A Beersheva resident has been indicted on charges of contacting a foreign agent and passing information to the enemy after allegedly attempting to sell details about Israel’s nuclear program to Iranian operatives. The Southern District Attorney’s Office filed charges against Doron Bokovza in the Beersheba District Court following a months-long investigation by Israeli police and the Shin Bet security agency. According to a joint statement from the agencies, Bokovza initiated contact with Iranian agents and offered to provide them with sensitive information. However, investigators determined that Bokovza did not have direct access to Israel’s nuclear research center in the Negev and instead provided his handlers with publicly available information about the facility.

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a tense and shocking Oval Office meeting on Friday. Zelensky visited the White House on Friday to sign a deal regarding Ukraine’s rare earth minerals. During a meeting in the Oval Office, Zelensky told Trump and Vance that Vladimir Putin has violated agreements with his country in the past. Vance responded by telling Zelensky, “I think it’s disrespectful for you to come into the oval office and try to litigate this in front of them American media.” The vice president then accused his government of forcing civilians to the frontlines due to a low amount of manpower. SEE SHOCKING VIDEO BELOW: TRUMP: Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel. We’re trying to solve a problem.

The IDF on Thursday presented the findings of its top-level investigations into the military’s failures before and during Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion from Gaza. The long-awaited report details a catastrophic breakdown in intelligence, misjudgments by military leadership, and a failure to protect Israeli civilians during the deadliest terror attack in the country’s history. The October 7 onslaught saw some 5,000 Hamas-led terrorists breach Israel’s border, overrun IDF bases, and massacre approximately 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Another 251 individuals were abducted, and entire communities in southern Israel were devastated. The IDF, unprepared for an invasion of such magnitude, struggled to mount an effective response, with command chains collapsing amid the chaos.

Thousands of Israelis wrapped tefillin on Wednesday l’illui nishmas the Bibas family at special booths set up before the levaya by Chabad shlichim. Rabbi Nati Wagner and Rabbi Sharon Gushon from the Beis Chabad in the Rambam neighborhood of Rishon L’Tzion set up tefillin booths in the city, where the levaya began. Thousands of people who stood on the streets to pay their respects took the opportunity to put on tefillin. Another booth that many people took advantage of was one set up at the Sderot Junction in southern Israel, not far from the Tzohar Beit Kevarot, where the kevurah took place. Chabad shlichim said about the initiative: “The shlichim at booths across the country reported a particularly high response.

Channel 12 reported on Tuesday that a “principled agreement” to release the bodies of four hostages before Shabbos has been released. According to the report, discussions are also being held on extending the ceasefire and facilitating the release of additional live hostages. The first phase of the ceasefire ends this Shabbos. The report follows Israel’s refusal on Motzei Shabbos to release 620 terrorists due to Hamas’s cruel violation of the ceasefire agreement. A source in the terrorist organization conveyed a message on Monday stating that Hamas insists on the release of the terrorists before returning the bodies. It now appears that a compromise is emerging for the release of the hostages’ bodies, after which the terrorists will be released. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Mousa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official, has voiced regret over the group’s decision to launch the October 7 attack on Israel, highlighting the immense destruction it unleashed on Gaza. His striking comments, delivered in an interview with The New York Times, reveal a rare moment of introspection from a key figure within the militant organization amid the escalating conflict.

On the day tens of thousands gathered in Beirut’s southern suburbs to mourn the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released dramatic footage of the September 27, 2024, airstrike that killed him. The video, made public on Sunday, offers a rare glimpse into the precision strike that targeted Nasrallah in an underground bunker, marking a significant moment in Israel’s ongoing conflict with the Iran-backed terror group. Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for over three decades, was killed in a massive Israeli airstrike on the group’s stronghold in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood last September.

Israel announced on Sunday that the release of 620 Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons has been delayed due to Hamas’s repeated violations of the deal, including the humiliation of Israeli hostages at cruel propaganda ceremonies. The terrorists due to be released, including 71 sentenced to life imprisonment and 47 previously freed in the Shalit deal and rearrested, had already boarded the buses in preparation for their release. Following the decision, they were returned to their cells after sitting on the buses for 13 hours.

Israel is preparing for one of the most difficult days since the beginning of the current hostage deal, with the transfer of four bodies of hostages on Thursday. According to Hamas, the deceased hostages who will be released on Thursday are the three members of the Bibas family: Shiri, Ariel and Kfir, and Oded Lifschitz. The security establishment is preparing for a dignified reception of the bodies upon receiving them in the Gaza Strip. According to a Hamas statement, the deceased hostages will be handed over to the Red Cross at eight in the morning. After the transfer of the bodies to the Red Cross, they will be handed over to the IDF in the Gaza Strip.

Montreal police have arrested a 19-year-old suspect in connection with the brazen shooting attack on Yeshiva Gedola of Montreal in November 2023—but rather than addressing the clear antisemitic nature of the crime, authorities are framing it as just another case of “gun violence.” The attack, which took place in the early hours of November 12, 2023, saw gunmen fire at the Jewish school, leaving bullet holes in its facade and shell casings scattered on the ground. It was the second shooting at the school within four days—a chilling escalation of violence targeting Montreal’s Jewish community.