“Yechiel wrote after the attack that he believes prayer and national unity can bring miracles. “Neria needs a miracle,” he said, adding: “They choose death – we choose life”

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Pray for Leiter: The importance of supporting soldiers who protect Israeli life
Editorial Board
September 25, 2026

IDF reservist Neria Leiter was seriously wounded Wednesday when a Palestinian attacker rammed a vehicle into him at a checkpoint near Beit Horon on Route 443. After hours of surgery at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, doctors said his condition had stabilized, but his life remained in danger. His family has asked the public to pray for Neria Dov ben Chana. His father, Israel’s ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, flew home from New York. At the hospital on Thursday, he spoke about a previous journey through grief. In November 2023, his eldest son, Maj. (res.) Moshe Yedidya Leiter, was killed fighting in Gaza. “He died instantly,” Yechiel said. This time, he said, the family could gather at Neria’s bedside while doctors worked to save him, and they could pray together and ask others to join them. “His life is still in danger,” he told reporters. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Ambassador Leiter says he’s ‘full of hope’ for son seriously wounded in West Bank ramming attack Israel’s Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter rushed back to Israel Thursday after his son was seriously wounded the previous day in a car-ramming attack in the West Bank, telling reporters that he was “full of hope” for his recovery and asserting that Palestinian violence in the territory was aimed at “uprooting the Jews from this land.” Speaking at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, where his son Neria remains hospitalized in serious condition, Leiter said he was “full of hope that he will come out of it this time and return to us safe and sound.” Neria Leiter was seriously wounded Wednesday when Palestinian assailant Mahmoud Mohammad Sliman, 29, of the nearby village of Beit Ur al-Tahta, rammed him at the “Bell” checkpoint along Route 443 before being shot dead by troops. Leiter was taken unconscious to Shaare Zedek, where he underwent emergency brain surgery.

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Later in the speech, Netanyahu held up a pager. “Remember the pagers? Remember these things?” he asked. “Hezbollah certainly does”

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Netanyahu at UN: ‘Iran’s regime will fall,’ Erdogan is a ‘tyrant,’ Mamdani has made Jews feel unsafe
Danny Zaken and Dudi Kogan
September 24, 2026

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly on Thursday, as dozens of delegates walked out when he took the podium. During the speech, Netanyahu held up a pager, left a Starlink terminal with the president of the General Assembly to pass on to the Iranian delegation, and lashed out at Turkey, Qatar and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Opening his remarks, Netanyahu addressed the delegates who had left the hall. “If there are any more moral cowards left here, please leave now,” he said Netanyahu devoted a substantial portion of his speech to Iran. “Fourteen years ago, I stood on this podium and drew a red line,” he said. “I vowed to prevent Iran’s murderous dictatorship from developing atomic bombs, and that is exactly what we did. READ MORE

JPOST Netanyahu at UNGA: Gaza genocide ‘lie of the century,’ matter of time before Iranians topple regime “It’s no wonder if we consider that you [Mamdani] praised criminals convicted of supporting Hamas; you count as friends people like Hassan Piker, who said America deserved 9/11. Some friends you have. You invite into your home a Palestinian journalist who filmed Hamas terrorists beating and torturing Israeli hostages and later admitted that he refused to publish the videos in order to protect the terrorists. Your wife likes a post praising the Oct. 7 massacre, and another saying Tel Aviv shouldn’t exist,” Netanyahu added. “Mr. Mamdani, you tried to stop me from coming here; you tried to silence me. Well, you can silence me, you can’t silence the truth,” the Prime Minister continued.

JEWISH INSIDER Netanyahu targets Mamdani, Macron and foreign critics in UNGA address Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back against criticism of Israel over Gaza and the West Bank in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, taking aim at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, French President Emmanuel Macron, Qatar and Turkey. After most of the hall conducted a walkout at the outset of his speech, Netanyahu condemned violence by Israeli settlers while dismissing the international focus on settler violence as an “obsession.” He said roughly 150 young Israelis were responsible for throwing stones, destroying olive trees and setting fires in the West Bank and said Israel had deployed the Shin Bet against them. “I can’t stand that. I won’t stand for vigilantism,” Netanyahu said, before arguing that the attention paid to such attacks was disproportionate to Palestinian terrorism. 

TIMES OF ISRAEL Anti-Zionist protesters put Netanyahu effigy in a noose outside UN headquarters Anti-Zionist protesters in New York put a noose on an effigy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, compared him to Satan and chanted for the destruction of Israel as Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly on Thursday.

