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Continued operations on Islamic Republic of Iran, proxies , May 4 2026+ - sources: Pt II (view source)
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US Drafted Memo Condemning UK Over West Bank Sanctions. It Was Never Released.
By Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. September 23, 2026.
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/09/23/us-drafted-memo-condemning-uk-west-bank-sanctions-was-never-released/ Algemeiner]
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The Women Blinded by the Iranian Regime
Kosar Eftekhari, Farideh Salavatipour, and hundreds of other women were blinded by the Islamic Republic for the crime of protesting for their rights. Today, they fight on.
Kosar Eftekhari (left), who lost sight in one eye, and Farideh Salavatipour (right), who lost sight in both eyes, at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit on May 12, 2026. (Courtesy of Masih Alinejad)
By Masih Alinejad
09.23.26 —
International
[https://www.thefp.com/p/women-blinded-by-iran-masih-alinejad FreePress]
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s Campaign to Islamize Canada.
Guess what? It’s working.
By Charles Asher Small.
September 23, 2026
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist architecture in Canada is manifested in an interlocking network of student organizations, advocacy groups, and charitable entities, which create permission structures for the normalization of anti-Western sentiment, extremism, terrorism, and antisemitism. The success of this ideologically driven campaign to alter Canadian values and torque Canadian institutions has been broadly visible since Oct. 7, 2023, and can be measured concretely in street demonstrations and in violence directed against Jews, both of which have been driven by the mobilization networks, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy documented in a report published last month. The larger political effects of these campaigns can also be seen in the changes in government policy as the Liberal Party has embraced the concrete policy demands of a constituency that is organized to infiltrate institutional structures and apply political pressure using the rules of Canadian democracy to support anti-liberal values and undemocratic political actors.
Following its 1982 “Project,” the Brotherhood’s 1991 “Explanatory Memorandum” applies a long-term program for expansion across social, political, educational, and financial domains to North America, explicitly including Canada, and defining the process as one conducted from within existing societal structures. However, unlike the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Austria, each of which has undertaken a formal government investigation into networks aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood, Canada has conducted no equivalent inquiry at any level. In the absence of proper foreign influence registries, disclosure laws, and political will to investigate its origin and deleterious consequences, these networks can operate with far less scrutiny.
[https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/muslim-brotherhood-campaign-islamize-canada Tablet Mag]
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Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State under Trump, responds to President Macron’s remarks yesterday regarding Hamas:
"The outrageous claim by Emmanuel Macron, according to which Hamas ‘was never particularly active in the West Bank,’ clearly illustrates the mindset of many of Israel’s opponents in the West: a combination of ignorance and deliberate whitewashing of terrorism. It is contemptible."
Sep 23, 2026.
[https://abualiexpress.com/en/en79574/ AbuAli Express]
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Nothing Has Changed: Palestinian Authority Trying to Partner with Terrorists.
Abbas announced the legislative elections to appease Western donors. He just wants more of their money.
by Bassam Tawil.
September 24, 2026 at 5:00 am
- Instead of talking about "reconciliation" with Hamas and other terrorist groups, [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud] Abbas should be demanding that they surrender their weapons, answer for their actions, and disappear from the Palestinian arena.
- There are several problems. One is that Hamas and PIJ do not accept Abbas's conditions. Another is that Abbas is not at all interested in requiring accountability. A third problem that should not be overlooked is: Who is requiring accountability from the Palestinian Authority (PA) itself? Abbas cannot present Fatah and the PA as the "responsible" alternative to Hamas.
-Hamas is a terrorist organization. Abbas and the PA, however, have their own deeply troubling record, including authoritarian rule, suppression of dissent, and a longstanding system of payments and benefits for Palestinian terrorists and the families of those killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis, known as "pay-for-slay."
- US State Department and Congressional reports have confirmed that the PA continued making millions of dollars in payments to terrorists and their families during 2025 and 2026. In 2025 alone, the PA provided $156 million in payments and benefits to terrorists and their families: $126 million to convicted terrorists in Israeli prisons and those released from prison, and $30 million to the families of Palestinian terrorists who died while committing their acts of terrorism.
- According to Palestinian Authority television, the prioritization of "pay-for-slay" above all other PA budget expenses has caused the PA healthcare system to be "on the verge of collapse." Without "pay-for-slay" salaries, one released terrorist declared on PA television, it would be impossible to recruit terrorists.
- Abbas announced the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council to appease Western aid donors. He just wants more of their money. The elections will not improve the situation for Palestinians: the choice for them remains between two bad parties: Fatah and Hamas. The United States and the Europeans should demand that Abbas stop paying terrorists and their families. That is more important than holding elections.
- Abbas's proposed "reconciliation" should not be presented as a choice between a supposedly "moderate" Fatah and a supposedly extremist Hamas. That Hamas is simply worse in certain aspects does not make the Palestinian Authority's conduct acceptable.
- If Abbas's conditions are genuine, all the terrorist groups would first have to undergo a fundamental transformation, including the Palestinian Authority itself. This change would include recognizing Israel's right to exist and dismantling the armed wings of Hamas and all the other Palestinian terrorist groups. Only then could they operate under Abbas's stated principle of "one state with one set of institutions and one weapons and without militias." Meanwhile, Abbas gets to retain his multi-million-dollar "pay-for-slay" program.
- Bringing a terrorist group such as Hamas into a political arrangement, however, hardly constitutes reform. For years, Fatah and Hamas have competed for power while Palestinians have paid the price of political division, repression, corruption and armed conflict. The political contest in the PA is not about who will bring democracy and a strong economy to the Palestinians. It is still a contest over power, money and control.
- The Palestinians do not need another photograph of Fatah and Hamas officials shaking hands and hugging each other in Cairo. They need functioning institutions. They need accountability. They need freedom from political repression. They need a political system in which no faction can maintain private armies or militias.
- A Palestinian political system that incorporates Iran's terror proxies – Hamas and PIJ – means that Palestinian leaders still view these terrorist groups as legitimate actors.
[https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22875/palestinian-authority-partner-with-terrorists gatestoneinstitute]
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The Houthi advance in Yemen may revive Israel-Saudi relations.
