Yedidya Epstein says he tracked Yaman Obeid for months after noticing alarming posts showing weapons and Hamas propaganda.
The International Committee of the Red Cross staged a Fake Hostage Recovery remains in Gaza and then called it “unacceptable,” but the Israeli Foreign Ministry accused the organization of being complicit in the charade.
“We appreciate the Red Cross condemnation of Hamas’s staged ‘burials’ and ‘discoveries’ of hostage bodies, which they previously extracted from Hamas holding sites,” the Israeli ministry stated on Wednesday.
“There seems to be a gap between what the Red Cross office knows and reality, given footage of Red Cross staff at the deception,” the ministry said. “We trust the Red Cross will take action regarding lies their staff apparently report upwards.”
A spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office told JNS that the terror organization tried to pull a fast one on both Israel and on U.S. President Donald Trump.”
“Hamas cheated President Trump. Hamas also cheated the Red Cross during this process,” the spokesman told JNS. “We want to believe they weren’t part of this.”
“Their role is to execute the mission to bring our hostages back home,” he added.
The Red Cross told JNS on Tuesday that it hadn’t been aware that a slain hostage’s body “had been placed there prior to their arrival.”
Drone footage, which the Israeli military posted online, shows terrorists throwing the body out of a window into a pit and covering it with dirt, in front of what appeared to be a Red Cross team. The Red Cross staff appeared to look on as the remains were reburied.
The Red Cross denied the sequence of events, which the video footage appeared to show, in its statement to JNS on Tuesday.
“Our team only observed what appeared to be the recovery of remains without prior knowledge of the circumstances leading up to it,” it said.
The Red Cross added that “it is unacceptable that a fake recovery was staged, when so much depends on this agreement being upheld and when so many families are still anxiously awaiting news of their loved ones.”
The Israel Defense Forces stated that the video shows that Hamas “is attempting to create a false impression of efforts to locate the bodies, while in fact holding deceased hostages whose remains it refuses to release as required by the agreement.”
The IDF said that the terror group is also making “false claims of shortages in engineering equipment, equipment that is clearly unnecessary for the transfer of remains, and therefore these claims do not constitute an obstacle to the return of the remaining deceased hostages.”
Under Trump’s peace plan, Hamas committed to handing over all 48 hostages—living and deceased—on Oct. 13. Israel liberated 20 living captives that day, but Hamas has slow-walked the return of the 28 bodies.
On Monday night, Hamas released the remains of Israeli hostage Ofir Tzarfati, whose body Israel had already retrieved, and not a 16th body, in violation of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal in the Strip.
Israel recovered Tzarfati’s body from Gaza as part of a military operation in 2023, the Prime Minister’s Office stated. It added that Hamas’s refusal to return a new hostage body constituted a “clear violation” of the deal.
On Saturday, Trump urged Hamas to return the remains of deceased hostages the terrorists still hold within 48 hours or face action by “the other countries involved” in the agreement.
An urgent discussion between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and representatives of the Israeli security establishment ended on Tuesday without any decision on Jerusalem’s response to Hamas’s ceasefire violations.
A senior Israeli official told Israel’s Channel 12 that the IDF presented a series of possible moves, including renewing attacks on the Strip. Netanyahu reportedly said that there needed to be coordination with the Trump administration to determine the next step.
An elderly Orthodox Jewish man was killed Tuesday evening after being struck by a vehicle on 18th Avenue, between 48th and 49th Streets. The accident occurred around 6:30 p.m. as he was heading to daven Mincha. Hatzalah responded promptly, rushing the man to Maimonides Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
The NYPD arrested the driver at the scene, who was reportedly driving with a suspended license.
The victim has been identified as Reb Noach Klein A”h, 84, a longtime pillar of the Borough Park community. He operated Unique Sterling for nearly five decades, first opening on 13th Avenue in 1975 before moving to 18th Avenue. Known for his knowledge of antique silver and dedication to his craft, Reb Noach was also celebrated for his warmth, humor, and mentorship to younger generations.by Van in Boro-Park
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One of the rabbis, Abby Stein, comes from a Viznitz background, and developed a vicious hatred towards the only Jewish State, once she grew breasts! There isn't an event that denigrates Israel that she hasn't attended!
An anti-Israel transgender rabbi who was once tossed out of the White House has become the face of a “Jews for Zohran” ad — as she tries to rally support for socialist mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani in the final days of the election.
Abby Stein, a part-time rabbi at Brooklyn’s progressive Kolot Chayein synagogue, is among a handful of female rabbis featured in the ad recently put out by the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JREJ).
