ISRAEL (IINO)
Rainbow following morning rains over the rubble in Gaza [Ed.: Hashem keeps his word. He is not fickle. He does not change his mind.]
SCREAMS BEFORE SILENCE Full Video [57:00] A documentary film on the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7th, Screams Before Silence is a documentary film led by American businesswoman Sheryl Sandberg, that explores the sexual violence by Hamas during the Hamas-led attack on Israel, on 7 October 2023, including events at the massacre at the Nova Festival and abductions to the Gaza Strip.
Trump thinks Israel and Saudi Arabia are “similar” US allies
Reporter: Are the F-35s you’re selling to Saudi Arabia the same ones being used by Israel? And if so, how does that allow for an edge for Israel?
TRUMP: I think it’s gonna be pretty similar, yeah. This is a great ally, and Israel is a great ally.
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[Ed.: Right, the only difference is that the Saudis work to eliminate the “Little Satan” Israel (and not visa versa,) as well as the “Great Satan” US. Trump is dangerously delusional.]
UN Just Said YES to Trump’s Gaza Invasion Plan: Hamas Finished, Peace Force Incoming NOW! [VIDEO – fast forward to 2:00 for Mike Waltz]
Nov 17, 2025 #UNGazaVote #USProposal #GazaStabilization
In a historic UN Security Council vote on November 17, 2025, the U.S.-led resolution passes, authorizing an International Stabilization Force in Gaza to demilitarize the territory, dismantle Hamas infrastructure, and pave the way for reconstruction under President Trump’s Board of Peace. Ambassador Michael Waltz declares: “Security is the oxygen that governance and development needs to thrive.” A major step toward lasting Middle East peace. For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel, DRM News.
UN Security Council APPROVES Trump’s Gaza Plan: International Force to Demilitarize Hamas Now | AC1G
UN Just Said YES to Trump’s Gaza Invasion Plan: Hamas Finished, Peace Force Incoming NOW!
U.S. Ambassador Michael Waltz praised the UN Security Council’s adoption of the U.S. proposal to establish an international stabilization force in Gaza. He highlighted President Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan, the dismantling of Hamas, and pathways for Palestinian self-determination. Waltz called the resolution a historic step toward lasting peace and prosperity in the region. For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel, DRM News.
The United Nations Security Council is poised to vote on a pivotal US-proposed resolution authorizing a UN mandate for an international stabilization force in Gaza, aiming to restore order amid escalating humanitarian crises and post-conflict reconstruction needs. This move, backed by key allies, seeks to bolster peacekeeping efforts and facilitate aid delivery in the war-torn enclave. As stakes rise with a stakeout at 2130 GMT and the meeting around 2200 GMT, global leaders weigh the path to regional stability. For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel, DRM News.
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[Ed.: Start at 2:00, and try not to puke:]
U.N. Security Council Approves Sweeping U.S. Plan for Gaza, Clearing Path for International Stabilization Force
November 17, 2025 Yeshiva World News
The U.N. Security Council on Monday adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution outlining the future of Gaza, marking the most far-reaching international intervention in the territory since the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023. The resolution passed 13-0, with Russia and China abstaining but choosing not to veto—a decision that allowed Washington’s plan to move forward unchallenged.
“We stand at a crossroads. Today, we have the power to douse the flames and light a path to peace,” said Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, immediately before the vote.
The resolution formally authorizes the creation of an international stabilization force in Gaza, to be organized and implemented by the United States and partner nations. It also establishes what President Donald Trump has termed a “Board of Peace,” a transitional governing authority that he will lead. The measure lays out parameters for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza while permitting Israeli forces to remain in limited and defined areas to prevent renewed terror activity.
Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon praised the emphasis on Hamas disarmament, saying, “The demilitarization of Hamas is a basic condition of the peace agreement. There will be no future in Gaza as long as Hamas possesses weapons.”
Even with the resolution’s passage, there is still no clarity on which entity—the stabilization force, Israel, or another actor—would be responsible for forcibly disarming Hamas if it refuses to disarm voluntarily.
Waltz described Gaza during the Security Council session as “a crucible of conflict, a hell on earth where Hamas’s brutality and terror met Israel’s fierce response.” He noted that a fragile ceasefire is currently holding. “This plan has already silenced the guns and freed the hostages in this fragile first step,” he said. “The remaining hostages must come home.”
