Yeshiva World News

Sec. Scott Bessent: “2026 is shaping up to be a great year. Trump’s peace deals, trade deals, and tax cuts are laying the foundation.”

The family of a Colombian man believed to have been killed in a US strike in the Caribbean has filed what’s believed to be the first complaint against such attacks with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

It seems like nothing will curtail Israel’s judiciary officials from acting as the unelected leaders of Israel, with Judge Yitzchak Amit, who himself was “appointed” as the President of the court under highly questionable circumstances, taking extraordinary measures on Thursday to invalidate the authority of elected Knesset members. One day after the Supreme Court invalidated […]

A vaccine advisory committee is set to vote on hepatitis B vaccinations for newborns.

Authorities arrest Israeli man from Ashkelon suspected of spying for Iran • 37-year-old Amir Malka, from Ashkelon, was arrested last month after a months-long investigation by the Shin Bet and Israeli Police. • He is suspected of maintaining prolonged contact with Iranian intelligence agents. • Authorities say he carried out assignments for them over a […]

Israir is scrambling to assess potential damage after Turkish hackers attempted to steal customer data through a third-party service provider, Channel 12 reported Wednesday, in what investigators describe as a targeted cyberattack that was stopped just moments after it began. According to the report, the breach attempt was detected only days ago and blocked in […]

Tim Walz and Minnesota AG Keith Ellison are now under congressional investigation for allegedly “allowing widespread fraud to occur.”

UPDATE: The identity of the alleged Jan. 6 pipe bomber arrested in Virginia just 90 minutes ago is expected to be revealed shortly.

Sec. Duffy on President Trump terminating Joe Biden’s CAFE standards: “The American consumer is a winner… We saw the inflation over the last administration, the price increases… He’s actually working to make these products more affordable for the American consumer.”

Sen. Jim Banks: The more we learn the truth, the more we realize that President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth are doing exactly what the American people elected them to do…

NATO Military Chief: “I’m very much in favor of freedom of speech, but I’m not necessarily convinced that what Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk is doing on X is the right approach.”

The Israeli Air Force carried out airstrikes moments ago in southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah infrastructure.

Militia Leader Working With Israel Reportedly Killed in Rafah Yasser Abu Shabab, the head of the Popular Forces militia that had been cooperating with Israel in parts of southern Gaza, was reportedly shot and killed on Thursday in eastern Rafah. Israeli assessments say he was attacked by unidentified gunmen while operating in an area his […]

The IDF has officially confirmed that four Hamas terrorists, East Rafah Battalion commander Mohammad Bawab, his deputy Ismail Abu Labda, company commander Tawfiq Salem, and Abdullah Hamad, the son of senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad, were killed on Sunday after troops and the Israeli Air Force targeted them as they attempted to flee a tunnel […]

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 […]