Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi on Tuesday moved to return an Associated Press webcam that inspectors had taken down in the southern town of Sderot just hours earlier, his office announced.
“Since the Defense Ministry wishes to examine the matter of the broadcasts from these locations in Sderot regarding the risk to our forces, I have ordered a cancellation of the operation and return the equipment to the AP,” Karhi said.
The camera and other related equipment will be returned “until a different decision is made by the Ministry of Defense,” he added.
Karhi’s announcement came after pressure from the United States government through the Israeli embassy in Washington and the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Ynet news outlet reported.

An explosive undercover sting video of a White House National Security Council advisor validates the deepest fears of Jews and other pro-Israel Americans: Joe Biden will throw the Jewish State under the bus in a second term – if he wins reelection. The video purports to show Sterlin Waters, a policy advisor to the NSC […]

A fire spreading near the community of Hemdad in the Jordan Valley is being battled by seven firefighting crews.
After examining the fire’s risks and rate of spread, the crews set up around the base in locations the fire could be projected to spread towards.
While fighting the fire, terrorists shot at the security forces in the area. Thankfully no damage was caused and no injuries were reported. The IDF is currently searching the area for the terrorists.
The firefighter commander said, “After an initial assessment of the situation, and mapping the risks and the rate of spread of the fire, I positioned the firefighters around the base in places where there is a danger that the fire will penetrate into it.”

An advertising campaign by the Republican Jewish Coalition seeks to confront Jewish voters with what it calls “Biden’s shameful hypocrisy.”
“As antisemitism spikes to record highs and America’s relationship with our ally Israel continues to reach new lows, the Jewish community is more energized than ever to turn the page from the failures, broken promises, and betrayals by Joe Biden,” stated Norm Coleman and Matt Brooks, national chairman and CEO of the RJC, respectively.
Coleman and Brooks said the group would release an “opening salvo of hyper-targeted digital ads” to run in “the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Michigan, targeting Jewish voters by deploying the most cutting-edge data operation in Jewish politics.”

Israel’s Communications Ministry on Tuesday seized an Associated Press webcam in the southern town of Sderot, accusing the agency of airing troop movements in the Gaza Strip and providing services to Al Jazeera, in violation of a law that prohibits the outlet from operating in the country.
“The confiscated camera broadcast the northern Gaza Strip live on the Al Jazeera channel in violation of the law,” the Ministry of Communications said in a statement shared with JNS, adding that the AP live feed revealed “the activities of the IDF forces and endangered our fighters.”

Alan Dershowitz, a prominent lawyer and cable news legal analyst known for representing O.J. Simpson during his murder trial and Donald Trump during his first impeachment proceedings, got into a courtroom tiff with his counterpart at CNN, Norm Eisen, during Trump’s New York City trial on Monday, according to NBC News, which witnessed the tense exchange.

The federal judge who last week sentenced David DePape to 30 years behind bars for breaking into the San Francisco home of Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer said a day later that she would reopen his sentencing hearing, citing a “clear error” by the court. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said she’d failed to ask DePape if he wanted to make a statement at the Friday hearing, an oversight that apparently went unnoticed at the time by both the prosecution and the defense.
“Nonetheless, it was the Court’s responsibility to personally ask Mr. DePape if he wanted to speak,” the judge wrote, according to the Associated Press. Prosecutors alerted the court to the mistake shortly after the sentence was handed down, Corley’s court order said.