New York
ICE officers attempting to arrest a man in the Marble Hill neighborhood of New York City opened fire after he refused orders to exit his vehicle, rammed two government vehicles, and then accelerated toward other officers.
A five-year-old child in the back seat was not injured. The man, a 28-year-old Dominican national in the country illegally, was wounded in the neck. Federal officials said he has a conviction for fourth-degree grand larceny, prior arrests for armed robbery, drug sales, possession of stolen property, and assault, and associations with the Trinitarios gang. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the shooting an “outrage” and demanded that President Trump end all ICE enforcement in the city, writing, “Abolish ICE.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said ICE “is a rogue, lawless and paramilitary surveillance agency” that “should not exist in the United States of America.” Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended the officers and criticized New York’s sanctuary policies for previously releasing the man. Officials said the agents did not know a child was in the car.
Two yeshivas in Brooklyn were evacuated after receiving phoned-in bomb threats six minutes apart. The first call reached Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School around 9:54 a.m., and a similar threat was reported to the United Talmudical Academy in Williamsburg at 10 a.m. Emergency Service units and K-9 teams responded to both locations and conducted searches of the buildings. Police said no explosives or hazardous materials were found, and both threats were deemed unfounded. No injuries were reported. The Yeshivah of Flatbush told parents the school had been placed in lockdown and evacuated “out of an abundance of caution, and in accordance with our established security protocols and the guidance of the NYPD.” Students and staff left the buildings while the searches were underway.
Anti-Israel protesters called Mayor Mamdani a “traitor” and “sellout” as they booed and berated him at an Oct. 7 memorial in Manhattan, with some demonstrators waving Hamas flags during the confrontation. Mamdani was attending a candlelight vigil at Union Square marking the third anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel when protesters who had marched from City Hall confronted him. “Shame on you!” protesters shouted. Others chanted, “Zohran, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide,” “Traitor, traitor, come on out! You sold all your people out,” and “Zohran, what do you say? How many kids did you kill today?” A woman who said she had been a former intern told the crowd, “Mayor Mamdani is a sellout.”
Mayor Mamdani has directed the NYPD to conduct a comprehensive review of its use-of-force policies and practices over the coming months, including input from communities across the city. City Hall said it would be the first such review in a decade. The move follows controversy after an officer facing disciplinary charges over the 2024 fatal police shooting of a man retired before a departmental trial. The man was killed in his Queens home during a mental health emergency after he called for help. The administration is also adding $2.6 million for independent oversight and creating a notification system so disciplinary proceedings can finish before an officer retires.
Gov. Kathy Hochul said the MTA’s modern subway fare gates have reduced fare evasion by an average of 35 percent at 20 pilot stations while improving accessibility and passenger flow. The largest drops were recorded at Hoyt Street and Nostrand Avenue, where evasion fell 72 percent, and at 3rd Avenue-138th Street, which saw a 65 percent decline. The MTA is now moving ahead with gates at 20 additional stations across Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, with installation expected to begin by the end of 2026. Another 30 stations are slated to be under construction by the end of 2027 as part of a $1.1 billion plan to modernize fare gates at 150 stations. Hochul said the gates are expected to save nearly $100 million a year in unpaid fares.
Julie Menin, speaker of the New York City Council, and fellow Council Member Jennifer Gutiérrez presented a $1.16 million check to the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn, an Orthodox group founded in 1966 by Holocaust survivors that represents about 70,000 people and more than 200 nonprofits. The funding supports the group’s work serving local families and expanding its headquarters. Menin noted that she is the first Jewish speaker of the council and referenced her mother and grandmother, who were Holocaust survivors in Hungary.
New York will participate in a new federal scholarship tax credit program that could help families pay private school tuition, including at yeshivas and other Jewish schools, Gov. Hochul announced. The program, scheduled to begin Jan. 1, 2027, allows individual taxpayers to claim a federal income tax credit of up to $1,700 for qualifying cash donations to scholarship-granting organizations. Those organizations distribute scholarships to eligible students to help cover educational expenses. The announcement confirms Hochul’s earlier indication in May that New York intended to opt into the program, a move welcomed by Orthodox Jewish organizations that have advocated for greater assistance with the rising cost of yeshivah tuition. New York becomes the 31st state to opt in.
U.S.
Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home in the Washington, D.C., area. Multiple agents in HSI jackets were seen outside the residence as the operation began around 6 a.m. A DOJ spokesperson said agents “executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice” as part of “an ongoing federal investigation.” Sources familiar with the matter said the probe involves her immigration paperwork, which was reportedly completed by her late father when she was a child, and focuses on potential allegations of false statements and immigration fraud. Omar responded on X, calling the search a way for President Trump to “target political enemies” with “baseless lies” and stating, “I will not be silenced.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump Administration is sanctioning the International Criminal Court. The measures ban transactions with the court, cutting off its resources and limiting its ability to operate. Rubio stated that “President Trump will never allow the International Criminal Court to prosecute Americans” and that “either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC.” He noted that the United States never joined the court and that both parties have long rejected its jurisdiction over American citizens, servicemembers, or political leaders. The sanctions mark the first time the U.S. has targeted the institution itself after previously designating individual judges and prosecutors. Rubio said the action was structured to allow allies to negotiate a solution, and the Treasury Department is providing a 180-day period for certain operations while concerns are addressed.
A man involved in a motor vehicle crash in Toms River allegedly refused medical assistance from frum first responders, telling them, “I don’t want your kind touching me,” according to Hatzolah volunteer Booky Kaluszyner. Kaluszyner said the patient repeatedly demanded “real 911” despite the arrival of frum volunteers responding with local emergency services. He added that the paramedics who eventually arrived were also Chasidim, and the nurse assigned to the patient at the hospital was frum as well. Kaluszyner described the episode in a social media post, noting that neither vehicle involved belonged to an Orthodox Jewish person. In a follow-up post, he clarified that his original message was intended to highlight how prejudice can lead people to refuse medical care, not to discredit Toms River’s emergency services.
FBI Director Kash Patel said an ISIS-inspired terrorist allegedly wanted to slaughter 30 to 60 innocent Americans at the Mall of America because he claimed the mall is owned by Jews. A Minnesota man was arrested after an undercover FBI agent sold him an inoperable AK-47, magazines, and ammunition. Court documents state the man wrote that he wanted to kill 30 to 60 people “so no one would go there” and referenced harming Jews “just like the brothers in Australia Bondi Beach.” He identified October 24 as the date of the planned attack during a celebration at the mall. The Mall of America is owned by the Ghermezian family, a Canadian family of Iranian Jewish origin.
Daniel Lilienthal is suing Harvard University in federal court in New York, alleging religious discrimination after he was fired in October 2024, nine days after returning from two approved days off for Rosh HaShanah. The lawsuit claims his supervisor raised concerns about him with HR on the first day of Yom Tov, and later warned him not to think he could “just take off time whenever you want.” Lilienthal, who worked remotely as associate director of finance and grants administration at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, had previously worked at Harvard for eight years before returning in September 2024. He was terminated on his fifteenth business day during a Zoom call; when he asked if it was for performance or wrongdoing, his supervisor allegedly answered “no.” Harvard says it allows employees to take time off for religious holidays and had not yet responded to the allegations in court. Lilienthal is seeking damages under Title VII and New York human rights laws.
Hurricane Isaias tore through parts of Florida, with powerful winds that ripped roofs from an apartment complex and a high school gymnasium while toppling trees. Winds gusted up to an estimated 120 mph. Fallen trees and downed power lines blocked roads, and a convenience store was left in ruins with its roof torn off and merchandise scattered. Isaias made landfall as the season’s first Atlantic hurricane with Category 2 winds, leaving widespread damage and power outages across the Florida Panhandle.
The U.S. Army is urging American military medical teams to study and adopt Israeli battlefield medicine techniques after the IDF reduced the mortality rate among combat casualties from about 15 percent during the 2006 Second Lebanon War to 7.1 percent during the current war. Key advances include positioning doctors and medics closer to frontline troops, cutting advanced-care response times from 15 to 20 minutes to as little as four minutes, rapid helicopter evacuations, and administering blood products and plasma directly on the battlefield. A 78-page U.S. Army report titled “Israeli Defense Force Medical Lessons Learned” said America has an opportunity to learn from Israel’s combat experience before a future major war. The authors recommended studying Israel’s medical evacuation systems, data collection, and ability to deliver advanced care under high-intensity combat conditions. An IDF spokesman said American officers came to Israel to learn from the Medical Corps.
