As U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken makes his 11th visit to the region since the war began a year ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who celebrated his 75th birthday on Monday, promised that Israel will defeat Iran's proxies.
Prominent Jews and Christians in the U.S. have written a letter to CBS News, strongly protesting a recent directive by a senior member of management that the staff not refer to Jerusalem as being part of Israel.
The Iranian-backed Hezbollah fired a drone this weekend at the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The assassination attempt failed, but Netanyahu said he and Israel would not be deterred from their goals of stopping the Hezbollah and Iranian threats to the Jewish state.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of October 7th, and the mass murderer of more Jews than anyone since Hitler, is dead. Israeli soldiers killed Sinwar on Wednesday in the southern Gaza city of Rafah after evading the Israel Defense Forces for more than a year.
Multiple reports in Israel say an Israeli official has confirmed the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who was one of three terrorists believed killed in a strike on Rafah Wednesday during a Gaza military operation.
In Israel and throughout the world, Jews are celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles, known as Sukkot in Hebrew. Israelis are not letting the ongoing war in Gaza and northern Israel affect their celebrations. The difference from other years is that many people who would have been home to mark the holy days are gone.
Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, is one of the three major festivals in Judaism. It is both an agricultural festival of thanksgiving and a commemoration of the forty-year period during which the children of Israel wandered in the desert after leaving slavery in Egypt, living in temporary shelters as they traveled.
Ahead of the biblical Sukkot holiday, as Israel fights an existential threat on multiple fronts, Israel's best ally, the U.S., is threatening to cut off military aid if the humanitarian situation in Gaza doesn't improve in a month. This comes as Israel fast-tracks solutions to defend against killer drones.
For eight years, the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast has hosted events in which thousands of world leaders and influencers have learned how to engage with their governments on behalf of Israel. JPB's director, Albert Veksler, stopped by our studio recently to fill us in on their next major event at the end of October in Copenhagen.
As the Israel Defense Forces operate inside Lebanon, they are finding more and more proof that Hezbollah was in the planning and preparation stages of an October 7th-type massacre. United Nations UNIFIL forces refuse to evacuate the area, even as they complain about Israeli actions there.