FOX NEWS: “Has your patience run out with Putin?” TRUMP: “It’s sort of running out and running out fast — but it does take two to tango… When Putin wants to do it, Zelensky didn’t. When Zelensky wanted to do it, Putin didn’t… We’re going to have to come down very, very strong.”
The Israeli military says it is expanding the Kissufim crossing, also known as Crossing 147, to boost humanitarian aid deliveries and support the evacuation of civilians from Gaza City to the south.
The IDF says several suspects recently detained in southern Syria were working for Iran’s Unit 840, a secret branch of the IRGC’s Quds Force, and had been directed to carry out attacks against Israel.
President Donald Trump’s administration is signaling growing frustration with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Israel carried out a strike in Qatar on Tuesday that targeted senior Hamas leaders as they reportedly gathered to review a U.S.-backed framework for a ceasefire and hostage deal. The rare operation — Israel’s first strike on Qatari soil, which also hosts one of America’s largest military bases — has rattled delicate diplomacy and set off alarm inside the White House. Trump, while reaffirming his long-standing goal of “eliminating Hamas,” publicly criticized the move, warning it did not “advance Israel or America’s goals.” Behind closed doors, officials were more forceful. “Every time they’re making progress, it seems like he bombs someone,” a person close to Trump’s national security team told Politico. “That’s why the president and his aides are so frustrated with Netanyahu.” Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told the UN Security Council that the strike “went beyond any borders, any limitations,” accusing Israel of undermining mediation efforts. An Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel that negotiations, previously led by Qatar and Egypt, have halted since Tuesday’s bombing. A senior Qatari official, speaking anonymously, said the attack shifted Doha’s focus squarely onto “national security and sovereignty, which were directly threatened.” The official added: “When one party chooses to bomb the mediator and one of the negotiating delegations, what kind of talks can be considered valid?” Trump acknowledged that Israel did not provide adequate warning of the strike and that calls from his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff to alert Qatar came “too late.” He later wrote on social media that bombing “inside Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States… does not advance Israel or America’s goals.” While U.S. officials told Politico there are no plans to penalize Netanyahu, they expressed concern the Israeli leader may be deliberately sabotaging talks. The White House is now rushing to reassure Doha: Qatari premier al-Thani is slated to meet Friday with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, Trump himself, and Witkoff. Despite the fallout, Trump maintained optimism when asked by Israel’s Channel 14 how the strike might affect negotiations. “Hopefully, it won’t affect it at all,” he said. “We want the hostages out, and we want them out soon.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
A suspected terror attack at a hotel in Kibbutz Tzuba, west of Jerusalem, left two Israelis injured on Friday and raised fresh questions about security gaps inside Israeli workplaces and public venues. Police say the attacker, a 42-year-old hotel employee from Shuafat in East Jerusalem with a prior history of security offenses, grabbed a kitchen knife during his shift, shouted “Allahu akbar,” and stabbed two guests before being subdued by an off-duty police investigator who happened to be at a family event at the site. “I overpowered the terrorist with my hands rather than gunfire to reduce the danger to civilians,” he said, crediting several guests with helping restrain and handcuff the attacker until reinforcements arrived. Border Police later secured the scene, and Jerusalem District Commander Amir Arzani convened a situational assessment. Hadassah Medical Center reported that a 50-year-old man remains in serious condition with a stab wound to the chest, while a 23-year-old relative of the officer is hospitalized in moderate condition. Both are conscious. The incident has fueled renewed debate within Israel’s security establishment over how individuals with prior security offenses are able to work in public-facing jobs, particularly in venues frequented by families and tourists. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
