Nahal Brigade Commander Colonel Yair Zuckerman spoke to Israel Hayom about the IDF's operations in Rafah and along the Philadelphi Corridor.
"Whoever thinks we are stagnating is invited to see what's happening here," he told the newspaper. "Look at Rafah, does this look like stagnating? But we need to understand that this takes time."
"Hamas has turned the entire city [of Rafah] into one giant battlefield, booby-trapped and dangerous, and gone down into the underground, from which they operate. The houses are booby-trapped and contain small reverse cameras, by means of which they follow the forces and try to harm them. We found such cameras in the buttons on sofas, on doorframes, in mosques, in clinics, and in schools," he said.
Under the Philadelphi Corridor, he not...
A chorus of right-leaning tech and business leaders, led by X owner Elon Musk, used their online megaphones in the wake of Saturday’s attack to criticize the Secret Service’s diversity initiatives, condemn Democratic donor Reid Hoffman and make unsubstantiated allegations about the shooting.
The claims by powerful business leaders with large online followings helped influence the direction of platform itself, as well as the storylines viewed by millions of people. Musk’s post endorsing Trump after the shooting received the most engagement of any post on X related to the attempted assassination, said Graham Brookie, the Atlantic Council’s vice president for technology programs and strategy.
The post received more than 118 million views and 332,000 retweets...
US Special Envoy Amos Hochstein is close to brokering deal between Israel and Lebanon, although several key issues remain, according to a report in the Lebanese al-Diyar newspaper on Sunday.
Hochstein told French officials that Israel and Lebanese officials have almost completely agreed on a deal to end the hostilities, although the fighting has been between Israel and Hezbollah, not with the Lebanese armed forces.
Quoting Lebanese political sources, the outlet said the core disputes still unresolved remain pushing back Hezbollah and several areas in the border under Israeli control.
Agreed-upon points include Hezbollah not erecting observation towers along the border and the Lebanese army deploying more extensively in southern Lebanon.
Out of 13 territorial disagre...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet US President Joe Biden at the White House on July 22, two days before his address to a joint session of Congress, an Israeli official said on Sunday, according to JNS.
The meeting will mark the first time Biden has hosted Netanyahu at the White House since Netanyahu returned to office following the 2022 election.
The two leaders last met in October, when Biden visited Israel in the aftermath of Hamas’ October 7 attack on southern Israel.
On Friday, Channel 12 News reported that the Prime Minister's Office has received confirmation from the White House that Netanyahu and Biden would meet during Netanyahu’s visit to Washington and that the sides are still working on the details of th...
The Israeli strike targeting Hamas’ military leader, Mohammed Deif, in southern Gaza on Saturday followed weeks of surveillance of a compound used by one of his key lieutenants, Rafa’a Salameh, The New York Times reported on Sunday, citing three senior Israeli defense officials.
The strike was authorized after prolonged observation of one of Salameh’s secret command posts located west of Khan Yunis, the three senior Israeli officials told the newspaper.
The villa surrounded by palm trees near the Mediterranean Sea belonged to Salameh’s family, two of the officials said. Salameh began spending more time there in recent months after Israeli forces overran many of his other strongholds in Khan Yunis, both above and below ground, according to two of the offi...
The investigation into Donald Trump’s attempted assassin have been slowed down by improvised explosives rigged across his property, senior law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the search told The Post.
Explosives were found in 20-year-old Thomas Crooks’ car as well as his home, sources said.
The explosives were described as having “varying” levels of sophistication, though it is unclear exactly what they consist of.
Investigators were forced to tread lightly after uncovering the explosives in Crooks’ property.
Crooks was shot dead by the Secret Service after he opened fire at the rally.
No motive has been been given for the assassination attempt on Trump.
Crooks donated $15 to a pro-Democrat PAC as a 17-year-old in 2021, but then registe...
Traveling to Eretz Yisroel: Know Before You Go!
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Rabbi Zvi Goldberg and Rabbi Boruch Beyer will review the various issues you should be aware of before booking your flight to the Holy Land. Topics to be discussed will include:
• Davening during a flight
• Issues pertaining to Kohanim
• Kri'ah at the Kotel
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Family members identified Corey Comperatore as the rally goer who was killed Saturday in an assassination attempt on former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Comperatore was a former fire chief for Buffalo Township, local news station WPXI reported. He was shot and killed when Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on Trump from a sniper's perch some 130 yards away during the campaign event. Two others were critically injured in the attack, authorities said.
The victim's sister, Dawn Comperatore Schafer, wrote in a Facebook post that Corey "was a hero that shielded his daughters."
"His wife and girls just lived through the unthinkable and unimaginable. My baby brother just turned 50 and had so much life left to experience. Hatred has no limits and love ...
