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Wolfson Yeshiva, a highly esteemed haredi yeshiva in Jerusalem, was struck by turmoil over the past day.
According to Channel 13's Yoely Brim, three young students from the yeshiva announced their decision to enlist in the IDF, leading to an emergency assembly at the establishment on Tuesday.
Two of the students are expected to join the IDF's "Kokod" program for programming and development, and another student will probably enlist in a combat unit.
The announcement surprised many in the yeshiva, among the reasons being that two of the young men were alumni of Kol Torah, one of the oldest and most respected yeshivas in the haredi world.
During the emergency assembly, the Dean, Rabbi Daniel Wolfson, stood before the students and expressed opposition to the move.
The rabbi claimed that there are no programs in the IDF that could protect a haredi lifestyle and added that he feels great sorrow and pain for the students' decision to leave the yeshiva.
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Iran is attempting to obscure one of the most significant military and intelligence defeats in its history, which reportedly occurred during the first four days of Operation Rising Lion [Operation Am K'Lavi].
The opposition outlet Iran International revealed new details of a series of precise assassinations targeting senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officials.
According to the reports, the Mossad carried out a counterintelligence operation in which the timing of the strike was deliberately leaked through a trusted agent close to IRGC commander Hossein Salami. The leak was intended to ensure Salami's presence at the predetermined location of his planned assassination
A similar incident took place within the IRGC's missile command. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the IRGC’s Aerospace Force, was invited to a coordinated meeting—reportedly arranged by the Mossad—along with his deputies. Once all participants had arrived, a precision missile struck the location, eliminating everyone present. Although the invitation was forged, the voice delivering it was familiar enough to convince the commanders to attend.
Another deep infiltration was reported at the Khatam al-Anbiya command. Just four days after the elimination of Gholam Ali Rashid, his successor was also killed, based on highly accurate intelligence.
Western sources claim the Mossad obtained a DNA sample of another senior official, Shadmani, and deployed facial recognition and AI-based genetic profiling. Through malware that infiltrated Tehran's security cameras, Shadmani was identified on June 27 in the Zaferaniyeh district, where he was subsequently eliminated by a drone strike.
The IRGC’s head of intelligence, Mohammad Kazemi, and two of his deputies were also killed in a separate operation. A Mossad agent reportedly led them to a safe house in Kordbacheh Alley on Sabounchi Street. The strike was executed only after all children from the nearby “Avaye Shadi” kindergarten had vacated the area.
The location’s proximity to kindergartens and a girls’ school underscores the IRGC’s alleged practice of using civilians as human shields.
December 16, 2016. Eight days after Obama received the report that Russia had no effect on the outcome of the election and that Russian election interference was negligible at best.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 20, 2025
Watch how Obama carefully lays the groundwork for the Russia hoax.
Reporter: "Did Clinton lose… pic.twitter.com/814Cq7ycwg
This is what happens when you have Chareidim run cities!
n Bnei-Brak rats rule, and the city is filthy, in Beit Shemesh, developers build without caring if there is infrastructure in place causing chaos. Beitar Illit has been rated as the worst as far as poverty is concerned!
The gerer chusid who gave the fatwa stands there without a care in the world!
זו תורה וזו שכרה
Dozens of people, including families with children, found themselves stuck outside the city of Beitar Illit on Friday after the gate to the city closed 20 minutes before sunset.
Footage obtained by Arutz Sheva shows around twenty vehicles standing at the entrance to the city, with the gate closed and entry not permitted. The footage was taken after the start of Shabbat but before sunset —when one may only carry out prohibited activities if left no choice.
Further in the footage, parents, children, and babies with strollers and luggage are seen walking toward the city. Some had to carry heavy packages for hundreds of yards, if not further, turning their arrival to Beitar Illit into an exhausting march.
An Arutz Sheva inquiry found that this is an old policy, stating that the gates to the city close on Friday from 20 minutes before sunset. The municipality explains that the decision was made by the city's rabbis.
Maor Ktuvim, who filmed the footage, described to Arutz Sheva how dozens of people were forced to take the exhausting walk. He noted that the area is dangerous, causing the people to be afraid to leave their cars on the side of the road.
