The class-action suit seeks $36 million from protest organizers and affiliated groups, who left drivers stuck on a major roadway leading to the airport for hours.

Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute is representing a victim in "his complaint as a class action on behalf of thousands of others falsely imprisoned in their cars or otherwise displaced by the blockade."

"The case defends the rights of citizens unlawfully impeded by anti-Israel, pro-Gaza groups engaging in illegal acts of obstruction rather than peaceful protest," the institute said. It added that its "legal team seeks damages and a court injunction to prevent future disruptions like this."

Jewish Voice for Peace, National Students for Justice in Palestine and the WESPAC Foundation are among the defendants.

A district court dismissed the class action suit in August and said that the institute's client "was not really falsely imprisoned because he could have abandoned his car on the road" and sanctioned the institute's attorney's, it said.

The institute appealed the following day. Ted Frank, the institute's litigation director, said that "the decision and the sanctions are based on the premise that it’s legal in Illinois for drivers to abandon their car on the highway outside O’Hare Airport for up to seven days, and they thus weren’t truly trapped."

"This is a misreading of the precedent and the applicable statutes, as well as a procedurally improper inference against the allegations in a complaint," Frank said. "We are confident in our chances on appeal."

According to the ADL and AEN, a group called Geographers for Justice in Palestine organized numerous sessions at the annual meeting on March 17-21, including sessions titled “No Geographic Technology for Apartheid” and “Mapping and Counter-Mapping Genocide.”

Shira Goodman, vice president of advocacy and head of the Center to Combat Antisemitism in Education at the ADL, and Miriam Elman, executive director of AEN, said some of the sessions at the annual meeting “lacked factual accuracy, intellectual openness and a commitment to civil engagement.” (JNS sought comment from the association.)

“We are especially troubled that these issues have persisted, despite concerns raised following last year’s annual meeting,” the two said. “At that time, we urged AAG leadership to review its session selection and vetting processes. The apparent lack of progress on these matters raises serious questions about the association’s commitment to maintaining academic integrity and ensuring that its convenings reflect the highest standards of scholarship and discourse.”

They added that “a continued pattern of programming that lacks civility, disregards factual complexity and promotes exclusionary academic practices risks causing reputational harm to the association and to the broader academic community it represents, while also contributing to the marginalization and alienation of many of its Jewish members.”

Goodman and Elman urged the association to “implement meaningful reforms to ensure that future meetings uphold the principles of academic rigor, viewpoint inclusivity and respectful dialogue.”

Graham said on a call with reporters that JNS attended that he would not typically criticize the staff of his opponents during a primary campaign, but that he felt compelled to call out Jew-hatred within the GOP.

“If you believe this is a pathway forward to victory in the Republican Party, I want to make sure that you're proven wrong and I want to do it in a fashion that people in the future will not go down this road because look what happened to the others who chose this foul path,” Graham said. “I want to put an exclamation point on my disgust for this.”

Graham faces two main challengers in the race: Paul Dans, a former official in the first Trump administration, and Mark Lynch, a local business owner.

In 2025, Dans’ communications director, Vish Burra, was fired from One America News Network for posting an AI-generated video captioned “vermin” in which a room with Stars of David on the door had occupants shown as cockroaches.

In June of that year, Lynch’s political director Evan Mulch posted a photo of himself with his foot on an English translation of the Talmud, which he called a “hate-filled book towards Jesus Christ” that “says horrible things about Jesus” and “is the foundational understanding of today’s Jewish religion.”

The two also frequently criticize Israel in vitriolic and conspiratorial terms.

Ralph Reed, the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, said he was “stunned, shocked and revolted by the lurid and blatant antisemitism” from Burra and Mulch.

“I cannot believe that any viable candidate for statewide office in South Carolina has not publicly repudiated these remarks and fired these individuals,” Reed said.

Rabbi Yossi Refson, the head of Chabad of Charleston, thanked Graham for making a point of calling out Jew-hatred within his own party despite South Carolina’s small Jewish population and the even smaller number of Jewish Republicans.

