of the men were originally in the New Orleans jail awaiting sentences or trials for alleged violent crimes including murder. After the escape, a jail maintenance worker was arrested and accused of turning off the water to the toilet, an act authorities said helped the men get out. The worker said he had been threatened by one of the inmates if he refused to do so. In addition, four other people have been arrested for allegedly helping the inmates once they were on the loose. (AP)
A British man was arrested after he drove a minivan into Liverpool soccer fans celebrating their team’s Premier League Championship in an incident that injured almost 50. Authorities said the 53-year-old man is believed to be the only suspect and the incient is not being investigated as an act of terrorism. Hundreds of thousands of fans had lined the route of the hourslong procession under heavy security along a 10-mile (16 kilometer) route through the city Here’s what we know so far about the crash: A car rammed into a crowd Authorities say that, as the parade was ending, a man plowed his car into a crowd of soccer fans in Water Street, in the northwestern English city. Emergency vehicles and an air ambulance rushed to the scene to attend to the injured. Paradegoer Peter Jones said he heard the car smash into the crowd and saw at least a half-dozen people down in the road. Another witness, Harry Rashid, said the car stopped after initially hitting some of the victims. Rashid said people then charged toward the vehicle, smashing its windows, and the driver kept going. Dozens were injured Nearly four dozen people were injured, including four children. Twenty-seven people were taken to local hospitals, and another 20 were treated for minor injuries at the scene, according to authorities. Liverpool City Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram said four of the injured were “very, very ill in hospital.” Four people were stuck beneath the vehicle and had to be freed by firefighters. A suspect has been arrested Police detained a 53-year-old man from the Liverpool area who is believed to be the driver of the vehicle. Merseyside Police say they are not treating the incident as terrorism and aren’t looking for any other suspects. The driver is in custody but has not been charged, and police have not released his name. But the force identified him as a white British man, in a possible attempt to prevent misinformation from flooding social media. Last summer, a teen in the nearby town of Southport killed three girls in a stabbing rampage at a dance class. Incorrect information quickly spread online saying the attacker was an asylum-seeker. In fact, he had been born in the U.K. Rioting spread across England and Northern Ireland, targeting mosques and accommodation for asylum-seekers. Tragedy struck as Liverpool celebrated Liverpool fans were celebrating the city team’s Premier League soccer championship in a record-tying 20th top-flight title. The team’s last league title was in 2020, but fans couldn’t publicly celebrate in the same way due to pandemic-related restrictions. Monday’s parade wound through the streets despite wet weather. Fans danced and waved scarves while the team’s players traveled on top of two buses. Liverpool clinched the title after defeating Tottenham last month. Rival Manchester United also has the achievement of winning 20 English league titles. (AP)
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Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar slammed Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara after she informed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday evening that his appointment of Maj. Gen. David Zini to the position of Shin Bet chief is “illegal.” Baharav-Miara claims that Netanyahu is not legally permitted to appoint the next Shin Bet chief due to a “conflict of interest” due to the Qatargate case and ordered him to refrain from any “direct or indirect” involvement in appointing the next Shin Bet chief or even an interim replacement. Her “ruling” was made despite the fact that Netanyahu is not a suspect in the Qatargate case and the Shin Bet Law specifically stipulates that the Prime Minister be involved in the appointment of the Shin Bet chief. Additionally, Netanyahu has already announced that out of an abundance of caution, Zini will not be involved in the Qatargate investigation. Baharav-Miara even went so far as to say that even if a government minister appoints a Shin Bet chief instead of Netanyahu, “there is serious doubt” whether Zini can be appointed. The publication of Baharav-Miara’s “legal opinion” caused a furor among coalition members, with a number of ministers decrying her move as politically tainted and urging her ouster. Deputy Minister Almog Cohen even threatened to leave the government if Netanyahu allows Baharav-Mirara to continue her “silent coup” and thwart Zini’s appointment. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar was so perturbed by Baharav-Miara’s “legal opinion” that he wrote a lengthy post on social media slamming her and exposing the obvious flaws in her “legal ruling.” Sa’ar wrote: “‘Forget it, it’s hopeless,’ one of the senior officials in the Ministry of Justice told me a few months ago.” “Back then, I was still trying to see if there was a way to bridge the unprecedented divide between the government and its legal advisor. ‘She has decided to go all the way,’ that official added. “I remembered his words last night when I read the Attorney General’s extreme ‘opinion’ that prohibited any involvement of the Prime Minister in the process of selecting the head of the Shin Bet. “Unsurprisingly, the ‘opinion’ lacked any discussion of the clauses of the Shin Bet Law itself. For example, Section 3(a) of the law stipulates that ‘the head of the Shin Bet shall be appointed by the government upon the proposal of the Prime Minister.’ Also missing was a discussion of the fundamental meaning of the provision in Section 4(b) of the law, according to which ‘the Prime Minister is in charge of the Service on behalf of the Government.’ “The reason given by Baharav-Miara…is the Prime Minister’s alleged ‘conflict of interest’ due to the ‘Qatargate’ case. This is despite the fact that the Prime Minister is not a suspect in the case. “The very claim of a conflict of interest due to the investigation of people close to the Prime Minister is far-reaching in itself. In any case, every rookie lawyer knows that it is possible to ‘neutralize’ the alleged conflict of interest with much more proportionate means than disqualifying the Prime Minister’s involvement ‘in any way whatsoever’ in the appointment of the head of the secret security organization, over which he is legally in charge. For example, the Attorney General could have stipulated that the new head of the Shin Bet would not […]
