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7:07 PM🇺🇸 - JUST IN: Secretary Pete Hegseth announces that Elon Musk will co-lead a new War Department effort studying the future of warfare during his State of the Force address. Hegseth unveiled Project Meridian, naming Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to co-lead the effort.
8:15 PM✡️ -- PHOTOS: Anti Israel NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited TikTok Rabbi, Rav Shalom Landau's sukkah in Williamsburg earlier and was presented with a mezuzah "as a blessing for divine protection for all New Yorkers." Satmar Askan Moshe Indig also attended. Meanwhile: Rabbi Landau's brother, Satmar philanthropist Yoily Landau, is spending Sukkos in Israel.
12:38 AM✡️ - WATCH: Singer Mordechai Shapiro joins the crowd like everyone else at the authentic Karlin Simchas Beis Hashoeva in Yerushalayim.
12:46 AM🇺🇸✡️ A Sukkah at the STATE DEPARTMENT: • Belaaz is told that over 100 visitors a day entered the Sukkah, including foreign diplomats, Jewish delegations from around the world, all stopping in to learn about Sukkos. • Ambassador Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun hosted delegations throughout Yom Tov
2:09 AM🇮🇱📺 - LATEST: Sean Hannity presses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on whether Iran could be connected to the attack aboard the Israel-bound Flydubai flight. HANNITY: "Is there any indication as of now of any Iranian involvement in this incident?" NETANYAHU: "It's too early to say." NETANYAHU: "We will be following and possibly also participating in this investigation."
2:13 AM🚨✈️ — WATCH: New video shows hero Israelis holding on to the terrorists copilot on the flyDubai flight after landing in Saudi Arabia. ▎ Join Belaaz https://chat.whatsapp.com/H1kIeUWA5ww54Qut24J7pg
2:41 AM📺 - MORE: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu reveals he spoke with President Trump about the dramatic intervention that helped save the flyDubai-to-Tel Aviv flight as it was nosediving. Netanyahu told Sean Hannity Trump was "really appreciative" of the heroism onboard, describing passengers, including 30 children, believing they were about to die before a young Israeli man, the Indian pilot and others intervened.
5:18 AM✡️ LAST NIGHT: Small Simchas Beis Hashoava at the gate to the Har Habayis.
11:05 AM✡️✈️ DERI ON FLYDUBAI MIRACLE: "THIS IS OUR IRON DOME" • Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, speaking this morning in the Shas sukkah about the miracle of the Dubai flight: "While the Jewish people shook the Arba Minim yesterday, Hashem showed the whole world: there is no place not under His control." • "When we shake the lulav and etrog, let's remember this is the strength of the Jewish people. This is our weapon, our Iron Dome, and these are our missiles: Torah, Tefilla and Mitzvot."
11:07 AM🇮🇱🏅 HERZOG TO HONOR FOUR FLIGHT HEROES • President Isaac Herzog will recommend awarding the “President’s Medal for Civilian Heroism” to four passengers who helped save the Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight: Yaniv Hayon, Dr. Shota Musaev, Tzvika Mans, and Assaf Rejwan.
11:17 AM🇬🇧🇮🇷 UK: "STRONG INDICATIONS" IRAN BEHIND RAF FAIRFORD INCIDENT • Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the BBC there are "strong indications that Iran played a part" in the incident at RAF Fairford, where five men were arrested and then bailed. He gave no further details. Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said Burnham was "barking up the wrong tree." • Trump said he was surprised the suspects got bail. Burnham said they face the "strictest possible bail conditions." Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the incident "clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor."
11:20 AM✡️🍋 WATCH: In honor of his Ushpizin, this morning, thousands singing Hallel with Lulav and Esrog at Kever Yosef Hatzadik in Shchem for the first time in decades.
11:23 AM🇮🇱📈 EL AL SOARS AFTER FLYDUBAI ATTACK • El Al's stock rose 8% hours after the attack on the Flydubai flight, adding about 800 million shekels in market cap.