“Since Oct. 7, we have seen antisemitism rise in a way which many of us would never have imagined in the United States,” Refson said. “When it appears in the Republican Party, a party which has been one of the strongest supporters of Israel, a party whose values are inspired and informed by faith, that is something which we have to confront with honesty and tenaciousness and clarity.”

Dans responded to the accusations with a personal attack on Graham.

“These pastors and religious leaders need to take Graham in the back room and explain to him biblical morality,” Dans wrote. “I'm a Christian father of five and Graham is a homosexual. These faith leaders are slanderous hypocrites.”

Graham, who has never married, has previously said he is not gay.

Lynch told JNS that Graham “is an existential threat to both the nation of Israel and the United States.”

“Lindsey Graham is responsible for the deaths of countless Jews in Israel by the fact that he has sent tens of millions of dollars to al-Qaeda, Hamas and Al-Nusra Front—funding the enemies of Israel,” Lynch said. “Lindsey Graham has actively aided the Islamic invasion of America, causing a grave national security threat for every American and every South Carolinian.”

Lynch has previously said that he would seek to “ban Islam.”

Graham told a reporter on Tuesday that Lynch’s anti-Muslim statements were “un-American.”

“There are thousands of Muslims serving in the military,” Graham said. “What do you tell them?”

“People who say that can’t win, nor should they win,” he added.

Other Jewish and Christian leaders who condemned the Dans and Lynch campaigns included Matt Brooks, CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council; and Sandra Hagee Parker, chairman of Christians United for Israel.

There is not extensive polling in the South Carolina GOP Senate primary, but a March poll sponsored by Lynch showed Graham with a 20 percentage-point lead.

The primary will be held on June 9.

The Iran-backed militia Kata’ib Hezbollah said earlier this week that it would free Kittleson on the condition that she leave Iraq immediately, according to statements circulated on Telegram and cited by Al-Monitor. U.S. and Iraqi officials had previously suspected the group's involvement, though it did not initially claim responsibility.

An Iraqi official confirmed on Tuesday that Kittleson was released after about a week in captivity, according to The Associated Press. The circumstances of her release remain unclear, though multiple reports indicate it may have involved the release of detained members of Kata’ib Hezbollah.

Kittleson, a freelance journalist based in Rome who has reported extensively from Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, was kidnapped by gunmen in central Baghdad. Iraqi security forces launched an operation following the abduction and detained at least one suspect with alleged ties to the militia.

Neither the U.S. nor the Iraqi government has yet confirmed Kittleson's release.

Alex Plitsas, a CNN national security analyst and designated point of contact for Kittleson, wrote that "we are still awaiting Shelley to be transferred to U.S. officials. We welcome the news of her pending release, but will save celebratory statements until she is transferred. The video that was released provided proof of life. We will have more to say when she is in U.S. hands."

This is a developing story.

In a video chat recording shared on social media by New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, 18-year-old Eslam Alsaedi said, "If I see Jewish people in the U.S.A., I swear to God I've got to kill them. I try to kill kids. You know the kids for the Jewish people? I try to kill them."

In the video, Alsaedi said he lives in Harlem and wanted to go to Brooklyn because he reportedly heard somebody say a lot of Jews live there. "I want big building, a lot of Jewish people, a whole school with kids," he said.

The NYPD told JNS a complaint report was "filed for terrorism" on Monday in the 32nd Precinct.

Alsaedi was arrested on April 6 at about 6:30 p.m.

"He thought he would get away with it. We contacted NYPD’s counterterrorism unit, and they were immediately on it," Vernikov said. "This must be prosecuted both locally and federally to the fullest extent of the law."

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has not yet commented on the terror threat or the arrest.

The venue said it is "considering all aspects of this matter" after learning that the fundraiser would include the play, written by Irish writers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, based on verbatim accounts from survivors of the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

The reading is planned as part of a May 11 event hosted by former Irish justice minister Alan Shatter. The fundraiser was previously canceled and then reinstated after intervention by the venue's board, according to local reporting.

McElhinney said the production has faced repeated resistance in Ireland. "We had wanted to bring you the great news that the Oct/ 7 play was finally going to Ireland. We had arranged a staged reading at the National Concert Hall, a prestigious venue for such a historic play," she stated. "But now the NCH says they are ‘reconsidering’ the booking upon hearing it will include the Oct. 7 play, because some are calling it political. This is wrong. The play is verbatim—pure journalism."

