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A freight train slammed into a double-decker bus northwest of Mexico City early Monday, killing at least eight people and injuring 45, authorities said. The accident took place in an industrial area of warehouses and factories in the town of Atlacomulco, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of Mexico City. The state of Mexico’s civil defense agency said via X that authorities were still working at the site of the accident and the state prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation. The bus from the Herradura de Plata line was ripped apart by the collision. The bus company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The train line, Canadian Pacific Kansas City of Mexico, confirmed the accident and sent its condolences to the families of the victims. The Calgary, Canada-based company said its personnel were on site and cooperating with authorities. Authorities did not immediately give details about how the accident occurred, but one video circulated on social platforms showed the bus in heavy traffic slowly moving across the train tracks when the fast-moving train suddenly appeared out of frame, ramming the bus at its midpoint. The train’s momentum carried the bus down the tracks and out of frame. There were no visible crossing gates or other signals. Just prior to the crash cars could be seen crossing the tracks as traffic advanced. Cars going in the other direction stopped crossing the tracks at the time the bus drove onto them, though a motorcycle scooted across seconds before the crash. The train hit the passenger side of the bus. Another video showed the bus at rest to the side of the tracks. The roof of the bus was gone and people could be seen moving on the top level as the train slowed to a stop. A woman could be heard crying, “Help me, help me.” Rebeca Miranda waited beside the tracks Monday for authorities to tell her what would happen with the victims’ bodies. Her sister and her sister’s daughter-in-law were on the bus when it was hit around 6:30 a.m., she said. Her sister was taken to the hospital and was able to speak, but the other woman died in the accident, Miranda said. They were both domestic workers. Miranda said she couldn’t be with her sister in the hospital because she needed to find out what would be done with the other woman’s body. Miranda said the bus should not have been crossing the tracks just as the train was careening through the intersection. “It’s really unfortunate. Why? To beat the train. Those are lives.” According to the most recent report from Mexico’s Rail Transportation Regulating Agency published in September, accidents at grade-level crossings are the most common and have been on an upward trend in recent years. Last year there were 800 compared to 602 in 2020, the report said. The document did not include how many victims were involved in the accidents. Last month, six people died when a train hit several vehicles in Guanajuato state. In 2019, nine people were killed when a a freight train struck a passenger bus crossing the tracks in the central state of Queretaro. (AP)

Amid the horrific scenes from the Ramot terror attack that occurred on Monday morning, a video of a cab driver risking his life under fire to assist his elderly passenger quickly went viral and touched the hearts of Israelis. The video shows the cab driver getting out of his seat amid the terrorists’ heavy gunfire and walking around the cab to help his elderly passenger—who required the assistance of a cane—to get out of the cab and distance herself from the scene of the attack. He was not deterred by the bullets flying over his head and hitting the windshield of the bus next to him. The video of his actions touched the hearts of Israelis and he was widely praised for his courage, kindness, and heroism. The cab driver, Yigal, was later interviewed by Channel 12. “I immediately understood it was a terror attack,” he said. “I opened the door and helped her get out. People were running in all directions, and there was a shootout with the terrorists. I saw everything in front of my eyes.” “I wasn’t afraid about myself; I had to help this woman out. What do people expect? That I would leave her in the cab and run away?” Later on Monday, President Isaac Herzog called Yigal and praised him for his heroism and thanked for his civic responsiblity. Yigal replied, “I don’t view it as a heroic act. I think that every taxi driver in such a situation is required to act the same way. There was a passenger, an elderly woman of about 85—I had to rescue her from the scene.” (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

Hamas issued a statement on Monday regarding the latest hostage-ceasefire arrangement put forward by the United States and relayed via Israeli negotiator Gershon Baskin and Dr. Bishara Bahbah. Representatives from the organization told Asharq al Awsat that the proposal faces multiple significant hurdles before any agreement could be reached.

In Doha, Qatari Prime Minister Muhammad bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani reportedly urged Hamas leaders during discussions to “respond positively” to the American initiative, according to a Reuters source with knowledge of the meeting.

Officials within Hamas described the plan as containing “many traps and pitfalls that need to be dismantled,” stressing that their priority is an arrangement that will bring the fighting to an end.

