Israel News no.1.
Israel News-1.
1. Knesset restores rabbinical courts.
2. CENTCOM: U.S. Has Struck 10,000+ Iranian Targets, Destroyed Two-Thirds Of Iran's Arms Manufacturing.
3. From Obama to Mamdani: How Islamist Rhetoric Captured Western Elite Discourse.
4. Antisemitism will destroy Western civilization
by Gary Willig.
5. The US Constitution is based on the Bible!
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1. Knesset restores rabbinical courts, echoing Isaiah: 'I will restore your judges as of old.'
https://israel365news.com/417069/knesset-restores-rabbinical-courts-echoing-isaiah-i-will-restore-your-judges-as-of-old/
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
Israel News
March 26, 2026
Extraxts:
Knesset restores rabbinical courts, echoing Isaiah: 'I will restore your judges as of old.'
The Knesset passed a law on Tuesday morning restoring to rabbinical courts a power they had exercised for decades before it was stripped away by a judicial ruling 20 years ago. By a vote of 65 to 41, lawmakers approved legislation allowing state rabbinical and Sharia courts to arbitrate civil disputes, a move supporters describe as a return to tradition and critics warn could reshape the balance between religion and state.
The law, advanced by United Torah Judaism and Shas, grants religious courts authority to adjudicate financial disputes when both parties give explicit and recent consent. Until 2006, rabbinical courts regularly handled such arbitration, a practice halted by a court decision that removed their standing in civil matters. Under the new law, their jurisdiction remains limited: they cannot hear criminal or administrative cases, matters involving the state, or disputes tied to marriage and divorce. Labor disputes are also excluded unless initiated freely by the employee.
Rabbinical courts are already embedded in Israel's judiciary, overseeing areas such as divorce, inheritance, and conversion. The system includes 12 regional courts, with the Great Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem serving as the highest authority. It is currently headed by Sephardi Chief Rabbi David Yosef.
Supporters framed the legislation as a correction of a historical anomaly. MK Yitzhak Pindrus told lawmakers that 'for 50 years after the state's founding, rabbinical courts deliberated on these matters,' dismissing claims that the law disrupts the status quo. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called the bill 'a liberal and egalitarian' measure grounded in free choice, adding that Israelis should have access to 'a legal system with values and morality' rooted in Jewish tradition.
MK Moshe Gafni, one of the bill's sponsors, tied the moment to a broader religious vision. "We are now at the stage of 'I will restore your judges as of old,'" he said, invoking the verse: "And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning; afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city" (Isaiah 1:26).
Jewish law (Halacha) prohibits resorting to non-Torah-based legal systems. Outside of Israel, rabbinic injunction resorts to a workaround called "dina d'malkhuta dina" "the law of the land is the law" - which permitted Jews living under foreign sovereign rule to engage with gentile legal systems.
In the Land of Israel, the halachic leniency that permits the use of non-Torah-based courts is considerably stricter than in the Diaspora. The principle of dina d'malkhuta dina does not apply in Israel, according to the majority of halachic authorities. This is because the doctrine was conceived specifically to address Jewish life under non-Jewish governance; in a Jewish state, no such dispensation exists. The prohibition of arkaot, bringing disputes before secular tribunals, therefore stands in full force. Rooted in the Talmud's reading of Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1) and codified by Maimonides, the prohibition means that a Jew who takes a fellow Jew to Israel's secular civil courts violates Torah law, desecrates God's name (chillul Hashem), and bypasses the divinely ordained system of mishpat Ivri, Hebrew law administered through batei din (rabbinical courts). Many leading Israeli halachic authorities, including Rav Shaul Yisraeli and others associated with the religious Zionist tradition, have written extensively on this point.
Ironically, Israel's secular court system is inherited largely from British Mandatory law and shaped by modern civil jurisprudence, which handles the overwhelming majority of civil, commercial, and family disputes among Israeli Jews. For Torah-observant Jews, this creates a profound tension: the state's legal apparatus is readily accessible and enforceable, while the batei din (Rabbinic courts), though recognized for matters of personal status such as marriage and divorce, have limited jurisdiction and enforcement power in civil matters.
Rabbi Yehudah Glick, a former Member of Knesset and founder of the Shalom Jerusalem Foundation,
'We're talking about a situation where both sides agree, and it's only giving the authority to the Bet Din to enforce their decisions. The ability to make these decisions was already given by the agreement of both sides.'
