Hourly Roundup 03:00 Israel · 13 Nov 2026
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- Rabbi invokes Jewish law permitting killing of politicians cooperating with Arab parties - reportIn his letter, Axelrod reportedly argued that Jewish politicians who cooperate with the Arab parties posed a "terrible danger to the people of Israel."
- IDF: Initial report - Sirens sound in the area of Nahal Oz. The details are under review.
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- False Alarm in Nahal OzFollowing the alerts that were activated a short time ago in the Nahal Oz area, this was a false identification. So said the IDF Spokesperson.
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A rabbi invoking Jewish law to license the killing of political opponents is not a halachic position. It is a desecration of the very tradition it claims to represent. The Torah's laws of rodef, of the pursuer who may be stopped, are hedged with conditions so strict that the sages declared them nearly inapplicable, precisely because human judgment in such matters is so easily corrupted by rage and self-righteousness. To weaponize that framework against fellow Jews over political disagreement inverts it entirely. The Talmud warns that the Second Temple fell through causeless hatred between brothers. A letter like this is that hatred wearing a tallit. The response is not silence but a clear, unflinching refusal: this is not Torah, and those who teach it are not teaching Torah.