The IDF revealed Friday that several suspects detained in recent months in southern Syria were part of terror cells operating on behalf of Iran’s Unit 840, a covert arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Quds Force tasked with orchestrating attacks against Israel. According to the IDF, two field operatives — Zeidan al-Tawil and Muhammad al-Kuryan — were arrested in March and April. More recently, Israeli troops detained members of additional terror cells activated by senior IRGC figures Salah al-Husseini and Muhammad Shuayb, who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon in July. The IDF described Husseini and Shuayb as “prominent operatives” responsible for smuggling Iranian weapons into Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank. Interrogations of captured Syrians indicated that many recruits were unaware they were working for Iran, having been lured instead by cash payments. Israel’s disclosure also highlights how its ground presence in Syria has grown since the December 2024 collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime. In the aftermath of Assad’s fall, the IDF seized control of the demilitarized zone along the Israeli-Syrian border, destroyed much of the Syrian military infrastructure, and established nine military posts inside southern Syria — including within the UN-monitored buffer zone. Israeli forces have since conducted more than 300 “routine operations” in the area, the IDF said, aimed at dismantling Iranian-backed networks, intercepting weapons shipments, and preventing hostile entrenchment near Israeli territory. Troops are now operating as far as 15 kilometers (9 miles) inside Syria. Syria has long served as a conduit for Tehran’s weapons transfers to Hezbollah in Lebanon and to West Bank terror groups, routes Israel has repeatedly sought to disrupt. While Israeli airstrikes in Syria became routine in recent years, they have tapered off since Assad’s ouster, even as Israel has opened unprecedented channels of dialogue with Syria’s new rulers. But on Wednesday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir confirmed Israel’s return to the skies. Speaking at a Navy officers’ graduation ceremony, Zamir said Israel had struck multiple targets in recent days, including a base near Homs and sites in Latakia and Palmyra. “In recent days, we have struck in several arenas simultaneously,” Zamir said. “In Syria, we thwarted capabilities that posed a threat to our freedom of action.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
Two internal Hamas documents uncovered by Israeli forces in Gaza reveal that international aid groups, including the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, were fully aware that Hamas embedded its fighters and infrastructure inside Gaza’s hospitals — even as they publicly denied or ignored the practice, NGO Monitor said. The memos, dated February and March 2020, were translated and released by NGO Monitor after being declassified by the IDF. They describe Hamas’s systematic use of hospitals such as Al-Shifa and Nasser as command centers, gathering points for its leaders, and extensions of its terror network. One document states explicitly that the International Committee of the Red Cross set up offices adjacent to Hamas’s movement offices in the Al-Shifa complex. Another notes that Doctors Without Borders chose a secure communications room in Abu Yousef El-Najar Hospital. The memos underscore Hamas’s position that hospitals are not neutral but integral to its operations. “These groups clearly knew that Hamas exploited these facilities and chose to remain silent,” said Gerald Steinberg, president of NGO Monitor. “While condemning Israel for targeting hospitals, they ignored the terror infrastructure inside them.” The documents also show that Hamas’s Interior Security Mechanism tightly controlled NGO activity, forcing foreign delegations to report staff names, accept security escorts, and operate only with Hamas approval — effectively making them complicit in the group’s system. Anne Herzberg, NGO Monitor’s legal adviser, said it was “beyond belief” that organizations like the ICRC continue to deny knowledge of Hamas’s actions. “The documents show they had to report to Hamas. They knew they were being monitored,” she said. When pressed for comment, the ICRC declined to acknowledge Hamas’s use of medical facilities, citing only international humanitarian law protections for hospitals. Doctors Without Borders reiterated on its website that it has “no direct information” of Hamas fighters in hospitals, despite multiple reports and hostage testimony confirming their presence. The silence enables Hamas to continue using civilians and medical facilities as human shields. “They’re turning hospitals into military objectives,” Herzberg said. “Covering for Hamas only encourages them to keep doing it.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
