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A claim circulated by a Kan 11 reporter accusing residents of Bnei Brak of reckless behavior during the war was contradicted after police determined that the suspect involved in the incident was not from the city, exposing the allegation as unfounded.

Even as Israel remains at war, with sirens sounding across the country and missile attacks continuing, critics say some media figures continue directing hostility toward the chareidi public, sometimes attaching accusations to current events without evidence.

The latest episode occurred Sunday when a Kan 11 reporter used a criminal incident in Bnei Brak to accuse the city’s residents, despite lacking any factual basis. Police later clarified that the allegation was incorrect.

In a post on the social media platform X that remained online, reporter Hadas Greenberg shared a video showing a young man handling a cluster bomb fragment and wrote: “Meanwhile somewhere in Bnei Brak they are playing with a cluster bomb remnant. In the end they will really die and still not enlist.”

Police later reported that the individual involved was actually a resident of the Arab city of Tira. According to the police statement, officers detained the suspect after he allegedly collected a cluster bomb into his vehicle in Bnei Brak during the missile barrage and fled the scene.

Investigators were able to identify the suspect by tracing the vehicle’s license plate number and subsequently located and detained him.

Police bomb disposal units arrived at the scene, safely handled the cluster bomb that had been found, and conducted extensive searches of the surrounding area to ensure that no further danger remained to the public.

{Matzav.com}

As the Iran war enters its third week, Israeli officials are examining a significant change to the passenger arrangement on special flights departing from Ben Gurion Airport that were originally designated to evacuate American citizens from Israel. If the proposal is approved, hundreds of additional Israelis may be permitted to join those flights leaving the country.

The proposal was discussed during a situation assessment currently taking place between Israel’s Home Front Command and the Ministry of Transportation. The talks are focusing on modifying seating allocations on the special flights so that more passengers can be accommodated.

Officials say the adjustment could allow many more Israelis to leave the country on flights that were initially organized primarily for American citizens. At the same time, additional easing measures related to aviation travel are also being examined.

Two weeks into the war, the Transportation Ministry has already reached agreements on certain aviation-related relaxations that are expected to take effect beginning tomorrow. Under the new arrangements, the number of passengers permitted on departing flights will increase. The change became possible after the Home Front Command authorized allowing larger numbers of people to be present at Ben Gurion Airport.

Transportation Minister Miri Regev convened a situation assessment Sunday evening to discuss expanding passenger quotas on outbound flights in the coming days, following an evaluation of the initial pilot program.

The plan under consideration would expand the pilot and introduce additional flights to the United States using wide-body aircraft capable of carrying approximately 300 passengers. Officials are also reviewing the possibility of increasing the number of passengers allowed on narrow-body aircraft traveling to European destinations—from roughly 100 passengers per flight today to between 150 and 170 passengers.

The move would represent another step in gradually restoring outbound flight activity at Ben Gurion Airport, which has been severely disrupted since the start of Operation Shaagas HaAri and the wave of cancellations by foreign airlines.

{Matzav.com}

Amid reports of shortages in interceptor stockpiles for ballistic missile defense systems, an airlift of munitions has landed in Israel, enabling continued strikes on Iran, Kan News reported on Sunday morning. The shipment was delivered after Israel dropped over 11,000 munitions on Iranian targets since the beginning of the war. While the Iron Dome system […]