"It consists of Jewish voices about Israel’s darkest day, with no editorializing," she said.

The measure, SB 27, passed both chambers and was delivered to Gov. Andy Beshear on April 1.

The legislation amends state law to allow a coroner to bury or cremate an unclaimed body after attempting for at least 30 days to locate next of kin. It directs that before a local government bearing the expense chooses burial or cremation, officials must consult the coroner and, if the decedent is known to be a member of a religious community that has notified the coroner in writing of its willingness to cover burial costs, that community.

An earlier version of the bill specifically named Chabad of the Bluegrass, the organization's chapter in Lexington, Ky., as the group to be contacted if a decedent was known to be of Jewish descent. Sponsors and supporters revised the language to encompass any qualifying religious group after feedback from stakeholders, including Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, director of Chabad of the Bluegrass and chairman of the Kentucky Jewish Council.

Litvin told JNS that he worked with bill sponsor Greg Elkins, a Republican state senator, to "broaden the language on religious groups," and that he has already begun outreach to county coroners.

"If you have someone who is reliant on the state and is Jewish, we will cover burial, we will arrange everything. We'll provide a rabbi, we'll pay for the burial plot, for the service, for the transport and everything else," he said.

Litvin, who also serves as a chaplain for the Kentucky General Assembly, told JNS that the broader wording makes the legislation more functional and adaptable. Advocacy groups in Vermont and New Jersey are working to replicate the legislation, he said.

He also noted that JNS coverage of the original legislation "did a tremendous amount of good" by drawing attention to the bill and surfacing concerns about the bill's narrowly tailored language.

"I opened the Senate on Erev Pesach with a prayer," Litvin told JNS. "And that day they passed the legislation."

The move drew sharp criticism from the United States and its allies, with Mike Waltz, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, calling it a “new low.”

The resolution underwent several revisions, including the removal of authorization to use force under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter. The vote was also delayed multiple times. Still, Moscow and Beijing, which are both allies of the Iranian regime, used their powers as permanent council members to dismiss it, rather than abstain and allow its passage.

Ultimately, 11 council members voted in favor, with Colombia and Pakistan abstaining.

Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Bahrain’s foreign minister, told the council before the vote that the proposal, which was backed by other Arab states, was a “responsible response” to the situation in the strait, which has severely disrupted the global oil sector and other trade, sending prices skyrocketing. He said Iran had “no right” to cut off access and to “weaponize” usage of the strait as an economic and security “bargaining chip.”

The resolution text urged states to contribute to safe passage, including escorting commercial vessels, and to deter interference with international navigation.

In response to U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran beginning Feb. 28, Tehran has limited passage through the strait and targeted vessels it deems linked to hostile states, triggering a near blockage that pushed global oil prices higher and heightened energy insecurity.

Waltz said after the vote that Iran’s actions could constitute “its last act.”

He condemned the vetoes as siding with a regime that “seeks to intimidate the Gulf, even as it brutalizes its own people during a national internet blackout for daring to imagine dignity or freedom. Now it seeks to punish the world as cynical leverage in its ‘death to America’ approach to foreign policy.”

An international coalition requested by U.S. President Donald Trump to force the opening of the strait has not materialized, with Trump criticizing NATO members and other allies for failing to back Washington on the effort.

“The whole world has been impacted, unfortunately, because Iran is violating every law known by striking commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated. “This is a regime that doesn’t believe in laws, rules, or anything like that. It’s a state sponsor of terrorism, so it’s no surprise they’re now conducting terrorist attacks against commercial vessels.”

The United Arab Emirates, which has publicly volunteered to join the United States in an effort to open up the strait, said after the vote that “no state should possess the ability to obstruct the arteries of global trade or push the world to the brink of an economic crisis,” expressing its “profound regret” that the resolution did not pass.

“The Security Council’s failure to respond does not diminish the gravity of this crisis or the resolve of the United Arab Emirates,” the permanent mission of the UAE to the United Nations stated. “The United Arab Emirates will continue to rally international efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and to work with its partners to ensure the security of navigation and restore the flow of global trade.”