The group further claimed that releasing a number of captives immediately at the outset of a deal would not be possible. They said that some hostages had been killed and could only be retrieved if Israeli forces halted their fire so the bodies could be recovered from under ruins or from places where they were buried after military incursions, Asharq al Awsat reported.

Hamas representatives also complained that the terms did not reference an Israeli retreat from critical areas, such as the Philadelphi Corridor, nor the reopening of the Rafah crossing. They said they want assurances from international powers, including the US, to guarantee the conclusion of the war, the outlet reported.

Over recent days, the American-backed plan has been transmitted to Hamas in hopes of securing the release of captives held in Gaza, according to sources who spoke with The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. Baskin and Bahbah served as intermediaries to convey a broad proposal intended to pave the way toward ending the conflict.

The draft framework stipulates that Hamas would hand over all 48 hostages on the first day, including those still alive as well as the remains of the deceased. In return, US President Donald Trump would provide a personal guarantee that no new fighting will erupt until talks between Hamas and Israel reach an outcome.

The offer also includes the freeing of between 2,000 and 3,000 Palestinian detainees, among them individuals convicted of murder. Additionally, it calls for Israel to call off its pending operation in Gaza City and to open direct negotiations aimed at terminating the war.

Even with those provisions, Israeli forces would remain stationed in select sections of Gaza, preserving a restricted deployment in certain zones.

Negotiators said that Hamas is expected to reject the conditions. “Hamas would essentially be giving up the hostages on day one in return for a presidential guarantee,” one source explained to the Post. “As important as that may be, what happens if the negotiations collapse? Hamas would have lost all of its leverage.”

Meanwhile, an adviser close to Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu said that Israel is giving “very serious consideration” to the proposal, but conceded that Hamas is still unlikely to agree.

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The IDF targeted a high-rise building in Gaza City used by Hamas for military operations. Palestinian sources report that the strike destroyed the Salam Tower in central Gaza. The IDF stated that warnings were issued ahead of the attack.

Syrian state media report that an Israeli airstrike hit the outskirts of Homs in western Syria, with other sources saying a weapons depot was targeted.

The Ramat Aharon neighborhood of Bnei Brak was cloaked in grief Monday night as thousands gathered for the levayah of the young talmid chacham, Rav Alter Yisroel HaKohen Metzner Hy”d, who was murdered in the terror attack in Ramot. He was just 31 years old.

The levayah began at his parents’ home in Bnei Brak and continued to the local cemetery.

Gedolei Yisroel led the procession, with Rashbi Rosh Yeshiva Rav Meir Tzvi Bergman at the forefront.

Delivering divrei hisorerus, Rav Bergman declared, “We have been given a strong shofar of Elul, a call to awaken: ‘Awake, sleepers, from your slumber.’ Hakadosh Baruch Hu is speaking to us harshly, for we are deeply asleep.”

His father, Rabbi Uri Meir Metzner, wept as he paid tribute: “Your great-grandfather, Rav Alter Yisroel, was a man of Eretz Yisroel his entire life. He dreamed of Eretz Yisroel, he invested in Eretz Yisroel, he built in Eretz Yisroel, and he merited to ascend to Eretz Yisroel. One can say of him, ‘He came to the Land, he came to Eretz Yisroel.’ And now his great-grandson has arrived at the highest place, among the kedoshim and tehorim.”

Breaking down, he continued: “If there is holiness, if there is a remnant of the Beis Hamikdosh today in Eretz Yisroel, it is tzaddikim like you. You came to that place, to the Beis Hamikdosh. A pure soul. A personality of unfathomable depth. Even we sometimes struggled to comprehend the depths you reached, and all of it was with purity.”

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Thousands gathered this evening to accompany the aron of Reb Levi Yitzchok Pash Hy”d, of Tel Tzion, a dedicated employee of Yeshivas Kol Torah who was murdered in the terror attack at the Ramot Junction in Yerushalayim earlier today.

The funeral procession had originally been scheduled to pass by Yeshivas Kol Torah in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood, where he had worked faithfully for years. However, delays in the release of the body forced the levayah to proceed quickly and the hespedim were brief.

Family members and relatives delivered heartfelt words, joined by the Rosh Yeshiva of Kol Torah, Rav Shlomo Schlesinger, who cried out in anguish: “R’ Yitzchok, what happened to you? You were beloved by all the talmidim of the yeshiva.”

