The hostage release/ceasefire deal talks in Cairo ended on Tuesday with no breakthrough, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim told Reuters that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is to blame for the lack of a deal, saying: “Netanyahu doesn’t want to reach an agreement and the ball now is in the Americans’ court […]

Divisive talk and incitement in Israel considerably deceased following the October 7th massacre but in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to force the government to explain why Chareidim shouldn’t be drafted to the IDF and the resulting political debate on the matter, the always hateful Avigdor Leiberman was quick to join in the fray. Lieberman intends […]

The Israel Defense Forces on Monday published damning recordings of terrorists employed as teachers by the UNRWA discussing their participation in the murderous October 7 attacks that left 1,200 Israelis dead and sparked the current conflict in Gaza. In one recording, Yusef Zidan Suleiman Al Hawaraja, a UNRWA teacher in a Gaza school, discusses his […]

A heart-wrenching recording has been released, revealing the desperate cries for help from three Israeli hostages, Alon Shamriz, Yotam Haim, and Samar Talalka, who were later killed by IDF troops in a tragic case of mistaken identity. The recording, captured by a GoPro camera on a military dog, features Shamriz’s voice, loud and clear, pleading […]

YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Rav Yekusiel Yehuda Meisels zt”l, the longtime Rav in Seagate, who was niftar at Maimonides Medical Center on Sunday night at the age of 95. Rav Yekusiel Yehuda was born in Wodzisław (Veitz) to the town’s rav, Rav Tzvi Hersh and Henya Zissel, the daughter Rav […]

Chief Rabbi HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef issued a p’sak regarding what day the IDF soldiers should be mekayeim the mitzvos of Purim in the Gaza Strip, which is a location that may have been surrounded with a wall at the time of Yehoshua. In a lengthy teshuva that examines the halachic position of the Gaza […]

The IDF has announced the completion of a two-week-long operation in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, during which troops from the 401st Armored Brigade and additional forces from the 162nd Division destroyed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad sites and killed more than 100 terrorists. According to the IDF, the operation resulted in the destruction […]

Members of the Peleg Yerushalmi took to the streets on Sunday, protesting over the recent discussions regarding drafting Yeshiva students into the IDF. Dozens of protestors, mostly teenaged Bochrim, shut down Route 4 near the Coca Cola Factory in Bnei Brak. The highway was shut for more than two hours, and police clashed with the […]

Negotiations for a hostage deal and ceasefire in Cairo hit a major impasse early Sunday afternoon as Hamas refused Israel’s demand to provide a list of the hostages who are still alive, Israeli news outlets reported. Instead, Hamas sent a partial response to a hostage release/ceasefire proposal without even mentioning the demand for the list […]

The IDF launched an extensive attack overnight Motzei Shabbos in western Khan Younis. Air Force fighter jets carried out a massive wave of airstrikes on 50 Hamas terror targets within six minutes with the help of artillery forces. The airstrikes were carried out to clear the area for ground forces. After the strikes ended, ground […]