The resolution also says that “conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood,” but only after the Palestinian Authority enacts reforms and after significant progress is made on the reconstruction of Gaza. Israeli officials have strongly objected to the statehood language, which was added only to the final U.S. version of the text.
Waltz emphasized the level of international support backing the plan, saying more than a dozen European heads of state, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and a broad coalition of Arab states aligned with Trump had endorsed it. “With this kind of support, if the region most affected—the Arab nations, the Muslim-majority nations, the Palestinians and the Israelis—can accept this resolution, how could anyone be against it?” he asked the council. “Are you more righteous in this cause than those who must live with it and will ultimately benefit from this plan for peace?”
Russia, which has repeatedly warned against allowing Washington to dominate decisions on Gaza’s future, expressed concern that the resolution effectively places the territory under U.S. direction. Moscow circulated an alternative version that would have transferred responsibility to U.N. leadership. Despite these objections, Russia ultimately abstained, as did China, enabling the U.S. measure to pass.
Waltz previewed the vote on Sunday at the Tikvah 2025 Jewish Leadership Conference in New York, calling the coming moment potentially historic. He highlighted that Arab and Muslim-majority states—including those that have not traditionally aligned with Washington—were prepared to support the resolution. He told attendees, “This will be the best resolution that I think the United States and Israel has seen in the 80-year history of the United Nations.”
He said the fundamental choice was between Hamas control or prolonged Israeli military presence in Gaza. Keeping the IDF there indefinitely, Waltz argued, would jeopardize the expansion of the Abraham Accords, “the number one objective of this administration.” Monday’s vote, he said, offered a different path. “Tomorrow could truly, truly be a historic day.”
With the resolution now adopted, the responsibility shifts to Washington, its partners, and regional stakeholders to implement a plan that could fundamentally reshape the future of Gaza and alter the trajectory of Middle East diplomacy. Whether the stabilization force can be deployed effectively—and whether Hamas can be demilitarized—will determine whether this moment becomes a historic breakthrough or the beginning of another protracted international struggle.
Gaza “Peace” Update Avi Abelow
Nov 17, 2025
The US is trying to pass a resolution at the United Nations regarding Gaza, to gain international support for its Gaza “peace” plan. A critical component of the plan is an international force to disarm Hamas and demilitarize Gaza.
No international force on earth will disarm Hamas. None. Only the IDF can do that. Period. Every inch of this American fantasy plan was doomed from the start.
UN Security Council unanimously approves Trump Gaza plan MIKE WAGENHEIM
“The demilitarization of Hamas is a basic condition of the peace agreement,” the Israeli envoy to the United Nations said. “There will be no future in Gaza as long as Hamas possesses weapons.”
November 17, 2025 JNS
The U.N. Security Council voted 13-0 on Monday to adopt a U.S.-drafted resolution on the future of Gaza, as Russia and China forewent their veto power and abstained on the vote.
“We stand at a crossroads. Today, we have the power to douse the flames and light a path to peace,” said Mike Waltz, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, before the vote.
The resolution codifies a mandate for Washington and partners to create and implement an international stabilization force in Gaza and what U.S. President Donald Trump has called a Board of Peace, which he will lead and which will serve as a transitional government authority.
The resolution also sets parameters for Israeli troops to withdraw from Gaza, leaving some in place to guard against resurgent terror threats.
“The demilitarization of Hamas is a basic condition of the peace agreement,” stated Danny Danon, the Israeli envoy to the United Nations, after the vote. “There will be no future in Gaza as long as Hamas possesses weapons.”
Speaking during the council session, Waltz said that “for two years, Gaza has been a crucible of conflict, a hell on earth where Hamas’s brutality and terror met Israel’s fierce response.”
“We have a ceasefire that is holding. This plan has already silenced the guns and freed the hostages in this fragile first step,” he said. “The remaining hostages must come home.”
The resolution also states that “conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood” after the Palestinian Authority undergoes reforms and Gaza’s reconstruction is “advanced.”
Waltz said that more than a dozen European heads of state, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Arab allies of Trump’s supported the plan.
“With this kind of support, I ask you if the region most affected—the Arab nations, the Muslim majority nations, the Palestinians and the Israelis—can accept this resolution, how could anyone be against it?” Waltz told the council.