Danny Danon, Israel’s U.N. ambassador, stated that broad support for the resolution “reflects the commitment of most countries in the world to ensure freedom of navigation and to stand up to attempts to threaten international trade routes.”

“Those who threaten the Strait of Hormuz threaten the entire global economy,” he stated.

The protest, billed as “Protest Against Prisoner Executions: Stop Genocide Behind Bars,” is scheduled for 2 p.m. at 800 Second Ave., the site of Israel’s permanent mission to the United Nations.

Organizers include CUNY for Palestine, Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Writers Against the War on Gaza, the Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition and a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine at City College of New York.

“Flood the streets for Palestinian prisoners,” the groups wrote in a joint call to action. In a statement, organizers described the legislation as an “escalation” and alleged mistreatment of Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody.

Israel’s Knesset approved the measure on March 30 in a 62–48 vote. The law allows courts to impose the death penalty on those convicted of carrying out deadly attacks deemed acts of terrorism, with military courts in the West Bank empowered to issue such sentences.

The legislation marks a significant shift in Israeli penal policy. Israel has rarely used capital punishment; it's last execution was that of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1962.

In his annual letter to shareholders released on Monday, Dimon, 70, wrote that JPMorgan Chase, which was formed in December 2000 with roots traced back to the Manhattan Company founded in 1799, has "shrunk our headcount in the city, from 30,000 a decade ago to 24,000 today, and increased our headcount in Texas, from 26,000 in 2015 to 32,000 today."

"Individuals vote with their feet," he wrote. "You can already see a fairly large exodus of people and jobs out of some states with high taxes and high expenses." He added that higher taxes “mean lower returns on capital and less competitiveness by their nature.”

While New York remains the bank’s global headquarters, Dimon said companies must balance costs against long-term returns, warning that the trend of job shifting could continue. “No city—or company or country—has a divine right to success,” he wrote.

Dimon’s comments come as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has committed to "raising taxes on the wealthiest and corporations" as part of efforts to address budget gaps and fund city programs.

“He calls me all the time. I don’t respond to his calls," the president said. "I don’t deal with him. I like dealing with smart people, not fools.”

A former Fox News anchor, Carlson shares antisemitic and anti-Israel material regularly on his eponymous show and on social media. He recently said that Trump was leading the world into nuclear war.

"Desecrating Easter was the first step toward nuclear war," he stated. "Christians need to understand where Trump is taking us."

The New York City Police Department told JNS that officers responded to a demonstration in 45 W 18th Street at about 5:50 on Monday.

"A group of demonstrators inside the location refused multiple lawful orders to disperse and were taken into custody," the NYPD said. "A total of 15 individuals were taken into custody, and all were released on criminal court summonses."

Images posted to the mayor's social media accounts show Mamdani standing among people holding wine cup-shaped placards and signs stating "Jews against deportation." Other images on social media appeared to show Hebrew inscriptions on signs that appeared to quote, in part, from a statement of Yossy son of Yochanan in the Mishnah, "Let your house be wide open, and let the poor be members of your household."

Eli Northrup, a public defender who is running for the New York state Assembly, posted a photo of the event. "The story of Jewish New Yorkers is a story of immigration. A story of New York welcoming and protecting people. Our faith instructs us to welcome the stranger and to respect their rights, for we were once strangers in Egypt," he wrote. "It’s a reminder we sorely need. Today we took seder to the streets."

Brian Romero, who is also running for the state Assembly, wrote that he has marched with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice "for years."

"Today’s seder was full of that same beautiful spirit," he stated. "We’re marching towards a world where we can all be free."

Former Kansas state representative Raj Goyle, who is running to be New York state comptroller, wrote that he rallied with the group for its seder in the streets "demanding an end to the deportation and detention of our immigrant neighbors."

"Then we marched to Palantir, where Jewish activists bravely risked arrest to occupy their office lobby. I stand with these activists, as Palantir powers both ICE’s deportation operation and the genocide in Gaza," he said. "As state comptroller, I will swiftly divest from both Palantir and foreign bonds like Israel that fund war crimes abroad."

