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U.S. consumer prices rose faster than expected in October, with higher food and energy costs driving inflation above forecasts. The latest CPI report comes as the Federal Reserve considers its next interest rate decision.

Iran’s IRGC Navy claims two oil tankers were struck by explosions and caught fire near the southern shores of the Strait of Hormuz after attempting to pass through routes not authorized by Tehran. According to the IRGC, one supertanker struck a naval mine, while another vessel, reportedly accompanied by U.S. fighter jets, caught fire during what Iran described as a covert attempt to cross the strait.

Former senior police commander Avishai Mualem claims the criminal investigation against him was fabricated as part of an effort to bring down National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Speaking on Channel 14, Mualem alleged that investigators repeatedly pressured him to become a state witness against Ben-Gvir, despite having no incriminating information. He also accused former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar of attempting to block his promotion and claimed investigators privately admitted the case against him was fabricated.

BREAKING: House Republicans have elected Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio as their next leader following last week’s historic midterm defeat, which handed Democrats roughly 260 House seats and their largest majority in 35 years. Jordan, a close Trump ally and former House Oversight Committee chairman, replaces Mike Johnson as Republicans prepare for Democratic investigations into the Trump administration, his family and business interests. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans are facing their own leadership turmoil, with several senators calling for a delay in leadership elections until the party examines its election losses.

The Shin Bet and police are investigating a serious weapons-smuggling case from Syria into Israel, according to reports. At least 10 suspects have been arrested, including soldiers and family members who allegedly worked together in a smuggling and trading network, among them siblings and a father and son. Some were detained immediately after a weapons deal. A search of their vehicle found two Kalashnikov rifles and a shotgun. The suspects face offenses including harming the sovereignty of the state. One told investigators he "didn't want to harm the country's security. It was all just about money."

Qatar has secured at least two weeks of breathing room to try to broker an agreement between Washington and Tehran, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Paris on Tuesday, according to diplomatic sources. Sheikh Mohammed reportedly told the ministers that the sides still disagree over the sequencing of steps, including lifting the naval blockade, the nuclear issue and the unfreezing of Iranian funds. He met with President Trump and Vice President Vance at the White House on Monday.

Three alleged Iranian-backed operatives have been indicted by U.S. federal prosecutors over a plot targeting American military aircraft at RAF Fairford in England. Prosecutors say the suspects arranged surveillance of the base and obtained materials intended for explosives. The charges relate to a September 27 incident that triggered a major security operation. One of the suspects, Mohammad al-Saadi, was previously charged in a separate plot targeting a prominent Manhattan synagogue and Jewish centers in Los Angeles and Arizona. Prosecutors allege he directed the operations while imprisoned in the United States.

A 41-year-old senior U.S. Army soldier was arrested in Britain on Tuesday on suspicion of spying for Russia. British counterterrorism police detained him near Gloucester following a joint investigation involving U.S. military intelligence and the FBI. Authorities suspect the soldier of improperly obtaining or disclosing classified information and assisting a foreign intelligence service. Investigators are searching two locations in Gloucestershire, while the suspect remains in custody in London. FBI Director Kash Patel described the espionage allegations as a serious national security concern.

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Israeli officials say President Trump has cooled on the idea of launching further military strikes against Iran and now prefers to maintain economic pressure on Tehran, according to Israel's Kan News. The assessment comes after Trump said additional military action against Iran was unlikely. Israeli officials believe Netanyahu remains more supportive of military action, while Trump currently favors continuing economic pressure rather than escalating the conflict.

Work began today on a project to locate and seal Hamas tunnels along the Yellow Line in Gaza, even before Hamas has been disarmed. The Board of Peace confirmed that destroying the tunnels is a top priority, saying it and the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza have presented a six-month plan and are now moving forward with its implementation.

House Democrats are demanding that the Interior Department and other federal agencies preserve documents connected to President Trump’s construction projects in Washington, D.C., following whistleblower allegations that records are being destroyed ahead of Democrats taking control of Congress in January, CNN reports. Democrats are also urging private contractors to safeguard relevant files, recover deleted records and prevent further destruction. The top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee is preparing formal preservation requests as Democrats plan future congressional investigations.

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has privately refused to rule out a national unity government, even one with Prime Minister Netanyahu, according to reports. "I refuse to take unity off the table, even with Netanyahu," Bennett told a change bloc leader, unlike Liberman, Golan and Eisenkot, who have all ruled it out. Responding to the report, Bennett's Beyachad party insisted he is working to form a government headed by Eisenkot, saying Netanyahu's divisive Knesset speech proves he must go. Meanwhile, Shas declared it is staying with Netanyahu, leaving Eisenkot short of 61 seats without the Arab parties.

