Hourly Roundup 20:00 UTC 14 May 2026
Stories in this hour
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- Netanyahu's coalition moves to fast-track controversial laws ahead of upcoming Knesset dissolutionThe tensions come after the crisis in Netanyahu’s coalition with the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties over the controversial conscription law.
- Exclusive: For first time, Muslim group slated to march in Israel on Fifth paradeThe Israel parade on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue this year is slated to have a Muslim group marching alongside Jewish organizations in what is believed to be a first time in the parade's 61-year history. Another…
- Hezbollah Belligerence Prompts Fears of Assassination Campaign in LebanonLebanese Hezbollah fighters take part in cross-border raids, part of a large-scale military exercise, in Aaramta bordering Israel on May 21, 2023, ahead of the anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000. Photo:…
- Diaspora Jews aren't ‘traitors’ for not making aliyah, Diaspora Affairs Minister Chikli says“That attack on Diaspora Jewry does not serve us,” Chikli said. “I would not use the language of threats.”
- Herzog: 'Jerusalem is not just a symbol, it is alive'President Herzog addresses the state ceremony marking 59 years since the liberation and unification of Jerusalem, held at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem.
- Netanyahu’s missteps: How Israeli leadership eroded US support - opinionMore than any single player, Bibi bears responsibility for the loss of American support among most Democrats, a growing number of Republicans, and increasingly within the Trump administration.
- FC Barcelona apologizes to Israeli fans after player goes viral waving Palestinian flagFC Barcelona's statement, written in Hebrew, was specifically aimed at its Israeli fans.
- Israel marks 59th Jerusalem Day with Old City flag march, nationwide celebrationsThis year, the holiday fell on May 14, which is also the anniversary of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
- IDF reveals it supplies Lebanese army with anti-explosive drone barbed wireTo date, the military has issued approximately 158,000 square meters of anti-explosive drone barbed wire, equivalent in size to about 20 football fields.
- Role of Gulf states in Iran conflict said to change over one week - analysisIran’s narrative was that some of the Gulf states hosted US forces, or in the case of the UAE and Bahrain, had signed the Abraham Accords with Israel.
- Mohammad Abbasi’s family was told they could visit him in prison, only to find out when they arrived that the Iranian terrorist regime had already executed him.Mohammad Abbasi’s family was told they could visit him in prison, only to find out when they arrived that the Iranian terrorist regime had already executed him. They tortured a “confession” out of him, killed…
Torah perspective
Jerusalem is alive because it was never merely a place. It is the point where heaven and earth meet, the gate through which prayer ascends and blessing descends. The Psalmist says "The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob" (Tehillim 87:2). A dwelling can be replaced; a gate cannot, because a gate is where relationship happens. Jerusalem is that living gate for the Jewish people and for the world. When we say it is alive, we mean that the Divine presence never departed from it, and every generation that turns toward it is turning toward life itself.