Goyle shared footage of Mamdani hugging him and of Lander addressing attendees. "We recently saw our country, Donald Trump, launch a Tomahawk missile that killed hundreds of Iranian children at a girls' school in Tehran," Lander said in the video.

Lydia Green, who is running for New York state Assembly, stated that she joined the seder in the streets "to call for an end to ICE and the oppression of immigrant communities." She added that she couldn't imagine fighting "fascism" anywhere but with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, which she called her "Jewish home."

In a statement released on April 4, Fairfield Prep Principal Timothy Dee and President Christian Cashman said the "ongoing investigation indicates this recent incident involved a small number of individuals within our student body who acted anonymously on social media."

"This is not who we are, what we stand for or what we teach," they wrote. "So we ask ourselves, if our dedication to formation is true, as we know it to be, how then can acts of such painful intolerance occur in Prep's name? It happens because of our shared human frailty, especially among our young people who fail even as we seek to form them in our Ignatian way."

The posts surfaced around the time of the teams' March 23 matchup in the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference Division I final, in which New Canaan defeated Fairfield Prep 3–1 to win its first state title in 54 years, according to CT Insider.

"Win or lose, we booze, and at least we're not Jews. Hail Fairfield," read one of the images that appeared on Instagram, The New York Times reported.

About 10 social media posts were posted in all, including one showing "a hockey player wearing a yarmulke and an Israel jersey with a Star of David emoji over his face," and a caption that read "Netanyahu Cannan," with the song "Hava Nagila" playing in the background. One post included a video depicting what appeared to be a simulation of a sexual assault, according to the Times.

"We will never tolerate, condone or accept hate speech of any kind, and we are taking appropriate steps to support the students and families affected," Bryan Luizzi, superintendent of New Canaan Public Schools, and NCHS Principal Bill Egan wrote in a district-wide email on April 3.

Local officials and community groups condemned the posts. The New Canaan Democratic Town Committee called them "horrific acts of racism and antisemitism."

"Since Oct. 7, 2023, there has been a dramatic increase in antisemitism, which has made Jewish communities fearful," the committee stated. "Living under such unimaginably toxic national rhetoric that demeans all sorts of marginalized groups, including Jews, we should not be surprised to see hatred and bigotry reach our community."

According to Semafor, the measure "condemns the growing influence of dark money and corporate-backed independent expenditures in Democratic elections" and names AIPAC and its affiliated United Democracy Project super PAC.

The meeting is being held from April 7-11.

Semafor reported that the party is also considering resolutions that call for "'pausing or conditioning' weapons transfers to units 'credibly implication' in violating international law" and for a "'full, transparent and independent investigation' of the airstrike in the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Iran."

At Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Chabad hosted its annual seder on April 1 at the university's FirstBank Stadium, drawing about 600 participants, according to The Vanderbilt Hustler, a student publication.

The event featured roughly 50 tables set up on the football field, each with prayer books, matzah, seder plates and a bowl for hand-washing, the paper reported. Rabbi Shlomo Rothstein, director of the Rohr Chabad House at Vanderbilt University, "encouraged discussion as he helped complete the rituals with each table."

Chabad.org described such events as part of a broader trend of seders held in sports arenas to accommodate "the massive crowds of proud and confident Jews."

The Lubavitch Chabad Jewish Student Center at the University of Florida in Gainesville also moved its annual seder into the campus's multipurpose arena this year, renting out the Stephen C. O'Connell Center and attracting more than 1,000 people.

Organizers there described the "Gator Seder" as the largest single-seated Passover seder in the United States, part of an effort to ensure that Jewish students who remain on campus for the holiday can participate in a communal celebration.

Bob Hitchcock, director of strategic communications at the school, told the Times that “in line with long-standing guidance from the U.S. Department of Education, the university has now clarified that it considers the information set out in the IHRA definition and accompanying illustrative examples, to the extent it may be useful in a particular case.” (JNS sought comment from the university.)

In October, the National Jewish Advocacy Center sued the university, alleging Jewish students were subjected to discrimination and harassment with “direct approval” from Chapman.

The Department of Education also launched a probe of the university in 2024 over allegations that it failed to adequately protect Jews from antisemitism on campus.