Prime Minister Netanyahu's office fired back on Tuesday night at criticism from the U.S.-backed Board of Peace, declaring that Hamas has not surrendered a single weapon and that Gaza must be fully disarmed before any reconstruction begins. The office charged that Hamas is diverting cement into terror tunnels and turning water infrastructure into instruments of war. The response came a day after the board issued a rare rebuke of Israel over delays in approving supplies. Israel says it has still brought in some 90,000 tents and 8,200 aid trucks ahead of the winter.

BREAKING: Senate Republicans reelected Sen. John Thune of South Dakota as their leader on Tuesday afternoon by acclamation, with no dissent and no challenger, despite a push by conservatives to delay the vote after last week's crushing midterm losses. The rest of the GOP leadership team, including Barrasso, Cotton, Capito and Lankford, was also reelected. Thune will become minority leader in January after Democrats seized control of the Senate. Several senators, led by Ron Johnson, had demanded a full and frank debate over what went wrong before any vote was held.

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Iran is currently capable of manufacturing approximately 50 ballistic missiles per month, about half its production capacity before the war, Bloomberg reports, citing a Western intelligence assessment. Despite months of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes targeting Iran’s military infrastructure, Tehran reportedly retains significant missile production capabilities, allowing it to rebuild its arsenal and prepare for potential renewed fighting.

Tensions have resurfaced between Prime Minister Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir over Israel's options for dealing with Iran, Channel 12 News reported on Tuesday. The actions the prime minister requested were not disclosed. Zamir believes those steps are not cautious and could spark a confrontation at a time when caution is needed, especially since Washington is not showing a willingness for further conflict. The report comes a day after President Trump said the war with Iran is effectively over, and as Israel is still without a new government.

Representatives from the United States, Russia, and Ukraine are holding peace negotiations in Abu Dhabi in another diplomatic effort to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. The discussions come as Washington continues pushing for a negotiated settlement, with major disagreements remaining over territorial control, security guarantees for Ukraine, and the terms of any potential ceasefire. Ukrainian officials are hoping Moscow will show greater flexibility as negotiations continue.

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Kiryat Shmona has petitioned Israel's High Court against the government and the Tax Authority, demanding that compensation keep flowing to businesses still reeling from the war with the Hezbollah terrorists, and that the state drop demands that owners return the aid. The Tax Authority ruled in July 2025 that the city's evacuation had ended on February 28, 2025, retroactively cutting businesses off the frontline compensation track. Of about 350 businesses that operated before the war, 54 went bankrupt. The state is seeking to recover 13.8 million shekels from Kiryat Shmona firms and has until January to respond.

The Maldives is pushing ahead with legislation that would permanently bar Israeli passport holders from entering the island nation and block Israeli citizens and Israeli-owned companies from buying property in its new luxury developments. President Mohamed Muizzu said the ban would no longer be tied to the war in Gaza and would also cover dual citizens who arrive on another country's passport. The Maldives first barred Israeli passport holders on October 7, 2023. A companion real estate bill would void any property deal involving Israeli citizens or companies in which Israelis hold a stake.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said President Trump was right to launch the war against Iran and rejected Vice President JD Vance's argument that the GOP's midterm losses show voters want to end the war and rethink ties with Israel, Jewish Insider reported. "We have to remember who our enemy is," Sanders said. "It's Iran. It's not Israel." Sanders, the daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, has been floated as a 2028 candidate and said her bond with the Jewish state is personal as well as strategic, pointing to the Holocaust education she received on trips to Israel with her father.

A skier has been rescued alive after spending 36 hours trapped more than 60 feet beneath the snow in a crevasse in the French Alps following an avalanche. Rescue teams managed to locate and free the skier, who survived despite suffering from hypothermia and broken legs. The rescue comes after more than a day and a half in freezing conditions.

Germany's far-left Die Linke party, which rode a wave of anti-Israel campaigning to a strong showing in Berlin's state election, is scrambling to contain a scandal over its lawmakers' links to an extremist activist and one of the city's most notorious Arab crime families. Photos showed lawmakers posing with Ibrahim Ibrahim, seen as a supporter of the PFLP, which the United States and the European Union list as a terror organization. A newly elected Berlin lawmaker has refused to apologize or distance herself from those who celebrate the October 7th massacre, complicating the party's coalition talks.

Jewish children in Ireland are coming home from school in tears after being called "baby killers," the head of the country's Jewish community warned at a Dublin memorial for Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental. Maurice Cohen, chairman of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, said Jewish teenagers are being branded "genocidal" because of their identity, and university students are being isolated and intimidated. Reichental, who survived Bergen-Belsen, spent decades speaking to Irish schoolchildren. His son said that since the October 7th massacre, people have been given permission to hate Jews openly.

