The IDF concluded a major three-day drill in the West Bank involving the Judea and Samaria Division and the new 96th “Gilad” Division, simulating 40 extreme scenarios with 180 aircraft and multiple security and emergency units — the first exercise to include both Central Command divisions.
Over two years after the October 7 attacks, police say officers discovered Hamas assault rifles and radios hidden inside a daycare in the Gaza border community of Be’eri.
President Donald Trump boasts that his tariffs protect American industries, lure factories to the United States, raise money for the federal government and give him diplomatic leverage. Now, he’s claiming they can finance a windfall for American families, too: He’s promising a generous tariff dividend. The president proposed the idea on his Truth Social media […]
Israel’s national airline El Al notched another record-breaking quarter, reporting a $203 million profit between July and September — an 8% increase from the same period last year — as strong travel demand and high ticket prices continued to buoy the flag carrier’s wartime dominance. The third-quarter results, released Tuesday, underscore El Al’s remarkable resilience […]
Over two years after the October 7 massacre, Kalashnikov rifles and handheld radios used by Nukhba terrorists during the October 7 massacre were discovered inside a kindergarten on Kibbutz Be’eri on Wednesday morning. The report came from civilian construction teams working on the kibbutz, who discovered the weapons in a (currently unused) kindergarten building that […]
President Isaac Herzog received an official letter from U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning, calling on him to grant a pardon to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Trump wrote that while he respects the independence of Israel’s judicial system, he believes that the cases against Netanyahu is “a political, unjustified prosecution.” It should be noted […]
Defense Minister Yisrael Katz announced on Wednesday morning that he has decided to shut down the Army Radio (Galei Tzahal) station. Katz said, “As I have clarified—what was in the past will not continue. Galei Tzahal was established by the Israeli government as a military station to serve as a voice and ear for IDF […]
The Supreme Court hearing on the petitions regarding the investigation into former Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resumed Tuesday evening after a several-hour break to allow the parties to discuss the compromise proposals suggested by the judges. The judges had requested and expected that the parties would use the break to meet and reach a […]
A 50-year mortgage sounds like an easy fix for high monthly payments: stretch the loan, shrink the bill. But when you run the numbers—and think through how housing markets, lenders, and households behave—the idea mostly trades short-term relief for much higher long-term costs, slower wealth-building, and potentially higher home prices. Here’s a clear, math-driven look. […]
Republican candidate for New York governor Elise Stefanik is racking up endorsements as she seeks the party’s nomination to challenge Gov. Kathy Hochul, but could still face a primary challenge from Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who is signaling he may run. Stefanik’s campaign touted endorsements from nine GOP county executives The North Country congresswoman […]
In the heart of one of the world’s largest Jewish cities, Boro Park Shomrim stands as a pillar of safety and protection with its team of over 150 dedicated volunteers. The organization, guided by Rabbinic oversight and dedicated to individuals and the community as a whole, is vital to the safety and community life of […]
In a milestone with global implications, Israel has begun pumping desalinated seawater into the Kinneret — the first time anywhere in the world that processed ocean water is being used to refill a natural freshwater lake. The Water Authority inaugurated the system on October 23, marking a turning point in Israel’s decades-long battle against drought […]
TRUMP: “I am proud to announce that Chicago, Illinois, despite all of the radical opposition and obstruction we have from the Mayor and the Governor, has seen Car Theft, Shootings, Robberies, Violent Crime, and everything else, drop dramatically. As we ramp up more assets, these numbers will continue to drop…”
SEC. DUFFY: “Today has been a much better day, a lot more air traffic controllers are coming in…on Saturday, we had 81 staffing triggers, today we have 4. I think our air traffic controllers are seeing an end to the shutdown and feeling more hopeful.”
“It’s a meaningless vote,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said on the Democrats’ exchange in the government shutdown deal to set aside a vote on health insurance subsidies. “Maybe people feel good about having a vote, but it doesn’t mean anything at all,” Sanders said.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu flatly rejected mounting opposition calls for a state commission of inquiry into the failures that led to Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre on Monday, defying public opinion polls, a court directive, and the growing demands of bereaved families. The prime minister instead pledged to form what he called a “broadly […]
One year after toppling Bashar al-Assad and reorienting his war-torn country toward the West, Syria’s new president Ahmed al-Sharaa walked into the White House on Monday for a historic first as a Syrian leader welcomed to Washington. But just hours later, the rebel-turned-president made clear he isn’t ready to go as far as the Trump […]
During his visit to Argentina this week, Rishon LeZion HaRav David Yosef shlit”a personally intervened to free a woman who had been an agunah for approximately twelve years. The incident unfolded suddenly during Rav Yosef’s packed official visit to the Argentine Jewish community. Local rabbanim approached Rav Yosef urgently, explaining that a woman in their […]