“I ask everyone today, are you more righteous in this cause than those who must live with it and will ultimately benefit from this plan for peace?” he said.
Moscow had voiced concern that Washington would be given the power to dictate the future of the coastal enclave and drafted its own stripped-down resolution, which would have put the issue in the hands of U.N. leadership.
Israeli officials have pushed back forcefully on the language regarding a Palestinian state, which was negotiated only into the final U.S. draft of the resolution.
There is little clarity as to whether the international stabilization force, or another, will be charged with demilitarizing Hamas should the terror group fail to willingly disarm.
Waltz spoke about the vote at the Tikvah 2025 Jewish Leadership Conference in New York City on Sunday.
“Folks, tomorrow, knock on whatever I can, we will have a resolution backed by the eight Arab- and Muslim-majority countries that sat with President Trump during the U.N. General Assembly,” he said. “The key Arab countries, plus Turkey, plus Pakistan, plus Indonesia standing with us. We then got the Palestinian Authority to support this, and of course, we are working very closely with the government of Israel.”
“This will be the best resolution that I think the United States and Israel has seen in the 80-year history of the United Nations,” he said. “If we can hold it together another 24 hours, then this will be truly incredible, and you’re then going to have the international community coming in and dealing with and stabilizing Gaza.”
The choices were either Hamas or the Israeli military, he said.
“If it were the IDF in perpetuity, then frankly I don’t think we have a pathway to expanding the Abraham Accords, which is the number one objective of this administration,” he added. “Tomorrow could truly, truly be a historic day.”
[Ed.: If the UN unanimously approves Trump’s plan, you know that for sure it is bad for Israel. But Trump doesn’t care, he’s a steamroller!
Trump greenlights F-35 sale to Saudi Arabia, raising questions over Israel’s edge
November 15, 2025 Jewish Breaking News
President Trump publicly confirmed that the U.S. will sell F-35 stealth fighters to Saudi Arabia, calling the kingdom “a great ally” and saying “we’ll be selling F-35s” when pressed by reporters at the White House. The deal on the table is for up to 48 jets, a multibillion-dollar package.
If it goes through, Riyadh would become the first Middle Eastern state besides Israel to field the F-35, shrinking the gap in airpower that has so far clearly favored the Israeli Air Force. That directly touches America’s legal obligation to maintain Israel’s “qualitative military edge,” and any final deal must still be formally notified to Congress, which can move to block or condition it.
Israeli officials have previously signaled they could live with Saudi F-35s only if they were tied to real normalization with Jerusalem and carefully tailored configurations that keep Israel ahead in capabilities, munitions, and integration with U.S. systems. Trump’s on-camera confirmation did not mention such conditions, and Israeli defense circles are already warning about advanced technology sitting in a country deepening ties with China.
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Saudi Arabia Signals: “If Israel Commits to a Palestinian State, It Can Join”
November 17, 2025 Yeshiva World News
Saudi Arabia is preparing for a major summit as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is expected to meet President Trump on Tuesday, with normalization with Israel listed as one of the key topics.
“This visit is not ceremonial. It is consequential,” wrote Faisal Abbas, editor-in-chief of the Saudi newspaper Arab News, over the weekend. “If Israel is willing to commit to a serious path that leads to the establishment of a Palestinian state, it can join what the Crown Prince calls ‘the new Europe’ — a region of shared cooperation and prosperity.”
He added, “The stakes are high — and the opportunity is rare. This is the moment.”
Former Saudi general Abdullah Al-Qahtani told N12 that the kingdom views the visit as highly significant for the strategic relationship between Riyadh and Washington, especially after the instability seen during the Biden administration. “We hope this meeting marks a new beginning for strong, stable relations aimed at building, developing, and maintaining the security of the entire region,” he said.
Al-Qahtani stressed that broader regional progress is impossible without addressing the Palestinian issue. “Every event points to the same conclusion: we cannot have a safe regional environment defined by development, trade, visits, and tourism as long as the Palestinian problem remains unresolved. Without a political horizon for the Palestinians, there will be no regional breakthrough.”
