JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
WAR WITH IRAN - DAY 71 MAY 09,26 - TRUMP STILL THINKS HE CAN HAVE A CEASEFIRE WITH A DEATH CULT IRAN.WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
THE
NEXT US-ISRAEL HIT ON IRAN SHOULD BE VERSE 37. ALL OFFENSIVE NUKE SITES
MISSLES,DRONES,AND OF COURSE KHEMENI AND THE IRGC GUARDS.THEN AFTER
IRANS REGIME CHANGE. MUSLIMS COME TO JESUS BY THE MILLIONS.
JEREMEIAH 49:32-39 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITES AND ALL OFENSIVE WEAPONS DESTROYED IN IRAN)
Jeremiah 49:32-39
32
Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a
spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of
their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of
them, says Yahweh.
33 Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a
desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of
man sojourn therein.(Location & Size: It was strategically located
along the Via Maris (Way of the Sea), a major trade route connecting
Egypt with Syria and Mesopotamia.)
34 The word of Yahweh that came to
Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam,(IRAN) in the beginning of the
reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus says Yahweh of
Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS)
the chief of their might.(MISSLES AND NUKE SITES)
36 On Elam (IRAN)
will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will
scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where
the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(SINCE 1979 IRANIANS HAVE GOTTIN OUT
OF IRAN BECAUSE OF KHEMENI AND HIS APOCOPOLIPTIC DEATH CULT
BELIEF-BLACK HATER 12ERS)
37 I will cause Elam (IRAN) to be dismayed
before their enemies, and before those who seek their life;(ISRAEL THE
LITTLE SATAN AND THE U.S THE BIG SATAN) and I will bring evil on them,
(MISSLES) even my fierce anger,(FIRE) says Yahweh; and I will send the
sword after them,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS) until I have consumed them;
(DESTROYED THEM ALL NUKE SITES,MISSLES ETC)
38 and I will set my
throne in Elam,(IRAN WILL BECOME A CHRISTIAN NATION) and will destroy
from there king (KHEMENI, ISLAM) and princes, says Yahweh.(IRANIAN ARMY
GUARDS)
39 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring
back the captivity of Elam,(IRAN) says Yahweh.(WERE IN THE LATTER DAYS
NOW)
WHEN ARE THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL IN THE SPRING TIME.(GET READY ISLAM TO BE BIRD SEED FOR THESE BIRDS)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m0bXU5Xqc5M
The
500 million migratory birds in Israel during the spring arrive from
Africa and head toward Europe and Asia, with the peak migration
occurring in March and April. While migration starts in late February,
the most intense movements, particularly of birds of prey, storks, and
pelicans, occur during the third week of March and continue into April.
Key Details on the Spring Migration
Peak Period: Mid-March through April.
Main
Migration Route: The birds use the Great Rift Valley, which includes
the Hula Valley and Eilat, acting as a "bottleneck" where millions of
birds fly through the narrow land bridge.
Best Spots: The Hula Lake
Park (Northern Israel) and the Eilat Birding Center (Southern Israel)
are primary locations for observing the migration.
Key Species:
Hundreds of thousands of white storks, along with black kites, raptors,
and pelicans, pass through over these months.
uration: The spring migration runs from late February and continues into June, though the heaviest traffic is in March/April.
The
500 million migratory birds fly over Israel in the fall between late
August and mid-December. The peak migration period for the autumn, when
the highest volume of bird traffic occurs, is typically October and
November.
Key Fall Migration Details
Location: The Hula Valley (Agamon Hula Park) in northern Israel is the premier spot to witness this phenomenon.
Timing: Migration starts as early as late June with some waders, but intensifies from mid-August through November.
Peak Festival: The "Annual Hula Valley Bird Festival" is usually held in November to align with the peak migration traffic.
Key
Species: Many birds of prey (raptors), including honey buzzards and
steppe eagles, cross during this time, along with massive flocks of
storks and cranes.
While roughly 500 million birds pass through in
the autumn on their way to Africa, the same number crosses again in the
spring (mid-February to May) on their way back to Europe and Asia.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23
Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they
have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the
sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath
seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in
travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of
war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I
will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it
shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN
DAMASCUS)
UAE says it's under renewed missile and drone fire from
Iran-US strikes Iran following clash in Strait of Hormuz; Trump says
ceasefire still in effect-Iran accuses US of violating truce but says
situation ‘back to normal’; Trump calls strikes ‘love tap’ but says Iran
‘led by LUNATICS’ and will be hit again if it doesn’t agree to deal By
Emanuel Fabian,Reuters and ToI Staff Today, 3:04 am-MAY 8,26
The
United States and Iran exchanged fire on Thursday in the most serious
test yet of their month-long ceasefire, but Iran said the situation
returned to normal while the US said it did not want to
escalate.Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump told ABC that the truce
was still “in effect.” But in a social media post, he threatened Iran
with further strikes if it did not agree to a deal with the US. Later,
he told reporters that the United States was still negotiating with
Iran.The American military’s Central Command confirmed overnight that it
had carried out “self-defense” strikes in Iran in response to
“unprovoked Iranian attacks” against US Navy missile destroyers that
transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman. Iran has been
blocking the Strait, a key pathway for the global oil supply, since the
