Israeli forces this evening struck tunnel shafts used for weapons storage at several Hezbollah military sites across Lebanon.

Following the strikes, secondary explosions were identified, indicating the presence of weapons in the area.

Over the past several months, Hezbollah terrorist activity was identified at the sites, constituting a violation of the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon.

“Rats leaving the ship”

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explained how the Trump administration worked to collapse Iran’s economy, leading to a popular uprising and the beginning of the end of the ayatollah regime.

Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, Bessent said:

“What we have done is created a dollar shortage in [Iran]. It came to a swift and, I would say, grand culmination in December, when one of the largest banks in Iran went under. There was a run on the bank.

“The central bank had to print money, the Iranian currency went into free fall, inflation exploded, and hence we have seen the Iranian people out on the street.

“We have seen the Iranian leadership wiring money out of the country like crazy. The rats are leaving the ship, and that is a good sign that they know the end may be near.”

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Sotheby’s sold a 15th century Hebrew prayer book, the Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, for €5.43 million ($6.4 million) on Thursday in what it said was “one of the strongest results ever achieved for an illuminated Hebrew manuscript at auction.”

The book, which the auction house called “supremely rare” and a “masterpiece of medieval Jewish book art,” sold to an online bidder.

Two Israelis from Jerusalem were arrested last month on suspicion of committing serious security offenses involving contact with Iranian intelligence operatives.

Publication of details of the espionage affair is limited by a court-issued gag order.

Police officials did say that over recent months the two suspects maintained contact with Iranian intelligence operatives and carried out various security-related tasks, while fully aware for whom they were working.

“We will not surrender to Trump”

Hundreds of Israelis attempted to cross into the Gaza Strip on Thursday evening during a rally in support of Jewish resettlement.

The protest was held under the slogan: “We will not surrender to Trump’s dictates: No to an international Gaza, yes to a Jewish Gaza”

The goal of the 1,500 participants was to plant trees inside Gaza in preparation for Jewish resettlement.

The demonstrators were prevented by the IDF from reaching their destination, and were transferred to the Israel Police for questioning.

“It is not antisemitism—it is Jew-hatred. We have to call it what it is.”

At the Yael Foundation’s Jewish education summit in Vienna, Michael Galibov, Vice President of the Jewish Community of Vienna, issued a powerful warning: Jew-hatred is not a passing trend—it’s a deep-rooted reality, and the only way to fight it is with strong Jewish identity and education.

“If everyone takes off their kippah, we will no longer have a Jewish identity.”

Galibov urged Jews worldwide to stay proud, visible, and united—not to hide, not to appease, but to build and protect their future with courage and clarity.

🔗 A must-read on the battle for identity, truth, and survival in post–Oct. 7 Europe.

Settling the Land

Israel on Thursday legalized five nascent Jewish communities in Samaria and the Jordan Valley.

The five Jewish communities that received recognition are:

• Havat Gilad (Gilad Farm)
• Mount Ebal
• Maoz Tzvi
• Tamara
• Machane Gadi

The Interior Ministry has issued official “settlement symbols” for the towns, turning them into legal villages for all intents and purposes.

US-IRAN TALKS UPDATE

🔹️ Iranian officials say the continuation of talks depends on the US, but that failure to talk means war.

🔹️ Arab media reports that a third round of discussions was cancelled and that both teams will soon leave Oman.

🔹️ American officials have not yet released any remarks.

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US-IRAN TALKS UPDATE

🔹️ Both Trump and Iranian officials say Friday’s talks in Oman went “well” and that further talks next week are likely.

🔹️ Trump says Iran wants a deal and will come to a deal because it has no other choice.

🔹️ Iranian spokesman Ebrahim Rezaei says Trump is lying, and it’s the US that will be forced to accept a deal on Iranian terms.

🔹️ Trump signed an executive order enabling him to impose a 25% tariff on any nation doing business with Iran.

🔹️ Open source flight intel shows a dramatic increase in US military transports landing in the Middle East over the past two days.

🔹️ Netanyahu will fly to Washington on Wednesday to discuss the Iran situation with Trump.

While training abroad for the Olympics, the Israeli bobsled team was robbed—passports, shoes, equipment, and thousands in gear stolen.

They returned to training the same day.

“This team exemplifies the Israeli spirit.” — A.J. Edelman

🔎 The Hebrew sign on side of their bobsled is Jacob's pronouncement from Genesis 28:16, which reads: "Surely the LORD is in this place and I did not know it."

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The Winter Olympics in Milan were further marred yesterday by violent anti-America and anti-Israel protests.

Israel Defense Forces counter-terrorism operations resulted in the arrest of some 60 wanted Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria over the past past week.

Among those detained in the Jenin area in northern Samaria were 15 individuals, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives involved in the manufacture of explosive devices.

Israeli soldiers on Saturday eliminated two terrorists who crossed the ceasefire line (Yellow Line) in the Gaza Strip.

In one incident, troops of the IDF's 7th Armored Brigade operating in southern Gaza killed a terrorist who had crossed the ceasefire line and "constituted an immediate threat" to them.

In another incident in the northern Strip, the 3rd Brigade, a reserve infantry unit, eliminated a terrorist who approached them after crossing the Yellow Line.

Here they come again!

Anti-Israel activists are planning yet another protest flotilla carrying a symbolic cargo of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

The Hamas- and Muslim Brotherhood-linked Global Sumud Flotilla campaigners say they plan to send more than 100 boats in March, in what they call the largest such mission yet.

Israel has intercepted several such protest flotillas since 2010, most recently in October of last year.

"Gathering of jihadists"

Israel's Foreign Ministry has called out the Al Jazeera Forum taking place now in Doha as a "gathering of jihadists and their support staff."

The speakers include Iran's foreign minister, top Hamas leaders, and disgraced UN officials under US sanctions.

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🚨 Netanyahu heads to Washington early — and he’s not just talking nukes.

As Trump reopens talks with Iran, Israel is demanding more: limits on missiles, militias, and Tehran’s entire terror axis. A nuclear deal that ignores the rest is, in Netanyahu’s words, unacceptable.

What’s at stake in this sudden summit — and why time may be running out:

👉 https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/netanyahu-rushes-to-washington-to-press-trump-on-iran/

Ali Ahmad Khomeini, grandson of Islamic Republic founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, tell’s Hezbollah’s Al Mayadeen:

“Every Muslim nation will do to Israel what Hamas did the moment they are able to do so.

“Every Israeli knows well that the day is coming in which the Muslims will destroy Israel.”