Nov. 10: Yashar cancels scheduled negotiations with Likud after Netanyahu’s ‘divisive speech’

Trump: Qatar, Saudi Arabia want peaceful Iran solution, but US ready for strikes if needed

US President Donald Trump tells Reuters in a brief phone interview that Qatar and Saudi Arabia are eager for a peaceful solution to the Iran conflict, but the US is ready to resume military strikes if necessary.

Trump, who met Qatar’s prime minister earlier today, says, “Qatar would rather see a peaceful solution,” but “we’re ready to go anytime we want” with strikes.

Washington synagogue says arrested suspect was student with unregistered revolver and knives, cited ‘safety concerns’

The Washington Hebrew Congregation in Washington, DC, says that a man arrested while attempting to enter the congregation on Saturday had a concealed, loaded revolver and two pocket knives.

The suspect, whom US police have identified as Tyler Finn, 32, attempted to enter the congregation prior to Shabbat morning services, the congregation says in a statement.

He was visiting with a religious studies class from Liberty University, which has previously visited the congregation through an interfaith program.

The man’s weapons set off a metal detector and synagogue security denied him entry, confiscated the weapons and called police, the synagogue says.

The suspect was arrested without incident.

The congregation says the man told police he brought the weapons “due to safety concerns for himself and occupants based on recent news reports.”

The suspect also admitted that the firearm was unregistered. He has been charged with two weapons offenses.

The synagogue says it has “made significant investments in security, and Saturday’s incident demonstrated that the security measures we have in place worked as intended.”

Iran’s top security official says US should stop manufacturing ‘fake news about imaginary talks’

Iranian security council chief Mohsen Rezaei says the US should “stop manufacturing fake news about imaginary talks” and that it is “time to surrender to the seven conditions Iran has repeatedly set out.”

Trump: Iran war is militarily ‘effectively over’; ‘good chance’ a deal can be reached

US President Donald Trump speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House November 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US President Donald Trump says Iran is “talking very politely” with US negotiators, and there’s a “good chance” a resolution can be reached to end the conflict between the two countries, adding that the war is “effectively over.”

“Iran militarily is effectively over,” Trump says during an impromptu press conference at the White House. “We’re just keeping it the status quo.”

Trump is asked why he won’t declare victory against Iran and pull American troops out of the region if he continues to claim that he has prevented Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

“We have some great allies there, and we have to make sure they’re not hurt, and they would be hurt [if the US pulled out now],” Trump claims, effectively admitting that Iran still poses a threat.

“We want to make sure [there is] a long-term solution — not just a short-term. They’ll never have a nuclear weapon, but we have to make sure that’s a long-term,” Trump says.

He then reiterates his claim that the war is “ending quickly.”

When a reporter points out that Trump has been claiming that the war will imminently end for months, Trump denies having suggested as much.

“I made the claim that they won’t have a nuclear weapon, and they won’t have a nuclear weapon.”

AP contributed to this report.

Saudi governor inspects Aramco’s Riyadh office after Houthi-caused damage

Left to right: The Aramco tower in the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) in Riyadh, seen damaged by debris following a Houthi attack on November 8, 2026; the tower as seen on September 20, 2025. (Screenshot/X: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law/Split Second Stock via iStock)

Saudi Arabia’s deputy governor of Riyadh has inspected an Aramco administrative building in the capital that was damaged in an attack by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group, state news agency SPA reports.

Prince Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz says the attack underscores the Houthis’ targeting of civilian facilities, according to SPA. He directs authorities to provide support for Aramco employees.

On Sunday, Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry reported limited damage to the Aramco Tower in the capital’s financial district, with no injuries or fatalities, without identifying those responsible.

The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack, as they have stepped up strikes on Saudi infrastructure amid the wider US-Israeli war with Iran.

The Houthis have ramped up strikes on Aramco facilities in recent weeks, including the oil giant’s headquarters in Dhahran in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.

Fighting between the Houthis and the coalition backing Yemen’s internationally recognized government intensified after the Houthis advanced in September toward the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a strategic shipping chokepoint on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula from the Strait of Hormuz.

Saudi Arabia said on Monday that its East-West oil pipeline was struck in the Medina region, causing a limited fire that was later extinguished. The attack caused no casualties and did not affect pipeline operations, SPA said.

New explosions heard in Saudi capital Riyadh

Multiple explosions are heard in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, following weeks of attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis.

Residents also receive a text-message alert on their mobile phones instructing them to take shelter due to an “aerial threat,” with a later message from the country’s civil defense agency saying the danger has passed.

NY man allegedly shouts ‘Heil Hitler’ at 7-year-old Jewish girl in kosher store

Suspect Hasani Ferguson in a US police booking photo, November 2026. (Nassau County Police Department)

A US man is charged with harassing a 34-year-old woman and her 7-year-old daughter at a kosher store on Long Island, New York.

The suspect, Hasani Ferguson, allegedly approached the pair on Sunday at Bingo Wholesale in the town of Inwood, held his hands out toward them in the shape of a handgun, and made gunshot noises.

Ferguson, 36, then made comments including, “Free Palestine,” “Heil Hitler,” and “Kill all Jews and kill Israel,” according to the Nassau County Police Department.

Ferguson allegedly continued making handgun gestures towards the pair as he neared them, then ran out of the store shouting, “Kill the Jews,” the police department says.

Ferguson was arrested last night and charged with making a threat of mass harm, menacing in the third degree and disorderly conduct.

Man jailed for opening fire at Montreal school in November 2023

A man is jailed for 66 months for opening fire at a school in Montreal in November 2023, the Montreal Gazette reports.

“A person who commits this kind of an attack on schools is, in the eyes of this court, a coward. I have nothing else to say,” says Judge Pierre Labelle as he sentences 23-year-old Abdirazak Mahdi Ahmed.

With time served, Ahmed will remain behind bars for over 21 months, the report says.

The Gazette reports that Ahmed carried out the attack on the Yeshiva Gadola along with an accomplice who was acquitted in the case, but still faces charges relating to the stolen vehicle.

The same school had been attacked a number of days earlier. There were no injuries in either attack.

“It was a place consecrated to the education, the security and protection of children. The attack was perceived by the community, including the parents and the students and their families, as an attack on the Jewish community,” Labelle says. “Acts of hate, attacks on schools or places of worship have a concrete and lasting effect on the whole of the Jewish community.”

Canada has seen a surge in antisemitism since October 7, 2023.

‘The Diplomat’ creator confirms deliberate tribute to Hersh Goldberg-Polin

Hersh Goldberg-Polin (Courtesy Rachel Goldberg via AP)

The creator of hit Netflix series “The Diplomat” confirms there was a deliberate tribute in the fourth season to Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and killed in captivity.

“Yes. His mom Rachel called it a wink, and I liked that. Just a little note of what they went through,” showrunner and writer Debora Cahn tells Channel 12.

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In the sixth episode of the season, Frances Munning, the housekeeper at the US ambassador’s residence in London, talks about her affinity for Americans because of an American soldier named Hershel Polin.

Munning, played by Penny Downie, says that US soldier Polin fought alongside her father as part of a joint British-American unit in the Allied advance through Belgium during World War II.

Polin saved her father’s life by picking up and tossing a live grenade that had landed at her father’s feet, throwing it aside and losing his own limb in the process.

Munning tells Heyford that Polin was from Richmond, Virginia.

The anecdote retold in the show takes place during World War II, but it’s an unmistakable tribute to Goldberg-Polin, who lived in Richmond, Virginia as a young child with his family.

The story is also a salute to Goldberg-Polin’s friend, Staff Sgt. Aner Shapiro.

Goldberg-Polin and Shapiro were at the Nova music festival on October 7 and hid with others in a roadside shelter during the Hamas attack.

As terrorists began throwing grenades at the partygoers crowded into the shelter, off-duty soldier Shapiro caught and threw back seven grenades before the eighth killed him. At some point during the attack on the shelter, the lower part of Goldberg-Polin’s dominant left arm was blown off by a grenade.

Hegseth to hold 1st Pentagon news briefing since May as he faces possible impeachment

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon, Oct 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to give his first news conference from the Pentagon in six months, just a day after a Republican lawmaker launched an effort to impeach him over his handling of the unpopular war against Iran and other actions.

The briefing will be Hegseth’s first since May even as the US military has kept up intermittent operations against the Islamic Republic as well as fatal strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in Latin America.

Hegseth, who has said the news conference would focus on the impeachment threat, is gearing up for a fight, having launched a social media blitz and saying he is ready to defend his and US President Donald Trump’s actions from “politically motivated people.”

Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who lost his primary to a Trump-backed opponent, filed the impeachment resolution in the House on Monday. It sets the stage for a dramatic vote on whether to remove a prominent Trump administration figure following sweeping losses for Republicans in last week’s midterm elections that many at least partly blamed on the Iran conflict and its economic impact.

The resolution largely focuses on the war in Iran but also includes references to Hegseth’s role in military actions in Yemen against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and Venezuela. Massie said Hegseth’s actions amount to “high crimes and misdemeanors” and his leadership at the Pentagon “warrants impeachment.”

