He led the forces that killed thousands of protesters in Tehran in January.
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Abbas-Ali Mohammadian, Chief of Tehran Police, has been eliminated.
He led the forces that killed thousands of protesters in Tehran in January.
Netanyahu - one of the greatest leaders of the free world
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| Berale Crombie with Netanyahu |
Benjamin Netanyahu will be remembered in history as one of the greatest leaders of the free world. Not only of the Jewish people, but of the entire Western world. What has guided his public life for more than fifty years is, without doubt, a deep consciousness of Netzach Yisrael, the eternity of Israel.
He is a leader whose driving force is very different from what we usually see in politics. His motivation moves between a profound concern for the future of the Jewish people and a deep faith in the historic role of the people of Israel. Alongside this stands a powerful vision for the State of Israel that helped transform it into a global high tech powerhouse and a regional military and diplomatic force.
Once, during one of my meetings with Netanyahu, he asked me about my family name and where my ancestors came from. I told him about my great great grandfather who fled Eastern Europe, from the city of Odessa in Ukraine, to England. He was a persecuted Jew who carried with him the historic fate of the wandering Jew.
I also told him about my grandfather who, in 1948, was a young Jewish man in London. When he heard David Ben Gurion declare the establishment of the State of Israel on the radio, he immediately boarded a flight and came to Israel to fight in the battles of the War of Independence.
Netanyahu listened with great attentiveness. I felt that the story touched something deep within him, the place that he lives and breathes more than anything else. The story of the Jewish people and the idea of Netzach Yisrael. This is the driving force that runs in his veins.
This is why he has taken upon himself what he sees as a life mission to confront and remove the Iranian threat and to prevent the Iranian regime’s project of destroying the State of Israel.
Netanyahu grew up on the story of his father, Professor Benzion Netanyahu, who together with Ze’ev Jabotinsky tried to save the Jews of Poland before Hitler’s terrible destruction. They did not succeed. The gates of the land remained closed and the Jews of Poland did not escape.
Even before the Holocaust, Jabotinsky tried to warn the Jews of Poland to understand the scale of the danger. He could not prevent the catastrophe. This is the historical lesson that was deeply instilled in Netanyahu from a young age. Never remain indifferent to a threat of annihilation against the Jewish people and do everything possible to stop such a threat before it materializes.
The Jews of Poland did not have a leader who could recognize the danger in time and mobilize the world and the leaders of the great powers to fight against the destruction of the Jewish people. By the time Churchill entered the war it was already too late for nearly six million Jews who were murdered in Hitler’s machinery of extermination. Until today the Jewish people have not returned to the numbers they had before the Holocaust.
The Jews of Poland did not have their own Netanyahu who could mobilize the world in time to remove the terrible threat and the worst happened.
As someone who has had the privilege of meeting Netanyahu more than once, I believe it is a great fortune that our generation has a leader of such stature. A leader who knows how to conduct remarkable diplomacy, navigate between everyday politics and major statesmanship, and build strategic international alliances.
Above all he is a leader driven by a deep historical consciousness. A deep connection to Netzach Yisrael and to the long and enduring story of the Jewish people.
I am certain that when I tell my grandchildren that I had the privilege of working with this man, it will be one of the most meaningful things I will ever be able to tell them.
Berale Crombie is a close associate of Prime Minister Netanyahu
'Why did Mojtaba Khamenei burn his father’s will?'
The Israeli Mossad today (Sunday) posted on its official Persian-language account on X a photo of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei alongside his son Mojtaba Khamenei.
Across the image appeared the striking question: “Why did Mojtaba Khamenei burn his father’s will?" The question is directly tied to the covert power struggles in Tehran and suggests the possibility that Mojtaba destroyed a document detailing his father’s final wishes.
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Trump vows no peace with Iran before ‘unconditional surrender’ — as Tehran quietly makes contact
President Trump vowed Friday that there would be no peace until Iran’s “unconditional surrender” — as an administration insider revealed to The Post that Tehran is attempting to establish back-channel talks in a sign the regime is feeling the pain.
