Ed Sheeran Caves in to Pro-Palestinian Mobs As He Calls Gaza War “Catastrophic And Unjustifiable”

 

British superstar Ed Sheeran became emotional on stage in Philadelphia Saturday night as he publicly addressed the Israel Gaza war, declaring the situation in Gaza “catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate.”

The comments came at Lincoln Financial Field during Sheeran’s first concert since rapper Macklemore was removed from the North American leg of his Loop Tour following controversy surrounding Macklemore’s outspoken pro Palestinian messaging.

Sheeran told the crowd that he had never intended to become a political activist through his music, but said the escalating controversy surrounding his tour had placed him in the middle of an intensely divisive debate.

“I’ve never wanted to be an activist musician,” Sheeran said, explaining that he now felt compelled to address what he described as a humanitarian issue.

Sheeran specifically acknowledged the Hamas led October 7 attack on Israel and the massacre at the Nova music festival, becoming visibly emotional as he spoke about the Jewish people.

“What happened in Israel, and at the music festival on October 7th was horrific and compounded centuries of Jewish pain,” Sheeran said.

He then turned his attention to Gaza.

“What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate,” Sheeran said, adding that his “heart has been broken” by the devastation and deaths of civilians and children.

Sheeran also criticized what he called “systemic injustice” in the West Bank, saying it “cannot be overlooked.”

The remarks came after a turbulent week surrounding Sheeran’s tour.

Macklemore had appeared as an opening act at Sheeran’s MetLife Stadium concerts earlier this month, where he used the stage to promote his pro Palestinian views, repeatedly declaring “Free Palestine” and performing his protest song “Hind’s Hall.” His appearance drew condemnation from Jewish and pro Israel organizations.

Macklemore was subsequently removed from the remaining U.S. dates. Sheeran has stressed that the decision was made by the tour promoter rather than by him personally, saying several stadium venues had objected to aspects of Macklemore’s presentation.

The fallout continued when several other scheduled opening acts withdrew from the tour in solidarity with Macklemore. Sheeran’s Philadelphia concert was ultimately pushed back from its originally scheduled start time after the opening acts pulled out.

Pro Palestinian demonstrators also gathered outside Lincoln Financial Field ahead of Saturday night’s show to protest Macklemore’s removal.

Despite the controversy, Sheeran told the Philadelphia audience that his goal remains to use music to bring people together rather than divide them.

His emotional remarks received applause from the crowd before he moved on with the concert.

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Rosh Hashana on the Har Habyis with Shofar Blowing

 

By Rabbi Josh Wander

There are moments in Jewish history that seem ordinary while they are happening. Only years later do people look back and realize that something fundamental had shifted. For those who are watching the process of Geula unfold before our eyes, however, there are times when the significance is impossible to miss. Rosh Hashanah 5787 was one of those times.

Two extraordinary events took place this Rosh Hashanah in Jerusalem. To much of the Jewish world they may appear obscure, technical, or even insignificant. But to anyone who understands Geula not merely as something we pray for, but as the gradual restoration of Jewish national and spiritual life in Eretz Yisrael, they were groundbreaking. Practices that had disappeared from Jewish public life for generations—and in one case are directly associated with the avodah and institutions of ancient Jerusalem—were heard again.

The first occurred on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, which this year fell on Shabbat. Throughout virtually the entire Jewish world, no shofar was sounded that day. This follows the longstanding halachic practice established after the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash: when Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat, the shofar is generally not blown. Yet Chazal preserved an extraordinary exception connected to a Beit Din, and the precise parameters and contemporary applicability of that exception have been debated by major halachic authorities.

This year, I merited to participate in a minyan in the Old City of Jerusalem where the shofar was actually sounded on Shabbat in the presence of a specially designated Beit Din. Hundreds of people packed into the room at Machon HaMikdash to witness something almost no Jew alive has experienced as part of the normal Rosh Hashanah landscape: the sound of the shofar on the first day of Rosh Hashanah even though it was Shabbat.

Israel must defeat its enemies instead of containing them

 

By Jonathan Pollard

For the past several weeks, there have been numerous reports describing the IDF’s efforts to increase security along our border with Gaza.

The army’s measures include better-trained and better-equipped community quick-response teams, enhanced border fortifications, and a commitment to the complete disarmament of Hamas before authorizing any withdrawal to the pre-October 7 border.

The fact that so many people consider these measures “reasonable” and appropriate only demonstrates that we have still not learned the most important lesson of October 7.