A vote in the House could come by midweek, putting pressure on Republicans — many of whom blamed their election wipeout on the Iran war — but next steps are highly uncertain.

Zamir: Military leadership demands responsibility alongside daring and determination

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks at a ceremony to mark the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin 31 years earlier, November 9, 2026 (Israel Defense Forces)

Speaking at a ceremony to mark 31 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said that military leadership “demands responsibility, professionalism, and sound judgment, alongside daring and determination.”

“A commander must possess a deep understanding of their own forces and the enemy; they must listen, critically examine their own assumptions, and make decisive choices,” Zamir said yesterday, according to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces.

Zamir said that complacency was a contributing factor to October 7, and noted that Rabin warned against it.

“One of the factors contributing to the events of October 7 was the flawed culture of ‘it’ll be OK’ — a mindset that Rabin warned against,” Zamir said. “As an IDF officer, do not say ‘it’ll be OK’; say, ‘I am responsible.’ A commander must feel the full weight of the absolute responsibility placed upon them, and must constantly strive to fulfill it.”

“The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin remains a deep wound in the history of the state. Remembering this event compels us to categorically reject violence within Israeli society as a means of resolving our internal disputes,” said Zamir.

“We must integrate the lessons of this day into our daily command routine and the decisions that lie ahead, driven by a sense of responsibility for the security of the state, for our own people, and for Israeli society as a whole,” he said.

Rabin, born in 1922, was a senior officer in the nascent IDF during the 1948 War of Independence, then rose to become the military’s chief of staff during the 1967 Six Day War. He served as prime minister from 1974 to 1977, and again from 1992 until he was assassinated in 1995 by far-right Jewish extremist Yigal Amir after attending a mass peace rally in Tel Aviv.

The rally was called despite threats to Rabin’s life in order to highlight opposition to violence and showcase public support for his efforts to negotiate peace with the Palestinians.

26th Knesset to be sworn in today, with 46 first-time lawmakers taking their seats

Preparations in Jerusalem ahead of the opening ceremony of the 26th Knesset, November 9, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel’s 26th Knesset will be sworn in this afternoon in a festive ceremony attended by President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, as 120 lawmakers take their seats in the newly elected parliament, 46 of whom will be serving for the first time.

While lawmakers arrive throughout the day for official portraits and photographs with their families, the official proceedings will only get under way at 3:20 p.m., when a reception will be held in the Knesset plaza, where Herzog will be welcomed by Ohana and an honor guard, accompanied by trumpet fanfares from the IDF orchestra.

The president will also lay a wreath at the memorial to fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism.

The inaugural plenum session will begin at 4 p.m., with Herzog delivering remarks before inviting Ohana to take the oath of office and handing over the chairmanship of the session. Following Ohana’s address, each of the 120 lawmakers will be called by name to rise and declare, “I pledge.” Avi Harush, whose son Sgt. Reef Harush was killed in combat in Gaza in April 2024, will recite a psalm during the ceremony.

The festivities will conclude with the traditional photograph of the heads of the elected party slates in the Knesset’s Chagall Hall, where Ohana and Netanyahu will deliver remarks, followed by musical performances and a toast to the new parliament.

While Netanyahu and Ohana will feature prominently in today’s proceedings, it is Yashar chairman Gadi Eisenkot who has received the mandate to form the next government, after securing the backing of 67 lawmakers. Eisenkot and his political partners, who command a parliamentary majority, have already submitted requests to replace Ohana, a close Netanyahu ally, as Knesset speaker, with a vote expected to be held within the coming week.

France vows tough response to supermarket freezer cyberattack blamed on Iran’s IRGC

A woman walks past empty fresh-food refrigerators at an Intermarché supermarket in Névez, western France, on October 12, 2026, following a cyberattack affecting the French supermarket chains Intermarché and Cooperative U that caused their refrigerators to defrost. (Fred TANNEAU/AFP)

France’s foreign minister says that Paris has ruled out “nothing” to respond to a major cyberattack on hundreds of supermarket fridges in October that it has blamed on Iran.

Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot tells FranceinfoTV that Iran’s ambassador will be summoned and European-level sanctions will be sought.

“I can also tell you that we rule nothing out and will take all measures — including those we may not disclose publicly — that we deem proportionate and necessary to deter any further attacks,” he adds.

The goal, Barrot says, is “to deter anyone who might be tempted, in Iran or elsewhere, to do it again.”

Barrot said yesterday that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was behind cyberattacks on supermarkets in the first such large-scale cyber sabotage on French territory.

“This attack is unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression,” Barrot said on the sidelines of a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Paris.

Hundreds of French supermarkets were hit in the October 11 and 12 cyberattacks, which raised the temperatures in their refrigerators, forcing many to throw away entire inventories of perishable food.

As talks start in Abu Dhabi, Kushner calls for new security framework for Ukraine, Russia and Europe

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency RIA Novosti on November 10, 2026, US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff (R), UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (C) and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner (L) attend talks between members of the Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Abu Dhabi, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Grigory SYSOYEV/RIA NOVOSTI/AFP)

The United States wants a new security framework for Ukraine, Russia and Europe to secure peace, US envoy Jared Kushner says in Abu Dhabi as talks start between the warring countries.

“The hope today is not only to discuss the bilateral issues between the countries and how do we end the war… but it’s also how do we create the right security relationships between Ukraine and Russia and Europe so that not only we end this war, we create a new framework” to secure “decades, if not centuries, of peace,” Kushner says.

Israeli defense officials visit Morocco to deepen military ties

Israel’s Defense Ministry Director General, Amir Baram (left), meets with Inspector General of the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces, Mohammed Berrid, in Rabat, November 9, 2026. (Royal Moroccan Armed Forces)

Israeli security and military officials are on an official visit to Morocco as part of efforts to deepen defense ties between the nations.

The delegation is led by Defense Ministry Director General Amir Baram and includes representatives from the IDF.

The ministry says Baram met with senior Moroccan defense officials, including Minister Delegate in charge of the National Defense Administration Abdellatif Loudiyi; Inspector General of the Royal Armed Forces Mohammed Berrid; and other officials from the Royal Palace and the intelligence services.

The ministry says that since the renewal of diplomatic relations in 2020 and a memorandum of understanding signed in 2021, “security ties between Israel and Morocco have grown significantly, including throughout the three years of war.”

“Israel’s defense industries are highly regarded in Morocco,” the ministry says, adding that most defense deals with Morocco are executed under government-to-government agreements.

Israeli defense firms are also “supporting the establishment of an independent Moroccan defense industry through joint ventures and offset agreements,” the ministry says.

During the trip, Baram is set to inaugurate the permanent premises of Israel’s defense attaché office in Rabat, headed by Col. Sharon Itach, who is Israel’s first-ever military attaché to Morocco.

Since the 2020 renewal of diplomatic relations, the IDF has developed ties with the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces (FAR), including joint drills.

The ministry says Baram’s visit to Morocco reflects its strategy to “deepen defense cooperation with friendly nations and expand defense exports to strengthen the IDF’s force buildup, influence foreign policy, and bolster the Israeli defense industry and economy.”

6 injured in settler attack on civil rights activists in northern West Bank, group says

The Rabbis for Human Rights organization says six people have been injured by settlers who attacked them with clubs and rocks during agricultural activities organized by the group in the Palestinian village of Qusra in the northern West Bank.

Two of the injured have been taken to the hospital for treatment, while the others are being treated at the site of the attack by Red Crescent paramedics.

Video footage from the incident shows masked assailants throwing stones at the activists and holding slingshots, and the assailants stealing harvested olives.

According to Rabbis for Human Rights, four of its activists who were helping Palestinian olive growers with the olive harvest are injured, along with a journalist and a Palestinian resident of Qusra.

The organization says that after an hour and a half of harvesting, they saw a group of extremists gathering on the hill above them, and called the police.

Some 20 settlers attacked the group after an IDF force had arrived at the scene, the group says, and began throwing stones at the volunteer workers.

The soldiers fired tear gas at the assailants to disperse them, but the settlers then tried to attack from a different direction.

The IDF does not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Video footage taken by activists with the Rabbis for Human Rights group shows extremist settlers attacking  activists, Palestinian olive growers and laborers, with rocks and clubs, outside the West Bank village of Qusra, Nov. 10, 2026 (Courtesy Rabbis for Human Rights)

Foreign Minister Sa’ar to also serve as interior minister, Likud says

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks during a joint press conference with Slovenia’s foreign minister (not pictured) prior to the opening of Israel’s embassy in Slovenia, in Ljubljana on September 9, 2026. (Martin Metelko/AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party says that Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar will also serve as interior minister.

Sa’ar’s appointment to the second ministry will be voted on at a cabinet meeting tomorrow, the statement says, adding that the position was initially offered to faction chair MK Ofir Katz, who declined it on the grounds that he wants to concentrate on work concerning the bloc.

There has been no interior minister since Shas’s Moshe Arbel resigned in July 2025, after which a number of his authorities were transferred to Netanyahu.

Under legal pressure from the High Court of Justice, Netanyahu agreed in August that he would appoint an interior minister.