1:20 PM
🇮🇱🇦🇪 Israel to Launch Repatriation Flights From Dubai Friday as Government Warns Airlines Against Price Gouging • Israel’s El Al, Arkia and Israir are preparing to launch repatriation flights from Dubai on Friday to bring home Israelis stranded by flydubai’s suspension of service. The government will subsidize the flights, with El Al charging $249 and Israir $299 for one-way tickets. The Transportation Ministry warned airlines against excessive pricing and urged affected passengers to seek refunds, accommodations and other compensation from flydubai. ⬇️ Read 🔗 https://belaaz.com/news/israel-to-launch-repatriation-flights-from-dubai-friday-as-government-warns-airlines-against-price-gouging/
1:27 PM✡️🎶 THIS MORNING: Singers Shmulik Sukkot and Yishai Ribo led Hallel at Ash Kalman in Givat HaMivtar.
1:30 PM✡️✈️ AT THE ME'ARAS HAMACHPELA: Someone stood on a chair and thanked Hashem for the great New on the FlyDubai plane and everyone started singing dancing.
1:33 PM🇺🇸 TREASURY PLAN OFFERS UP TO $3,400 TAX CREDIT FOR SCHOOL DONATIONS • The Treasury Department and the IRS published proposed regulations for a new federal tax credit for donations to K–12 scholarship groups. • Under the rules, individual filers could claim up to $1,700 and married couples filing jointly up to $3,400, dollar for dollar, for contributions to approved Scholarship Granting Organizations. Those groups would fund scholarships for eligible elementary and secondary students, covering expenses such as tuition, fees, tutoring and materials at public, private or religious schools. • The credit is set to begin in 2027. Treasury estimates that by 2030 the program could draw nearly $26 billion a year in donations and fund as many as 2.2 million scholarships. The rules are open for public comment.
1:37 PM🇮🇱✈️ NETANYAHU TO FOX NEWS: The co-pilot who attacked the captain on the Israel-bound Flydubai flight is being interrogated, and that initial findings point to extremist ties: "We know that he underwent Islamist radical indoctrination."
1:41 PM🇺🇸🇮🇱 TRUMP: "I DON'T BELIEVE NETANYAHU WAS WARNED" • In an interview with TIME, President Trump said he does not believe reports that Netanyahu received advance warnings from the UAE and Egypt before October 7. "I can't imagine this," he said, adding that he was hearing the claim for the first time.
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1:48 PM✡️ WATCH: IDF soldiers taking the Araba Minim today.
2:02 PM🇮🇷🇬🇧 IRANIAN MEDIA REPORT: Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador in Tehran after the UK Prime Minister accused Iran of involvement in the RAF Fairford sabotage plot. Deputy Foreign Minister Takht Ravanchi rejected the claims as baseless and demanded an official UK explanation and a correction of its approach.
2:08 PM🇨🇳🇺🇸 CHINA-LINKED HACKERS TARGET US AI POLICY EXPERTS • Proofpoint says hackers posed as AI experts, including former White House official Lynne Parker, to lure fewer than 10 targets to password-stealing sites, suggesting "an intelligence interest in US policymaking." • Reuters identified one target, Alex Engler of the Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy, who sensed the email was "slightly, nebulously off." The Chinese Embassy didn't immediately comment.
2:39 PM🇺🇸✈️ TRUMP PRAISES BOEING 737 MAX • Trump congratulated Boeing on Truth Social for building a 737 Max "able to withstand G forces and strain far beyond what it was designed and expected to do," calling it "an amazing show of precise and powerful structural planning and design." • He congratulated CEO Kelly Ortberg and his team on "a job well done."
2:42 PM🇸🇾🇱🇧 SYRIA DENIES SECRET MEETING WITH HEZBOLLAH • Syria is denying a Reuters report that its officials secretly met Hezbollah in Türkiye, in what would have been their first known face-to-face talks since Assad's fall. • Reuters cited six sources who said Turkish intelligence pushed the talks to calm tensions. No agreement was reached.
2:58 PM🇮🇱🇴🇲 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL REPORTS ON THE OMANI TERRORIST PILOT: "His social media accounts talk clearly that he has been radicalized into jihadist ideology. He talks about killing Jews."
