Israeli Navy intercepts Gaza flotilla, arrests activists

 

The sole purpose of the Hamas-Sumud flotilla is provocation. Israel, Italy, Greece, and the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem have all offered and continue to offer the flotilla a way to peacefully deliver any aid they might have to Gaza. The flotilla refused because they are not… pic.twitter.com/pLQj1FLIPA

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) October 1, 2025

 The Israeli Navy on Wednesday evening began to intercept the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is attempting to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, activists aboard the vessels claimed.

Footage posted to social media showed a Navy vessel near one of the boats. Al Jazeera reported that IDF troops had begun to arrest participants in the flotilla.

Later, the Foreign Ministry posted footage of environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who is taking part in this flotilla and was previously deported by Israel in June after taking part in another flotilla, the Madleen.

“Already several vessels of the Hamas-Sumud flotilla have been safely stopped and their passengers are being transferred to an Israeli port. Greta and her friends are safe and healthy,” it said.

So far, the takeover of the flotilla is proceeding without unusual incidents. Due to the size of the flotilla, approximately 50 vessels, the operation is expected to continue into the night and deep into Yom Kippur.

Earlier, the Israeli Navy issued a final call to the activists to change course.

Yom Kippur bloodshed: 2 Jews murdered in attack on Manchester synagogue

 Two Jews were murdered and three others were seriously injured today (Thursday) in a combined vehicle-ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester, England. The attack was committed on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.

Local police reported that the attacker, initially suspected of wearing a suicide belt, was shot dead by responding officers.

Eyewitnesses said they saw a car speeding toward a gathering outside the building. After ramming into people, the driver exited the vehicle and began stabbing those nearby before being neutralized. The bomb disposal unit was called to the scene, and the police confirmed it was a terrorist attack, noting that two individuals were arrested.

Chava Levin, a local resident, told British media, "As soon as he got out of the car, he started stabbing anyone nearby. He approached the guard and tried to break into the synagogue." She added, "Someone blocked the door. Everyone was in complete shock." Later reports in the Daily Mail noted that the entrance was blocked by Rabbi Daniel Walker, who has led the synagogue since 2008. "Rabbi Walker was incredibly calm," Levin said. "He closed the doors and blocked the entrance. He’s a hero. It could have been much worse."

Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson thanks security staff and worshippers for their bravery in helping to prevent the attacker gaining access to the synagogue: "There were a large number of worshippers attending the synagogue at the time of this attack but thanks to the immediate bravery of security staff and the worshippers inside as well as the fast response of the police, the attacker was prevented from gaining access."

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the attack, stating he was "I’m appalled by the attack at a synagogue in Crumpsall. The fact that this has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, makes it all the more horrific. My thoughts are with the loved ones of all those affected, and my thanks go to the emergency services and all the first responders."

Before departing for a flight, Starmer added, "We will do everything to ensure the safety of the Jewish community. Police presence will be increased around synagogues across the country."

King Charles also condemned the deadly attack, saying he was "deeply saddened and shocked to learn of the horrific attack in Manchester, especially on such a significant day for the Jewish community."

The Israeli Embassy in London denounced the attack as "heinous and very distressing," adding in a post on X: "We are in close contact with the Jewish community in Manchester to ensure they receive the necessary support."

Trump Issues Executive Order Vowing to Defend Qatar After Israeli Strike

 

President Donald Trump signed an executive order pledging that any attack on Qatar would be treated as a threat to U.S. security. The order, dated September 29, 2025, follows an Israeli airstrike in Doha that killed six people, including a Qatari security officer.

According to The New York Times, Trump was not informed in advance of the strike by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The order directs the U.S. to use diplomatic, economic, or military measures to defend both American and Qatari interests if Qatar is attacked.

The U.S. secretary of defense is tasked with maintaining contingency plans with Qatar to ensure a rapid response to foreign aggression. Qatar hosts the largest U.S. military installation in the Middle East.

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Crowds gather in song near Jaffa Street in Jerusalem as tens-of-thousands leave the Old City Selichot Prayers.

 

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Rav Uri Sofer of Beit Shemesh Tells Parents NOT to Vaccinate and to buy His Own Medicines..Children Dead after Taking those Meds!

 

The seller of counterfeit medicines from Beit Shemesh was exposed on TV

 Ariella Sternbach revealed on Channel 13 that Rabbi Uri Sofer encouraged parents not to vaccinate their children against measles, and offered his own "medicines", and in some cases the children died. 

