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Israeli security forces thwarted an attempted stabbing attack near Shaar Shechem in Yerushalayim’s Old City early Friday morning, shooting and killing a terrorist who police said tried to stab Border Police officers. No members of the Israeli security forces were injured.

According to police, the attacker was a 33-year-old resident of eastern Yerushalayim who approached security personnel stationed in the Shaar Shechem area while armed with a knife. He then attempted to stab Border Police officers at the scene.

The officers responded by opening fire at the terrorist, neutralizing him before he could injure anyone. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Yerushalayim District Police Commander Maj. Gen. Avshalom Peled subsequently arrived at the location and conducted a special situational assessment following the attempted attack.

The incident occurred only hours after more than 50,000 people gathered at the Kosel for the traditional Selichos ahead of Rosh Hashanah.

The massive turnout for the central Selichos gathering resulted in unprecedented crowding around the Kosel plaza. To accommodate the thousands who could not gain access to the plaza itself, the Selichos were broadcast live on the walls of Yerushalayim’s Old City and at Shaar Yaffo, enabling additional participants to join the tefillos from areas near the entrances to the Old City.

President Donald Trump said Iran was just weeks away from producing a nuclear weapon before U.S. forces struck its nuclear facilities, declaring that Tehran’s capabilities have since been devastated and that the regime is now facing mounting military and economic pressure.

Speaking in an interview with British journalist Bev Turner on GB News that aired Thursday, Trump said preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons remains the central objective of the U.S. campaign. He said three known Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and indicated that Washington is closely watching activity at another location known as Pickaxe Mountain.

“Well, they had three sites and now they may have Pickaxe Mountain. But the three sites have been obliterated. But we have a thing called Space Force, which is very effective, that I started in my first term. Very effective. And we have cameras on every major area of the first three. And we also have cameras on Pickaxe Mountain. And we know everybody that walks in and walks out. We can read the name…so we know everything that’s going on. So we’re very certain.”

.@POTUS: We have to stop Iran from having a nuclear weapon, and we've done that. We've defeated their navy, their air force, their leadership structure. We have control over the Hormuz Strait. Their money is valueless. They're in big trouble. pic.twitter.com/BXYgpNqsJR

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 3, 2026

Trump told Turner that the U.S. military action was also protecting Britain and other European countries, contending that an Iranian nuclear weapon could pose an even more immediate danger to Europe because Tehran possesses missiles capable of reaching European targets.

“I’m saving your country from the threat, too, because if Iran had a nuclear weapon, they’re more likely to use it in Europe, where they do have missile capability, than they are to America where they don’t. And I’m saving your country from a problem because they would use it.”

According to Trump, Iran had come within as little as two to four weeks of obtaining a nuclear weapon. He also pointed to his withdrawal from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action during his first term, saying that abandoning the Obama-era nuclear agreement prevented Iran from reaching that point years earlier.

“They were two weeks, maybe four weeks away from having a nuclear weapon. And we attacked them with the bombers. I also did something else in my first term. I ended the Obama, the JCPOA – that’s the agreement, the Obama nuclear disaster, where it was basically a short road to a nuclear weapon. And they would have had a nuclear weapon five years ago if I didn’t terminate that. I terminated the deal. But then, very importantly, a year and a couple of months ago, we attacked them at those three big sites where they had lots of nuclear dust, I call it. It’s material that will could easily be turned into a nuclear weapon. It went through the whole process and it’s now buried under millions of tons of mountain, and will be very hard to get to.”

Addressing the broader conflict in the Middle East, Trump said his primary concern is ensuring that Tehran never acquires nuclear weapons. He also claimed that Iran’s conventional military capabilities and leadership have suffered enormous damage.

“The Middle East has “been a problem for 2,000 years. They’ve been fighting. Look, I’m there because we have to stop them from having a nuclear weapon. And it is the Middle East. And we’ve done that. We’ve defeated their Navy. We defeated their Air Force. We’ve defeated them. Their leaders are gone. Everything is gone.”

Trump also discussed the latest round of American strikes against Iran, saying U.S. forces had targeted Iranian radar systems while maintaining control over the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz. He portrayed Tehran as facing severe economic deterioration alongside its battlefield losses.