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2. CENTCOM: U.S. Has Struck 10,000+ Iranian Targets, Destroyed Two-Thirds Of Iran's Arms Manufacturing
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2530076/centcom-u-s-has-struck-10000-iranian-targets-destroyed-two-thirds-of-irans-arms-manufacturing.html
Adm. Brad Cooper made the announcement in a video statement, disclosing that the 10,000th target was hit just hours before he spoke. 'And if you combine what we've accomplished with the success of our Israeli ally, together we have struck thousands more,' he said, 'clearly demonstrating that we're stronger together.'
The figures Cooper outlined paint a picture of sweeping military degradation. Ninety-two percent of the Iranian Navy's largest vessels have been destroyed, he said - a toll he assessed as effectively ending Iran's ability to project naval power.
'For decades, Iranian warships have roamed regional waters, threatening and harassing global shipping. But those days are over,' Cooper said. 'They're not sailing, and my operational assessment is that they've now lost the ability to meaningfully project naval power and influence around the region and around the world.'
The rate of Iranian missile and drone attacks has also plummeted, dropping 90% since the opening of hostilities. Cooper credited the strikes not only with degrading Iran's existing capabilities but with eliminating the country's capacity to replenish them. More than two-thirds of Iran's missile, drone, and naval production facilities and shipyards have been damaged or destroyed, he said.
'We are on a path to completely eliminate Iran's wider military manufacturing apparatus,' Cooper added. 'And we're not done yet.'
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3. From Obama to Mamdani: How Islamist Rhetoric Captured Western Elite Discourse
https://jewishpress.com/from-obama-to-mamdani-how-islamist-rhetoric-captured-western-elite-discourse/
By
Jonathan Braun
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March 26, 2026
Extracts:
It started in June 2009, when Barack Obama addressed 'the Muslim world' from Cairo University and promised 'a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world.'
Obama adopted the same pan Islamic framework Islamists had long used to turn local grievances into a single civilizational cause. Instead of speaking to the Arab world, he addressed a supposed transnational Muslim polity and underscored the point by pressuring Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak to allow leaders of the banned Muslim Brotherhood "the regime's most menacing opponents" to attend the historic event.
So, the administration intensified dealings with Brotherhood leaders across the region, welcomed their rise in Egypt as proof of democratic openness, and pursued an Iran nuclear agreement on terms that legitimized the monstrous regime while leaving its regional aggression and genocidal antisemitism essentially untouched.
By treating Palestinian demands as the litmus test for reconciliation with a global Muslim audience, while normalizing Islamist actors as representatives of that audience, the Obama administration helped to complete a transformation the Muslim Brotherhood had been promoting for decades, from a limited Arab,Israeli dispute into a struggle in which every policy argument about Israel immediately becomes a story about justice for Muslims worldwide.
According to Professor Mamdani, to scrutinize Islamist doctrine is to lapse into ,culture talk., The target of judgment is no longer the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas. The target is America.
His son, Zohran, translates that worldview into electoral politics. As New York,s first Muslim mayor and a standard bearer of the Democratic Socialists of America, he presents his faith, far-left views, and extreme anti Zionism as a single, indivisible stance "a politician who portrays himself as confronting ,strategic Islamophobia, at home and Israeli ,oppression, abroad. He treats the "dignity of the Palestinian people" as the paramount progressive cause, and the central moral test for Muslims everywhere.
Reports from multiple media outlets show that Mayor Mamdani's wife, Rama Duwaji, used her personal Instagram account to 'like' numerous posts on and immediately after October 7 that praised Hamas's assault as 'breaking the walls of apartheid' and promoted New York rallies "to stand with Palestinian resistance." She also liked a post dismissing the documented Hamas sexual atrocities as a fabricated "mass rape hoax" - activity her husband has tried to downplay by reiterating his own condemnation of Hamas and the attack as a war crime.
In his first statement after the attack, however, candidate Mamdani didn't mention Hamas at all. Instead, he 'mourned hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine,' blamed Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government for the 'ongoing violence,' and called for ending 'occupation' and 'apartheid.'
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4. Antisemitism will destroy Western civilization
by
Gary Willig
Recent acts of hatred and cowardice in the West perfectly encapsulate the unique ability antisemitism possesses to destroy the civilizations it infects.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/424623
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5. The US Constitution is based on the Bible!
Rabbi Sees Something STRANGE About American Founder's Biblical Quotes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOo4WJA5Au8
Rabbi Pesach Wolicki has a discussion with
David and Tim Barton of WallBuilders. They demonstrate how the US Constitution is based on the Bible especially the Book of Deuteronomy and tyo a lesser degree that of Nehemiah.
We found it informative and valuable.
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