יום שני, ג׳ תשרי תשפ״זMonday, September 14, 2026
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Welcome to a world where you can’t trust a single thing you hear. The news is dismissed as “fake,” and the information we receive comes with alternating prefixes—“mis” or “dis.”
Steven Spielberg won the Genesis Prize’s Internet poll. That he defeated a beloved scholar and leader speaks volumes about what’s wrong with contemporary Jewry.
Trump praised the victory and his supporters.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has long had its sights on what it no doubt considers an unholy trinity: Israel, the US and Britain.... First, these are the three Western democracies most active in using legitimate military force to defend their interests.
I will now state with equal certitude that the American medical profession as a whole and many individual doctors are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans – very possibly, more than that
The International Criminal Court decision on Palestine is a setback for a single standard of human rights. It is a victory for terrorism and an unwillingness to negotiate peace.
By Bennett Ruda
Biden’s choices show that he has learned nothing from the mistakes made during the Clinton and Obama administrations. But what exactly are the mistakes of the Clinton and Obama administrations?
By Guy Millière
The outline of a more stable Middle East, less marked by war, appears to be taking shape – if other countries will just let it...The new Biden administration, in under two weeks, is already threatening to undermine these and other victories
Israel scarcely needs the absence of a phone call to tell it that it has a grave problem with the new occupant of the White House.
The guard wrestled with the terrorist until another guard and the home owner got there and shot the terrorist.
President Joe Biden regards himself as a champion of decency. He is equally committed to reengaging with international institutions. Assuring decency toward Israel in United Nations fora would be a good way to demonstrate both.
Arafat's personal documents seem to indicate that Rajoub was involved in killing a number of Hamas terrorists.
The last thing any Palestinian officials wants is to be labeled a traitor because, in the world of Fatah and Hamas, that crime is punishable by death.
Polls show the merged parties having a better chance of passing the electoral threshold.
Weapons converted from Airsoft guns have been used in terror attacks.
IDF Chief of General Staff Aviv Kochavi’s January 26 speech conveyed important messages to multiple audiences. The most notable was that the IDF is preparing for action against Iran’s nuclear program even if it has to do it on its own.
This is eco-terrorism, and the official entities that should be responding to it with swift, decisive action are allowing this monumental failure to persist.
The United States does not have to appease the Europeans over Iran in order to cement the trans-Atlantic alliance. Instead, it should press the Europeans to increase their military spending to merit the close relationship, especially in the face of a Russia that poses a greater threat to Europe than it does to the US.
By Aryeh Savir & Baruch Yedid / Tazpit News Agency
The Moderna-developed vaccines were delivered on Monday at the Beituniya crossing.
By Tom Nisani
If the Civil Administration is unable (or unwilling) to protect and save the Land of Israel, then someone else needs to. The time has come for a comprehensive reform, or sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, or both
An attentive soldier saw the terrorist pull out the knife and run at them.
The movement is signaling its discomfort with standing up against left-wing anti-Semites and its commitment to prioritizing partisan politics over communal safety.
For four years, the media and their party, the Democrats, told us every day that Trump is a fascist, a dictator, a racist, and a white supremacist.
The coronavirus pandemic has sparked widespread conspiracy theories. Such theories are an integral part of contemporary Western culture, even in places that are purportedly enlightened. The irrational elements in Western society are very significant, and it will take serious study to begin to understand the many ways in which this irrationality affects Western attitudes.
The Democrats were opposed to the deal from the beginning.
Trump is blamed by many for damaging democracy. But I think far more damage has been and is being done by the reaction to Donald Trump. Trump and his movement are being used as an excuse to push the country down a path toward less free expression and less free thought.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This is not the first time that Facebook has censored the prime minister of Israel.
If it’s good enough to impeach President Trump, it’s good enough to impeach Obama.
The Palestinian Authority would rather pay terrorists than pay for vaccines. As for the terrorists, then win twice.
The unprecedented fusion between the Democratic Party and corporate America bodes ill for the Jewish state.
By Israel Hayom
As of Friday, four babies, aged 13 days to two years old, were hospitalized in a newly established coronavirus unit at Hadassah Ein Karem Medical Center. Three were listed in serious condition.
Western moral relativism and self-hatred has been met with Muslim contempt.
Democrats celebrate a “victory for democracy” with barbed wire, soldiers, and political terror.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Health Ministry reports that 2,365,041 people, or 26.6 percent of the population, have received the first dose COVID-19 vaccine.
By HaKol HaYehudi / Yehuda Pearl
"I look back for a moment and I see three masked figures talking with an Arabic accent and armed with knives and machetes."
A covenant is a commitment going beyond mutual advantage, requiring instead joint obligations in a permanent, unconditional and unbreakable union.
Having embraced a market-economy approach, the Israel Land Authority is blocking the growth of Jewish residence in, and control of, most parts of the country that are beyond the densely populated cities of the coastal plain.
