Yeshiva World News

Clashes have erupted between Thai and Cambodian forces along the disputed border. Thailand claims Cambodia shelled Thai positions, igniting the current clashes.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog, speaking tonight at Yeshiva University’s Chanukah Dinner in New York City, criticized Mayor-elect Mamdani, saying he “makes no effort to conceal his contempt for the Jewish, democratic state of Israel, the only nation state of the Jewish people.”

TRUMP: “I have to say that I’m a little bit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn’t yet read the [peace] proposal.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene responds to 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl, explaining why she voted against the Antisemitism Awareness Act in Congress.

LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people MTG: You’ve contributed to it as well…

Sky News’ Security and Defence Editor Deborah Haynes reports on an underground military base in eastern Ukraine, which she was given rare access to.

Two Afghan men arrested in separate terror-related incidents just days apart — including the suspect accused of killing a National Guard member near the White House — served at the same elite counterterrorism base in Kandahar, the New York Post reported. The revelation comes as a third Afghan evacuee was arrested last week in a […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the notion that he would retire from political life in exchange for a pardon in his ongoing corruption trial, telling reporters he has no intention of bargaining away his future — or his office. At a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Netanyahu was asked whether he […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire is nearly complete, setting the stage for what he warned will be a more difficult second phase — and ultimately a sweeping plan to “deradicalize Gaza.” Speaking alongside visiting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a joint press conference in Jerusalem, […]

Qatar’s prime minister delivered a blunt message to the international community Sunday: Doha will not bankroll the reconstruction of Gaza, shattering widespread assumptions that the gas-rich emirate would serve as the primary financier of postwar rebuilding. “We are not the ones who are going to write the check to rebuild what others destroyed,” Prime Minister […]

New York Governor Kathy Hochul distanced herself from incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s escalating anti-Israel positions, insisting that Mamdani has no legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite repeatedly vowing to do so. Asked about Mamdani’s pledge, Hochul was unequivocal. “I disagree,” she said, according to Politico. “The New York […]

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Newly released security-camera footage from the Sha’ar Hanegev junction has pulled back the curtain on one of the most dramatic — and until now, little-known — acts of heroism from October 7: Maj.-Gen. Roman Gofman, Israel’s incoming Mossad chief, wounded while charging Hamas terrorists in the middle of the massacre. The video shows Gofman — […]

Hamas is ready to discuss “freezing or storing” its arsenal of weapons as part of its ceasefire with Israel, a senior official said Sunday, offering a possible formula to resolve one of the thorniest issues in the U.S.-brokered agreement. Bassem Naim, a member of Hamas’ decision-making political bureau, spoke as the sides prepare to move […]

The White House is quietly maneuvering to bring Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi together for their first public meeting in eight years, Axios reported. According to a U.S. official and an Israeli source cited in the report, the Trump administration views a Netanyahu–Sissi summit as a linchpin in a larger regional […]

Over the past Shabbos, the Modzitz Chassidus marked the yahrzeit of the Rebbe, the Amrei Shaul zt”l, who was Niftar 78 years ago on Shabbos. The Rebbe, who composed approximately 2,000 niggunim during his lifetime, was the first leader of the Modzitz dynasty following the devastation of the Holocaust. He was Niftar while visiting Eretz […]

More than 2,000 years ago, the Chashmonaim merited miracles because they didn’t stop at  “good enough.” Their dedication to serving Hashem unlocked success above and beyond the laws of nature, as symbolized by the number eight. Today, in Lakewood, the fire of that dedication continues to burn. Kollel Cheshek Shlomo, founded 8 years ago by […]

German carrier Lufthansa Cargo has imposed an immediate suspension on all military and security-related shipments to and from Israel, a move that lands squarely in the middle of intensifying German–Israeli defense cooperation and Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s high-profile visit to the country. In a statement, a Lufthansa Cargo spokesman said the halt was triggered by restrictions […]

Ex-Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer‑Yerushalmi, who was released on Friday from Ichilov Hospital and is undergoing further interrogation on Sunday, still receives a full IDF salary and all the benefits of an officer with the rank of major general, Maariv reported on Sunday. Yes, the same person who placed IDF soldiers in danger and caused […]

WhatsApp has become so deeply embedded in Israeli life that nearly the entire population relies on it daily. But as its civilian use has grown, so has its penetration into the IDF, creating a massive, unregulated security hole two years into the Gaza war. According to a wide-ranging investigation by Globes, WhatsApp groups across the […]