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On the morning of October 7, the commander of IDF Unit 217, commonly referred to as ‘Duvdevan’ (Hebrew for ‘cherry’), was woken by his friend, the commanding officer for personnel in the Southern Command. “Bring everything you’ve got,” he was told. Duvdevan is a counter-terrorism unit famous for its undercover work among Arab populations. It is also one of the IDF’s top fighting forces. But even the commandoes of Duvdevan were taken aback by what awaited them upon entering the hellscape of the Gaza periphery on that Black Shabbat. In an interview this week with Channel 14 from his new...

Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi, a well-known mystic rabbi whose predictions have frequently come true, gave a chilling lesson several weeks ago that is beginning to garner attention on social media. “The Creator of the World, Father in Heaven, Master of the Universe, is calling to Jews all over the world. God is saying to you, ‘Dear Jews…listen carefully, God is saying to you, to the Jews all over the world, they are going to kill you. Antisemitism, the non-Jews are going to kill you. God will not stop it. He will not stop it. He stopped it for thousands of...

Syria and Hezbollah are likely to start a war against Israel next summer, according to General Staff assessments that have been gathered during a series of meetings in recent weeks. While there is no specific estimate concerning the timing of a potential attack, all preparations are being made to ensure maximum preparedness in advance of summer 2007. Since the lessons of the war in Lebanon have not yet been finalized in reports, it was decided to consider 2007 as an interim period, and to make decisions concerning a multiple-year force build-up only at the end of that year. Meanwhile, two...