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Mixed results?

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.

Mixed results?

Hezbollah launched explosive drones at Israeli territory near the border, wounding three soldiers.
The defendants, Adam Bedoui and Abdelkader Amir Bousloub, are from Hillingdon in west London.
The Palestinian Authority “didn’t even try to argue that the prisoner wasn’t entitled to a salary but instead claimed some technical rationale behind the suspension,” Palestinian Media Watch reports.
The governor’s office is awaiting information from the federal government about whether there are any “poison pills that could harm New York’s education system,” a spokesman told JNS.
“Antisemitism is more flagrant than it’s been at any time since my father was growing up,” Rep. Brad Sherman told JNS.
Israeli forces also destroyed eight Hamas tunnels in Rafah and killed terrorists operating from a command center in northern Gaza.