Hourly Roundup 11:00 Israel · 23 Aug 2026
Stories in this hour
- The double standard of disqualificationHassan al-Nasasra, fourth on the Arab Balad Party’s slate for the Oct. 27 Israeli elections, recently traveled to Israel’s Negev desert and explained to his voters what the Negev actually is. It is not, apparently,…
- Israeli-French singer's mezuzah torn down in ParisIsraeli-French singer Amir Haddad says a mezuzah was torn from his Paris home, calling the incident a sign of rising antisemitism in France
- Threatened in a taxi because she was wearing a Star of David: 'He shouted 'Allahu Akbar''A Jewish woman claims that a taxi driver in Warsaw began yelling at her, pulled out a Quran and yelled 'Allahu Akbar,' after noticing the Star of David she wore around her neck
- Palestinian media reports one dead and several wounded in an Israeli airstrike in the central Gaza Strip this morning.The strike took place near the Maghazi camp. The IDF says that it targeted a terror operative, with further details to be provided later.
- Syria expects to resume negotiations with Israel, aiming for IDF withdrawal, foreign minister saysIn a Reuters interview in Damascus on Saturday, days after Israel bombed a Syrian airbase, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani also stressed that Damascus' priority is to halt Israeli attacks
- IDF: IDF soldiers continue to pursue the terrorist: searches to locate the terrorist continue in the Al-Auja and Jericho areasIDF soldiers are pursuing the terrorist in the Al-Auja and Jericho areas. The soldiers are questioning suspects and conducting intelligence collection activities to locate the terrorist. Attached are photos from the soldiers' activities:
- The draft comes to the campaign: Eisenkot opens a new front against DeriThe Yisrael Beiteinu party demanded that Shas remove by 11:00 the video "Life of a Father", claiming illegal use of soldiers and the party's letters. Shas responded with an attack: "Eisenkot is busy legitimizing Mansour…
- Economic warfare: Bankrupting Iran will be more effective than bombing - opinionThe objective is not to destroy Iran. It is to bankrupt the regime that has stolen Iran's future, financed terror across the Middle East, and kept its own people in chains
- Israelis complained about an order, the employee yelled at them: "Baby killers"Two young Israelis claimed that an employee at a McDonald's branch in Brisbane confronted them after they complained about a missing item in their order. According to them, she shouted "Free Palestine" at them and…
- Minister Eliyahu: "Eizenkot reduced the army – and we are paying with the lives of our children"Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu attacked Mansour Abbas and Gadi Eizenkot, rejected the establishment of a Palestinian state, and claimed that the political concessions led to a disaster: "Whoever supports this – supports the next…
- Syrian Foreign Minister: Negotiations with Israel halted following the attackIn Damascus, they expect to renew contacts with Israel regarding a security agreement, after talks were frozen following the attack on our forces at the Syrian air force base. The Syrian Foreign Minister clarified that…
- Sweden: TikTok 'star' who admired murderers stormed school with sword and killed 17-year-old girlThe 18-year-old who two days ago donned a helmet and went on a stabbing spree north of Stockholm ran a TikTok account where he posted videos saluting mass murderers like Anders Breivik and perpetrators of…
Torah perspective
A Knesset candidate calls the Negev a battlefront for Palestine and eulogizes a soldier's murderer as a symbol of sacrifice. The law bars such a candidate. Yet the Supreme Court has never disqualified Balad. The Torah commands: 'Justice, justice shall you pursue' (Deuteronomy 16:20). Justice is not a menu from which a court selects only the clauses it wishes to enforce. When the same law is a weapon against Jews and a dead letter against those who deny the Jewish state's right to exist, the court has abandoned its role. A state that cannot distinguish between a citizen who criticizes it and one who designates its territory as a front for war has already begun to legitimize that war.