Israel carried out surveillance of US forces and their allies at the US-led Civil‑Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat, which was established to oversee the Gaza ceasefire agreement, the Guardian reported. According to the report, Israelis conducted extensive monitoring of U.S. troops and allied personnel stationed at the new U.S. base in southern Israel. The […]
A major outcry has erupted over the continued imprisonment of Menachem Aviv Hertzman, a Chabad yeshiva student who learned for two years at the Machon Ran yeshiva in Moscow. Hertzman was one of over 11 Chabad yeshiva bochurim arrested at Ben Gurion Airport upon returning from their year of learning in Crown Heights as part […]
A covert police investigation carried out by the Jerusalem Central Unit uncovered a scheme involving five Israeli security guards who assisted hundreds of Palestinians to enter Israel illegally into—and through—Givat Ze’ev, a town near Jerusalem, a statement from the police revealed on Monday morning. The police suspect that the security guards, who worked in Givat […]
Sec. Scott Bessent on the massive Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota: “When you come to this country, you gotta learn which side of the road to drive on, you gotta learn to stop at the stop signs, and you gotta learn not to defraud the American people.”
Clashes have erupted between Thai and Cambodian forces along the disputed border. Thailand claims Cambodia shelled Thai positions, igniting the current clashes.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog, speaking tonight at Yeshiva University’s Chanukah Dinner in New York City, criticized Mayor-elect Mamdani, saying he “makes no effort to conceal his contempt for the Jewish, democratic state of Israel, the only nation state of the Jewish people.”
Two Afghan men arrested in separate terror-related incidents just days apart — including the suspect accused of killing a National Guard member near the White House — served at the same elite counterterrorism base in Kandahar, the New York Post reported. The revelation comes as a third Afghan evacuee was arrested last week in a […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the notion that he would retire from political life in exchange for a pardon in his ongoing corruption trial, telling reporters he has no intention of bargaining away his future — or his office. At a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Netanyahu was asked whether he […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire is nearly complete, setting the stage for what he warned will be a more difficult second phase — and ultimately a sweeping plan to “deradicalize Gaza.” Speaking alongside visiting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a joint press conference in Jerusalem, […]
Qatar’s prime minister delivered a blunt message to the international community Sunday: Doha will not bankroll the reconstruction of Gaza, shattering widespread assumptions that the gas-rich emirate would serve as the primary financier of postwar rebuilding. “We are not the ones who are going to write the check to rebuild what others destroyed,” Prime Minister […]
New York Governor Kathy Hochul distanced herself from incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s escalating anti-Israel positions, insisting that Mamdani has no legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite repeatedly vowing to do so. Asked about Mamdani’s pledge, Hochul was unequivocal. “I disagree,” she said, according to Politico. “The New York […]
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Newly released security-camera footage from the Sha’ar Hanegev junction has pulled back the curtain on one of the most dramatic — and until now, little-known — acts of heroism from October 7: Maj.-Gen. Roman Gofman, Israel’s incoming Mossad chief, wounded while charging Hamas terrorists in the middle of the massacre. The video shows Gofman — […]
Hamas is ready to discuss “freezing or storing” its arsenal of weapons as part of its ceasefire with Israel, a senior official said Sunday, offering a possible formula to resolve one of the thorniest issues in the U.S.-brokered agreement. Bassem Naim, a member of Hamas’ decision-making political bureau, spoke as the sides prepare to move […]