In an interview with i24NEWS, former Houthi spokesman Ali al-Bukhaiti discusses Iran’s role in the group’s advance and the possibility of Saudi-Israeli cooperation.
Ariel Oseram. Senior Middle East Correspondent, i24NEWS English Channel
4 min read
September 24, 2026 at 03:52 PM
[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/artc-the-houthi-advance-in-yemen-may-revive-israel-saudi-relations i24]
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Quebec City man charged in alleged Islamic State chemical weapons plot.
By Marisela Amador, CTV News, September 24, 2026.
A Quebec City man has been charged with multiple terrorism-related offences for allegedly intending to carry out at least one attack on behalf of the Islamic State.
According to an investigation by the RCMP Federal Policing Eastern Region, 24-year-old Louay Angoud is alleged to have communicated online with members of a terrorist group and gathered information “to build a chemical weapon that could be used to poison Canadian citizens.”…
[https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/quebec-city-man-charged-in-alleged-islamic-state-chemical-weapons-plot/ CTV]
Terror suspect arrested in Montreal was in Canada illegally: RCMP.
Louay Angoud, 24, was arrested Wednesday at Place Ville Marie.
By Montreal Gazette.
September 25, 2026.
...Angoud was arrested Wednesday at Place Ville Marie by the RCMP and faces three terrorism charges in relation to a planned attack with a chemical weapon.
While the RCMP confirmed Friday that Angoud had been arrested at the downtown office tower complex, which also has retail stores and restaurants, but police wouldn’t say what brought Angoud to Montreal.
Police have identified the 24-year-old as a resident of Quebec City and court documents list his residence as an address in the provincial capital.
Police and prosecutors allege he “intended to carry out at least one attack on behalf of the Islamic State” and that he “communicated online with members of a terrorist group and gathered information to build a chemical weapon that could be used to poison Canadian citizens.”
[https://montrealgazette.com/news/terror-suspect-arrested-in-montreal-was-in-canada-illegally-rcmp/ MontrealGazette]
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Netherlands Reverses Eurovision Boycott Over Israel’s Participation, After Spain and Lithuania Announcements.
By Shiryn Ghermezian. September 24, 2026
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/09/24/netherlands-reverses-eurovision-boycott-israels-participation-after-spain-lithuania-announcements/ Algemeiner]
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Police label shooting in Belleville, Ontario, a hate-motivated attack against the Jewish community.
In audio from the attack, the assailant apparently yells, “You are going to die for the Jews.”
By Emma Paidra
September 24, 2026 7:02 pm
TORONTO – The shooter who opened fire on a Belleville, Ontario, synagogue Sunday evening committed an anti-Jewish hate-motivated offense, according to the city’s police chief.
“This was a deliberate attack directed at members of the Jewish community during one of the holiest observances of the year,” Belleville police chief Murray Rodd said at a press conference on Thursday, adding that the shooter had combustible materials, including gasoline, in his truck.
He said the threat posed to Jewish communities required increased alertness on the part of Canadian law enforcement. Police stationed outside the Sons of Jacob synagogue had engaged in a shootout with the assailant, Sean Ward, that prevented him from entering the building as members of the congregation were about to begin Yom Kippur services.
Rodd noted that the force had a long-time relationship with the Jewish community that involved “our proactive pre-positioning of on-duty staff” to ensure the safety of Jewish worshippers. “One of the messages to my colleagues around the province and the country is: It is clearly time that we all be proactive.”
[https://www.jta.org/2026/09/24/global/police-label-shooting-in-belleville-ontario-a-hate-motivated-attack-against-the-jewish-community JTA]
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A fraudulent ‘Free Palestine’ activist embodies a lying hateful cause.
An American Jew impersonated an Arab and engaged in antisemitism. But others who advocate for anti-Israel genocidal goals are part of the same ideological grift.
Jonathan S. Tobin. (Sept. 25, 2026 / JNS) We live in an era in which fashionable opinion holds it to be an unquestioned truth that biological gender must be considered fluid and changeable, but racial and ethnic identity is not. That’s more a function of ideology than science. Yet the ideas that are the foundation of these complicated and sometimes illogical notions are a formula for a social architecture that prizes one thing above all: victim status.
[...]
A catalogue of lies.
Gann said in her apology, “The fact that I lied about who I was does not mean anyone else who speaks up for Palestine is lying.”
But, of course, that’s exactly the point. The entire rhetoric of “Free Palestine” is a catalogue of lies.
Indeed, the rewriting of the history of ancient Israel and the modern state, as well as the repeated Palestinian-Arab rejections of any peace offer that does not involve the expulsion of Jews from their homeland, is essential to the movement’s cause. From the fabricated statistics about Palestinian casualties in the post-Oct. 7 war they started, to their denials of the atrocities, including mass murder, torture and rape committed that day by the Palestinians (which were filmed on Go-Pro cameras and posted on the social-media accounts of some of the victims to cause even more pain to their relatives and friends), to their denigration of the suffering of the hundreds who were kidnapped on that Jewish holiday, “pro-Palestine” discourse aims not merely to deny reality, but to invert it.
Above all, the dialectic of Palestinianism aims at stripping Jews of rights and falsely portraying them as criminal monsters and modern-day Nazis, while glorifying an Islamist movement whose sole purpose is Jewish genocide and destruction of the one Jewish state on the planet. And in order to accomplish this, they have, with the aid of a biased media, spread blood libels about the Jews committing “genocide” and their democratic nation being an “apartheid state.”
[https://www.jns.org/opinion/column/jonathan-s-tobin/a-fraudulent-free-palestine-activist-embodies-a-lying-hateful-cause JNS]
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Two IDF soldiers killed in the Gaza Strip | LIVE BLOG.
Israel names two soldiers killed in Gaza: reservists Nadav Kali, 24, of Har Halutz, and Ofek Moalem, 23, of Jerusalem, both of the 7007th Battalion. i24NEWS, Ariel Oseran, Yana Suryadnaya.