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to shoot and injure former President Donald Trump at a rally Saturday in Pennsylvania, a monumental failure of one of the agency’s core duties.
The gunman, who was killed by Secret Service personnel, fired multiple shots at the stage from an “elevated position outside of the rally venue,” the agency said.
An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen videos and photos taken at the Trump rally, as well as satellite imagery of the site, shows the shooter was able to get astonishingly close to the stage where the former president was speaking. A video posted to social media and geolocated by the AP shows the body of a man wearing...
Baltimore, MD – July 14, 2024 - 2:07PM – A three-car accident on I-95 North just before the entrance to the NJ Turnpike has traffic backed up for miles.
Baltimore, MD – July 14, 2024 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Avigdor Shwekey (Monsey) & Zeesy Freedman (Baltimore) on their engagement.
Mazel Tov Aryeh Leib & Dena Freedman and Rabbi Moshe Dovid & Peshi Shwekey.
Mazel Tov to grandparents Rabbi and Mrs. Mordechai Dov Koval and Mrs. Zipporah Freedman and great grandmother, Rebbetzin Rivka Diskind.
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
Baltimore, MD - July 14, 2024 - If you're stuck in traffic on I-695 (Baltimore Beltway) looping around Baltimore, or on the Capital Beltway in Maryland, you likely have concluded that Baltimore and Washington, D.C., are two of the nation's worst cities for traffic jams.
According to a new study, your conclusion is correct.
Software company INRIX recently released its Global Traffic Scorecard for 2023, which calculates the cities with the most time consuming traffic delays. The commute times in the study were determined by looking at the time it takes to get to and from major employment centers within an urban area from surrounding commuting neighborhoods.
Using that criteria, Baltimore was rated the 14th worst city in the nation for traffic delays. That ra...
Baltimore, MD – July 14, 2024 – 12:46PM - Traffic on Smith Ave in front of Wellwood is extremely slow due to an earlier accident. Hatzalah and BCPD are on the scene.
Former US First Lady Melania Trump released a statement on Sunday commenting on the attempt to assassinate her husband, former President Donald Trump at a rally on the previous day.
"I am thinking of you, now, my fellow Americans. We have always been a unique union. America, the fabric of our gentle nation is tattered, but our courage and common sense must ascend and bring us back together as one," Melania opened.
She described her feelings at the time of the incident: "When I watched that violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized my life, and Barron's life, were on the brink of devastating change. I am grateful to the brave Secret Service agents and law enforcement officials who risked their own lives to protect my husband.
"To the families of the innocent victims who a...
Importance
Living in a world inhabited by billions of people can make us feel unimportant — as if our existence does not matter.
Chazal felt otherwise. The mishnah in Sanhedrin[1] derives the significance of each human life from how Hashem created the first human being. Whereas Hashem created each creature in pairs, He made just one human. The fact that the whole world initially existed on behalf of a single person teaches us that each human life is as significant as the entire world. Causing the loss of even one life is like destroying the whole world; saving even one life is like saving the entire world.
This idea should impact how we view our place within the world. The mishnah continues, “Therefore, each and every person needs to say, ‘The world was created on my b...
Newark, DE - July 14, 2024 - For those heading north (i.e. to Lakewood, NY, Newark Airport, Philadelphia…), be aware that speed cameras have been placed along Interstate 95 at Route 896 in Newark, (as soon as one leaves Maryland), as part of the Delaware Department of Transportation's Electronic Speed Safety Program and the speed limit drops to 55MPH.
Drivers who speed through the construction zone will receive warnings until July 30.
It's certainly been a hot Maryland summer so far, and Baltimore City just announced another "Code Red" heat alert for July 14-17.
For many residents, that can mean big utility bills as air conditioners struggle to keep up with the heat wave.
Thanks to a ramped-up state program, BGE customers can now take advantage of a tune-up of their heating and air-conditioning system for no additional cost.
Everyone who uses BGE is eligible to schedule the tune-up, which they're technically already helping pay for.
The tune-up service - along with the perhaps better-known Quick Home Energy Check-up - is sponsored by the EmPOWER Maryland program, which is funded by a charge on your energy bill.
The tune-up will include a system performance check, coil inspection, indoor and outdoor c...
The gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump Saturday was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, sources told The Post.
Crooks, of Bethel Park, Pa., squeezed off shots — one of which grazed Trump in the ear — at an outdoor rally in Butler, just outside Pittsburgh.
Sources said Crooks was planted on a roof of a manufacturing plant more than 130 yards away from the stage at Butler Farm Show grounds.
He was killed by Secret Service snipers. An AR-style rifle was later recovered.
Bethel Park is a village 40 miles south of where the Butler rally was held.
Why Crooks fired on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is unclear.
