Turkey on Tuesday announced that it is restricting 54 products to Israel until a ceasefire is reached in Gaza and Israel allows unlimited humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. The move was caused by Turkish ire at Israel’s rejection of its request to airdrop humanitarian aid into Gaza. The export ban includes steel, aluminum, cement, and […]

An Israeli official confirmed on Tuesday that Israel is purchasing 40,000 tents in preparation for an IDF operation in Rafah. Israel will have to evacuate hundreds of thousands of civilians from the area before launching an operation. The Defense Ministry published a tender on Monday for a tent supplier. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, under pressure from his […]

The Hamas terror group stated early Tuesday morning that Israel’s proposal for a ceasefire-hostage deal transferred by Qatari, Egyptian and US mediators is “intransigent” and does not meet the demands of Palestinian factions. Nevertheless, despite the “Israeli refusal,” Hamas said that its leaders will review the proposal and send its response to mediators. However, on […]

It is a kindness of Hashem to His nation that an entire world of Torah has grown in Eretz Yisroel. Those toiling in Torah learning have increased in quantity and quality. We have merited tens of thousands of Torah scholars – in whose merit the Jewish Nation exists – as well as a large population […]

In a strongly-worded letter, 18 prominent Sephardic Rabbanim associated with the Shas party have rejected any compromise on the conscription of Charedim into the military. The letter, signed by Rabbanim including Rav Ovadia Yosef, son of the Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, states that “compromise will lead to ruination.” “We will not be deterred from […]

The following is a translation of an article found in the Journal “Bais Yaakov”[1], written by Rabbi Shmuel Pliskin[2], about the solar eclipse[3] which the Chofetz Chaim viewed. (Translation and footnotes by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Biron) It was a typical summer evening, a warm Tuesday, and the elderly Chofetz Chaim had just finished Aleinu. After placing […]

A female terrorist attempted to stab IDF soldiers at a checkpoint in the Jordan Valley on Monday morning. The terrorist approached the Tayasir checkpoint and after refusing to identify herself, pulled out a knife and tried to stab a soldier. The soldiers opened fire and neutralized her. B’Chasdei Hashem, there were no injuries to IDF […]

The IDF reported on Motzei Shabbos that troops destroyed three significant attack tunnels in the Khan Younis area, including one that crossed several hundred meters into Israel – a shocking announcement as the IDF had claimed for years that no tunnels have been constructed that crossed into Israel since 2021, when the underground smart fence […]

Monday’s total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The total solar eclipse will begin over the South Pacific Ocean. Weather permitting, the first location in continental North America that will experience totality is Mexico’s Pacific coast at around 2:07 p.m. EST. The path of the eclipse continues […]

Exactly six months after the start of the ground operation in Gaza, the IDF overnight Motzei Shabbos withdrew almost all its already few troops remaining in the Gaza Strip, including the 98th Division which has been operating in the Khan Younis area for four months. The only brigade now operating in Gaza is the Nachal […]