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Standing on Israel’s northern frontier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the government has fundamentally changed its security posture toward the border with Lebanon, pledging an aggressive response to threats alongside a sweeping investment plan aimed at stabilizing and revitalizing the region. “There is no containment, no leniency,” Netanyahu said Sunday during a special weekly […]

Iran said Monday it had summoned all of the European Union ambassadors in the Islamic Republic to protest the bloc’s listing of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terror group. The move came as Turkey tried to organize a meeting between the U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian officials, seeking to jump-start talks to ease […]

Staggering Home Health Care and Hospice Billing Concentrated in Los Angeles County ⁠      • Nearly 18% of all home health care billing nationwide comes from Los Angeles County •One physician billed the government $120 million in a single year, claiming to oversee 1,900 patients •With nearly 2,000 hospice agencies, Los Angeles County has […]

The IDF says its forces demolished the home of a Palestinian terrorist responsible for a deadly stabbing and shooting in the West Bank in July 2025. According to the military, the July 10 attack at the Gush Etzion Junction involved terrorists Mahmoud Abed and Malik Salem, who fatally stabbed 22-year-old security guard Shalev Zevuloni hy”d […]

Today is day 3 of the partial government shutdown. Speaker Mike Johnson says he’s confident it will end tomorrow, as Democrats push back on DHS funding.

Palestinians are beginning to gather on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Border Crossing to enter the Gaza Strip, as the crossing opens for the first time in more than a year. Israeli authorities said system checks and trial runs were completed at the crossing yesterday, clearing the way for it to open today to […]

The IDF says the Air Force carried out airstrikes a short time ago on several Hezbollah weapons depots in southern Lebanon. According to the IDF, the targets in Kfar Tebnit and Ain Qana were hit after evacuation warnings were issued to residents. The military said one of the depots was located within a civilian area, […]

Military police arrived at the home of a yeshivah bochur in Or Yehuda early Monday morning in an attempt to arrest him for draft dodging. Peleg Yerushalmi’s ‘Black Code’ system was activated, calling on the public to come en masse to the ben yeshiva’s home to prevent the arrest. Dozens of protesters arrived, and the […]

President Trump’s senior envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to arrive in Israel tomorrow for meetings with Prime Minister Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, according to senior Israeli officials. Zamir was in Washington over the weekend for talks with U.S. defense officials focused on Iran. Meanwhile, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency […]

Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of wintry weather Monday, a forecast sure to disappoint many after what’s already been a long, cold season across large parts of the United States. His annual prediction and announcement that he had seen his shadow was translated by his handlers in the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club at Gobbler’s Knob in western […]

Police on Monday morning detained a mayor of a city in southern Israel for allegedly stealing millions of shekels in wartime donations intended for residents of the city during the war in Gaza and the war with Iran in June 2025. The police also detained several of the mayor’s aides, municipal department heads, and local […]

US President Donald Trump’s senior envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to arrive in Israel tomorrow for meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, according to senior Israeli officials. Zamir was in Washington over the weekend for talks with U.S. defense officials focused on Iran. Meanwhile, Iran’s semi-official […]

Conservative populist Laura Fernández won Costa Rica’s presidency, promising to continue the aggressive reorienting of the Central American nation’s politics started by her political sponsor, outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves. Preliminary and partial results showed the Costa Rican president’s handpicked successor captured the win with a resounding first-round victory, eliminating the need for a runoff in […]

Haaretz has agreed to pay 8,000 shekels in compensation to a young shepherd from the Shomron after publishing his photograph in an article with criminal implications without the consent of his parents, Arutz Sheva reported. The payment is part of a settlement reached between the parties following a legal demand submitted by Attorney Chaim Bleicher […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson faces tough days ahead trying to muscle a federal funding package to passage and prevent a prolonged partial government shutdown as debate intensifies over the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement operations. Johnson signaled he is relying on help from President Donald Trump to ensure passage. Trump struck a deal with senators to separate funding for the Department of Homeland […]

A group of thugs vandalized a Chabad elementary school in Paris, the public prosecutor’s office said on Sunday. “On Saturday night, several individuals carried out acts of vandalism at the Lubavitch Jewish elementary school, Beit Chana, located in the city’s 20th arrondissement,” the statement said. “Three windows at the school were smashed, and a CCTV […]

Opposition leader Yair Lapid held a small, closed-door meeting in December 2025 with senior Qatari representatives in Paris, without the presence of the families of hostages—contrary to the version he later presented publicly, Kan News revealed on Monday morning. According to the report, the first meeting took place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Paris […]

TODAY IN HISTORY: On February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry after a 16-day mission, killing all seven astronauts •⁠ ⁠Commander Rick Husband •⁠ ⁠Pilot William McCool •⁠ ⁠Payload commander Michael Anderson •⁠ ⁠Mission specialists Kalpana Chawla, David Brown and Laurel Clark •⁠ ⁠Payload specialist Ilan Ramon the first Israeli in space