East Jerusalem man to be charged with breaking into woman’s home in Tel Aviv and raping her

The Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office files a statement ahead of an indictment against a Palestinian man from East Jerusalem who allegedly broke into a woman’s Tel Aviv home and raped her after he followed her back from a nearby nightclub, police say.

The woman, in her 20s, filed a complaint with police on October 12, and the suspect, 42, was detained on October 27 after a court put out a warrant for his arrest, according to police.

A phone the suspect had in his possession when he was arrested contained evidence linking him to the alleged assault, police say.

The suspect’s remand has been extended until Thursday, and prosecutors are expected within days to indict him and ask the court to keep him in custody until the end of legal proceedings, police add.

Democrats’ Lazimi says Ra’am has a place in government: ‘Recognizes Israel as nation-state of the Jewish people’

Democrats MK Na’ama Lazimi arrives for the opening session of the 26th Knesset in Jerusalem, November 10, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Entering the Knesset ahead of the swearing-in ceremonies, Democrats MK Na’ama Lazimi says Arab party Ra’am emphatically has a place in the government the anti-Netanyahu bloc is aiming to build.

Ra’am, she notes, “says it recognizes Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, and the Declaration of Independence.”

It placed Yoav Segalovitz, a Jewish, ex-police commander, at No. 2 on its slate, she adds. “And it proposes a framework for citizen service for Arabs.”

“We were elected to rebuild democracy,” she adds, “and you can’t reject 20 percent of society.”

Earlier, Otzma Yehudit MK Amichay Eliyahu said bringing the Arab parties into government would be like inviting the terrorist copilot who tried to crash a flydubai plane full of Israelis into the “cockpit” of Israel.

Qatar’s PM holds talks on Iran with European, Saudi foreign ministers

Fro left to right, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, France’s Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul pose for a family photo, prior to a meeting during the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Paris November 10, 2026. (Kenzo Tribouillard/Pool Photo via AP)

Qatar’s premier joined talks on the G7 sidelines in the French capital with four European top diplomats and the Saudi foreign minister hours after meeting US President Donald Trump to discuss ending Washington’s war with Iran, Paris says.

“The ministers will discuss the situation in the Middle East — with a particular focus on the Iran crisis and its security and economic repercussions — both for the region and for the international community as a whole,” the French foreign ministry said ahead of the talks.

Trump had said after meeting Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani — a key mediator who is also Qatar’s foreign minister — that there was momentum toward ending the war with Iran, which erupted on February 28.

The US leader declared that Iran “militarily, is effectively over,” but kept open the possibility of new strikes.

European top diplomats attending the meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Paris have been pressing US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to avoid any new escalation against Iran and ensure shipping traffic can flow freely again through the Strait of Hormuz energy transit hub.

As well as Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, the foreign ministers of European G7 members Britain, Germany, Italy and France were also taking part, the French foreign ministry says.

The talks were convened by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, Paris says.

In tirade against ‘terrorist’ Arab MKs, Ben Gvir claims election was ‘stolen’; opposition MK: Ben Gvir is Knesset’s only convicted terror supporter

Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir arrives for the swearing-in ceremony of the 26th Knesset in Jerusalem, November 10, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Far-right Internal Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir claims that the 19 lawmakers from the Arab-led parties are supporters of the Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups.

“I am excited to be here and to be sworn in to the Knesset for a third time. I like it less that there are 19 supporters of terror, supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah, in the Knesset,” says Ben Gvir, who has a record of convictions for incitement to racism and supporting a terror organization.

“They need to be thrown out,” he says, adding that his party is proposing a law that whoever is not “loyal” cannot vote.

“They are a danger to Israel,” says Ben Gvir.

The Otzma Yehudit minister claims that the “election was stolen” and says that he hopes there will be a fresh round of voting.

Israeli police, overseen by Ben Gvir, reportedly believe there is little evidence to support an investigation by the Shin Bet security agency into alleged foreign interference in last month’s election.

B’Yachad’s Ram Ben Barak, responding to Ben Gvir, says: “The only convicted terror supporter in the Knesset is Itamar Ben Gvir.”

UTJ’s newspapers stress party is not in a bloc; MK says it will side with whoever solves IDF draft issue

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past a poster in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood claiming that 180,000 Haredi voters refused to vote for Shas or UTJ over the issue of military conscription, November 3, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Several of today’s ultra-Orthodox newspapers linked to the United Torah Judaism party have articles that underline that the ultra-Orthodox parties are in neither the pro- nor the anti-Netanyahu camp. This comes after United Torah Judaism chose not to recommend anybody for prime minister when meeting with President Isaac Herzog last week, and amid efforts by Yisrael Beytenu’s Avigdor Liberman to woo UTJ and the second ultra-Orthodox party, Shas, into a coalition led by Yashar’s Gadi Eisenkot.

The ultra-Orthodox parties and their rabbinical leaders are furious with the outgoing coalition for failing to enshrine the broad exemption of ultra-Orthodox males from the IDF, although Shas is still publicly firmly in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp. Liberman, long deeply hostile to the ultra-Orthodox, is now urging “painful compromises” with the two ultra-Orthodox parties.

United Torah Judaism’s Yated Ne’eman daily, for instance, has an editorial stating, “We are not right-wing. Not right and not left… We go where the rabbis instruct us. All this talk trying to accuse United Torah Judaism of ‘leftism’ is a political weapon that belongs to the election campaign season… The question of whether we are right-wingers or leftists is simply the wrong question.” Yated is linked to UTJ’s Degel HaTorah faction.

HaModia, linked to UTJ’s Agudat Yisrael component, likewise responds to criticism from the right, and indicates its fury that an IDF draft-exemption law was not passed in the last four years: “Dear accusers, you keep saying that you [Netanyahu’s right-wing government] gave the Haredim so much… But you got everything from the Haredim — the reins of power, the government…. So who are the ingrates and who are the ones turning their backs?”

Finally, HaMevaser, considered the most hawkish of the ultra-Orthodox papers, says, “The Jewish faithful again reiterate: We are not entering any government without the status of yeshiva students being settled.” The article goes on to demand “guarantees” that the IDF draft issue will be resolved before UTJ agrees to enter a government.

Meanwhile, incoming UTJ MK Yehuda Weisfish tells Channel 12 from the Knesset: “We are in the ‘Torah Bloc,'” an “independent bloc,” rather than any politically partisan alliance. “We have to solve the issue of the Torah world,” he says, referring to the demand for an ongoing exemption from military service. “Whoever solves that great challenge for us, we are with them.”

In wake of Iran attacks, Gulf countries approve new joint military HQ

The six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council approve the creation of a headquarters for their Unified Military Command in Kuwait, says GCC Secretary-General Jasem Al-Budaiwi.

The announcement comes after all the GCC countries were targeted by Iran during the war that broke out in February. Albudaiwi condemns the “heinous Iranian attacks” during the Bahrain meeting.

The decision “reflects a firm Gulf commitment to safeguarding the security and sovereignty of the GCC states and strengthening their ability to confront common threats,” he says in a statement, adding that the GCC countries have agreed to send “appropriate” forces to the headquarters.

Ra’am MK: I did not say that Hamas is a charity organization; I condemn terrorism unreservedly

Ra’am MK Yasser Hujirat issues a statement aimed at clarifying a comment he made in a recent i24news interview to the effect that Hamas is a “charity organization.”

He says his words were edited and presented in a “tendentious and distorted” way, and that “part of my explanation was not carried in full, and what was left was a single sentence that created the impression I had claimed Hamas is a ‘charity organization.'”

He adds: “I want to make this clear in terms that leave no room for ambiguity: I did not say that Hamas is a charity organization, I do not think so, and that is not my position.”

Hujirat also says: “I condemn and denounce terrorism of every kind, unreservedly and without [allowing for] any justification. I am firmly opposed to Hamas’s crimes, to the acts of murder and abduction, and to the enormous suffering caused to Israelis.”

Qatar: Progress being made in US-Iran talks, but impossible to know if a deal is at hand

It is impossible to determine how close the US and Iran are to a deal, says Qatari Foreign Ministry Communications Director Ibrahim Al Hashmi.

Hashmi says in a press briefing that yesterday’s meeting between US President Donald Trump and Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani was positive and that progress is being made in talk mediated by Qatar.

He says that Qatar is “working continuously to end the uncertainty over the crisis between Washington and Tehran.”

Meanwhile, Abbas Pazouki, spokesman for Iran’s first vice president, claims that despite the US blockade, “the country’s reserves of essential goods are in very good shape; stocks of some items are even higher than before the blockade.”

“The supply, arrival, clearance and distribution of people’s necessities also continue without interruption,” he writes on X.

Bank of Israel grants conditional banking license to Revolut

The Bank of Israel grants Revolut a conditional banking license to establish a new bank as the global fintech giant prepares to enter the local banking market.

Passing the initial regulatory hurdle to launch the bank to be named Revolut Bank Israel allows the fintech firm to move forward with the mechanical, operational, and regulatory requirements needed to start the bank’s operations for customers.

“This is a first step toward founding the new bank, and alongside the Bank of Israel’s guidance, they will work to complete the process,” says Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron. “The main path to increasing competition is bringing additional players into the sector, and over the years we worked to remove entry barriers and create the conditions for new players to enter the banking system.”

