Yeshiva World News

The IDF continues evacuating villages in southern Lebanon, issuing evacuation warnings to two additional villages.

Lebanese media posted footage showing an Israeli airstrike hitting a building in the southern town of Shehour shortly after the IDF issued an evacuation warning.

NEW: The August trade deficit dropped to $59.6 billion — the lowest level this year. This Data release was heavily delayed due to the Democrat-led shutdown.

HaRav Eliezer Kahaneman, the Nasi of Ponavezh Yeshiva, shortly after the major decision was handed down in his favor.

Mount Semeru erupts in Indonesia, sending a 54,000-foot ash plume into the sky and prompting evacuations and flight warnings.

Israel’s Defense Ministry says the 1,000th cargo plane since the start of the war has arrived, delivering military equipment. In total, more than 120,000 tons of gear, weapons, combat supplies, and protective equipment have been shipped to Israel via 1,000 planes and about 150 ships.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has agreed to stay on as top cop when he takes office, — a bridge-building move that comes despite their profound political differences.

VIRGINIA SCHOOL TO PAY $100,000 IN ANTISEMITISM CASE: A Northern Virginia private school will pay $100,000 to a Jewish family after their children were expelled following complaints of severe antisemitic harassment. As part of the settlement, the Nysmith School will adopt the IHRA definition, appoint an antisemitism compliance monitor, and institute mandatory training and reporting […]

Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, has seen 70.1 million passengers already pass through its terminals this year, officials announced Wednesday. The rapid growth of passengers at the airport underscores Dubai as a key hub for East-West travel in global aviation and the need for its $35 billion project to build a […]

US envoy Steve Witkoff’s scheduled meeting with Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya in Istanbul has been called off, American sources told Yisrael Hayom on Wednesday. According to the report, Washington is furious with Hamas for its attempt to garner Arab support to oppose Trump’s peace plan before it was brought to a vote in the UN […]

New York City’s incoming mayor, Zohran Mamdani, hasn’t taken office yet. But he’s already the new avatar of evil for conservative media figures. He’s been called “downright sinister” and “incompatible with America.” His labels include commie, Marxist, jihadist sympathizer and “seething leftist.” Fox News’ Laura Ingraham warned her viewers not to be fooled by “smiling socialists who […]

After decades of conflict in the Ponovezh Yeshivah, retired judge Dovid Cheshin, who was appointed as arbitrator between the parties four years ago, published a final ruling on Wednesday at noon that determined that the “Mechablim” must vacate the yeshivah by the summer of 2025. The conflict in Ponovezh has been ongoing for decades, since […]

Former FBI Director James Comey will make another run Wednesday at getting his criminal case dismissed, with his lawyers looking to convince a judge that the prosecution is vindictive and rooted in President Donald Trump’s hatred of him. The arguments arrive as the Comey case appears freshly imperiled following a judge’s excoriation of the Justice […]

In a dramatic ruling issued on Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that the state must formulate a full enforcement plan against Chareidi “draft-dodgers” within 45 days. In response to petitions by left-wing organizations, the Supreme Court slammed the inadequate enforcement of the Security Service Law against Chareidi draft evaders, a situation that constitutes, in its […]

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” sold after a 20-minute bidding war at Sotheby’s in New York, where the flashiest item of the night was a solid […]

US envoy Steve Witkoff’s scheduled meeting with Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya in Istanbul has been called off, American sources told Yisrael Hayom on Wednesday. According to the report, Washington is furious with Hamas for its attempt to garner Arab support to oppose Trump’s peace plan before it was brought to a vote in the UN […]

Batsheva Sadan, the daughter of the kedoshim Rabbi Eli and Dina Horowitz, H’yd, who were murdered in their home in Kiryat Arba in 2003, shared a heartbreaking post about the building where her late parents lived—following the murder of another resident of the building, Aharon Cohen, H’yd, in the Gush Etzion terror attack on Tuesday. […]

Photo shows some of the devastation after a massive fire spread to more than 170 buildings in Saganoseki, Oita, Japan.

SACRAMENTO SHERIFF: Man arrested, weapons cache seized following “escalating behavior” on school grounds

Sunset on Tuesday marked the final appearance of the sun over Utqiagvik, Alaska, in 2025 as the town enters “polar night,” a stretch of roughly 65 days of darkness.