It seems obvious, but apparently it needs to be said again: You cannot claim to have defeated an enemy while building defensive walls against it and leaving that enemy with the ability to restart hostilities whenever it chooses.

That is not victory. It is threat management.

Indeed, this is precisely the flawed mindset Israelis came to call the “conceptzia”: managing an enemy while assuming that deterrence, intelligence and defensive barriers will keep the threat contained. It was this mindset that helped set the stage for October 7 and allowed Hezbollah to grow into a clear and present danger to our country.

Dovie Eisner’s life debunked the delusions of assisted-suicide enthusiasts

 

On May 17, 2025, Nicholas Tomaino, now an editor at The Washington Post, photographed his friend Dovie Eisner holding a copy of the New York Post with his byline.

It was a proud moment for Eisner, a profoundly disabled New Yorker who’d penned a heartfelt piece in opposition to a proposed state assisted-suicide bill, which has since become law. 

Eisner wrote, “I was born with a recessive genetic neuromuscular condition called nemaline myopathy. I use a portable ventilator to breathe and a motorized wheelchair to get around . . . I’m not terminal — but many times, my own body can feel like a straitjacket. God willing, I’ve got another couple of decades left.”

The next day, due to a malfunction with his ventilator, Eisner was rendered unconscious and left in a vegetative state. Last week, he passed away at just 35 years old.

Last month, New York’s Medical Aid in Dying law — the law he warned against — took effect.

Despite his quiet, unassuming life in Brooklyn in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, Eisner somehow befriended some of the most influential minds in the conservative political world through his intellect, perseverance and sheer will.

Since his death, prominent intellectuals like Princeton University Prof. Robert George and The Washington Post’s Ramesh Ponnuru have offered reflections, alongside obituaries in UnHerd, Fox News and National Review.

For a man whose physical world could be severely constrained, Eisner built a remarkably expansive intellectual and social one.

His life was a living rebuttal of those pushing assisted-suicide laws.

It was testimony to the fact that disabled lives have value, and that lives filled with pain and limitation can still be very much worth living.

That message becomes more profound as the boundaries around assisted death continue to expand elsewhere.

The same week Eisner passed away, reports emerged that the first toddler in the Netherlands had been euthanized since the country expanded its euthanasia rules to allow children ages 1 to 12 to be eligible under certain circumstances.

Last year in Spain, Noelia Castillo, a 25-year-old woman, won the “right” to die after a long court battle with her parents.Castillo had made multiple suicide attempts, having struggled with psychiatric illness and reported that she’d been sexually assaulted. Society should’ve provided her with protection, psychiatric treatment and support. Instead, the story became about her fight for permission to die.

In Canada, the story’s even more staggering. As Rupa Subramanya reported last year, “One out of every 20 deaths in Canada is triggered by the government-run assisted suicide program.”

In Ontario alone, 219 people in 2023 received medical assistance in dying by the end of the day after they requested it, with about 30% of those deaths occurring the very same day. 

Research indicates that suicide attempts are usually regretted by people who survive them, an important detail given how rushed many are. 

In light of his suffering and dependence, Eisner lived on the wrong side of the line assisted-suicide backers draw when it comes to whose lives have value.

He couldn’t breathe without mechanical help; he couldn’t get around without a motorized wheelchair.His body, as he put it himself, could feel like a “straitjacket.”And yet he wanted more time.

That is what makes his testimony so powerful: Eisner chose life enthusiastically every time he left his house.

The night before his coma, he recorded a video explaining how someone unfamiliar with his ventilator could reattach and repair it in an emergency. His friends would soon realize just how prescient that instinct had been.

Those who spent time with him also remembered something that now feels profound: how deeply he appreciated life’s simplest pleasures.

His Instagram feed is filled with flowers and cats, outings with friends and encounters with famous faces like Kelsey Grammer and his friend Rick Santorum. 

This was not a man waiting around to die. He was too busy living.

In his Post column, Eisner warned, “The logic of assisted suicide leads inevitably to the conclusion that those with doctor-approved expiration dates are living lives not worth living.”

New York lawmakers rejected his warning.But Eisner left behind something more powerful than an argument: the evidence of his own 35 years.

Dovie Eisner feared a society increasingly willing to tell people in bodies like his that death could be an act of dignity.His own life offered the answer: Dignity is never in the dying; it’s in insisting on living, fully and enthusiastically. 

Bethany Mandel writes and podcasts at The Mom Wars and is a homeschooling mother of six in greater Washington, DC.

