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Hamas gunmen and Red Cross teams are overseeing efforts in Jabalia, northern Gaza, to search for the remains of a hostage.

Israel’s high-powered “Iron Beam” laser interception system will be delivered to the military on December 30, according to DDR&D chief Danny Gold, who announced at the DefenseTech Summit that development and extensive testing have been completed and that the IDF will receive initial operational capability by the end of 2025. He said the laser system […]

A&B Famous, one of the most widely recognized names in the kosher food market, has announced a temporary halt in production of its flagship Original Gefilte Fish, citing an unexpected shortage of key fish varieties essential to its recipe.

In a public notice, the company explained that its longstanding reputation rests on strict adherence to kashrus, freshness, and the use of only the highest-quality ingredients, including fish that is never previously frozen. That commitment, the company noted, is the foundation of the product’s “signature fresh, authentic, and delicious flavor.”

According to A&B, seasonal harvesting restrictions have made the specific varieties of fresh fish required for its classic recipe unavailable. As a result, the company said, it is currently unable to produce its Original Gefilte Fish in accordance with its rigorous standards.

“A&B Original Gefilte Fish will be temporarily unavailable until we are once again able to obtain the premium, freshly caught fish required for our recipe,” the notice states.

Despite the shortage, the company emphasized that several other products remain fully stocked. These include White & Pike, Salmon, and Gluten-Free gefilte fish varieties, all of which continue to be produced without disruption.

A&B expressed cautious optimism that the issue will be resolved within two to three weeks, at which point they expect to resume full production and restock the complete line of products.

The notice concludes with an apology for any inconvenience and thanks customers for their loyalty and understanding during the temporary shortage.

A&B Famous is based in Paterson, New Jersey.

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A new rift is emerging within United Torah Judaism (UTJ) as Agudas Yisroel signals firm opposition to lifting the bloc’s boycott of coalition-sponsored legislation. While coalition leaders were hopeful that the chareidi parties would ease their protest amid progress on the draft law, Agudah has made clear it will not budge until the bill passes its final Knesset reading.

The dispute comes as Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman MK Boaz Bismuth prepares for three intense discussions this week on the updated draft law. Coalition officials had assessed over the weekend that UTJ might partially end its boycott and support several preliminary coalition bills.

However, a report published Sunday evening revealed that Agudas Yisroel opposes lifting the boycott entirely, arguing that without a completed draft law—passed on its third reading—any parliamentary activity amounts to “empty deliberations.”

Degel HaTorah, the other half of UTJ, has not yet reached a decision. Senior Degel figures are weighing whether to accept the coalition’s request and support a limited number of bills. A final ruling is expected at today’s weekly faction meeting.

The decision carries broader coalition implications. Because Shas typically coordinates its voting strategy with Degel HaTorah, Degel’s stance will likely determine whether Shas joins or refrains from the boycott. If Degel chooses to support the coalition while Agudah refuses, Agudas Yisroel may once again find itself isolated, with the other chareidi parties returning to routine cooperation with the government.

The renewed political tension comes as the coalition works to secure a majority for the draft law—a task still far from guaranteed. So far, only two coalition MKs have publicly declared outright opposition: Likud MK Yuli Edelstein and MK Sharren Haskel of Gideon Sa’ar’s party.

Other lawmakers believed to harbor concerns—including Dan Illouz, Ofir Sofer, Bezalel Smotrich, and Eli Dallal—have stated that they will review the updated draft during committee discussions and decide their final vote afterward.

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President Donald Trump delivered an ultimatum to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in a tense phone call several days ago, telling the embattled strongman that the time had come to step aside — and to leave the country with his family — or face an escalating U.S. campaign designed to isolate and destabilize his regime, according […]

Adv. Yoav Lalum, chairman of the Noar K’Halacha organization, sent an urgent letter to IDF Chief of the General Staff Eyal Zamir and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, demanding that they immediately intervene and halt what he says is military enforcement targeting only members of the Sephardi community. The letter was sent following the renewed arrests […]

Last week’s data told a clear story: the U.S. consumer is still standing, but looking increasingly tired – and businesses are starting to absorb more of the pain. What We Learned Last Week Retail sales: On the surface, retail sales barely grew. Once you adjust for inflation, Americans actually bought less stuff than the month […]

Israel’s most ambitious and closely watched defense project in years is no longer theoretical. The Defense Ministry announced Monday that the “Iron Beam” laser-interception system has officially completed its development and testing phase and will begin deployment to the IDF at the end of the month — a milestone defense officials say will fundamentally change […]

During a flight from Palm Beach back to Washington, President Donald Trump made clear he had no regrets about the language he used last week when he referred to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as “retarded.” The exchange took place aboard Air Force One after a reporter pressed him on the wording he used in a Thanksgiving post.