Feminist website Jezebel is facing intense backlash after publishing an article in which a reporter paid self-described witches on Etsy to place curses on Charlie Kirk — just two days before the conservative activist was assassinated at a Utah Valley University event. The article, published Monday, mocked Kirk while detailing how the writer purchased “multiple curses” intended to silence the Turning Point USA founder. “Are you interested in punishing Kirk for the years of regressive rhetoric he’s shouted at America’s youth and anyone within earshot?” the piece asked readers. “To ruin his day with the collective feminist power of the Etsy coven would be my life’s greatest joy.” The Jezebel reporter admitted to unease about the stunt, writing, “Now, is it ethical to curse a man I’ve never met? Probably not. But is it unethical to let him keep talking? Yes. So here we are, in the gray area.” On Wednesday, Kirk was gunned down mid-speech during his “American Comeback Tour,” fatally shot in the neck as he addressed students in Orem, Utah. The suspected assassin remains at large. Following the killing, Jezebel quietly added an editor’s note to the top of the piece: “This story was published on September 8. Jezebel condemns the shooting of Charlie Kirk in the strongest possible terms. We do not endorse, encourage, or excuse political violence of any kind.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) launched a blistering attack on conservative broadcaster Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, accusing him of fueling antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment among young conservatives. Speaking at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, Cruz warned that Carlson’s rhetoric was “deeply disturbing” and compared him directly to progressive firebrand Rep. Ilhan Omar, a frequent critic of Israel. “Tucker Carlson is turning into Ilhan Omar. This is bizarre. This is ridiculous,” Cruz declared, drawing sharp applause from the audience. The senator’s comments came as part of a broader warning that antisemitism is taking root on the American right. “In the last six months, what we’ve seen on the right has been deeply disturbing,” he said, urging Republicans not to stay silent. “We need to speak out and oppose it.” Cruz singled out Carlson’s program, which has featured Holocaust revisionists and guests questioning whether Hamas is a terrorist group. “There are very few ironclad rules of politics, but here’s one. Hitler was always, always bad,” Cruz said to cheers. Carlson, once the most watched host on Fox News, has also amplified the “great replacement theory,” a racist and antisemitic conspiracy cited by white supremacists in Charlottesville in 2017 and by the gunman who killed 11 Jews at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018. “What worries me most,” Cruz said, “is the 19- and 20-year-old college kids, who are listening to this and cheering on this anti-Israel sentiment, this antisemitic sentiment.” Cruz’s warning comes as Carlson remains a powerful figure on the right. He received thunderous applause at the 2024 Republican National Convention and campaigned alongside GOP vice-presidential nominee JD Vance. The senator also used his Heritage appearance to promote new legislation designating the Muslim Brotherhood and its branches as terrorist organizations — a move that would sanction Hamas and other Islamist groups. The bill has nine Senate co-sponsors and a bipartisan companion in the House. But his sharpest barbs were aimed not at Democrats but at Carlson, whose growing influence among young conservatives Cruz described as corrosive and dangerous. “Antisemitism must never be tolerated — not on the left, and not on the right,” Cruz said. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
Israeli President Yitzchak Herzog was the target of a security scare in London on Thursday after a suspicious package was delivered during his official visit, his office said. British and Israeli security personnel moved quickly to secure the object. Officials did not provide details on the contents of the package, but the incident underscored mounting concerns that Iranian-linked groups could attempt to target Israeli officials abroad following the June war with Tehran. Israeli intelligence has repeatedly warned that Iran, working with Hamas, may seek to strike Israeli assets overseas. In response, the Shin Bet has deployed what it described as “unique technological capabilities” to bolster security around Israeli diplomatic missions, delegations and institutions. Some of the measures, officials said, are being used abroad for the first time. Herzog’s trip to Britain has already been marked by political tension. On Wednesday, he met with Prime Minister Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street in a meeting both sides described as difficult. Herzog criticized the U.K. government’s stance on Israel, while Starmer condemned Israel’s ongoing campaign against Hamas and its strike on terrorists in Qatar earlier this week. “It was a meeting between allies, but it was a tough meeting,” Herzog said later at Chatham House. “Things were said that were tough and strong, and clearly we can argue, because when allies meet, they can argue.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