beginning of the US-Israeli war with the Islamic Republic in late
February.Iran’s top joint military command, meanwhile, accused the US of
violating the ceasefire by targeting an Iranian oil tanker and another
ship, and of carrying out air attacks on civilian areas on Qeshm Island
in the strait and on nearby coastal areas of Bandar Khamir Sirik on the
mainland.Iran’s military said it responded by attacking US military
vessels east of the Strait of Hormuz and south of the port of Chabahar. A
spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said the
strikes inflicted “significant damage.”The US military, however, said it
intercepted the “inbound threats,” and “no US assets were
struck.”Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates said early Friday that its
air defenses were “engaging missile and drone attacks originating from
Iran.” Interception sounds were heard “across various parts of the
country,” added the Emirati defense ministry, in its post to X. Further
details were not immediately available.Speaking to ABC, Trump sought to
downplay the flare-up. “It’s just a love tap,” Trump told the reporter,
according to her social media post. Iranian state media said after the
strikes that the situation was back to normal.In a Truth Social post,
Trump wrote that the American destroyers were not damaged but “great
damage was done to Iranian attackers.” He threatened Iran with further
attacks unless it quickly agreed to a deal in ongoing talks with the
US.The renewed hostilities broke out as Washington was awaiting Iran’s
response to a US proposal that would stop the fighting but leave the
most contentious issues, such as Iran’s nuclear program, unresolved for
now. Tehran said it had not yet reached a conclusion on the emerging
plan.“A normal country would have allowed these destroyers to pass, but
Iran is not a normal country. They are led by LUNATICS, and if they had
the chance to use a nuclear weapon, they would do it, without question,”
Trump wrote. “But they’ll never have that opportunity and, just like we
knocked them out again today, we’ll knock them out a lot harder, and a
lot more violently, in the future, if they don’t get their deal signed,
FAST!”The two sides have occasionally exchanged gunfire since the
ceasefire took effect on April 8.In the most recent clash, CENTCOM said
Iran had used missiles, drones and small boats, which targeted three
Navy destroyers. The US said it targeted missile and drone sites and
other locations in response.“CENTCOM does not seek escalation but
remains positioned and ready to protect American forces,” the statement
added.Iran’s Press TV later reported that following several hours of
fire, “the situation on Iranian islands and coastal cities by the Strait
of Hormuz is back to normal now.”On Monday, the US military had said it
destroyed six Iranian small boats and intercepted Iranian cruise
missiles and drones as Tehran sought to thwart a US naval effort to open
shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Monday also saw Iran target the
UAE with missile fire.The US effort to open the strait was suspended
after Saudi Arabia and Kuwait restricted the US military’s use of their
bases and airspace. According to a Fox News reporter, those restrictions
came as Gulf countries were angry that US officials had downplayed the
strikes on the UAE.“The strike on one of Iran’s oil ports comes two days
after Iran fired 15 ballistic and cruise missiles at UAE Fujairah Port,
eliciting anger from Gulf countries after top Pentagon leaders said
Tuesday that the Iranian strikes did not rise to the level of breaking
the ceasefire, calling it low-level attacks that didn’t rise to that
level,” Fox’s Jennifer Griffin posted on X.But the restrictions have
since been lifted, potentially paving the way for the effort to open the
strait to begin afresh in the coming days, The Wall Street Journal
reported on Thursday, citing US and Saudi officials.Separately, the US
imposed sanctions on Thursday on Iraq’s deputy oil minister and three
militia leaders over what it said was their support for Iran.
Report:
Rubio okays $25.8B sale of interceptors and other arms to Israel,
Mideast nations-Amount is three times more than $8.6 billion sale that
was originally reported, according to Bloomberg; weapons not expected to
arrive in near future-By ToI Staff Today, 4:52 am-MAY 8,26
US
Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved $25.8 billion in sales of
missile interceptors and other arms to Israel, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar
and the United Arab Emirates last week, triple the amount originally
announced, Bloomberg News reported.On May 1, the US State Department
said it was approving military sales totaling over $8.6 billion to
Israel, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The announcement did
not mention Bahrain. Rubio’s emergency declaration allowed the sales to
bypass a mandatory review period.The reason for the discrepancy is that
the US said the sales are an update to existing approvals, rather than
new deals, Bloomberg reported.The announcement came amid a ceasefire in
the US-Israeli war with Iran, during which Iran pounded Israel and Gulf
states with repeated missile volleys, testing their missile defense
systems. That has prompted mounting concerns over the countries’
dwindling interceptor stocks.Iran shot missiles at the UAE earlier this
week, as tensions rose during the truce. Israel deployed an Iron Dome
battery along with troops who know how to operate the missile defense
system to the UAE to help Abu Dhabi fend off attacks from Iran during
the war, an Israeli official and an Arab diplomat told The Times of
Israel, confirming a report in the Axios news site.The officials denied a
separate report claiming that Israel also deployed its Iron Beam
laser-based air defense system to Abu Dhabi, explaining that the
technology is too sensitive for use abroad.But Israel and other
countries in the region may still face a long wait before they receive
the interceptors.“The only way that you really get any delivery
timelines that are faster than two or three years — and that’s
optimistic — is if we have it in stock,” Elaine McCusker, a former
Pentagon official, told Bloomberg. “You’re definitely not going to get
something for the current conflict.”
