Staff Report

Air Force One touched down at Ben Gurion Airport Monday morning June 22, for a whirlwind twenty-eight hour visit of President Trump and his...

After leading and influencing Shas for over 30 years, Aryeh Deri abruptly announced his resignation from the Knesset last week when leaked videos were taken out of context and publicized by the national media. Will he return home? Truth be told, despite his resignation from the Knesset with the reluctant agreement of the Moetzet Chachmei Hatorah of Shas, Deri did not actually leave his position as chairman of Shas and can still legally lead the party’s list in the upcoming elections unless he erases his name from the Shas list, which must be submitted by January 29.

Since Friday, police, Ichud Hatzala and Zaka, along with hundreds of volunteers, have been searching the Yerushalayim Forest and the surrounding neighborhoods of Bayit Vegan, Kiryat Yovel, Hadassah, and Ein Kerem for Aharon Sofer, a 23-year-old bochur from Lakewood, New Jersey, who is presently a talmid at Yeshivas Kodshim of Yerushalayim headed by Rav Tzvi Kaplan. Aharon’s parents, Reb Moshe Tzvi and Chulda Sofer, released a video pleading for people to help find him and offered a 100,000 shekel reward.