A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating. Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV described the area of the incident happening as being near Jolfa, a city on the border with with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers […]

Iranian Jew Arvin Netanel Ghahremani, 20, was slated to be executed by the Islamic Republic on Monday but Baruch Hashem, his execution has been delayed for a month. The postponement was announced by Rabbi Moshe Margaretten of the Tzedek Association. “Excellent news!” he wrote. “The court system in Kermansha Iran, has granted a temporary reprieve […]

The IDF has announced the deaths of two soldiers killed in the Gaza Strip on Shabbos. They have been identified as Staff-Sergeant Nachman Meir Chaim Vaknin HY’D, 20 years old, from Eilat, and Staff-Sergeant Noam Bittan HY’D, 20 years old, from Yad Rambam. Both were in the Givati reconnaissance unit. Additionally, 4 soldiers were injured. […]

It was released for publication on Motzei Shabbos that the body of hostage Ron Binyamin, H’yd, 53, was recovered from Gaza. His body was rescued along with those of Yitzchak Gelernter, H’yd, Amit Buskila, H’yd, and Shani Louk, H’yd, in a joint operation of IDF special forces and Shin Bet operatives. Early in the morning […]

In a recent military operation in Gaza, IDF troops recovered the bodies of multiple hostages that were being held by Hamas. The exact number of bodies recovered is three or four and some of them had been classified as “alive.” The IDF is in the process of notifying the familes, and an announcement from the […]

A 20-year-old Jewish man is slated for execution on Shabbos, according to Iranian media reports, sparking urgent appeals for Tehillim and diplomatic intervention from the Jewish community worldwide. The young man was sentenced to death following a fatal altercation with a local non-Jewish Iranian. Under Iranian law, the family of the victim has the right […]

The Lebanese terror group Hezbollah this week struck a military post in northern Israel using a drone that fired two missiles. The attack wounded three soldiers, one of them seriously. Hezbollah has regularly fired missiles across the border with Israel over the past seven months, but the one on Thursday appears to have been the […]

Jewish activists and college students on Wednesday testified before the House Judiciary Committee about antisemitism that has run rampant and unchecked on U.S. college campuses since the October 7th massacre in southern Israel by Hamas terrorists. Speakers included Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder, the Director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center; Shabbos Kestenbaum, a Master’s student […]

The IDF on Thursday announced the death of a reservist earlier today in an “operational accident” on the border with the Gaza Strip. The deceased has been named as Sgt. Maj. (res.) Ran Yavetz, 39, of the Bislamach Brigade’s 6828th Battalion, from Modiin. Yavetz was killed and another four troops were lightly hurt in a […]

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s statements excoriating Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening elicited a storm of fierce criticism against him, with many calling for his dismissal. He was slammed for his call for Palestinian support of the Gaza Strip as well as his public opposition to Netanyahu during a time of war, an unusual […]