It marks the third license since December 2019 that the Bank of Israel has granted for the establishment of a new bank, as part of an effort to boost competition in the highly concentrated banking sector.

Smotrich urges Haredi parties to reject talks with Eisenkot bloc

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich arrives for the swearing-in ceremony of the 26th Knesset in Jerusalem, November 10, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich urges the Haredi parties to reject reported negotiations with Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot’s bloc and calls on Yashar MK Matan Kahana to refuse the Knesset speakership if elected with the support of Arab parties.

“My Haredi brothers, don’t be lured into this trap,” Smotrich says at a press briefing at the Knesset. “They’ll dump you the moment they’ve finished using you to oust Netanyahu and the right and seize power.”

He says an appointment secured with the votes of “Israel’s enemies” is “illegitimate” and calls it “moral bankruptcy,” urging Kahana not to accept the position while it depends on parties that, he says, view Israel’s establishment as a catastrophe and undermine its right to exist.

Bennett says he’s working behind the scenes to build ‘Zionist government’

B'Yachad leader and former prime minister Naftali Bennett arrives for the swearing-in ceremony of the 26th Knesset in Jerusalem, November 10, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

In a message to supporters leaked to the press, B’Yachad head Naftali Bennett says his party is working “quietly” to help bloc leader Gadi Eisenkot build a “Zionist” coalition to replace the current government, without offering details.

“Quietly, we are doing everything, everything, to help Eisenkot to create a Zionist government of repair, in order to bring about as quickly as possible a changing of the guard, and so be able to fix Israel,” Bennett says in the message, according to a recording published by a Kan reporter.

Bennett, who repeats his message to reporters upon entering the Knesset, says the change in leadership is aimed at bringing relief to overburdened reservists, indicating opposition to answering Haredi demands for continued military draft exemptions.

His comments offer little to explain how Eisenkot could build a government without support from anti-Zionist Haredi and Arab parties, though his reference to quiet talks may hint at efforts to reach out to far-right parties in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corner, particularly Religious Zionism’s Bezalel Smotrich, whom he has allied with in the past and whose voter base includes many reservists.

US taking ‘appropriate’ steps after planes left UK base amid reported Iranian threat

A US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker prior to a refueling mission at RAF Mildenhall, England, Oct. 6, 2026 (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Aidan Martínez Rosiere)

The US military says it is taking “coordinated and appropriate” security steps after flight-tracking data showed it had withdrawn at least a dozen aircraft from a second British airbase.

The removal yesterday of the American refueling tankers and other aircraft from Mildenhall Royal Air Force (RAF) base in eastern England followed a threat from Iran, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.

Citing people familiar with events, the newspaper said the “precise nature” of the Iranian threat remained “under discussion” among United States officials.

A spokesperson for the US military’s European Command (EUCOM) declines to discuss “specific force protection measures,” noting various factors can affect them.

“In close partnership with our host nation allies, both RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath remain vigilant,” the spokesperson adds, referring to another nearby British airbase.

“Together, we are taking coordinated and appropriate actions to ensure the safety and security of our US service members, US and host nation civilians, contractors, and all of our families.”

Bereaved mother Shira Shapiro tearfully enters Knesset as ’emissary’ of Oct. 7 hero son Aner

Incoming Yashar MK Shira Shapiro, holding a picture of her son Aner, at the Knesset on November 10, 2026 (Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Incoming Yashar MK Shira Shapiro enters the Knesset surrounded by her family and clutching a picture of her son Staff Sgt. Aner Shapiro, an off-duty soldier who was killed while trying to defend partygoers during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack.

Shapiro briefly tears up and is unable to speak for several seconds after being asked about her emotions on the day she becomes a lawmaker.

She tells reporters she hopes to bring Aner’s “values, his ideas, his worldview” to the Knesset.

Aner Shapiro, 22, was unarmed and attending the Nova rave when the attack began, escaping the scene with friends and seeking safety in a roadside shelter. When the shelter came under attack, Shapiro positioned himself at the entrance to guard those inside, and in video that later emerged from a dashcam, he can be seen catching and throwing back seven grenades before the eighth exploded and killed him.

Shapiro, who visited her son’s grave on Mount Herzl before coming to the Knesset, says she is in the parliament “because of Aner. I’m here as his emissary.”

One of several freshman lawmakers with a deep personal connection to the October 7 attack, Shapiro says she hopes to use her time in office to work on behalf of young people and help heal societal rifts, saying it’s what her slain son would have sought to advance.

״אם אני נפגע ואין אותי – תמשיכו אחריי״
רגע לפני שתושבע כחברת כנסת
שירה שפירא עלתה לקברו של ענר ז״ל pic.twitter.com/OYlryI8CtI

— Inbar Twizer ענבר טויזר (@inbartvizer) November 10, 2026

Joint List’s Jabareen vows to block Netanyahu government, serve as ‘safety net’ for Arab public

Joint List MK Yousef Jabareen vows that his party will act to block Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies from remaining in power while prioritizing the needs of Arab citizens.

Speaking at a Joint List faction meeting ahead of the inaugural swearing-in ceremony of the 26th Knesset this afternoon, Jabareen says Arab voters, who turned out in large numbers in last month’s election, have entrusted the party with the responsibility to help “send home the government of Netanyahu, Ben Gvir and Smotrich, which has made our lives miserable throughout the past several years.”

He says the Joint List will serve as a “safety net” for Arab citizens against rising crime, home demolitions, discrimination in resource allocation, racism, police violence and the suppression of freedom of expression, while also working to prevent the continuation of what he calls a “malicious government.”

Dozens at right-wing protest outside Knesset: ‘There’ll be civil war if government is established with Arab-party support’

Moshe, a protestor from the town of Matan, demonstrates outside the Knesset against the possible establishment of a minority government backed by the Arab political parties. His sign reads 'Disgrace! Dependent on terrorism supporters? (Jeremy Sharon / The Times of Israel)

Several dozen right-wing protesters are demonstrating outside the Knesset against the possibility of the Gadi Eisenkot-led political bloc establishing a government with the support of the Arab-led parties.

A series of three barriers manned by armed Border Police officers separates the demonstration from the access road to the Knesset.

Many of the demonstrators are holding signs from the right-wing Im Tirtzu organization accusing the Arab political parties of being “terrorism supporters.”

One demonstrator, Moshe from the town of Matan who declined to give his last name, claims that if a minority government is established with the support of the Joint List and Ra’am majority-Arab parties there will be a civil war.

“We are protesting against the establishment of a coalition with, or even supported by, MKs who support terrorism,” says Moshe.

“They have no moral right, although maybe a legal right, to decide for my children who have been fighting over the last three years, what will happen — whether they live or die.”

“There is a Jewish minority and an Arab minority that want to take control of the Jewish and Zionist majority. This is unacceptable, it is not democratic, it contravenes the right of self-determination of the Jewish people,” continues Moshe.

“There will be a civil war here if it happens, no question. Civil war in the streets. Right now we are demonstrating here in an easygoing manner, with respect, politely. But it will become a civil war. We will not allow, the overwhelming majority of the Jewish people, terrorism supporters to determine the survival policies of the State of Israel.”

Anthropic sets IPO price range that values company at up to $1.4 trillion

Pages from the Anthropic website and the company's logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York on February 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

Anthropic plans to raise up to $64 billion in its upcoming initial public offering, the artificial intelligence giant says in a filing, putting the total valuation of the company at up to $1.4 trillion.

The maker of Claude says in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it aims to sell 825 million shares of Class A common stock at a Wall Street debut price estimate of “between $70.00 and $78.00” per share, amounting to $64.3 billion.

Anthropic had been expected to raise up to $100 billion in its debut, which would have made it the largest IPO on record.

WATCH: Opening ceremony for the 26th Knesset gets underway

The opening ceremony for the 26th Knesset gets underway in Jerusalem, with much pomp and circumstance.

President Isaac Herzog, his wife Michal Herzog, and Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana greet children waving Israeli flags at the entrance to the Knesset building, before moving to stand on the red carpet as the Knesset guard marches around the perimeter of the building’s grounds.

The ceremony can be watched live at the link below:

UTJ head sets price of support: Draft exemptions, school funding and religion-state status quo

United Torah Judaism head Yaakov Asher speaks at the party's headquarters in Bnei Brak on October 28, 2026, hours after election day polls closed. (Hilel Ben Or/Flash90)

United Torah Judaism head Yaakov Asher tells the Haredi Kikar Hashabbat news site that the party won’t join any coalition unless it meets its demands on military conscription, funding for unregulated education and preservation of ultra-Orthodox hegemony over certain aspects of public life.

Asher says conscription exemptions for yeshiva students and those in other Jewish learning institutes must be “worked out,” albeit without providing details about the sort of arrangement he wants to see. “Without that there won’t be anything,” he says of the matter, which he calls the most important.

Asher also says that UTJ will only support a coalition that commits to leaving money for Haredi schools untouched and does not attempt to condition funding on meeting core curriculum requirements. “Nobody should try to think that they will [be the ones to] educate our kids,” he says.

