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50+ min ago (43+ words) The Association of Haredi Hesder Yeshivot warns that the draft law being formed prevents combining military service with professional or technical certificate studies, potentially eliminating the possibility of a haredi Hesder track. Yeshiva Deans Warn: Draft law plan could dismantle haredi Hesder track...

52+ min ago (56+ words) American divisiveness has reached the point of 6 Democrat legislators advising soldiers to consider refusing orders. Israel had reached that point when it learned the hard way that when the enemy attacks, there are no political points to gain. Opinion. Thanksgiving terror and the lessons of October 7 Thanksgiving terror and the lessons of October 7...

56+ min ago (448+ words) Family members said an Israeli drone strike killed two Palestinian boys in Gaza on Saturday, with Israel's military saying it had identified two suspects "posing an immediate threat". The military said it saw two people who "conducted suspicious activities". Uncles of the slain children told AFP the boys were brothers aged eight and 10, and that they had been out looking for firewood. Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for Gaza's civil defence agency which operates as a rescue force under Hamas authority, told AFP two brothers were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, at around 8:30 am . Bassal named them as Fadi and Jumaa Tamer Abu Assi. Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis confirmed receiving the bodies of the children, adding that their funerals were held in the afternoon. Mourners grieved over the…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago (132+ words) The bouquet allegedly left in the Israeli scientist's car The Iranian network "Handala for Justice and Popular Resistance" announced that its operatives placed flowers in the car of a "senior Zionist nuclear scientist" on the anniversary of the assassination of Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. The report, which includes images and a video that appears to have been filmed in Israel, shows a bouquet in a clay vase placed inside a car said to belong to the Israeli scientist. The Iranian regime-affiliated news agency Fars News even published what it claimed was the scientist's name. Attached to the bouquet was a note stating: "Yesterday, you received our bouquet. A harmless object, at first glance. But you noticed its weight, didn't you?" Israeli authorities have yet to issue an official response....

1+ hour, 7+ min ago (85+ words) [People protest calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, near the Prime Minister]According to the PMO, Netanyahu praised the Gvili family's "dignified and steadfast" conduct and reiterated Israel's commitment to return all hostages, living and deceased." Netanyahu updates family of Ran Gvili, Thai embassy on search efforts for final two Gaza hostages According to the PMO, Netanyahu praised the Gvili family's "dignified and steadfast" conduct and reiterated Israel's commitment to return all hostages, living and deceased....

1+ hour, 7+ min ago (973+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 785 British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998s "Shakespeare In Love," has died at age 88. In a statement Saturday, United Agents said Stoppard died "peacefully" at his home in Dorset in southern England, surrounded by his family. "He will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit and his profound love of the English language," they said. "It was an honor to work with Tom and to know him." The Jewish Czech-born Stoppard was often hailed as the greatest British playwright of his generation and was garlanded with honors, including a shelf full of theater gongs. His brain-teasing plays ranged across Shakespeare, science, philosophy and the historic tragedies of the 20th century. Five of them won…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago (59+ words) Real time news brief - Iranian hackers claim: We broke into Israeli nuclear scientist's car - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site Iranian hackers claim: We broke into Israeli nuclear scientist's car 'Handala' Iranian hacker group says they broke into vehicle belonging to Israeli nuclear scientist, leaving flowers, followed by a threatening note....

1+ hour, 17+ min ago (244+ words) The "Handala" Iranian hacker group claims it successfully breached the vehicle of a "senior Israeli nuclear scientist," revealed his identity, and left a bouquet of flowers inside the car. In a post published on Handala's Telegram channels and X account, they wrote: "By now, you have surely felt it, the subtle shift in the air around you. The moment when an ordinary day becomes" wrong." "The first $10,000 required for deep-field infiltration and extraction of classified intelligence has been deployed. Funds are moving. People are moving. Shadows are moving. All in directions you never anticipated. "Yesterday, you received our bouquet. A harmless object, at first glance. ut you noticed the weight of it, didn't you? You felt the presence behind it, the hands that carried it, the footsteps that faded just before you opened the door. It came from us. Handala…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago (28+ words) Real time news brief - Chinuch Habanim: Where Judaism began - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site Chinuch Habanim: Where Judaism began...

1+ hour, 38+ min ago (41+ words) Whether the Jew is wealthy or poor, mighty or weak, it seems we face our troubles in isolation. We were abandoned by the word during the Holocaust, in 1948, today. Except that we are never actually alone. We are never alone...