The forthcoming discussion at the UN next month is meant to promote what is widely-known as the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Within this framework, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is supposed to be formally recognized as a state by most Western countries. This way, the international community aspires to set in motion again the peace process that started with the Oslo Accords signed by the two parties in 1993 and 1995 and came later to a halt due to the fact that the gap between their respective positions has remained too wide to be bridged upon.
Peace in the Land of Israel: A Matter of Pikuach Nefesh (Saving Jewish Lives)
This Shabbat, Parashat Chayei Sarah, 5000 emissaries of the Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the “Rebbe,” gathered to preserve his legacy. who passed away exactly 35 years ago, and continues to exert a towering influence
This week, these 5000 devotees of the Rebbe will visit the grave of the Rebbe and shout out out a collective voice for peace in the Land of Israel,
The Rebbe taught that the Arab war against Israel should not be understood as a conflict between nation states but rather as an existential threat to the Jews in the Land of Israel. As the war against the Jews spreads, the current threat that the Rebbe described, ahead of his time, has become ever more real. In the language of the Rebbe, this threat constitutes a matter of “Pikuach Nefesh,” a matter of life or death for Jews.
Hamas, elected in 2006 to run the PLO parliament, exemplifies that total war on the Jews. The charters of the PLO and Hamas, which openly call for the obliteration of the Jews in Israel, remain unchanged, despite international agreements signed on the White House lawn in 1993. (Note: That peace agreement was never ratified by the PLO.)
That same PLO is now funded, condition-free, by 135 nations.
With Pikuah Nefesh as a guiding policy for the Land of Israel, this is the time for 5,000 devotees of the Rebbe to address six threats to Jewish lives:
- Pay to Slay Legislation
The PLO adopted an unprecedented law to provide a salary for life to anyone
who murders a Jew, or a salary for life to the family of anyone killed
while murdering a Jew. Not one nation on earth has demanded that this law be changed. The time has come to condition humanitarian aid on the striking of “Pay to Slay.” To receive humanitarian aid, you must act human.
- Indoctrination on PA TV, PA Radio and PA Social Media. The PA media, known as the PBC, operating PA on Israel-owned frequencies, focus on programs that incite Arabs to wage war on Jews. Thus, Palestinian media constitute a threat to human life. The time has come to jam the frequencies of the Palestinian media, which are owned by Israel.
- PA Schools of War
PA schools, operating under the authority and with the sanction of the Israel Civil Administration, have adopted a new curriculum to indoctrinate a new generation to wage war on Jews. If that curriculum continues, the time has come to padlock PA schools.
- The PSF – Palestinian Security Forces trained by Israel
The PA armed forces, the PSF, which was trained by the IDF, have turned on the Jewish state. This is the time to disarm the PSF
- UNRWA
UNRWA oversees 6.7 million descendants of Arab refugees stuck in 59 refugee camps since 1948, under the lethal premise of “The Right of Return by Force of Arms”, without any plan to replace “temporary” refugee camps with communities dedicated to UN principles of peace. The time has come to cut international funds to UNRWA until UNRWA policies change, and the time to close UNRWA in Gaza,
- COGAT- The Israel Civil Administration
COGAT, instead of representing Israel’s interests in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, supports Arabs who build anywhere, regardless of constraints under the law.
COGAT facilitates Pay to Slay, PBC, PA schools of war, PSF and UNRWA
The time has come to launch a PIKUACH NEFESH ALERT, produced in multiple languages, to address these six threats to the lives of every Jew, with a flow of facts and films, with one goal: to mobilize public opinion and policy makers to protect the lives of Jews.
That is how to preserve and protect the Pikuach Nefesh legacy of the Rebbe.
Noam Bedein: healing waters of the Galilee: Rediscovering Israel’s northern sanctuary
Visionaries and hospitality innovators are rediscovering that Israel’s wellness landscape is not shaped by geography alone but also by the connection between body and land and between science and spirit.
Field notes at Hamat Tiberias
Our visit to Hamat Tiberias National Park comes at the invitation of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, whose stewardship allows visitors to experience this meeting point of nature, heritage, and healing in its most authentic form.
Sailing the sacred waters
After exploring the springs, we wanted to experience the Kinneret from its heart, out on the water. I am here with my wife, Adi, and our two boys, Lavie and Eitam. It is our first time sailing together here. The last time we were on a boat as a family was in Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park, a wilderness the size of Switzerland, where silence and scale leave you humbled.
