Reports from Yemen indicate that the Israeli Air Force conducted airstrikes in the coastal city of Hodeidah. Videos shared on social media reveal smoke billowing from the targeted area. The Saudi Al-Arabiya outlet is reporting that the IDF airstrikes on the port of Hodeidah in Yemen targeted a power plant. These reported strikes follow three ballistic missile attacks on Israel by the Iran-backed Houthi group earlier this month. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

In Syria, 37 militants affiliated to the extremist Islamic State group and an al-Qaeda-linked group were killed in two strikes, the United States military said Sunday. Two of the dead were senior terrorists, it said. U.S. Central Command said it struck northwestern Syria on Tuesday, targeting a senior terrorist from the al-Qaeda-linked Hurras al-Deen group and eight others. They say he was responsible for overseeing military operations. They also announced a strike from earlier this month on Sept. 16, where they conducted a “large-scale airstrike” on an IS training camp in a remote undisclosed location in central Syria. That attack killed 28 terrorists, including “at least four Syrian leaders.” “The airstrike will disrupt ISIS’ capability to conduct operations against U.S.

The IDF on Sunday afternoon carried out another targeted strike in Dahieh, a suburb south of Beirut. The IDF said that “details will follow.” Dahieh is a Hezbollah stronghold where its headquarters are located.   (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of HaRav Moshe Rubinstein zt”l, the rosh kollel of Kollel Zichron Shneur in Monsey. Rav Moshe, a talmid of Rav Aharon Kotler zt”l in Lakewood, was widely known for his personally allegiance to the cause of limud hatorah, and held an incredible affinity for lomdim throughout his life. He is credited with founding the “Brisker Kollel” in Monsey – the first-ever kollel in the town that is now flourishing with numerous kollelim. The levaya will take place today, Sunday, at 12:00 PM, at the Kollel located at 150 Remsen Road, Monsey. The family will be sitting shiva at 1 Overhill Road. Baruch Dayan Ha’Emes. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Elections to select Israel’s Chief Rabbanim began on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem. The vote is finally taking place three months after the terms of the previous Rabbanim ended, leaving Israel without Chief Rabbanim for the first time in history due to the overreach of the Supreme Court. The Rabbanim are normally selected by an electoral body consisting of 150 members. However, following petitions to the Supreme Court demanding that the Chief Rabbanim appoint women to serve as Rabbanim, and the refusal of the Rabbanim to do so, the Court decided that 10 representatives of the Chief Rabbanim will not be appointed.

Less than a day after the IDF officially confirmed that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an attack in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut on Friday, details from the dramatic operation continue to emerge. According to a report in the French Le Parisien media outlet, it was an Iranian spy who passed the “golden tip” to Israel about Nasrallah’s location, confirming he was in a bunker under the Hezbollah headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut. For the Israeli Air Force to execute the deathly attack that destroyed six buildings above the bunker compound, Israel needed precise information about Nasrallah’s location and the timing of the strike.

The IDF spokesperson announced on Sunday morning that a senior Hezbollah commander targeted in an overnight IDF airstrike in Beirut was eliminated in the attack. “The commander of Hezbollah’s preventive security unit and a member of their executive council, Nabil Qaouk, was eliminated in a precise IDF strike,” the IDF spokesperson said.

An Israeli Navy Sa’ar 4.5-class missile ship successfully intercepted a drone heading toward Israel from Iraq, the IDF spokesperson announced on Sunday morning. The drone was launched early Sunday morning toward Eilat and was downed just outside Israel’s borders. Sirens sounded in Eilat at about 5:30 a.m. Watch the interception: Several hours later, Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets at Tiveria. The IDF said that eight rockets crossed into Israel and fell in open areas. B’Chasdei Hashem, no one was injured. Interceptions over Tiveria: (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

September 27th is the most important day in the Middle East since the Abraham Accords breakthrough. I have spent countless hours studying Hezbollah and there is not an expert on earth who thought that what Israel has done to decapitate and degrade them was possible. This is significant because Iran is now fully exposed. The reason why their nuclear facilities have not been destroyed, despite weak air defense systems, is because Hezbollah has been a loaded gun pointed at Israel. Iran spent the last forty years building this capability as its deterrent. President Trump would often say, “Iran has never won a war but never lost a negotiation.” The Islamic Republic’s regime is much tougher when risking Hamas, Hezbollah, Syrian and Houthi lives than when risking their own.

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Sefas Tamim Foundation A question is often asked as to how it could be that people learned in Torah can have children who eventually go off the derech of Torah.