Hourly Roundup 21:00 Israel · 3 Oct 2026
Stories in this hour
- Israel’s Supreme Court overturns decision to disqualify Arab partiesIsrael’s Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, on Friday overturned the Central Elections Committee’s decision to disqualify four Arab parties (running in two political blocs) and two candidates for parliament for the…
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a conversation with the Indian pilot from the flight from Dubai, Captain Smith Machchhar:"You are a hero for Israel, India, and the entire world. I invite Prime Minister @NarendraModi and you to light a flame on Israeli Independence Day."Israeli Pm
- Israel received full flydubai crew, passenger list prior to takeoff, source tells 'Post'Several people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal on Friday that the UAE-based carrier flydubai hired the pilot despite concerns about his radicalization
- Zelensky on the Russian campaign:"They attack infrastructure, logistics, and especially in the cities, in the villages, everywhere: roads, schools, hospitals, to pressure people to leave the capital, leave different cities. This is the goal of their operation."
- Captain Smith from Atchar to Netanyahu: "I heard people screaming and realized the plane was sucked down"In a conversation with the Prime Minister, Captain Smith from Atchar recounted the attack in the cockpit: "I almost lost my sight"; according to him, he heard passengers screaming and realized the plane was sucked…
- Anarchists who rioted in Samaria - will be expelledThe four were detained by IDF forces near the village of Tapuach and were questioned at the Ariel station on suspicion of breach of order and being in a closed military zone. At the end…
Torah perspective
A court that unanimously permits a party whose chair lauds the Oct 7 massacre to run for Knesset is making a statement about the nature of the state it serves. The Torah vision of Malchut Yisrael is not a value-neutral procedural democracy. It is a covenant with a soul and a purpose. Allowing those who celebrate the destruction of that covenant to sit in its legislature is a profound contradiction. The Gemara in Sanhedrin discusses the limits of tolerance for internal subversives who threaten the collective. The court's narrow reading of Section 7A prioritizes a universalist legalism over the existential self-preservation of the Jewish state. This is the tension between strict Din and the Tzedek required to safeguard the covenant.