US, Iranian naval forces
clash as Washington awaits Tehran’s response to latest proposal-CENTCOM
strikes Iranian tankers while Iran seizes Chinese-owned vessel carrying
crude, fires missiles and drones at UAE; Vance meets with Qatari PM in
DC to discuss Iran talks By Agencies, Jacob Magid and Lazar BermanToday,
12:40 am-MAY 9,26
Fresh “sporadic clashes” broke out Friday
between Iranian and US naval forces in the Strait of Hormuz, according
to Iranian state media, marking the latest flare-up despite a monthlong
ceasefire between Washington and Tehran.The fighting came as US
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington expected a response from
Tehran on Friday to its latest proposal.“For the last hour, sporadic
clashes have taken place between the Iranian armed forces and American
vessels in the Strait of Hormuz,” Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency
reported.Fox News, citing a senior US official, said the American
military on Friday struck several empty Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC)
that allegedly attempted to violate the blockade on the Strait of
Hormuz.US Central Command later confirmed US forces hit two empty
Iranian-flagged oil tankers and disabled a third vessel on
Wednesday.“All three vessels are no longer transiting to Iran,” CENTCOM
said in a post on X.The command also said more than 70 tankers were
being prevented from entering or leaving Iranian ports.“These commercial
ships have the capacity to transport over 166 million barrels of
Iranian oil worth an estimated $13 billion-plus,” CENTCOM
said.Additionally, Iran announced it seized what it called a
US-sanctioned oil tanker carrying Iranian crude in the Sea of Oman,
which reports said is Chinese-owned.“The Islamic Republic of Iran’s
navy, through a specially planned operation in the Sea of Oman, seized
the offending tanker Ocean Koi,” the Iranian army said in a statement
carried by state television, adding that the vessel had sought “to
damage and disrupt Iran’s oil exports.”Meanwhile, the United Arab
Emirates said Iran fired two ballistic missiles and three drones at the
country since midnight Friday, moderately wounding three
people.According to the Emirati Defense Ministry, 13 people have been
killed and 230 wounded in the UAE since the US-Israel war with Iran
began on February 28.The incidents on Friday came a day after the United
States and Iran exchanged fire, in the most serious test yet of the
fragile truce reached after the US-Israeli war against the Iranian
regime began in late February.CENTCOM confirmed overnight that it
carried out “self-defense” strikes in Iran in response to “unprovoked
Iranian attacks” against US Navy missile destroyers that transited the
Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman, which Tehran claimed violated
international law and the ceasefire.“The action carried out last night
was both a blatant violation of international law and a breach of the
ceasefire,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said,
according to the ISNA news agency.“At the same time, the country’s
defenders delivered a ‘major slap’ to the enemy and repelled the
enemies’ aggression with full force,” he added.Despite the fighting,
Trump told ABC on Thursday the truce was still “in effect.” But in a
social media post, he threatened Iran with further strikes if it did not
agree to a deal with the US.Speaking Friday while visiting Rome, Rubio
said Washington expected an imminent response from Tehran to its latest
offer.“We’ll see what the response entails. The hope is it’s something
that can put us into a serious process of negotiation,” Rubio told
reporters.Meanwhile, US Vice President JD Vance met at the White House
with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, to discuss
the ongoing Iran talks, a source familiar with the matter told The
Times of Israel.Qatar has been serving as a backchannel mediator in the
talks between the US and Iran.Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi,
however, accused the United States of abandoning diplomacy in favor of
what he called a “reckless military adventure.”“Is this a crude pressure
tactic? Or the result of a spoiler once again duping POTUS into another
quagmire,” Araghchi wrote on X. “Whatever the causes, the outcome is
the same: Iranians never bow to pressure and diplomacy is always the
victim.”Araghchi also rejected a Washington Post report saying the CIA
assessed Iran retained 75% of its pre-war ballistic missile stockpile,
claiming that the levels were in fact much higher.“The CIA is wrong. Our
missile inventory and launcher capacity are not at 75% compared to Feb
28. The correct figure is 120%,” he wrote.Hormuz tensions shake oil
markets-The struggle over the Strait of Hormuz has increasingly become
the central front in the broader confrontation between Iran and the
United States.An adviser to the supreme leader, Mohammad Mokhber, on
Friday compared control of the strait to possessing an “atomic
bomb.”“The Strait of Hormuz represents an opportunity as precious as an
atomic bomb,” Mokhber said in a video published by the Mehr news
agency.“Indeed, having in one’s hands a position that allows you to
influence the global economy with a single decision is a major
opportunity.”He vowed Iran would not “forfeit the gains of this war” and
suggested Tehran could seek to alter the legal regime governing the
strait. Shipping journal Lloyd’s List separately reported that Iran had
established an authority to approve transit through the strait and
collect tolls.The disruption has continued to send shockwaves through
global shipping and energy markets.The UN’s International Maritime
Organization said around 1,500 ships and roughly 20,000 crew members
were currently trapped in the Gulf because of the Iranian
blockade.“Right now, we have approximately 20,000 crewmen and around
1,500 ships trapped,” IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said at
the Maritime Convention of the Americas in Panama.“Ten sailors have lost
their lives” in more than 30 attacks on vessels, he later told
reporters.The IMO chief urged companies to avoid sending vessels to the
Gulf so as not to increase the death toll among sailors or incur further
economic losses.The war has also severely disrupted global energy
flows. Before the conflict, roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas
shipments passed through the Strait of Hormuz.Oil prices rose again on
Friday following the latest clashes. Brent crude climbed 1.1% to $101.13
a barrel, while US crude rose 0.7% to $95.47. Asian markets also
retreated sharply amid fears of renewed escalation.Satellite imagery,
meanwhile, appeared to show a major oil spill near Iran’s Kharg Island,
the hub for roughly 90% of Iran’s oil exports, much of it destined for
China.Images from the Copernicus Sentinel satellites showed what
researchers described as a gray-and-white slick spanning an estimated 45
square kilometers west of the island.“The slick appears visually
consistent with oil,” said Leon Moreland of the Conflict and Environment
Observatory.Analysts said it could be the largest spill since the war
began 70 days ago, though the source remained unclear.
PROOF HALF
ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)
(DO NOT EVER LISTEN TO ANYBODY THAT SAYS THE WORLD IS ENDING.ITS NEVER
GONNA HAPPEN-4 BILLION WILL BE LEFT ON EARTH TO GO INTO JESUS" 1000 YEAR
RULE)(THAT DOES NOT SOUND LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD TO ANY ONE, DOES
IT-NOT ME.THE EARTH IS JUST RENOVATED.NEVER ENDED.
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with
sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE
DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18
By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the
fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their
mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE
17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS
KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE
BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND
DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in
that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN
WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4
billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto
them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered
together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against
Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten
by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE
SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE
CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH
IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.(CAN YOU SAY
TORNADOES,HURRICANES,VOLCANOES,EARTH QUAKES,LANDSLIDES,FLASH
FLOODING,EXPLOSIONS,SNOW STORMS,THEN FINALLY NUKESAND ANY OTHER
JUDGEMENTS THE EARTH CAN VOMIT THE SINNERS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH
WITH.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there
shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and
troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE
SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great
signs shall there be from heaven.
2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7
By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire,
being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
LUKE 21:25-26
25
And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in
the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the
stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations,
with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE
WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for
fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven
shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
GENESIS 16:11-12
11
And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with
child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF
THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And
he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS)
man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be
against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against
him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL
ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the
morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above
the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF
THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that
whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM
MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
And here are the
bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or
peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels
land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the
future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan,
Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq
west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe
23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN
THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE
FUTURE.
