Hourly Roundup 04:00 Israel · 14 May 2026
Stories in this hour
- On May 13, 1996, American citizen David Boim (17) was standing at a bus stop near Beit El with friends when two Hamas terrorists drove by and opened fire.On May 13, 1996, American citizen David Boim (17) was standing at a bus stop near Beit El with friends when two Hamas terrorists drove by and opened fire. David was shot in the head…
- NYT doubles down in support of controversial op-ed claiming abuse of Palestinians in IsraelThe New York Times said Nicholas Kristof’s opinion piece was extensively fact-checked and based on corroborated accounts.
- HLF and IAP shut down after the @USTreasury went after them for providing material support to Hamas.HLF and IAP shut down after the @USTreasury went after them for providing material support to Hamas. Their leaders — several of whom had ties to Hamas — then founded a new organization called American…
- In 2000, David’s parents, Stanley and Joyce Boim, filed a lawsuit under the Antiterrorism Act of 1990, alleging that several US-based organizations were complicit in David’s mur…In 2000, David’s parents, Stanley and Joyce Boim, filed a lawsuit under the Antiterrorism Act of 1990, alleging that several US-based organizations were complicit in David’s murder because they provided material support for Hamas. Defendants…
- The AMP-IAP/HLF connections:The AMP-IAP/HLF connections: 🔴 Salah Sarsour AMP national board member Salah Sarsour was formerly a fundraiser for HLF. He allegedly used his furniture store to pass money to the leader of Hamas’s armed wing. In…
- Pentagon considering renaming Iran war 'Operation Sledgehammer' if ceasefire fails - reportA new operation name could allow the Trump administration to distinguish renewed strikes from Operation Epic Fury, NBC reported.
- Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg, who moved back to Germany in his 80's, dies aged 101Weinberg, who was born in Rhauderfehn in 1925, passed away in the town of Leer, not far from his birthplace in northwest Germany.
- Chinese companies planning clandestine arms sales to Iran, US intelligence finds - reportChina has significantly aided Iran over the course of the war, providing intelligence on US forces and supplying Tehran with dual-use materials used in the production of drones and missiles.
Torah perspective
To survive the Shoah, leave Germany, and then choose at 80 to return and live out your final decades there is a kind of דור אהרן, a generation that circles back. The Kabbalists teach that every descent has a purpose: to gather the sparks that were scattered. Albrecht Weinberg's long years may have been about exactly that, retrieving something from the very soil that tried to erase him, not for its sake but for the sake of completing the picture. A hundred and one years is the gematria of מיכאל, the angel of divine compassion. Perhaps his presence in Germany all those years was a quiet act of that same compassion, making space for life where death once ruled.