Prime Minister Netanyahu has selected Maj.-Gen. Roman Gofman, his military secretary, to serve as the next director of the Mossad. His appointment will be submitted to the advisory committee that reviews senior appointments, and he is expected to replace Mossad Director David Barnea, whose term ends in June 2026. Gofman previously served in the Armored […]
Ex-Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi will be discharged on Thursday from Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv after a three-week hospitalization stay, a police spokesperson announced. “The suspect of leaking information and other serious criminal offenses is expected to be released from hospitalization and will be summoned for further questioning in the coming days,” the police […]
Last week, Chaim, a young man in his mid-20s, from a frum family and strong Yeshiva background, attended a shiur at BJX. He dreaded opening the Gemara. He said that it was the first time he was seeing a Gemara in over seven years. Just a short while later, he was deeply engrossed in the Gemara […]
Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of a Gazan militia that collaborated with Israel and fought against Hamas, was killed in a gunfight in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Israeli security sources confirmed. According to the sources, he was critically wounded in a clan feud and evacuated by the IDF to Soroka Hospital in Israel, where […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to appoint his military secretary, Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman, as the next Mossad chief after interviewing various candidates for the position, his office announced on Thursday. Gofman will replace current Mossad chief David Barnea, who will conclude his five-year term in June 2026. Netanyahu praised Gofman as a “highly […]
Two residents of Kafr Kanna, an Arab-Israeli town in the Galil, were arrested after they were seen photographing the home of the mother of the Minister for the Negev, Galil, and National Resilience, Yitzchak Wasserlauf, in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem. According to the report, they were seen photographing the house from several angles the […]
Ran Gvili, H’yd, is the only slain hostage still being held by Hamas in Gaza following the return of the remains of Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak on Wednesday. Following Israel’s announcement confirming Rinthalak’s identification, The Tikva Forum, a right-wing group founded by families of the hostages, stated, “We share in the grief of the family […]
Military and Foreign Ministry officials informed the family of Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak that his body has been returned to Israel after forensic experts completed identification. Rinthalak, an agricultural worker from Thailand, was murdered by Hamas terrorists near Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023, and his body was taken to Gaza. Only one slain hostage’s […]
Israel has identified the body of Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak, murdered during the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led massacre and returned to Israeli authorities on Wednesday. Rinthalak, a young agricultural worker from Thailand, was gunned down near Kibbutz Be’eri on the morning of October 7. Terrorists dragged his body into Gaza, one of several foreign laborers […]
The U.S. imposed sanctions Wednesday on alleged affiliates of the Tren de Aragua gang and increased the reward to as much as $5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of one of the leaders of the criminal group that the Trump administration has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The actions come […]
Trump “stands by” Hegseth following CNN reporting on watchdog report, White House says The White House said today that President Donald Trump “stands by” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following reporting on an inspector general report about his sharing of highly sensitive attack plans in a Signal chat. “This review affirms what the Administration has said from the […]
You don’t see this every day! As heavy rain drenched Malta, a limited-edition, million-dollar McLaren Senna supercar was seen driving through flooded streets during the storm.
Rep. Henry Cuellar: I’m a conservative Democrat, I work across the lines, and I want to see President Trump succeed. It’s good for the country. We might have differences, but if I can work with him I will.
Billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman, Trump’s pick to lead NASA, touted plans to put U.S. astronauts back on the moon before China and worked to distance himself from Elon Musk during his second Senate confirmation hearing
Lebanon’s prime minister said Wednesday that his country was “far from” diplomatic normalization or economic relations with Israel, despite a move toward direct negotiations between the two countries aimed at defusing tensions. Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s comments to a small group of journalists in Beirut came in contradiction to a statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel […]
A punishing Arctic blast is barreling across the United States this week, threatening to plunge more than 200 million Americans into life-threatening cold and potentially rewrite the record books across 15 states. Meteorologists warn that over 40 record lows could fall between Thursday and Friday alone, as a destabilized polar vortex and an early-season La […]
NYC BUSINESS GIANT BLASTS MAYOR-ELECT: ROWAN CALLS MAMDANI “ENEMY OF JEWS,” WARNS OF “DARK TIMES” AHEAD Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan issued a searing public rebuke of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Monday night, accusing the incoming leader of “normalizing antisemitism” and declaring him an outright “enemy” of the Jewish people. The […]
A 75-year-old Long Island man who admitted waging a months-long campaign of terror against Jewish residents and businesses in Montauk walked out of jail with nothing more than probation, after a bureaucratic technicality erased the five-day sentence he was supposed to serve for his antisemitic crimes. Michael Nicholoulias, of Montauk, pleaded guilty in August to […]
The following observations are completely aside from the actual merits of the Draft Law. I simply wish to point out what I see as the unfortunate reality that plagues us, time and time again. There is a sad, insidious pattern, repeated so many times that it’s painful to watch. Gedolim. Daas Torah. Kavod HaTorah. Words […]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he would not hesitate to travel to New York, even after the city’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, vowed to honor an International Criminal Court arrest warrant issued against him on alleged war-crimes charges. Speaking remotely from Israel at The New York Times DealBook Summit, Netanyahu dismissed the allegations tied […]