One of the victim’s sons recalled a conversation he had with his father only recently, when he asked him where he would be on the first night of Selichos. “Now I know where he will be,” said the son, before breaking down in bitter weeping.

As the sun was setting, the levayah concluded at Har HaMenuchos, where R’ Levi Yitzchok Pash was laid to rest, leaving behind a grieving family and a mourning community.

הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90 הלווית הרב לוי יצחק פש הי”דצילום: חיים גולדברג – פלאש 90

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Hagaon Rav Reuven Feinstein, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva of Staten Island, delivered divrei chizuk v’hisorerus Sunday afternoon at the Kollel Dayanus of the Bais HaVaad in Lakewood, NJ.

This gathering was addressed to the dayanim and chavrei hakollel of the Bais HaVaad, and to the wider community who were warmly invited to join and hear words of inspiration in honor of the auspicious days of Elul and to receive the berachos of the rosh yeshiva in advance of the approaching Yamim Nora’im.

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Esther Lugasi was among those hurt in Monday’s deadly shooting at Ramot Junction in Yerushalayim. Speaking with Arutz Sheva, she gave a firsthand account of the terrifying attack in which two Palestinian Arab terrorists murdered six Jews and injured twelve more.

“When I got off the bus, I started to hear gunshots. I didn’t know where it came from. I so people running, so I ran with them,” she recounts in tears.

In the chaos, someone shoved her, and she fell, suffering minor injuries.

She described what followed: “We kept running until we got to a bus terminal, and they told us to go hide there. So everybody went there and waited until they told us we could leave.”

The bullets missed her by mere inches. “It’s really a miracle that they didn’t hit me,” she said.

Esther vividly remembered the fear that overtook her in those moments. “I felt like I was going to die because, when I fell, my arms were full of blood, so I thought: ‘Oh my G-d I’m dead. But how am I running if I’m dead?’ Then someone pushed me and told me to keep running.

“It felt like I was running for hours, but it was just seconds. Maybe because I was so afraid, it felt like hours. We crossed the street and hid with other women who were also scared.”

Because of the injuries to her arms, she was treated at Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

She also recalled encountering one of the soldiers who ended the attack. “As I was running, I saw a soldier. I said to him, ‘Please, please, help us,’ because I saw that he had a gun. He was looking to see where to shoot. Later, I heard that he killed the terrorist.”

Esther expressed her belief that more Israelis should be able to carry firearms. “There were only two people there (who were armed), and there could have been more dead; it’s awful. They should let more people carry guns to protect themselves, because in our country, G-d protects, but people also have to do their part.”

She explained that she will shield her children from the full details of what happened. “I don’t see a reason to tell them that their mother was almost killed. They’re just going to be more afraid. My little girl is already afraid because of the war with Iran; she’s still afraid, she gets scared when she hears a siren, so I don’t think I’m going to add to her fears.”

Reflecting on her survival, she emphasized her sense of gratitude. “I feel like I got another year, it’s almost Rosh Hashanah, and I got a new opportunity. If I got my life back, I have to get better.”

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The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Trump administration may continue its aggressive immigration raids in Los Angeles, which target individuals under broad guidelines including their line of work or whether they speak Spanish.

The decision blocks a lower court’s order that had temporarily limited what opponents call “roving” ICE raids, allowing them to go forward while an appeals court reviews the case. Justice Brett Kavanaugh released a short concurrence supporting the order, while the three liberal justices issued a sharp dissent.

“Immigration stops based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence have been an important component of US immigration enforcement for decades, across several presidential administrations,” Kavanaugh wrote. “… The interests of individuals who are illegally in the country in avoiding being stopped by law enforcement for questioning is ultimately an interest in evading the law. That is not an especially weighty legal interest.”

Just a few weeks ago, US District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong in Los Angeles had temporarily prohibited the administration from carrying out raids that relied on four criteria: targeting based on race or ethnicity, operating at locations such as bus stops, identifying individuals by their type of employment, and singling out people for speaking Spanish.