Joel 3:2-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN
HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A
TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - HALF OF EARTHS
POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
2 I will also gather all nations,
and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead
with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
And here are
the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war
or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only
Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land
in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half
of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18,
Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY
OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND
IN THE FUTURE.
Inside story Without action now, 'damage will be
deep and long-term'Shekel hits 33-year-peak, hammering exports, yet
policymakers are insistently inactive-The strength of Israel’s currency
is forcing exporters and startups to make tough decisions about hiring
abroad and moving R&D centers out of Israel, stirring fears about
future growth By Sharon Wrobel-Today, 10:29 am-MAY 8,26
Israeli
tech exporters and manufacturers are warning of an unfolding economic
crisis as the shekel’s rise to a 33-year high threatens to erode major
growth engines of the country’s economy. All the while, both the Bank of
Israel and the government have remained fairly silent, preferring to
avoid dealing with the issue and passing the buck between each other.The
Finance Ministry maintains that the central bank possesses the arsenal
of monetary tools that could help temper the shekel’s steep surge. It is
currently trading at around 2.90 per dollar, its highest value since
October 1993.The Bank of Israel has a number of policy instruments in
its arsenal, the main one being the interest rate. It may also buy or
sell foreign currency to moderate the negative impact of shekel
appreciation (or weakness) on inflation and economic activity. It has
not utilized these capabilities.Speaking at a conference in early May,
Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron acknowledged that the shekel’s 20
percent appreciation versus the dollar over the past year hurts
exporters’ profitability.But Yaron declared that while the central
bank’s monetary policy tools were broad, intervention in the foreign
exchange market was limited to unusual movements in the exchange rate or
reserved for the event of market failure. He said that the strength
of the local currency reflects investor optimism about a US-Iran
ceasefire deal, robust capital inflows, and the resilience of the
Israeli economy despite almost three years of near-constant war.But tech
exporters and manufacturers are warning, with growing intensity, that
the strong shekel is putting that resilience at risk.High-tech
companies, R&D centers, are leaving-In the latest plea, the head of
the Israel Manufacturers’ Association on Thursday urged the Bank of
Israel to take immediate action and lower interest rates, to slow the
continued appreciation in the shekel-dollar exchange rate.“Israel is
losing its growth engines, which will have serious consequences for the
economy and harm everyone,” Association President Avraham Novogrocki
cautioned. “We are losing our technological advantage that was built
over decades.”“High-tech companies and research and development centers
are already starting to migrate abroad, and some have already migrated –
this is not a theoretical prediction, this is a reality that is
happening before our eyes,” Novogrocki said.Exporters have also called
on the Finance Ministry to provide an assistance package, alongside
incentives that will continue to make Israel attractive for business
operations and investments.The Finance Ministry and the Bank of Israel
declined to comment for this article on possible measures to address the
increasingly damaging impact of the strong shekel on Israel’s industry
and economy.Exporters, which include most high-tech firms, traditional
manufacturers, and multinational companies, earn their money chiefly
outside Israel and are paid in dollars. But they pay workers’ salaries,
overhead costs, taxes and other expenses in shekels, which have become
more expensive due to the strength of the local currency.This is forcing
businesses to make tough decisions, with damaging domestic
consequences.Liad Agmon, CEO of Israeli startup Sunsay and a former
partner at venture capital fund Insight Partners, said he asked his team
to hire workers from outside Israel as much as possible, as it is
“simply not viable to pay Israeli salaries anymore.”“Companies I’m
invested in are making advanced plans to move operations out of Israel,”
Agmon wrote on the X platform on Wednesday. “Industrial export
companies are close to the brink of bankruptcy.”Agmon said a lot could
be done about the situation, but lamented there was no one to lead the
way in Jerusalem.The public will pay-Novogrocki warned that the losses
will be suffered not only by local companies but will trickle down to
the general public.“Without any action, the Israeli public will pay the
price of higher taxes, reduced public services, and damage to the
quality of employment,” he said.Exports make up as much as 40% of
Israeli economic activity. In the first three months of the year,
exports of goods dropped 5% after declining 7.4% in 2025 in shekel
terms, according to Central Bureau of Statistics data.“For now, the
economy is still showing extraordinary resilience despite three years of
war, and there is no doubt that a large and significant part of our
relative good economic situation is due to the high-tech industry, which
has been carrying the economy on its back,” Gali Ingber, head of
finance studies at the College of Management Academic Studies, told The
Times of Israel. “With the continued strength of the shekel, the
industry we need to be the most concerned about is high-tech.”The local
tech industry generates about 20% of GDP, and is responsible for over
50% of exports and about 30% of payroll taxes. It also employs about 11%
of the country’s workforce.“Israeli high-tech is probably the industry
most sensitive to the dollar exchange rate, because most of its revenues
are in dollars while a large portion of its expenses — especially wages
— are in shekels,” agreed Manpower Group Israel CEO Dror Litvak. “When
the shekel strengthens greatly, it erodes profitability, especially in
startups and growth companies that have not yet reached full
profitability.”“Currently, there is no dramatic wave of layoffs due to
the shekel-dollar exchange rate, but we are seeing a change in employer
behavior: Companies are becoming much more cautious, they are
lengthening recruitment processes and are re-examining each recruitment
in terms of cost and productivity,” Litvak said.Snowball effect-With no
sign of a reversal in the surge of the local currency and with no stated
intention by the government or the Bank of Israel to intervene and
assist, there is reason to worry about the impact on the entire economy,
said Ingber.If nothing is done to stem the continued strengthening of
the shekel, export losses could reach NIS 31.5 billion ($10.9 billion)
by the end of this year and incur a loss of NIS 3 billion (roughly $1
billion) in government tax revenues in 2026, according to estimates by
the Israel Manufacturers’ Association.“We are at a critical point as
companies reliant on exports continue to face losses as they earn less,
and their products become less competitive, and as a result, they will
start to lay off employees,” said Ingber. “Businesses, especially in
high-tech, which is more mobile, will conclude that it is less and less
worthwhile employing workers and producing in Israel, and instead will
prefer to hire employees abroad, which will harm local employment, GDP,
and government tax revenues.”“This will trigger a snowball effect as the
high-tech industry pretty much holds the economy together and pays most
of the taxes,” said Ingber.Similarly, multinational tech giants from
Nvidia to Google and Microsoft with R&D centers in Israel are likely
to reconsider hiring employees or expanding operations in the country,
as they have alternatives abroad, said Ingber.Looking ahead, Litvak does
not expect a mass exodus of companies from Israel.But, said Litvak, “we
will see more companies testing hybrid models: partial recruitment
abroad, outsourcing, or slowing down recruitment in Israel.”The overly
strong shekel also has a deflationary force, as it makes imports
cheaper, restrains price increases and credit costs for consumers, and
enables the Bank of Israel, which is concerned about price stability, to
lower interest rates.Novogrocki urged the Bank of Israel to take action
and immediately cut interest rates by at least 0.5%, to make investment
in the local currency less attractive. In the past, the Bank of Israel
has intervened in the market by buying tens of billions of dollars to
moderate the shekel’s gains, or by lowering interest rates, but it has
taken neither step this time.“Decisions need to be made now, not in six
months,” said Novogrocki. “If we do not act now, the damage to the
economy will be deep and long-term.”“It is still possible to stop the
dollar drift, but the window of opportunity is closing,” he said.