Russian forces have taken four border villages in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, a local official said Tuesday, days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had issued an order to establish a buffer zone along the border. Sumy borders Russia’s Kursk region, where a surprise Ukrainian incursion last year captured a pocket of land in the first occupation of Russian territory since World War II. Creating a buffer zone could help Russia prevent further Ukrainian cross-border attacks there. Meanwhile, a Russian bombing campaign that had escalated in recent days slowed overnight as far fewer Russian drones targeted Ukrainian towns and cities. Moscow’s invasion has shown no signs of stopping despite months of intense U.S.-led efforts to secure a ceasefire and get traction for peace talks. Since Russian and Ukrainian delegations met in Turkey earlier this month for their first direct talks in three years, a large prisoner exchange has been the only tangible outcome, but negotiations have brought no significant breakthrough. Between Friday and Sunday, Russia launched around 900 drones at Ukraine, officials said, amid a spate of large-scale bombardments. On Sunday night, Russia launched its biggest drone attack of the 3-year war against Ukraine, firing 355 drones. From Monday to Tuesday, Russia fired 60 drones at Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force said Tuesday. Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed its air defenses downed 99 Ukrainian drones overnight over seven Russian regions. The weekend surge in Russia’s bombardments of Ukraine drew a rebuke from U.S. President Donald Trump, who said Putin had gone “crazy.” That comment prompted a sharp Kremlin reaction Monday, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticizing ”emotional reactions” to events. Peskov adopted a milder tone Tuesday, hailing U.S. peace efforts and saying that “the Americans and President Trump have taken a quite balanced approach.” In Sumy, Russian forces are trying to advance deeper after capturing villages, Oleh Hryhorov, head of the Sumy regional military administration, said in a statement. Ukrainian forces are endeavoring to hold the line, he said. Residents of the captured villages were evacuated earlier, and there is no immediate threat to civilians, Hryhorov said. Putin visited the Kursk region last week for the first time since Moscow claimed last month that it drove Ukrainian forces out of the area where they captured land last August. Kyiv officials have denied the claim. The long border remains vulnerable to Ukrainian incursions, Putin said. He said he told the Russian military to create a “security buffer zone” along the border but provided no public details of where the proposed zone would be or how far it would stretch. Putin said a year ago that a Russian offensive at the time aimed to create a buffer zone in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region. That could have helped protect Russia’s Belgorod border region, where frequent Ukrainian attacks have embarrassed the Kremlin. (AP)
As Chag Matan HaTorah approaches, HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau published a special letter to bnei yeshivos on their tafkid before Kabbalas HaTorah, and in a rare statement, the Rosh Yeshivah stated that if bnei yeshivos are forcefully recruited to the army, “we will be required to take actions we do not desire.” The letter states: “As everyone knows, for over a year now we have been in a period of great confusion, as the legal status of Lomdei Torah regarding their conscription has not yet been regulated as it has been for all the years, and many of the authorities are openly plotting to conscript Lomdei Torah. More and more time has passed, and to our regret, a legal solution as we had in the past has not yet been found.” “Our thoughts are constantly on this matter, that the limmud of bnei yeshivos and kollelim should take place in peace and tranquility for them and their families. And if chalilah, they will forcibly conscript bnei yeshivos, we will not be able to stand idly by, and we will be required to take actions we do not desire. We will all stand up for every single individual so that, chalilah, they will not be conscripted. “And as we stand before Chag Matan Torah, we must be mechazeik ourselves and one another and our families, for our tafkid is only in limmud Torah. And this tafkid is the most praiseworthy, exalted, and glorious that exists in creation. And we should also be mechazik in love of friends and correcting our middos.” אשרנו מה טוב חלקנו ומה נעים גורלנו שנתן חלקנו בתורתו וקדשנו במצוותיו. “ויה”ר שיזכנו השם לשיש על תורתו (ולייחדו באהבה), ולא ימוש ספר התורה מפינו ומפי זרענו מעתה ועד עולם. HaRav Landau signed the letter: “Writing with great sorrow and great hope, Dov Landau.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
New Orleans inmates Jermaine Donald and Leo Tate have been captured in Walker County, Texas. They’re the seventh and eighth inmate to be captured after escaping from Orleans Parish prison. Two other inmates at large.
U.S. Army officials said that the Army will be accountable for any DC road repairs that could come out of June 14’s military parade. The parade, which will be held on the Army’s 250th birthday—and, President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday—will feature a host of heavy military vehicles, including 28 M1A1 tanks, 28 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, 28 Strykers, and four Paladins.
Earlier today in Laredo, Texas DPS Troopers arrested a 7 smugglers after a high-speed chase involving a white Dodge Charger. Dashcam video shows multiple illegal immigrants fleeing the vehicle—Troopers gave chase and quickly apprehended all 7, along with the driver.
PHOTOS: Congressman Mike Lawler led a bipartisan delegation to meet Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Lawler praised the Prime Minister’s leadership during the war, saying it helped make the region safer. Netanyahu thanked the group for their strong support of Israel.
US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, said: “To paraphrase an old quote: The Middle East is like a feast; you’re either on the guest list or on the menu. It’s easy to fall off the guest list, but it’s hard to get off the menu.”
REP. CROCKETT: “It is time for Republicans to start calling [Trump] out & start questioning his mental acuity & whether or not he is equipped to serve mentally.”
U.S. President Donald J. Trump issued a full and unconditional pardon today for Scott Jenkins, the former Sheriff of Culpeper County in Northern Virginia, who was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on March 21, 2025 for his involvement in a “cash-for-badges” scheme in which he accepted over $75,000 in bribes from several Virginia businessmen, as well as two undercover agents with the FBI, in exchange for their appointment as auxiliary deputy sheriffs with the Culpeper County Sheriff’s Department.