September 24, 2026 at 11:33 PM
[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/artc-we-want-to-return-to-mou-deal-before-the-us-midterms-iranian-president-says-live-blog i24]
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Colombia severs diplomatic ties with Iran.
Bogotá cites links to terrorist groups and concerns over human rights and Iran’s nuclear program; consular relations remain in place.
i24NEWS.
September 25, 2026 at 01:33 AM
[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/latin-america/artc-colombia-severs-diplomatic-ties-with-iran i24]
Sa’ar praises Colombia for cutting ties with Tehran.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Friday praised Colombia for severing diplomatic relations with Iran, calling the move a stand against terrorism and the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions.
“I commend Colombia and the leadership of President Abelardo de la Espriella for severing diplomatic relations with the Iranian regime,” Sa’ar wrote on X.
“This is a clear stand against terrorism, narco-terrorism and Iran’s dangerous nuclear ambitions. The free world must stand united against the Iranian regime.”
Sep. 25, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-d775-d7e7-abff-f7fd3eb90000 JNS]
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Israel Foreign Ministry
@IsraelMFA:
As Foreign Minister @BMeinl stated in her interview, Israel is a democracy and therefore Austria stands by Israel.
Israel values its relations with Austria.
Red lines have indeed been crossed, but by Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime. While Israel strives to minimize civilian casualties, Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah commit war crimes using civilians as human shields and targeting civilians.
Israel has, as the Foreign Minister noted, a strong and independent civilian and military judiciary. These courts have not found that Israel committed any war crimes.
We hope that, in her meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi this week, Foreign Minister Meinl-Reisinger raised the Iranian regime’s mass killing of its own people and its missile attacks on civilians in Israel and neighboring countries.
Sep 24, 2026.
[https://x.com/IsraelMFA/status/2103219610698850800 on X]
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Netanyahu’s UN speech: Israel prevented ‘the genocide Mamdani’s Hamas buddies would have done to us’.
PM slams Gaza genocide accusation as 'lie of the century,' denounces Qatar for spending billions to 'brainwash young minds' to hate Israel and US, insists evil Iranian regime will fall.
By ToI Staff. Sep 25, 2026, 12:31 am
Accusing Israel of genocide is the greatest lie of the century’.
It will take time. It will take time to vanquish the lies. It will take time for the world to acknowledge what is so plain to see. That Hamas used Palestinian civilians as human shields. That it used hospitals, schools and mosques as terrorist command posts. That it stole much of the food we let into Gaza.
While Hamas did everything possible to keep Palestinian civilians in harm’s way, often at gunpoint, Israel did everything possible to get them out of harm’s way. We sent millions of text messages warning civilians to leave combat areas. We made millions of phone calls. We dropped millions of leaflets.
I want to ask you some questions. What genocidal regime gives a million polio vaccinations to the enemy’s population? What genocidal regime enables the distribution of two million tons of food into Gaza? That’s a ton for every person.
Accusing Israel of genocide is the greatest lie of the century. If you want to know how big a lie, if you want to know how absurd this is, listen to Colonel John Spencer. He’s the head of Urban Warfare studies at West Point. He’s considered the world’s foremost expert on urban warfare. I think he’s with us today.
Colonel Spencer has studied every urban war from antiquity to modern times, from ancient Greece to Mosul to Gaza. Here is what Colonel Spencer says: “Israel has done more to prevent civilian casualties in war than any other military in history.”
We’ve taken innumerable steps to protect the civilian population. Is this genocide? Of course not. It’s the opposite of genocide.
So to all those spreading these lies about my country and about our brave soldiers, whether they sit in this hall or in the office of the antisemitic mayor of New York City, I say this:
Shame on you. Shame on you for distorting the facts. Shame on you for inverting victim and aggressor. Shame on you for spitting in the face of truth.
Israel didn’t commit genocide. Israel prevented genocide. And that’s exactly what Mr. Mamdani’s Hamas buddies would have done to us had we not stopped them. They would have killed every last one of us.
[https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-un-speech-israel-prevented-the-genocide-mamdanis-hamas-buddies-would-have-done-to-us/amp/ T.o.I.]
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Netanyahu at UNGA: Gaza genocide ‘lie of the century,’ matter of time before Iranians topple regime
By James Genn, Tobias Holcman, and Idan Kweller.
September 24, 2026.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the genocide claim against Israel was "the lie of the century," while adding that the Iranian regime's toppling was "only a matter of time," during his Thursday address to the United Nations General Assembly.
Netanyahu addresses Israel's information war.
One of the main topics in Netanyahu's speech was the different fronts that Israel is fighting. The prime minister explained that Israel is also fighting on the information front against countries that push what he described as antisemitic narratives and spread lies, "such as the genocide claim."
"What genocidal regime gives millions of polio vaccines to the enemy population? What genocidal regime enables the distribution of two million tons of food to Gaza, a ton per person?" Netanyahu asked the assembly, adding that a majority of the fighting was being conducted in the social media sphere.
Netanyahu also said that several countries in the region were actively financing information campaigns against Israel, with Qatar being the first to pursue such policies and Turkey the latest.
"Years ago, Qatar started financing universities and the toxic media outlet Al Jazeera. They did the same in Europe, by the way. And their goal was clear. Brainwash young minds to hate Israel, America, and the West. This is the same Qatar that holds the Hamas butchers of October 7," he said.
"Now the last country to become an antisemitic spreader of lies is Turkey. [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is a tyrant who also hosts the Hamas terror chiefs," he added.
Netanyahu also accused the Turkish leader of having "murdered thousands of Kurdish civilians, denies the Armenian genocide, has jailed thousands of journalists, and in fact, he holds the world record for this, and illegally occupies northern Cyprus and regularly trespasses into Greece, a NATO member."
He said it was no surprise that Erdogan was now "attempting to trespass into Syria." Netanyahu added that Erdogan had called for Israel's destruction almost every day and said he intended to rule Jerusalem.
Netanyahu calls out Mamdani.
During his speech, Netanyahu also addressed recently elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, saying that Jews were worried about the state of the city and their safety.
"Many tell me that this is not the New York that we know, and that they can't believe how fast it changed," he said.
