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Hagaon HaRav David Yosef wishing Refuah Sheleimah to the Vishnitzer Rebbe as thousands attend the Simchas Bais HaShoeva.

יבטל כל הגזירות! Thousands join Reb Meilich Biederman at a Simchas Bais HaShoeva in Yerushalyim on Tuesday night

El Al pilots received message to announce about the end of the war.

Hamas says alive hostages to be exchanged for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners within 72 hours of deal implementation – AFP

In the Gaza Strip, armed gunmen are heard firing into the air in celebration after the announcement of the war-ending agreement.

President Trump will arrive in Israel on Sunday and will address the Knesset following the signing of the deal, Ynet reports.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and U.S. President Trump spoke by phone, congratulating each other on tonight’s ceasefire and hostage deal in Egypt. Netanyahu thanked Trump for his leadership, while Trump praised Netanyahu’s actions, and Netanyahu also invited Trump to address the Knesset.

WATCH: Fox News’s Bret Baier reads President Trump’s post announcing the agreement on the first phase of his historic peace deal in Gaza.

Yesterday, the IDF carried out two separate strikes in southern Lebanon within an hour, killing two Hezbollah operatives. The first strike in the town of Deir Aames killed Ali Issa, who served as Hezbollah’s local representative in nearby Kfara and was responsible for coordinating with residents on both economic and military matters, the military says.

The Shin Bet security agency says it recently prevented an Iranian attempt to smuggle significant quantities of advanced weapons to terror operatives in the West Bank for use against Israeli targets.

Authorities in Beersheba are tearing down an apartment complex in the southern city that was directly struck by an Iranian ballistic missile during the closing hours of June’s 12-day war.

The New York Daily News editorial board ripped into NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani for his anti-Israel, antisemitic views, after the candidate’s statement on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre: On today’s two-year anniversary of the horrid Hamas Oct. 7 pogrom against Israel, there will be protests in New York both against and in support of Israel. It’s not hard to guess which protests will have the sympathy of mayoral contender Zohran Mamdani, whose deep animosity towards Israel is a problem for hundreds of thousands of Jewish New Yorkers. While Mamdani says he respects all New Yorkers of all faiths, his stance that Israel does not have the right to exist as a Jewish state strikes at a core belief for many Jews. It is a position that smacks of antisemitism in its rejection of an article of faith held so dearly by so many. Don’t let his rhetoric about what’s going on in Gaza right now fool you: This is not about Bibi Netanyahu and the current policies of the incumbent Israeli government. It’s not about Gaza or the West Bank or the IDF or Jewish settlers. Many Israelis, in fact, oppose Netanyahu and his hard-right coalition. Americans like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer want Netanyahu out of office. But those foes of Netanyahu, Israeli or American, are not opposed to the existence of any Jewish Israeli government, like Mamdani is. Mamdani conflates political disagreement with a stance anathema to many New Yorkers. Those who he supports, who call opposition to a government’s policies “anti-Zionism,” willfully ignore the historical arc that led to the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in the 20th century. Mamdani himself endorses the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, to cut off all economic relations with the Jewish state. He has said he discourages use of the phrase “Globalize the Intifada,” but refuses to condemn those who use it — even as it is used as a rallying cry to harm Jews. This is what he said when asked before the June primary about a Jewish state: “I’m not comfortable supporting any state that has a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or anything else…. Equality should be enshrined in every country in the world. That’s my belief.” However, with the exception of the United States and maybe France, just about every country in the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe is based on ethnicity or religion or both: Ireland for the Irish, Poland for the Poles, Vietnam for the Vietnamese, Kuwait for Kuwaitis. The Jews are certainly a people, an ethnicity, as well as a faith. So should the Jews have a country? That is what Zionism is, national liberation for the Jewish people in their historic homeland. And that was the decision of the United Nations in 1947, that there be a Jewish state in the British Mandate of Palestine, along with an Arab state. Israel as a Jewish state, the world’s only Jewish state, is accepted by its Arab neighbors, Egypt, Jordan, UAE and Saudi Arabia. Even the PLO accepts Israel (that was the core of the 1993 Oslo Accords). Israel is accepted by Russia, by India, by China and just about the whole world. But Israel is not accepted by Hamas, not by Hezbollah, not by […]

New video footage shows the moment Marco Rubio informed Trump that a peace agreement in Gaza was “very close.”

The assailant in last week’s attack on a shul in the northwest of England that left two dead pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, police said Wednesday. The attacker, Jihad Al-Shamie, called emergency dispatchers during his deadly attack on Oct. 2. to express his commitment to the terror group, Counter Terrorism Policing North West said in a statement. Al-Shamie, 35, was shot dead by police outside the Heaton Park Congregation Synagogue in Manchester after he rammed a car into pedestrians, attacked them with a knife and tried to force his way into the building. Assistant Chief Constable Rob Potts said that minutes after Greater Manchester Police were alerted to the attack and as firearms officers were making their way to the scene, Al-Shamie called 999 — the U.K.’s emergency phone number — claiming responsibility for the attack. “He also pledged allegiance to Islamic State,” Potts said. Melvin Cravitz, 66, and Adrian Daulby, 53, died in the Yom Kippur attack. Police say Daulby was accidentally shot by an armed officer as he and other congregants barricaded the shul to block Al-Shamie from entering. Three other men remain hospitalized with serious injuries. “This has been a week of deep trauma and mourning for the Jewish community at a time when they should have been observing one of the holiest periods in the calendar of their faith,” Potts said. Police have revealed that Al-Shamie was on bail over an alleged assault on a woman at the time of the attack, but hadn’t been charged. However, police have said he had never been referred to the authorities for exhibiting extremist views. Potts said that “at this stage of our investigation, we are more confident that he was influenced by extreme Islamist ideology. The 999 call forms part of this assessment.” As police work to determine whether or not the attacker acted alone, they have arrested three men and three women in the greater Manchester area on suspicion of the “commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism.” A court on Saturday granted police five more days to hold four of the suspects: men ages 30 and 32, and women ages 46 and 61. An 18-year-old woman and a 43-year-old man were released over the weekend with no further action, and two further releases are planned for later Wednesday, police said. Police haven’t identified those arrested or disclosed their links to Al-Shamie. The attack has devastated Britain’s Jewish community and intensified debate about the line between criticism of Israel and antisemitism. Recorded antisemitic incidents in the U.K. have risen sharply since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and Israel’s ensuing campaign against Hamas in Gaza, according to Community Security Trust, a charity that provides advice and protection for British Jews. (AP)