His third demand is maintenance of “the status quo between religion and state,” referring to policies in place that impose Jewish halachic rules on aspects of public life, such as prohibiting commerce on Shabbat.

“It’s our responsibility to preserve the image of the entire state, not just Bnei Brak or the Haredi neighborhoods of Jerusalem, but… everything,” the head of the anti-Zionist party says.

Asher presents the three demands as nonnegotiable, saying his party won’t join any coalition that doesn’t agree to all three.

Meanwhile, fellow UTJ lawmaker Yitzhak Goldknopf tells Channel 12 that discussions are already underway with Eisenkot’s camp.

“Eisenkot knows what we want. There have been preliminary contacts, and there is room for negotiations,” he says, adding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also in talks with the party, but “that doesn’t mean anything.”

Rubio sees ‘no need’ for further major combat operations against Iran

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he sees no need to resume major combat operations against Iran because economic restrictions are working so effectively.

“The economic campaign (against Iran) is so devastating that right now there is no need for major combat operations,” Rubio says after a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Paris. “That’s what I told our allies here today.”

Shas says it is sticking by Netanyahu, won’t negotiate with ‘any other player’

The ultra-Orthodox Shas party says it is not entertaining the idea of defecting from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc, seeking to quash speculation that its support could be up for grabs alongside fellow Haredi party United Torah Judaism, which has declared itself a free agent.

“Shas continues to support Netanyahu and is not in talks with any other player,” it says in a statement.

The party notes that its rabbinic steering council instructed party lawmakers to recommend Netanyahu for premier “after he committed to passing a law regulating yeshiva students,” referring to legislation enshrining Haredi military draft exemptions in law.

WATCH: Herzog addresses plenum at first session of 26th Knesset

The first session of the 26th Knesset begins with a speech by President Isaac Herzog.

The president, in his introduction, mentions by name the most senior member of Knesset — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has served as a member for 35 cumulative years since he was first elected in 1988 — and its youngest member, 24-year-old Yonatan Shalev of B’Yachad.

The opening session of the 26th Knesset can be watched in Hebrew at the following link:

Herzog to 26th Knesset: We must investigate October 7, strengthen ties with US, share responsibility for service

President Isaac Herzog addresses the Knesset plenum at the ceremonial opening session of the 26th Knesset at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, November 10, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel must fully investigate the failures that led to the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught, says President Isaac Herzog at the swearing-in of the 26th Knesset, adding that the challenges the country faces “demand joint responsibility for the duty of service.”

“We must leave no stone unturned, must investigate and must understand how the October 7 disaster occurred, and draw lessons and conclusions,” says Herzog.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to establish a state commission of inquiry into October 7, arguing that an independent panel appointed by the Supreme Court would be biased against the government. The government has in the last year said it would support an inquiry appointed by a panel of lawmakers, with its mandate and scope set by politicians.

“This Knesset must address the challenge of those who serve, both in the regular army and in the reserves, with full honesty and seriousness,” Herzog says, then turns to the issue of the ultra-Orthodox sector’s refusal to accept a military draft. “This is the time to find the appropriate solution for a country that is proud of its heritage and the world of Torah study, but whose challenges require joint responsibility for the duty of service.”

While stressing the importance of ensuring that Israelis can enjoy routine days in which they can afford groceries and access healthcare, Herzog emphasizes that “Iran’s evil empire does not stop even for a moment, in its plots and threats, whether directly or through its partners.”

“Alongside the stubborn and determined war against those who seek to harm us,” Herzog says, “we must build a stable political horizon in the region with our neighbors, including our closest ones, and strengthen and even add to the peace agreements with Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.”

He calls for a strengthened alliance with Washington: “We must fortify the alliance with our greatest friend – the United States, strengthen relations with all our allies, defend Israel’s good name, and fight political sanctions to the bitter end.”

Herzog calls out “moral stains” in Israeli society, including the wave of violent crime in Arab communities and settler violence in the West Bank.

“Israeli society is magnificent, it is amazing, but unfortunately there are moral stains within it that blemish its beautiful face,” he says. “There is no place for bullying within it. There is no place for racism within it. Against anyone. And there is no place for violence, not in Arab society, not in the hills of Judea and Samaria, not in the streets of the cities, not in the schools, anywhere. And it must be eradicated with all its might.”

Herzog tells the assembled lawmakers that they “must do everything possible to avoid a repeat election.”

“The people who have elected you thirst for routine, security and peace,” he says. “The people who are represented here by you yearn to see here a hand that will bring about unity – in the people and in hope.” He says Israelis long for cooperation, and respectful dialogue. “Be moderate toward one another, reach for compromise, even between rivals,” he says.

He congratulates Netanyahu on the start of his 15th Knesset term.

“There is joy and excitement, and there is also a lot of pain,” he notes. “For many of those sitting here, the joy of this day involves longing for a son or daughter, husband, brother, sister, grandson, or grandmother who should have been here by their side.”

Reports: One killed, several wounded in strike on tent in eastern Gaza City

Palestinian media outlets report that one person was killed and several have been wounded in an IDF strike on a tent near a school in eastern Gaza City.

The IDF has yet to comment.

شهيد ومصابون أثر قصف طيران الاحتلال الاسرائيلي خيمة في مدرسة موسى بن نصير في حي الدرج شرقي مدينة غزة. pic.twitter.com/aIfs2CjVRE

— الحـكـيم (@Hakeam) November 10, 2026

Ben Gvir heckles Joint List leader as he’s sworn in: ‘Who’s he committing to, Hamas?’

After Joint List chair Yousef Jabareen responds with the statutory “I commit” to the swearing-in ceremony at the Knesset, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir interjects: “Who’s he committing to, Hamas?”

Amid the ensuing ruckus, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana calls Ben Gvir to order and says anyone who interrupts again will be thrown out with no further warning.

The MKs take the oath by alphabetical order of their surnames. Ben Gvir was sworn in before Jabareen.

Later, when new Likud MK Elisha Medan stands up to take the oath, the plenum breaks out in applause.

Medan lost both legs fighting in northern Gaza in 2023 and walks on prosthetics.

Ohana says Israel must not cooperate with those who call Jews in their land ‘invaders’

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana (left) shakes hands with President Isaac Herzog at the ceremonial opening session of the 26th Knesset at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, November 10, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In remarks opening the Knesset’s inaugural session, Speaker Amir Ohana says there must be no cooperation with those who “spread blood libels about our fighters” and call “the Jewish people in their own land invaders,” invoking the future of Zionism and the phrase “Never again.”

Ohana says “great challenges still lie before us,” including Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and Hamas, which he says “has been dealt a devastating blow, but it still exists.”

He adds: “It is clear that Hamas is a terrorist organization, whether or not someone pays lip service to that as part of political negotiations,” referring to the Arab parties Ra’am and the Joint List, which have refused to explicitly refer to Hamas as such.

Ohana also calls for unity. “The 26th Knesset holds a great opportunity,” he says. “An opportunity to change the course Israeli society is on. An opportunity for unity.” He adds that those who fought terrorist groups on the battlefield “can and should work together in national leadership to finish the job.”

Arab MKs mostly absent during singing of national anthem; Ben Gvir taunts Eisenkot bloc: Where are your partners?’

As the Knesset’s inaugural session concludes with the singing of Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, the Otzma Yehudit leader, along with the party’s MK Amichay Eliyahu and other lawmakers heckle Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot’s bloc over the absence of members of the Joint List and Ra’am, shouting: “Where are your partners?”

Ra’am chairman Mansour Abbas is present during the singing of the anthem and, along with Ra’am’s Jewish No. 2 Yoav Segalovitz, appears to be the only lawmaker from the Arab-led parties in the plenum at the time.

Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman tweets, “These are the people you want to build a government with?”

At Auschwitz, son of Iran’s ousted shah calls for wider Holocaust education

Former Iranian crown prince and activist Reza Pahlavi and European Jewish Association chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin stand inside a barracks in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, November 10, 2026 (Yoav Dudkevitch)

Visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp for the first time, former Iranian crown prince and activist Reza Pahlavi calls for global solidarity against Holocaust denial.

Pahlavi, whose work focuses on overthrowing the Iranian regime, which categorically denies that the Holocaust happened, says that Holocaust education is necessary “not just to honor those who have been lost, but to make sure that it will never, ever happen again.”

He notes that Iranians faced their own massacre earlier this year, when some 40,000 people were killed during protests against the regime, according to unverified figures.

“This, of course, pales in comparison to six million Jews who lost their lives during the Holocaust,” he adds.

Pahlavi is visiting the site as part of a delegation organized by the European Jewish Association for the 88th anniversary yesterday of Kristallnacht, the German pogrom widely seen as a prelude to the Holocaust.

He said he was there representing Iranians who “understand the meaning of denial and also understand the meaning of murder.”

His father, the former shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979, had visited Auschwitz in 1966.

Speaking at a ceremony in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, where a million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, Pahlavi concludes with a message that he says is a cultural and symbolic motif in Iranian society: Light will triumph over darkness.

The EJA conference, attended by dozens of Jewish leaders and political figures, called on European leaders to increase their current commitments to protecting Jewish life on the continent into more concrete actions.