Shuls should bar individual mispalelim from bringing guns to minyanim unless they are part of an organized, trained security team, according to new guidance released this week by the Secure Community Network (SCN), the security arm of the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. The report comes as Jewish communities face heightened threats and as debates over firearms in shuls intensify. Michael Masters, SCN’s national director and CEO, told JNS that “allowing individuals in an unstructured, unplanned way to carry guns in a house of worship is simply not a viable or responsible option given the threat environment or the potential impacts of doing that.” Instead, SCN is urging congregations to formalize volunteer security teams — with clear chains of command, defined roles, and training in threat recognition, crisis response and de-escalation — coordinated with law enforcement and backed by written policies. “Far too few” shuls have what Masters called “a thoroughly vetted, well-thought-out gun policy.” The report stakes out a position in a debate that has quietly divided Jewish institutions: whether armed mispalelim deter attacks or risk turning moments of crisis into chaos. Millions of Americans — including many Jewish families — have purchased firearms in recent years. But SCN warns that unstructured gun carrying could expose synagogues to legal liability and undermine carefully crafted security protocols. The recommendations: Limit armed presence to vetted volunteer teams. Clarify when and how force can be used. Train members on situational awareness and de-escalation. Establish policies for other weapons, including tasers and sprays. Jewish institutions have poured money into security since the deadly Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2018, with dramatic increases in patrols, coordination with police, and infrastructure upgrades. Yomim Noraim tefillos are now among the most heavily secured times of the year, Masters noted — though he acknowledged that smaller shuls often struggle with fewer resources. “We are investing more as a community, nationally and locally, in security than we ever have before,” he said. “But the responsibility to do this right has never been higher.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
A Nukhba terrorist who was captured about two weeks ago provided the security establishment with an internal glimpse of life in Gaza. In a recording published on Channel 14, the Nukbah terrorist admits that the majority of “innocent Gazan civilians” belong to terrorist organizations. “About 70% of the residents of Gaza belong to the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations, the most well-known organizations we have that control the area,” he said. “Everyone belongs to Hamas and Islamic Jihad.” It should be noted that the other 30% may belong to other terrorist organizations located in Gaza, including those affiliated with ISIS, the cruel Mujahideen Brigades terror group that abducted the Bibas family, H’yd, and other groups affiliated with the PFLP, DFLP, and Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. He added that he thinks that at least 70% of the residents of the Strip would immigrate to other countries if they were allowed: “If most people in Gaza had the chance to leave for Egypt, they wouldn’t care where they went—the real goal is simply to escape Hamas’s oppression here.” (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
Two Palestinians who tried to infiltrate Israel in the Jerusalem area through the same breach in the security fence that the Ramot terrorists used only days ago were shot and moderately wounded by police officers. However, Ynet carried out an investigation of the security fence near Jerusalem on Wednesday, only two days after the attack, and reported that the breaches were still wide open and security forces were nowhere to be seen in the area. Only one police car passed by on the road in the course of an hour. According to the report, most Palestinians who cross the fence in the Jerusalem area are seeking work, but the Ramot terrorists were not the first to take advantage of the breaches to carry out terror attacks in the city. Meanwhile, Israel’s security bodies are pointing fingers at each other regarding the monitoring of the security fence. Following the attack, the IDF stated that Jerusalem Police are responsible for guarding the fence. But the police issued a statement on Wednesday emphasizing that guarding the fence is a national mission of all security bodies on both sides of the fence and activity by relevant entities is required to prevent the exit of illegal aliens from the Palestinian Authority. The police added that they have warned about the condition of the fence for over a year, but nothing has been done. Over 11,000 illegal Palestinians have been arrested since the beginning of the year, the statement said. “Every illegal alien who enters is a potential for an attack,” a resident of the Jerusalem area said. “It is unfortunate that they only act to close the breaches after