Hourly Roundup 00:00 Israel · 12 May 2026
Stories in this hour
- Magen David Adom and the Israeli Health Ministry just launched a dedicated mental health emergency response unit.Magen David Adom and the Israeli Health Ministry just launched a dedicated mental health emergency response unit. In the last year, there's been a 45% rise in mental health calls to MDA's emergency hotline. But…
- Lapid says more party mergers to come soon ahead of elections, as Liberman calls for constitutionLapid made the remarks at the Guidelines for Jewish-Democratic Policy conference, held at the Judaism and State Policy Center of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
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- Knesset passes law to prosecute October 7 terrorists, conduct public trials in JerusalemThe law was passed by a unanimous vote of 93 to 0, as the Knesset opened its summer session on Sunday, following more than a month-long spring recess.
- 🎯The Israeli Air Force successfully intercepted a suspicious aerial target over southern Lebanon, where IDF soldiers are operating.
- Do-or-die in Jerusalem: Beitar faces defining night in championship raceThere is no reason to think that the yellow-and-black can’t do the unthinkable and take home the championship for the first time in close to two decades.
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice leaves Democratic Party over Jew-hatred concernsPennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht announced on Monday that he has left the Democratic Party and registered as an independent, citing what he described as growing tolerance for antisemitism within the party. Wecht, who…
- 🚨 The US Treasury just sanctioned 12 individuals and entities for enabling the IRGC's sale and shipment of Iranian oil.🚨 The US Treasury just sanctioned 12 individuals and entities for enabling the IRGC's sale and shipment of Iranian oil. The Iranian regime directs that revenue toward "weapons development, backing terrorist proxies, and funding security…
- Experts slam New York Times column alleging dogs used in sexual abuse of Palestinian prisonersThe opinion piece, written by columnist Nicholas Kristof, parroted "cartoonishly evil Hamas propaganda that would make Goebbels blush," Eitan Fischberger, a Middle East analyst, stated.
- Docaviv 2026 reveals the Israeli film lineupTwelve new films have been chosen for the Israeli competition. They include Soccer for the Soul, by Avida Livny, and Shalom, by Meital Zvieli.
Torah perspective
A unanimous 93-0 vote to prosecute the perpetrators of unspeakable brutality in Jerusalem is not merely a legal procedure. It is a declaration that justice has a geography. The Torah insists that judgment belongs to God, yet charges human courts with the sacred task of establishing justice on earth. Jerusalem, the city where the Sanhedrin once sat between the chambers of the Temple, is the only fitting venue for confronting evil of this magnitude. When a nation rises as one to say that some crimes are so grave they must be answered in its eternal capital, it restores a fragment of divine order to a world that has seen its opposite.