"It's no wonder if we consider that you [Mamdani] praised criminals convicted of supporting Hamas; you count as friends people like Hassan Piker, who said America deserved 9/11. Some friends you have. You invite into your home a Palestinian journalist who filmed Hamas terrorists beating and torturing Israeli hostages and later admitted that he refused to publish the videos in order to protect the terrorists. Your wife likes a post praising the Oct. 7 massacre, and another saying Tel Aviv shouldn't exist," Netanyahu added.
"Mr. Mamdani, you tried to stop me from coming here; you tried to silence me. Well, you can silence me, you can't silence the truth," Netanyahu continued.
"And here is the simple truth: Israel didn't commit genocide; Israel prevented genocide. And that's exactly what Mr. Mamdani's Hamas buddies would have done if we hadn't stopped them; they would have killed every last one of us."
Netanyahu refers to West Bank violence.
In another part of his speech, Netanyahu addressed what he described as a recent rise in West Bank violence, saying that the settler population could not be represented by 150 young people who "throw rocks and burn down olive trees."
"I can't stand for vigilantes, and that's why we are looking for them with the Shin Bet," he continued, adding that he saw no comparison between settler violence and Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians in the West Bank.
"Three days ago, an Israeli-French citizen was shot by a Hamas terrorist in a lake in Judea and Samaria. Two days ago, a reservist was run over by a terrorist while in Judea and Samaria," he said.
He identified the victim of the car-ramming attack as Neria Leiter, an American citizen who serves as an IDF reservist and is the son of Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter.
"In a recent post, before he was attacked, Neria wrote this: We have no country; it is a privilege to defend it. To Neria, and to all the heroes of Israel, I pledge: Your sacrifice won't be in vain. We will continue to fight and to win, because we have no other choice," Netanyahu said.
Starlink, beepers, and delegations leaving the chamber.
During the speech, Netanyahu used physical objects to illustrate some of his points. He displayed a beeper while recounting how the IDF destroyed the Hezbollah threat through the beeper operation. He also displayed a Starlink antenna receiver while discussing what he described as the Iranian people's opposition to the regime.
While discussing Iran, Netanyahu contrasted protests against Israel in Gaza and the West Bank with the absence of similar protests when, according to him, Iran repressed protesters in the streets.
"But I have news for you. In Iran, the power of the people will overcome the people in power," he said.
During Netanyahu's address, several delegations walked out and booed the prime minister when he was called to the podium. Although several delegations left the plenary hall, 120 remained in their seats, according to the Prime Minister's Office, which told Walla.
Iran's delegation also left a photograph of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani on its bench.
Israeli political reactions.
Former prime minister and B'Yachad party leader Naftali Bennett said that Netanyahu had missed what Bennett described as an opportunity to declare Qatar an enemy and highlight its involvement in the October 7 massacre.
"In doing so, he whitewashes and legitimizes Qatar. Every moment Netanyahu refuses to call the Qatari enemy by its name harms our national security, damages Israel's standing in the world, and dishonors the memory of those murdered in the massacre," Bennett said.
"Qatar is an enemy with the blood of our people on its hands. They funded [Hamas's] Nukhba forces, celebrated the massacre, have hosted and continue to host Hamas leaders, and even at this very moment, continue to spread antisemitic propaganda worldwide calling for Israel's destruction," he continued.
"Netanyahu speaks about Hamas, but he is trying to hide the truth. Without Qatar, there is no Hamas. Netanyahu is handing Qatar the keys to Gaza, which is why he has been unable to defeat Hamas for three years now," Bennett said.
"We will declare Qatar an enemy, oust it from Israel and Gaza, and defeat Hamas," Bennett concluded.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said Netanyahu's speech "presented our truth in the house of lies that is the UN."
"Israel's prime minister must be equipped with the abilities and skills to fight for Israel's cause and to be a player on the international stage. The candidates seeking to replace Netanyahu in these elections do not have these abilities that Netanyahu has," Sa'ar added.
Democrats party head Yair Golan said, "I was surprised to hear that Netanyahu is accusing Qatar of spreading lies and hosting Hamas leaders on October 7. Apparently the speech did not align with Yonatan Urich."
Meetings on the sidelines of the UNGA.
Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, welcomed Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, before the prime minister took the stage.
Protests were reported outside the UN headquarters against Netanyahu's presence at the gathering of world leaders. Several protesters were arrested by the New York Police Department for causing disruptions outside UN headquarters. Among those arrested was anti-Zionist movie star Susan Sarandon, according to Walla.
Before his speech, Netanyahu met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the sidelines of the UNGA.
Netanyahu "emphasized the importance of the strategic partnership between the countries for regional stability and welcomed Greece's selection of Israeli defense systems," the Prime Minister's Office said.
Netanyahu and Mitsotakis discussed "regional developments, energy cooperation, and the advancement of another tripartite summit with Cyprus," the PMO added.
Netanyahu also met with Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša on the sidelines of the UNGA, the PMO confirmed.
He thanked Janša for the opening of the Israeli embassy in Ljubljana and his "steadfast support for Israel, which has led to a turnaround in bilateral relations," the PMO said.
The two leaders "discussed opportunities to deepen cooperation between the two countries in various fields," and Netanyahu invited Janša to visit Israel, according to the PMO.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-909619 JPost]
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'Churchillian, meaningful' Netanyahu United Nations speech, Jewish leaders say.
(Sept. 24, 2026 / JNS)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday with a message for the diplomats walking out of the hall.
“If there are any other moral cowards who haven’t yet left this hall, please do so now,” he said. “Thank you very much.”
Dozens of delegates departed, as others who remained in the room sang “Am Yisrael chai,” the people of Israel live.
Netanyahu defended Israel’s participation in strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, calling it one of the easiest decisions he had made as prime minister.
“In defending itself, Israel is also defending many of the countries whose delegates just left this hall,” he told attendees of the general debate of the 81st U.N. General Assembly.
Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran, told JNS that the address carried messages to “the international community, antisemites abroad, state threats against Israel and most especially the Iranian people.”
