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Bennett: IDF will collapse without haredi enlistment, Netanyahu is dismantling military

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  B'Yachad leader and former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the Hostages Square, in Tel Aviv, September 29, 2026 (photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/MAARIV) Former prime minister Naftali Bennett warned on Tuesday that the IDF would collapse due to a lack of manpower if haredim (ultra-Orthodox) are not drafted into the military during the next government’s term following the October elections. "[Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu warns of security threats, but he himself is leading the most serious threat of all: mass draft evasion and the collapse of the IDF," Bennett said. He made the remarks at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, where families of October 7 victims built a sukkah for the Sukkot holiday called the “Sukkah of Failure.” Bennett's B'Yachad party is one of the leading parties in the opposition bloc seeking to replace Netanyahu in the October elections. “I am here today at Hostages Square, which symbolizes the terrible failure of the October 7 gover...

Israel on high alert, but no concrete intel. warning for attack before elections

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  (ILLUSTRATIVE) AN IDF soldier aiming out of a window in southern Lebanon. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT) There is currently no specific intelligence warning on the table,” one official told the Post. This comes after PM Netanyahu warned that Israel's enemies might try to attack before the elections. Several Israeli officials told The Jerusalem Post following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks that there is currently no concrete threat to Israel , though they cautioned that the situation could change at any moment. “We are on high alert and closely monitoring Iran’s actions. The escalation in the West Bank could also quickly turn into something much broader. But there is currently no specific intelligence warning on the table,” one official told the Post . A second Israeli official said Tehran could decide at any moment to launch missiles at Israel amid the economic and military pressure being exerted by the United States. For now, however, the official str...

Netanyahu: Israel's enemies may attack in the run up to the election, 'don't mess with us' "I am sending you a message: Don't mess with us. Our

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  Netanyahu warns of indications that Israel's enemies may attack in run up to election from Tel Nof Air Force Base. (photo credit: MA'AYAN TOAF/GPO) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel's "enemies" may try to attack leading up to October's Knesset elections in a Tuesday statement. "There are signs that leading up to the elections, our enemies will try to attack us," Netanyahu said from Tel Nof Air Force Base. "I am sending you [Israel's enemies] a message: Don't mess with us. Our long arm will reach you anywhere, and at any time." Netanyahu's statement did not appear to clarify which enemies he meant. Go to the full article > >

Netanyahu falls back on classic security playbook as election approaches

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at UN headquarters in New York City, US, September 24, 2026. (photo credit: REUTERS/BRENDAN MCDERMID) By REUTERS SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 13:59 Updated: SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 14:02 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using the same campaign playbook that has served him for decades as he tries to retain power in an election next month, presenting himself as the only person who can keep Israelis safe in a hostile region. But four weeks before the election, he is struggling to salvage his security credentials, shattered by Hamas' surprise attack on southern Israel on his watch on October 7, 2023 - one of the country's worst security breaches. The October 27 election is Israel's first since its single deadliest day and the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust, masterminded by a Palestinian militant group that caught the Middle East's most powerful military off guard. "Netan...

Three Border Police officers wounded as over 100 Israeli rioters clash with forces near Kusra

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IDF soldiers in the village of Kusra, south of Nablus, West Bank, on August 14, 2026. (photo credit: FLASH90) IDF troops, Border Police and Israel Police reinforced the roads, hiking areas, known friction points and communities," a military source in the Central Command said. More than 100 Israeli rioters clashed with IDF soldiers and Border Police officers near the Palestinian village of Jalud overnight Monday as security forces attempted to return a Palestinian family to its home, the IDF said. The return had been coordinated after the family was forced to leave its home following several incidents of nationalist crime against it, according to the IDF. Due to the violence at the scene, the mission to return the family was not completed. The rioters blocked roads, set tires on fire, and hurled rocks at security forces. They also set fire to Palestinian-owned structures, vehicles and other property in the area, the IDF said.

I was Under Pressure by the Federal Government to Jail Nnamdi kanu - Omotoso

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Amid the controversy over the delay in listing the appeal filed by Nnamdi Kanu to challenge his conviction, a lawyer, Onyedikachi Ifedi, has said the trial court acted like a tribunal that was bent on convicting the IPOB leader at all costs. Kanu’s family and his lawyers have accused the Nigerian government of running from the courtroom after it emerged that the prosecution has also refused to file a response to the appeal. The Indigenous People of Biafra has threatened a boycott of the 2027 election in the South-East and other ‘Biafra territories’ if the appeal is not listed for hearing. Reacting to the unfolding developments in a statement on Saturday, Ifedi said, “The record of this trial does not read like a court seeking truth or lawfulness. It reads like a tribunal operating under a predetermined directive, where the statute book was treated as an inconvenient obstacle to be bypassed.” The lawyer said the court presided by Justice James Omotosho abandoned the constitution by alle...

Likud Election Candidate Apologies to PM Netanyahu

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  New Likud candidate Itzik Bonzel attends an event presenting the party’s new candidates ahead of the upcoming general elections, in Jerusalem, September 8, 2026 (photo credit: CHAIM GOLDBERG/FLASH90) A bereaved father who placed 29th on the Likud slate by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, later apologized, saying he wrote the comment in a “storm of emotions” and “did not mean” it. Likud candidate in the upcoming Knesset election and bereaved father Itzik Bonzel wrote in a Monday morning Facebook post that he wished "there were a way to turn back the clock and return" 88-year-old former hostage Yocheved Lifshitz "to Hamas." Bonzel later apologized in a subsequent Facebook post. "As a bereaved father, who lost his son in the war to return hostages, it pained me to see the harsh things that humiliated our soldiers, but in a storm of emotions, I wrote a sentence about Yocheved Lifshitz in the context of Hamas, which I did not mean, and I apologize," he wro...