[Ed.: And there you have it! These are the people Trump gives F-35s to! What will they do with them? Fight Iran, or will they share them with the CCP for analysis? Apparently, Jarod Kushner and Ambassador Nit-witkopf (and the State Department,) are misdirecting Trump and ensuring that he remains clueless. This makes Trump a defacto enemy of Israel, Besides the urgency of Trump meeting with Mordechai Kedar, who is the one who should be advising him, we have one message for the President:
Oh, waidaminit! I just figured it out what Trump has up his sleeve! Trump, the sly old fox, is gonna FAFO the Saudis into making the “Palestinian State” in Saudi Arabia! That would solve it. They can then use their F-35s to bomb the terrorists. Smart.]
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[Ed.: The guy lives in a world of his own completely disconnected from reality in the Middle East. This is because he has not yet spoken with Mordechai Kedar! He thinks the A-rabs will (and must) conform to his perspective. But who is taqiyyahing whom here? What an asshole! He gets away with a lot under the guise of ‘ignorance’… With friends like that, who needs enemies?]
IT’S WAKE UP TIME… Avi Abelow
November 17, 2025 Israel Video Network | Pulse of Israel
A few weeks ago, Channel 12 journalist Nir Drori released a new Hebrew book titled ‘War Report’. It’s already making waves across Israel because of one quote from Ronen Bar, the disgraced former head of Israel’s Shin Bet (Shabak), the internal intelligence agency responsible for protecting Israeli citizens, who was in charge of Gaza security on October 7th, the darkest day in Israel’s modern history.
Bar, the man who ignored months of warnings about Hamas’s plans to invade Israel and massacre civilians, even the night before the attack, never resigned until forced out because of Netanyahu’s determination to replace him.
Instead, Bar granted an interview to Drori for his book in which he made one of the most shocking statements ever heard from a senior Israeli security official.
According to Drori’s book, Ronen Bar said:
“The activities of Minister Ben-Gvir and the Jews praying on the Temple Mount created tension that Hamas decided to take advantage of, based on their belief that they are the protectors of the Muslim holy places. Ben-Gvir’s responsibility for the outbreak of October 7th is much greater than all the army failures on that day.”
Let that sink in. The man tasked with protecting Israelis, the man who ignored direct warnings about an impending Hamas invasion, is blaming Jews praying on the Temple Mount for the atrocities of October 7th.
To grasp how absurd and dangerous this is, we need to remember what serious analysts had been warning for years.
Months before October 7th, Dr. Mordechai Kedar, one of Israel’s leading experts on Islam and the Middle East, warned in multiple interviews and articles that Iran had been building a coordinated multi-front plan on Israel for decades. The goal: to surround Israel with armed proxies, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Islamic Jihad in Judea and Samaria, Shiite militias in Syria and Iraq, and the Houthis in Yemen, all together with missile strike attacks from Iran, to one day strike simultaneously and overwhelm Israel’s defenses to destroy Israel in a surprise attack.
Dr. Kedar explained in detail how Tehran was uniting these fronts politically, financially, and militarily, under one command strategy, in preparation for the next great war against Israel.
He was not the only one warning. There were countless intelligence briefings, security analysts, and even local IDF spotters in southern Israel who were all sounding the alarm about a Hamas attack from Gaza. Hamas was training openly on the Gaza fennce, and practicing large-scale attacks. The Shin Bet, Military Intelligence Directorate, and Southern Command all had the information.
But the security and intelligence leadership, including Ronen Bar, ignored it.
Instead of preparing for the Iranian-led regional assault, Bar and others were fixated on internal politics, on Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and on Jews who wanted the basic religious right to pray freely on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism.
This is not merely incompetence. It is ideological blindness. It’s a mindset that sees proud Jews, Jews who stand for faith, sovereignty, and identity, as a bigger threat than the jihadi Muslim enemies around us, sworn to destroy us.
So while Iran was coordinating a multi-front assault, while Hamas was training openly along the Gaza border, Ronen Bar was advising the government that Hamas only wanted to improve the economic situation in Gaza.
Yes, you read that correctly. Days before October 7th, Israel’s top intelligence chief was urging the government to grant more work permits to Gazans so they could enter Israel for employment, arguing that Hamas is only interested in economic stability for Gazans.