“It was unfortunate many U.N. delegates walked out for his speech but stayed for Masoud Pezeshkian’s address after the Iranian regime killed tens of thousands of its own people in January,” Brodsky told JNS.
Netanyahu rejected accusations that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. “Israel didn’t commit genocide. Israel prevented genocide,” he said.
The Israeli premier also accused Qatar and Turkey of spreading antisemitic claims about the Jewish state.
Brig. Gen. (res.) Erez Winner, chairman of the Israel Defense and Security Forum, told JNS that Netanyahu’s defense of Israel “is not going to change any one of our enemy’s attitude” but that it offers support to Jews abroad.
“Raise your heads,” Winner said. “Be proud of what you are.”
Winner called the speech “meaningful” and said that the Israeli prime minister was answering to “false accusations” thrown at the Jewish state.
“He was giving a deterrence speech,” he told JNS. “Don’t think you can think about attacking us. Look what happened to all of those who tried.
[https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/churchillian-meaningful-netanyahu-united-nations-speech-jewish-leaders-say JNS]
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Ambassador Mike Huckabee
@GovMikeHuckabee:
A mention by @IsraeliPM of @SpencerGuard makes sense-Spencer is world’s foremost expert on urban warfare & genocide. Facts matter. Truth matters.
Sep. 24, 2026.
[https://x.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/2103326528096366801 on X]
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Report: Saudi Arabia, UAE urge US to maintain pressure on Iran.
Riyadh and Abu Dhabi oppose easing sanctions or the US naval blockade as Qatar and Oman push to revive talks.
i24NEWS.
September 25, 2026 at 05:01 AM
[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/artc-saudi-arabia-uae-urge-us-to-maintain-pressure-on-iran i24]
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Netanyahu at UNGA: Gaza genocide ‘lie of the century,’ matter of time before Iranians topple regime.
Netanyahu calls out Qatar for spending billions to brainwash youth worldwide • "Tyrant" Erdogan hosts Hamas terror chiefs • "Shame on you, antisemitic mayor of New York," he tells Mamdani.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-909619 JPost]
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Prominent scholars, legal experts among 6,000 signatories to letter rejecting Gaza genocide charge.
September 25, 2026.
Prominent academics, legal experts, and historians are among more than 6,000 signatories of an open letter released earlier this month rejecting as a “blood libel” the accusation that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
The letter, which launched with more than 5,000 signatories and later surpassed 6,000, argues that the accusation of genocide is contradicted by Israel’s conduct during the war and has been weaponized as a pretext to exclude and attack Jews around the world.
The letter was released by Creative Community for Peace in partnership with its authors: Yossi Klein Halevi, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, Rabbi Micha Odenheimer, and Binghamton University historian Jonathan Karp.
“There is a vigorous debate within the Jewish community over aspects of how this war was fought, and that is a sign of moral health. So is our pain over every innocent life lost. But we must unite in repudiating the lie of genocide,” the letter states.
It addresses what it describes as the “unprecedented combat conditions” in Gaza, including Hamas’s use of “hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, thousands of boobytrapped homes [and] the conflating of combatants with ‘journalists’ and ‘human rights workers.’”
The letter also addresses the civilian-to-combatant casualty ratio, which it says is “considered low for asymmetrical urban warfare.” Taking the Gaza Health Ministry’s reported death toll, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, alongside an Institute for National Security Studies estimate from May of more than 23,000 terrorists killed, the letter says the implied civilian-to-combatant ratio would be roughly 2:1.
The letter also cites “the absence of mass starvation despite repeated claims of imminent catastrophe” and “the warnings given to civilians before attack,” arguing that these factors were overlooked in what it describes as efforts to accuse Israel of genocide.
The letter argues that Israel went to war after October 7 to break what it calls an “Iranian-led siege of terror enclaves” on its borders. It also states that accusations of genocide against Israel were being made by anti-Zionists as early as the day after October 7.
“The bitter irony is that Israel, home to half the world’s Jews, is the only country to face a sustained war of attempted genocide – from its inception in 1948 until today,” the letter states.
Prominent scholars who signed the letter include Harvard professor and public intellectual Steven Pinker. Other Harvard-affiliated signatories include Harvard Law professor Jesse Fried and visiting scholar Anat Alon-Beck, a professor of law at Case Western Reserve University.
Other notable scholars who signed include historian Niall Ferguson, Israeli historian Benny Morris, Holocaust historian and former US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, Tel Aviv University professor emerita and former Yad Vashem chief historian Dina Porat, historian and author Simon Sebag Montefiore, UCLA professor Judea Pearl, and Brandeis University professor emeritus Jonathan Sarna.
The signatories also include John Spencer, chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point.
Prominent legal figures include former Canadian justice minister and attorney general Irwin Cotler, Cornell Law professor Robert Hockett, Jeffrey Mausner, a former prosecutor with the US Justice Department’s Nazi War Crimes Unit, and Eugene Kontorovich, a professor of law at George Mason University’s Scalia Law School and director of its Center for the Middle East and International Law.
“The genocide libel is a case study in the longstanding – and intensified post-October 7th – historical, moral, legal and normative inversions of fact, law and history,” Cotler said in a statement cited by Creative Community for Peace.
Political signatories include former UK prime minister Boris Johnson, Iraqi-born former UK cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi, and former US secretary of veterans affairs Robert Wilkie, among others.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-909646 JPost]
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Watch: IDF demolishes tunnels below the yellow line.
Two-kilometer-long underground terror tunnel dismantled: IDF troops continue operations to clear the Yellow Line area of terror infrastructure.
Israel National News.
Sep 25, 2026, 1:31 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433648 INN]
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Hadassah named among world’s leading hospitals by ‘Newsweek’.
Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem has been named one of the world’s leading medical centers by Newsweek magazine in its rankings for 2027.
Sep 25, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-d831-d8bb-a9fa-ff79bf190000 JNS]
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IDF kills two Hamas terrorists who participated in Oct. 7 massacre, held Israeli hostages
According to the IDF, Hamas terrorist commander Hassan Mahmoud Siam held Amit Soussana, Keith and Aviva Siegel, and Dafna Elyakim hostage over the course of their captivity in Gaza.