President Trump addressed the nation on Tuesday, giving his farewell speech, listing off the incredible successes of his administration, and the challenges ahead.
By J. E. Dyer
The pretense of honoring the rule of law is already gone. It was gone under Obama for years, but it has now emerged into the open as a change in the rules of engagement.
US President-elect Joe Biden ought not jettison the outgoing administration’s Mideast achievements – successful policies that made the US and Israel safer and stronger! – because of Trump’s turpitude.
Now my suggestion to Democrats is to take a moment to think like a Trump supporter. 75 million people voted for Donald Trump.
Cancel our words, cancel our stories and we are bereft
Tackling the issues that could potentially redefine his entire presidency, President Trump addressed the nation and called for unity.
A political-diplomatic forecast for the year ahead: Fourth and fifth Israeli elections, a rotten new/old nuclear deal with Iran, more trouble from Trump’s insurrectionist/authoritarian movement.
The same negative policy [by the press and many purported human rights groups] extends to other major benefits that Israel has brought to the world, including scientific innovation, medical technology and life-saving intelligence. It goes against editorial agendas to report on the Jewish state in a positive light unless they can somehow twist a good story to turn it bad.
"The supporting waters have vanished heavenward. Only a vast, dry seabed remains. The loss is colossal."
What they want to do is to impeach President Trump without giving him an opportunity to defend himself at a Senate trial.
What was done to Trump by the Democratic media was unfair, even vicious. But his response was to throw a bomb at the US Constitution.
Those trying to defend principles of law and constitutional order against the left have been grievously undermined.
Contrary to the media’s spin, Republicans have never normalized violence. And Republican political power doesn’t depend on political terror and violence. Leftist power invariably does. The Left began a new age of political violence in 2016. It can turn it off anytime it wants to. The problem is that it won’t
The number of antisemitic incidents worldwide increased in 2020, but the past year also saw some notable positive developments in the battle against this hatred. The most important resulted from Trump policies, including the stopping of American financing of the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA. The US also announced that it considers the anti-Israel BDS movement antisemitic. Another major development was the publication of the British Equality and Human Rights Commission report on antisemitism within the Labour Party.
By BESA CENTER
The incoming Biden administration has begun to appoint personnel and articulate policies, both directly and through the extended voice of the foreign policy establishment and the media. The return of second-tier Obama administration personnel and the marginalization of left-wing progressives portends a return to the process-laden policies of the past. International agreements and institutions, and a return to 20th century “rules” and “norms”, are unlikely to be adequate to confront rogue states like China and Iran.
Israelis were able to mobilise effectively against Covid because of their ingrained national security ethos.
The year just ending taught us not take things for granted and to value even the most pedestrian joys that existence allows us, such a walk in a park....
With the vaccine bringing hope for a possible return to normalcy, synagogues and groups must use what they’ve learned during the crisis while recognizing that real communities aren’t virtual.
The Israel Defense Forces’ Tactical Command College (TCC), the Israeli equivalent of the West Point military academy, is increasingly shaping the professional cadre of the Israeli military’s ground forces and leaving its mark on future military leaders.
By Eyal Zisser
While across the Middle East Israel’s allies chase off and ban Islamic movements, Israel is missing an opportunity that could soon slip through its fingers.
It’s essential that everyone involved in relations between Israel and the Palestinians understand the real issues that underlie the conflict. And it would be a good thing if all parties could agree to use words the same way.
2020 also saw increased demand for Aliyah and internship programs, emergency aid for Jewish communities in crisis due to COVID-19, assistance to vulnerable populations in Israel, a first-of-its-kind Jewish emergency network, and more.
The coronavirus pandemic has created a new kind of culture shock. It has affected essential and highly personal elements of many people’s lives within their own environments. A culture shock of this magnitude has not occurred since WWII. When the pandemic ends, societies will be quite different from what they were in the pre-coronavirus era.
Mr Trump's Middle East legacy... completely redefined the landscape of the region from the chaos and conflict that prevailed when Mr Obama left office. Nowadays, the momentum in the region is moving towards peace, not conflict....
The suspect is an Arab from the Palestinian Authority controlled city of Jenin, according to the Shin Bet.
By Israel Hayom
In a special piece, the editors-in-chief of “Israel Hayom” and “L’observateur du Maroc et d’Afrique” call on Israel and Morocco to join forces to fight extremism.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The perpetrators of both attacks on Monday must be apprehended before they act again, and Israeli security forces must nip in the bud any potential wave of copycat terrorism.
"These extremists are preventing other people who wish to get tested from doing so."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The election comes as the political parties are fighting with each other and with themselves.
By Bennett Ruda
The question is what took so long.
The woman went for a jog in a nature reserve and didn't come home.
What is it, dear misguided, Progressive Jews, that frightens you about being Jewish in America that you align yourselves with the “other” Progressive groups who attack Jews and Israel?
