32+ min ago (280+ words) This week, for the whole world to see. On Tuesday, the first Israel Hayom summit in the US opens in Manhattan, focusing on all the major issues of recent weeks, including and excusive behind-the-scenes look at President Donald Trump's Gaza plan. The summit will open with an on-stage interview with US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, considered one of President Trump's closest confidants and one of the most influential figures in the diplomatic process surrounding the future of the Gaza Strip. Waltz, who has been at the center of the moves inside the UN, including the passage of the resolution paving the way toward a Palestinian state, is arriving in New York straight from the rooms where sensitive discussions are taking place over security arrangements, reconstruction and the political landscape for the day after in Gaza and Israel. Joining…...

1+ hour ago (251+ words) Qatar's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said in the interview that progress is being made on the implementation of the Gaza agreement and on regional efforts to secure an extended ceasefire. He argued that "Israel must not be allowed to delay the agreement or block the move to its second phase." Al-Ansari stressed that efforts in Gaza are underway to recover the two remaining deceased hostages who are still being held, although he noted this is a "significant challenge". He said Israel must not be allowed to use the delay as a pretext to undermine the framework. According to al-Ansari, "Qatari efforts carried out within the framework of US President Donald Trump's plan have focused on three goals: ending the war and the bloodshed, ensuring humanitarian aid enters the Gaza Strip, and preventing any annexation of Palestinian land." Addressing developments…...

4+ hour, 49+ min ago (476+ words) The meeting between Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ended before the cameras with sweeping statements. Trump defended the crown prince when asked by reporters and said Saudi Arabia was his "top non-NATO ally." Even so, the tangible outcome of the meeting was far from what both leaders had sought. Israel Hayom reported at the time that Washington was furious with the Saudi leadership for refusing to move forward on a process toward normalization with Israel. According to diplomatic sources, after early rounds of talks between senior Saudis and Americans yielded no progress, Trump pressed the crown prince during their White House meeting to take at least one symbolic step toward normalization, any gesture that would signal expected movement in the near future once conditions matured. The first was American. Saudi investments that had been announced, needed to begin…...

12+ hour, 5+ 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....

12+ hour, 20+ min ago (264+ words) According to a report Saturday from the semi-official Tasnim news agency, the Amir Kabir Dam, one of Iran's largest hydroelectric facilities, has been disconnected from the national power grid after the reservoir fell below usable capacity. The dam, built in 1974 as part of the shah's push to modernize Iran's infrastructure and agriculture, is expected [] The post Iran's water crisis intensifies appeared first on www.israelhayom.com. According to a report Saturday from the semi-official Tasnim news agency, the Amir Kabir Dam, one of Iran's largest hydroelectric facilities, has been disconnected from the national power grid after the reservoir fell below usable capacity. The dam, built in 1974 as part of the shah's push to modernize Iran's infrastructure and agriculture, is expected to remain offline for an extended period even if rainfall replenishes the reservoir in the coming months. [" " " " " " , ]The dam in…...

14+ hour ago (683+ words) For a year now, IDF forces have been operating in the buffer zone on the Golan Heights and east of it, working to disrupt terrorist networks threatening Israel. That is what the IDF troops were doing before dawn on Friday in the village of Beit Jann. Despite the dramatic surprise surrounding the fall of the [] The post Israel's hidden campaign in Syria is far more than stopping terrorism appeared first on www.israelhayom.com. For a year now, IDF forces have been operating in the buffer zone on the Golan Heights and east of it, working to disrupt terrorist networks threatening Israel. That is what the IDF troops were doing before dawn on Friday in the village of Beit Jann. Despite the dramatic surprise surrounding the fall of the Assad regime, the Israeli government accurately read the situation and swiftly…...

14+ hour, 35+ min ago (624+ words) In an interview with Israel Hayom, Adams discussed how October 7 shifted his work, the surge in global antisemitism, and Israel's failures in the information war. "I was not in Israel on October 7," he said, and described his reaction upon learning the news as "horror and shock." Q: Do you donate differently prior to and post October 7? "I'm not one of those October 8 Jews" who found their reawakening after the attacks. Adams said his commitment to Jewish causes never wavered. "The lion's share has always been to give Jewishly, because if we don't look after ourselves, nobody else is going to look after us. So that didn't change at all." What did change was where he directed his efforts. Before October 7, Adams organized large-scale international events that attracted hundreds of millions of viewers. But "during a time of war, of course, you…...

17+ hour, 20+ min ago (502+ words) But exile is not only a punishment, it is a correction. His mother Rebecca sends her younger son to her brother Laban so that he might learn in the school of life how to contend with God and with human beings and prevail. She believes in him. But does he believe in himself? What does the Master of the Ladder promise him? A homeland: "the land on which you are lying, I will give to you and to your offspring". A great nation: "your offspring shall be as the dust of the earth". And a purpose: "all the families of the earth shall be blessed through you and through your offspring" (Genesis 28:13-14). A people, a land, and a Torah. And we have spoken often about how Genesis, the foundational book of our nation, "teaches us to read our historical journey…...

2+ day, 35+ min ago (624+ words) In an interview with Israel Hayom, Adams discussed how October 7 shifted his work, the surge in global antisemitism, and Israel's failures in the information war. "I was not in Israel on October 7," he said, and described his reaction upon learning the news as "horror and shock." Q: Do you donate differently prior to and post October 7? "I'm not one of those October 8th Jews" who found their reawakening after the attacks.Adams said his commitment to Jewish causes never wavered. "The lion's share has always been to give Jewishly, because if we don't look after ourselves, nobody else is going to look after us. So that didn't change at all." What did change was where he directed his efforts. Before October 7, Adams organized large-scale international events that attracted hundreds of millions of viewers. But "during a time of war, of course, you…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago (768+ words) The new US ambassador to Poland, Thomas Rose, recently delivered a speech in Warsaw in which he categorically absolved Poland "and by extension the Polish people " of any responsibility whatsoever for the Holocaust. It is difficult to overstate how astonishing such a claim is coming from a senior American diplomat, let alone a Jewish [] The post Why is US envoy to Poland echoing far-Right Holocaust revisionism? appeared first on www.israelhayom.com. The new US ambassador to Poland, Thomas Rose, recently delivered a speech in Warsaw in which he categorically absolved Poland " and by extension the Polish people " of any responsibility whatsoever for the Holocaust. It is difficult to overstate how astonishing such a claim is coming from a senior American diplomat, let alone a Jewish one. Echoing the rhetoric of Poland's far-right nationalist camp, Rose declared that suggesting Poles…...