“We took out their radar. They just put new radar in,” Trump said when referencing the strikes. “We control the Hormuz Strait.We have great control over the Hormuz Strait. We’re taking out 30, 40 boats a night and a lot of oil is coming out of there. So we control the Hormuz Strait and their economy is crashing. Their inflation could be 300 percent. Their money is valueless. It’s two million to one or something like that. And it’s going up every day. So they’re in big trouble.”

Trump’s comments to GB News aired one day after he told reporters that he believes the latest phase of the confrontation with Iran may be approaching its conclusion.

When asked how much longer he expected the renewed fighting to continue, Trump replied, “Not too long”.

He then questioned how much longer Tehran could withstand the intensity of the American military campaign.

“I don’t think it will be very much longer. I don’t know how much more they can take,” Trump said of Iran.

At the same time, the president made clear that Washington is prepared to continue striking Iranian targets if circumstances warrant additional military action.

“It was a very heavy attack last night, and we are prepared to do another one anytime we want,” he stressed.

Trump returned to the subject during an event in the Rose Garden later Wednesday, where he said the latest American operations had inflicted substantial losses on Iran and significantly weakened its ability to continue fighting.

The president said the U.S. campaign is intended to protect Israel, the broader Middle East and the United States from the threat posed by Iran, warning that Tehran’s ambitions would extend far beyond Israel if left unchecked.

“We’re doing it to help the Middle East, we’re doing it to help Israel, we’re doing it to help ourselves, because after they annihilate Israel, which they would’ve done very gladly, and then the Middle East, then they come after Europe and they come after some of our cities before we put them away.”

{Matzav.com}

[Video below.] President Donald Trump used a White House dinner to address a question that has followed him for years, insisting that his famous hair is entirely his own and pointing to a brutally windy 2024 campaign rally as proof.

Speaking during a Rose Garden dinner, Trump recalled campaigning for Republican Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno in 2024 under extraordinarily harsh weather conditions, which he described as “the worst weather I think I’ve ever experienced outside of maybe a hurricane we had in Florida one time.”

“I went up to the speaker, and it was blowing so hard,” he said. “You know, for years, I had to suffer with people saying, ‘He wears a wig.’”

Trump said the powerful gusts that night should have put any lingering speculation about his hair to rest.

“I don’t wear a wig. But that night, they found out I did not wear a wig because if you did, it was not going to be on your head very long,” Trump continued.

The president recalled that the conditions were so severe that even the teleprompters were blown from the stage as he made his way to the podium.

Contemporary accounts of the March 2024 rally backed up Trump’s recollection of the weather. The Associated Press described the campaign event in Vandalia, Ohio, as taking place on a “wind-whipped airfield.”

The subject of Trump’s hair resurfaced recently amid his long-running feud with comedian Rosie O’Donnell, who claimed during an August appearance as a guest host of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that the president wears a wig.

“You’ve got to realize it’s time to hang up your wig and let Natalie tuck you in,” she said during her third night filling in for Jimmy Kimmel.

The Natalie mentioned by O’Donnell was White House aide Natalie Harp.

O’Donnell also took another swipe at Trump’s hair while performing a song during her guest-hosting stint, which included the line, “Your wig’s a mess.”

Trump’s insistence that his hair is real stretches back more than a decade. During his 2015 presidential campaign, he publicly rejected claims that he wore a hairpiece, telling an audience, “I don’t wear a toupee; it’s my hair, I swear.”

“This is getting crazy,” he said as he pulled on his hair.

To further make his case, Trump invited a woman from the audience onto the stage to inspect his hair herself. After doing so, she confirmed the future president’s assertion that it was real.

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{Matzav.com}

Matzav.com has obtained photos released by the White House documenting President Donald Trump’s meeting in the Oval Office with several rabbonim representing some Jewish communities in the United States.

The delegation included the Satmar Rebbes, the Bobover Rebbe, the Vizhnitz-Monsey Rebbe, representatives of the Skverer community, and R’ Malkiel Kotler.

President Trump hosted the delegation for approximately 30 minutes in the Oval Office. During the meeting, the president conveyed warm wishes to the Jewish community ahead of Rosh Hashanah and discussed a range of matters affecting Orthodox Jewish communities across the United States.

According to sources, it was the first such joint gathering since 1979.

In addition to their Oval Office meeting with President Trump, members of the delegation met with Vice President JD Vance and Rep. Mike Lawler.

{Matzav.com}