Health
officials race to find dozens who left hantavirus-stricken ship after
1st fatality-No hantavirus in Israel, Health Ministry says; up to 40
people left cruise ship without contact tracing in late April; virus can
spread between people-By AP and Diana Bletter-Today, 6:39 am-MAY 8,26
MADRID
— Health authorities across four continents Thursday were tracking down
and monitoring passengers who disembarked a hantavirus-stricken cruise
ship before its deadly outbreak was detected, and trying to trace others
who may have come into contact with them since then.Israel’s Health
Ministry, meanwhile, said there was no patient in Israel with the
hantavirus, according to Hebrew media reports.In Argentina, a team of
investigators has yet to leave for the southern town where they suspect
the outbreak originated, officials from the country’s Health Ministry
told The Associated Press on Thursday. The Argentine investigators
suspect a Dutch couple may have contracted the virus while on a
bird-watching trip before they boarded the cruise ship.On April 24,
nearly two weeks after the first passenger had died on board, more than
two dozen people from at least 12 different countries left the ship
without contact tracing, the ship’s operator and Dutch officials said
Thursday.Three passengers have died in the outbreak — a Dutch couple and
a German national — and several others are sick. Symptoms usually show
between one and eight weeks after exposure.Symptoms include fever,
gastrointestinal symptoms and acute respiratory distress syndrome.None
of the remaining passengers or crew on the ship are currently
symptomatic, the Netherlands-based Oceanwide Expeditions cruise ship
company said Thursday.The World Health Organization says the risk to the
wider public is low. Hantavirus is usually spread by the inhalation of
contaminated rodent droppings and isn’t easily transmitted between
people.“We believe this will be a limited outbreak if the public health
measures are implemented and solidarity is shown across all countries,”
said Dr. Abdirahman Mahamud, the WHO’s alert and response director, on
Thursday.‘Probably not the next pandemic,’ says Israeli doctor.There was
an unconfirmed report of a patient who returned to Israel from Europe
with hantavirus in December 2025.However, Dr. Daniel Grupel of the
clinical microbiology and infectious diseases department at Hadassah
Hospital said he isn’t aware of any recent hantavirus cases in Israel.He
also said that the virus on the cruise ship, MV Hondius, is New World
Hantavirus, which can be transmitted between humans.“It is a different
virus altogether and more severe than the disease found in Europe,” he
said, as that virus is passed from rodents to humans.“I think this is a
really bad situation for the people on the cruise ship right now, but
Hantavirus is probably not the next pandemic,” Grupel said, “and there
is no reason for anxiety in the general public.”1st hantavirus case on
board was confirmed May 2-Three people, including the ship’s doctor,
were evacuated Wednesday while the ship was near the West African island
country of Cape Verde, and taken to specialized hospitals in Europe for
treatment.The body of the Dutchman who was the first to die on board on
April 11 was taken off the ship on the remote South Atlantic island of
St. Helena on April 24, when his wife also disembarked. She then flew to
South Africa a day later and died there.The ship’s operator said
Thursday that a total of 30 passengers — including the deceased Dutch
man and his wife — left the vessel at St. Helena. The Dutch Foreign
Ministry has put the figure at about 40. The company had not previously
said publicly that dozens more people left the ship on April 24. The
stop was the scheduled end of the cruise for some passengers.It wasn’t
until May 2 that health authorities first confirmed hantavirus in a ship
passenger, the WHO says. That was in a British man evacuated from the
ship to South Africa three days after the St. Helena stop. He was tested
in South Africa and is in intensive care there.Passengers who
disembarked April 24 being monitored-It emerged Wednesday that a man
tested positive for hantavirus in Switzerland after he disembarked at
St. Helena, though his precise movements in between aren’t clear.On
Thursday, Singaporean health authorities said they were monitoring two
men who got off the ship at St. Helena, flew to South Africa and then
home. The two men, who arrived in Singapore at different times, were
being isolated and tested, officials said.Authorities in St. Helena, the
volcanic British territory in the South Atlantic where passengers
disembarked, said they were monitoring a small number of people who were
considered “higher risk contacts.” Those contacts were being told to
isolate for 45 days, the St. Helena government said.South Africa is
tracing contacts from an April 25 flight-The Dutch Health Ministry said
Thursday that a flight attendant on a plane briefly boarded by an
infected cruise passenger in South Africa was showing symptoms of
hantavirus and would be tested in an isolation ward at an Amsterdam
hospital. The cruise passenger, the Dutch woman whose husband died on
the ship, was too ill to take the international flight to Europe and was
taken off the plane in Johannesburg, where she died.If the Dutch flight
attendant tests positive, she could be the first known person not on
the MV Hondius to become infected in the outbreak.The vessel is now
sailing to Spain’s Canary Islands, where it is expected to arrive
Saturday or Sunday, with more than 140 passengers and crew members still
on board.WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday
that he had been in regular touch with the ship’s captain, and that
morale improved once it began moving again.Authorities in South Africa
are also trying to trace the contacts of any passengers who previously
got off the ship. They have focused mainly on an April 25 flight from
St. Helena to Johannesburg, the day after passengers disembarked there.A
French citizen with “benign symptoms” is in isolation and undergoing
medical tests, after being identified as a contact case linked to the
ship passenger who flew April 25 from St. Helena to Johannesburg and was
confirmed to have hantavirus, the French Health Ministry said in a
statement Thursday.The Dutch woman from the cruise ship who later died
in South Africa was on that St. Helena-Johannesburg flight, officials
have said. It’s not known how many other cruise passengers were among
the 88 people on it, but flights from St. Helena are rare. Flights to
South Africa are normally once a week.The body of the third fatality, a
German woman, remains on the ship after she died on May 2.Tests have
confirmed that at least five people who were on the ship were infected
with a hantavirus found in South America, called the Andes virus.Unlike
other hantaviruses, Andes virus may spread between people. The only
hantavirus thought to spread human-to-human, it can cause a severe and
often fatal lung disease called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.The ship
departed from Argentina and investigations into the outbreak’s source
are focusing there.The Dutch couple who presented the first two cases
had traveled through Argentina, Chile and Uruguay before boarding the
ship, the WHO said. They visited sites where the species of rat known to
carry the Andes virus was present.Argentina’s Health Ministry has
zeroed in on the town of Ushuaia in their investigation, but they’ve yet
to dispatch the team, according to a written statement given to AP.