“There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” the president declared on Truth Social.
“After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before,” he wrote.
“IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. ‘MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).’”
Tehran, meanwhile, has made “multiple reach outs” to the administration since the US-Israeli military campaign started on Saturday, an administration official told The Post.
The overtures signaled to US officials that Iran wants to start talking again after blustering through pre-war negotiations.
Israel slams Lebanon with wave of attacks to root out Hezbollah — killing at least 217
The Israel Defense Forces launched a deadly wave of attacks against Hezbollah that killed at least 217 in Lebanon, according to authorities.
Dozens of airstrikes from the IDF on Saturday took out Hezbollah leaders in Beirut, a Hamas commander near Tripoli, a headquarters used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps air force, missile launch platforms in southern Lebanon, and Hezbollah military sites in the Bekaa Valley, the Israeli military announced Saturday.
Israel issued evacuation warnings to civilians in Beirut’s southern suburbs and parts of southern Lebanon prior to its onslaught against Iranian-backed Hezbollah.
The bombing campaign has killed at least 217 people, injured 798 others and displaced 95,000 Lebanese civilians, according to the country’s health ministry, Al Jazeera reported.
It is unclear how many members of the Lebanese terror proxy were taken out.
“The Israel Defense Forces will continue to attack every necessary location in order to remove an immediate threat to the citizens of the State of Israel,” the IDF said in a statement posted to X.
“The long arm of the Israel Defense Forces will reach every arena and will cut off the hands of all our enemies in the Middle East.”
Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terror group, has been restocking their arsenal of rockets and drones over the last months expecting a new war with Israel, sources familiar with the group’s plans told The Times of Israel.
The group launched its latest assault on Israel this week to avenge the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
“They knew they were next on the list,” an anonymous Israeli official told the outlet.
Israel took out eight compounds used to hold weapons which Hezbollah stored to prepare for the current conflict, according to The Times of Israel.
One source claimed that Hezbollah still has as many as 95,000 fighters ready to take on the Jewish state, the outlet reported.
Israel ‘optimistic’ Iran will collapse if joint strikes with US continue
Meanwhile, President Trump has issued a warning to what’s left of the Iranian government on Truth Social, writing: “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”
Iran’s favored next supreme leader wounded in Israeli air attack
Mojtaba Khamenei — the expected next supreme leader — was reportedly wounded in an Israeli air strike.
The son of Iran’s slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei survived an assassination attempt made by Israel during the devastating launch of Lion’s Roar military operation Feb. 28, which occurred in tandem with the US’s Operation Epic Fury, Times of Israel reported on Saturday.
Other strikes in the joint military attack killed his father and roughly 40 other high-ranking Islamic Republic leaders.
Also killed was Mojtaba’s wife, Zahra Haddad Adel, who came from a family long associated with the country’s theocracy.
It’s not clear if Mojtaba, 56, was with his father in the Ayatollah’s compound that was decimated by airstrikes, or if he was targeted in a separate attack on the regime.
The details and extent of his injuries are also not clear.
He has likely gone into hiding as both the US and Israel continue to rain missiles on the Islamic Republic.
Mojtaba is favored by Tehran’s influential Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to succeed his father, but some in the 88-member Assembly of Experts – tasked with choosing the next supreme leader – have reportedly raised issues over passing the torch to the longtime ayatollah’s son.
The slain supreme leader’s son has been known for his staunch adherence to his father’s hardline conservatism and anti-Western sentiments that have been a hallmark of the Islamic Republic.
President Trump condemned Motjaba’s likely appointment as “unacceptable” for the US and vowed that it would not bring an end to the war.
“They are wasting their time. Khamenei’s son is a lightweight,” Trump said this week.
“We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran.”
The assembly is expected to meet in the next 24 hours where they could possibly choose the next supreme leader, according to reports.
