https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7U5AQqha7o

Iran launched a ballistic missile attack targeting northern Israel following Israeli airstrikes in Beirut. The attack prompted widespread security measures across Israel, including the cancellation of classes nationwide, as officials prepared for the possibility of additional strikes.

So far, missile alerts have sounded hundreds of times across Israel as Iran has launched at least five separate rounds of missile fire. Approximately six waves of ballistic missiles from Iran have been detected.

The latest escalation began after Israel carried out airstrikes against targets in southern Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold. Israeli officials said the strikes were conducted in response to recent Hezbollah attacks against northern Israel, including missile launches that threatened Israeli civilians.

While diplomatic efforts continue, the security situation on the ground continues to deteriorate. The renewed violence threatens to derail ongoing discussions between Washington and Tehran and raises fresh concerns about the possibility of a prolonged regional war involving Iran, Hezbollah, Israel, and potentially other actors throughout the Middle East.

This is a developing story.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/iran-fires-ballistic-missiles-israel-after-beirut-airstrikes/  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVHANAs0NYQ

A small group of Jewish worshippers stood near the Dome of the Rock on Sunday morning, unfurled seven Israeli flags, and sang Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem. The scene would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. For decades, even minor displays of Jewish national expression on the Temple Mount were met with immediate intervention by police. This time, the participants remained on the site, sang openly, and completed the demonstration without being removed.

The Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, has witnessed a dramatic increase in Jewish visitors in recent years. The sight of Jews ascending the mount, praying quietly, bowing, and now publicly displaying Israeli flags reflects a significant shift in enforcement policies at the site.

The event took place shortly after the Temple Mount was reopened to Jewish visitors following a four-day closure for a Muslim holiday. Video footage circulating on social media showed approximately 10 Jewish worshippers carrying 7 Israeli flags near the Dome of the Rock before singing Hatikvah.

Those displaying the flags were not removed from the compound. According to participants and Temple Mount activists, enforcement authorities acted in accordance with policy changes implemented under National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Rabbi Elisha Wolfson, head of the Temple Mount Yeshiva, welcomed the development.

“It is a great joy to see the process of the return to Zion growing stronger, and to witness the many advances on the Temple Mount,” Rabbi Wolfson said. “There is no doubt that the minister is carrying out a genuine revolution.”

The display quickly drew international criticism. 

The debate over flags, prayer, and sovereignty on the Temple Mount is ultimately about the future of Jerusalem itself. Sunday’s demonstration was carried out by only a handful of worshippers, but the image of Israeli flags waving beside the Dome of the Rock captured a reality that would have astonished previous generations. The policies established in the aftermath of the Six-Day War are being tested, challenged, and redefined. Whether welcomed or condemned, the events on the Temple Mount demonstrate that the status quo is no longer standing still.

https://israel365news.com/418556/israeli-flags-and-hatikvah-on-the-temple-mount-signal-a-new-reality/  

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that “we are intensifying our operations in Lebanon” to create a larger “security buffer zone” between northern Israel and the Iran-backed terrorists of Hezbollah.

Netanyahu made the announcement after meeting with Defense Minister Israel Katz and Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, chief of staff for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), in Tel Aviv to discuss Israel’s response to persistent Hezbollah attacks.

Also on Tuesday, the IDF issued an evacuation order for the Lebanese city of Tyre and its suburbs. Tyre is the fifth-largest city in Lebanon, with about 200,000 residents. The IDF said the evacuation was necessary because it will begin striking “Hezbollah command centers” in the city.

“The IDF does not intend to harm you. For your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately, according to the area shown on the map, and move north of the Zahrani River,” Adraee told Tyre residents in a post on social media platform X.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2026/05/27/israel-intensifies-attacks-on-lebanon-orders-city-of-200000-to-evacuate/  

A fragile ceasefire in the Middle East is once again under strain after Benjamin Netanyahu ordered intensified military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon, raising fears of a broader escalation that could derail ongoing diplomatic efforts.

The move comes at a particularly sensitive moment. Indirect talks between the United States and Iran are ongoing, with both sides cautiously exploring a possible framework to reduce tensions.
Netanyahu made his position clear in a video statement. “We are at war with Hezbollah… and we will intensify our strikes,” he said.

He added that Israel would not ease its military posture. “We are not taking our foot off the gas—on the contrary, I have instructed them to press the pedal even harder.”

The directive marks a significant escalation in what has already been a volatile situation. Despite a mid-April ceasefire, hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah have continued at a lower but persistent level.

For now, the ceasefire remains in place—at least on paper. But its durability appears to be increasingly uncertain. Each new strike, each new retaliation, chips away at the fragile calm. The situation remains  volatile.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/netanyahu-orders-expanded-military-operations-against-hezbollah-lebanon/  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiatMG8DE1k  

Israeli police arrested 13 people Friday after they broke through security barriers and forced their way onto the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, attempting to perform the Biblically mandated grain offering to mark the festival of Shavuot. The arrests came hours before the holiday began at sundown, and initial reports misidentified the ritual items as preparation for an animal sacrifice. What the group actually carried onto the holy site were two loaves of bread.