By BESA CENTER
President Trump is exceptionally unpopular among secular American Jews, despite his groundbreaking approach to Middle East peace and active efforts on Israel’s behalf. Many American Jews have simply stopped caring about both Israel and Judaism, a point that has not escaped the notice of the American elites. If Jews stop caring about themselves, nobody else will.
By Avi Ciment
This week, I spoke to a liberal friend of mine and reminded myself to avoid politics. When he said Trump was the single worst president for Israel and Jews, I had to bite my tongue a little harder than usual.
By BESA CENTER
There has been a notable shift in thinking on the genomic origin and direct source of the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic. While the possibility of a natural contagion has not been ruled out, the alternative of an unnatural if primarily accidental contagion has gathered momentum, and with good reason.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Revenge will be taken on those who ordered it and the murderers."
To better explain why Israel’s consulting of Diaspora Jews is such a bad idea, a simple means of analysis is to assume that Israel would set up a council representative of organized Diaspora Jewry. Who would represent US Jewry on such a council? Those who line up with Israel’s enemies?
Like the Hellenists of yesteryear, the progressive elites today insist that to be accepted in polite society, Jews have to give up an essential part of their identity—and their civil rights
"We will continue to struggle until the menorah is lit in its original place on the Temple Mount."
Zvika Hauser and Yoaz Hendel announced their support for Gidon Sa'ar as Prime Minister, and that they would run with him in the next Knesset.
Along with last week's triumph for President Trump and King Mohammed VI, there have also been charges that Morocco could have joined the Abraham Accords without the US recognizing Morocco's sovereignty over the Western Sahara. So far, however, no one has quite said how.
By dvora
On December 11, the second day of Chanukah, British troops marched into Jerusalem. British commander and chief, General Edmund Allenby respectfully entered its walls by foot through the Jaffa gate as the city’s thirty-fourth conqueror.
Resist the subversion of darkness in the name of enlightenment
The left's war on Judaism and Christianity is rooted in its war against distinctions.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The cabinet stepped away from its decision to impose a nighttime curfew, apparently after encountering legal issues.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
President-elect Joe Biden has an opportunity to bring the United States together or choose to listen to the rising voices of “Justice Democrats” who want vengeance, not reconciliation, and revolution, not evolution.
By Guest Author
They take their Nusach VERY seriously. It became official in 1879, the year before Oregon’s first (and hopefully only) Rabbinical gunfight.
Israel needs to realize that the pendulum of public opinion in the US, especially among the decision-making class, is swinging against the Jewish state. The Arab and Iranian strategy of introducing money and activists into Western universities has been hugely effective in changing the national perception of Israel for the worse.
Whether reacting to a fallen sefer Torah in a community or someone’s personal illness, we are never in a position to tell people why things are happening to them. To do so, particularly with confidence and surety, is not only arrogant, it is to play God and compete with the Divine. It borders on heresy, even if you have “rabbi” before your name.
To the left around the world, Israel is the villain here, not Iran.
The assassination of Tehran’s top nuclear scientist is a reminder not so much of Israeli and Arab rejection of appeasement as it is of the deadly nature of the Iranian threat
Any return to the JCPOA by a Biden White House, as is being pushed by Mr Brennan and other prospective administration officials, will not see a strengthened deal but more likely an even weaker one.
By Paul Gherkin
The big money to the Biden campaign came from the usual Democratic loyalists like lawyers and lobbyists but the Education sector was even bigger,
Erica Komisar wrote in the Wall Street Journal: As a therapist, I’m often asked to explain why depression and anxiety are so common among children and adolescents. One of the most important explanations—and perhaps the most neglected—is declining interest in religion. This cultural shift already has proved disastrous for millions of vulnerable young people.
Obama's policy was to weaken Israel while pretending to help her, for example by phasing out the portion of the military aid that could be used to buy from Israel’s own military industry.
By Dov Lipman
In his new memoir, the former U.S. president misleads readers in a way that will forever shape their negative perspective of the Jewish state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“There is a great opening here for trade, the economy and tourism that, in effect, makes for a truly new and different Middle East,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Recent events demonstrate clearly where we are and where we are heading. It is critical that Israel secure its interests as it enters a new diplomatic reality in January.
By BESA CENTER
Barack Obama believes he has not yet said his last word in American politics. He may thus view Biden’s victory as an opportunity to revitalize his progressive agenda, on both the domestic and foreign policy fronts. This could have major implications for the Middle East region.
'Republicans play badminton; Democrats play pro football'—Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich
To quote Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."
The Gazan rocket hit a factory in Ashkelon on Saturday night.
The Sand Curtain between Israel and the Arab world has fallen, like the Iron Curtain 30 years ago, but some of the world has difficulty rejoicing in the breakthrough. The Left assiduously is poking holes in the Abraham Accords and making sourpuss faces whenever the Roadrunner-fast advances in Gulf-Israel ties are mentioned…
September 11, 2026 
