Torah study now a Basic Law in Israel: Draft-dodging gets constitutional cover
Israel’s Knesset voted Wednesday to advance a Basic Law declaring Torah study a foundational constitutional value of the Jewish state, a measure legal experts warn could permanently entrench draft exemptions for tens of thousands men, while the IDF fights a manpower shortage on multiple fronts.
His rabbi warned him: Don’t come to Israel
The Prophet Isaiah did not describe a single dramatic ingathering. He described something more like a steady stream. Young people packing bags and boarding planes, leaving families and familiar streets, stepping off into a country where they don’t yet speak the language or understand the culture, and building a life there anyway.
An Indiana tragedy. A mission that reached Gaza.
Six years ago, Scott Dodson stood in a hospital and said goodbye to his brother, who tragically bled out on the side of an Indiana road after a head-on collision with a truck. First responders resuscitated him three and four times just to keep him alive long enough for the family to get there. It was the last time Dodson would see him.
Israel was never meant to be a safe haven. It was meant to be a light unto the nations.
Rabbi Lavie believes that the current war has created a shift in Israel’s essential role, changing it from a post-Holocaust safe-haven and moving it towards its sacred purpose as a moral and spiritual leader of the nations.
“Trained rats” in Gaza? Palestinian officials push new anti-Israel conspiracy theory
Palestinian officials in Gaza claimed that Israel is deliberately releasing “weaponized” rats into the Strip to attack civilians, particularly children and the sick, at a time when the territory is already grappling with a documented surge in rodent infestations tied to war damage and deteriorating sanitation.
‘Modern-day Orde Wingates’: Netanyahu meets the evangelical warriors of the IDF
When 17 young evangelical soldiers walked into the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, they brought with them something that no diplomatic briefing could: the faces of people who chose to bleed for the Jewish state.
He lost his leg in Gaza, and asked for it back for the resurrection
“I told them I want to take the leg and buy a grave in my city, Ashkelon, and put the leg in the grave, and it will be waiting for me.”
Christian leaders call for clemency: “We forgive this soldier”
In an extraordinary act of grace, Christian leaders from around the world are calling on President Herzog to release the IDF soldier who desecrated a statue of Jesus in Lebanon, saying forgiveness, not punishment, is the right response.
IDF soldiers jailed, dismissed from combat after smashing Jesus statue in Lebanese Christian village
The IDF was unequivocal in its judgment: the soldiers’ conduct “completely deviated from IDF orders and values.”
Israel confronts Hezbollah, Spain pushes EU rupture, and New York honors the hostages
As the IDF reports more than 1,800 Hezbollah operatives killed in a major regional conflict, Spain moves to sever a key EU agreement with Israel, signaling rising international tensions. At the same time, New York’s Jewish community gathers in Central Park to honor the hostages of October 7.