Breslov Chassid From Beitar Arrested Returning From Uman, Drafted Into Ukrainian Army

 

A 49-year-old Breslov Chassid from Beitar Illit and father of six was arrested at the Romanian border while returning to Israel from Uman following Rosh Hashanah, after Ukrainian authorities reportedly determined that he was subject to military conscription.

The man, an Israeli citizen who was born in Ukraine and has lived in Israel for many years, was reportedly stopped during a document inspection. According to a source familiar with the incident, after he spoke to authorities in Ukrainian, he was taken aside for further questioning, where officials discovered that he was obligated to serve in the Ukrainian military.

He was subsequently detained and reportedly drafted into the Ukrainian military. His family has since lost all contact with him and does not know where he is being held or stationed.

Breslov askanim are working urgently to secure his release, reaching out to Rabbanim, community figures and individuals with connections in Ukraine. However, those involved say that thus far they have been unable to find a solution.

An askan familiar with the case said the family does not have the financial resources to hire an attorney and fears that he could remain in Ukraine for an extended period.

According to the report, Israel’s Foreign Ministry told the family that officials are first attempting to determine the man’s whereabouts, which currently remain unknown.

CNN AND MSNNOW being thrown out of the White House Press.

I hate to say it, but in a way, the White House created this issue when they decided to deny certain independent journalists who have always supported the President press passes while allowing for hostile media to get front row access during every press briefing. 

I love President Trump, but his staff should have seen this coming when they treated anti-Trump media personalities so well and bent over backwards to reward Trump haters in the fake news media. 

To this day, even though @LoomerUnleashed breaks tons of stories that the President himself has acted on, and we have a full time DC presence, we still have not been given a White House press pass despite asking multiple times. 

Why? Because petty low level staff have a power complex and deny the press passes to people they don’t like even to the detriment of the President.

We don’t even bother asking for press passes anymore because it’s always the same excuse. 

Meanwhile, hostile media and outlets that are literally funded by George Soros have been given complete access and all they do is lie about the President. 

The woman who hit President Trump in the face with a boom mic was never banned from the press pool. I broke the story about her identity. 2 weeks later, she was still there.

What does that tell you? 

Anyway, it’s not like it’s going to change anytime soon but as I say: loyalty matters and if you fill the press room with shit, don’t be surprised when you get shit coverage.

I still support President Trump. 

But this was inevitable. Let’s be honest.

I hate to say it, but in a way, the White House created this issue when they decided to deny certain independent journalists who have always supported the President press passes while allowing for hostile media to get front row access during every press briefing.

I love… https://t.co/E23hRxr2io

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) September 18, 2026

Zera Shimshon ......פרשת האזינו • שבת שובה

 

Rabbi Y Yosef says you can use your "Maasar money" to fly to Israel to vote "Shas"

 

Rep Gregory Meeks refuses to clear $2.8 billion bomb sale to Israel

 

While individual congressional committee members do not have unilateral power to prevent an arms sale, they are able to place a “hold” on a transaction in order to acquire more information. 

By Sharon Udasin, JTA

U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, is obstructing a Trump administration proposal for a $2.8 billion bomb sale to Israel.

Meeks, a longtime supporter of Israel from New York, said he would not clear the transaction due to concerns that these 2,000-pound munitions would not be used in accordance with U.S. and international law.

Despite his concerns, Meeks said in a statement that he remains “firmly committed to Israel’s security and its ability to defend itself against serious regional threats.”

The 15-term congressman, known for his pragmatic and moderate stances, voiced concern about the potential sale of 40,000 of these bombs, which he described as “some of the most destructive munitions in our arsenal.”

The proposal, he added, raised questions “about how these munitions could be used in densely populated areas of Gaza and Lebanon.”

Israel has said its use of American munitions is always in compliance with U.S. and other relevant laws.

If Democrats are able to retake the House majority in November, Meeks would then become the chairman of the committee in January.

More than two years ago, in April 2024, Meeks announced that he would block the sale of F-15 fighter jets to Israel if he did not receive “assurances” as to the intended purposes of these jets.

At the time, he told CNN that he had “enough of the indiscriminate bombing” and wanted to prevent Israel from utilizing weapons to create more deaths.

Meeks has longstanding ties to the pro-Israel community.

In 2020, when he was one of three Democrats on the committee seeking its chairmanship, he met with pro-Israel groups to get what was then their critical endorsement.