He recounted how last Friday, an accident on the road leading from Jerusalem to the city caused many to arrive late.
As a result, many visitors had to leave their cars at the entrance to the city and walk to their destinations.
While the municipality apparently relies on the sign at the entrance to the city that states that there is no entry on Shabbat and Jewish holidays, residents complained in a conversation with Arutz Sheva that there is a need to consider the access roads and allow those arriving to enter the city until sunset.
It is worth noting that several years ago, a court acquitted a driver who had received a ticket for driving on Friday evening after the start of Shabbat in Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter, ruling that the legislature had not defined the term “Shabbat.”
According to the judge, “The message conveyed by the road sign is not sufficiently clear, raising doubt regarding the defendant’s guilt. I believe the phrase ‘Shabbatot and holidays’ is ambiguous and allows for more than one interpretation, thereby creating reasonable doubt in favor of the defendant.”
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A federal appeals court on Monday overturned the conviction of Pedro Hernandez, who was serving a 25-year-to-life sentence for the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz - one of the most high-profile missing child cases in US history.
According to The Associated Press, the court ruled that the trial judge gave a “clearly wrong” and “manifestly prejudicial” response to a jury inquiry during Hernandez’s second trial in 2017. The first trial ended in a deadlock in 2015.
Unless retried within a “reasonable period,” Hernandez, now 64, must be released, the court said.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is reviewing the ruling.
Hernandez, then a teenager working in a local store, was arrested in 2012 following a tip that he had made past statements about killing a child. He later confessed to police, claiming he lured Etan into a basement with a soda and choked him. His attorneys argued the confession was coerced and influenced by mental illness and a low IQ.
The case became a national symbol of missing child tragedies. Etan was one of the first children featured on milk cartons, and his disappearance helped inspire the creation of a national hotline and National Missing Children’s Day, observed each year on May 25.
Forget their lying assurances to the Jews, American leftists will always oppose the very existence of Israel, as we plainly saw over the 12 years of the Obama and Biden White Houses.
Which is why Israel must prepare for another four to eight years of American hostility and hate when the leftists inevitably regain the White House
And they will return to power, either in 2028 or later.
In a wide-ranging and unexpected conversation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down with the Nelk Boys for The Full Send Podcast, revealing intimate details about how he and his family observe Shabbos.
The interview was recorded earlier this month while Netanyahu was in Washington, D.C., and was released Monday.
“Every Shabbos, we put our phones away,” Netanyahu shared. “We have a family meal, talk about the Torah — and no politics.”
The Nelk Boys — social media stars based in California — covered topics ranging from global affairs and antisemitism to personal faith, family life, and leadership.
The episode gave viewers a glimpse into the Prime Minister’s more personal side, with his Shabbos tradition standing out as a moment of calm in contrast to the intensity of political life.
Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking revelation within Egypt's Great Pyramid, debunking the myth that slaves built the ancient edifice 4,500 years ago, according to MailOnline.
The astonishing find by famed Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass and his team indicates that the pyramid was not the work of 100,000 slaves as once suggested by Ancient Greek historians, but rather constructed by a workforce of skilled, compensated laborers under stringent oversight.
"These findings confirm that the builders were not slaves. If they had been, they would never have been buried in the shadow of the pyramids," Dr. Hawass stated on the Matt Beall Limitless podcast. "Slaves would not have prepared their tombs for eternity, like kings and queens did, inside these tombs."
The inscriptions were located in hard-to-reach areas, suggesting that only those with advanced knowledge could decipher them. "They were found in chambers that are difficult and dangerous to access, and they use writing styles that only trained Egyptologists can accurately interpret," Dr. Hawass said.
"It's nearly impossible that someone in recent times could have forged something like this. You must climb about 45 feet and crawl through tight spaces to even reach those chambers."
The team's exploration south of the Great Pyramid unearthed more than just graffiti; they found the final resting places of the laborers who built the pyramid, complete with tools like flint instruments and pounding stones, and statues that immortalize the workers heaving huge stone blocks. Some tombs even bore titles such as "overseer of the side of the pyramid" and "craftsman."