The Christian heritage of the northern shore
Smadar points toward the northwestern coast, where geography and faith converge. This is the Christian heartland of Galilee, where the Gospel stories took shape. From Ginosar to Kfar Nahum and Tabgha, the shoreline forms a pilgrim’s crescent, home to churches of almost every Christian denomination, such as Benedictine, Franciscan, and Greek Orthodox. Each site tells a story of an encounter between faith and landscape.
David’s Harp Galilee: Hospitality as healing
Our journey through the Galilee’s wellness landscape reaches its height not at the springs or on the water but on the hillside overlooking both. For one glorious weekend, my family and I stay at David’s Harp Galilee. This resort hotel blends into the land and lake with seamless grace, with architecture and atmosphere working together to restore calm.
How the UN Tossed Out Israeli Intel To Downplay UNRWA’s Ties to Hamas

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A U.N. probe into its staffers’ involvement in the Oct. 7 attack against Israel dismissed key intelligence—including intercepted audio recordings and cell phone data—that connected those staffers to Hamas, a Washington Free Beacon review of confidential U.N. documents found.
Investigators with the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) looked into 19 U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) employees’ ties to Hamas based on Israeli intelligence and produced a report, which the United Nations has not released publicly and which the Free Beacon reviewed. It portrays the intelligence as likely authentic yet deems it “insufficient” to support the firings of 10 UNRWA staffers. This was the case with an alleged “Hamas platoon commander” and a second “Hamas operative,” both of whom Israel identified through intercepted phone calls and text messages.
The revelation suggests UNRWA may still employ Hamas terrorists who could play a role on the ground if the international organization is allowed to participate in aid distribution in Gaza. As the Free Beacon has reported, at least one senior U.N. official who wishes to restore UNRWA’s control of aid has angled for a prominent position in President Donald Trump’s plans for the territory. UNRWA staffers with ties to Hamas who remain in good standing with the international organization, meanwhile, could transfer to other U.N. agencies.
The United Nations cited this investigation in August when it announced it would not fire 10 of the employees Israel identified. U.N. bodies have used the results to claim reports of UNRWA involvement with Hamas are “not substantiated,” as the International Court of Justice did when it ruled late last month that UNRWA should reassume control of humanitarian aid deliveries in post-war Gaza, over Israel’s objections.
The report includes multiple instances in which the United Nations waved off Israeli intelligence with few—if any—attempts to corroborate the evidence, undermining the United Nations’ announcement and its attempts to play down the relationship between UNRWA and Hamas.
U.N. investigators reviewed audio from a phone call between an UNRWA staffer and his son, who allegedly infiltrated Israel on Oct. 7 alongside Hamas. Israeli officials said the audio shows the unnamed UNRWA official “assisted his son and brother in infiltrating Israel and returning to Gaza and participated in the kidnapping of an Israeli woman.”
The U.N. report said that while “the speaker alleged to be the staff member’s son made incriminating comments and admissions… about being ‘inside’ Israeli territory and of having taken a hostage, the responding tone, language and utterances appear to be that of a parent outraged by his errant son’s conduct.”
In a second case outlined in the report, Israel provided SMS messages and other cell phone data on an alleged Hamas commander in the terror group’s Nuseirat Battalion. The terror group allegedly called the unnamed UNRWA staffer “to the meeting point prior to the infiltration and armed attacks,” according to the intelligence relayed in the United Nations’ report. The staffer allegedly received another text message hours later telling him to bring “two anti-tank missiles” to a location.
The United Nations determined the evidence was “insufficient to support the allegations,” saying the UNRWA staffer “denied involvement” when reached by the agency. “No other information” outside of Israel’s intelligence showed the staffer “acted on the messages and engaged in the armed attacks or did anything else to support the incursions.” The U.N. did not investigate ties to Hamas outside participation in the Oct. 7 attacks, the report shows.
A third case focused on an UNRWA staffer suspected of helping his brother, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad member, kidnap an Israeli on Oct. 7. Israel later detained the UNRWA employee in Khan Yunis, and while he remains in Israeli custody, U.N. investigators stated the “evidence provided by Israeli officials is insufficient to support the allegation.”
A senior congressional aide familiar with the report’s findings told the Free Beacon it is clear the United Nations “went in with a certain outlook and plan of how they wanted this to turn out and they were not interested in anything that would potentially counteract the narrative that, to them, Hamas is not a terrorist organization.”
“They dismissed all the Israeli intelligence, the phone tracking and data—they dismissed it outright,” the source added. “They were not in any interest of gaining the facts from Israel. It’s pretty disturbing.”