BREAKING: House Republicans voted 211-204 to refer Rep. Thomas Massie’s impeachment resolution against Secretary of War Hegseth to the House Judiciary Committee, effectively killing the measure. Massie was the only Republican to vote with Democrats.

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President Trump celebrated the failure of an effort to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, saying every Republican except Rep. Thomas Massie voted in support of Hegseth. Trump blasted Massie over his opposition, calling him a “major loser.” Trump pointed to U.S. military successes in Iran and Venezuela, record recruitment numbers, and improved military morale as major achievements under Hegseth, declaring the outcome a complete exoneration of his defense secretary.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has reportedly moved out of his home and into a military base amid threats against his life from Iran, according to The New York Times. U.S. intelligence officials believe Iranian assassination plots targeting current and former American officials have progressed to a more advanced stage, raising security concerns and prompting additional protective measures.

British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband says the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening, warning that severe storms have caused widespread flooding, damaged approximately 70,000 tents, and led to building collapses and additional deaths. Miliband described conditions in Gaza as heartbreaking, saying that a year after what he called the “so-called ceasefire,” the humanitarian situation remains dire. He pledged that Britain would continue working to end the suffering in Gaza.

President Trump warned Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi during a phone call Thursday that the U.S. would strike Iran-backed militias in Iraq, including their leadership, if they enter a renewed conflict in support of Iran, according to Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar. Trump also pressed the Iraqi government to bring the armed groups under its control and prevent them from becoming involved in any further fighting.

Salvadoran military helicopters supported a major operation against Haiti’s notorious 400 Mawozo gang, as Haitian security forces destroyed a building used by gang leader Wilson Joseph near the capital, Port-au-Prince. Several armed gang members were reportedly killed, although Joseph escaped. The operation comes amid a major military offensive ordered by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, who deployed thousands of troops to Haiti after four Salvadoran military personnel went missing in a gang ambush last month.

Foreign policy analyst Rebecca Heinrichs discusses the possibility of President Trump launching additional military strikes against Iran despite the success of the U.S. blockade, as well as Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s diplomatic efforts regarding the wars in Iran and Ukraine.

Yashar chairman Gadi Eisenkot on Tuesday called off a coalition negotiating session with Likud that had been set for Wednesday, blaming Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech at the swearing-in ceremony of the 26th Knesset. The party called the address divisive and said it was further proof that the prime minister is not interested in unity, accusing him of always choosing his own political survival "at any cost." Yashar insisted it has not given up on national unity, but the move deepens the uncertainty hanging over the stalled coalition talks after the election.

The S&P credit rating agency on Tuesday raised its growth forecast for the Israeli economy to 5.5 percent for this year and 7 percent for next year, largely because of the impact of Nvidia's operations in Israel, in a special review that did not include a new credit rating. S&P warned that security risks will stay high, including the possibility of another round of confrontation with Iran. It also said that without a political decision Israel will operate on a continuing budget, and that any fiscal correction would likely come from tax hikes. The agency put Israel's debt-to-GDP ratio at 68.5 percent last year.

Canada announced on Tuesday that it is reimposing sanctions on 11 Iranian entities, including the national oil and tanker companies and several of its largest banks, over their role in Iran's nuclear and missile programs and in financing the regime's malign activities. Canada had removed all 11 from its list in 2016 after the nuclear deal. "Canada's position is unequivocal: Iran must never be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon," Foreign Minister Anita Anand said in Paris, where G7 foreign ministers are meeting. Canada has now imposed 25 rounds of sanctions on Iran, covering 237 individuals and 276 entities.

The defense ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council approved on Tuesday the opening of an advanced headquarters for the bloc's Unified Military Command in Kuwait, along with the assignment of appropriate forces to it. GCC Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, speaking after the ministers' meeting in Manama, Bahrain, pointed to what he called heinous Iranian attacks and said the security of the Gulf states is a shared responsibility. The decision came hours after the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted missiles and a drone fired by the Iran-backed Houthis at targets in Saudi Arabia.

Iraq reopened the Sheeb border crossing with Iran to travelers and commercial traffic on Tuesday morning, three weeks after shutting it, even as the United States presses Baghdad to close nearly all of its crossings with Iran. The crossing resumed operations at 8:00 a.m. local time. Iraq closed Sheeb on October 21 on orders from Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi. Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said the U.S. Treasury had asked Baghdad to close all crossings with Iran except two, adding that closing all of them would be difficult and would affect Iraq's economy.

Footage from northern Gaza shows armed members of the Popular Forces militia, led by Ashraf al-Mansi, staging a show of force while chanting “Death to Hamas.” The militia is among the armed Palestinian groups operating in Gaza in opposition to Hamas.

