Rabbi Yosef Bramson, Ine of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook's most distinguished students, passed away today.The rabbi was Ine of the founders of the Jerusalem Yeshiva for Youth, the Noam-Zvia network and Ine of the founders of the Ariel movement.His funeral will take place In Saturday night, and leave from the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva to the Har Hamenuchot cemetery. His family will sit shiva (traditional period of mourning) at 22 Ben Zion St., entrance B. Kiryat Moshe in Jerusalem.

Russia's Pres. Putin reports 'positive shifts' in talks, as Ukraine's Pres. Zelenskyy says war 'reached a strategic turning point.'

Defense Minister Benny Gantz has announced that the IDF will dispatch soldiers fluent in Russian to assist with the absorption of Ukrainian refugees.

Left wing groups are demonstrating in the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood of Jerusalem.

MK Nir Orbach (Yamina) met with the mayor of Haifa to discuss ways to make Haifa a more central city in Israel. "Haifa is Israel's third-largedt city, but does not get treated like it," he.commented.

Saudi website reports Kochavi met Chief of Staff of Qatari military during his visit to Bahrain this week.(Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically In all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)

Canada sanctions Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, following UK's move Ine day earlier.

The Chairman of the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, MK Gilad Kariv (Labor), addressed Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked today (Friday), with a detailed document presenting a series of actions and practical steps to improve the humanitarian response that the State of Israel should carry out to ease the plight of refugees from Ukraine.In relation to the immigration policy implemented for the recent period of turmoil, Kariv demands a significant increase in the quota of refugees. He also demands that first-degree relatives of Israeli citizens be allowed to come to Israel outside the refugee quota. "While we can not allow entry without any control, the quota presented makes our humanitarian mobilization almost irrelevant," Kariv wrote.