Author: Batya Jerenberg

The Sky Dew system detects and gives warning of aerial threats emanating from over the northern border. The IDF confirmed Hezbollah’s claim to have damaged a sensitive military site in the north and is currently assessing the harm done. Two explosive UAVs penetrated Israeli airspace Wednesday, heading for an air defense facility near the Golani Junction in the Lower Galilee. One was shot down, the IDF said, while the other hit the location of the army’s new Sky Dew system, which operates a radar-filled reconnaissance blimp. It was the first time the Iranian proxy managed to hit anything of consequence…

Rachel Goldberg-Polin believes son Hersh’s ill appearance will remind the world that the hostages are real people and raise pressure for a deal. Rachel Goldberg-Polin thinks it would be helpful for the world to see the latest Hamas propaganda video, which features her son, Hersh, The Telegraph reported Tuesday. “People have forgotten that [the hostages]  are actual, real people,” she told the British daily in an interview. In the nearly two-and-a-half-minute clip, an emaciated and pale Goldberg-Polin is seen sitting in a chair in a short-sleeved shirt which reveals that his left arm ends in a stump right below the…

Employees had occupied company offices in both New York and California on a “No Tech for Genocide Day of Action.” Google fired on Wednesday 28 anti-Israel protestors who staged a loud, 10-hour sit-in at two head-office sites the previous day. “They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers,” the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, wrote in a company-wide memo. “Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened.” “Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it,” he added. “It clearly…

In what could be seen as a show of evenhandedness, Wellington simultaneously sanctioned alleged Jewish extremists in Judea and Samaria. New Zealand on Thursday declared that in light of Hamas’ horrific massacre of 1,200 people during its surprise invasion of Israel almost five months ago, it now considers all of Hamas to be a terrorist organization. “The terrorist attacks by Hamas in October 2023 were brutal and we have unequivocally condemned them,” Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said. “What happened on 7 October reinforces we can no longer distinguish between the military and political wings of Hamas. The organization as a…

The idea is to prevent Hamas from stealing the food and fuel, which allows it to prolong the war. The IDF may start distributing humanitarian aid directly to civilians in the Gaza Strip, Israel Hayom reported Wednesday. In the plan currently under consideration by the Israeli government, the army would work with the international bodies currently in full charge of the aid trucks passing into the coastal enclave after undergoing security inspections at Israel’s Kerem Shalom and Nitzana crossings. According to the report, two aid centers will be established, one in the northern part of the Strip and one in…

It will be his life insurance policy, said Jacob Nagel to NBC News. A former Israeli national security adviser believes that Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar will never let all the hostages go in a deal with Israel in order to protect himself, NBC News reported Wednesday. Jacob Nagel, who served in the position for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2016-2017, told the media outlet that “He’ll keep some of the hostages forever because this will be his insurance policy that no one will kill him.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Sinwar a “dead man walking,” and Israel has…

In filmed rant, the rapper went off on ‘Jewish niggas’ several times, and compared himself to Jesus and Hitler in a tirade against sponsors. Rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West launched into a 10-minute tirade Friday among a group of friends, offering conspiracy theories linking American schools to “Zionists,” “Rothschilds,” and “Jewish niggas.” Standing in a small Las Vegas hotel room in a small crowd, some of whom live-streamed his monologue, the famed rapper and clothing designer known as Ye spoke quickly, in an often incoherent stream of thought. “It is our money, nigga. It is our country, nigga. They…

With his praise, John Kirby seemingly walked back President Biden’s Tuesday comment that the IDF is “indiscriminately bombing” the Gaza Strip. U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby praised Israel’s military Wednesday for protecting Gazan civilians more than almost any other army would, including America itself. Referring to a grid of the Gaza Strip that the IDF issued two weeks ago that divided the enclave into hundreds of mini-combat zones so that it could warn those who live in specific areas to flee before its forces enter to clear them of Hamas terrorists, Kirby told journalists, “They have published online…

An IDF officer was badly wounded and a soldier moderately wounded Saturday night during different operations against terrorists in the Gaza Strip, in a war the military says is being executed in “stages.” The officer was hit by a mortar shell fired at IDF forces that had entered the northern part of the coastal enclave to destroy enemy position. The solder was wounded in a different clash with terrorists in the same general area, who had tried to attack his unit. Both were taken to hospital in Israel and their families have been informed.