TOWN HALL Javier Milei Delivered a Brutal Takedown of the United Nations His speech was an unapologetic broadside against the U.N. itself. Milei, a man already known for his unwavering commitment to free-market capitalism and his fierce disdain for socialism and collectivism, delivered an eloquent takedown of an institution he argued has done more than lost its way but has encouraged “chaos, violence and international terrorism to flourish.” He called the United Nations “useless,” accused it of sustaining “a caste of fatally arrogant parasites,” and charged that it has failed disastrously at the very missions, collective security and human rights, for which it was created.

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By his own account, he didn’t participate in the Oct 7 slaughter of humans and kidnapping of babies—not because he didn’t want to—-but because he was afraid of being caught by the Israelis

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Gazan Photojournalist: I Filmed Hostages Being Beaten on Oct. 7 and Hid the Footage to Protect Attackers
Dinah Bucholz
September 20, 2026

Motaz Azaiza, a popular Gazan photojournalist with a large online following, said in a podcast that he filmed hostages being beaten on Oct. 7 but never published the footage in order to protect the attackers, saying he didn’t want to be responsible for their elimination by the IDF. In another staggering admission, he said that Hamas runs a WhatsApp group called SMART for Gazan journalists, controlling what gets published. “Every journalist in Gaza is in it,” Azaiza asserted. “Hamas media runs it. Its manager was the media director of the Rafah Crossing.” “And by the way, some of them came and ate in my house during the war,” he added. “They fed me during the war. Then suddenly they’re abusing me.” Azaiza, who fled to Qatar several months after the war began, was referring to the tactic he said Hamas used to intimidate journalists who criticized the terror group. READ MORE

TOWN HALL Gaza’s Celebrity Photographer Motaz Azaiza Gives a Disturbing Account of What He Did on October 7 Motaz Azaiza has become the face of Gaza. Through his work with Motaz.org, his fundraising website, he says he’s trying to help raise funds for food, shelter, and safety for families in Gaza. But as Townhall reported in late August, some are questioning how Azaiza is managing to travel the world on the salary of a freelance photographer and UNRWA USA content producer.

BLACKLISTED Eve Barlow: Who Verified Gaza and what were they so sure of ? Between 2023 and 2025, Motaz became a go-to eyewitness to Gaza, with his photos repeatedly praised with unrelenting certainty as “raw”, “unfiltered” and crucially independent. He was consistently without question lauded as Gaza’s Ernest Hemingway, not merely a Palestinian photographer. “Hailed by many globally as the eyes and the ears of Gaza,” declared CNN in 2024. Well, two weeks ago a YouTube channel called Podcast Taqarob published a three and a half hour interview in Arabic with Motaz (linked below) in which Motaz reveals the extent to which media in Gaza was produced under duress and with heavy self-censorship due to Gazan journalists’ fear of Hamas. Why he is giving this interview now is anyone’s guess.

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“It was a multi-year infiltration of Hezbollah supply chains that was meant to strike at the heart of a terrorist organization that had targeted Israel for years”

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‘Paging Hezbollah’ Takes Viewers Inside the Historic 2024 Operation Against the Terrorist Group
Amy Curtis
September 24, 2026

…In a brand new just announced film, director Justin Folk has turned the remarkable, daring story of how Israel struck at the heart of Hezbollah into a thrilling, intriguing documentary: “Paging Hezbollah.” “Paging Hezbollah” reveals the gripping story of how the operation infiltrated Hezbollah’s networks, including the engineering of devices and the supply chain, to the work that deceived Hezbollah into adopting older technologies it thought were secure. It features firsthand interviews and accounts from high-ranking individuals connected to the operation, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, General David Petraeus, former Director of Mossad David Barnea, former member of the Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Corps Sarit Zehavi, and others. READ MORE

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“The investigation also revealed they were involved in advancing plans for deadly attacks using explosive vehicles and drones against Israeli civilians and security forces, planning shooting attacks and abduction of IDF soldiers”

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Shin Bet foils planned terror attack on Ben-Gvir, two Palestinians indicted in Nablus
Avi Ashkenazi
September 23, 2026

Two Palestinians were indicted after working to promote terrorist activity, acquire weapons, conduct shooting training, recruit operatives, and plan deadly attacks in Nablus, the Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) and Judea and Samaria District Police’s Counterterrorism Unit announced on Wednesday. During their interrogation, it was revealed that in 2024 they began considering carrying out an attack against National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. According to the indictment, after the two watched a video showing the minister arriving at the scene of an attack, one of the terrorists suggested carrying out a “drive-by attack,” waiting for the minister to arrive at the scene and then assassinating him. He later suggested using an explosive drone to carry out the assassination attempt and even attempted to obtain assistance in purchasing drone parts from China for this purpose. READ MORE

