Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz

What Mamdani's City Hall video did not mention, what virtually no Nakba Day coverage ever mentions, is that the man who coined the term would not recognize what it has become.

The prophet Joel did not frame a darkened sun as a technological achievement, but, rather, as an end-of-days warning from God: “And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come” (Joel 2:30–31). The darkening of the sun in Scripture is a sign of Divine judgment, not a startup deliverable.

13 Arrested on Temple Mount as Jews Attempt to “Sacrifice” Shavuot Bread Offering

The Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee is racing against a parliamentary clock to advance a bill that would place Judea and Samaria, Israel's biblical heartland, under direct Israeli civilian authority when it comes to its thousands of archaeological sites. The bill's opponents call it de facto annexation. Its supporters call it rescue. The ground itself, scarred by bulldozers and looters' pits, tells a story that is hard to argue with.

IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth signed a military order putting into force the Knesset's death penalty legislation, mandating capital punishment by hanging for Palestinians in Judea and Samaria convicted of deadly terrorist attacks in military courts. The last time Israel executed anyone was in 1962, when Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was hanged. The law's arrival has set off a global chorus of condemnation from European capitals, Arab governments, Israeli left-wing politicians, and domestic human rights organizations. Conspicuously missing from that outcry is any acknowledgment that the same people doing the condemning practice capital punishment themselves, and with considerably less restraint.

Five years ago, Yair Levi stood on the Temple Mount and did something that could have gotten him arrested. Disguised as a tourist, because Jewish law does not apply equally on Judaism's holiest site, the Israeli Levite opened his mouth and sang

For 26 years, the Litani River served as a red line. Israel had last crossed it in 1982. Now, Israeli forces have pushed beyond it again, not out of ambition, but because every diplomatic mechanism designed to prevent this moment failed completely.