Scientists from the state-funded Malbrán Institute planned to travel to
Ushuaia “in the coming days,” the statement said.Once in Ushuaia, a
3.5-hour flight from Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, experts will
analyze rodents at the trash heap there to see if they carry the Andes
virus, officials said.The WHO is working with health authorities in
Argentina to understand the couple’s movements and has arranged to ship
2,500 diagnostic kits from Argentina to laboratories in five
countries.Argentina’s health ministry said there were 28 deaths from
hantavirus last year, up from an average mortality rate of 15 in the
five years before that. Nearly a third of cases last year were fatal, it
said.
Smotrich: Move helps end 'the idea of a Palestinian
state'Smotrich announces uprooting of 3,000 trees planted by
Palestinians in northern West Bank-Civil Administration says trees’
removal, latest in a series of such actions, will enable the creation of
a new settlement; 3 Palestinians reportedly injured in settler attack
By Jeremy Sharon,Nurit Yohanan,Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff Today, 1:27
am-MAY 8,26
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that
Israel uprooted some 3,000 trees planted by Palestinians in the northern
West Bank, which he said were located on state land.“We are building
the Land of Israel and destroying the idea of a Palestinian state,” said
Smotrich, repeating a phrase he is fond of using. He said the trees had
been planted illegally and that the action aimed to “prevent attempts
by the Palestinian Authority to establish facts on the ground.”Smotrich
also serves as a minister in the Defense Ministry, overseeing civilian
matters in the West Bank. The trees were removed by the Civil
Administration, a branch of the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator for
Government Affairs in the Territories (COGAT), which is responsible for
the territory’s civilian affairs.The uprooting was the latest in a
series of actions by Israeli government bodies to destroy trees in the
West Bank, in part to make room for settlement expansion. The initiative
has also come amid intensifying violence by settlers, including attacks
targeting Palestinian agricultural activity.The trees were planted on
some 50 acres of land close to the Shahak Industrial Park near the
Shaked settlement. Although Smotrich’s statement didn’t specify which
trees were uprooted, it appeared from pictures sent by his office that
they were olive trees.Smotrich said the trees were planted within the
boundaries of the zoning masterplan for Shahak and that removing them
would enable the further expansion of the industrial park together with
the establishment of a new settlement, in accordance with policies the
government has already approved.State land is not privately owned and is
available for the government to allocate for the public benefit,
including through the construction of residential homes and
infrastructure, as well as economic and agricultural activity.Virtually
all of the state land that Israel has allocated for use has been given
to the needs of Israeli settlements, according to information provided
by the Civil Administration in 2018.The uprooting of the 3,000 trees on
Wednesday followed numerous other tree removal operations by Israeli
forces in the West Bank over the past year.The same announcement noted
that this “enforcement operation” was a continuation of previous ones in
the area. In September, 2,500 trees were uprooted there, followed by
6,300 trees in December 2025.The uprooting of the trees on Thursday drew
condemnation from Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights organization.“While
the state supports hundreds of illegal outposts which constitute focal
points for severe violence by Israelis against Palestinians, it
compounds one crime with another, by cutting down thousands of olive
trees just because they belong to Palestinians and thereby does mortal
damage to the income of thousands of people,” Yesh Din said.Over 120
illegal outposts have been established during the course of the current
government, mostly on state land and often with the coordination of
municipal settlement authorities.The Civil Administration is not the
only Israeli government body that has uprooted trees in the West Bank in
the last year.Last August, the IDF uprooted thousands of olive trees in
the central West Bank village of al-Mughayyir — over a space of about
300 dunams (74 acres) — following a shooting attack in the area carried
out by a resident of the village.While the IDF denied at the time that
the move was intended as collective punishment for the village, they
came just days after the chief of the IDF Central Command, Maj. Gen. Avi
Bluth, had said that al-Mughayyir would “pay a heavy price” for the
attack.Bluth stated that one mission of the forces was “to carry out
‘shaping operations’ here… so that everyone will be deterred, and not
only this village, but any village that tries to raise a hand against
any of the [Israeli] residents.”Israeli settler terrorists vandalized
dozens of Palestinian olive trees near the village of Susya in Masafer
Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Not humans, animals,
or even trees are spared from their terrorism.
pic.twitter.com/64ObMNtqc9 — Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) November 7,
2025-Trees have also been targeted by settler attacks. In November, the
Palestinian Authority’s news agency WAFA reported that fifteen ancient
olive trees were chopped down amid a broader attack by settlers on local
Palestinian farmers in the village of Susya, which is part of the
Masafer Yatta enclave in the South Hebron Hills. Also on Thursday,
Palestinian media outlets reported that three Palestinians were injured
in a settler attack in Khirbet Samra in the northern Jordan Valley.
