Hourly Roundup 20:00 Israel · 3 Jul 2026
Stories in this hour
- A New Book Reveals Perhaps the Most Important Lesson of October 7Palestinian Hamas terrorists stand guard on the day of the handover of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas…
- Harvard Faculty Pen Letter Detailing Ongoing Antisemitism Crisis On Campus Amid White House InvestigationHarvard University campus on May 24, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo: Zhu Ziyu/VCG via Reuters Connect Harvard University faculty members and staff have issued an open letter expressing solidarity with Jewish and Israeli students, arguing…
- Former hostages return to Entebbe, confronting memory, trauma and history“To be abducted in Athens on an Air France plane makes sense,” Gonen said. “But to be abducted at home, in the State of Israel, it was too much.”
- California Jews Bear Disproportionate Share of Religion-Based Hate Crimes, New State Report FindsAnti-Israel protesters in Los Angeles, California, US, Oct. 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Daniel Cole Jews have been the targets in more than 70 percent of religion-based hate crimes in California last year, underscoring an alarming level…
- Netanyahu and Trump speak, agree to meet soon in the USPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Friday evening with US President Donald Trump to congratulate him on the occasion of America's 250th Independence Day, the Prime Minister's Office said. During their conversation, the Prime Minister…
- Jews in the Crosshairs - German Intelligence Issues WarningGerman authorities have warned of increased threats related to Israel and Jewish communities, following the publication of the annual report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV). The document cites a…
- Expert Warns Against Recognition of Armenian Genocide: "Childish and Petty Mistake"Israel's recognition of the Armenian genocide is drawing criticism from the Jewish community in Azerbaijan, whose members warn of harm to relations with Baku | Expert warns of political damage following the move
The dilemma of knowing when to act before catastrophe strikes is as old as Amalek. The Torah does not command us to wait until the attacker arrives at the camp. It commands us to remember, to discern the pattern of hatred before it crystallizes into violence. The failure named in the aftermath of October 7 was not only an intelligence failure but an imaginative one we did not believe our enemy capable of what he declared. That gap between hearing a threat and truly absorbing it is precisely what the mitzvah of "remembering" is meant to close. Memory is supposed to become foresight. When we treat a declared enemy as containable, we have forgotten what Amalek teaches that evil, left to grow incrementally, will eventually come for the stragglers.