Hourly Roundup 22:00 Israel · 20 Oct 2026
Stories in this hour
- Israeli hospital launches AI system to enable hospitalized children to communicate without speakingThe system uses AI to create personalized printable communication boards in under five minutes, tailored to each child's needs as well as their age, language, gender, and background
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- 'A duty of national honor': Ben-Gurion’s historic 1949 radio address resurfaces ahead of electionsThe former leader also addressed IDF soldiers serving at the time in Israel's War of Independence, saying that they should vote as free citizens
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- Turkey Submits Saudi-Pakistan Defense Pact to Parliament for Ratification, Sources SayTurkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud leave after a committee meeting of Mecca defense pact…
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- President Trump on the war in Ukraine:Russia has an unlimited supply of people, and following the latest talks, Moscow would like to get the war done. He added that Washington wants Zelenskyy to make a deal and that Ukraine has to…
Torah perspective
Speech is the vessel of the soul, and when illness seals a child's mouth, something of the child is sealed with it. The sages teach that the breath of the mouth is the breath of life itself, which is why the daily prayer asks God to open our lips. A communication board that lets a hospitalized child point to a need, a fear, a joke, restores more than convenience. It returns a voice. The Torah's account of Moses, slow of speech, is the proof that God does not wait for eloquence before listening. He hears the stammer, the gesture, the pointing finger. Every tool that widens the door of expression for the voiceless is a small act of imitating that patience.