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Despite the genocidal chants “From the river to the sea” from Israel’s ignorant antagonists, and behind the screeching and biased libels in the media, Israeli scientists and researchers work 24/7 to battle the scourges of famine, drought, and natural disasters.
They also advance state of the art defense technology that is critical in defending all democracies.
Michael Ordman’s weekly accounts of the triumphs in Israel dispel the gloom that the terrorism and blood curdling threats to Israel and America from Middle East tyrants create. rsk

POSITIVE NEWS IN A WAR
 
The first lasers to combat drones. During the Swords of Iron War, the IDF successfully intercepted dozens of drones using new laser interception systems operated by air defense personnel. Israel is the first country in the world to field high-powered, operational laser systems at scale. Rafael’s Iron Beam should be ready end-2025.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-defense-ministry-drones-intercepted-by-laser-systems-during-war-1001511661
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkq073ezge#google_vignette
https://ats.org/ats-news/rafael-gears-up-for-iron-beam-launch/
 
Israel invention saves wounded Israeli. Surgeons at Hadassah Medical Center saved a young Israeli whose heart artery was torn by terrorist shrapnel. The surgeons used Israel’s unique HemaShock tourniquet (see here previously) to squeeze his blood just to his vital organs. His heart restarted while surgeons repaired the artery.
https://www.israel21c.org/a-simple-lifesaver-for-hemorrhagic-shock-or-cardiac-arrest/
 
The first Hassidic pre-army academy. Netzah Yehuda, the organization behind the founding of the Haredi Nahal unit, is set to launch a unique pre-military program designed for Chabad Hasidim. The new initiative will combine Torah study and Hasidic philosophy with preparation for meaningful military service.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/05/15/hasidic-movement-launchs-pre-military-academy-for-the-first-time-in-israel/
 
IDF office has Bar Mitzvah in Gaza. Reservists of the Israel Defense Forces’ 8110th “Yoav” Infantry Battalion recently celebrated the bar mitzvah of their commander in Rafah, Gaza. The commander, who had got engaged a few days earlier, had never celebrated his bar mitzvah, so his troops decided to surprise him.
https://www.jns.org/idf-officer-marks-bar-mitzvah-in-rafah-synagogue/
 
Over 1100 new immigrants enlisted. (TY Yanky) During the 2025 Spring recruitment, 1113 new immigrants enlisted in the IDF. It compares to 883 in Spring 2024 and 799 in 2023. Most of the recruits came from the US, Russia and Ethiopia. Over 700 lone soldiers joined the IDF this year – most of them new immigrants.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/they-came-to-serve-the-lone-soldiers-defending-israel-after-oct-7/ 
 
Finland buys Israeli tank protection. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Trophy’s active armored defense system has saved the lives of many Israeli soldiers during the war. Finland’s majority government-owned Patria group will now integrate it onto its vehicles to protect them from anti-tank missiles, UAVs, and other threats.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-finland-to-buy-rafaels-trophy-defense-system-1001510475
 
Expanding defense tech production. Israeli defense giant Elbit Systems has raised $512 million on Nasdaq to help expand its production of military systems. On 31st March, Elbit had a record $23.1 billion backlog of orders. The new cash will be used to establish more infrastructure and invest more in R&D.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-elbit-systems-raises-512m-on-nasdaq-for-production-expansion-1001511132
 
Collapsible drone. (TY Yanky) Flying Production, a subsidiary of Israel’s Elbit Systems, has begun serial production of its new X-Intra combat drone that can carry loads up to 30kg. Stored disassembled, it fits into a padded bag that one soldier can carry, and can be deployed and operational within just two minutes.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ubpzksl3m  https://flying-production.com/
 
 
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
First Israeli artificial heart implantation. A medical team at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center saved the life of a 63-year-old Israeli man with the first-ever implantation in Israel of an artificial heart. The man’s heart was replaced with a unique artificial organ made of titanium, animal-derived tissues and advanced sensors.
https://www.jns.org/medical-breakthrough-in-israel-artificial-heart-implanted-at-hadassah-ein-kerem/
 
Teen MDA trainee saves father’s life. 15-year-old Lana, from Tel Aviv, used skills from her MDA youth training to identify a life-threatening condition in her father’s brain and urged immediate hospital care.  Doctors diagnosed and treated a severe bacterial infection in his brain and said that Lana’s actions had saved his life.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408721
 
Lone soldier saves Massachusetts doctor. Maya Ben Yitzhak, a lone IDF soldier from Chicago, saved the life of a 64-year-old Massachusetts doctor after she donated her bone marrow through Ezer Mizion. Dr. Rothenberg has been battling multiple forms of cancer since she was first diagnosed with the disease in 2014.
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-855688 
 