Dr. Hawass has also shed light on the actual construction methods of the pyramid, revealing that the limestone was sourced a mere 1,000 feet away. The materials were transported using a system of ramps made from rubble and mud, traces of which were discovered southwest of the monument.
"The ramp had to come from the southwest corner of the pyramid and connect to the quarry," Dr. Hawass explained. "We excavated this area, and in the site labeled C2, we found remnants of the ramp, stone rubble mixed with sand and mud. When the ramp was dismantled, they didn't remove every trace, and what was left behind is what we uncovered."
The Great Pyramid of Giza, erected under Pharaoh Khufu during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom, stands as the largest among the trio on the Giza Plateau and continues to be one of humanity's most astonishing architectural achievements. Despite its fame, many details of its construction have been enigmatic-until these recent discoveries.
"There's a popular myth that the workers ate only garlic, onions, and bread, but we found thousands of animal bones at the site," Dr. Hawass disclosed. "An expert from the University of Chicago analyzed them and found that the Egyptians slaughtered 11 cows and 33 goats every day to feed the laborers. This diet was enough to support around 10,000 workers per day."
From folklore to fact, these recent discoveries are dramatically reshaping our understanding of how the Great Pyramid was constructed - and by whom.
🌟 From Gang Life to Yehuda: A True Story of Redemption 🌟
— Afshine Emrani MD FACC (@afshineemrani) July 21, 2025
During evening prayers at a local synagogue, he looked like any other Orthodox Jew—black hat, tzitzit showing, fluent in Hebrew, calm in the rhythm of prayer.
But behind that calm was a life that defied imagination.
He… pic.twitter.com/zMEVxUSBVT
Haley Rothschild an American college student openly praises Hamas attacks. pic.twitter.com/ULz8sW489p
— Betar Worldwide (@Betar_USA) July 21, 2025
Below she talks about Sinwar!!! Thinking that he is still alive
She appears to be a major terrorist supporter pic.twitter.com/dczqYJE5x1
— Betar Worldwide (@Betar_USA) July 21, 2025
The most important key to the conspiracy case against Obama, Brennan and Comey https://t.co/G8RWUvWdPA
— George Papadopoulos (@GeorgePapa19) July 19, 2025
The deadline for the CIA to have produced the documents for Congress linking Obama to this scandal was sixteen months ago https://t.co/Mrg1jvlqcH
— George Papadopoulos (@GeorgePapa19) July 20, 2025
BREAKING: The armed terrorist in this video—an Al-Qaeda affiliate—is a permanent resident of the Netherlands.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 19, 2025
He traveled to Syria to murder Druze and Christians.
Europe is now exporting terrorism.
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The idea that an elected government cannot hire and fire top officials like an attorney general, but unelected judges determine if it can, is tyranny pure and simple. There’s no separation of powers. The left controls the court and the court will not relent. The elected parts of…
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 20, 2025
Once again, the anti-Netanyahu isolationists are leaking to their favorite hack Axios reporter. He was also the Biden regime’s favorite hack reporter. We know who’s doing the leaking. It’s no secret around the White House. And they continue to undermine the president with their…
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 20, 2025
Here’s the House report laying out the Biden regime’s American taxpayer funded coup effort against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahuhttps://t.co/MpaUn1cXzi
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 21, 2025
A captured Syrian soldier in As-Suwayda reveals they were told to impersonate Bedouins and slaughter Druze civilians, including women and children.
He claims their next mission was to advance toward Tel Aviv to “liberate Jerusalem.”
The land is flourishing, cities are rebuilt, & Torah is thriving. Old fears no longer hold true — it’s *Time to Rethink the Dream.*
The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam.
Most Druze religious practices are shrouded in secrecy, with outsiders not allowed to convert and intermarriage strongly discouraged.
More than half the roughly 1 million Druze worldwide live in Syria. Most of the other Druze live in Lebanon and Israel, including in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast War and annexed in 1981.
Here’s a look at the Druze sect:
The principles Druze live by
A core social doctrine for Druze is defending their brothers, meaning defending one another, said Makram Rabah, assistant professor of history at the American University of Beirut.
“If a Druze person anywhere in the world needed the help of another Druze person, he would automatically get it,” said Rabah. “You’re part of a bigger community.”
