The Park East Synagogue is a five-minute walk from the late Jeffrey Epstein's townhouse on the Upper East Side. There is no evidence confirming or denying whether Israeli Mossad Sayanim Ghislaine Maxwell or Jeffrey Epstein were supplicants at this nearby temple.

The UN maintains that the Israeli occupation since 1967 is illegal, and by extension, so are settlements constructed in the area. Population transfers are prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.

Meanwhile, Israeli Settlers forced a Palestinian family to exhume the body of a man buried near the West Bank Settlement of Sa-Nur, claiming the remains were too close. A relative of the deceased said an armed Settler told him: 'Either you exhume the body, or we do it.'