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Venezuela’s President Maduro showcased a Huawei phone gifted by Xi, praising it as “the best in the world” and immune to U.S. surveillance.

The death toll from the Earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has passed 1,400, with more than 3,000 people reportedly injured.

The Lebanese army safely detonated unexploded missiles and rockets, remnants of the recent conflict, along the Lebanese-Syrian border in the Hermel area of the Beqaa Valley.

The IDF is preparing for the reservists, ahead of Operation “Gideon’s Chariots II”

The Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Majed Al-Ansari: “There has been no response from Israel so far regarding the ceasefire proposal in Gaza. The mediators have no choice but to encourage international parties to pressure Israel to accept the deal. There are such communications underway, but no results yet.”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson urged residents to resist Trump’s crime policies, declaring: “Are you prepared to defend this land that was built by slaves? A land that was built by indigenous people? Are you prepared to DEFEND this land?”

Mossad operatives were honored today at the President’s Residence in Israel as recipients of the Israel Security Prize.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver an announcement from the Oval Office at 2 p.m. ET.

The Palestinian mayor of Hebron was arrested this morning and is being questioned by the Shin Bet after being placed in administrative detention for alleged support and incitement of terrorism, including ties to Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

IDF striking terrorists infrastructure in Zeitoun and Shejaiya in Gaza city.

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman MK Boaz Bismuth is advancing a dramatic proposal to draft chareidim under a temporary emergency regulation, sidestepping the lengthy legislative process. The outline, revealed by Walla reporter Yehuda Schlesinger, would apply for just one year and allow the IDF to recruit according to its needs—without setting quotas, enacting a new law, or imposing sanctions.

The initiative aims to quickly address the military’s manpower shortage, bypassing what Bismuth sees as an impractical path of passing long-term legislation in the immediate future. Instead, the regulation would function as a stopgap until a more permanent law is crafted in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

The plan relies on the use of emergency regulations, an uncommon tool within the government, typically reserved for urgent security situations. These powers permit actions beyond what current law provides and eliminate the need for full Knesset approval.

At the same time, all enforcement measures against the chareidi public would be frozen. This includes halting the arrests of draft evaders, ending the practice of cutting yeshiva funding, and suspending all administrative and budgetary penalties.

Bismuth is expected to present the proposal in meetings with both chareidi representatives and reserve officers. According to Walla, the chareidi side has accepted the principle of a regulation that allows enlistment based solely on the army’s requirements, but they refused to agree to specific numbers. Their approval is contingent on a complete freeze of sanctions throughout the regulation’s one-year term.

The draft outline does not spell out how large numbers of soldiers would actually be recruited. Instead, it draws on understandings reached with chareidi political parties prior to Israel’s strike on Iran. The only guideline included is the phrase “according to the army’s needs,” with no clear mechanism for implementation or oversight.

In addition, the temporary regulation makes clear that no punitive measures will be imposed on chareidim who do not enlist. There will be no legal enforcement, no arrests, and no withdrawal of financial support from those who choose not to report for service.

{Matzav.com Israel}

The IDF said joint operations with Shin Bet over the past month in Gaza eliminated numerous terrorists, including senior Hamas and Nukhba figures such as Taleb Abu Atiya, a commander involved in the October 7 infiltration, and a Hamas Zeitoun Battalion deputy platoon commander linked to ambushes, attacks on Israeli soldiers, and recruitment efforts.

Last night, the IDF targeted two engineering vehicles in southern Lebanon that were rebuilding Hezbollah infrastructure in violation of the Israel-Lebanon agreement.

TEHILLIM: Please daven for Chaya Rochel bas Yehudis Leeba, a young Lakewood girl who is undergoing major surgery this morning.

WOAH! MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough blasts Democrats for Chicago’s crime-riddled Labor Day Weekend: “I think JB Pritzker should do something radical: He should pick up the phone and call the President because the ‘nothing to see here’ move isn’t working.”

President Donald Trump suggested he is open to reviving long-shuttered “insane asylums” as part of his sweeping anti-crime agenda, reviving a controversial debate over mental health care and public safety. In an interview with the Daily Caller released Monday, reporter Reagan Reese asked Trump whether the federal government should reopen psychiatric institutions for people with “serious mental illness.” “Yeah, I would,” Trump replied, pointing to New York and California as examples of states that once had large asylum systems. “They released them all into society because they couldn’t afford it. You know, it’s massively expensive. But we had, they were all over New York. I remember when I was growing up, Creedmoor… Bellevue… and they were closed by a certain governor. They released them into society, and that’s what you have. It’s a rough situation.” Many of those institutions, including Bellevue, were transformed into psychiatric hospitals or repurposed facilities after widespread criticism of abusive conditions and mistreatment of patients. Trump’s comments follow his recent push to remove homeless encampments from major cities. Earlier this month, he ordered the immediate clearing of Washington, D.C. encampments and deployed the National Guard after assuming control of the city’s police department. “The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post at the time. “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

