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In 2026, ICE tripled the number of arrests of illegal immigrants. Sounds like a winning campaign, no? Actually, it’s absurd. Do the math. ICE reports 1,264 arrests per day in 2025. Multiply 1,264 times 365 days per year. That comes to 461,360 arrests in 2025.

Liora Ben Tzur of Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha gave birth to her third daughter just 30 hours before the events of Oct. 7, 2023. Her mother, Marcelle Talia, came from her home in Kiryat Arba to the kibbutz to help Liora’s husband with the children.

When the voter guide is 130 pages long, you know you’re in trouble! There are 14 questions on the ballot, seven of them constitutional amendments. And I haven’t even gotten to the judicial performance evaluations or elected officials! 

I was on my way to Gan HaVradim, the rose park in Jerusalem that lies between Israel’s Supreme Court and the Knesset. Unexpectedly, just steps in front of me, was a huge white tent, with a picture of Hymanot Kasau, as well as flags waving in the breeze, flags bearing Hymanot’s visage.

I’ve been interviewing politicians and diplomats for over four decades and have a confession: I take a particular shine to those who show any interest in me at all. I know that sounds egocentric. Why, after all, should the prime minister of Israel, the senior senator from Arizona or the ambassador from India care anything about my personal story?

I interviewed Yehezkel Caine earlier this year (IJN Generations, July 3), I never dreamed that one of the topics about which we spoke would manifest a few months later. After all, a pilot hijacking a plane is “exceedingly rare,” according to Caine. If anyone should know, it is he. Caine is an expert in aviation medicine, which among its many facets includes the physical and mental health of airline crews.

Flydubai Flight #1073. Miracles within miracles within miracles: • The good pilot, the captain, manages to unlock the cockpit door despite suffering stab wounds to the head and bleeding to death. • The plane endured a drop of 17,000 feet in...

The weight of the loss of Oct. 7 is in the air.Because three years ago, Oct. 7 was the date of Simchat Torah. Now, it’s as though there are two official commemoration dates.The Jewish holiday. And Oct. 7.

“Hateful words targeting Denver Jews wrongly demonizes Zionism” is the headline over an op-ed in the Denver Post, Sept. 20, 2026, by Scott Levin and Rabbi Joe Black. I have penned comments on this op-ed. I invited Scott Levin and Rabbi Black to respond. Their comments follow mine.

In the current conflict with Iran, the opening of a Houthi front is pure von Clausewitz. Iran knows the war is deeply unpopular in the United States and that the midterm elections are approaching. Iran sees that there is a large element in the Democratic party and a smaller one in the Republican party that is so obsessed with using the war to tar Donald Trump with its failure that they will go to extraordinary lengths to try to ensure that happens.