Yeshiva World News

New footage shows pro-Shah youth burning a Basij militia base in Punak, northwest Tehran.

What would Klal Yisroel look like without any Bnei Torah? This is the question Harav Eliezer Piltz shlit”a, the renowned rosh yeshiva of Tifrach, warns us we don’t ever want to have to answer.Not having bnei Torah would be unbearable for Klal Yisroel, Rav Piltz says, adding that those who have true daas and understand what […]

SEN. SCHUMER: “It’s a violation of the law to do what they did without getting the authorization of Congress.”

New footage shows seven MH-60M Black Hawks and five MH-47G Chinooks from the U.S. 160th SOAR flew low over Caracas during Saturday’s operation targeting President Maduro.

President Trump has departed Palm Beach, Florida, and is returning to Washington, D.C. after spending the holidays at Mar-a-Lago. Trump had remained in Palm Beach for an extended stay, during which he oversaw the U.S. military operation in Venezuela that resulted in the capture of Nicolás Maduro.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has ordered city agencies to hold “Rental Ripoff Hearings” across all five boroughs within his first 100 days in office. The goal is to enable renters to testify publicly about unsafe living conditions, hidden and excessive fees, and other deceptive landlord practices, allowing the city to identify widespread problems and strengthen […]

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has prepared a contingency plan to flee the country if nationwide protests spiral beyond the control of his security forces, revealing the depth of concern inside the Islamic Republic’s highest ranks as unrest grips the country. An intelligence report says the 86-year-old cleric would evacuate Tehran with a tightly controlled […]

A day after the audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela, President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed his calls for an American takeover of the Danish territory of Greenland for the sake of U.S. security interests, while his top diplomat declared the communist government in Cuba is “in a lot of trouble.” The comments from Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio after the ouster of Venezuela’s Nicolás […]

One of the most consequential international criminal prosecutions to land in New York in years is now in the hands of Alvin K. Hellerstein, a 92-year-old senior U.S. district judge, Orthodox Jew, and one of the longest-serving active jurists in the federal judiciary. Hellerstein has been assigned to preside over the criminal case against Nicolás […]

Chani Lifshitz, who, together with her husband, Rabbi Chezky, runs the Chabad House in Kathmandu, where they’ve hosted tens of thousands of Israeli backpackers over the years, published a Facebook post stating that their landlord ordered them to evacuate the premises of the home they’ve been renting for 20 years after months of harassment. “The […]

A U.S. Defense Department watchdog has found that Washington lost full accountability over large portions of sensitive American-supplied weapons in Israel during the first year of the Gaza war, as the intensity of the fighting overwhelmed standard oversight systems meant to track some of the Pentagon’s most advanced arms. A report from the U.S. Department […]

The BBC has quietly admitted to a grave ethical breach in southern Israel—entering the private home of a terror-survivor family days after the October 7 massacre without permission to film, then broadcasting the footage. The BBC has now apologized and paid NIS 120,000 in compensation to the Horenstein family of Netiv HaAsara, a community devastated […]

Caught on camera: People ran as a massive landslide crashed onto a highway in North Kashmir. Officials say there were no serious injuries in the incident.

The Tel Aviv District Court on Sunday sentenced Ibrahim Shalhoub, 29, of Tulkarm, to life imprisonment for the murder of Ludmila Lipovsky hy”d, an 83-year-old holocaust survivor who was stabbed to death in Herzliya in December 2024. Shalhoub pleaded guilty and was convicted of murder. The court also ordered him to pay the maximum compensation […]

BOMBSHELL: Germany’s BND intelligence service secretly wiretapped then-U.S. President Barack Obama for years, including calls made aboard Air Force One, all without Angela Merkel’s approval, Die Zeit reports. The operation ended in 2014. The BND allegedly exploited weaknesses in the plane’s encryption, recorded transcripts for top officials only, then destroyed them after review. The spying […]

A reception was held near the Kisei Rachamim Yeshiva in honor of released Yeshiva Bochrim who were imprisoned for not responding to IDF draft notices.

Senior Israeli and Syrian officials will meet in Washington on Monday and Tuesday for U.S.-mediated talks led by envoy Tom Barrack. The Israeli delegation will be led by Ambassador Yechiel Leiter and Roman Goffman. Syria will be represented by its leadership The talks are described as exploratory, with no final agreements expected at this stage.

According to the New York Times, Iranian leaders have been thrown into “survival mode” as nationwide protests intensify, raising fears inside the regime that the unrest could threaten its hold on power. According to the report Iranian officials have held several urgent emergency meetings in recent days as the government struggles with growing domestic unrest, […]

President Donald Trump has been “unequivocal” that Hamas must fully disarm before his proposed peace framework can move forward, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, demonstrating a hard U.S.-Israeli stance that leaves little room for compromise with the Iran-backed terrorist group. Speaking to reporters ahead of Israel’s weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said […]

The Tel Aviv District Court on Sunday sentenced Ibrahim Shalhoub, 29, of Tulkarm, to life imprisonment for the murder of Ludmila Lipovsky hy”d, an 83-year-old woman who was stabbed to death in Herzliya in December 2024. Shalhoub pleaded guilty and was convicted of murder under aggravated circumstances as an act of terrorism, as well as […]