EJA chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin called on attendees to remember the victims, teach their stories and “protect the Jewish life you were not allowed to live.”

Knesset swearing-in completed, kicking off new parliament

Lawmakers attend the swearing-in ceremony for new members of the 26th Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, November 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

After all 120 members of the Knesset are sworn in one by one, the Knesset secretary expresses his best wishes for the 26th Knesset, setting off applause and marking the opening of the new parliament.

By coincidence, all four final members to be sworn in to the Knesset are newcomers, three of whom have deep connections to October 7: Yashar’s Shira Shapiro, whose son Aner was killed in the attack, Yisrael Beytenu’s Sharon Sharabi, whose brothers Eli and Yossi were kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri, with Yossi killed in captivity, and Yashar MK Noam Tibon, a former general who rushed to Nahal Oz to rescue his son and their family.

Between them is Likud’s Erez Tadmor, founder of the right-wing Im Tirtzu activist group.

‘Government with terrorists is a betrayal of the soldiers,’ chant hundreds of right-wing protesters outside Knesset

Right-wing demonstrators protest against the possibility of the formation of a government that relies on support from the Arab parties, at a protest outside the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on November 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

A contingent of several hundred right-wing protesters outside the Knesset approach the police barrier blocking access to the parliament building with calls demanding a new election and calling a government supported by the Arab-led parties “a betrayal of the fighters.”

The demonstration remains peaceful despite the tension.

Protesters chant “You don’t establish a government with terrorists” and “a government with terrorists is a betrayal of the soldiers,” in reference to the Arab-led political parties in the Knesset.

Numerous speakers at the protest, organized by the right-wing Im Tirtzu organization, call the Arab MKs “terrorists” or “supporters of terrorism.”

One speaker claims that Yashar MK Matan Kahana, who is backed by the political bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot to be the new Knesset speaker, would be sworn in “by virtue of the signature of 19 terrorists,” in reference to the 19 MKs of the Joint List and Ra’am Arab-majority parties, which include two Jewish MKs.

“Eisenkot, if you use the votes of those who pulled the trigger to kill our children you are not worthy to be prime minister,” says another speaker, referring to the possibility that the Yashar leader will establish a minority government backed by the Arab-led parties.

Democrats MK Kariv walks out of plenum as Knesset speaker takes jab at Arab parties

Democrats MK Gilad Kariv walked out of the Knesset plenum during the swearing-in ceremony a short while ago, when Speaker Amir Ohana called for no cooperation with people who “spread blood libels about our soldiers” and call “the Jewish people in their own land invaders,” footage shows.

Those and subsequent comments by Ohana were a jab at Arab parties Ra’am and the Joint List, whose support could be crucial for Zionist opposition parties to form a government.

Kariv says on X afterward that Ohana’s speech was “a tin-eared end to a disgraceful tenure.”

“We didn’t expect anything else from Amir Ohana the Kahanist,” Kariv adds, referring to disciples of slain extremist rabbi Meir Kahane.

ח״כ גלעד קריב נוטש את המליאה בעקבות הנאום של אוחנה והקריאה לא לשתף פעולה עם המפלגות הערביות pic.twitter.com/VIDXWcrU6t

— עמיאל ירחי (@amiel_y) November 10, 2026

New York Times rejects Israeli ambassador’s account of meeting with editors

The New York Times denies claims by Israel’s ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, who told a gathering of Chabad emissaries on Sunday that The New York Times had published a “blood libel” about IDF actions in Gaza “to prepare the next genocide” of Jews.

Leiter also described a meeting with New York Times editors last November, where he says he was berated with accusations “of genocide, of starving people to death.”

The New York Times says in a statement, “The ambassador has misrepresented this meeting and makes a serious and false allegation about our coverage.”

“Mr. Leiter’s office requested a meeting with our Opinion section. It was a thoughtful, respectful and wide-ranging off-the-record conversation about the Middle East,” a spokesperson says.

“The war in Gaza was part of the discussion, but the ambassador describes statements and a prosecutorial tone that do not accurately reflect the conversation,” the spokesperson says.

IDF: Israeli man crossed into Lebanon, located by UN forces and returned to Israel

An Israeli civilian illegally crossed the border into Lebanon a short while ago, near the Rosh Hanikra Crossing, the military says.

The military says the man was located by United Nations forces near the border and handed over to IDF troops, who escorted him back to Israeli territory.

The man was then handed over to the police for further questioning. Crossing the border illegally is punishable by up to four years in jail.

The IDF says the incident is under investigation.

Bennett, anti-Netanyahu MKs heckle premier over Qatar ties, October 7 inquiry as he addresses new Knesset

B’Yachad chairman Naftali Bennett and other opposition lawmakers repeatedly interrupt Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his address to the newly sworn-in Knesset, demanding answers over his aides’ suspected ties to Qatar and his refusal to establish a state commission of inquiry into the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack.

As Netanyahu accuses the Arab parties of seeking Israel’s destruction, Bennett interrupts him, shouting: “What about investigating the events of October 7? What about your Qatari advisers? Why don’t you declare Qatar an enemy state?”

Likud faction chairman Ofir Katz fires back at Bennett: “Investigate it together with your Tibi and Abbas,” referring to Joint List lawmaker Ahmad Tibi and Ra’am chairman Mansour Abbas.

Meanwhile, Democrats chairman Yair Golan and members of his party walk out of the plenum in protest, while Democrats MK Gilad Kariv shouts: “How much money did you receive from Qatar?”

“Ever since the balcony in Zion Square, you haven’t stopped inciting,” Kariv yells, referring to an October 1995 rally in which Netanyahu supporters chanted “Death to Rabin,” a month before his assassination by a Jewish extremist.

The outbursts come as Netanyahu, who lost his parliamentary majority in last month’s elections, uses his speech to renew his calls for a national unity government while continuing his campaign to delegitimize the Arab parties and portray them as supporters of terrorism, seeking to undermine the ability of Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot and his allies to form a government with their support.

Netanyahu’s bloc holds just 53 seats, compared to the 67 held by parties opposed to him, including Ra’am and the Joint List.

Netanyahu pursued a policy for years of facilitating the transfer of Qatari funds into Hamas-ruled Gaza, while several of his closest advisers are being investigated for alleged payments to promote Doha’s interests while working for the prime minister.

His longtime adviser Jonatan Urich recently admitted during police questioning that he received hundreds of thousands of shekels for work connected to Qatar that continued after the October 7 attack and that he remains employed by the prime minister.

Netanyahu has also refused calls to establish a state commission of inquiry into the failures surrounding October 7 and has never accepted direct responsibility for the attack.

Netanyahu to Haredim: Don’t trust Eisenkot bloc, Israel’s Jewish identity is at stake

As Gadi Eisenkot works to piece together a government — potentially with the support of ultra-Orthodox parties — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells Haredi lawmakers not to trust the bloc trying to unseat him, arguing that Israel’s Jewish identity is at stake.

“To our Haredi brothers I say,” Netanyahu exhorts from the Knesset plenum, “a narrow government [led by Eisenkot] must not be formed. Because I know what is at stake — not only the enormous security challenge, but also the great internal challenge of preserving the Jewish identity of the State of Israel.”

Netanyahu tells Haredi lawmakers that they “represent a large public that is deeply concerned about the state’s Jewish identity, a public that loves Israel and has settled in the heart of the Land of Israel.”

He says that his bloc has “safeguarded and will continue to safeguard the sacred values of Israel — and you know very well who your partners in a narrow government would be, and what their attitude is toward Israel’s sacred values.”

“Our shared mission is to complete the formalization of the status of Torah students, and to pass the conscription law with broad agreement, in cooperation with your spiritual leadership,” says Netanyahu of legislation on ultra-Orthodox enlistment and exemptions that he has been promising for over a decade.

“I don’t need to tell you — you know very well — they will promise you the world,” he says of the Eisenkot camp, which is working to form a government without Netanyahu. “But one minute after a government led by the left is, God forbid, formed, all those promises will evaporate. They will do whatever they please, with a safety net provided by the Arab parties.”

Following the speech, opposition B’Yachad leader Naftali Bennett says, “That is not how you build unity.”

US man indicted for threatening AIPAC, Florida Holocaust center

A letter defendant Brian Charles allegedly sent to the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach in July 2026. (Southern District of Florida)

A man from North Carolina is indicted for sending threatening letters to Jewish organizations in Florida, the US Department of Justice says.

Brian Charles, 58, is charged with mailing threatening communications and faces a five-year sentence, says the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

Charles allegedly sent the letters in July to personnel from the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, the American Jewish Committee’s Palm Beach office and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

The identical letters showed an obscene, anti-Israel cartoon and were titled, “The punishment of my wicked Jews in the American government.”

“I am going to destroy my Jews. Many shall die by my wrath — I am God,” the letters said. “They will die painful deaths through my wrath. My judgment is against them. What right do wicked sinners have to extort my people the Americans?”

Charles lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, but the recipients are in South Florida, and he is being prosecuted in the federal Southern District of Florida.

Charles wrote his own name on the letters and the FBI matched his prints to the documents, the criminal complaint said.

