The Israel Defense Forces struck Hezbollah targets in Southern Lebanon this mornin after the Iranian-backed terrorist organization launched two drones toward Israeli soldiers operating in the security zone.

Troops opened fire and downed one of the drones, the IDF said. No injuries were reported in the attack.

Israel rebukes British foreign secretary over Gaza video

UK Foreign Minister Ed Miliband posted a clip in which he decries the situation in Gaza after having been told harrowing “stories” during a recent meeting.

Israel said Miliband should have known better than to be taken in by propaganda.

Contrary to the “stories” Miliband felt compelled to repeat for the world, there are no restrictions on the entry of medicines into Gaza. Some 22,500 tons of medical supplies have entered Gaza since the ceasefire began, and Gazans routinely exit the Strip for medical treatment in Israel, including 200 in the past two weeks.

As a member of the International Gaza Support Center that facilitates aid deliveries to the Strip, the UK government is perfectly aware of these facts, Israel’s Foreign Ministry noted.

But Miliband decided to ignore the facts and regurgitate unverified sob stories that serve only one purpose: paint Israel as the villain.

Faith, service and shared responsibility in Israel

“The great leaders of Israel in the Bible were simultaneously men of faith and of battle,” MK Meirav Ben Ari said in the debate over Haredi military service.

Her point cuts to the heart of Israel’s national argument: Torah study is vital, but it need not—and should not—be treated as the opposite of defending the Jewish state. Thousands of hesder soldiers already prove that devotion to Torah and service in the IDF can strengthen one another.

In a time of war, shared responsibility cannot be optional.

Read the full analysis HERE

An Iranian exile’s plea for freedom

“When Israel and the Americans bomb us, we rejoice,” a young Iranian living in Germany says—not from a love of war, but from desperation to see Iran freed from the mullah regime.

He describes a population trapped between repression at home and fear for relatives abroad, with many still hoping outside pressure can succeed where protests have been brutally crushed.

“Trump should give Netanyahu one week of free rein. He’d get the job done,” the Iranian says.

Read the full interview HERE

More than half a million Jewish worshippers have attended Selichot prayers at the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem since the beginning of the Hebrew month of Elul (Aug. 14), the Western Wall Heritage Foundation reports.

Due to overcrowding, with 50,000 people filling the plaza on Thursday night, the event was broadcast on giant screens along the Old City walls and at Jaffa Gate.

Selichot are prayers of repentance offered in the run-up to the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur.

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee: There are only a few hundred Israeli "terrorists" causing trouble in Samaria, but they must be dealt with.

Lebanese television station MTV reports that the Israeli army attacked more than 15 tunnels in the Nabatieh area yesterday evening in a single raid – from the Yahmar al-Shaqif area to the Ali al-Taher mountain range.

Lebanese media outlets report that bunker-buster bombs were used in the latest attacks. The effect was exceptionally powerful.

Israeli security forces on Sunday completed a counter-terrorism operation near Nablus (biblical Shechem) in central Samaria.

During the operation, Israeli troops apprehended a Hamas cell consisting of ten terrorists who had been working to advance attacks against Israeli civilians.

Among the weapons found was a rocket without a launcher.

The Palestinian terrorist who stabbed an Israeli civilian a short time ago was found by IDF soldiers. He attempted to stab the soldiers and was shot dead.

Israel continues to carry out heavy strikes against Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon.

🇳🇷 The Pacific island nation of Nauru today became the ninth nation to open its embassy in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem.

🇳🇷 Der pazifische Inselstaat Nauru hat heute als neuntes Land seine Botschaft in Israels Hauptstadt Jerusalem eröffnet.

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee calls out the sharp contrast in international reactions to Palestinian terrorism vs Jewish settler violence, noting that today's stabbing of a Jewish farmer "won't get the [same] international attention" even though such attacks on Jews are an almost daily occurrence.

Is Israel hostile toward Christians? Ryan Jones, a Christian who has lived in Israel for over 30 years, and editor David Shishkoff confront the popular online narrative — weighing isolated incidents against the reality of the Middle East's only growing Christian community.

Watch now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YGUwbdNPLs

When Christian support for Israel must be visible

After Oct. 7, millions of Christians said they stood with Israel. But as antisemitic crowds filled campuses and city centers, many Israelis were left asking: Where were they?

Pastor Jim Scudder chose not to look away—standing publicly with Jewish communities, confronting anti-Israel hostility and insisting that compassion for Gaza must not erase Hamas’s responsibility for the war.

A promise to stand with Israel has to mean more than quiet sympathy.

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Media bias exposed

Yesterday, a Jewish farmer was nearly stabbed to death by a Palestinian Arab in Samaria. The incident received almost no media coverage outside of Israel.

Yet the rock-throwing hooliganism of a few Jewish youth not far away in Qusra has been global headline news for weeks.

Why the discrepancy?

Israeli government spokesman Doron Spielman provides the worrying statistics showing how the mainstream media ignores deadly Palestinian terrorism while highlighting isolated criminal acts of Jewish vigilantes.

Senior AfD politician: We can see that God’s blessing rests on Israel.

Alarm bells sounded in Germany and abroad following the landslide local victory of Germany’s “far-right” AfD party.

But senior party member Dr. Malte Kaufmann wrote in an article for Israel Today that everyone has them wrong, especially in Israel. As a Christian, Kaufmann said he and many others in the AfD wish Israel well and desire to cooperate with her.

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