3:05 PM🇺🇸⚓ US SURGES TRIPLE-CARRIER FORCE TO MIDDLE EAST • The USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group is deploying to the region, joining the USS George Washington and USS George H.W. Bush under CENTCOM. That makes a rare three-carrier presence. • The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group and its Marine Expeditionary Unit are also departing, joining the Boxer group already in theater. The deployment is meant as deterrence and to bolster air defense across the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab Strait and Persian Gulf, and it may allow long-deployed units like the USS Abraham Lincoln to be relieved.
3:07 PM🇮🇱🎥 IDF: HAMAS AND PIJ OPERATIVES POSED AS JOURNALISTS • The IDF published an investigation claiming that some people presented as journalists in Gaza were in fact operatives in the military wings of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other groups. It says they hid those roles while serving organizations that use propaganda and psychological warfare. • The IDF says it built the case from open-source information, documents gathered in the field, and interrogations of operatives by Israeli intelligence. It frames this against claims that Israel deliberately targets journalists in Gaza.
3:33 PM🇺🇸🇮🇱 — REPORT: CNN Says Kushner Firm Holds Top Stake in Israeli War Suppliers • Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners is the largest investor in Israeli firm Phoenix Financial, which has put hundreds of millions into arms maker Elbit and holds stakes in at least eight other military suppliers, a CNN investigation found. • Kushner has been a key unpaid Gaza negotiator, a status that lets him avoid financial disclosure. CNN said Affinity doubled its Phoenix stake last year, before Trump returned to office, and Kushner later called Phoenix Affinity’s “best investment.” All nine companies CNN identified saw their stocks rise last year, with several citing Gaza war demand. CNN framed the dual role as a potential conflict of interest.
3:47 PM🇺🇸 JUST IN: US mortgage rates surge to highest level since 2023. • The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has risen to 7.6%, the highest level since 2023, making homeownership very expensive for buyers. • The 10-year Treasury yield surged to its highest level since 2002 after recording its largest quarterly increase since 1994. • The 30-year Treasury yield also increased to 5.69% as investors continued selling US government bonds.
3:52 PM🇺🇸🚀 LIFTOFF: SPACEX CREW-13 HEADS TO THE ISS • SpaceX launched four astronauts toward the International Space Station on a long-duration mission. NASA's Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney are joined by Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov aboard the Dragon spacecraft. • Once aboard, the crew will conduct research and technology demonstrations aimed at future missions beyond low-Earth orbit and improving life on Earth.
3:59 PM🇮🇱✡️ NOW: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosting a Hoshana Rabbah learning event in the Knesset sukkah, attended by senior security officials.
4:03 PM🇷🇺 PUTIN ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS: "If a gun is hanging on the stage, sooner or later it must go off."
4:42 PM🇮🇱✡️ SHIN BET CHIEF DAVID ZINI AT THE KNESSET SUKKAH: "The Chag of Sukkot comes to teach us that we can do things in nature that are beyond measure, the thing is in our hands and we are nothing without the Anan Hakavod".
4:50 PM🇮🇱✡️ NETANYAHU AT THE KNESSET SUKKAH: Learning about the milchemes Michmash, where Yonasan took on all the Plishtim, Netanyahu said: "What happened yesterday was a shalsheles of nissim, siyata d'Shmaya and siyata b'Shamayim."
4:54 PM🇬🇧🇮🇷 SIXTH ARREST IN RAF FAIRFORD PLOT • UK counter-terror police arrested a sixth man, a dual British-Iranian national, over the RAF Fairford plot. He is suspected of preparing terrorist acts, and police are investigating possible foreign state involvement.
4:58 PM🇺🇸🇮🇷 WATCH: Asked whether the U.S. would retaliate against Iran over the attack on the plane, President Donald Trump warned: “They’ll be hit very hard. You just ask them. They know what happened. They’ll be hit very hard.”
5:09 PM✡️ PHOTO: United Torah Judaism Chairman MK Yaakov Asher visited the Sukkah of Reb Berel Povarsky, Rosh Yeshivah of Ponovezh.