The suspects breached security and ran into the compound in an attempt to perform the ritual before being stopped by authorities, police said. No animals were present. According to the Ynet news site, the group brought loaves of chametz — leavened bread — made from freshly harvested wheat, the centerpiece of the Shavuot grain offering.

Shavuot, meaning “Weeks,” marks the culmination of the 49-day Sefirat HaOmer — the counting of the Omer — that begins on the second night of Passover. It is both an agricultural festival celebrating the wheat harvest and the commemoration of the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. ...It is the only occasion in the Temple service when leavened bread was offered on the altar.

The 13 people arrested Friday were Jews trying to fulfill a biblical commandment at the place the Bible designates for it — and they were stopped by the government of the Jewish state.

The Temple Mount is Judaism’s holiest site, and it is in Israel’s capital city. Jewish rituals at the site are explicitly described in the Bible, and the Jews carried them out in the two temples for a total of more than 800 years.  But for some inexplicable reason, after Israel conquered Judaism’s holiest site in the 1967 Six-Day War, control of the site was turned over to the Jordanian Muslim Waqf, and despite the law requiring Jews to have freedom of worship, the Israeli police remove any Jew who tries to exercise that right. That is the status quo that Israeli governments across the political spectrum have maintained for 58 years.

The two loaves of bread never made it to the altar. The men who carried them are in police custody. And the Mount stands as it has stood — without a Temple, without a service, and without the Shtei HaLechem ascending before God on Shavuot.

https://israel365news.com/418322/13-arrested-on-temple-mount-as-jews-attempt-to-sacrifice-shavuot-bread-offering/  

A Pashtun man from Afghanistan’s Kunar Province walked into a meeting with the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem this week and introduced himself as a son of Yusuf, son of Yaakov, of the nation of Bani Israel. His name is Yusufzai Afridi. He is from the tribe of Ephraim. And he just may be the beginning of the return of millions of Pashtun as the prophesied return of the lost tribes of Israel.

The Pashtun, an Iranic ethnic group of 50 million Muslims living, refer to themselves as the “Bani Israel,” very similar phonetically to the Hebrew term for the “children of Israel,” Bnei Yisrael. They say their families have known this for 2,700 years. They never forgot and have retained a strong tradition, passed down for countless generations, that they are from the nation of Israel. And despite being forcibly converted to Islam 1,500 years ago, they have retained more than fifty traditions based on the Torah in a code that is called Pashtunwali. And they have even retained the Torah itself. 

The Pashtun are the largest tribal society on earth. There are over 65 million of them, some estimates put the number at 100 million, native to southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They speak Pashto. They are Sunni Muslim. And they have a social and ethnic code called Pashtunwali that governs every dimension of their lives, a code that predates Islam by over a thousand years.

The Pashtun tribal structure maps directly onto the twelve tribes of Israel. The Yusufzai believe they descend from Joseph (Yosef). The Lewani trace themselves to Levi. The Rebbani to Reuben (Reuven). The Afridi to Ephraim (Efraim). The Gaghai to Gad. The Benyamin to Benjamin.

Pashtun men wear four-cornered fringed garments reminiscent of the Jewish tallit (prayer shawl). Many Pashtun light candles on Friday evening — Shabbat candles — at the onset of the day of rest. This practice is entirely absent from Islamic law and entirely absent from the Quran. Yet Afridi noted it as one of the core Pashtunwali traditions, one that has persisted for generations even as the surrounding Muslim world looked on in bewilderment.

Pashtun circumcise male infants on the eighth day, exactly as Jewish law mandates, and unlike the surrounding Muslim populations, who do not observe the eighth-day timing. Many Pashtun maintain the prohibition against mixing milk and meat, a dietary law based on rabbinic interpretation of the Torah and with no basis in Islam. They refuse to eat crustaceans. They refuse to eat camel meat or drink camel milk, which are entirely permissible and popular among neighboring Muslim communities.

Meir Halevi, the spokesperson for the Sanhedrin, added a detail that has received far too little attention: the Pashtun elders possess Torah scrolls,  the same Torah scroll tradition preserved by Yemenite and Iraqi Jews, written on parchment (gvil) in the ancient style. “They have the Torah scroll that the Yemenite and Iraqi Jews have, not the Ashkenazi version, not in Hebrew script as we know it today, but the same scroll. The pronunciation is a bit different, but they have the same scroll that we have, exactly the same thing.” The Pashtun, Halevi said, are preserving “over 56 mitzvot from the Torah, 56, which is a lot. Although they did not preserve everything, they did preserve major, major mitzvot.”

...Pashtun do not intermarry with non-Pashtun....

And through every invasion, every occupation, every attempt to absorb or destroy them, the Pashtun did not scatter, did not assimilate, did not surrender Pashtunwali.

The prophet Zechariah wrote that Ephraim would be like a mighty warrior, that their hearts would rejoice, that God would whistle for them and gather them, because He redeemed them. Yusufzai Afridi sat in Jerusalem. He stood on the Temple Mount. He is from the tribe of Ephraim.

God is whistling. And Ephraim is listening.

https://israel365news.com/418286/returning-lost-tribe-of-ephraim-sanhedrin-meets-pashtun-man-from-afghanistan/