That thinking is what directly enabled Hamas operatives to infiltrate Israel under the cover of “civilian laborers,” gather intelligence in Jewish communities on the Gaza border, and map out targets for the Oct. 7th massacre. Hamas terrorists knew who lived in which house, how many children, who had dogs, who were the heads of security, where the guns were stored etc. They knew everything, thanks to Gaza civilians who worked in the Jewish communities and acted like spies over months, or even years. (Food for thought, for all those who support continuing to employ Arab Muslim workers in Jewish communities anywhere in Israel)
How can anyone in Bar’s position make such catastrophic miscalculations and not resign immediately after the Oct. 7th failure?
How can the man who failed to defend his own people then turn around and blame fellow Jews, the very citizens he failed to protect — for the attack?
It’s because parts of Israel’s entrenched senior security establishment lost sight of the true enemy. They were, and some still are, trapped in a decades-old ideology, one that prioritizes appeasing a jihadi muslim enemy over Jewish strength and sovereignty. They have more contempt for a Jew praying on the Temple Mount than for a Hamas terrorist waving an RPG in Rafah.
That’s not strategy. That’s moral insanity.
This pattern isn’t new. It’s the same self-destructive thinking that led to the Oslo Accords, the withdrawal from Lebanon, and the 2005 Gaza Disengagement/Expulsion, when the same security “experts” promised that giving land to terrorists would bring peace. Instead, it brought rockets, tunnels, and now, the Oct. 7th slaughter.
And yet even after the bloodbath of October 7th, the same mindset persists. Many of the same unelected bureaucrats, prosecutors, and intelligence chiefs still dominate Israel’s most powerful institutions. They continue to undermine elected leaders, delegitimize religious Jews, and whitewash the enemy’s intentions, all while refusing to accept responsibility for their failures.
For those trying to make sense of this, especially friends of Israel abroad, this isn’t about politics. It’s about worldview.
One worldview says that peace comes from Jewish restraint, self-blame, and endless concessions to our enemies, and hiding our true identity as Jews in our ancestral homeland. The other, the worldview of Zionism, faith, and reality, says peace comes from Jewish strength, pride, and absolute sovereignty over our land.
October 7th proved, once and for all, which worldview is correct.
Our intelligence and defense establishment must undergo a total moral and structural reckoning.
We need a new generation of IDF and intelligence leaders, the fighters forged in this war, to rise and take command as soon as possible. Leaders untainted by the failed Oslo-era illusions or the progressive Harvard trained doctrine of “managing the conflict.”
These new commanders understand what the old guard refused to see: Iran’s grand plan, executed through Hamas, Hezbollah, and their proxies, is not new, not spontaneous, and certainly not a reaction to Jews praying on the Temple Mount. It is the culmination of decades of strategic, genocidal intent to destroy Israel and erase the Jewish people from our land, based on a 1,400 year jihadi Muslim ideology.
We must reject this culture of denial and deflection, and restore a leadership rooted in faith, truth, and courage.
Jews praying on the Temple Mount are not the cause of war. Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Turkey, Qatar, Egypt and the ideology of jihad are.
And any Israeli leader, political, security or intelligence, who cannot tell the difference does not belong in the position of protecting our people.
Israel’s strength will not come from apologizing to the world or silencing our faith. It will come from standing firm, morally, spiritually, and militarily, against the evil that seeks our destruction.
Jews acting as the true sovereign on the Temple Mount, with genuine freedom of prayer for all and the ultimate goal of rebuilding our Third Temple, is not what brings war, it’s what brings peace.
That is the message of strength the jihadi Muslim world understands: that the Jewish people are back in their homeland, that we take our covenant and sovereignty seriously, and that we will never again appease Islamic terror. Appeasement invites bloodshed; strength commands respect.
The path to peace in the Middle East will never come from more concessions, more “temporary ceasefires,” or more illusions of coexistence with those who only use them to regroup, rearm, and strike again.
True peace will come only when Israel stands firm as the sovereign nation it was meant to be, unafraid to assert our rights on our holiest site, to defend 10 million Israeli citizens, and to protect every minority under our care from the same jihadi forces that have persecuted them for generations.
We must once again embrace the spirit that built this nation: courage without compromise, truth without fear, belief in God, and the conviction that this land, every inch of it, is ours to defend and sanctify.
October 7th was the price of ignoring those truths.
Our survival depends on never ignoring them again.
These are the truths we work every day to illuminate through our work at the Pulse of Israel.
Am Yisrael Chai.