5:35 PM🇦🇪🇸🇦 - JUST IN: Saudi Arabia: The flyDubai terrorist co-pilot who attempted to hijack the plane on its way to Israel, has been transferred to the UAE, according to Saudi reports.
6:29 PM🇺🇸💼 VANCE: "H-1B PROGRAM IS COMPLETELY BROKEN" • Vice President JD Vance said companies are abusing the H-1B visa program: "If you're going to bring in an accountant making $45,000 a year to replace an American making $60,000 a year, that's not you using the program to bring in a genius. That's you destroying American jobs and defrauding the American people." • His remarks come as President Trump signs an executive order targeting H-1B fraud.
7:51 PM🇺🇸🇧🇴 RUBIO REVOKES VISA, BOLIVIA ARRESTS ATTORNEY GENERAL TWO DAYS LATER • Two days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked his visa, Bolivia's Attorney General Roger Mariaca was arrested on suspicion of money laundering and drug trafficking. The State Department said he took bribes to help drug traffickers and violent criminals evade justice. • Police say four people were caught carrying bundles of cash out of his house in an ambulance. Fourteen people have been arrested, including four prosecutors, and Bolivia's government says the arrest was made with US cooperation.
7:54 PM🇮🇷🚢 NOW: A tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz was hit by an unknown projectile and caught fire, UKMTO said. The crew is safe, and the damage and environmental impact are not yet known.
8:32 PM🇺🇸💉 FLORIDA AG SUES PFIZER OVER COVID VACCINE MARKETING • Attorney General James Uthmeier said his office sued Pfizer for allegedly deceptively marketing its COVID vaccine as safe. He alleged the company made billions while pregnant women suffered miscarriages and teenagers had heart attacks. • The AG also said an investigation continues into claims that Fauci and the "biomedical state" knew the vaccines were dangerous and hid it.
8:36 PM🇺🇸 WATCH: Asked about criticism that he is using his power to target political opponents, President Donald Trump rejected the claim. “I don’t think I’ve used it at all,” Trump said, adding, “If you look at Obama, what he did was far worse.” He also called CNN and other media outlets “terrible.”
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8:55 PM✡️🇱🇧 -- WATCH: IDF Soldiers celebrate the arrival of a Sefer Torah to their position in Lebanon, where they will be spending Simchas Torah.
9:12 PM✡️ - VID: Yidden in Beit Shemesh buying large Aravos for Hoshana Rabba.
9:31 PM🇸🇦 - BREAKING REPORT: Reports of a Suicide Bombing attempt in Mecca within the Kaaba praying area in Saudi Arabia that was eventually foiled by the security forces.
9:36 PM🇮🇱 — JERUSALEM POST REPORT: Passenger Says Flydubai Cockpit Was Empty During Plunge • An Israeli passenger identified as Tal told Jerusalem Post editor Zvika Klein that the flydubai cockpit was empty as the aircraft plunged, and that two extra pilots were still in the cabin. • Tal said he had to shout for them to move forward while other passengers confronted the attacker, and that Israelis worked to hold “key points,” including keeping an Israeli in the cockpit. Klein said the empty-cockpit claim is Tal’s eyewitness account and still needs independent corroboration.
9:41 PM🇺🇸🚛 WATCH: President Trump touring the Peterbilt truck factory in Denton, Texas, meeting employees and taking photos with them. The factory is expanding, and the administration and company are highlighting US manufacturing and investment.
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10:53 PM✡️ -- VIDEO: Mishna Torah at the Dinov Shul in Toms River now.
1:03 AM✡️ -- IMAGE: Hagbah on the world's smallest Sefer Torah today, once used by Maran Sar HaTorah Hagaon Reb Chaim Kanievsky Zatzal, and has now been passed on to Maran Posek Hador Hagaon Reb Moshe Sternbuch Shlita for Simchas Torah. 📸 Photo provided to Belaaz by a grandson of Reb Moshe Sternbuch Shlita
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1:30 AM🤖 — OOPS: Instinct AI is reportedly down for many users right now, with failed loads, stalled sessions and frozen responses. Sadly, many will have to fall back on a calculator and their own brains until it's back up 😅
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