🇮🇱🇸🇾 WATCH: IDF troops completed an advanced exercise along the Syrian border to strengthen operational readiness and prepare for complex and emerging threats.
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✡️🇺🇸 — BELAAZ REPORT: The Rebbes have mutually agreed not to raise the IDF draft-arrest crisis or any other internal Israeli politics with President Trump. This decision follows frustration from key Trump allies, including Laura Loomer and Sid Rosenberg, who claimed the Rebbes, mainly Teb Ahron Teitelbaum, were seeking urgent presidential pressure on the Prime Minister Netanyahu over the draft bill.
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🇮🇱🇱🇧 ISRAEL TO RELEASE FIVE LEBANESE DETAINEES • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed officials to advance efforts to locate and return the remains of the former heads of Lebanon’s Jewish community, who were abducted and murdered in the 1980s. • As part of the negotiations, Israel will release five Lebanese citizens detained in southern Lebanon after determining they were not members of a terrorist organization and had not engaged in terrorism.
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🇮🇱 KATZ HOLDS MULTI-FRONT SECURITY ASSESSMENT • Defense Minister Israel Katz is holding a multi-front security assessment with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and other senior military and security officials.
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✡️🚁 - WHITE HOUSE MEETING UPDATE: Belaaz is being told that BMG Rosh Yeshivah, Hagaon Rav Malkiel Kotler, will be traveling to the White House meeting with President Trump this morning via Lakewood Airport. • He is set to depart at 10 AM and land at Dulles Airport in Virginia, roughly a 30–40 minute drive from the White House. Unclear if he is traveling by plane or chopper.
1:48 PM🇺🇸 RUBIO: AMERICA BECAME “DANGEROUSLY DEPENDENT” ON OTHER NATIONS • Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. made a “terrible mistake” by allowing manufacturing to move overseas, leaving America dangerously dependent on other countries. • Rubio said the belief that the world would become free-market democracies “ran into reality,” arguing that national interests and borders still matter.
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🇮🇱🇷🇺 EL AL’S ST. PETERSBURG ROUTE DENIED BY RUSSIA • El Al asked to resume flights to St. Petersburg instead of Moscow due to the security situation, but Russia refused, citing Israel’s restrictions on a Russian airline operating in the country.
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🇮🇱 🇱🇧 Israel Releases Five Lebanese Detainees in Bid to Secure Return of Jewish Remains Israel released five Lebanese civilian detainees Thursday as part of efforts to advance the return of remains of Jewish community leaders buried in Lebanon. The move follows a similar release last year. Israeli and Lebanese representatives have reportedly held “positive” negotiations in Rome over a possible civilian exchange involving Lebanese detainees and Jewish remains from cemeteries in Beirut and Sidon. ⬇️ Read 🔗 https://belaaz.com/news/israel-releases-five-lebanese-detainees-in-bid-to-secure-return-of-jewish-remains/
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✡️🛬 - UPDATE: Multiple Rebbes en route to DC via private jets now ahead of the 12:30 pm White House meeting: • Satmar Rebbe Reb Aharon departing Teterboro now at 10 AM. The Bobover Rebbe and Satmar Rebbe (Zalman Leib) traveling together, also leaving from Teterboro in the next few minutes. The Vizhnitzer Rebbe is said to be flying privately. • All expected to land around the same time at Dulles Airport.
2:07 PM🇺🇸 VANCE: “WORKING WITH YOUR HANDS IS THE WORK OF THE FUTURE” • Vice President JD Vance said skilled trades will play a major role in America’s future, calling the idea that manual work does not require intelligence “one of the dumbest things” U.S. leaders told a generation of children.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 RUSSIA SAYS IT STRUCK TWO CARGO SHIPS Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces struck two cargo vessels in the Black Sea that were allegedly carrying weapons, ammunition and military equipment for Ukraine.
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🇱🇺🇮🇱 LUXEMBOURG BLOCKS NEW ISRAEL BOND SALES • Luxembourg, a small European country and EU member, has decided not to renew permission for Israel Bonds to be sold there after the previous authorization expired on August 31. • UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese praised the move, which came after pressure from human rights groups.
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2:50 PM🇺🇸 DHS SECRETARY GLASSES JUDGES BLOCKING BIRTHRIGHT CITIZEN ORDER The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin accused "activist judges" of opposing President Trump's birthright citizenship executive order while ignoring corruption from the Biden administration.
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✡️ — PHOTO: The Bobover Rebbe, Rav Ben Tzion Halbershtam, is seen departing his residence in Boro Park, en route to Washington DC for the historic Pre-Rosh Hashanah with President Trump.
3:06 PM✡️ VIDEO: The motorcade of Satmar Rebbe, Rav Aaron Teitelbaum, leaving Kiryas Yoel earlier en route to Teterboro airport ahead of his flight to Washington, D.C., for the meeting with President Donald Trump.
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✡️ -- PHOTOS: The Skverer Rebbe's eldest son, and New Square Mayor Izzy Spitzet are seen boarding the private jet, heading to the Trump meeting at the White House. He is going instead of his father.