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Report: Hamas stockpiling weapons around the world for post-war use
According to a Kan News report, Hamas has begun storing advanced weapons in Africa, Yemen, and other friendly states to smuggle later into strategic locations, undermining disarmament initiatives.
Nov 16, 2025, 8:46 PM (GMT+2) Israel National News
While diplomatic efforts are being made to disarm Hamas, Kan News revealed on Sunday that the terrorist organization has begun stockpiling advanced weapons outside of the Gaza Strip for when it is needed.
According to the report, the weapons are being stockpiled in Africa, Yemen, and other supportive countries. They are intended to be transported and smuggled later to strategic locations, including the Gaza Strip.
The report noted that the operations are taking place precisely as discussions about disarming Hamas intensify, serving as evidence of the organization’s intent to preserve and rebuild its military capabilities in the post-war period as part of a long-term strategy.
About a week and a half ago, it was revealed that Austria’s domestic intelligence service had discovered a weapons cache in Vienna that is suspected to belong to Hamas and was intended for potential terror attacks in Europe.
According to a statement by the Austrian Interior Ministry, as part of the investigation, a 39-year-old British citizen named Mohammed was arrested in London on suspicion of being connected to the weapons cache.
The statement noted that “Israeli or Jewish institutions in Europe were likely the targets of these planned attacks.” After identifying him, the UK began extradition proceedings.
The suspect was arrested as part of an international investigation carried out by Austria’s State Security Directorate and intelligence services, which focused on terrorist organizations around the world suspected of having direct links to Hamas. The investigation raised suspicions that a small group of terrorist operatives or supporters had smuggled weapons into Austria for possible use in attacks.
Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office, which participated in the investigation, said that Mohammed had met twice with a man named Abed, who was arrested in Germany last month on suspicion of planning attacks against Israeli and Jewish institutions in the country.
The discovered cache contained five handguns and ten magazines stored in a suitcase inside a rented storage unit. Austrian law enforcement officials assessed that the weapons were also intended for additional Hamas-related operations, the details of which were not disclosed.
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🟧YEMEN FIELD updates, PM ON RIOTS, LEBANON OOPSIE, GAZA PRESSURE
November 17, 2025 Israel Realtime
ℹ️TELEGRAM READERS – Telegram suffered a strange outage yesterday, getting ’stuck’ until the app was shut down and restarted (not just closed – it had to be swiped to close). If you are on Telegram and not getting updates (then you won’t see this :-(, close the app or restart your phone.
🎗️3 HOSTAGE BODIES remain held in Gaza, with no activity in the last day.
▪️YEMEN FIELD COURT DECISION – The court ruled that given the exceptional and extreme circumstances of the case at hand, the decision of the Minister of Justice – to assign the role of the legal advisor supervising the investigation of the case to an entity outside the Legal Counsel to the Government or the State Attorney’s Office – was within its authority.
However, it was determined that this role cannot be assigned to the Commissioner for Complaints against Judges, due to the provisions of the law regulating his role, to whom the minister had assigned it. The ministers’ decision must meet the standards and limitations detailed in the ruling.
.. Police on the accused former chief military prosecutor being in the hospital: The police are not seeking to extend the house arrest of former prosecutor Yifat Tomer Yerushalmi. She is still hospitalized at Ichilov Hospital without guard. A senior police official said: “She is currently hospitalized anyway. When it becomes relevant, we will decide.”
,, The Ministry of Justice is struggling to find a person who meets the job requirements for managing the investigation as determined by the High Court of Justice: a state employee, a senior prosecutor experienced in criminal law, not subordinate to the minister or the prosecution, without political affiliation, and enjoying broad public trust. The Attorney General herself would not have been able to be appointed to the position under these conditions as she has no prior experience in criminal law.
▪️PM ON RIOTS – Netanyahu: “Recently, we have witnessed two types of riots that we completely reject. One is riots against elected officials wherever they are, and such violence occurred just yesterday against our friend, MK Ben-Tzur. This is a very small minority, it does not represent the Haredi public. But these law violations must be fought with all force and so we will do.
The second is also carried out by a minority, a minority from Judea and Samaria, does not represent the large settler public, law-abiding and loyal to the state. And against them, these riots, also against IDF soldiers, also against Palestinians and against IDF soldiers, we will act against this with all force because we are a state of law, and a state of law operates according to law.” The
▪️HEALTH SYSTEM “COMMITTEE” – Israel has a socialized medical system. While people appreciate ‘not paying’ or minimal payments for health care (besides the 5% health tax), many are unclear of the controls that place required cost limits on the system.