When the reporter asked if he still stood behind the insult, Trump dismissed the concern. “Yeah, I think there’s something wrong with him,” he responded, firing back with, “Do you have a problem with it?” He repeated that his criticism stemmed from Walz’s stance on refugee policy, adding, “I think there’s something wrong with him … Anybody that would allow those people into a state and pay billions of dollars out to Somalia. We gave billions of dollars to Somalia — it’s not even a country because it doesn’t function like a country. It’s got a name, but it doesn’t function like a country. Yeah, there’s something wrong with Walz.”

His original Thanksgiving message on Truth Social said that the country’s “refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II,” and then moved directly into his criticism of Walz. In the same social media post, Trump claimed Minnesota had been overwhelmed by new arrivals from Somalia. “As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for ‘prey’ as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone,” he wrote.

He went on in that post to accuse the governor of inaction. “The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both,” Trump wrote, turning his attention next to Rep. Ilhan Omar. He claimed she “does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country,” adding pointed allegations about her origins and immigration history, saying her birthplace was “a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of Government, Military, Police, schools, etc…”

Trump concluded the Thanksgiving message with a sweeping policy declaration, vowing that he “will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover.”

Walz addressed the remarks on Sunday and dismissed them entirely, saying it is “a badge of honor” to draw such an attack from the president.

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A wintry blast is set to usher in the month of December, with a developing storm on Tuesday expected to bring one of the first substantial snowfalls of the season to parts of the Tri-State area. Forecasters say the heaviest accumulations will fall north of New York City, where communities in the mid-Hudson Valley and […]

Lawmakers from both parties said Sunday they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, citing a published report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order for all crew members to be killed as part of a Sept. 2 attack. […]

The renewed battle over Israel’s controversial draft law is set to intensify today as the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee launches a new round of high-pressure deliberations on the updated proposal. Committee chairman MK Boaz Bismuth is expected to enforce strict speaking limits as lawmakers confront a packed room and a tight legislative deadline.

The committee will open its first session of the new discussion cycle following the distribution of the revised bill text late last week. The updated version, drafted under Bismuth’s direction, is intended to address demands from the Knesset’s legal advisers and bolster the proposal’s chances of surviving scrutiny by the High Court.

Lawmakers are bracing for one of the most crowded meetings the committee has seen in months. According to internal assessments, the hearing room is expected to be filled to capacity with MKs, lobbyists, organizational representatives, and activists. Committee officials are already preparing for the likelihood that not all attendees will be able to enter.

To maintain order, Bismuth has instituted a stringent time-management mechanism: every speaker will be allotted between 90 seconds and two minutes, enforced by an official buzzer to prevent long-winded speeches, delays, or filibusters.

The coming days will feature an intensive schedule. Three sessions are planned for this week—today’s meeting, followed by two additional hearings tomorrow. Next week, discussions are set to expand to nearly every day as the committee races to produce a finalized version of the law for presentation to the Knesset plenum.

Behind the scenes, officials note that the draft law has already undergone 51 committee discussions, including those held under former chairman MK Yuli Edelstein. The latest round will focus primarily on the most recent amendments introduced last Thursday, which were crafted to ensure legal durability and meet the requirements laid out by government legal advisers.

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Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who went from close U.S. ally in the war on drugs to a poster child for presidential corruption in Central America, is on the verge of becoming once again a friend of the United States with President Donald Trump’s intention to pardon him. The 57-year-old former two-term president was sentenced […]

Deals promoted as some of the best of the holiday season are expected to keep people across the United States glued to their computers and smartphones as the post-Thanksgiving shopping marathon wraps up on Cyber Monday. It’s no secret that buying things online is now a staple of many people’s everyday routines. And year after […]

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The Dublin City Council has decided to withdraw its plan to remove the name of “Herzog Park,” named after Israel’s sixth President Chaim Herzog. The council planned on renaming the park—located next to the country’s only Jewish school—as “Free Palestine Park” or “Hind Rajab Park,” after a girl killed in Gaza. The revocation of the […]