The United Nations initiated its investigation in January 2024, after the Israeli government published bombshell evidence detailing the involvement of at least 12 UNRWA staffers in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and after Western governments began pulling financial support from the U.N. body. UNRWA fired those 12 and another 9 after further probes, but 10 others Israel flagged did not meet the international organization’s standards.
“In one case,” the United Nations noted in an August 2024 public summary, “no evidence was obtained by OIOS to support the allegations of the staff member’s involvement [in Oct. 7]. That staff member has rejoined the Agency. In nine other cases, the evidence obtained by OIOS was insufficient to support the staff members’ involvement and the OIOS investigation of them is now closed.”
Though U.N. investigators acknowledged the evidence often “provide[d] a factual basis to indicate that the subject UNRWA staff member may have engaged in misconduct,” they stated the evidence was “not suitable for the usual human resources review and decision on disciplinary process or other measures.”
Sources briefed on the confidential investigation believe these results came from the United Nations’ abnormal methodology and self-imposed limitations on its investigation. By choosing to consider only what it describes as “clear and convincing evidence” of misconduct, the international organization set an “impossibly high legal standard for a simple administrative action to be taken, let alone criminal prosecution,” a former senior U.S. legal official familiar with U.N. operations told the Free Beacon. “It’s exceptionally frustrating that the U.N.’s standards constrain it from firing an employee where the evidence shows that, more likely than not, he was involved in terrorist activities.”
The U.S. Agency for International Development Office of Inspector General (USAID OIG)—a statutory law enforcement agency that continues to operate independently of USAID—has launched its own investigation into UNRWA’s ties to Hamas, sources confirmed to the Free Beacon. This investigation will permit State Department officials to place Hamas-linked UNRWA staff on a publicly available exclusion list, preventing them from recirculating to other U.S.-funded aid organizations, including those seeking to operate in Gaza.
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch Addresses Zohran Mamdani’s Israel Rhetoric
Responding directly to New York City mayoral candidate Zohran K. Mamdani, Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch voices deep concern over the New York State assemblyman’s recent remarks and record on Israel.
Israel’s Rafah test could show path to toppling Hamas

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The debate over the fate of Hamas terrorists trapped in tunnel networks under IDF-controlled territory in Rafah may seem like a minor incident amid the constant flow of events, but its outcome could decisively shape how our enemies and regional states assess whether Israel is truly determined to dismantle its adversaries or can be appeased with superficial fixes.
The woke-Islamist nexus
New York City just elected a self-described Muslim Democratic socialist as its mayor: Zohran Mamdani. His platform, built on LGBTQ rights, rent freezes and “equity economics,” reads like a manifesto of woke progressivism.
At first glance, that pairing of religious identity and radical secular politics seems contradictory. It isn’t. It’s the newest example of an ideological alliance quietly forming for years: the partnership between woke progressives and Islamist sympathizers.
What unites them isn’t faith or culture; it’s a shared hostility toward the Judeo-Christian values that built Western civilization. Both movements, though outwardly opposed, work toward the same end: dismantling the moral order that upholds freedom, family and individual responsibility.
This pattern isn’t theoretical. In a recent documentary by Dinesh D’Souza, Imam Mohammad Tawhidi, the “Imam of Peace,” explained, “When I was an extremist Islamist fundamentalist, I would only vote left.” His reason? “The left has no values.” That confession confirms what New York’s latest election just made visible: the alliance is not accidental; it’s strategic.
For more than two decades, Islamist movements have learned to exploit the moral confusion of progressive politics. The left’s identity-based activism—on gender, race and sexuality—has become a Trojan horse through which radical actors advance inside Western institutions.
From university campuses to city councils, Islamist activists cloak their agenda in the language of social justice. They partner with progressive groups not because they share values, but because they share enemies—Judeo-Christian values, the moral framework that built the West.
The goal is not coexistence; it is submission. Progressives mistake tolerance for virtue. Islamists recognize it as a vulnerability. Under the banners of “diversity” and “human rights,” Western societies are pressured to dismantle their own moral defenses.
That’s why the same activists who march for LGBTQ rights at home will wave Hamas flags abroad. It’s not a contradiction; it’s opportunism. They will champion women’s rights in America, then excuse the murder of women in Iran.
In their selective outrage, the left and radical Islamists have become partners in a project of civilizational erosion.
Strong national leaders—men and women rooted in moral clarity—stand as the last line of defense. That is precisely why figures like U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are relentlessly targeted. Their strength threatens the ideological coalition seeking to unmake the moral foundations of the West.
Progressives deride such leaders as “toxic” or “authoritarian.” Islamists fear them for a simpler reason: they mean what they say.