The Min. Of Health announced today the committee that will determine what health services and medicines are covered, the ‘health basket’, for 2026, to stay within cost controls and balance effectiveness vs. cost. “The committee will examine hundreds of new technologies and medicines and recommend their inclusion in the basket according to professional, clinical, and economic criteria.” 19 people were assigned to the committee, ranging from medical professionals to medical budget specialists.
▪️PREFAB BUILDING COLLAPSE – KINDERGARTEN – BEIT SHEMESH – 6 injured in moderate and light condition, children aged 9-11. Apparent collapse of a pre-fab structure due to high winds and heavy rain.
▪️TERROR – Shooting attack near Al Neve farm in Samaria. Pursuit of terrorist.
▪️DRILL – KIRYAT MALACHA – Tuesday a planned emergency drill will take place throughout Kiryat Malachi by the municipality together with security and rescue forces. You may see police cars, fire trucks, volunteers, and professionals in the field.
♦️LEBANON – Two suspects were identified in the Hammis area in southern Lebanon. The forces fired warning shots and the suspects withdrew, with no injuries. After investigation, it was found that the suspects were UNIFIL soldiers who were patrolling the area and were classified as suspects due to poor weather conditions.
.. Heavy IDF air traffic spotted over Lebanon yesterday and today.
.. IDF: activity to disrupt Hezbollah rehabilitation attempts. Detection of weapons, attack on 5 terror targets, and elimination of 3 terrorists.
♦️SAMARIA – near SHECHEM – IDF: During an offensive operation overnight in the Shechem area, a terrorist threw an explosive device at the force. The force responded with fire and eliminated the terrorist. No casualties among our forces.
♦️GAZA – Def. Min. Katz: ‘I was just updated by the Deputy Chief of Staff that the operation to destroy Hamas terror tunnels in Gaza is progressing well. The IDF is working to destroy the tunnels through explosions, or by filling and pouring liquid concrete into the tunnels throughout the territory under its control.
The multinational force led by the US is supposed to handle the disarmament and dismantling of Hamas from its weapons in Old Gaza. ( No progress has been made in this area. )’
.. Demolition explosions of buildings carried out by the IDF in the eastern part of Gaza City overnight.
.. A senior Hamas official told Al-Aqsa TV that Palestinians look to Algeria to oppose the U.S. draft on deploying international forces in Gaza. Palestinian factions urged Algeria to uphold support for Palestine and reject the U.S. resolution, which they say would impose “a new form of occupation.” They emphasized that any foreign presence in Gaza violates sovereignty and prolongs suffering.
🇸🇾SYRIA – Border conflict with Lebanon. Lebanese army soldiers were held inside a base in the Halmat Kara area on the border by Syrian regime forces.
.. Clashes “erupted” with heavy machine gun fire between the Druze National Guard and Syrian regime forces, accompanied by mortar shelling along the frontlines of Arai Town and Khirbat Samar in western Al-Suwaidaa countryside.
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WATCH: NETANYAHU PUSHES BACK AGAINST TRUMP’S MOVE TO ESTABLISH A “PALESTINIAN” STATE by David Mark
November 16, 2025 Israel Unwired
It is no secret that the Trump administration, in the hope of luring Saudi Arabia into a normalization agreement with Israel, put clause 19 in the now vaunted 21-point “peace plan.” Clause 19 states: “Once the Palestinian Authority’s reform plan is implemented, conditions may be achieved for a path toward self-determination and the establishment of a Palestinian state. The United States will facilitate dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for coexistence in peace and prosperity.”
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While most people have assumed this clause is a big nothing burger, it has been reported that Washington intends to include it in the draft to be voted on by the UN Security Council, meaning it will be binding.
In response to the report, Defense Minister Katz said the following: “The policy of Israel is clear: no Palestinian state will be established,” Katz wrote. “The IDF will remain on Mount Hermon and in the security zone. Gaza will be demilitarized down to the last tunnel, and Hamas will be disarmed-on the Israeli-controlled side by the IDF, and in old Gaza either by an international force or by the IDF.”
Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir responded, “There is no such thing as ‘a Palestinian people’. This is an invention that has no historical, archaeological or factual basis. A collection of immigrants from Arab countries to the Land of Israel are not a people. And certainly they do not deserve a reward for the terror, murder, and atrocities they sowed everywhere, and especially from Gaza – the place where they received self-rule,” he clarified.
“The only real solution in Gaza is encouragement of voluntary migration, and certainly not a state that rewards terror, which would be a base for continued terror. Otzma Yehudit will not be part of any government that agrees to that. I call on the Prime Minister to clarify that the State of Israel will not allow the establishment of a Palestinian state in any form,” he added.
Others in the Likud and the right have also publicly pushed against the US plan. By the end of today, Prime Minister Netanyahu had no choice but to clarify his government’s position and answered with this: “Our opposition to a Palestinian state on any part of this territory has not changed in the slightest.”
With the UNSC vote expected soon, the real question is: will the Trump administration back off from clause 19, or will it push it forward? If it does, can Bibi’s coalition survive? Netanyahu believes that the so-called “palestinians” will never live up to their end of the deal. Yet, that is a mistake. Trump’s team doesn’t care about the “palestinians.” What they care about is regional deals, and for that, truth takes a back seat.
[Ed.: The problem with Trump is that he doesn’t know history, and is totally clueless about the Middle East. Worse yet is, he thinks that we (Israel) are a vassal state, a banana republic, and that he can boisterously and arrogantly tell us what to do with our enemies.
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November 16, 2025 Yeshiva World News
A Canadian-Israeli woman says she was barred from listing Israel as her birthplace on her Canadian passport application — a move her lawyer calls a “serious legal, administrative, and human rights concern” tied to the Canadian government’s recent recognition of a Palestinian state.
The woman, who publicly shared her experience on X, said a Passport Canada employee informed her that she was no longer permitted to write “Israel” as her country of birth. “These are the clear consequences of the current government and leadership in power,” she wrote.
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Path to Palestinian state ‘may finally be in place,’ American draft of UN resolution says MIKE WAGENHEIM
“The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous coexistence,” per the draft.
November 14, 2025 JNS – The latest in a series of drafts that Washington has penned of a resolution to the United Nations Security Council suggests the Trump administration believes “conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood” after the Palestinian Authority undergoes reforms and Gaza’s reconstruction is “advanced.”
The draft, which JNS viewed, offers no sense of a timeline for a vote, although the Trump administration reportedly wants infrastructure up and running by year’s end for an international stabilization force for the Strip, which would be at the center of the resolution.
Earlier in the week, an American draft text removed a provision that would have deemed groups found guilty of “misuse” of aid “ineligible to provide ongoing or future assistance,” which was widely seen as an effort to bar the U.N. Relief and Works Agency over its Hamas ties.
Other revisions this week stated that the Israeli military will only begin a phased Gaza withdrawal in line with “benchmarks and timetables to be determined jointly with the security forces, the guarantor states and the United States.” Limited Israeli security presence would remain to defend against “any resurgent terror threat,” it states.
Washington is trying to codify the creation of an international force in Gaza via the Security Council. The resolution, if passed, would give it and partner countries a broad mandate to govern and secure the Strip through the end of 2027, if not longer.
Key language remains under debate in the second revision of the document. Washington hasn’t publicly defined which precise demands it has of the Palestinian Authority. The draft that JNS saw refers to reforms “as outlined in various proposals.”
“The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous coexistence,” it states. (JNS sought comment from the Israeli mission to the global body.)
A spokesman for the U.S. mission to the global body said on Thursday that “we urge the Security Council to seize this historic moment to pave a path towards enduring peace in the Middle East by supporting this resolution.”
The spokesman added that any effort to “sow discord now, when agreement on this resolution is under active negotiation, has grave, tangible and entirely avoidable consequences for Palestinians in Gaza” and that the ceasefire is “fragile.”
Although the spokesman didn’t name any countries, the remark seemed to refer to a new Russian draft resolution, which asks António Guterres, the U.N. secretary-general, to “identify options to effectively implement” U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan.
The Russian version does not mention the Peace Board, which Trump has said he would lead and which Washington wants to serve as a transitional Gazan authority.
Any resolution needs the support of at least nine of the Security Council’s 15 members and must avoid a veto by any of the five permanent members, including the United States, Russia and China.
