A report that aired Tuesday night on Kan News featured audio from Colonel Elad Shushan, the IDF officer overseeing investigations into the battles of October 7th at Kibbutz Nirim. In the recording, he reveals that on the day of the attack, Hamas dispatched a force of 120 Nukhba operatives with the goal of reaching Be’er Sheva.
“We seized this document four months after the October 7th massacre. We can see several large forces here, 120 terrorists heading towards Be’er Sheva, but they did not reach their destination,” Col. Shushan said in the recording.

The Yerushalayim District Court has granted a temporary order permitting the confiscation of 50 million shekels from Palestinian Authority accounts, to be allocated to Rabbi Leo Dee. Rabbi Dee lost his wife, Lucy, and daughters, Maia and Rina, in a deadly terror attack two years ago.
In October, Rabbi Dee filed a lawsuit against both the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas organization, holding them responsible for the tragic murders of his family.
“I call on all the other terror victims in Israel to do the same and to seize the PA’s funds that go to pay the salaries of terrorists. Together, we could take the enemy’s assets,” Rabbi Dee stated.

BROOKLYN – PIX11 News interviewed a Jewish teen on Monday after he played a key role in recovering a briefcase filled with diamonds, jewelry, and cash.

Mike Huckabee appeared before Congress for his confirmation hearing as the nominee for United States Ambassador to Israel.
Opening his remarks, Huckabee expressed heartfelt thanks to God for the opportunity he had to serve as governor and now for the chance to serve as ambassador. He emphasized that his path to this point was guided solely by divine will—just as Israel’s endurance through the ages could only be explained by the same higher power.“Israel is a tiny nation, the size of New Jersey and the only explanation for its rational existence in various forms for the past 3500 years is the grace of God.”

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The Aleph Institute’s education initiative, Project 432, recently delivered its Compass Workshop to 150 students at Yeshiva Darchei Torah. The workshop is a groundbreaking initiative designed to teach teenagers and young adults the principles of financial integrity through the lens of Torah and halacha. Since its inception two years ago, the workshop has reached over 2,560 students at 58 high schools and yeshivas in North America and Israel. As part of efforts to equip their talmidim with the tools to lead a life of yashrus, the yeshiva partnered with Project 432 to guide students in navigating financial challenges through Torah-based principles.

MK Ahmad Tibi (Ta’al) stirred controversy in the Knesset after a photo emerged showing him using official Knesset utensils, which are reserved for kosher use, to eat non-kosher food during a pre-dawn Ramadan meal. In his defense, Tibi quoted the Shulchan Aruch to justify his actions.
Amid the backlash, Tibi shared a pointedly sarcastic social media post referencing halachic rulings. “When the food was cold – it does not cause the utensil to be prohibited,” he wrote. He then cited Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De’ah: “Cold – it does not cause and does not absorb.” He ended the post with the tongue-in-cheek sign-off: “Rabbis supporting Tibi.”

The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah met last Thursday to discuss the issue of voting in the ongoing World Zionist Organization elections. On Tuesday, they issued the following Kol Korei: The Zionist Movement was founded 125 years ago with the purpose of uprooting the foundations of Judaism and redefining the Jewish people from “a kingdom of servants of Hashem and a holy people” into a nation like all nations who are defined by a common language, culture and land. Since, in the words of Rav Saadiah Gaon, “our nation is a nation by virtue of its Torah,” the gedolim of that time did battle with this movement and ruled that anyone who considers himself a Jew may not support it in any manner whatsoever.

[Full kol koreh below.] Moments ago, the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah of America issued a kol koreh prohibiting participation in the upcoming elections for the World Zionist Organization (WZO). The statement, issued in Hebrew and English, emphasizes the importance of adhering to Torah principles and distancing oneself from any movements that undermine Judaism.