Israel Updates

Jay Zeidman Sep 15, 2024 Situational Update Barak Ravid with Axios reports: An elite Israel Defense Forces unit conducted a highly unusual raid in Syria earlier this week and destroyed an underground precision missile factory that Israel and the U.S. claim was built by Iran, according to three sources briefed on the operation. Israeli airstrikes on Syria […]

By Enedina Guerrero When Christians hear the term “Oral Torah” (or “Oral Law”), they’re either unfamiliar with what it is, or they assume or were taught that it’s a collection of man-made rules that were added to Scripture. But in Jewish life, the Oral Torah is better understood as the tool that Israel received to

Situational Update The Commander of CENTCOM, General Michael Erik Kurilla, arrived in Israel on Monday as the official guest of the Chief of the General Staff, LTG Herzi Halevi. The commanders held a joint situational assessment on security and strategic issues, as well as joint preparations in the region, as part of the response to threats in

Jay Zeidman Oct 18   Earlier today, Israel confirmed that Yahya Sinwar, the terrorist who orchestrated the horrific events of October 7th and took 251 innocent hostages, was killed. I write tonight with some sense of justice, similar to what many of us may have felt after learning about the death of 9/11’s terrorist mastermind, Osama

Jay Zeidman Oct 20, 2024 Situational Update Per FDD, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah with attempting to assassinate him after a drone targeted his coastal home on October 19. Neither Netanyahu nor his wife were present at their home in the coastal town of Caesarea during the attack, and no casualties were

Jay Zeidman Oct 23, 2024 Situational Update   Ynet reports: The IDF confirmed late on Tuesday that senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine was killed in a targeted strike early in October after reports that his body was found in the destroyed Hezbollah bunker three weeks after the attack. Safieddine, Nasrallah’s cousin was considered to be his successor

Today’s report is long – as I tried to capture some of the breaking analysis from Israel’s attack in Iran this weekend, now called Operation Days of Repentance, in which all Israeli military aircraft and personnel returned safely to Israel after a successful operation. The Iran Attack From the Times of Israel: Israel launched a long-awaited retaliatory strike

Jay Zeidman Oct 30, 2024 I thought I’d start today’s update with a report that really highlights the antisemitic degeneracy that has infected our schools, from New York to California. Antisemitism in NYC schools fueled by foreign actors, activist educators: report by Susan Edelman and Deirdre Bardolf with the New York Post An “Arab World” classroom map at Brooklyn’s PS 261

Jay Zeidman Nov 03, 2024 Situational Update According the multiple sources, Israeli naval commandos captured a Hezbollah official in a raid in northern Lebanon late Friday, the military confirmed on Saturday night, marking an unusual operation both in its nature and location deep inside the country. The Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit had carried out