For Jews, this pattern is tragically familiar. In Europe before the Holocaust, moral relativism and elite appeasement enabled the rise of fascism. Today, the same instincts animate Western elites who excuse anti-Jewish violence under the guise of “pro-Palestinian activism.”
Universities that once claimed to uphold free inquiry now host mobs chanting for genocide. Western governments that once swore “Never Again” now fund regimes and NGOs that glorify terror.
History is repeating itself; only this time, the ideological virus travels under progressive slogans.
The Islamist-progressive alliance is not a mystery; it’s a mirror. It reflects what happens when societies lose faith in their own values.
The answer is not censorship. The answer is greater clarity and a return to God. As Charlie Kirk, whose father instilled in him a deep belief in civic faith, said, “If we get people back to church—and in our case, back to shul—the values come back, and then the politics follows.” When a society restores its faith, it restores its moral compass, and with it, the will to defend itself.
When people return to authentic faith—real Judaism, real Bible belief they inevitably return to order, purpose and truth. Politics doesn’t create values; faith does. Once people rediscover God, the rest follows naturally: family, responsibility, patriotism, and moral strength.
That’s why the enemies of faith worked so hard to drive God out of public life; they know that without Him, there is no moral compass, no courage, no civilization. Bring God back to where He was exiled, and everything else will realign.
Until the West remembers that, its enemies—both foreign and domestic— will continue to march together under the same flag.
Countdown to the Third Lebanon War has already begun
Exactly a year ago, the confrontation on the northern border between Israel and Hezbollah ended in what appeared to be a clear knockout. Hezbollah was defeated, losing its leaders and senior commanders, headed by Hassan Nasrallah, along with much of its military capabilities. It seemed the group would not recover. Lebanon elected a president, formed a government that declared its commitment to disarm Hezbollah, and the ever-optimistic US administration, detached from reality as usual, promised that a peace agreement between Israel and Lebanon was only a matter of time.
But in wars between Israel and its Arab enemies, there are never absolute victories or final conclusions. We defeat the enemy’s armies, only to discover a few days after a cease-fire is declared that they are still alive and kicking. So it was after the great victories of the 1948 War of Independence and the 1956 Sinai Campaign, and again after the Six-Day War, when Egypt and Syria resumed fire just days after their crushing defeat.
In the current war, history is repeating itself. Iran is restoring its capabilities and preparing for the next round, Hamas remains the undisputed ruler of the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon represents perhaps the most glaring missed opportunity. There was no external pressure on Israel to halt its strikes on Hezbollah, yet we voluntarily agreed to a leaky, dubious cease-fire that everyone knew the group would never honor.
We knew this, and yet we agreed, hoping that Hezbollah, a radical Shiite organization whose very identity is rooted in its struggle against Israel, would suddenly decide to act like a “good child” and disarm. And we hoped that the Lebanese state, which US envoy Tom Barrack accurately described last week as “a failed and dysfunctional state”, would deploy its army against Hezbollah, even though the group is far stronger and far more determined than Lebanon’s own military.
Now, a year after Israel’s major victory in Lebanon, it has become clear that nothing has changed and that the gains of the war are steadily eroding. True, Hezbollah has kept a low profile and refrained from attacking Israel or even responding to Israeli strikes, but not because it has turned into a “Zionist sympathizer.” Like Hamas, it is biding its time, keeping its head down until the storm passes, and waiting patiently for the right moment to strike again.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah has been rebuilding its strength, maintaining strong support among Lebanon’s Shiite community, and even reestablishing weapons smuggling routes from Iran to replace those lost with the fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria.
Israel, for its part, prides itself on its freedom of action in Lebanon and on the blows it has dealt to minor Hezbollah operatives. Yet these actions appear aimed more at shaping public opinion and pleasing the media than at truly crippling the organization. Does anyone seriously believe that Hezbollah, which commands tens of thousands of fighters, will surrender because Israel eliminated 300 of its members over the past year?
Hezbollah has lowered its profile. Gone are the bombastic threats and boasts about its capabilities that once kept Israeli decision-makers awake at night. The organization speaks less, and more softly, but still makes it clear that it will not surrender its weapons and that “the resistance” remains its strategic choice.
Hezbollah calculates its moves in years, not months. For now, the deceptive calm on the northern border may persist. But again, the real question is not whether the terrorist organization will resume its operations against Israel, but when.
Israel would do well to act more decisively to counter the growing threat from the north. And if it chooses not to, it should at least monitor Hezbollah’s every move with vigilance, so that we are not caught off guard once again. The countdown to another confrontation on the Lebanon border has already begun.