ECG AI for doctors. Using AI to interpret ECG readings saves time and can find things the doctor might miss. But it’s hard to stop false positives. Scientists at Israel’s Technion have developed a new AI interpretability tool, designed for photographed ECG images, that explains to the doctors the “alerts” and what can be ignored.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-ai-doctor-language-tool-ecg.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-025-01467-8
 
300+ at Medex France. More than 300 doctors and medical students from France, Belgium, and Switzerland attended the MedEx conference in Paris. Since the start of 2024, approximately 650 doctors have made Aliyah, with an additional 130 already arriving in 2025.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-855474

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/29/the-wests-lies-about-israel-are-falling-apart/

So it seems Mohammed Sinwar is dead. The de facto chief of Hamas in Gaza has been ‘eliminated’, says Israel. Yesterday, in a speech marking 600 days of war between the Jewish State and that army of anti-Semites, Benjamin Netanyahu said Sinwar was indeed killed in Israel’s airstrike on the European Hospital in Khan Younis on 13 May. If this is correct, then it is a blistering defeat not only for Hamas but also for the West’s furiously Israelophobic elites. For one of their chief libels against Israel – that it bombs hospitals for sport – may have just taken one hell of a beating.

Mohammed Sinwar was the younger brother of Yahya, who was leader of Hamas in Gaza from 2017 until his assassination by the Israel Defence Forces in October last year. Yahya masterminded the pogrom of 7 October 2023. Mohammed succeeded him following his assassination. Hamas really has been decapitated. The Sinwars are dead. Mohammed Deif, head of the al-Qassam Brigades, was slain in an airstrike in July last year. In that same month, Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political boss, was taken out in a targeted strike on a guesthouse he was staying at in Tehran. This has hands down been the most successful anti-fascist operation of the 21st century so far.

The reported killing of Mohammed Sinwar could prove to be an especially important event. It would have consequences – brilliantly dire ones – both for Hamas and for the West’s army of Israel-haters. It seems he was meeting with his fellow neo-fascists in a bunker under the courtyard of the European Hospital. That’s a hospital that was set up with a grant from the European Union and run by the UN through its local Palestine agency, UNRWA. Let that sink in: a mass murderer of Jews, the leader of a movement that carried out the worst act of anti-Semitic slaughter since the Nazis, found refuge under a facility funded by the globalist outfits that are forever wagging a finger at ‘genocidal’ Israel.

Where the murderous anti-Semite took physical cover in an institution birthed by the EU, he was given moral cover by the anti-Israel activist class. No sooner had Israel bombed the European Hospital than it was being branded a ‘war crime’. Social media were awash with rage against the ‘Zionist monsters’ and their ‘atrocities beyond imagination’. This strike ‘highlights Israeli attacks on [Gaza’s] health system’, said the New York Times. Some believe Israel is ‘aiming to destroy Gaza’s health infrastructure’, it said. Sky News went all out to ‘debunk’ Israel’s claim that it had struck a Hamas cell. In truth, it bombed a hospital where ‘kids with cancer are waiting to be evacuated’. Firing missiles at diseased children – that’s how evil the Jewish State is.

Yet now it seems that what’s really falling apart is not Israel’s insistence that Sinwar was under that hospital, but the incessant cry of ‘LYING ZIONISTS’ from influencers in the West. Within days of the strike, there were reports from Gaza that Sinwar was indeed in a tunnel there. Asharq Al-Awsat, the London-based Arab newspaper, cited ‘sources’ saying Sinwar was killed in the hospital strike and his body was removed by Hamas and ‘temporarily buried’ in another tunnel. Saudi sources said Sinwar was definitely there, along with other ‘top militants’, including Mohammad Shabana, commander of Hamas’s Rafah brigade. He was reportedly killed, too.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21653/israel-subversives

So here we have it: when radical activists are no longer in power, their hatred for conservative governments and their leaders apparently transcends respect for democracy.

Golan’s suspiciously self-serving ruminations, are, of course, pure fantasy, and uttered at great potential cost to Israel’s credibility… “if elections were held today, The Democrats would win 16 [out of 120] Knesset seats…”

Even before the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948, Jews had a long history of trying to establish a state in the land of Israel according to a European template built on believing you can make peace with people whose goal in life is to destroy you. These efforts only gave birth to policies like the Oslo Accords, which turned out to be disastrous for Israel.

The schism, between the peace-wishers and the gimlet-eyed, is nothing new.

Despite its internal and external challenges, modern Israel remains stronger than ever. In 1969, then Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir said, “we have a secret weapon and our secret weapon is: no alternative.” The Jews will triumph over all their enemies – including the foxes in their vineyard. They always have.

