Hourly Roundup 04:00 Israel · 17 May 2026
Stories in this hour
- Land convoy sets out from Libya as part of Gaza flotilla effortTwo hundred participants from 25 different countries are participating in the convoy, riding in the 20 mobile homes, 7 ambulance or medical transport vehicles, and other locomotives.
- IDF reservist dismissed after allegedly vandalizing, damaging Palestinians' property while off dutyAs a result, the reservist's weapon was confiscated, and he was dismissed from reserve duty, according to Ynet.
- Lilian Gandelman: How the ‘girl from Ipanema’ became the woman from Tel AvivThe lawyer from Brazil, who also navigates life in Israel as an amputee, is on a personal mission to educate and change attitudes – one Israeli at a time.
- With an Iranian proxy commander arrested for attacks in the UK, will Starmer respond? - analysisAl-Saad allegedly orchestrated and posted the HAYI propaganda videos of 18 attacks in Europe, most of which occurred in London over the last two months.
- Antisemitism has returned after October 7, despite decades of remembrance - opinionExamining the surge in antisemitism after October 7 and the broader cultural and historical dynamics behind it.
- Iran allegedly behind Canada attacks on US consulate, synagogueAl-Saadi, working on behalf of the Islamic Regime proxy, told an undercover law enforcement officer that his "people" were behind two attacks in Canada, against a consulate and synagogue.
- Switzerland to release sealed files on Nazi doctor Josef Mengele - reportMengele, the monstrous doctor known as the Angel of Death, ran a horrifying system of experiments on Auschwitz camp prisoners, exploiting his professional status to advance Nazi racial theory.
- Venezuela extradited to US a close associate of Maduro considered Hezbollah's point of contactVenezuela announced that it extradited to the United States Alex Saab, who is considered a close associate of former President Nicolas Maduro. Saab is considered the point of contact for Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Guards…
Torah perspective
Decades after Mengele's death, Switzerland's sealed files remind us that the world is still deciding whether to confront evil or bury it. The Torah's command, 'Remember what Amalek did to you,' is not a static historical footnote. It is a living discipline. Amalek's defining feature was not merely cruelty but cold, ideological hatred that dressed itself in science and respectability. Mengele was not a demon from folklore; he was a doctor with degrees. The command to remember is the command to recognize that evil wears ordinary clothes, and that forgetting is never neutrality but a form of complicity. Memory is the first act of redemption.