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has continued to transfer “pay to slay” payments to terrorists and their families despite PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s public promise to end all stipends to terrorists, the UK’s Telegraph reported. Abbas personally reassured UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer that the PA would completely cease all terrorist stipend payments. In reality, however, […]

Opposition leader Yair Lapid clarified on Sunday evening that his party’s proposed law to revoke voting rights from those who evade military service would apply only to Chareidim while excluding the Arab sector. Speaking on Kan News, Lapid said, “I don’t know who invented this phrase that voting rights are a sacred right—they are not […]

During an exchange with reporters aboard Air Force One, President Donald Trump reignited long-running controversies surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar, suggesting she should not remain in the United States if allegations about her past are accurate. Pointing to years of claims about her immigration history, he said the situation is reason enough to expel her.

“Somalia, where you have a Congressman goes around telling everybody about our Constitution, yet she supposedly came into our country by marrying her brother,” Trump said while speaking to reporters on Air Force One. “Well, if that’s true, she shouldn’t be a Congressman, and we should throw her the —- out of our country.”

Trump, continuing his remarks, argued that the U.S. doesn’t benefit from individuals who arrive in the country only to, in his words, lecture Americans. While fielding questions, he noted that the nation does not need people “telling us what to do.”

His pointed comments emerged as Democrats — with Omar at the forefront — have been vigorously defending Minnesota’s Somali community. That defense has drawn scrutiny amid reports alleging “widespread fraud of taxpayers’ healthcare programs” tied to Somali-run operations. Trump, for his part, has repeatedly vowed to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) amnesty for Somali nationals, citing concerns about billions in missing funds.

Breitbart’s Warner Todd Huston documented Omar’s response to Trump’s rhetoric, noting that she accused him of issuing “lawless threats” toward Somali immigrants. Huston wrote that Omar has adopted an aggressive tone in pushing back, standing firmly with Somalians while targeting Trump’s comments.

“Unsurprisingly, Somali native and U.S. congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been very vocal in her support for her fellow countrymen. She has also attacked Trump for ‘lawless threats’ she says he has leveled against Somalians.”

Trump’s criticisms escalated further in a Thanksgiving post on Truth Social, where he blasted both Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Omar. He cast Omar as a constant critic of America, invoking harsh and inflammatory language while accusing her of benefiting from fraudulent immigration.

“The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst ‘Congressman/woman’ in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how ‘badly’ she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of Government, Military, Police, schools, etc,” Trump said.

Long before these exchanges, conservative writers had been pressing the same accusations. Powerline reported in early 2020 that the Daily Mail had revealed statements from a Somali community figure claiming Omar “DID marry her brother” and had admitted she would do whatever necessary to secure U.S. documentation for him.

The blog’s February update leaned heavily on a report by Martin Gould: “Is there anyone in the world who doesn’t know that Ilhan Omar married her brother in 2009? It has been my mission in life to get the word out over the past three and a half years. Today Martin Gould reports for The Daily Mail: ‘Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would “do what she had to do to get him “papers” to keep him in U.S.”, reveals Somali community leader.’ Maybe word will get out now that is has been reported in the most widely read English-language news site in the world.”

Gould’s findings came after spending time in Minneapolis and reconnecting with the original Somali source who first brought the allegations to light. Powerline described the relationship between the writer and the source, Abdihaikm Osman Nur, tracing it back nearly a decade and detailing the efforts made to corroborate the story.

A separate Powerline entry from July 2019 resurfaced additional claims asserting that Omar’s entire arrival in the U.S. was based on an invented identity. According to the report, Omar allegedly “entered the United States as a fraudulent member of the ‘Omar’ family,” joining relatives who were not biologically connected to her in order to secure asylum.

The article outlined the alleged split within her genetic family, claiming that three members came to America under falsified names while the rest obtained asylum in the United Kingdom. The outlet reiterated that her birth name was Ilhan Nur Said Elmi and noted that she and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi were married in 2009 and “did not divorce until 2017.”

In September, Trump again took to Truth Social to condemn Somalia, describing the country as mired in chaos and dysfunction. He also revisited the accusation that Omar had circumvented immigration rules, questioning how someone in her position could dictate policy to the United States.

In that post, he argued that Somalia was “plagued by a lack of central Government control, persistent Poverty, Hunger, Resurgent Terrorism, Piracy, decades of Civil War, Corruption, and pervasive Violence.” He went on to criticize Omar for telling the U.S. government “how to run America” and wondered aloud whether she was “the one that married her brother in order to gain Citizenship.”

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