Israel
One boy was killed and 24 others were injured when an explosion struck a hiking group near the Pe’er observation point on Ramim Ridge, along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. The group included schoolchildren and teachers from ORT Ma’alot Yeshiva High School. The Israeli military believes the unexploded ordnance that detonated was a submunition from a Hezbollah rocket. A preliminary investigation indicates one of the students may have picked up the device along the Naftali Mountains Forest scenic route and placed it in his backpack, where it exploded several minutes later. The blast killed a 15-year-old boy and wounded 24 others, including two seriously and three moderately. During the recent war, Hezbollah fired Grad rockets carrying dozens of BRB1-type submunitions into northern Israel, many of which did not explode on impact. The military confirmed the device was likely a cluster bomb left by Hezbollah.
Israel Police and Border Guard forces arrested a Palestinian man in his 20s after receiving intelligence that he intended to carry out an imminent terror attack. Officers set up checkpoints and searches in the Jerusalem Envelope area near Ma’ale Adumim, locating the masked suspect and seizing a knife and a glass bottle filled with nails and paper suspected to have been intended for use in an incendiary device. Police said the suspect had told contacts he planned to carry out an attack in the immediate term. Forces from the Ma’ale Adumim station and Border Guard units moved quickly after the intelligence report, establishing roadblocks and conducting searches that led to the arrest before any attack could take place.
Israel Aerospace Industries is unveiling its new POINT@AIR tactical radar at the AUSA 2026 defense exhibition in Washington, D.C. Mounted on a mobile aerostat, the AESA radar offers 360-degree coverage and can detect and track multiple aerial, maritime, and ground targets. Its elevated position extends line of sight beyond terrain and obstacles that limit ground-based radars, allowing earlier detection of low-altitude threats without permanent infrastructure. Based on the proven ELM-2083 radar family, the system combines electronic scanning with mechanical rotation for full coverage and is designed for rapid relocation. The system remains in advanced development as IAI pursues initial customers. It is intended to support persistent surveillance where fixed infrastructure may not be practical.
Archaeologists have uncovered a 300-meter section of Jerusalem’s Lower Aqueduct, an ancient water system built during the Hasmonean period that carried water from Solomon’s Pools near Bethlehem to the Temple Mount. The Israel Antiquities Authority excavated the section south of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel ahead of plans by the Israel Land Authority to build a new Jerusalem neighborhood. The aqueduct stretched approximately 21 kilometers and relied on gravity, with a gentle gradient of about one meter of elevation drop per kilometer. The system remained in intermittent use until about 100 years ago and was later modified during the Ottoman period with ceramic pipes. The discovery is expected to be preserved and incorporated into the future residential development.
World
A missile struck King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, killing at least 18 people and wounding more than 300 as debris and fire tore through the terminal. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said they have carried out at least four operations targeting the airport since the initial strike. The attack was the deadliest in a Gulf Arab country since the Iran war began, marking a major escalation in the Houthis’ conflict with Saudi Arabia. Saudi authorities reported that the dead included four Saudis and several foreign nationals. The Saudi-led coalition launched an investigation into how air defenses failed to intercept the missiles and drones, which officials said were preceded by drone launches to clear a path.
President Mahmoud Abbas postponed what would have been the first Palestinian elections in nearly 20 years, issuing a decree to further delay voting for the Palestinian Legislative Council almost another year. Rather than take place as scheduled next month, the decree pushes the elections back to Sept. 11, 2027. Presidential elections, which have not taken place for more than two decades, are scheduled for the same day. Abbas’s decree cited “obstacles posed by Israeli measures” and the need for suitable political, security, and on-the-ground conditions for free and fair elections. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar rejected the explanation as “yet another ridiculous lie designed to evade responsibility and accountability.” Abbas is in year 21 of his four-year term.
South African jurist Navi Pillay, who chaired a United Nations commission that accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, a decision likely to intensify debate over the international body’s treatment of Israel and the credibility of its accusations against the Jewish state. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, 85, was being honored for her efforts to promote peace and international law, particularly her role in advancing accountability for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The committee praised her legal career, which included serving as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and as a judge at international tribunals. Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office denounced the award, saying the committee had “lost its moral compass.”
Panama has recorded more than 200 aftershocks since a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake that damaged nearly 900 homes and left at least 27 people injured, though no deaths have been reported. The government declared a national state of emergency and authorized up to $100 million for relief efforts, while the U.S. pledged $5 million and is sending a 20-member assistance team. At least 14 bridges were damaged, nationwide classes were suspended, and officials say the aftershocks are gradually weakening and becoming less frequent. Panama Canal operations remain unaffected.