By Goldie Katz.
September 25, 6:37 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-909721 JPost]
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Live Updates: Abraham Accords partners meet in New York as Yemen calls on citizens to join fight against Houthis.
Trump tells Xi that China helping Iran is unacceptable • IDF kills two Hamas terrorists who held Israeli hostages in Gaza • Iran submits plan to reopen Hormuz in seven days.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-09-25/live-updates-909655 JPost]
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Mahyar Tousi on X: "History will never forget what the pro-Islam [radical] British government did here." / X.
Sep 24, 2026.
[https://x.com/MahyarTousi/status/2103173730512028032 on X]
Miliband under fire for shaking hands with Iranian minister.
Tories describe Foreign Secretary’s meeting with Abbas Araghchi as a ‘propaganda win’ for Tehran.
Ed Miliband held a face-to-face meeting with his Iranian counterpart on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Amy Gibbons.
Published 25 September 2026 7:11pm BST
Ed Miliband has been accused of fuelling Iranian propaganda by shaking hands with Tehran’s foreign minister at the United Nations General Assembly…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/09/25/miliband-under-fire-for-shaking-hands-with-iranian-minister/
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The ‘Proud Jew’ Pushing Out British Jewry.
By Jonathan Sacerdoti. September 25, 2026.
Our British Foreign Secretary is certainly not camera shy. In fact, he has something of an obsession with posting toe-curling social media videos — so much so that one might mistake his taxpayer-funded trip to the UN General Assembly in New York for a wannabe influencer’s minibreak, booked on Avios saved up from years of shopping at Accessorize. His wooden personality, bodily awkwardness, and peculiar dental endowment combine to bring new levels of dweebishness to the poorly produced, formulaic Instagram reels he’s been pumping out since he took office. His poor man’s Robert Jenrick act is simply showing him up as the lightweight he is.
While other world leaders used the UN General Assembly this week to hold important meetings, deliver set-piece speeches, and put vital messages across to the world, Edward Miliband appears to have forced a spad [special adviser] to film him as he wanders around the UN building and through the streets of New York, awkwardly delivering lines fresh from ChatGPT. He’s giving more “Miss Alumunumu” vibes than Lord Palmerston — but she at least raised a few smiles flogging her Chinese-made aluminum capsule homes on TikTok. Not so Miliband.
In one carefully stage-managed collab with the internet video creator Feroz Khan, he declares himself “like the Marco Rubio of Great Britain.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Khan became internet-famous for a series of videos in which he spontaneously stops strangers in the street to chat. He faked this one with Miliband, presumably to help the guy build more international recognition. If the badly scripted conversation hadn’t given the game away, the very idea that anyone would stop a second-rate Mr. Bean tribute act on Fifth Avenue because he looked “well dressed” destroyed any scrap of believability. Asked what his job involves, he garbled, “I’m just trying to make the world a better place,” with all the flair of David Brent.
This Alan Partridge-meets-messiah-complex act might reveal why he’s doing such a bloody dreadful job only weeks into the new role. I always thought the UK Foreign Secretary’s job was to direct British foreign policy worldwide, negotiate treaties, and build alliances, all for the benefit of British interests. Miliband thinks he’s been appointed Mother Teresa.
Then there was his tone-deaf post of a photo of himself standing next to Zohran Mamdani. “Progressive parties are so much stronger when we learn from and stand with each other — from the cost of living to climate action to peace in Israel and Palestine,” he gushed in the caption.
Zohran Mamdani is the New York mayor who used his first day in office to bin the city’s adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, who wouldn’t condemn calls to “globalize the intifada,” who has called AIPAC “monsters,” and who took most of a day to condemn chants of “We support Hamas” outside a Queens synagogue. For nine months, New York’s rabbis, from Reform to Orthodox, have been telling him that his rhetoric is making Jews less safe. That is the man Britain’s Jewish Foreign Secretary chose to “learn from and stand with.”
In another video, he talks about how great it was that the Labour government “recognized” a Palestinian state. It’s not entirely clear what positive effect he thinks that had — but maybe it’s too early to tell. Surely his desperate Hail Mary, punishing Israel to keep alive the long-dead fantasy of a two-state solution, is proof enough that the so-called recognition did nothing to bring about Palestinian statehood. If it had really recognized a state, wouldn’t there already be two? The “solution” would be well and truly achieved, and peace would reign throughout the Middle East.
Then there’s the money. This week Miliband also unveiled more than £88 million of British taxpayers’ cash for Gaza and the “West Bank,” some of it for UNRWA — the agency whose staff the UN’s own investigators found may have taken part in the Oct. 7 massacre.
He couldn’t resist using the announcement for another swipe at Israel, urging it to “listen to our Call to Action” and end its “unacceptable restrictions on Gaza.” One wonders whether Hamas, which has spent years diverting resources into tunnels and rockets, received a Call to Action too.
The point of all this cheap, transparent social media fodder is clear: Miliband is desperate for his potential voters to know that, while he is a “proud Jew,” he’s not afraid to upset, imperil, and abandon British Jews, and is positively excited by the prospect of destroying the safety and security of Israeli Jews.
In fact, the sheer volume of these totally un-serious videos makes it clear that he really, really wants everyone to know this. None of this is accidental. Thankfully for both groups, he is also making sure Britain’s ability to do the latter shrinks by the day, as he makes our nation ever less relevant and influential in the messy business of containing the Palestinian and wider Iranian threat to Israel.
Miliband’s morality is also strikingly selective. Just over two weeks after solemnly invoking “death, destruction, and dehumanization on an appalling scale” in Gaza, he sat down in New York with Iran’s Abbas Araghchi, foreign minister of a regime whose forces massacred protesters in January — more than 36,500 in just two days, according to documents obtained by Iran International.
To be fair, he reportedly used the meeting to warn Tehran against hostile activity on British soil. But don’t expect that one to get a slickly produced reel, or any talk of making the world a better place.
