Hourly Roundup 07:00 UTC 13 May 2026
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- 🔥The IDF says it struck more than 40 Hezbollah terror infrastructure sites across southern Lebanon over the past 24 hours.🔥The IDF says it struck more than 40 Hezbollah terror infrastructure sites across southern Lebanon over the past 24 hours. Targets included weapons depots, military compounds, and additional infrastructure used by Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists to…
- US returns two rare, ancient coins to Israel following joint antiquities theft investigationOne of the coins, depicting the Temple's seven-branched menorah, was minted in Hasmonean-ruled Jerusalem, while the other, the second of its kind ever found, was minted in ancient Ashkelon.
- Israeli defense-tech company secures $10.7 million contract with US to supply AI-powered systemSmart Shooter's SMASH systems are expected to be delivered in the third quarter of 2026, according to a company statement.
- Five Jewish couples wed in wartime ceremony in KyivFive Jewish couples got married last week at a synagogue in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, in what a local Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi said was Ukrainian Jewry’s largest group wedding ceremony in years. The newlyweds comprised…
- IDF kills 15 Hezbollah terrorists, hits Southern Lebanon launchersThe Israeli Air Force struck and killed 15 Hezbollah terrorists as ground forces in Southern Lebanon continued to dismantle rocket launchers aimed at Israeli civilians and soldiers, the military said on Tuesday. The aerial attacks…
- Noam Bettan advances to Eurovision final amid anti-Israel protests at Vienna arenaIsrael's Noam Bettan qualified on Tuesday night for the grand final of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after earning enough points in the semifinal to advance. Alongside the Jewish state, Greece, Finland, Belgium, Sweden, Moldova,…
- קרב מסוג חדש: סין ניסתה לשים יד על מודל הAI העוצמתי - וארה"ב נבהלהנציג של מכון מחקר סיני פנה בחודש שעבר לבכירים ב"אנתרופיק" בסינגפור, ודרש כי החברה תשנה את עמדתה ותעניק לבייג'ינג גישה למודל הבינה המלאכותית החדש והעוצמתי שלה - וסורבה מיד
- הם לא דור אבוד - אבל מהנתונים האלה אסור להתעלםמחקר חדש חושף תמונת מצב מטרידה בצפון. החרפת מצוקות בקרב ילדים ובני נוער לאחר המלחמה והפינוי הממושך, לצד מסר כי אינם "דור אבוד" אלא דור עם כוחות שזקוק לחיזוק
- זוכה פוליצר האשים את צה"ל באונס פלסטינים - ועורר סערה: "עלילת דם"קשה לקריאה: ניקולס קריסטוף, בעל טור ב"ניו יורק טיימס", טען בין היתר כי במסגרת התעללות מינית שיטתית באסירים פלסטינים, ישראל עושה שימוש בכלבים למטרות אונס. תגובות הזעזוע לא איחרו לבוא: "שקרים בלי ראיות", אמר השגריר…
- Russian ship that sank after strange explosions reportedly carying nuclear reactors to North KoreaState-of-the-art US military aircraft known as “nuke sniffers” have been recorded surveying the wreckage scene twice over the last year, once on August 28, 2025, and again on February 6, 2026.
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- Trump: US will prevail over Iran 'peacefully or otherwise'President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that the Iranian regime would be “decimated” if it refused to agree to end the war, saying the United States would prevail “peacefully or otherwise.” "We'll win it one…
Torah perspective
Marriage is the vessel through which divine light enters even the darkest places. In Kyiv, where war has torn the fabric of daily life, five couples chose to weave it anew under the chuppah. Three had been married for years through civil law but never through the sanctity of Torah, and two had their plans delayed by invasion. The Chassidic masters teach that a Jewish wedding is not merely a personal milestone but a cosmic repair, a reunification of the divine presence with its source. When a couple stands under the chuppah in a city under siege, they declare that no darkness can extinguish the flame of Jewish continuity. This is the deepest defiance: to build a home precisely where destruction sought to rule.