The election will take place virtually after the building used by the Assembly of Experts was destroyed in Israeli strikes earlier this week.
Tehran’s new leader will gain control of the IRGC, which has ruled the country with an iron fist for decades.
Investigation Reveals: 7 Of 9 Missile Victims In Beit Shemesh Were Outside Shelter
New details from a comprehensive investigation into the disaster caused by the direct missile strike on the synagogue shelter in Beit Shemesh reveal that only two of the nine people killed were inside the shelter when the missile struck.
According to the investigation published on Friday morning in the Haaretz newspaper, another person was standing at the entrance to the shelter at the moment of impact, while the rest of the victims were outside the shelter when the missile hit the site.
The missile that struck the structure carried a warhead weighing more than 400 kilograms, one of the heaviest warheads to fall in Israel since the start of the war.
At the time of the strike, about 30 residents were inside the shelter. Most of them were standing close to the walls and survived. Dozens of people were injured by the blast wave and explosion.
According to the website of the Israel Home Front Command, the alert for the missile launch was activated at 13:41.
Rav Dovis Spiegel Founder of the Five Towns Frum Community
The Five Towns community is in mourning with the passing of Rav Dovid Spiegel zt”l, the moreh d’asra of “the Shtiebel,” also known as the Bais Medrash of Cedarhurst. With his petirah, Klal Yisroel has lost one of the great builders of Torah life in the Five Towns.
A Talmid of the Gedolim
Rav Spiegel zt”l was one of the leading students of Rav Avrohom Pam zt”l and Rav Aharon Kotler zt”l. His relationship with Rav Aharon was particularly close and personal — he was among the bochurim who would often drive Rav Aharon to where he needed to be, and through this proximity he developed a deep bond with his Rebbe.
He and his Rebbitzen were married in Newark, New Jersey on June 19th, 1962, at a wedding that drew over one thousand people, as reported by the Newark Evening News. The assembled guests were a testament to the esteem in which his family was held: Rav Mendel Zaks zt”l, the Nadvorner Rebbe, Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky zt”l, and many other luminaries were all in attendance.
The Early Years
In the early years of their marriage, the Spiegels lived in a modest one-bedroom apartment on top of the stores on Fifth Street in Lakewood. Their neighbors across the street included such future luminaries as Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlita, today the Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka in Eretz Yisroel.
Building a Torah Revolution
In 1970, his brother-in-law, Rav Binyomin Kamenetsky zt”l, approached Rav Spiegel with a vision: that he could create a revolution by building a warm shtiebel in the Five Towns. Rav Spiegel accepted the challenge, and what followed was precisely that — a Torah revolution.
For decades, the Shtiebel became a center of warmth, Torah, and authentic Yiddishkeit in the Five Towns. Rav Spiegel built not just a shul, but a kehillah — a community in the truest sense. He greeted everyone b’saiver panim yafos, with a warm smile and a genuine interest in every person who walked through the doors.
A Builder of the Community
Rav Spiegel understood that building Torah in a community required wisdom, patience, and an eye for what truly matters. He helped build Torah observance in the Five Towns in countless ways, always with chochma — knowing how to make authentic Yiddishkeit not only accessible but beautiful.
Starting in 1996, the Shtiebel hosted a Shabbos Women’s Shiur that drew women from across the community each week. That shiur had a kiyum — it continues to this day, a living testament to what Rav Spiegel built.
He was a man of principle and clarity. When the community faced moments that required someone to stand up and articulate what Torah truly demands — even when it was not the easy or popular thing to say — Rav Spiegel was that voice. He understood, as the Rebbitzen would often echo, that “Kiddush Hashem is when we do what Hashem wants us to do.”
His Legacy
Rav Dovid Spiegel zt”l leaves behind a kehillah that he built with decades of devotion, a family that embodies his values, and the countless lives that were shaped by his guidance, his warmth, and his example.
Chaval al d’avdin v’lo mishtakchin. May he be a mailitz yosher for his family, his kehillah, and for all of Klal Yisroel.
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