36+ min ago (607+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 781 Thirty-nine percent of the food produced in Israel last year was dumped, sending 1.3% of the national GDP down the drain, according to the latest report by Leket Israel'the National Food Bank. The good news is that, per capita, Israelis last year wasted 13.3% less food than 10 years before, dropping from 300 to 260 kilograms (660 to 575 pounds) annually. BDO explained this by citing higher public awareness, replacing vats of food with individual plates in dining halls, a growth in online food orders (reducing surplus food grabbed along supermarket aisles), and technical improvements in food storage. However, these gains were offset by population growth and the rising costs of food, as reflected in the value of the waste. Over the past decade, the Israeli economy has lost food valued at a cumulative NIS 211 billion ($57 billion), the report said. The report noted…...

1+ hour, 36+ min ago (212+ words) President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order opening the door for several chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood " including the one that gave rise to Hamas " to be designated as terrorist groups by his administration. The order specifically names the Muslim Brotherhood's chapters in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, stating they "engage in or facilitate and support violence and destabilization campaigns that harm their own regions, United States citizens, and United States interests." History has been made. " Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) November 24, 2025 Hamas was founded in 1987 as an offshoot of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which itself emerged from the Egyptian branch. The movement first began in Egypt in 1928. "With today's Order, President Trump is once again taking steps to preserve international peace and stability and keep America safe," the White House fact sheet adds. The Trump administration…...

1+ hour, 38+ min ago (76+ words) The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and culture'supported by a community built on good-faith. My Dear Mr. Secretary (with copies furnished to Messrs. Witkoff and Kushner) " Seek the former, Mr. Secretary. The world has enough examples of the latter. Share this story with someone who appreciates an unexpected angle....

3+ hour, 46+ min ago (348+ words) Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent? But I say to you that something greater than the temple is here" (Matthew 12:56). Our Lords main purpose, however, was not to prove His deity to the Jewish leaders. It was to argue that, in light of that deity, He had the right and authority to set aside Sabbath regulation as He saw fit'even more prerogative than did David or the temple priests. And above all, no human traditions or customary ways of doing things could or should ever hinder genuine service for God. Some may view this as saying that Jesus was flippant about the commandments of God, as if they werent actually that important and could be ignored if desired. How would you respond to…...

3+ hour, 57+ min ago (106+ words) Mourners carry the coffins of top Hezbollah chief Haytham Ali Tabatabai and other members killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs on November 24, 2025. Hezbollah held the funeral for its senior military leader and other militants a day after they were killed in an Israeli attack on the Lebanese capital's southern districts. (Photo by Fadel Itani / Middle East Images via AFP) In the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad says it has recovered the body of a deceased hostage. Meanwhile, in Lebanon, thousands of residents attended the funeral of a senior Hezbollah commander who was killed by an Israeli airstrike....

4+ hour, 28+ min ago (556+ words) Indications that the Islamic State (ISIS) has begun to employ artificial intelligence in its efforts to recruit new fighters should come as no surprise. At the height of its power a decade ago, Isis was characterized by its combination of having mastered the latest methods of communication with an ideology and praxis that seemed to have emerged wholesale from the deserts of 7th century Arabia. In 2014 and 2015, ISIS recruitment took place on Twitter and Facebook. YouTube was the favored platform for the dissemination of propaganda. The group's videoclips of its barbaric prisoner executions, including the beheadings of a series of western journalists and aid workers and the immolation of a captured Jordanian pilot, became the organization's gruesome trademark. But far from the centers of power, Islamic State has maintained in the intervening years a kind of "ghost caliphate" on the lands…...

4+ hour, 54+ min ago (736+ words) France is a very strange country. To lull its population to sleep, it likes to celebrate its misfortunes. On November 13, 2025, France therefore celebrated the tenth anniversary of its defeat of November 13, 2015, when terrorists massacred 133 people and injured 413 in six attacks at the Stade de France (Saint-Denis), on the terraces of cafes, and at the Bataclan. In his address, President Emmanuel Macron proclaimed, "This haunting question: why? We would like to find meaning in what happened" No, there is no meaning, no justification for your pain. There never will be." It is a terrible lie that prevents all those who experienced these attacks in their flesh from finding peace: Yes, these attacks had a meaning, but our leaders chose to hide it from us so as not to have to acknowledge their mistakes. On October 31, 2014, during the official visit of Recep…...

4+ hour, 57+ min ago (1121+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 781 Amy Spiro is a reporter and writer with The Times of Israel Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Trank has been making documentaries about Israel for decades. Today, he finally lives here. "I wish I had made this decision earlier," Trank told The Times of Israel about his aliyah to Israel last month, after a lifetime living and working in Los Angeles. "But I can't change that." One of the first films Trank is working on under his brand-new production company, Sea Point Films and Media, aims to tell the story of Israelis recovering from the October 7 attacks and their rehabilitation journeys. "I started thinking about really a post-October 7 project, because we all know what happened on October 7. We've all heard the stories, and it's important to tell those stories," Trank said during a recent video interview from his…...

5+ hour, 23+ min ago (83+ words) The president said in an interview that he would classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Trump Orders Designation of Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Groups WASHINGTON'President Donald Trump has ordered that chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood be designated as terrorist groups. NBA Coach Chauncey Billups Pleads Not Guilty in Alleged Rigged Poker Games Scheme House Passes Resolution Denouncing "Horrors of Socialism" GOP Lawmaker to File Expulsion Resolution Against Cherfilus-McCormick Senate Passes Measure to Repeal Biden-Era Coal Regulation...

5+ hour, 23+ min ago (83+ words) The president said in an interview that he would classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Trump Orders Designation of Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Groups WASHINGTON'President Donald Trump has ordered that chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood be designated as terrorist groups. NBA Coach Chauncey Billups Pleads Not Guilty in Alleged Rigged Poker Games Scheme House Passes Resolution Denouncing "Horrors of Socialism" GOP Lawmaker to File Expulsion Resolution Against Cherfilus-McCormick Senate Passes Measure to Repeal Biden-Era Coal Regulation...