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“This strategy of theatrical diplomacy and strategic paralysis is a direct inheritance from Arafat, who decades ago mastered the art of using peace processes not as vehicles for reconciliation, but as shields against accountability”

THIS IS BEIRUT
Lebanon’s Pretend Peace with Israel Revives Arafat’s Playbook
Hussain Abdul-Hussain
September 22, 2026

By signing the Trilateral Framework agreement while failing to disarm Hezbollah, Lebanon has adopted the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s “pretend peace” playbook. In this Oslo Model, a defeated regime seeks Washington’s favor by signing a preliminary peace pact. Under this strategy, Lebanon’s leadership claims it is merely calling Israel’s bluff, arguing that Jerusalem is too malicious to ever want true coexistence. Beirut then fails to fulfill its core obligation to dismantle rogue militias. When Israel responds in self-defense, Beirut blames Jerusalem for the failure and demand international pressure against its neighbor. The cycle repeats until Lebanon’s credibility on the world stage is entirely exhausted, much like the boy who cried wolf. READ MORE

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‘No thinking Jew could vote for Abdul El-Sayed,’ said one congregant at Michigan’s Temple Israel

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They Were Lifelong Democrats. Then a Terrorist Attacked Their Synagogue.
Olivia Reingold
September 22, 2026

Elise Otis and Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed agree on just about everything, she said—from abortion rights to DEI to taxing the rich. There’s just one thing standing in the way of her casting a ballot for him: what Otis alleges is “his hatred of Jews.” “Everything else I 1,000 percent agree with,” said Otis, a 55-year-old Jew and lifelong Democrat. “But I can’t support someone I don’t think will keep my family safe.” Otis is one of more than a dozen members of Temple Israel, one of the largest Reform synagogues in the country, who told me they will not be voting for El-Sayed this November. The synagogue, which sits about 30 minutes outside of Detroit, has historically been home to a liberal congregation—performing gay commitment ceremonies as early as the ’90s—and a bastion of Democratic support. And yet, a member of the temple’s leadership said she expects about 70 percent of congregants to vote for El-Sayed’s Republican opponent Mike Rogers on November 3. READ MORE

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Israel Derangement Syndrome symptoms include hysteria, moral relativism and chronic misuse of the word ‘genocide’

WALL STREET JOURNAL
You May Have Israel Derangement Syndrome
Kyle Smith
September 21, 2026

The Israel Defense Forces may be the smartest and the most resourceful military on the face of the earth. Yet its most implacable foe is increasingly elusive, even as it spreads everywhere. It has already captured a gigantic prize: the minds of young people. New enlistees are eagerly signing up. What they’re pledging themselves to is IDS, or Israel Derangement Syndrome. When the subject turns to the Jewish state, formerly robust minds are turning to spoiled mayonnaise. Frontal autolobotomies are eagerly being carried out on every campus. IDS is a drug that gets you high on self-righteousness while disabling your cognitive faculties. This is your brain on IDS: Last week a major media outlet published a piece regarding Israel so devoid of all reason as to guarantee first-ballot entry to the Hall of Fame for Idiots. My first thought was to call 911 and report evidence of an adverse neurological event. READ MORE

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“I’m not sitting here in anger,” the conservative commentator and PragerU co-founder tells The Media Line as he reflects on paralysis, gratitude, memory, faith and the work he still intends to finish

MEDIA LINE
Grateful for His ‘Blessed Life,’ Dennis Prager Says ‘We Are Our Memories’
Felice Friedson
September 24, 2026

Dennis Prager has spent a lifetime explaining why people should be grateful. After a fall left him without the use of his arms or legs, the ideas he has taught for decades have now become the principles by which he confronts his own devastating situation…Today he talks about the gifts many people never notice: the ability to breathe, to speak and to think clearly. “Obviously, I can breathe, which is a miracle unto itself, and I can speak, though with somewhat of a gravelly voice, and those are two great gifts,” Prager said. “And my brain was not in any way affected.”…Since the accident on Nov. 12, 2024, which left him a quadriplegic, Prager has confronted losses that are intimate as well as immense….“I have prepared all of my life for the eventuality of tragedy,” he said. That sentence is neither resignation nor self-pity. It is the premise of a lifelong argument: that happiness is not dependent on escaping pain; that gratitude must survive disappointment; and that people may endure calamity without making calamity their identity. READ MORE

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