מי כעמך ישראל
Firefighters rapidly contained the blaze before it could spread to heavy machinery.
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Chardeim burning down the Jerusalem Light Rail
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Update on the Israeli strike that killed Hamas’s Gaza leader Izz al-Din Haddad
Israel eliminates final senior Hamas leader in Gaza
Israeli forces eliminated senior Hamas terrorist Izz al-Din Haddad in an operation reportedly named “Sharp Courage.”
Haddad had recently been hiding underground, and final approval for the strike was granted by the political leadership several days ago.
Israeli forces also struck a vehicle that allegedly attempted to flee the scene. Haddad was considered the last remaining top Hamas figure in the Gaza Strip who had not yet been eliminated
Four close associates of Haddad were reportedly killed in a vehicle while trying to leave an apartment used as a hideout.
Three Israeli Air Force fighter jets participated in the airstrike on the Hamas leader. According to the military, the jets dropped 13 bombs. Vehicles departing from the location were struck, reportedly to prevent Haddad’s escape.
A senior Israeli security official said that the strike targeting Izz al-Din Haddad was approved by the political echelon about a week and a half ago. During that time, Haddad was under "continuous" surveillance, and the strike was carried out this evening "due to an operational opportunity with a high probability of successful elimination," the official said.
According to the Israeli military, Haddad was targeted by the Israeli Air Force shortly after intelligence officers at the Southern Command and Military Intelligence Directorate received information on his whereabouts.
During the war, Haddad moved between numerous hiding places, surrounding himself with many hostages, including the female surveillance soldiers abducted from the Nahal Oz base, to avoid being targeted in Israeli strikes, a military source says.
Haddad was the most senior Hamas military commander in Gaza and the last remaining senior official in the terror group who led the October 7 massacre. After the strike, Defense Minister Israel Katz reportedly personally updated the family of former Gaza hostage Liri Albag on the assassination. Liri was held by Haddad in Hamas captivity. Albag responded on Instagram to the assassination attempt on Hamas military wing leader, writing:
'Every dog has his day – and you're one hell of a dog.'
Friday, May 15, 2026
Fact vs. Modern Distortion: The Centrality of Jerusalem to the Jewish People
The effort to deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem is not an academic dispute. It is part of the unrelenting political, ideological, and religious war against Israel. The Palestinian Authority has long accused the Jewish state of inventing a false Jewish history while “appropriating" Palestinian history, culture, and heritage. Palestinian Arab officials routinely describe Jewish historical presence in Jerusalem as “Judaization," as though the Jewish people are foreign intruders in their own ancient capital.
This language is not accidental. It is a strategy. If Jewish history in Jerusalem can be denied, then Jewish sovereignty in Jerusalem can be delegitimized. If the Temple Mount can be transformed from Har HaBayit-the holiest site in Judaism-into an exclusively Islamic space called only Al-Aqsa, then Jewish memory itself can be treated as an act of aggression.
MEMRI has documented how Islamic and Palestinian Arab narratives repeatedly challenge Jewish historical ties to the Temple Mount, often denying or minimizing the existence of the First and Second Temples. This is not merely a distortion of Jewish history. It is also a departure from classical Islamic sources, many of which acknowledged the ancient Jewish connection to the site.
Israel Suing New York Times for accusing Israel of using dogs to rape Palestinians
The Israeli government announced that it would file a lawsuit against the New York Times following the publication this week of a column by Nicholas Kristof accusing Israel of the mass rape of Arab prisoners, including by allegedly training dogs to rape prisoners.
The Foreign Ministry stated: "Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times."
Prime Minister Netanyahu stated: "Today I instructed my legal advisers to consider the harshest legal action against The New York Times and Nicholas Kristof.They defamed the soldiers of Israel and perpetuated a blood libel about rape, trying to create a false symmetry between the genocidal terrorists of Hamas and Israel’s valiant soldiers."
"Under my leadership, Israel will not be silent. We will fight these lies in the court of public opinion and in the court of law. Truth will prevail," Netanyahu said.
On Monday, Kristof published an opinion piece in the Times claiming that there is widespread sexual abuse of Arab prisoners in Israeli prisons. Kristof's piece has been criticized for a lack of evidence, relying on anonymous testimony, and for using non-credible sources, such as an NGO that is known to spread fake conspiracy theories about Israeli crimes, including the false claim that Israel has trained dogs to rape prisoners, a claim that is made in Kristof's piece.
Israel's Foreign Ministry previously accused Kristof and the newspaper of deliberately timing the piece to counter the publication of a 300-page report detailing the mass rapes committed by Hamas terrorists during the October 7 massacre and against hostages in the years following the massacre.
"The New York Times, in service of a Hamas-driven narrative, deliberately timed its piece to undermine today’s horrific Civil Commission report documenting Hamas’ preplanned, systematic sexual atrocities on Oct. 7 and against hostages thereafter - attempting to create false equivalence and belittle documented crimes," the ministry stated.
It stated that the New York Times piece was "built on unverified claims and Hamas-linked sources like EMHRM. No evidence. No verified complaints. A politically driven smear campaign by a biased paper designed to support efforts to blacklist Israel. The ministry demanded that "this disgusting shameful piece must be removed immediately."
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Yom Yerushalayim- marking 59 years since the liberation of Jerusalem ....
הודו לה' כי לעולם חסדו
What was Jerusalem like under Jordanian rule?
— Rabbi Daniel Rowe (@rabbidanielrowe) May 14, 2026
Today is Yom Yerushalayim- marking 59 years since the liberation of Jerusalem
People say Jerusalem was "better before 1967." Let me tell you what it was actually like.
Under Jordanian rule, Jews were completely banned. Not less… pic.twitter.com/JoQrkg10Iy
What was Jerusalem like under Jordanian rule?
Today is Yom Yerushalayim- marking 59 years since the liberation of Jerusalem
People say Jerusalem was "better before 1967." Let me tell you what it was actually like.
Under Jordanian rule, Jews were completely banned. Not less access. Zero access. All 58 synagogues in the Jewish Quarter were systematically destroyed. Every single one. Mount of Olives gravestones were ripped up and used for roads and latrines. This wasn't apartheid, it was worse. At least under apartheid people could physically live in the country.
Christians weren't spared either. Church land ownership was restricted. Christian schools were controlled by the Jordanian government.
And this happened despite a signed armistice agreement guaranteeing freedom of access. Jordan simply ignored it.
Then came June 7th, 1967. Israeli paratroopers entered the Old City. Three words came over the radio that stopped a nation:
"The Temple Mount is in our hands."
Since that day, Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship freely here. All their populations have grown. The Waqf still administers the Temple Mount. Every church has remained open.
Today I'm standing where the last Jews were expelled in 1948. Elderly people sitting in the squares. Children playing in the streets. Exactly as Zechariah prophesied.
The city is alive. And it's open to everyone.
Chassidim Do a Beautiful Job Of Israel's Eurovision Song Singing it in Yiddish
I know, I know , I know its AI
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