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Malka Cohen, a woman who survived the Ramot terror attack on Monday, told Channel 14 News that she thinks the bus driver collaborated with the terrorists. She said that although she endured an indescribable trauma, she agreed to be interviewed because she wants to convey important information. She said she was on the 62 bus, and it was extremely crowded. When the bus reached the Ramot Junction, the bus driver stopped the bus, closed the doors, and refused to move. “It stood at the bus stop for five, seven minutes and didn’t move from the stop,” Malka said. “He wouldn’t let anyone off the bus. I thought there was some type of malfunction. We waited there for several minutes, and he wouldn’t let us get off.” “He then turned off the motor, and at that moment, the terrorists entered the bus. I managed, together with other people at the back of the bus, to escape. But the people in the front were shot.” Malka then repeated that the bus driver stood at the stop for about seven minutes, and when the passengers asked the bus driver why he’s not moving, he refused to answer. The interview comes after an earlier report that the police arrested two bus drivers at the scene and transferred them to the Shin Bet for interrogations. Amid a wave of rumors on social media that the drivers had a connection to the terrorists, the police stated that the interrogations were carried out as part of the standard procedure for witnesses. (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

The Department of Homeland Security launched a new immigration enforcement effort in Chicago on Monday, following a weekend of demonstrations by Democrats opposed to President Trump’s warnings about sending federal law enforcement into the city.

“DHS is launching Operation Midway Blitz in honor of Katie Abraham who was killed in a drunk driving hit-and-run car wreck caused by criminal illegal alien Julio Cucul-Bol in Illinois,” the department announced on social media.

The statement added, “This ICE operation will target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew [Democratic] Governor [JB] Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets.”

It concluded by stressing that “Trump and [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem stand with the victims of illegal alien crime while Governor Pritzker stands with criminal illegal aliens.”

For more than a week, ICE has been deploying personnel in preparation for this effort, leading insiders to expect that an operation was about to begin.

At this stage, the plan does not represent a full-scale federal policing surge, and Trump himself has gone back and forth in public comments on whether he would send a large number of agents to Chicago to tackle violent crime.

Recently, Trump has said that he would hold off unless he was invited by Governor Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats.

“We’d love to go into Chicago,” Trump declared in remarks in Washington on Monday morning. “We’re waiting for a call from Chicago.”

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Hundreds are now attending the levaya of 31-year-old terror victim R’ Yisroel Mantzer hy”d, who was murdered on the way to kollel, leaving his wife and young children bereft.

London’s Heathrow Airport has been evacuated as emergency services respond to a “possible hazardous materials incident.”

Zohran Mamdani announces his intention to abolish the NYPD’s gang database if elected mayor of New York City.

Treasury Secretary Bessent warns of massive refunds if the Supreme Court voids Trump tariffs • Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he is “confident” President Donald Trump’s tariff plan “will win” at the Supreme Court, but warned the U.S. would be forced to issue massive refunds if it loses. • National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett noted that there are “other legal authorities” that the administration could use if the tariffs are blocked. • Before court action, Trump’s tariffs were set to affect nearly 70% of U.S. goods imports.

On Monday, President Trump expressed sympathy to the family of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was brutally murdered on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina. After being shown the disturbing surveillance footage of the killing, he pledged to confront the “evil people” responsible for such acts of violence.

“There are evil people, and we have to confront that. I just give my love and hope to the family of the young woman who was stabbed this morning or last night in Charlotte by a madman,” Trump told reporters.

Speaking further about the footage, Trump described how the attack unfolded in shocking detail. “A lunatic just got up and started — it’s right on the tape, not really watchable, because it’s so horrible — but just viciously stabbed. She’s just sitting there. So they’re evil people. We have to be able to handle that. If we don’t handle that, we don’t have a country,” he said. Authorities say the killing was carried out by 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr., a repeat offender.

The president also pointed to another act of violence that recently devastated the nation — the mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, where two children were killed and many others injured — as part of a broader pattern of senseless bloodshed he is determined to stop.

“We’re going to get to the end of it. And you know, when you have horrible killings, you have to take horrible actions,” Trump said, stressing that lenient justice policies allow crime to flourish.

He placed much of the blame on bail reform policies, which he said enable repeat offenders to continue committing crimes. “And the actions that we take are nothing — this cashless bail started a wave in our country where a killer kills somebody and is out on the street by the afternoon, in many cases, going out and going again cashless bail,” he said.

