? Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a barrage of rockets toward Tel Aviv Wednesday morning, as the Israeli military continued to conduct airstrikes in Gaza, a day after an assault killed 13 people there, including three leaders of the terror group Islamic Jihad. Separately, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians during an overnight raid in the occupied West Bank. An IDF spokesperson said the Palestinians had fired at the soldiers near the city of Jenin. (Haaretz)
? A gunman shot and killed four people near a Tunisia synagogue during an annual Jewish pilgrimage. The authorities said the gunman, a guard at a naval institution, killed two security officers and two visitors to the synagogue, one of whom was French, before being shot dead himself by security forces. The pilgrimage draws hundreds of Jews from Europe and Israel to the Ghriba synagogue, Africa’s oldest, in the coastal city of Djerba. (Reuters)
? Rep. George Santos has reportedly been charged by federal prosecutors. The freshman Republican who fabricated his family’s Holocaust history, among many other audacious lies about his past, could appear in court in New York as early as today, CNN and The New York Times reported last night, citing unnamed sources. The specific criminal charges remain unclear, but prosecutors have been investigating Santos for possible campaign-finance improprieties. (CNN, NYT)
? U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides will leave his post in May, a spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. Nides, a senior State Department official in the Obama administration, has been the envoy to Jerusalem since December 2021. (JTA)
? Parents are demanding a Colorado school district address what they describe as “systemic, rampant antisemitism” after middle-school students drew swastikas on their classmates’ arms after a presentation about the Holocaust. Separately, multiple students at the University of Denver have had mezuzahs ripped off their dormitory doors in recent weeks. (ABC 6, Colorado Public Radio)
? IDF guards fatally shot an Israeli Jewish woman who ran through a West Bank checkpoint holding an airsoft gun and shouting “God is great” in Arabic. The woman had previously said she suffered from PTSD after her military service, and told a friend she intended to commit “suicide by cop.” (Times of Israel)
? A Christie’s auction of jewels owned by a German billionaire who profited from the Holocaust will continue despite protests from Jewish groups. The lot, valued at 120 million pounds, belonged to the wife of Helmut Horten. Critics say Horten his fortune by seizing property from Jews during the Nazi era. (Guardian)
?️ Tucker Carlson announced plans to launch a new iteration of his trademark show on Twitter after being fired from Fox News last month. Under Elon Musks’s ownership, Twitter has seen a rapid escalation in antisemitic hate speech on the platform. (CNN Business, JTA)
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