six Jews are slaughtered in an attack. Our lives are not expendable. The time has come for security officials to end the infiltration of illegal Palestinians.” According to Ynet, the fact that the terrorists infiltrated through breaches in the seam line so smoothly keeps IDF officials awake at night, and the security establishment fears a wave of copycat attacks by lone terrorists, chalilah. After the October 7 massacre, Israel banned the entry of Palestinian workers into Israel…with exceptions. There are about 8,000 Palestinians whose work is deemed essential who are legally allowed to enter Israel. There are also about 15,000 Palestinians who work on yishuvim in Yehudah and Shomron (where each yishuv sets its own policy on the entry of Palestinian workers). Additionally, security officials estimate that at any given time there are about 50,000 illegal Palestinian workers in Israel. A former security official told Ynet that on one hand, if Israel were to approve the entry of Palestinian workers, it would help the system to monitor them. “It is clear that if Israel wanted to hermetically close all the breaches, it would happen, but it doesn’t, and for years upon years, illegal aliens have entered,” he said. He hinted that security officials may turn a blind eye to the issue since the Palestinian workers are good for Israel’s economy as well as the stability of the PA, but “they wake up only when there is an attack.” “It is clear that now, after the attack, they are not thinking at all about letting workers in, but if they want to close the fence, then they should close it hermetically, all the way,” he asserted. (YWN […]
Stephen A. Smith speaks on the left celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder: “I don’t care what his political beliefs were. I don’t care what he felt. I care about the fact that a man was gunned down in front of 2 of his children — he’s dead at the age of 31!”
A 16-year-old boy who had been radicalized by an “extremist network” fired a revolver multiple times during an attack at a suburban Denver high school that wounded two students, authorities said Thursday. Some students ran and others locked down during Wednesday’s shooting at Evergreen High School in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. One of the victims was shot inside the school and another outside. The suspect, fellow student Desmond Holly, shot himself at the school and later died, officials with the Jefferson County sheriff’s office said. The school resource officer was on medical leave and two part-time officers who now share the job were not present at the time of the shooting, officials said. The officer working at the school that day had been sent earlier to a nearby accident. Details on how Holly allegedly had been radicalized were not immediately released. They will be disclosed at a later date, sheriff’s office spokesperson Jacki Kelley said during a Thursday news conference. It also remained unclear if Holly had any dispute with the victims or if they were shot randomly. “Based on what I’m telling you about firing and reloading and firing and reloading, it seems like it could be a bit of both,” Kelley told reporters. She described a chaotic scene as students sheltered in place or fled. “He would fire and reload, fire and reload, fire reload,” she said. “This went on and on, and as he did that he tried to find new targets.” But Kelley said he was blocked by secured doors and couldn’t get into areas of the school where kids were sheltering. She added that Holly brought “quite a bit of ammunition” to the school. “The reason we have so many crime scene areas inside is because we have windows shot out. We have lockers that were shot up. We’re finding spent rounds, unspent rounds. So it’s a huge area,” she said. Investigators were searching the suspect’s room, his backpack and his locker as they try to unravel the shooting. They were also in contact with the suspect’s parents. Kelley said authorities would be looking at whether the parents should face any criminal charges for allowing him access to the gun. Holly had ridden a bus to school Wednesday morning, she said. The two victims remained in critical condition Thursday, Kelley said. At the school, cars of students and staffers remained in the parking lot Thursday. Deputies stopped drivers from entering. A command post was set up outside and authorities could be seen coming and going from the school’s front entrance. The Colorado and U.S. flags were still being flown at the top of flag poles. Sila Reilly stopped by to lay flowers to honor those injured in the shooting. Not able to get very close, she secured several bouquets of white flowers on the top of fence post near the school’s baseball field. “I’m tired of this being an everyday crisis,” said Reilly said, noting her son will soon be going to a high school much like Evergreen in another school district nearby. Authorities have not provided further details about just where the shootings occurred on the 900-student campus or what the relationship was between the suspect and the two victims. None of the law enforcement officers who responded to the shooting fired […]