“While Ohio University values input from the student senate and the student body it serves, it is important to note that the university will neither consider, nor act upon, any resolution or referendum that proposes illegal actions or could expose the university to civil liability,” Dan Pittman, senior director of communications at the school, told JNS.

“Ohio law prohibits public universities from ‘engaging in refusals to deal, terminating business activities or other actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with persons or entities in a discriminatory manner,’” Pittman said. “More specifically, Ohio law prohibits divestment from Israeli investments.”

The spokesman added that the Ohio University Foundation publishes audited financial statements annually that “are publicly available in accordance with state law.”

Pittman told JNS about the public school’s intentions after the student government voted overwhelmingly for a referendum calling for the university to divest from Israel Bonds.

The referendum, which JNS viewed, asked students if the university should “commit to end all direct and indirect investments in Israel Bonds through the Ohio University Foundation until Israel Bonds are rated in one of the two highest categories by at least two nationally recognized statistical rating organizations.”

It also asked students if the school should publicly disclose its investments online.

The school’s Students for Justice in Palestine and Young Democratic Socialists of America chapters were among the organizations that backed the resolution.

A spokesman for the school’s student senate told JNS that 86.29% of the 1,853 students who voted, or 1,599, voted for the referendum.

According to its website, Ohio University has more than 28,000 students, including about 20,000 on its residential campus in Athens. That suggests that just about 6.5% of the student body voted on the measure.

The student senate spokesman told JNS that the referendum wasn’t about divesting from Israel but on “the phasing out of Israeli government bonds, based on the worsening credit rating by S&P Global, Fitch Ratings and Moody’s.”

“The idea is to simply let Israeli bonds, if Ohio University has any invested in, reach the maturity date,” the spokesman said. “Also, the referendum from the student body is a non-binding recommendation.”

The “main goal” of the referendum is “to hold the Ohio University to a higher degree of financial transparency and responsibility,” the spokesman said.

An event on campus in March featured a speaker who performed a Nazi salute and made misogynistic, racist and antisemitic remarks, the Cleveland Jewish News reported.

"I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will," the U.S. president wrote on Truth Social.

"However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?" he continued.

"We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!" Trump added.

Hopes are fading that a deal will be reached between Washington and Tehran in time to meet Trump's deadline.

Trump has repeatedly warned the Islamic Republic that it must open the Strait of Hormuz. On March 26, he issued a 10-day ultimatum, warning that noncompliance would lead to the destruction of all of Iran's bridges and power plants, an operation he said on Monday could be accomplished in roughly four hours.

With the 10 days set to expire on Monday, Trump extended the deadline by one day, posting to Truth Social on April 5, “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!”

In an earlier post, he threatened: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

Although Trump said on Monday at a news conference that Iran is "negotiating, we think, in good faith," privately, he is less hopeful, according to some U.S. officials, reported The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. He is expected to issue final orders for strikes on Tuesday evening, the paper said.

Israel and the United States have already shifted to targets intended to damage Iran's economy. In separate attacks, the Israel Defense Forces destroyed two major petrochemical facilities, knocking out 85% of the country’s total petrochemical exports. The attacks constitute “a severe economic blow to the Iranian regime, amounting to tens of billions of dollars,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said.

Israel also struck a major pharmaceutical facility in Tehran last week. American and Israeli strikes have also shut down Iran's two largest steel plants. On April 2, U.S. forces blew a gap into the B1 Bridge linking Tehran and Karaj.

“The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again—much more to follow,” Trump posted to Truth Social in a clear foreshadowing of what is to come if Iran doesn't agree to America's terms.

The United States and Israel, in a joint attack, reportedly hit another bridge near the Iranian city of Qom on Tuesday, the AFP said.

“A few minutes ago, one of the bridges on Qom’s communication lines, outside the city of Qom and in the west of the province, was attacked by American and Zionist enemy projectiles,” Deputy Governor of Qom Province Morteza Heydari told state TV.

So far, it appears that the joint military efforts against Iran have not brought its leaders to their knees.

On Monday, Trump said: “They don’t want to cry, as the expression goes, uncle. But they will. And if they don’t, they’ll have no bridges. They’ll have no power plants. They’ll have no anything. I won’t go further because there are other things that are worse than those two.”