The U.S.-Israel relationship has soured in recent years, especially over Israel’s conduct of the Gaza war, and more recently Meeks has criticized the country’s leadership.

In February, Meeks slammed the decisions of Netanyahu and his Security Cabinet to expand Israel’s control over Judaea and Samaria.

“These actions deliberately and potentially irreversibly erode the possibility of a negotiated two-state solution,” he said in a statement, referring to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

While individual congressional committee members do not have unilateral power to prevent an arms sale, they are able to place a “hold” on a transaction in order to acquire more information.

“The Trump administration has not provided sufficient assurances that these weapons will be used by the Netanyahu government in accordance with U.S. law and with appropriate protections for civilians,” Meeks said on Wednesday.

This decision, he explained, does not weaken Congressional backing “for Israel’s legitimate defense needs.”

“It reflects Congress’s responsibility to ensure that U.S.-funded weapons are used lawfully, responsibly, and with meaningful safeguards for human life,” Meeks added.

Like your drink piping hot? New study warns of cancer risk

 

A new study indicates that waiting a few minutes for your coffee or tea to cool could significantly impact your cancer risk.

Researchers at the University of Oxford examined the hot-drink habits of more than one million people and found that those who regularly consumed coffee or tea at very high temperatures faced an increased risk of developing esophageal cancer.

The researchers also found an increased risk among people who consumed six hot drinks per day.

The Oxford University study, published in the International Journal of Cancer, classified drinks served at temperatures of 65°C (149°F) or higher as "very hot." It is the largest study to date examining the relationship between hot beverage consumption and the risk of esophageal cancer.

According to the findings, participants who drank beverages at temperatures above 65°C faced approximately three times the risk of developing esophageal cancer compared with those who did not. The researchers therefore recommend allowing hot drinks to cool to 65°C or below before consuming them.

Lead researcher Dr. Keren Papier noted that previous research conducted in South America had produced similar findings, pointing to an association between very hot drinks and esophageal cancer.

"More research is now needed to identify the exact drink temperatures linked to this increased risk," Papier told the British newspaper Independent.

100,000 Gather At The Kosel For Thursday Night Selichos

 

Approximately 100,000 people gathered overnight at the Kosel for a massive central Selichos gathering, joined by rabbanim, government ministers, public officials and tens of thousands of mispallelim.

Thousands more participated from Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, where the tefillos were broadcast live from the Kosel. The gathering there included released hostages Bar Kuperstein, Matan Angrest, Rom Braslavski, Moran Stella Yanai, Agam Berger, Omer Wenkert, Nimrod Cohen and Eliya Cohen.

Family members of hostages who were murdered in Hamas captivity in Gaza also participated, including relatives of Yonatan Samerano, Guy Iluz, Tamir Adar, Omer Neutra and Eliya Toledano Hy”d.

Mordechai “Soli” Eliav, director general of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, opened the gathering by speaking about the connection forged between the Kosel and Hostages Square throughout the hostage crisis. He noted that approximately 1.5 million mispallelim had joined in tefillah for the hostages during the period of their captivity, particularly during last year’s Selichos gatherings.

Rav Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rav of the Kosel and Holy Sites, delivered a special tefillas hoda’ah for the return of the hostages.

“Tonight, from the Kosel and Hostages Square, I want to say to You, Ribbono Shel Olam: Look down from Heaven and see how, during the most difficult time, we stood together,” Rav Rabinowitz said. “We did not always agree on the path, but we were all partners in concern, prayer and hope.”

“For such a long period, all of our hearts were held captive — until the final hostage returned,” he continued. “In the merit of this Kiddush Hashem, the brotherhood and courage of the hostages, who sanctified the Name of Heaven in the darkest places and continue to do so now — open for us the gates of Heaven and send us a good and blessed year.”

Rabbanim also led tefillos for IDF soldiers and security forces, for the recovery of the wounded, and for peace, security and achdus among Klal Yisroel.

The enormous turnout forced organizers to accommodate thousands who could not enter the Kosel plaza. Giant screens were erected along the walls of the Old City and at Sha’ar Yaffo, allowing additional crowds to participate in the Selichos from outside the packed plaza.

The Western Wall Heritage Foundation said preparations have now been completed for the final central Selichos gathering of the year, scheduled for Motzei Shabbos. The gathering will begin at midnight with Hataras Nedarim and the annulment of curses.

Officials are urging the tens of thousands expected to attend to arrive early and follow instructions from police and event organizers.