With every video and photo condemning Israel for one thing or another, Miliband makes it clearer which voters Labour is most afraid of losing. And each one signals weakness, not the strength he thinks he’s projecting.
Meanwhile, everyone who isn’t obsessed with Gaza and “recognizing Palestine” is left with an increasingly clear sense that he has little to add to our standing in the world. He would rather make online gestures and meaningless political moves over something he can’t control than roll up his sleeves and do the hard work of effective diplomacy, alliance-building, and forging strong trade partnerships.
Even on this issue of the Middle East, just think which side makes the more productive ally for Britain as it faces an increasingly uncertain and unsafe future: a democratic, confident, strong Israel, with its excellence in defense, technology, intelligence, and medicine — or the Palestinians, with their decades-long, stubborn commitment to violence, terrorism, and rejectionism.
Britain’s interests are not served by alienating a strong and valuable ally for an imaginary, violent one with few shared values.
Since declaring himself a “proud Jew,” Miliband has wasted no time in proving how little that pride is worth to the community he claims. He is at least doing British Jews one service: More of us now understand that our legitimate, real concerns do not count when set against the objections of a small but angry and often violent mob of irrational actors.
Their concerns — and votes — matter far more than ours to the government that determines our future.
British Jews are increasingly being convinced by our Foreign Secretary that this country is no longer a sensible place to bring up children, build businesses, or plan a safe and secure future. As a “proud Jew,” perhaps this is his contribution to helping Anglo-Jewry decide its path ahead.
Jonathan Sacerdoti, a writer and broadcaster, is now a contributor to The Algemeiner.
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/09/25/proud-jew-pushing-out-british-jewry/ Algemeiner]
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German city votes to end Stolpersteine Holocaust memorial stones for Nazi victims.
The motion was jointly submitted by representatives of the right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and AfD, together with representatives of the "Oberelbe Alliance for More Democracy."
By Eli Leon.
September 25, 2026.
The city council of Heidenau, in the German state of Saxony, voted on Thursday to no longer permit new Stolpersteine memorial stones to be placed on the city's streets and sidewalks in memory of Jews and other victims of the Nazi regime.
The motion passed in a secret ballot, with 13 council members voting in favor, six opposed, and one abstaining. It was jointly submitted by representatives of the right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Alternative for Germany (AfD), together with representatives of the "Oberelbe Alliance for More Democracy."
German artist Gunter Demnig launched the Stolpersteine, or "stumbling stones," project in the 1990s, and it has become one of the world's largest decentralized memorial projects.
The small brass plaques are generally embedded in the pavement outside the former home or last workplace of a person persecuted or murdered by the Nazis. Each bears the individual's name and details of their fate.
Under the resolution, applications to install new Stolpersteine "in public streets and sidewalks" will now be rejected. Instead, supporters of the measure want memorials to Nazi victims concentrated at a commemorative site in the city's Northern Cemetery, where people would not walk over the memorial plaques.
Those behind the proposal argued that residents, relatives of victims and various memorial initiatives no longer regard Stolpersteine as an appropriate form of remembrance, in part because passersby step on the names of those who were murdered and persecuted.
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-909686 JPost]
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Saudi Arabia has not ruled out developing nuclear weapons, US intelligence warns - report.
Classified US intelligence warns Saudi Arabia may still seek nuclear weapons, fueling bipartisan pushback in Congress against a proposed Trump administration civilian nuclear cooperation pact.
Asher Smith. September 25, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/international/article-909741 JPost]
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Italy charges three adults, 14 minors with neo-Nazi, white supremacist activity-linked offenses.
In the online groups and chatrooms, the suspects praised Adolf Hitler and shared instructions for making and detonating homemade explosives designed to maximize lethal impact.
By Goldie Katz.
Sep. 26, 2026.
Three adults and 14 minors were charged with training for terrorist activities, incitement to commit hate crimes, and propaganda after an Italian General Investigations and Special Operations Division (DIGOS) investigation into online neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, the Italian state police announced on Friday.
DIGOS officers in multiple areas of Italy executed search warrants on the suspects' computers and belongings. They uncovered bladed weapons, paraphernalia with Nazi symbolism, and electronic devices used to spread propaganda.
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-909760 JPost]
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Nine Israeli innovations that helped shape the world, from Waze to the Iron Dome.
Zionism challenged Jews to take the initiative, and almost eight decades later, Israeli innovations are improving the world and enriching lives everywhere.
By Steven Drucker. September 26, 2026.
Jews have been victimized more than any other people in history, yet have remained optimistic, idealistic, and dedicated to helping build a better world. The Jews’ contribution to the world is staggering – and up to 1948, all without political power, a country, or a shared language of everyday speech.
When the State of Israel was founded, it was a barren country with no natural resources, little water, and more than half of its landmass desert.
The only advantage the new country had going for it was the strength of will and natural creativity of its people.
Zionism challenged Jews to take the initiative, and almost eight decades later, Israeli innovations are improving the world and enriching lives everywhere. Here are nine of them:
Solar Water Heater.
In the early 1950s, Dr. Zvi (Harry) Tabor, an Israeli physicist from England, convinced that solar energy was the surest and cleanest solution to the fact that Israel has no oil of its own, invented the Tabor Selective Surface – thermal panels that could store the heat of the sun even when it didn’t shine.
Eventually, he integrated this technology with a water boiler to create the modern solar water heater, which earned Tabor the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences in 1956.
Today, 95% of Israeli households have solar-heated water tanks based on the Tabor Selective Surface. With over 1.4 million units installed, Israel maintains the highest per capita use of solar-powered water heaters in the world.
Approximately 122 million solar hot water systems were in operation globally at the end of 2022.
Besides simple residential units, these systems included solar power plants in remote locations not hooked up to the grid and even the solar panels built in California’s Mojave Desert, the largest solar power installation in the world – all based on Tabor’s work.
Dr. Zvi Tabor was awarded the Israeli President’s Medal of Distinction in 2014 for “being a symbol of Israeli innovation and for inspiring generations of scientists and entrepreneurs in the field of solar energy.”
Drip Irrigation.
