Hourly Roundup 01:00 Israel · 16 May 2026
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- Rashida Tlaib Introduces Resolution ‘Recognizing Ongoing Nakba’US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) addresses attendees as she takes part in a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza outside the US Capitol, in Washington, DC, US, Oct. 18, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Leah Millis US…
- US considering asking Israel to redirect PA tax funds to Gaza plan - sourcesThe US is considering asking Israel to redirect some withheld Palestinian Authority tax funds toward President Donald Trump’s postwar Gaza plan, sources said.
- “The Strait will be opened, they will not have a nuclear weapon, and the world will go on." - @POTUS
- Israel, Lebanon Extend Ceasefire by 45 Days as Washington Talks ConcludeSmoke rises following explosions in southern Lebanon, near the Israel-Lebanon border, as seen from northern Israel, April 27, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Shir Torem Israel and Lebanon agreed to a 45-day extension of a ceasefire that has…
- The photographer was lucky to capture the final moments of Al Qassam Brigades leader Izz al-Din al-Haddad like this.
- Ukraine’s sling against Russia: How 'geniuses in garages' transformed robotic warfareThe road to becoming a robotic superpower was paved with skepticism, but Ukraine did not set out to become a world leader in military robotics - it set out to survive.
- ‘The Wanderers’ tells the story of Poland’s Holocaust survivors who fled to the Soviet UnionDaniela Gerson chronicles her family’s not-so-unique journey in her new book, “The Wanderers," a blend of memoir, history, and journalism.
- After hundreds of launches: exchange of accusations at summit that brought together Iran and the EmiratesAmid the fragile ceasefire in Iran, and reports that the Emirates also attacked itself, the foreign ministers of BRICS met in New Delhi - with tensions between the countries evident. "They stood alongside the US…
Seventy-eight years after the rebirth of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, a resolution in the US Congress calls that rebirth a 'catastrophe.' The Torah sees history differently. The prophet Ezekiel describes the dry bones of the house of Israel coming back to life, a vision of national resurrection that defies natural expectation. What the nations call a catastrophe, the prophets called the fulfillment of a divine promise. The ingathering of exiles, the rebuilding of Jerusalem, the revival of the Hebrew language, these are not accidents of history but the unfolding of a covenant that has never been revoked. To call the return of a people to its ancestral homeland a catastrophe is to mistake the deepest pulse of redemption for its opposite.