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6+ min ago (46+ words) Real time news brief - IDF confirms: Strike on Hezbollah terrorist in the area of Taybeh in southern Lebanon - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site IDF confirms: Strike on Hezbollah terrorist in the area of Taybeh in southern Lebanon...

7+ min ago (35+ words) IDF strikes multiple Hezbollah military compounds, terror infrastructure sites across Lebanon, targeting training facilities, weapons storage, and launch sites used by Hezbollah terrorists for preparing attacks against Israel. IDF targets Hezbollah military infrastructure in Lebanon...

22+ min ago (856+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 804 Israeli scientists say that women with persistent thyroid hormone imbalance during their pregnancy may be at an increased risk of having children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Their new peer-reviewed study tracked thyroid levels in more than 51,000 pregnant women. "Women who had a chronic thyroid condition that went untreated and got worse during pregnancy had a greater risk of having children with autism than pregnant women who were adequately treated," said Prof. Idan Menashe of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the study's lead author, in a phone call. However, the scientists found that when a pregnant woman's chronic thyroid dysfunction was "adequately treated," there was no association with increased autism risk in her offspring, said Menashe, who is head of Ben-Gurion's Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Community Health Sciences, and the scientific director of the Azrieli…...

35+ min ago (51+ words) Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Texas, says son Leibel miraculously survived the Sydney terror attack, risked his life to save a police officer and now needs surgery. 'Grateful for the love and support, please continue to pray.' Rabbi Lazaroff: Leibel saved police officer, miraculously survived Sydney terror attack...

36+ min ago (232+ words) Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Texas, says son Leibel miraculously survived the Sydney terror attack, risked his life to save a police officer and now needs surgery. 'Grateful for the love and support, please continue to pray.' Leibel saved police officer, miraculously survived Sydney massacre Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Texas, says son Leibel miraculously survived the Sydney terror attack, risked his life to save a police officer and now needs surgery. 'Grateful for the love and support, please continue to pray.' Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary at Texas A&M University, shared the story of how his son, Leibel Lazaroff, saved a police officer at the Sydney Hanukkah massacre earlier this week. "Leibel has miraculously survived the terrorist shooting in Sydney," Rabbi Lazaroff shared. "While crouching over a critically injured Australian NSW police police officer, using…...

36+ min ago (670+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 804 A Jewish-owned bakery in Sydney announced Wednesday that it is closing down due to near-constant antisemitic harassment and fears for staff and customers in the wake of the deadly mass shooting targeting a Hanukkah event at the city's Bondi Beach. Ed Halmagyi, a Jewish celebrity chef who owns Avner's Bakery in the Surry Hills section of Sydney, said he was shutting the establishment after two years of being subject to threats and vandalism, including since Sunday's attack, and reportedly told patrons he feared the eatery could be targeted by those seeking to "globalize" Palestinian terror. "The world has changed. Our world has changed," declared a poster displayed Wednesday in the window of the bakery, which sold bagels, babkas and other Jewish-themed foods. "After two years of almost ceaseless antisemitic harassment, vandalism and intimidation directed at our…...

38+ min ago (54+ words) Real time news brief - Bondi Survivor: 'I was milimeters from death, I could feel my skull' - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site Bondi Survivor: 'I was milimeters from death, I could feel my skull' Bondi Survivor: 'I was milimeters from death, I could feel my skull'...

39+ min ago (409+ words) Arsen Ostrovsky, a survivor of the Bondi Beach shooting, says he saw the terrorists with his own eyes and survived a shot to the head as he rushed to save his family. Arsen Ostrovsky's moments of horror: 'I fell to the ground, no one could help' Arsen Ostrovsky, a survivor of the Bondi Beach shooting, says he saw the terrorists with his own eyes and survived a shot to the head as he rushed to save his family. Arsen Ostrovsky, a survivor of the Bondi Beach shooting, spoke with Ilana Dayan on Galei Zahal about the attack. Ostrovsky is Chairman of the Australia-Israel & Jewish Affairs Council. "It was a difference of millimeters between life and death. The bullet grazed my head, almost to the bone. The doctors said it was a miracle that I survived, and I used the moment…...

39+ min ago (88+ words) [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Christian Conference in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2025 (photo credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)]Netanyahu assured that these attacks are part of the "lax policies of the local authorities and the Australian government," and that "Israel stands with the Australian Jews." Netanyahu to late Rabbi Schlanger father-in-law, Arsen Ostrovsky: 'Israel is with Australian Jews' Netanyahu assured that these attacks are part of the "lax policies of the local authorities and the Australian government," and that "Israel stands with the Australian Jews."...

40+ min ago (973+ words) Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at 91. As a wire-service correspondent, Arnett was known mostly to fellow journalists when he reported in Vietnam from 1962 until the war's end in 1975. He became something of a household name in 1991, however, after he broadcast live updates for CNN of the first Gulf war. While almost all Western reporters had fled Baghdad in the days before the US-led attack, Arnett stayed. As missiles began raining on the city, he broadcast a live account by cellphone from his hotel room. "There was an explosion right near me, you may have heard," he said in a calm, New Zealand-accented voice moments after the loud boom of a missile…...