The other driver was taken to the hospital, and is expected to be okay. Damage can be seen at the front of the Rodeph Shalom Synagogue. The cause of the crash is under investigation.

As if to make clear which nation’s interests are actually implicated in the Khalil episode, the White House’s X account has written “Shalom Mahmoud,” using the Hebrew word for “goodbye.” ...

Activists, politicians and civil society groups have expressed outrage over the adoption of the Hebrew greeting "shalom" as a taunt against a detained pro-Palestinian student from Columbia University, ...