An Israeli man was violently assaulted by a group of roughly 20 pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles on Sunday, in an attack he says targeted him simply for being Jewish. The incident is the latest in a wave of violent confrontations tied to the war in Gaza spilling onto U.S. streets. The victim, 24-year-old Ariel Yaakov Marciano, moved to the United States earlier this year. He told Ynet he had come to Los Angeles for his cousin’s bar mitzvah when he and another Israeli, visiting from Las Vegas, were identified by demonstrators waving Palestinian and Mexican flags. Marciano, who wore a Star of David necklace, said the group recognized them as Israeli after hearing them converse in Hebrew. “One of them hit me from behind on the head, and I started bleeding,” Marciano recounted. “Others pushed me, tore the chain from my neck and when I pushed one attacker, they all jumped on me.” A video he posted to Instagram shows him bloodied and shaken, pleading with Israelis in Los Angeles to join him at the pier, saying he had been ambushed. Marciano said that as he attempted to make his way to a police station, shouting “God bless Israel,” he was pepper sprayed. He added that one assailant brandished a knife and warned him, “You’re lucky I don’t stab you.” He expressed concern for his companion’s family, noting that one of the man’s children suffers from muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair. “I don’t know what happened to them,” Marciano said. Marciano claimed police nearby did not intervene, saying the crowd was too large to control. “I can’t blame them,” he added, though his remarks highlight growing frustration among Jewish residents over perceived inaction from authorities. The assault comes just a week after another reported attack on Israelis in Los Angeles. In that incident, several men walking home from shul near Wilshire and Crescent Heights were confronted by a group demanding they chant “Free Palestine.” One man, Eyal Dahan—whose two sons serve in the IDF—replied, “Long live the IDF.” He was punched, his kippah knocked to the ground, and another man in his group was slashed on the hand. Dahan later identified one of Marciano’s alleged attackers as the same individual who assaulted him. “They’re paid $150 for three hours to protest. They’re very violent,” Dahan said. Marciano’s  cousin, Guy Illouz, was abducted by Hamas from the Nova music festival on October 7 and later killed in captivity. Another cousin was killed during Israel’s 2014 Operation Protective Edge. Yet Marciano insists he will not hide his Jewish identity. “I lost one cousin in this war and another in Operation Protective Edge. I won’t take off my Star of David,” he said. In a bizarre twist, hours after the attack, Marciano was dining in a restaurant when a stranger approached him and returned his stolen necklace. “He was a Chinese man who told me, ‘Here, this is yours.’ I don’t know how he found me, but the chain came back. I will keep wearing it.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

In an interview with the Daily Caller on Friday, portions of which were made public Monday, President Donald Trump spoke about a noticeable decline in support for Israel among younger Republicans and lamented how Israel’s once-formidable clout in Congress has weakened.

During the conversation, reporter Reagan Reese pointed to data from a Pew Research Center survey in March showing that half of Republicans under 50 now view Israel negatively, a jump from 35% just three years earlier.

Trump replied, “Yeah I’m aware of it. So, Israel is amazing… Look, nobody has done more for Israel than I have.”

He highlighted his administration’s stance toward Iran and reaffirmed his consistent backing of Israel. At the same time, he noted his astonishment at how the strength of pro-Israel advocacy has diminished. “Israel had the strongest lobby in Congress… Today, it doesn’t have that strong a lobby. It’s amazing.”

Trump attributed much of the change to the growing influence of left-wing members of Congress. “You have AOC plus three, and you have all these lunatics… They’ve changed it,” he said, referring to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies in “The Squad,” who are frequently outspoken against Israel.

He also brought up the October 7 Hamas attack, describing it as “a truly horrible day,” and condemned those who attempt to deny it.

“And you know, you have people that deny it ever happened, they’re deniers. You have people that deny the Holocaust ever happened. So, they’re gonna have to get that war over with. But it is hurting Israel. There’s no question about it. They may be winning the war, but they’re not winning the world of public relations, you know, and it is hurting them. But Israel was the strongest lobby 15 years ago that there has ever been, and now it’s, it’s been hurt, especially in Congress,” he said.