“We know Zohran will fight to make our city affordable and safe for our families,” Stein declared in the campaign ad.“As Jews, as rabbis, as New Yorkers, we believe that all people deserve to thrive. Zohran agrees.”
The far-left rabbi, who grew up in a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, made headlines last year after she was booted from the White House Pride Month celebration last year after she hijacked then-first lady Jill Biden’s speech to demand a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.
She also sparked controversy after it emerged she’d attended an interfaith meeting held by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during last year’s United Nations General Assembly — less than a week before Tehran launched nearly 200 missiles at Israel.
At the time, US Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) — a staunch supporter of Israel – blasted Stein for participating in the Iran-led confab.
“Anyone who associates with the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism is a useful idiot of the highest order,” the Bronx pol said.
In addition to Stein, the new Mamdani ad also featured three other female progressive rabbis – including Emily Cohen, Miriam Grossman and Rachel Goldenberg.
“We’re proud New York Rabbis for Zohran. Our movement of thousands of Jews For Zohran is growing. Join us to elect Mayor Mamdani,” the JREJ group said on X alongside the ad.
“Remember – canvassing is a mitzvah!”
Prof. Michael Ben-Gad, a native Israeli whose economics lecture at City St George’s, University of London was disrupted a week ago by anti-Israel thugs who threatened to behead him, issued an apology for his “IDF service.”
In an appearance on GB News, Ben-Gad said that the thugs “are now offering terms. I can have my life back if I apologize for my military service.”
He then read his written statement of apology, beginning by saying,
“”Good evening, thugs.”
He then explained that since Israel has a policy of compulsory conscription, he was obligated to serve. He continued.
“But for most of us, conscription merely absolved us of the need to volunteer.”
“I was born less than 20 years after nearly my entire family was gassed at Treblinka. Personally, I would have crawled over cut glass to get to that induction center to put on the uniform and defend my people. Have a nice evening.”
A sobering new report from the Knesset Research and Information Center has found that nearly 280 Israel Defense Forces soldiers attempted to take their own lives between January 2024 and July 2025, underscoring growing mental health concerns within Israel’s military amid the prolonged war against Hamas.
The report — prepared at the request of Hadash-Ta’al MK Ofer Cassif, one of the Knesset’s most left-wing lawmakers — reveals a troubling trend: for every soldier who died by suicide, seven others attempted to do so.
The figures represent a marked escalation in mental distress among Israeli troops since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre, which triggered Israel’s largest mobilization of reservists in decades and thrust tens of thousands of civilians back into combat duty.
According to the data, combat soldiers accounted for 78 percent of all military suicides in 2024, a dramatic surge from the 42–45 percent range recorded between 2017 and 2022. Military analysts say the shift reflects the unique psychological burden on front-line troops serving in an extended and unpredictable conflict.
The findings were compiled from internal IDF Medical Corps mental health records and Knesset committee hearings, focusing solely on soldiers currently serving — either in regular or reserve duty. The report explicitly excludes veterans who took their own lives after completing military service, meaning the actual scope of the crisis could be significantly larger.
Knesset researchers cautioned that while suicide rates fluctuate in wartime, the consistency of attempts over the 18-month period points to systemic stress within the ranks.
MK Ofer Cassif, who commissioned the study, said the figures should serve as “a wake-up call to Israeli society and its leadership.”
“The state cannot demand endless sacrifice from its young people while ignoring the emotional and psychological toll,” Cassif said in a statement. “Mental health must be treated as a national security priority.”
A Cairo luxury hotel has expelled more than 150 freed Hamas terrorists after a report revealed they were staying alongside unsuspecting Western tourists, including British airline crews.
The five-star Renaissance Cairo Mirage City, a Marriott property known as a hub for international air crews, removed the group within hours of the revelations. The extremists — released from Israeli prisons under Donald Trump’s peace deal — had been housed there under Egyptian supervision.
British flight attendants who discovered they had been sharing hotel facilities with convicted jihadists expressed shock, according to multiple reports. The group included high-profile militants such as Mahmoud Issa, founder of Hamas’s Special Unit 101, and Samir Abu Nima, responsible for a deadly 1983 Jerusalem bus bombing.
The terrorists were later relocated to a remote government-owned resort outside Cairo. While still reportedly living in comfort, their movements and visitors are now tightly restricted.
Moshe Saville, CEO of the Israeli charity OneFamily, which aids terror victims, said the incident “shows the moral absurdity in which murderers are pampered while bereaved families face lifelong pain.”
Sources indicate some of the men may eventually be transferred to other countries in the region, including Qatar and Turkey, under continued monitoring by local security agencies.
The Marriott group has not issued a statement on the matter.