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Argentine President Javier Milei suffered a sweeping setback on Sunday in a Buenos Aires provincial election widely viewed as a political test for his libertarian party and a barometer for how it will perform in crucial congressional midterms next month. Milei’s recently formed La Libertad Avanza party captured just 34% of the vote in Argentina’s biggest province, losing by a landslide to the left-leaning Peronist opposition, which secured 47% with the majority of ballots counted late Sunday. Milei conceded that his right-wing party’s crushing 13-point loss to his populist rivals represented “a clear defeat.” “We suffered a setback, and we must accept it responsibly,” Milei told grim-faced supporters at the party headquarters, his tone reflective, even chastened. “If we’ve made political mistakes, we’re going to internalize them, we’re going to process them, we’re going to modify our actions,” he said. Still, he vowed to stick with his sweeping economic overhaul, saying: “There will be no retreat in government policy.” Milei faces a worse-than-expected defeat With Milei struggling to stabilize a sputtering economy and his close associates embroiled by a graft scandal ahead of congressional midterm elections in late October, the results were being closely scrutinized for their potential to rattle investors and roil jittery global markets. Analysts expected La Libertad Avanza to lose by a few points to the Peronists, but his allies feared that a worse-than-expected outcome in Buenos Aires province — which makes up nearly 40% of the country’s population — would galvanize his rivals at a delicate time. Peronist leader and former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner appeared to feel on that she was getting some payback after a corruption conviction and criticism of her economic management, which led to a crisis that Milei inherited. “Did you see that, Milei?” the two-term former president (2007-2015) wrote on social media platform X. “Get out of your bubble, brother. … Things are getting heavy.” Stakes are raised for congressional midterms Milei needs to expand his party’s tiny minority in the opposition-dominated Congress in midterms next month to fulfill his radical libertarian reforms and make good on his promise to turn the nine-time defaulter into a country capable of servicing its debts. The Peronists are now the largest bloc in Argentina’s fragmented congress, and have used their numbers to pass social spending measures that are testing Milei’s efforts to balance Argentina’s budget. “This result is a key data point to understand the social mood — where the opposition stands, the state of Peronism and the level of support for the government in Argentina’s most important electoral district,” said Juan Cruz Díaz, the head of Cefeidas Group, a consultancy in Buenos Aires. “While not the main national election in October, it is nonetheless a wake-up call for the government, and how it reacts will be crucial to understanding the evolving political map.” An economy in troubled waters Although Milei can boast of bringing down Argentina’s triple-digit inflation over the last few months and ending the reckless spending of his Peronist predecessors, Argentines have yet to see the economic revival that was supposed to follow his harsh austerity measures. His government has unwound Argentina’s labyrinthine currency restrictions as part of a $20 billion International Monetary Fund bailout, but has not yet won the trust of international financiers who could bring the investment needed to add jobs and turbocharge economic growth in the country. “Milei has a very strong ideology, and his vision is that […]

The IDF announced Monday evening that four of its soldiers had been killed during fighting inside Gaza.

Authorities released the identities of three of the fallen. Staff Sergeant Uri Lamed, 20, of Tel Mond, served in the Armored Corps, 52nd Battalion, 401st Brigade. Staff Sergeant Gadi Cotal, also 20, from Afikim, was part of the same unit. Sergeant Amit Arye Regev, 19, from Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut, likewise served in the 52nd Battalion, 401st Brigade. All three lost their lives in clashes in the northern sector of the Gaza Strip.

In the same attack that claimed the lives of Staff Sergeant Lamed, Staff Sergeant Cotal, and Sergeant Regev, another soldier was also killed. His family has already been informed, but his name has not yet been cleared for release and will be made public at a later stage.

According to the IDF, the incident occurred when Hamas fighters ambushed an army shelter in Gaza City, located in the northern part of the Strip.

During the assault, militants hurled an explosive charge at a tank stationed outside the shelter. The blast set the vehicle ablaze, killing its crew. Another soldier sustained injuries in the attack.

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President Trump launches “Operation Midway Blitz,” deploying federal agents to Chicago to target criminal illegal immigrants shielded by the state’s sanctuary policies.