According to the reports, they were beaten by armed settlers who also
opened fire.No Palestinians were reported to have been struck by the
gunfire.Footage circulated on social media appears to show Palestinians
fleeing the area, while objects resembling stones are thrown at them as
they escape.
Settlers exhume body of Palestinian they say was
buried too close to settlement-Family forced to rebury body as IDF
soldiers stood by; Palestinian man and young son reportedly attacked by
settlers wielding sharp instruments in southern West Bank By Emanuel
Fabian and Noam Lehmann Today, 8:22 am-MAY 9,26
Israeli settlers
began to exhume the newly buried body of a Palestinian before forcing
relatives to remove it from a freshly dug grave to another location
after claiming the deceased was buried too close to an Israeli
settlement, all while troops stood by.The incident took place Friday
near the newly re-established northern West Bank settlement of
Sa-Nur.According to an IDF statement on Saturday, the funeral held by
the Palestinians near Sa-Nur had been coordinated in advance with the
military.Despite this, a number of settlers from Sa-Nur arrived at the
location shortly after with digging tools and began to exhume the body.
The Palestinians then returned to the gravesite, and the settlers
demanded that they take the body out of the grave and move it elsewhere,
claiming that it was too close to the settlement.The IDF said that
troops were “dispatched to the cemetery following a report of friction
between Israeli civilians who were digging in the ground at the site,
and Palestinians.”The army said the troops “confiscated digging tools
from the Israelis and remained at the location to prevent further
friction.”Footage posted online showed soldiers standing by as the
Palestinians carried the body to another location.The IDF said that it
“condemns any attempt to act in a manner that harms public order, the
rule of law, and the dignity of the living and the dead.”“The issue of
coordinating the funeral and the management of the incident will be
investigated by the commanders, and lessons will be learned
accordingly,” the army added.The incident is the latest in a string of
violent attacks by settlers across the West Bank, largly unimpeded by
the military.A Palestinian man and his young son were hospitalized after
being attacked by settlers in Khirbet Shuweika, south of Hebron in the
southern West Bank on Friday, Palestinian media reported.Footage
published by Palestinian media shows the pair on the side of a road,
with the boy bleeding from the back of his head and the father bleeding
from a gash on the side of his forehead.Separate footage showed them
receiving treatment at a hospital.WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s
official news agency, reported that the two were attacked by several
settlers wielding sharp instruments, who also shattered the windows of
the Palestinians’ car.It follows several violent attacks reportedly
carried out by settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank this
week,In one incident, four Palestinians were wounded, including a
71-year-old woman, during a confrontation between settlers and the
residents of a village east of Hebron.Critics accuse the government of
turning a blind eye to the violent attacks by settler extremists, which
have become increasingly deadly in recent years. The military recorded
867 incidents of nationalistic crime and settler violence in 2025,
compared to 682 incidents in 2024.The IDF has also faced criticism for
often standing by while attacks unfold — with troops sometimes actively
participating — or failing to prosecute those responsible, though the
attacks take place on a daily basis.IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen.
Avi Bluth recently warned about the near-daily phenomenon, which he
termed “Jewish terrorism.”
Reporter's notebook Center has served
over 1.5 million meals to 150,000 soldiers-Pop-up stop for soldiers on
Gaza border draws volunteers from across the globe-Begun by a handful of
brothers eager to help fellow Israelis on October 7, 2023, Shuva Achim
has become a second home for soldiers and a magnet for anyone visiting
the south-By Sue Surkes-Today, 7:38 am-MAY 9,26
It was cold and
rainy on a recent evening at Shuva Junction, near the Gaza border.But
inside a roadside stopping point, Shuva Achim (Shuva Brothers), all was
warm and cozy.Reserve soldiers in their 40s sat on wooden benches
sipping hot soup, while conscripts dug into plates of steaming
goulash.“This is real home cooking,” said one. “It’s like being at
home.”In a corner, a soldier played guitar while a volunteer from
Germany sang along.Nearby, retired physiotherapist Yevgenia
Menschikovsky doled out food. A resident of Netivot originally from
Kazakhstan, she and her husband, Boris, have become regulars here.“My
husband peels and cuts, and I cook,” she explained, gesturing to her
spread of rice, quiche, and potatoes.While the nation’s attention
focuses on the possibility of missiles from Iran and Lebanon, soldiers
are still moving in and out of Gaza.Before they enter and just after
they leave, Shuva Achim awaits them. Its guiding spirit, Dror Trabelsi,
31, calls the gathering spot a “Tent of Abraham,” where everyone is
welcome.Trabelsi is a whirlwind of energy, frequently breaking off a
conversation to hug a soldier or solve a logistical problem. Whether a
soldier needs Teflon plumber’s tape or has to organize a quiet place for
commanders to sleep, Trabelsi finds the solution.“Shuva Achim was never
about the tables and food,” he said, “but about people who can help you
now, with zero bureaucracy.”Part of the wooden roadside stop has a
special section for clothing, underwear, hygiene items, and more — all
provided free to soldiers.Born from chaos-Just eight minutes from the
Gaza border and a minute from Route 232, Shuva Junction was largely
commandeered by Hamas on October 7, 2023. After IDF forces neutralized
the terrorists who attacked rescue vehicles that morning, the army
designated the junction as a safe point for a field hospital.The
initiative began that very day with a single picnic table set up by
Dror’s brother, Koby. Since then, the entire Trabelsi family has become
involved.“The army initially called up hundreds of thousands of soldiers
who thought they wouldn’t be there for long,” Trabelsi recalled. “When
Hamas broke into bases and stole communications systems, it hampered
logistics.”As the only civilian outfit in the war zone for weeks, Shuva
Achim immediately began feeding up to 1,500 soldiers daily, providing
moral support and a place to decompress. Since its inception, the center
has served over 1.5 million meals to an estimated 150,000 soldiers.A