In 2018, in a separate case, Charles pleaded guilty to five counts of mailing threatening communications and was sentenced to 542 days in prison and three years of probation, which he violated multiple times, the complaint says.

IDF evacuates 4 West Bank outposts it says are source of ‘repeated acts of violence’; 3 detained for rioting

Four illegal West Bank outposts, from which settlers carried out violent attacks on Palestinians, were demolished by Israeli forces over the past two days, the military says.

The IDF says that soldiers and Border Police officers evacuated the illegal outposts located near the Palestinian villages of Burqa, Wadi Rahim, and Jalud.

“Repeated acts of violence and illegal activity originated from these outposts,” the military says.

Several vehicles, tents and temporary structures, which the army says “lacked infrastructure and adequate living conditions,” were removed by the forces.

During an operation overnight near Burqa, troops encountered “barricades made of burning tires, rocks and spikes” that had been placed by settlers, according to the military. “As a result, two vehicles used by security forces were damaged,” the IDF says.

The IDF says the settlers also threw stones at the forces and carried out arson attacks in the village.

“The forces cleared the barricades and restored order in the area,” the army says, adding that three Israeli civilians were detained and handed over to the police.

Police investigators later entered the village with IDF escort to collect findings for the investigation.

Top Iranian security official says no talks underway with US

Mohsen Rezaei, the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, attends a ceremony at Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's shrine in southern Tehran on June 4, 2026. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto)

Iran’s top security official Mohsen Rezaei says there are currently no negotiations taking place between Tehran and Washington, in an interview with pro-Iran broadcaster Al-Mayadeen.

Iran has insisted the US must meet seven conditions set out in a June interim agreement before the Strait of Hormuz can reopen and negotiations resume.

Rezaei says Iran has asked the US for a “clear and explicit” response to its conditions, but has yet to receive one, adding that Washington could respond in the future.

After meeting with mediator Qatar on Monday, US President Donald Trump played down the likelihood of major warfare restarting soon but ⁠remained unwilling to accept the existing Iranian truce plan.

Ra’am chair Abbas claims Netanyahu once declared: ‘Sinwar and I understand each other’

Leader of Ra'am Mansour Abbas at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 10, 2026. (Ilia YEFIMOVICH/AFP)

Ra’am chair MK Mansour Abbas claims in an interview with Channel 12 that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once confided in him that he, Netanyahu, and then-Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar “understand each other.”

According to Abbas, Netanyahu made the cryptic remark during 2021 negotiations with the Ra’am chair about his party’s inclusion in a Netanyahu-led government.

The negotiations, which ultimately failed, with Ra’am instead joining the Bennett-Lapid government, took place during the 11-day Operation Guardian of the Walls conflict with Hamas.

Abbas says Netanyahu told him, then, about the message he received from Sinwar in 2018 telling him to take a “calculated risk” as negotiations for a long-term ceasefire between Israel and the Gaza terror group intensified.

“He put his trust in Yahya Sinwar, went to sleep at night, and abandoned the security of the citizens of Israel,” Abbas tells Channel 12, adding that the revelation of the message from Sinwar to Netanyahu had “shocked him.”

“I have tried to understand what he was telling me, that he and Yahya Sinwar understand each other,” Abbas continues, adding that he is waiting for a state commission of inquiry into the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre so that he can testify about that conversation.

Turning to the present day, Abbas tells the television network that he wasn’t offended but “astounded” by Netanyahu’s remarks during the ceremony for the swearing-in of the 26th Knesset earlier today, when the premier claimed that Ra’am and the Joint List were working for the “destruction” of Israel.

“I was astounded that the prime minister would exploit a state occasion to lie, to incite and to spread blood libel about the Arab parties,” Abbas says. “We are law-abiding citizens of Israel.”

“We don’t want to establish an Islamist state or an Arab state,” he reiterates. “This is where the State of Israel was established; we define ourselves within the State of Israel as citizens.”

“We stand for peace and for ending the conflict with a two-state solution… We condemn terrorism, and we are also victims of terrorism,” he adds.

Netanyahu posts rapid string of tweets warning against relying on ‘terror supporters’ to govern

Following a fiery speech at the swearing-in of the 26th Knesset, in which he declared that Arab lawmakers were working toward the “destruction” of the State of Israel, Interim Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moves his rhetoric online, publishing multiple social media posts warning against cooperation with the Joint List and Ra’am.

Between 6:39 p.m. and 7:36 p.m., Netanyahu publishes seven posts on X, each with the caption: “It is forbidden to establish a dangerous government with terror supporters from Ra’am and the Joint List!”

Each post features a different video clip to back up his assertion, including one from earlier today, when Arab lawmakers left the Knesset plenum before the singing of the Israeli national anthem.

בושה! אסור להקים ממשלה מסוכנת עם תומכי הטרור של רע״מ והמשותפת! pic.twitter.com/WeFe49Dsfi

— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) November 10, 2026

Another video includes a clip of a controversial speech delivered by Ta’al chair Ahmad Tibi in Ramallah in 2012, in which he praised Palestinian “martyrdom.”

Tibi later insisted he was referring only to those killed unjustly by Israeli forces, not those who died while committing acts of terrorism.

אסור להקים ממשלה מסוכנת עם תומכי הטרור של רע״מ והמשותפת! pic.twitter.com/MLaDlX6CfV

— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) November 10, 2026

Yashar cancels scheduled negotiations with Likud after Netanyahu’s ‘divisive speech’

Party leaders pose for a group photo following the swearing-in of the 26th Knesset at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 10, 2026. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is at front right, with Gadi Eisenkot at center. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party announces that it has cancelled a scheduled meeting with representatives of Likud tomorrow, following Interim Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “divisive speech” earlier this evening.

It says the meeting with Likud had been scheduled as part of Eisenkot’s commitment to “sincere and genuine negotiations” with all parties in the Knesset, but that it has been cancelled due to Netanyahu’s behavior at the opening ceremony for the 26th Knesset.

“In light of the divisive speech delivered by the outgoing prime minister, the desecration of the Knesset swearing-in ceremony, and with it what remains of statesmanship under Netanyahu’s rule, Yashar chair Gadi Eisenkot instructed that the negotiations scheduled for tomorrow with Likud representatives be cancelled,” reads a statement from Yashar.

“Unity is an important value for Israel, and Israeli solidarity is a component of Israel’s national security, and we will continue to act in their interest,” the statement continues, referring to Netanyahu’s repeated calls for a unity government under his leadership. “Netanyahu does not want unity. As always, when faced with the gravity of the hour and the resilience of Israeli society and his political survival, Netanyahu always chooses himself. No matter the cost.”

In a statement, Likud criticizes Yashar’s cancellation of its meeting with Likud even as Eisenkot’s party continues its contacts with the Arab parties.

Likud says Netanyahu continues to work for a “national unity government,” that he will “turn over every stone” for this goal, and that Likud representatives are ready to meet with those of any party seeking unity. The statement stresses that Netanyahu stands by his earlier comments opposing cooperation with “supporters of terror” and those “who only tonight abandoned the Knesset plenum when the national anthem was being sung.”

Zamir said to again warn in closed meetings that Netanyahu advancing ill-advised action against Iran

Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, August 5, 2026; Right: IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 10, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has again expressed opposition in recent meetings to actions that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to carry out against Iran, Channel 12 reports, citing multiple unidentified sources.

Zamir is reportedly convinced the unspecified actions would be incautious at present given the political uncertainty in Israel and the White House’s dwindling desire for war with Iran after US voters’ rebuke of US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party in the midterm elections last week.

A similar showdown between Netanyahu and Zamir was reported in Hebrew media before Israel’s October 27 election, and the dispute has since renewed, according to Channel 12.

Neither the IDF nor the Prime Minister’s Office commented, the network adds.

Kan presenter Ayala Hasson quits amid racism row, accuses broadcaster of trying to silence her

Kan reporter Ayala Hasson. in the public broadcaster's Tel Aviv studio, June 24, 2026. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Longtime anchor Ayala Hasson announces that she is quitting the Kan public broadcaster after becoming embroiled in a racism scandal, accusing Kan of trying to silence her.

“I will not be part of a system that seeks to silence significant and substantial voices within Israel in order to appease a specific camp,” Hasson says in a post on X announcing she is leaving.

Hasson had been forced by Kan to apologize after she made comments that were widely criticized as racist and derogatory toward Israel’s Bedouin community.

“Until now, I remained at the corporation out of a deep conviction regarding the importance of giving voice to a different perspective. I viewed this as a journalistic and public mission, especially within an institution whose duty it is to provide a platform for all segments of Israeli society,” Hasson says.

“Regrettably, over time, I have come to the realization that instead of safeguarding freedom of expression and a diversity of opinions, there are those within the corporation who seek to appease a specific camp, even at the cost of attempting to marginalize and silence other voices,” she says, noting the forced on-air apology as the final straw.

She again accuses Kan of trying to appease an unnamed political camp.

In the initial comments, Hasson ridiculed the so-called “change bloc” of anti-Netanyahu political parties for the possibility of joining forces in government with Arab-led parties, asking, “With whom is the ‘change’? With the Bedouin women in the Negev, with veils, whose husbands have several other wives like them, and most of whom are battered women?”