{Matzav.com}

The price of gold hit a new record and world shares were mostly lower on Tuesday after U.S. markets were closed for the Labor Day holiday. The spot price of gold, traditionally a haven for investors in times of uncertainty, climbed as high as $3,578.40 per ounce early Tuesday. That surpassed an intraday record of $3,509.90 an ounce set in April. It later slipped back a bit, gaining 1.1% to $3,549.10 per ounce. President Donald Trump’ s challenges to the U.S. Federal Reserve and other institutions have shaken faith in the U.S. dollar, prompting a shift into other investment options such as gold and silver, analysts say. The price of silver was up 1.8% at $41.46 an ounce on Tuesday, surpassing $40 an ounce for the first time since 2011. “That’s not just a price tick; it’s the market’s confession that faith in fiat is wobbling,” Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said in a commentary. He noted that the price of the precious metal has nearly doubled since early 2023. Investors have been shifting away from U.S. Treasuries for years but that shift has accelerated this year due to worries over U.S. government debt, trade tensions and geopolitical risks, said Ipek Ozkardeskaya, a senior analyst at Swissquote Bank. In early European trading, Germany’s DAX dropped 1.1% to 23,767.08, while the CAC 40 in Paris was nearly unchanged at 7,707.09. In Britain, the FTSE 100 declined 0.4% to 9,158.78. The future for the S&P 500 lost 0.5% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 0.4% lower. Since Wall Street was shuttered on Monday, analysts said traders also were still focusing on the potential implications of Friday’s ruling by a U.S. court against Trump’s higher tariffs on many countries around the world. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 picked up 0.3% to 42,310.49 as investors snapped up bargains following recent losses. An auction of 10-year Japanese government bonds was expected to test the stability of that market. Markets in China fell back from recent gains. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 0.5% to 25,496.55, while the Shanghai Composite index lost 0.5% to 3,858.13. South Korea’s Kospi advanced 0.9% to 3,172.35, while the S&P/ASX 200 in Australia gave up 0.3% to 8,900.60. India’s Sensex rose 0.4% and the SET in Bangkok gained 0.4%. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Friday, 7-4, that Trump went too far when he declared national emergencies to justify imposing sharply higher import taxes on almost every country on earth. The ruling largely upheld a May decision by a specialized federal trade court in New York, but it rejected part of that ruling striking down the tariffs immediately, giving the Trump administration time to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Updates on U.S. durable goods orders, manufacturing, jobless claims and other data that may provide insights into how the economy is holding up under the higher tariffs are due this week. European manufacturing data and a preliminary consumer price index reading for the countries using the euro also are on the agenda. In other dealings early Tuesday, U.S. benchmark crude oil gained $1.86 to $65.87 per barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, advanced $1.22 to $69.37 per barrel. The U.S. dollar rose to 148.54 Japanese yen from 147.18 yen. The euro fell to $1.1635 […]

A member of the International Association for “Genocide Scholars” (IAGS) has accused the organization’s leadership of pushing through a resolution labeling Israel’s actions as genocide without holding the group’s customary debate and using unreliable data, the Times of Israel (TOA) reported The International Association of “Genocide Scholars” (IAGS) passed a resolution on Monday claiming that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide. In response, Israel’s Foreign Ministry called the resolution “disgraceful.” “The statement of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) is an embarrassment to the legal profession and to any academic standard,” a ministry statement said. “It is entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies and the laundering of those lies by others. The IAGS did not do the most basic task in research, which is to verify the information. It even manages to misrepresent what the ICJ has said.” “Above all, the IAGS has set a historic precedent – for the first time, ‘Genocide Scholars’ accuse the very victim of genocide—despite Hamas’s attempted genocide against the Jewish people, murdering 1,200 people, raping women, burning families alive, and declaring its goal of killing every Jew.” “Disgraceful,” the statement concluded. Sara Brown, a genocide scholar and an IAGS member for over 10 years, is also the American Jewish Committee’s regional director in San Diego. She said the resolution marked a troubling break from the association’s standard practice, with IAGS leaders issuing the resolution without holding a prior discussion on the matter. “The content of the resolution and the way it was forced through speak to an embarrassing absence of professionalism,” Brown said, noting that the measure relied on groups such as Amnesty International that broadened the definition of genocide to encompass Israel. Internal emails seen by TOA show that IAGS leadership initially promised a town hall to discuss the resolution but scrapped the plan days later. The association also barred dissenting opinions from its listserv and refused to disclose the names of those who drafted the text. Only 129 of the association’s roughly 500 members voted, Brown said. While members were notified in advance, many abstained because they did not feel qualified to weigh in. “That favors those activists seeking to advance a false narrative about Israel,” she said. Brown also raised concerns about the fact that the association recently expanded its membership, with almost no qualifications to become a member. Formerly comprised of mainly scholars, the association now includes activists and artists. “The appearance is that this was a unanimous vote on behalf of the entirety of the association. It was not, and they refused to have a transparent, critical discussion,” she said. “The leadership, in my opinion, had an agenda.” The result, Brown warned, is that the public will believe that “genocide experts agree.'” “No, we don’t, and we were deliberately silenced.” (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)