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✡️ - PHOTOS: The Satmar Rebbe, Rav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, and the Vizhnitz Monsey Rebbe, at Teterboro airport ahead of their flight to DC for their Trump meeting.
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🇺🇸 TRUMP: US HAS “VIRTUALLY UNLIMITED” AMMUNITION • President Donald Trump said the U.S. has more than enough ammunition for its military operation in Iran and is producing munitions at “levels never seen before.” • Trump also said the U.S. is currently prioritizing its own stockpiles over sales to other countries.
3:48 PM🇺🇸 WATCH: CENTCOM released a video offering a look inside USS Boxer as more than 2,600 Sailors and Marines operate aboard the amphibious assault ship in the Middle East. The footage shows flight operations, deck crews, aircraft and embarked Marines.
3:55 PM
🇮🇷 IRGC SEIZES WEAPONS FROM KURDISH OPPOSITION MEMBERS • IRGC Intelligence in Iran’s Ilam province said it seized weapons from seven Kurdish opposition members accused of planning armed operations in western Iran.
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✡️ - LATEST UPDATE: Belaaz live from Washington: The plane carrying the Satmar, Bobov and Vizhnitzer rebbes was held up at Teterboro due to an air traffic issue near Newark, they have since took off for DC. Belaaz is told The meeting with President Trump isn't expected until 2 PM. A source tells Belaaz that Rep. Mike Lawler will be representing the Rabbis in the White House.
4:28 PM🇺🇸 -- BELAAZ VIDEO: New York Congressman Mike Lawler, who pushed for the meeting between the Rebbes and President Trump, is seen entering the White House now ahead of their arrival. He refused to comment about the plan meeting.
4:37 PM✡️ -- BELAAZ LIVE: NOW: BMG Rosh Yeshivah, Hagaon Reb Malkiel Kotler Shlita, arriving at the White House now for the meeting with President Trump. Reb Malkiel told reporters that he will not be reciting a Bracha on the President.
4:54 PM✡️ -- BELAAZ VIDEO: BMG Rosh Yeshivah Reb Malkiel told Frum reporters that he will not be reciting a Bracha on the President. • The Skverer Rebbe's son when asked, said he will do the same as the other Rabbanim.
4:57 PM🇮🇱🇮🇷 NETANYAHU: “OVERTHROWING THE IRANIAN REGIME IS WITHIN REACH” • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Iranian regime is “weaker than ever” and that Israel has the ability to remove the threat “once and for all” by overthrowing the regime. • Speaking at a PreRosh Hashanah toast with Defense Minister Israel Katz and senior IDF commanders, Netanyahu warned Israel’s enemies: “Don’t mess with us.”
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✡️ -- PHOTO: Reb Malkiel Kotler walking into the White House, welcomed by Tzedek Association President, Reb Moshe Margaretten.
5:06 PM✡️ -- BELAAZ LIVE: Video of the Bobover Rebbe and the Satmar Rebbe Rav Zalman Leib arriving at the White House.
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🇮🇱🗳️ GOTLIV TO RUN WITH OTZMA YEHUDIT MK Tali Gotliv has announced that she will leave Likud and run with Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit in the upcoming election.
5:41 PM🇮🇱 IDF CLEARS HEZBOLLAH UNDERGROUND COMPLEX • The IDF says its forces cleared Hezbollah’s strategic underground complex in the Ali al-Taher Ridge of all operatives, with some eliminated and others fleeing the area. • Operations to neutralize the tunnel complex are continuing.
5:51 PM✡️ -- BELAAZ VIDEO: The Satmar Rebbe, Rav Ahron, arriving to the White House now joined by his son. The Rebbe refused to reply if he will recite a Bracha.
5:56 PM🇺🇸🇻🇪 VANCE: “AN AMAZING TESTAMENT” • Vice President JD Vance praised the new Venezuela oil deal, calling it “an amazing testament to what a smart foreign policy could look like.” Vance said the agreement effectively gives the U.S. access to a 65 billion-barrel oil reserve.
6:00 PM✡️🇺🇸 -- BELAAZ VIDEO: The Satmar Rebbe Rav Ahron entering the White House moments ago for his meeting with President Trump.
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6:19 PM🇺🇸 VANCE JOKES ABOUT BECOMING PRESS SECRETARY: Vice President JD Vance joked with Peter Doocy as he took questions at the White House, saying President Trump warned him not to “do too well” or he might make him press secretary. Vance added: “I’m very much up here as the vice president of the United States.”
6:26 PM🇺🇸 VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: "Major combat operations are currently not ongoing and they haven't been ongoing in a very long time... What we're talking about here is trying to maintain some basic balance in these world energy markets."
6:30 PM🇺🇸🇮🇷 VANCE ON THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ: The U.S. helped 15 million barrels of oil pass through the Strait of Hormuz last night. “If we don’t do it, nobody else would do it,” Vance said, warning that otherwise the world could face a “catastrophic” energy crisis.