European Union naval forces are stepping up anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden amid growing concerns that instability across the Middle East and the Horn of Africa could trigger renewed attacks on commercial shipping. More than 70 piracy-related incidents have been reported since November 2023, with approximately half occurring in 2026, raising concerns over security along one of the world's busiest maritime trade routes.

U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche defends Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amid impeachment efforts, insisting that everything Hegseth has done is “completely legal.”

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A senior Israeli delegation led by Defense Ministry Director-General Maj. Gen. (res.) Amir Baram arrived in Morocco on Monday to widen security cooperation, after being sent by Defense Minister Yisrael Katz. During the visit, Baram is set to inaugurate the permanent headquarters of Israel's defense attaché office in Rabat, headed by Col. Sharon Itach, Israel's first permanent defense attaché in Morocco. Israel and Morocco restored diplomatic relations in 2020 and signed a security memorandum in 2021, and military ties have grown steadily since the October 7th massacre.

Protesters took to the streets of Paris on Tuesday as renewed demonstrations spread across major French cities amid an ongoing dispute between labor unions and the French government. The demonstrations come as negotiations between unions and government officials remain deadlocked, with no resolution in sight.

Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan says the Fed needs to raise interest rates at least two more times by 0.25 percentage points each, warning that the current economic outlook requires further action to bring inflation under control.

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Ra'am chairman Mansour Abbas claimed on Tuesday that during a 2021 meeting at Balfour, Prime Minister Netanyahu told him that he and Hamas terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar "understood each other." The account of the closed-door conversation is Abbas's version alone. Abbas made the claim hours after Prime Minister Netanyahu attacked the Arab parties in his Knesset speech. He blamed the October 7th massacre on the prime minister's trust in Sinwar and said he will testify if a state commission of inquiry is formed. Likud denies any contact with Ra'am.

The Houthis have released footage showing drone attacks against Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces and military equipment in Yemen’s Al-Jawf province. The footage shows the Houthis using Shahez FPV attack drones to target troops and vehicles belonging to the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council.

DRAFT CRISIS: MK Meir Porush Establishes Knesset Lobby To Protect Lomdei Torah, Slams Political Hypocrisy

United Torah Judaism MK Meir Porush announced Wednesday the establishment of a new Knesset lobby dedicated to protecting Lomdei Torah and securing the status of yeshiva bochurim, while sharply criticizing politicians and media outlets that previously attacked the Chareidi community but are now seeking its political cooperation. Porush submitted a formal request to the Knesset […]

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DRAFT CRISIS: MK Meir Porush Establishes Knesset Lobby To Protect Lomdei Torah, Slams Political Hypocrisy United Torah Judaism MK Meir Porush announced Wednesday the establishment of a new Knesset lobby dedicated to protecting Lomdei Torah and securing the status of yeshiva bochurim, while sharply criticizing politicians and media outlets that previously attacked the Chareidi community but are now seeking its political cooperation. READ FULL STORY ON YWN: https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2621778/draft-crisis-mk-meir-porush-establishes-knesset-lobby-to-protect-lomdei-torah-slams-political-hypocrisy.html

Iran’s Fars News Agency released footage purportedly showing oil tankers exploding after striking mines in the Strait of Hormuz. The agency claimed the vessels had taken an “illegal route” through the strategic waterway, describing them as “offending” tankers.

Jared Kushner and U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff are heading to Moscow for direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as Washington pushes for progress toward ending the war in Ukraine. Kushner said they see “some openings and some opportunities” to resolve outstanding issues. Following the meeting with Putin, the two are expected to fly to Dublin to brief Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and discuss possible next steps.

A 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Eilat region Wednesday morning, triggering Home Front Command emergency alerts and prompting evacuations from homes, schools, and hotels. The quake struck at 11:24 a.m. in the Gulf of Eilat. Flights at Ramon Airport were temporarily suspended. No injuries were reported.

Neriya Leiter, the son of Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter, was released from Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Yerushalayim on Wednesday, approximately two months after being critically injured in a terrorist ramming attack on Highway 443. Despite surviving life-threatening injuries, Neriya remains unconscious. He is now breathing independently and has been transferred to a specialized neurological rehabilitation facility for continued treatment. Neriya was critically injured in September during a terrorist ramming attack at the Maccabim checkpoint on Highway 443.

A federal judge has allowed President Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC to move forward over misleading edits to his January 6, 2021, speech that made it appear he was directly encouraging supporters to march on the Capitol and fight. The BBC previously apologized for the editing but denied defamation. The judge noted that the remarks were actually delivered nearly 55 minutes apart, rejecting the BBC’s attempt to dismiss the lawsuit.