He stressed how social and cultural rituals keep the community together. “They’re a big tribe,” he said.
Intermarriage is not encouraged. Rabah said mainstream Druze would shun people who marry outside the sect. “You are under the risk of being isolated socially and community wise,” he said.
How Druze have interacted with the Syrian government
Syria’s Druze have a long history of cutting their own path to survive among the country’s powerhouses. They were heavily involved in revolts against Ottoman and French colonial rule to establish the modern Syrian state.
The Druze largely celebrated the downfall in December of Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad but were divided over interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s rule.
The latest violence has left the community more skeptical of Syria’s new leadership and doubtful of peaceful coexistence.
In Israel, members of the Druze community had called for intervention to protect the Druze in Syria.
Druze have armed militias
Multiple Druze armed militias have existed for years, originally set up to protect their communities against Islamic State group fighters and drug smugglers coming in from the eastern desert.
Assad reluctantly gave Druze a degree of autonomy, as they wanted to avoid being involved on the front lines. The Druze were exempted from conscription into the Syrian army and instead set up local armed factions made of workers and farmers to patrol their areas.
Since Assad’s ouster, the Druze have been reluctant to lay down their arms, with the recent violence, torture, abductions, and murders justifying the move.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Sunday sent a letter to Justice Minister Yariv Levin in which he demands that Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara be forced to adhere to the guidelines that she herself set and bear the cost of her personal defense in the Supreme Court’s discussions regarding her dismissal by the government.
In the past, Baharav-Miara instructed ministers, including Ben-Gvir, to hire their own representation concerning petitions against their continued tenure. However, now that she herself is in that position, she has not hired her own representation but is using the resources of the State Attorney’s Office to defend herself.
Ben Gvir stated in the letter, “It is astonishing to see how someone who sets guidelines for the government blatantly deviates from them when it concerns herself. The Attorney General not only thwarts the government’s policy since the day she took office but also uses public funds and employees to fight against the Israeli government in a petition dealing with her dismissal. The public should not pay for her defense, nor should the employees who report to her.”
Ben Gvir noted that according to Baharav-Miara’s own directive, elected officials cannot be represented by the state regarding petitions against their continued tenure. But now, contrary to the rules she set, she is using the petitions department in the State Attorney’s Office to defend herself, in a clear conflict of interest and at the expense of the taxpayer.
“The list of reasons for which the government is obligated to dismiss her is longer than the sea. And now, there is also a brimming bucket of hypocrisy, double standards, and contempt for elected officials and the public as a whole,” Ben-Gvir concluded.
Israel’s Supreme Court last week ruled that the Chief Rabbinate must allow women to take its rabbinic exams. The justices said excluding women from the exams — which are tied to academic equivalency and government employment — is unconstitutional.
“The exclusion of women from these exams constitutes illegal discrimination,” wrote Justice Ofer Grosskopf in the ruling. “A public authority in Israel cannot deny services based on gender.”
The exams test knowledge of Jewish law in areas like kosher slaughter and family purity. While they don’t grant the title of “rabbi,” passing them enables men to qualify for roles in the religious public sector. Women were previously barred.
Several groups, including ITIM and Kolech, brought the case.
The Chief Rabbinate had proposed a separate track for women, but the court dismissed that as inherently unequal. Former Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef had even threatened to cancel the exams rather than open them to women.
Justice Daphne Barak-Erez responded pointedly: “These are women of Torah, women of halacha, who seek recognition. The state cannot slam the door on them.”
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The instructions for dividing the Land of Israel had just been delivered to Moshe. Larger shevatim were granted broader tracts of territory.
To ensure fairness and to prevent suspicions of favoritism, the process was governed by a supernatural lottery or goral, not human judgment. Everything seemed ready. The long-awaited Divine promise was at last unfolding: we were poised to enter the Land of Hashem. Every shevet and every family had been counted and prepared.
All except for one. Thirty-eight years earlier, a man named Tzelafchad had died in the desert, for reasons the Torah does not disclose. He left behind no sons. As inheritance passes along the male line, his absence cast a shadow over the future, threatening to erase his legacy.
No sons meant no one to carry his name forward, no one to inherit his portion of land and no anchor to the soil of Israel.