The "medicines" are being sold by the rabbi's son, a resident of Beit Shemesh, who was exposed on the reporter's hidden camera.

The article also interviewed the chairman of the Ezrat Achim Avraemi Kap and the municipality's health commissioner Yona Kaufman, who presented the city's vaccination efforts.

 At the same time, media person and city resident Icha Dzlowski was interviewed by Channel 12 about measles in the city.

Jewish World Mourns Rabbi Dov Fischer

 The Jewish world suffered a grievous loss with the passing on Monday after a long bout with illness of Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, beloved husband and father, Rav of the Young Israel of Orange County (Irvine, CA), attorney and law professor, author, and frequent much-read columnist for Israel National News as well as contributing editor at the American Spectator.

Rav Dov was an individual of great passion, courageous, intrepid, outspoken, keenly intelligent, and with a sublime gift of expression, sometimes profound and serious, sometimes subtly sarcastic and sometimes simply funny. 

He was a graduate of Columbia University, a musmach of Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and earned his law degree at UCLA. For a time, he practiced high stakes litigation with two prominent law firms. He taught Torah in several venues - as a Rav in Jersey City and a Rebbe at Rogosin Yeshiva High School in his youth, and then in California, with a plethora of his shiurim on YouTube.

As a Rav, he was noted for his pastoral sensitivity, his kindness, his enthusiastic commitment to kiruv, and his desire to bring love and observance of Torah to every Jew. A multi-dimensional personality whose days were filled with service to the Jewish people, he at one time also served as National Director of the JDL, as the head of Likud USA, as Vice-President of the Zionist Organization of America, and on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America.

Shoah survivor Ruth Posner dies with husband at Swiss suicide clinic >> They were not sick!

by Jamie Shapiro JC

Actor and Holocaust survivor Ruth Posner and her husband have died by suicide in a Swiss clinic because they "did not want to live without each other" 75 years of marriage.

Neither Posner, 96, nor her husband, Michael, 97, had medical certification stating they had less than six months to live, it is understood, and they were unable to undergo euthanasia at the well-known Dignitas clinic in Zurich. Instead, they went to another facility, Pegasos, near Basel.

The couple, from Belsize Park in London, who were said by a friend to be "frail" but mentally well, wrote an email to their loved ones and scheduled it to be sent after their deaths.

It read: “Dear family and friends,

“So sorry not to have mentioned it but when you receive this email we will have ‘shuffled off this mortal coil’.

“The decision was mutual and without any outside pressure. We had lived a long life and together for almost 75 years. There came a point when failing senses, of sight and hearing and lack of energy was not living but existing that no care would improve.

“We had an interesting and varied life and except for the sorrow of losing Jeremy, our son. We enjoyed our time together, we tried not to regret the past, live in the present and not to expect too much from the future.

“Much love, Ruth and Mike.”

Israeli Brides Face Abuse in UK Orthodox Marriages

 

An investigation by the British-based Jewish Chronicle reveals that dozens of charedi Israeli women are being brought to Britain and married off to abusive men. The women come from poorer families affected by illness, disabilities or family stigmas which prevent them from finding a shidduch in Israel. They are then brought to Britain and married off to men from wealthy families who are known to have a background of abuse, violence or even mental illness.

According to reporter Jane Prinsley, matchmakers often present the marriages as generous opportunities for the Israeli brides, a chance for them to wed into comfort and stability abroad. Many believe that their husbands will come back to Israel with them and do not realize that they intend to stay in Britain permanently. Not knowing any English and cut off from their family’s support, they are then subjected to physical and emotional abuse.

In the past six months, six such cases have come to light, but insiders believe the true number could be far higher. One expert helping domestic abuse survivors in the community said she has supported 12 women in similar circumstances in the last year.

In written testimony shared with the JC with the women’s permission, three Israeli survivors of abuse at the hands of their strictly Orthodox British husbands share their stories.  The women described being deprived of their passports, not having a phone to contact others and basically being trapped in violently abusive relationships with no way of escaping their suffering.

When one of the survivors finally mustered the courage to show other women her bruises, they rejected her pleas for help and told her to put her arms away, claiming it was not “tznius” to show her body. This caused the survivor to lose her faith in the community’s way of life.