The IDF announced Sunday that it has destroyed a significant portion of one of the longest Hamas tunnel networks in the northern Gaza Strip. According to the IDF, combat engineers from the 162nd Division and the elite Yahalom unit demolished approximately 2.5 kilometers of the tunnel network. The IDF says that the tunnels served as […]

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delivered a sharply worded message aimed at US President Joe Biden at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday morning. “Since the beginning of the war, we have been fighting on two fronts – the military front and the diplomatic front,” Netanyahu began. “On the diplomatic front, we have […]

A dramatic incident occurred on Motzei Shabbos when a wanted terrorist was arrested by undercover Duvdevan officers at a falafel stand in the Dheisheh “refugee camp” near Beit Lechem. The video shows the undercover agents at the falafel stand pulling out their weapons at the man working behind the counter as he was serving customers […]

Thousands of people streamed to Yeshivas Heichel HaTorah in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem on Friday night to attend the Shalom Zachar for the son of Rosh Yeshivah HaGaon HaRav Tzvi Kushelevsky, 88, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. During Kabbalas Shabbos in the yeshivah, the bochurim sang Lecha Dodi to the tune of Zera Chaya V’Kayama […]

Popular Channel 12 journalist Amit Segal penned an opinion article, published in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, called “Biden’s Middle East Is a Fantasy World.” When Joe Biden and officials in his administration talk about the Israelis and the Palestinians, they describe two peoples that don’t exist in reality, Amit began. According to the […]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling on Israel to hold new elections, saying he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” in the Gaza war. Schumer, the first Jewish majority leader in the Senate and the highest-ranking Jewish official in the U.S. – who champions himself as the “Shomer Yisroel” – […]

Senior Biden administration officials told Israeli security officials that the US will back Israel in targeting “high-value Hamas targets in and underneath Rafah” but not a large-scale invasion, Politico reported on Wednesday evening. In other words, the Biden administration will support “surgical” counterterrorism operations in Rafah rather than an all-out war, a strategy it claims […]

Hagaon HaRav Benzion Mutzafi, a leading Sephardic Posek in Eretz Yisroel, has ruled that it is a Mitzvah to report to the police anyone selling or playing with firecrackers. The rav issued the ruling in response to a question from one of his Talmidim, who asked if it was permissible to notify the police due […]

As many people are well aware, an event scheduled to take place in Flatbush on Tuesday was canceled over a planned protest by pro-Palestinian activists outside the venue, which is a shul. As someone who was involved in the event and its ultimate cancellation, I have some information that others may not be privy to. […]

The neis that occurred to Rosh Yeshivah HaGaon HaRav Tzvi Kushelevsky, 88, and his Rebbetzin, 57, upon the birth of the Rosh Yeshivahs’ first child astounded people around the world. As YWN reported, HaRav Moshe Shternbuch gave the Rosh Yeshivah a bracha upon his second marriage six years ago that he’ll be zocheh to zera […]