His five daughters stepped forward, approaching Moshe in search of a solution. Moshe is confronted with a challenge he cannot resolve alone. How can he uphold halachic integrity while addressing their rightful yearning?
Uncertain, he refers their case to Hashem.
1. At two historical junctures, the Charedie leadership lost the ability to see reality that was expected of them.
The first time was about 80 years ago, when the biggest disaster befell our people.
At the time, the leadership did not read the map correctly and instructed its followers not to immigrate to the Land of Israel and to continue to cling to the impurity of exile, a move that ended with the loss of millions of our brothers in the furnaces of Auschwitz.
The second time, is happening now, right before our eyes, when Talmedei Chachamim and Torah scholars insist on preventing their followers, through all kinds of political twists, from coming to Israel's aid from the hand of the oppressor that insists on killing all of us even at these very moments.
So they yell, as is the custom of Satmar and the Peleg,: "We shall be killed and not transgress. 'We will die and not enlist.'
Listen to the rhetoric of Minister Meir Porush in the Knesset plenum:
"If they had told us at the establishment of the State that it would look the way it does today, that we would not be able to study Torah in the Land of Israel, they would arrest yeshiva students who study Torah... In my opinion, Agudat Yisrael would say that it does not want a Jewish state."
So That's it? Burn down the club. Is A third exile preferable?
Former defense minister Avigdor Liberman said Saturday that Iran is “obsessed” with seeking revenge against Israel following the 12-day war between the two enemy nations, warning that Jerusalem will have to strike again at some point.
Liberman, who heads the opposition Yisrael Beytenu party, told the Channel 12 news program “Meet the Press” that revenge is “all the Iranian leadership thinks about.”
“I could tell you the same thing that the intelligence assessments and officials say” about Iran’s nuclear capabilities in the wake of the Israeli and US strikes, he added, saying “they all speak of around one to two years” for Iran to reconstitute its nuclear program.
While Tehran’s nuclear ambitions will remain a problem, Liberman said, “what is more worrying is that all Iran is currently obsessed with is waging a war of revenge” against Israel.
“That’s the only thing that interests them right now. A war of revenge, that’s it,” he stated.
When asked if he thinks that means Israel should attack Iran again, Liberman answered that “it would be worthwhile for us to strike first again.”
“This time, Iran wants to deliver the first blow,” he said.
He also said, “It’s not just theoretical” that Iran is working to revive its nuclear program.
“And what worries me most are the ballistic missiles,” Liberman said. “You saw what happened here when just 26 missiles landed inside Israel and the level of damage that it caused.”
“They are preparing for a major strike,” he continued, adding that Iran has thousands of missiles. “Imagine if it wasn’t just 26 missiles that impact Israel, what if it were 260 missiles? What kind of damage would that cause?”
Therefore, “we have no other choice” but to strike Iran first, according to Liberman, who said that is what he would do if he were in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position. “I hope that is what they are planning.”
“And I would tell the Mossad to work toward one goal: regime change,” he said, arguing that total regime change is the only way to ensure that Iran is not a threat to Israel.
Iran and Israel last exchanged blows after the Israeli military launched a surprise assault on nuclear and military targets inside Iran on June 13, 2025, kicking off a 12-day war between the two sides.
Israel said its assault was necessary to prevent the Islamic Republic from realizing its avowed plan to destroy the Jewish state.
Though Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons, it enriched uranium to levels that have no peaceful application, obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities, and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities. The Islamic Republic had taken recent steps toward weaponization, Israel said during the war.
Iran retaliated against Israel’s strikes by launching over 500 ballistic missiles and around 1,100 drones at Israel. The attacks killed 29 people and wounded over 3,000 in Israel, according to health officials and hospitals. Iran also attacked a US base in Qatar in retaliation for Washington’s strikes.
This is surreal. Here in America, the Director of National Intelligence @DNIGabbard is now stating emphatically that a former President of the United States @BarackObama attempted a coup against the @POTUS @realDonaldTrump .
— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) July 18, 2025
This is why @TulsiGabbard was attacked so relentlessly… pic.twitter.com/v0dK5xoKwb