Hasson later also apologized on social media, saying: “I would like to clarify that I had no intention whatsoever of offending any women, and to anyone who was offended by my words, I apologize to her from the depths of my heart.”

Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton tours Gaza aid facilities on Egyptian side of Rafah Crossing

British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, left, listens to Major General Khaled Maghawer, governor of North Sinai, during his visit to Egypt’s side of the Rafah crossing with Gaza Strip, November 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)

Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton arrived at Egypt’s Rafah today to visit organizations sending humanitarian aid to the war-torn Gaza Strip.

Hamilton has spoken out about humanitarian crises and conflict zones in the region, calling for peace. He has frequently posted on social media about children killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and called for a ceasefire. He has also addressed other conflicts.

“I think we need to make sure we’re pushing to free Congo, free Sudan, free Syria, free Palestine. I think there’s a lot of peace that I’m hoping we get to at some stage,” Hamilton said last month.

Hamilton toured Egypt’s Rafah border crossing with Gaza before visiting logistics warehouses operated by the Egyptian Red Crescent, which facilitates aid entry into Gaza.

At the crossing, Hamilton greeted aid workers, shook hands and briefly spoke with workers and officials.

Khaled Megawer, the governor of North Sinai, where Rafah is located, said the visit aims to help Hamilton learn about Egypt’s efforts to send aid to Gaza.

The visit comes after Hamilton made his 400th race start on Sunday at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix at Interlagos.

Hamilton, the first Black driver to race in F1, made his debut with McLaren in 2007. He is only the second driver in F1 to start 400 races following his former teammate Fernando Alonso, who achieved the milestone in 2024.

Joint List says it will work to remove ‘bloodthirsty’ Netanyahu after his ‘racist’ speech

Joint List leader Yousef Jabareen and faction chairman Ahmad Tibi attend a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 10, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Joint List responds to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the newly sworn-in Knesset, in which he attacked Ra’am and the Joint List and warned against relying on Arab parties to form a government, calling it “deranged, inciting and racist.”

“The bloodthirsty and criminal prime minister is in a state of complete hysteria,” the party says. “There is no other way to explain the deranged, inciting and racist speech he delivered today.”

“We will fulfill, as soon as possible, the will of our people: more than half a million citizens of this country who want to remove Netanyahu, the Speaker of the Knesset and his Kahanist government [referring to the ideology of slain extremist rabbi and politician Meir Kahane], and consign them to the dustbin of history,” the statement continues. “We are committed to doing everything in our power to make this happen, as soon as possible.”

UNIFIL says forces came under fire during ‘routine patrol’ in southern Lebanon

The United Nations observer force in southern Lebanon says its forces came under fire during a “routine patrol” this evening.

According to UNIFIL, the patrol near Wadi Jilou, east of Tyre and outside of the Israeli military’s buffer zone, “was fired upon with about a dozen rounds.”

“After identifying a muzzle flash, the patrol returned fire,” UNIFIL says, adding that the unidentified shooter then stopped firing.

No UNIFIL observers were injured in the incident.

UNIFIL calls on the Lebanese government “to swiftly initiate an investigation to identify and hold the perpetrators accountable.”

The observer force is set to withdraw from southern Lebanon at the end of the year, following a decades-long deployment.

Senior US Army soldier arrested in UK for suspected ‘espionage’ for Russia

A senior US Army soldier has been arrested in Britain on suspicion of assisting Russian intelligence, British police say, after the US removed aircraft from British military bases over a separate apparent threat from Iran.

FBI Director Kash Patel says the arrest of the 41-year-old man is related to “allegations of espionage, which is of the utmost concern to the United States and our allies.”

Brigadier General Sean Stinchon, the commanding general of US Army Counterintelligence Command, adds: “The alleged conduct of a senior soldier, entrusted with sensitive information, is a sobering reminder that insider threats are real and persistent.”

The arrest, which took place near the city of Gloucester, west England, on Tuesday, “is not linked to any other ongoing Counter Terrorism Policing investigations,” British police say.

But it occurred the day after the US removed refuelling aircraft from a British airbase in the second such apparent evacuation in three months.

Planes left the Royal Air Force base in Mildenhall, eastern England yesterday, which, according to the Wall Street Journal, was prompted by a threat from Iran.

The US in September withdrew bombers that had been used to strike Iran from RAF Fairford on security grounds over an incident police have linked to Iran, which has denied any links to attacks or incidents in Britain.

The US Army soldier arrested was detained on suspicion of offenses under sections 1 and 3 of the National Security Act, which relate to obtaining or disclosing protected information and assisting a foreign intelligence service. Police say the country to which the allegations relate is Russia.

US charges 3 Iran-backed operatives with terror attacks against Jews

The US Department of Justice charges three Iran-backed operatives with terror attacks against Jews and other targets in the US and Europe.

The defendants are Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani.

Al-Saadi had previously been charged in a US federal court.

The Department of Justice charges the group with involvement in nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks in support of Kata’eb Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Both groups are US-designated terrorist organizations.

The network allegedly facilitated attacks in a wave of terrorism against European Jewish communities after the start of the Iran war.

The attacks included the stabbing of two Jewish men in London and a firebombing of a London synagogue.

The defendants allegedly directed the attackers during live video calls and distributed propaganda footage afterward.

The alleged plots involve an attempted attack on RAF Fairfield, a British air base where US forces were based, and an attempted bombing of a synagogue in New York.

Al-Saadi, while imprisoned in New York, allegedly attempted to coordinate attacks with the other two defendants through coded messages.

Under criticism, PM’s office insists winter supplies entering Gaza but Hamas must disarm before reconstruction

Displaced Palestinians attempt to clear a water puddle outside their flooded tents amid heavy rainfall in Gaza City’s Al-Remal neighbourhood on November 7, 2026. (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)

After criticism from the US-backed Board of Peace and other countries over Israel’s restrictions on aid into the Gaza Strip, Interim Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office insists that Israel is doing what it can to allow winter equipment into Gaza, and that Hamas, not Israel, is not honoring its commitments.

“Israel is working in close cooperation with the United States and the Board of Peace,” the Prime Minister’s Office says in an English-language statement. “Israel is committed to the success of President Trump’s 20-point plan.”

The PMO stresses that, according to the plan, Hamas must give up its weapons before reconstruction in the Strip begins.

“Israel had hoped that Hamas would honor its commitment to disarm, demilitarize, step down from governance, and begin de-radicalizing Gaza,” it says. “To date, Hamas has not surrendered a single weapon, and it continues to hold the people of Gaza hostage to its terrorist rule.”

Netanyahu’s office points out that Hamas used materials meant for building Gaza’s infrastructure to build up its military force. “It used cement intended for homes to build terror tunnels, it turned water pipes into missile launchers, and it used sanitation pumps to manufacture rockets,” says Israel. “Hamas steals from Gazans to arm itself, systematically diverting humanitarian aid to military infrastructure while the United Nations and UNRWA turn a blind eye.”

“As long as Hamas remains in power, it will use every dual-use item entering Gaza to entrench its terror regime and expand its military arsenal,” says the PMO.

Australia, Denmark, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UK have been among countries calling on Israel to ease restrictions on dual-use items into Gaza.

Israel, says the PMO, “has allowed additional humanitarian supplies into Gaza to ease the winter conditions facing the people of Gaza. Through COGAT, Israel has facilitated a winterization plan in coordination with the Board of Peace, the United Nations, international organizations, and donor countries.”

The plan includes over 91,000 tents, more than 8,200 trucks of winter clothing and supplies, 12 trucks to remove sewage, and repairs to water and sewage infrastructure.

However, mobile homes, which aid groups say are the most necessary item for protection against heavy rainfall and winter conditions, are banned from entering the Strip.

Israel, pledges the PMO, “will continue to support winter preparedness in Gaza. Hamas must not be allowed to exploit humanitarian supplies and equipment to rebuild its terror capabilities.”

The PMO says that only Hamas “is responsible for the suffering of the people of Gaza.”

“Israel calls upon the mediators to demand that Hamas disarm immediately throughout Gaza, so that President Trump’s 20-point plan can be realized,” it says.

Trump-supporting influencer accused of accepting gifts linked to Qatar; Doha says ‘false’ claim lacks evidence

A prominent social media influencer closely linked to US President Donald Trump has been accused by his former business partner of accepting lavish gifts from individuals tied to Qatar.

The allegation is made in a counter-lawsuit filed by X Strategies co-founder Derek Utley against Alex Bruesewitz after the latter accused Utley of embezzling millions in their company’s funds.

X Strategies runs several pro-Trump social media accounts, including the Trump War Room and Team Trump.

Utley claims in his countersuit that the alleged Qatar-linked payments could violate the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), which requires anyone who attempts to influence the US government for the benefit of a foreign entity to register with the Justice Department.

The Qatari Embassy in Washington vehemently denies the “false” Doha-related claims made in Utley’s lawsuit.

“Bruesewitz has received no money from the State of Qatar, or at the direction of the State of Qatar. No evidence was cited for this false claim, and The Times made no effort to contact Qatar’s representatives to comment. Qatar’s Embassy advised Utley’s lawyers to correct this misrepresentation to the court,” the embassy says.