Vance Privately Sought To Help Clinton Defeat Trump In 2016

 

Vice President J.D. Vance privately sought to help Hillary Clinton defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, despite publicly opposing both candidates, according to a new Vanity Fair report detailing Vance’s political evolution.

Vance, then a recent Yale Law School graduate and outspoken Trump critic, voted for independent candidate Evan McMullin in 2016. But according to Vanity Fair, Vance also tried to connect with Clinton’s campaign through an intermediary.

Vance told the intermediary that he disliked Clinton but considered Trump a greater threat, according to the report. He also offered advice on how Clinton could improve her campaign in key Midwestern states.

Vance later communicated directly with Jake Sullivan, one of Clinton’s senior campaign advisers, Vanity Fair reported. Vance urged the campaign to focus more heavily on the industrial Midwest and criticized Clinton’s handling of her comments about Trump supporters.

The account, reported by journalist Chris Whipple in a Vanity Fair profile of Vance’s years at Yale, offers new details about the future vice president’s opposition to Trump before his dramatic political realignment.

Vance had been sharply critical of Trump during the 2016 campaign, at one point describing him in extremely negative terms. His position changed in the years that followed. By the time Vance launched his 2022 Senate campaign in Ohio, he had become a Trump supporter and received Trump’s endorsement.

Trump selected Vance as his running mate in 2024, and Vance became vice president after Trump returned to the White House.

The newly reported Clinton contacts highlight the extent of Vance’s political transformation from a Trump opponent who sought to prevent his election to one of the president’s closest political allies.

The Vanity Fair report does not establish a formal Clinton-Vance political alliance or conspiracy. It describes Vance’s private efforts to influence Clinton’s campaign while he was simultaneously publicly rejecting both major-party candidates.

Ironic!!! HouthisTell U.S. Officials They’ll Spare American and Israeli Ships, But Saudi Vessels Remain Targets

 

Houthis Reportedly Tell U.S. Officials They’ll Spare American and Israeli Ships, But Saudi Vessels Remain Targets

Representatives of the Iran-backed group reportedly met American officials at the U.S. Embassy in Oman. One source said Israeli and other commercial ships would be spared, except Saudi vessels. The reported assurance concerns shipping, not a broader ceasefire with Israel.

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They are convinced that it is only their derech that is the authentic Yiddishkeit. 

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Shas freaking out, worried about losing voters to Ben Gvir!

 Is Shas worried about losing voters to Ben Gvir? 

Shas is in fact worried about losing voters to Ben Gvir running around like a poisoned mouse to stop the fallout after Rav Yitzchak Yosef said the following

 “According to Jewish law, it is forbidden to vote for someone who has no fear of God and who ascends the Temple Mount.”

So they publicly invited him to a Shas Council of Torah Sages meeting, hoping to stop the bleeding, and showed a video clip of Rabbi Elbaz hugging and kissing Ben-Gvir.

Charedim now training the girls to be "Schnorrers"

I really don't remember a more humiliating, cynical, and exploitative event than the current fundraising campaign of the Olam HaTorah Foundation for the seminary girls. 

In the past day, we've received  calls: 5 from my building,. 10 from nearby buildings Each call more embarrassing than the last, but they have no choice—they were given a target of 4,200₪ per girl, the social pressure is unreasonable, and nothing will stop them. 

What about tznius? Is having a teenage girl call random men, ok? 

Are they so desperate that they have to recruit high school girls, who come from large families and are busy helping in their homes, to force them to start schnorring? 

What is going on?

The tweet below translated

Forgive me, but I haven't calmed down from this event yesterday. There's something particularly cruel about this event.

Thousands of seminary girls are gathered in a hall to prepare them for a fundraising operation for the World of Torah Fund. They are now required to go out and make up from the public's pockets the money that the yeshivas lost as a result of the recruitment crisis.

And they know very well why they're turning specifically to the girls.

These are girls who were raised from a young age that the holiest and most important thing is Torah study and supporting Torah scholars. The entire life path offered to them is built around this idea: learn a profession, go out to work, support a household, and allow the husband to sit and learn. Now, they're taking that same indoctrination and applying it to turn them into fundraisers too.

In my eyes, this is cult-like behavior.

This is a system that stops seeing the people living within it as ends in themselves and sees them as resources for its own preservation. The boys need to study. The women need to work so that the men can study. The voters need to vote as they're told. And now the seminary girls also need to go out and raise money when the model runs into a crisis.

There's not even an attempt here to ask what's fair to demand from these girls. They're the most available resource, the most disciplined, and the one most filled with ideological motivation, so they're being used too.

