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
TRUMP: After a one year review of The Trump Kennedy Center, that has taken place with Contractors, Musical Experts, Art Institutions, and other Advisors and Consultants, deciding between either Construction with Closure and Re-Opening or, Partial Construction while continuing Entertainment Operations through a much longer period of time, working in and around the Performances, I […]
Iran moved Sunday to tamp down fears of an imminent military flashpoint in the Strait of Hormuz, denying reports that it planned live-fire naval exercises in the strategic waterway. On Friday, the U.S. military publicly warned Tehran against actions that could endanger commercial shipping or trigger escalation. An Iranian official told Reuters there were no […]
Israel’s long-simmering debate over military conscription of Chareidim erupted again this week, after a reported internal summary revealed deep friction between civilian law enforcement and the army over how — and whether — draft laws are being enforced in Chareidi neighborhoods. According to Haaretz, a document presented at a high-level meeting convened by Attorney General […]
Israel is warning Washington that Iran is using nuclear diplomacy as a smokescreen, and that President Donald Trump’s negotiations with the regime would leave Tehran emboldened and closer to a nuclear weapon. According to Israeli officials and reporting by N12 News, senior figures in Israel’s defense establishment are increasingly alarmed that the Trump administration could […]
Former Israeli military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin is urging Israel’s security establishment to plan for the unexpected, warning that Iran may not behave according to conventional strategic logic if tensions with Washington and Jerusalem escalate further. Speaking on Channel 12, Yadlin said that while “Western logic” would suggest Tehran has little incentive to preempt a […]
A federal judge sentenced a Brooklyn man to 15 years in prison this past Wednesday for his role in a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by Iranian operatives targeting a prominent dissident-journalist on U.S. soil, underscoring Washington’s broader efforts to counter transnational assassination schemes. Carlisle Rivera, 50, a convicted killer with a long criminal history, pleaded guilty […]
