Hourly Roundup 17:00 Israel · 19 Oct 2026
Stories in this hour
- ‘Years of hell’: Jewish women describe the fight to obtain a religious divorceNew documentary, Get Up: Breakthroughs in the Battle for Jewish Divorce, examines the impact of religious divorce refusal, a practice recognized in many countries as a form of domestic violence
- Eisenkot's Yashar warns Sport 5 to avoid making Netanyahu's presence 'prominent' during soccer gameThe party also wants production, editing, and broadcasting teams to be instructed in advance to switch camera shots or cut away from a segment in real time when necessary
- India's Bene Israel wins fight to preserve Jabalpur Ranital Jewish CemeteryOver the years, Jabalpur's Ranital Jewish Cemetery has been vandalized, but the Jewish community is now in a position to restore tombstones and fix gates
- Amnon Shashua’s doubleAI unveils code execution modelThe model called Maxwell will help companies cut computing costs by reducing the need for expensive graphics processing units
- FBI smash huge voter fraud ring in California — days after feds issued ultimatum to state:…FBI smash huge voter fraud ring in California — days after feds issued ultimatum to state:
- Israeli party leader Benny Gantz drops out of raceBenny Gantz said on Monday he is dropping out of the race with just eight days to go until Israelis head to the polls to elect a new parliament. Gantz, who is a former defense…
- 🚨 An emergency alert was issued in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, amid ongoing attacks from Yemen’s IRGC-backed Houthi terrorists.
- ⚠️ Five years ago, the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists abducted 20+ current and former staff of the US Embassy in Sanaa.The Houthis must release all US Mission staff immediately.
- Secretary Rubio: I don't think it's a coincidence, to some extent, that pulling foreign aid into the State Department and away from this sort of independent, do-whatever-they-wa…Secretary Rubio: I don't think it's a coincidence, to some extent, that pulling foreign aid into the State Department and away from this sort of independent, do-whatever-they-want organization which was USAID has had a direct…
- US Supreme Court snubs bid to revive plea deal for accused 9/11 mastermindMohammed remains the most well-known inmate at the Guantanamo detention facility, which was set up in 2002 by then-US president George W. Bush to house foreign terrorism suspects following 9/11
- Lavrov in Tehran: Russia "does not intend to abandon its agreements with Iran, regardless of the external situation."He accused the U.S. and Israel of aggression against Iran, offered Russian help in the conflict, and blamed Washington and the EU for undermining global energy
- Sheba to Join New Venture Capital Fund in Mental Health and LongevityEsther Barak Landes and Adi Astori Metlon completed a first closing for Alma Ventures fund, which is expected to raise $40 million and invest in companies in the fields of mental health, cognitive health, and…
Torah perspective
A get is not a document. It is the release of a soul from a bond that was never meant to be a cage. The Torah calls marriage a covenant of kindness, and when kindness dies, the bond must be untied, not weaponized. What the women in this film describe, years held in limbo by a refusal that costs the refuser nothing, is the precise inversion of that covenant: the power to bind turned into the power to torment. Jewish law never granted any man ownership of his wife's future. It granted him a role in undoing a union, and a role is not a right to enslave. Every day a get is withheld, the Torah itself is made to testify against its own intent.