30/09/2026
This Week Today
Current Events from Israel
Chag Sameach! Obviously this news update is being written from inside of a Sukkah in the Land of Israel - two mitzvahs that can be performed with the entire body. In short, it’s quite the holy news update.
Entebbe 2 - Miracle in the Sky
As Jews all over the world celebrate the “Time of our Joy”, the Jewish People were overjoyed by the seemingly miraculous rescue of an entire airplane from a suicidal terror attack over Saudi Arabia. The plane left Dubai on the way to Israel when apparently one of the pilots remembered his religion and attacked the other pilot and then attempted to crash the plane. The other pilot was able to fight back, despite being severely injured and to the cockpit door. That’s when the Israeli hero passengers charged in. They were able to subdue the terrorist and render medical care to the good pilot. Additional professional pilots were on the plane, dressed in civilian garb, and they were able to take control and land the plane in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia received the Israeli passengers at one of their airports but refused a flight from Israel to retrieve them. Another Dubai flight was sent to ferry the stranded passengers back home. After rigorous background checks of the new pilots, performed by the Mossad, all the Israeli passengers boarded the rescue flight back to Israel. The passengers were welcomed at Ben Gurion Airport by Prime Minister Netanyahu who led a kumsitz/simchas beis hashoeva sing along with them.
With these celebratory videos circulating all over the place, the Israeli left is losing their minds about now. DJ Yair Lapid complained publicly that Prime Minister Netanyahu hadn’t warned him about the possibility of such an attack. Really? Kindof. Basically, it was exposed this past week that Prime Minister Netanyahu recently traveled to the UAE for secret meetings there. After the news of the trip broke, speculation erupted throughout the Israeli leftist press that the real purpose of the trip was to get the UAE folks to forcefully deny the reports that Netanyahu had been warned about Oct. 7th in advance and done nothing. There have been quite a few erroneous reports like this recently. Judgemental, but accurate take: You’d have to be a complete idiot to believe such a thing in the first place. Turns out that there were at least a few important meetings to be had in the UAE, none of which involved internal Israeli politics. One was reportedly with a prominent figure from Libya - a potential future Abraham Accords member. Another was apparently to warn the UAE leaders about recent advancements in the Iranian nuclear program. So much for these “bombshell allegations”. To quote over-achiever Billy Madison: “Any more brain busters?”
To everyone’s good fortune, the political campaigns have pretty much suspended themselves for the duration of the holiday. In fairness, most of the left, especially Gadi Eizenkot, pretty much stopped actively campaigning all the way back in Elul.
Gaza
As many may remember, a few weeks ago Israel captured the head of Hamas “security” in a daring raid into Gaza. Since then, over 100 terrorists have been targeted and eliminated, seemingly with the help of Mr. “Security”. We should definitely release that guy back into Gaza just to see what happens. With the successful elimination of the “Colonel” of Hamas in northern Gaza this week, all the remaining Hamas “Colonels” have been taken out during this time. Gaza is starting to resemble that Duck Hunt game when you figured out you could just put the plastic gun right up to the screen and blast away!
Meanwhile, it was announced this week that Hamas has formed some kind of political coalition to run with other terror groups for leadership of the Palestinian Authority. Um, I’m pretty sure this is against Trump’s whole plan where Hamas disarms and disappears. G-d willing, Israel ain’t ever leaving Gaza again! Time to go ahead and make it Jewish again!
Lebanon
Israel keeps blasting terror targets all over south Lebanon and clearing former Hezbollah strongholds. The especially rabid Jew haters are howling about the scale of the destruction, but no one remotely normal cares. Israel is methodically cleansing Lebanon of Hezbollah and I certainly hope it isn’t being done for free. There sure better be a serious pay out at the end, but it would be much better to just absorb a nice chunk of biblical Israel and make that Jewish again as well.
False Flag
There are of course folks, including Iran, who are accusing Israel of orchestrating a false flag operation through the airplane incident and seeking to blame Iran/Arabs. But the real false flag is the incident this week that happened in Binyamin in the Shiloh area. Basically, before Oct. 7th, Arabs from the village of Jalud established a presence on a hill overlooking the neighboring Jewish neighborhoods. They have since used this hill to repeatedly attack local Jews. After Oct. 7th it was decided that the enemy presence needed to be removed. Of course the Israeli authorities should have done this, but they didn’t. At some point, the residents of the two houses on the hill were convinced to relocate. Now some Israeli court ordered the IDF/Israeli Police to return them back to the hill. About 100 young Jews showed up to prevent that from happening. Now a bunch of losers are screaming against them. They’ve lost the plot.
Vilna Gaon
Today was the “yahrzeit” of R’ Eliyahu of Vilna, also known at the GR’A/Vilna Gaon. If you’re not familiar with his works, get familiar with them, everything will make a lot more sense.
Chag Sameach!
-Ben Packer
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