family affair-Trabelsi is one of six brothers from the religious Moshav
Shuva, founded in 1950 by Libyan immigrants. Their mother, Suzie,
provided the first giant pots of couscous, and their father, Roni, who
owns a flower shop in nearby Netivot, provides bouquets for Friday night
tables — and sometimes some surprise blooms for a soldier heading home
to his wife.With the exception of Yuval, who served as an officer on
reserve duty for much of the war, each brother has a role: Eliran
manages suppliers; Koby handles construction and logistics; Avichai and
Ariel have volunteered extensively. The brothers’ unofficial “sister,”
Oshrat, spent the first 18 months of the conflict in Shuva Achim’s
kitchen.Plus, an army of volunteers-The center’s round-the-clock
operation depends on a diverse human tapestry. One can find religious
West Bank settlers volunteering alongside secular high-tech workers from
Tel Aviv.Yevgenia Menschikovsky vowed to cook for soldiers every day
until her grandson, who was in Gaza on October 7, was released from his
army service. He is now home, but she continues to cook three times a
week using her own money and donations.Ilana Katz, a single mother
originally from Ukraine, brings her 10-year-old daughter to teach her
“unconditional love.”Christians from Holland have come to cook fries,
and a Bedouin couple from Rahat helped clean the facility to kosher
standards for Passover last year.“We are the most unorganized
organization in the world,” Trabelsi quipped. “Nobody ever tells me when
they’re coming. Only Hashem knows,” he said, using a euphemism for
God.Healing broken hearts-While built for soldiers, the junction has
become a sanctuary for others, too. It has become part of the itinerary
for many Israeli and overseas tourists visiting locations struck on
October 7, as well as a welcoming spot for bereaved parents on the way
to the Nova site, where hundreds of partygoers were massacred.Raaya and
Hila Rotem, who were taken hostage from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7,
came by one day. Not knowing who they were, Trabelsi welcomed them with
Shuva Achim’s signature fishball buns. Both women have since returned to
volunteer.The emotional weight of the site is heavy.“The soldiers have
seen terrible things and sometimes open up to us,” said one anonymous
volunteer. “There are lots of broken hearts.”Operating Shuva Achim
initially cost $4,000 per day, a figure that has since settled to
roughly $50,000 per month. While the family began by spending their own
savings, a fundraising campaign on IsraelGives has raised nearly $1
million toward a $1.5 million goal.Trabelsi has no plans to stop. He
dreams of a permanent facility and branches across Israel for any
soldier “who wakes up sweating at night.”“This is my life now,” he said.
“Tour guides can talk about Am Yisrael [the People of Israel], but
nobody will really understand until they come here. When they leave
Shuva, the only thing that will come out of their mouths is ‘Am Yisrael
Hai’ — the People of Israel live.”
Hezbollah says it launched
drone swarm at base on Mt. Meron-Hezbollah fires rockets at Haifa area;
drones wound 2 troops in north Israel, 1 in Lebanon-Soldier seriously
wounded, another moderately by explosive UAV in north, 3rd soldier
injured in south Lebanon attack; 4 killed in IDF Lebanon strike after
evacuation warning-By Emanuel Fabian,AFP and ToI Staff 8 May 2026, 6:36
pm
Despite a fragile ceasefire, Hezbollah attacked northern
Israel with rockets and drones on Friday, triggering sirens that sent
tens of thousands running for shelter in the Western Galilee and Haifa
Bay area, with no reports of injuries.According to the Israel Defense
Forces, one of the rockets was intercepted by air defenses, while the
others struck open areas.The military called the attacks “another
violation of the ceasefire understandings by the Hezbollah terror
organization.” There were no reports of injuries.The attack came shortly
after the IDF warned it expected Hezbollah rocket fire on the north in
response to the killing of Ahmed Ghaleb Balout, the chief of the terror
group’s elite Radwan Force in Beirut on Wednesday, who the military said
had advanced plans to invade the Galilee.Hezbollah took responsibility
for the rocket and drone launches, claiming to have targeted an Israeli
military base south of Nahariya and an air traffic control base atop
Mount Meron, while confirming the attacks were a response to the strike
that targeted Balout.The Israeli Air Force subsequently struck a
Hezbollah rocket launcher used in the barrage, according to the
military, publishing footage of the strike.As of Friday afternoon, there
were no changes to the Home Front Command’s guidelines for
civilians.Meanwhile, three soldiers were wounded, including one
seriously, by explosive drones launched by Hezbollah, the military
said.In one incident, the IDF said a Hezbollah drone exploded in Israeli
territory, close to the border with Lebanon, seriously wounding one
soldier and moderately injuring another.An additional soldier was
moderately injured in a separate incident, in which several explosive
drones struck near Israeli forces deployed in southern Lebanon.The IDF
said the wounded troops were taken to hospitals and their families were
notified.Several more rockets and mortars were launched by Hezbollah at
Israeli troops in southern Lebanon throughout the day, with the IDF
reporting that one projectile was intercepted by air defenses, and no
injuries were caused.The terror group claimed responsibility for the
explosive drone and rocket attacks on Israeli troops in south Lebanon.
The terror group’s statement did not mention the drone attack that
wounded troops in northern Israel.The continued clashes have underlined
challenges facing US efforts to forge peace between Israel and Lebanon,
which held rare face-to-face talks last month. The Hezbollah terror
group has fiercely objected to the government’s decision to hold
negotiations with Israel.Despite the ceasefire reached between Israel
and Lebanon in mid-April, which has since been extended into May,
Hezbollah has fired rockets and drones at northern Israeli communities,
though most attacks have been on troops in southern Lebanon or on the
Israeli side of the border.Lebanon reports deaths in Israeli
strikesAn Israeli strike after an evacuation warning on Friday killed
four people, including two women, in the southern Lebanon town of Toura,
the Lebanese health ministry said, as state media and AFP
correspondents reported Israel was conducting widespread strikes.Earlier
in the day, the IDF issued evacuation warnings for six villages in
southern Lebanon, including Toura, ahead of airstrikes targeting
Hezbollah.
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