Locals walking through the center of Vilnius now pass a hole in the ground, a portal to the rich Jewish past of a city once called the “Jerusalem of the North.” For the first time since 1940, they can see the polished, colorful floor and entire prayer platform of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, built in the 17th century, which became one the most important religious, cultural and intellectual hubs for Diaspora Jews. The community’s main representative body plans to build a new

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung shared a video on X/Twitter by Jvnior of what appeared to be Israeli soldiers pushing a body over a roof. The caption of the original video was “LIVE FOOTAGE: IDF soldiers tortured a Palestinian kid and threw him off a roof.” Lee wrote, “We need to verify whether this is true, and if it is, what actions were taken.” He then went on to compare “wartime killings” such as the one in the video to “the Holocaust of the Jews” and “comfort women”