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6:45 PM🇺🇸 VANCE DEFENDS TUCKER CARLSON: Vice President JD Vance says yes Jew-Hating conspiracy theorist, Tucker Carlson is “a friend of mine” and rejected the calls to distance himself from him despite Tucker's ongoing hateful voice. • VANCE: “I am not going to play the game where I throw friends under the bus.”
6:52 PM🇸🇾 WATCH: The Syrian army received heavy weapons from the Kurdish-led SDF in Al-Hasakah and is transporting them to positions across the Aleppo countryside.
7:05 PM✡️ -- HISTORIC: Askanim and Frum members of the Press held a minyan of Mincha outside the White House now with a view to the Eisenhower building and the Trump Ballroom construction.
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✡️🇺🇸 - NOW: Belaaz is told that the delegation of Rabbanim has just entered the Oval Office to meet with President Trump.
7:34 PM
🇺🇸📺 FOX NEWS PARTS WAYS WITH MARIA BARTIROMO • FOX News Media announced that Maria Bartiromo is leaving the network effective today after more than 12 years. • Her shows will continue under new names with rotating anchors, while a permanent host for Sunday Morning Futures will be announced later.
7:37 PM✡️ -- NOW: The Rebbes beginning to walk out of the White House after the meeting with President Trump. Belaaz is told the joint meeting with Trump lasted for 30 minutes.
7:57 PM🇺🇸✡️ -- WATCH: The Satmar Rebbe Reb Ahron seen leaving the White House moments ago. Belaaz is told that he was the only rebbe to meet with Trump privately. The meeting lasted for 10 minutes.
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✡️🇺🇸 - NOW: Neturei Karta members protesting now outside the White House against the State of Israel, calling out the meeting between President Trump and the Rebbes. • They told Belaaz they were protesting “the Zionist Satmar leadership” and its meeting with Trump.
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🇮🇱 IDF STRIKES GAZA AFTER GUNFIRE AT FORCES • The IDF struck targets in the Gaza Strip after gunfire was directed at Israeli forces east of the Yellow Line. • No Israeli troops were injured.
11:16 PM🇺🇸 EL-SAYED REFUSES TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM ANTISEMITIC STREAMER: Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is still refusing to distance himself from controversial streamer Hasan Piker, who has stated some of the most anti-Semitic thing about Jews.
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🇺🇸⚖️ TRUMP SLAMS MISSOURI SUPREME COURT: President Trump blasted the Missouri Supreme Court for overturning the congressional map, calling it a “DARK DAY FOR JUSTICE” and demanding it be reinstated “ASAP.”
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✡️🇺🇸 -- OVAL OFFICE MOMENT: The Bobover Rebbe’s gabbai was initially not permitted into the Oval Office during the Trump meeting. After Jared Kushner received a call or message from billionaire Bobov donor Izzy Englander, Kushner stepped out himself and brought the gabbai in. A source who was inside the White House at the time shared this story with Belaaz.
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🇺🇸🇪🇺🇮🇷 BESSENT: EU JOINS “OPERATION ECONOMIC OUTCAST” • Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the European Union has joined the U.S.-led effort to cut off Iran’s financial lifelines. • “We will not stop until every remaining financial lifeline has been severed,” Bessent said.
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✡️🇺🇸 - PHOTO GALLERY: White House releases a batch of photos of the historic meeting between the Rebbes, Rosh Yeshivah and President Donald Trump, in the Oval Office today. See All Photos 👇 https://belaaz.com/news/photo-gallery-trump-oval-office-meeting-with-the-delegation-of-rebbes
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🇮🇱 STABBING ATTACK ATTEMPT AT SHAAR SHECHEM • A stabbing attack was attempted at Shaar Shechem in Yerushalayim. No injuries were reported, and the terrorist was neutralized.
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✡️🇺🇸 HOCHUL VISITS WILLIAMSBURG FOR ROSH HASHANAH FOOD DISTRIBUTION • New York Gov. Kathy Hochul joined Rabbi David Niederman and other Jewish leaders in Williamsburg for a Yom Tov food distribution, helping hand out groceries to families ahead of Rosh Hashanah.
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✡️🇦🇪 -- SCOOP: Ambassador Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, President Trump’s Special Envoy on Combating Antisemitism, was seen Thursday leaving the home of Emirati ruler Mohamed bin Zayed (MBZ) in the UAE, Belaaz has learned. READ MORE👇 🔗https://belaaz.com/news/trumps-antisemitism-envoy-kaploun-seen-leaving-home-of-uae-ruler-mbz-toured-abrahamic-house-synagogue
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🇳🇵 BREAKING: A man has been rescued from a tunnel at Nepal’s Trishuli 3A hydropower plant, nine days after massive floods trapped workers inside. Rescuers have also heard voices from inside the tunnels, raising hopes for more survivors.
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🇺🇸✡️ -- The special Presidential coin and pen that President Trump handed the Rebbes in the Oval Office today.
4:06 AM✡️🎙 — INTERVIEW: Jake Turx recaps the historic Oval Office meeting in an interview with Belaaz, overlooking the White House and the Ballroom construction. • Did the Rebbes recite a Bracha when they met TRUMP? WATCH
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