In the early 1960s, Simcha Blass, the chief engineer and one of the founders of the Mekorot water company, developed and patented the drip irrigation concept.
Friction and pressure loss allow water to drip slowly at regular intervals to the roots of plants, providing a sustainable solution to the challenges of water scarcity and climate uncertainty.
Increased water-use efficiency, with up to 50% savings, and crop yield, up 30–50%, together with decreased fertilizer loss and soil erosion, have been instrumental in transforming barren deserts in the Middle East, North Africa, India, and parts of Australia into productive agricultural lands.
Netafim, the company that Blass established over 60 years ago, now operates in 110 countries and contributes to food security and economic growth for farmers across more than 15 million hectares worldwide.
Semiconductor Memory.
In 1971, Dov Frohman, the Israel Prize-winning founder and first general manager of Intel Israel, invented the first non-volatile semiconductor memory that was both erasable and reprogrammable.
Intel founder Gordon Moore declared this innovation “as important in the development of the microcomputer industry as the microprocessor itself.”
From its crucial role in developing the foundations of personal computing, this technology revolutionized data storage, paving the way to flash memory technology, invented by Dov Moran and perfected by Dr. Eli Harari, the co-founder of SanDisk – both Israelis.
This led to the commercially feasible development of digital photography, MP3 players, USB drives, smartphones, tablets, laptops, e-books, apps, and portable game consoles.
Cardioverter-Defibrillator.
On February 4, 1980, the first cardioverter-defibrillator, invented and developed by Michel Mirowski, a Polish-born Israeli-American physician, was implanted in a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital, despite much skepticism and the lack of financial backing.
An Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD) is a small, battery-powered device placed under the skin in the upper chest to monitor and help regulate life-threatening electrical problems with the heart 24/7.
If it detects dangerously fast rhythms, such as tachycardia or fibrillation, it delivers an electric shock to restore a normal rhythm, preventing sudden cardiac arrest, and often also serving as a pacemaker.
It also delivers “overdrive pacing” for less severe fast rhythms, or a shock for life-threatening, chaotic rhythms, often restarting a heart that stops beating during cardiac arrest.
Since then, the device – which Mirowski further improved and miniaturized – has been installed in over 4 million people worldwide.
PillCam.
After working on the idea for almost 20 years and successfully creating a prototype in 1998, Gavriel Iddan, an Israeli electro-optical engineer, received FDA approval on August 3, 2001, for a disposable pill-sized camera that passes straight through the digestive tract, continuously broadcasting to an external receiver.
The resulting product, PillCam, was developed to non-invasively visualize the small bowel and gastrointestinal tract.
It takes 2–6 pictures per second for roughly 8 hours, helping doctors diagnose Crohn’s disease, obscure bleeding, and tumors by transmitting images to a wearable recorder.
Not only does it allow for imaging of areas difficult to reach via traditional endoscopy, but it is also considerably cheaper, at around $500 per pill, while a colonoscopy costs an average of $4,000.
Since the technology was first approved in 2001, more than 4 million PillCam capsules have been used in patient procedures in over 80 countries, and nearly 1,000 scientific articles have been published about its clinical use.
Waze.
Waze, a company founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar, and Uri Levine in 2008, developed a geographical navigation application that provides turn-by-turn information, user-submitted travel times, and route details, downloading location-dependent information over a cellular telephone network.
The platform relies entirely on users to provide real-time data on traffic, accidents, and police, allowing the service to prioritize the quickest route.
In June 2013, Google acquired Waze for a reported $1.3 billion, while maintaining its primary research and development hub in Israel.
Since then, Waze has grown to approximately 151 million active monthly users worldwide as of early 2026, operating in over 180 countries, with significant user bases in the US, Turkey, Mexico, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brazil.
Watergen.
Watergen, an Israeli technology company specializing in Atmospheric Water Generation, offers methods of extracting clean and safe drinking water from humidity in the air.
Founded in 2009 by entrepreneur and former military commander Arye Kohavi and a team of engineers, the initial goal was to provide freely accessible water to troops around the world.
Following its acquisition by billionaire Michael Mirilashvili in 2016, the company turned its attention to addressing worldwide water scarcity and responding to the needs of people in the aftermath of natural disasters.
By producing clean, energy-efficient water at the point of use, Watergen eliminates the need for transportation, storage, and reliance on aging infrastructure and plastic bottles, reducing costs, pollution, and environmental impact.
Watergen operates in more than 90 countries, with installations for communities, enterprises, homes, industrial sites, and emergency response, producing thousands of liters of drinking water per day.
Iron Dome Mobile Missile Defense System.
On April 7, 2011, the Iron Dome mobile missile defense system successfully intercepted its first projectile: a rocket fired from Gaza toward Israel.
The decision to build a missile defense system was made by Defense Minister Amir Peretz in 2007, following a year in which Hezbollah fired thousands of missiles into northern Israel during the Second Lebanon War, and Hamas fired rockets at Israel’s southern communities.
The Iron Dome system was developed by two Israeli firms, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, with significant funding from the United States, to counter threats from up to 70 kilometers away, including missiles, mortars, and drones.
The system is designed to save lives, prevent injuries, and protect property. In the 15 years after its debut, it has intercepted more than 5,000 rockets, with a reported success rate of over 90%.
Mobileye.
In 1999, Prof. Amnon Shashua evolved his academic research into a vision system that could detect vehicles by adding “intelligence” to inexpensive cameras for commercialization.
The resulting company, Mobileye, founded in Jerusalem, developed into a supplier of self-driving technologies and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), providing warnings for collision prevention and mitigation.
Mobileye went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014, raised $890 million, and became the largest Israeli IPO in US history. By the end of that year, Mobileye’s technology had been implemented in dozens of vehicle models from major automakers, including GM, Ford, VW, and Nissan.
In March 2017, Intel acquired Mobileye for $15.3 billion – the biggest-ever acquisition of an Israeli tech company at the time – and Mobileye went public again in 2022.
By 2024, Mobileye had reached over 70% market share in camera-based ADAS, with its technology used in approximately 200 million vehicles worldwide.
[https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-909549 JPost]
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