Israeli Ambassador Sounds Alarm on Rising Antisemitism in Germany as Left Party Youth Wing Targets Jews as “Traitors”
Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, has warned of a rising wave of antisemitism in the European country, particularly from left-wing groups, as the youth wing of Germany’s Left Party continues to spread anti-Israel rhetoric and harasses Zionists, labeling them “traitors.”
In a new interview with the German news outlet Berliner Morgenpost, Prosor said that the local Jewish community is living in fear amid an increasingly hostile climate, noting that it is “better not to walk down Sonnenallee in Neukölln wearing a Star of David.”
“In 2025, Jewish men and women fear attending university or riding the subway because they are visibly Jewish. That schools, community centers, and synagogues require round-the-clock police protection is not normal,” the Israeli diplomat said.
Prosor also highlighted the growing threat of left-leaning antisemitism, saying it is even more dangerous than antisemitism from the political right or from Islamist extremists.
“Left-wing antisemitism, in my view, is even more dangerous because it masks its intentions. It has long operated on the thin line between free speech and incitement,” he said.
“Across Europe, this is visible on university campuses and theaters. Many present themselves as educated, moral, and progressive — yet the line separating free speech from incitement was crossed long ago,” he continued. “Israel is demonized and delegitimized day after day, and it is Jews everywhere who ultimately suffer the consequences.”
His comments came after Germany’s Left Party youth wing last week passed an anti-Israel resolution labeling the world’s lone Jewish state a “colonial and racist state project,” sparking controversy within both the local Jewish community and the party’s senior leadership.
During the Left Youth’s 18th Federal Congress last weekend, Jewish delegates reported being harassed by fellow party members — branded “traitors” and even warned of an internal “purge.”
According to local media reports, several participants left early after colleagues allegedly threatened to show up at their hotel rooms at night.
Now, the youth group is set to vote next week on a motion falsely accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, as well as another measure calling for support of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to isolate the Jewish state internationally as a step toward its eventual elimination.
Earlier this year, the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution — the agency responsible for monitoring extremist groups and reporting to the German Interior Ministry — designated BDS as a “proven extremist endeavor hostile to the constitution.” The agency also described the campaign’s “anti-constitutional ideology, which denies Israel’s right to exist.” That followed Germany’s federal domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), last year classifying BDS as a “suspected extremist case” with links to “secular Palestinian extremism.”
Prosor in his interview condemned the Left Youth’s latest resolution and the harassment of Jewish members, saying “the red line has been crossed.”
“The youth wing of the Left Party is showing the true face of left-wing antisemitism, which would otherwise remain well hidden,” the Israeli diplomat wrote in a post on X.
“By justifying terror, turning a blind eye to antisemitism, and denying Israel’s right to exist, the Left Party has abandoned its moral compass and integrity. All that remains is extremism, radical ideology, and violence,” Prosor continued.
Die rote Linie ist überschritten. Die Jugend der Linkspartei offenbart das wahre Gesicht des linken Antisemitismus, der sonst gut verborgen bleibt.
Mit der Rechtfertigung von Terror, dem Ignorieren von Antisemitismus und der Leugnung des Existenzrechts Israels hat die… pic.twitter.com/mNEmdNR0dp
— Ambassador Ron Prosor (@Ron_Prosor) November 7, 2025
Amid increasing political pressure to clearly distance itself from the youth wing, senior leaders of Germany’s Left Party are now facing growing scrutiny.
While the youth group is technically independent, it relies financially on the main party.
After meeting Wednesday night, the party’s executive committee issued a statement saying there was “broad agreement that the approved motion is inconsistent with the positions of the Left Party.”
“Antisemitism and the downplaying of antisemitic positions contradict the core values of the Left,” the statement read.
“Intimidation, pressure, and exclusion have no place in a left-wing youth organization, and even less in the political culture we uphold as the Left,” it continued.
However, intimidation of dissenting voices and anti-Israel rhetoric are not new within the Left Party, following a pattern of previous antisemitic incidents within the organization.
For example, Berlin’s former Culture Senator, Klaus Lederer, and other prominent members left the organization last year following an antisemitic scandal at a party conference in Berlin.
Lethal Curricula to Continue in Gaza – 11/11/2025
Pres. Trump meets Syrian President Al-Sharaa privately in Washington. PM Netanyahu meets Jared Kushner re: 200 Hamas terrorists in Gaza tunnels. Analysis: David Bedein on Gaza curriculums inciting violence. Rising star, Knesset member Sharren Haskel.