A suspect on trial for trying to assassinate President Donald Trump while he played golf in South Florida last year forfeited his right to continue making an opening statement on Thursday when he veered off topic and talked about Adolf Hitler and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Ryan Routh, who is representing himself, was warned by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to stay on topic. The judge twice asked jurors to leave the courtroom so she could deal with the unconventional turn Routh’s opening statement took. Both Routh and prosecutors had been given 40 minutes each to make opening statements, but Routh’s initial argument, read from a written statement, lasted about 10 minutes before the judge said he had forfeited the right to continue because he was addressing unrelated matters. “I gave you one more chance and you continued to read what has no relevance for this case,” Cannon said. During the prosecution’s opening statement, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Shipley told jurors that Routh wanted to make sure that Trump wasn’t re-elected to the White House. “This plot was carefully crafted and deadly serious,” Shipley said. Routh has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer and several firearm violations. Until this week, Routh has appeared at hearings shackled at the wrists and ankles and dressed in a tan jail jumpsuit. But with jurors present, Routh has been unrestrained and dressed in a sport coat and tie. Cannon has said that Routh will be allowed to address jurors and witnesses from a podium, but he will not have free rein of the courtroom. A panel of 12 jurors and four alternates was sworn in Wednesday, at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida. There are four white men, one Black man, six white women, and one Black woman on the jury, and the alternates are two white men and two white women. The panel was selected from a pool of 180 potential jurors. The trial begins nearly a year after prosecutors say a Secret Service agent thwarted his attempt to shoot the Republican presidential nominee. It’s expected to run two or three weeks. The trial’s start comes as police search for the gunman who killed conservative influencer Charlie Kirk at a campus in Utah on Wednesday in what political leaders are calling an assassination. Prosecutors have said Routh, 59, methodically plotted to kill Trump for weeks before aiming a rifle through the shrubbery as Trump played golf on Sept. 15, 2024, at his West Palm Beach country club. A Secret Service agent spotted Routh before Trump came into view. Officials said Routh aimed his rifle at the agent, who opened fire, causing Routh to drop his weapon and flee without firing a shot. Just nine weeks earlier, Trump had survived another attempt on his life while campaigning in Pennsylvania. That gunman had fired eight shots, with one bullet grazing Trump’s ear, before being shot by a Secret Service counter sniper. Cannon is a Trump-appointed judge who drew scrutiny for her handling of a criminal case accusing Trump of illegally storing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. The case became mired in delays as motions piled up over months, and was ultimately dismissed by Cannon last year after […]
In preparation for the upcoming Jewish High Holidays, community leaders, representatives of Hatzolah, Chaverim, and several local shuls met with law enforcement officials to discuss safety and security measures. Among the community leaders and elected officials in attendance were NJ State Assemblyman Gary Schaer, Passaic City Councilman Daniel Mayer, Passaic County Sheriff Thomas Adamo, Undersheriff George Rosenthal, Passaic County Sheriff Chaplain Rabbi Abe Friedman, Passaic Police Department Deputy Chief Jonathan Schaer, and Clifton Police Department Captain Chris Stabile.
In preparation for the upcoming Jewish High Holidays, community leaders, representatives of Hatzolah, Chaverim, and several local shuls met with law enforcement officials to discuss safety and security measures. The meeting brought together the Passaic County Prosecutor, Sheriff, and area police chiefs, who pledged heightened security at critical sites throughout the holiday season. Officials emphasized their commitment to ensuring that residents can observe the Yomim Tovim with peace of mind. Among the community leaders and elected officials in attendance were NJ State Assemblyman Gary Schaer, Passaic City Councilman Daniel Mayer, Passaic County Sheriff Thomas Adamo, Undersheriff George Rosenthal, Passaic County Sheriff Chaplain Rabbi Abe Friedman, Passaic Police Department Deputy Chief Jonathan Schaer, and Clifton Police Department Captain Chris Stabile. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