This is one of the ugliest outcomes of a society that has spent years indoctrinating its children around one supreme goal: at the moment of truth, they can be mobilized for almost anything in the name of that goal

סלחו לי, אבל לא נרגעתי מהאירוע הזה אתמול. יש משהו אכזרי במיוחד באירוע הזה.

אלפי בנות סמינרים מכונסות באולם כדי להכין אותן למבצע גיוס כספים עבור קרן עולם התורה. הן נדרשות עכשיו לצאת ולהשלים מכיסי הציבור את הכסף שהישיבות איבדו בעקבות משבר הגיוס.

והם יודעים מצוין למה הם פונים… https://t.co/QjWi6GniMI

— חרדים אקספרס (@haredimex) September 16, 2026

The Song of Chullin

 

Please see the attached PDF of the lyrics of the Song of Chullin.

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Israeli intel guiding Saudi fight against Houthis

 

Jerusalem and Riyadh reportedly held talks focused on countering the Iran-backed Houthi terror group.

By World Israel News Staff

Israel is assisting Saudi Arabia in its ongoing efforts against the Houthis, including by providing strategic intelligence to the Gulf kingdom, according to a report by Hebrew-language outlet Walla.

The outlet, citing Middle Eastern diplomatic sources, reported that Jerusalem and Riyadh recently held talks aimed at assisting Saudi Arabia in its fight against the Yemen-based Iranian proxy group.

The meetings were reportedly arranged by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).

Although Israel and Saudi Arabia do not maintain formal diplomatic relations, the two countries have long been believed to cooperate on shared interests, particularly regional security and stability.

Saudi officials have repeatedly stressed that Riyadh will not formally recognize Israel until an independent Palestinian state is established. Nevertheless, the countries are believed to maintain significant behind-the-scenes ties, particularly in the defense and intelligence spheres.

The reported Israeli assistance comes as the Houthis have intensified their attacks against Saudi Arabia in recent weeks. On Monday, the Iran-backed group launched a barrage of drones and missiles toward the Gulf kingdom, with Saudi officials saying the attacks wounded 13 civilians.

According to Saudi state media, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with U.S. regional commander Admiral Brad Cooper in Jeddah on Monday. The meeting came amid heightened concerns over the Houthis’ expanding military campaign and the potential for the conflict to further destabilize the region.

Saudi Arabia has been engaged in a longstanding conflict with the Houthis since 2015, when Riyadh intervened militarily in Yemen as the Iran-backed group expanded its control over large parts of the country.

Harav Hagoen David Leibel ""We need to worry about the livelihood of our community and worry about the security of our community."

Rabbi David Leibel, president of the Torah Brotherhood movement—one of the few rabbis in the Haredi sector who support the enlistment of Haredim and their integration into the job market—is now speaking at the movement's "Yarchei Kallah" conference: 

"We need to worry about the livelihood of our community and worry about the security of our community."

נשיא תנועת אחוות תורה הרב דוד לייבל, מהרבנים הבודדים במגזר החרדי שתומכים בגיוס חרדים ובשילוב בשוק התעסוקה, כעת בכנס "ירחי כלה" של התנועה: "אנחנו צריכים לדאוג לפרנסה של החברה שלנו ולדאוג לביטחון של החברה שלנו". pic.twitter.com/LGnYKvgL4g

— יענקי פרבר | Yanki Farber (@yankihebrew) September 16, 2026

Journalist Amit Segal Calls Out Saudi Hypocrisy for Seeking Israeli Help Against Houthis

 Journalist Amit Segal Calls Out Saudi Hypocrisy for Seeking Israeli Help Against Houthis

Israeli journalist Amit Segal has pointed out the irony of Saudi Arabia's diplomatic shifts, noting how the kingdom pushes anti-Israel rhetoric while turning to Jerusalem for help when facing military pressure from the Houthi terror group.

Segal detailed how Saudi leaders first approached regional partners like Pakistan and Turkey under mutual defense expectations, only to receive empty press statements instead of military support. When they subsequently asked the Trump administration for help, they were told the conflict was not an American problem.

Left completely isolated, Segal noted that Riyadh ultimately reached out to Israel for rescue. He highlighted the hypocrisy of a government that routinely calls Israel a murderous state now asking for assistance, while questioning whether Israel should demand official recognition in return. Segal concluded by remarking that when real trouble strikes, Saudi leaders stop facing Mecca and start looking toward Jerusalem.