"A regime that targets civilians and sacred spaces of all religions has no red lines. Nothing is off limits for them," said the ministry in a tweet on Monday.

An Iranian regime missile struck next to a mosque in Israel.

A regime that targets civilians and sacred spaces of all religions has no red lines.

Nothing is off limits for them. pic.twitter.com/aK9L7IOrZk

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) April 6, 2026

The army released footage from cameras mounted on missiles as they headed toward their targets.

In parts of the north, south and Judea and Samaria, educational facilities can open if there is a bomb shelter in the proximity. Similarly, employees can go to places of work provided there is a nearby shelter.

Outdoor gatherings are limited to 50 people and indoor gatherings to 100 in these areas.

Areas close to the border with Lebanon follow stricter guidelines. Gatherings are limited to 50. No schools are in session.

בתום הערכת המצב, מדיניות ההתגוננות של פיקוד העורף נותרה בשלב זה ללא שינוי ותהיה בתוקף עד יום חמישי, 9 באפריל 2026, בשעה 20:00.

פיקוד העורף מקיים הערכת מצב שוטפת לבחינת הפעילות החינוכית וההתקהלויות במדרג פעילות מצומצמת pic.twitter.com/7MFoBimi6Q

— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) April 7, 2026

Two police officers were lightly injured in the attack.

Gov. Davut Gül said at the scene that the assailants used rifles and pistols, adding that there have been no Israeli diplomatic staff at the mission for two and a half years, per the report.

Turkish Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftci said the perpetrators have been identified and arrived in Istanbul by a rental vehicle from Izmit, according to Agence France-Presse.

He added that one of the assailants was affiliated with an “organization that exploits the region,” the report said.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry wrote in a post on X, “We strongly condemn the terrorist attack on the Israeli consulate in Istanbul today. We appreciate the Turkish security forces’ swift action in thwarting this attack."

“Terror will not deter us,” it added, noting that Israeli missions around the world have been subjected to numerous threats and attacks.

Israeli-Turkish relations have plunged to new lows in the wake of the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the ensuing war in Gaza, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan emerging as one of the most vocal supporters of the Palestinian terror group.

West, 48, in a brief letter, said he wants to “present a show of change” and expressed a desire to meet with members of the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. “I know words aren’t enough. I’ll have to show change through my actions,” he wrote.

Phil Rosenberg, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, who had called for London to ban West from entering the country, said he would be willing to meet with West, but only on condition that West agrees not to perform at the festival this year.

"It has been less than a year since Kanye West released a song entitled 'Heil Hitler,' the culmination of three years of appalling antisemitism," Rosenberg said.

"Even while claiming remorse today, his latest album includes a track first released last year with the abhorrent title 'Gas Chamber.' The Jewish community will want to see a genuine remorse and change before believing that the appropriate place to test this sincerity is on the main stage at the Wireless Festival," he said.

He added: "As such, we are willing to meet Kanye West as part of his journey of healing, but only after he agrees not to play the Wireless Festival this year."

“We appreciate that UNICEF is at last acknowledging the Iranian regime’s appalling recruitment of children into its insane war machine—a barbaric violation that demands clear condemnation and urgent action,” the ministry tweeted on Monday.

The United Nations group had tweeted on April 4: “UNICEF has received reports of mobilization campaigns in Iran that include children, and of children working at checkpoints. We call on the Islamic Republic of Iran to stop any recruitment of children. Recruitment and use of children by armed forces or groups is a grave violation of children’s rights.”

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps lowered the minimum age for participation in war-support roles to 12, a senior official acknowledged on state television in late March, according to Iran International.

Rahim Nadali, a cultural official in the IRGC’s Tehran branch, said an initiative called “For Iran” has been recruiting participants to assist in activities such as patrols, checkpoints and logistics. He added that most of the minors are being directed to the Basij paramilitary militia, which is responsible for suppressing opposition to the regime.

We appreciate that UNICEF is at last acknowledging the Iranian regime’s appalling recruitment of children into its insane war machine - a barbaric violation that demands clear condemnation and urgent action. https://t.co/vwE0sS278X

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) April 6, 2026