When Yair Golan, an IDF reserve Major-General and former member of Israel’s parliament, falsely implies that the nation’s soldiers “kill babies as a hobby” in Gaza, something is serious amiss among Israel’s leaders at this critical time of an existential war.

Golan continued in his May 20 remarks, “[I]t is time to replace this government as soon as possible so that this war can also come to an end.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his cabinet colleagues and even his political opponents, were outraged at Golan’s “blood libel” against the heroic warriors of Israel, who for nearly two years, have been defending their country and sacrificing their lives for it. Nearly 900 Israeli soldiers have been killed so far in the war begun by Hamas on October 7, 2023,

There is little difference between Golan’s blood libel and the one that emanated from the radical, biased United Nations, which on May 21 falsely claimed that Israel was going to starve to death 14,000 Palestinian babies in Gaza in the following 48 hours.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/27/israels-latest-crime-feeding-the-people-of-gaza/

Israel is behaving criminally again. It has once more turned its nose up at ‘humanitarian principles’. It is trampling even harder than usual all over international law. What inhuman act has the pariah state committed now? Brace yourselves: it is seeking to feed the people of Gaza.

This is the news that the Jewish State, in tandem with the US, has launched the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Its aim is to get foodstuffs and other essentials to the benighted people of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. You would think the activist class would be pleased at this news. They’ve been renting their garments for months over an alleged tyranny of famine in Gaza, which they say is the worst case of ‘urban starvation’ since ‘the siege of Leningrad’. Alas, you would be wrong. They hate this initiative. Why? Because Israel is behind it, and in their twisted minds, so addled by Israelophobia, everything Israel does is evil.

The haughty cynicism of the West’s Israel-haters in response to this humanitarian drive has been extraordinary. The foundation started its work yesterday. Truckloads of food were dispatched on day one. Many more are due this week. It is reported that Israel’s aim is to set up four secure distribution sites in central and southern Gaza. Israeli forces, assisted by private military contractors from the US, will oversee the safe provision of food to the neediest Gazans who have fled the fierce fighting in the north of the strip. Israel’s hope is that armed guards will deter Hamas from looting the aid and hawking it on the black market to boost the coffers of its fascistic war against the Jewish nation, as has happened many times in the past 18 months.

Given how dire things are in Gaza, after a year-and-a-half of this infernal war Hamas started, this should be cause for celebration. Gaza’s innocents are as much the victims of Hamas’s fascistic writ as Israelis are. Their dignity, and in many cases their lives, have been sacrificed by Gaza’s autocratic religious regime at the altar of its racist crusade against the Jews’ homeland. These people did not ask for their land to be made into a theatre for Hamas’s demented apocalyptic showdown with the Jews. They need relief, they need food. And yet, far from breathing a sigh of relief that many of them will now receive precisely that, the West’s legion Israelophobes are raging over Israel’s life-saving aid.

Why does this aid initiative feel ‘so problematic’, asks one headline? I can answer that: it’s because the Jewish State is spearheading it.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-wages-of-conspicuous-compassion/

One of the most feckless acts of “compassion” for the victims of a conflict has been the West’s decades-long provision of food, medicines, and other aid to Palestinian Arabs living in the Gaza Strip. These in-kind and cash donations come with an enormous moral hazard.

By now everyone knows that indeed the bulk of such aid is stolen by Hamas terrorists, who sell the goods and use the money to line the pockets of Hamas officials, pay their fighters, reward their “martyrs” killed while slaughtering mostly civilian Israelis, and buy weapons and missiles fired indiscriminately at civilian targets.  These funds are on top of the billions provided by the UN–– nearly $4.5 billion just from 2014 to 2020––and billions more from EU and Muslim nations.

Given that moral hazard, Israel is planning to let the U.S. Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the IDF distribute the aid, removing Hamas and the UN from participating. In a display of their hatred of Israel, the Wall Street Journal reports, “Canada, the U.K. and France threatened Israel on Monday with ‘concrete actions’ unless it halts military operations and facilitates more aid, which ‘must include engaging with the UN’”––which recently spread the blood libel that Israel is preparing to starve to death 14000 babies in Gaza. Hamas sent Turtle Bay and the three “liberal democracies” a note of thanks.

This spectacle of Western nations libeling and browbeating Israelis into financing an enemy sworn to their destruction, and who ruthlessly targets civilians, including children, is another shameful marker of the decline of the West, especially the Europeans who morally preen about their “conspicuous compassion,” as Alan Bloom called such self-serving actions.

But in fact, such displays are morally idiotic camouflage for Europe’s failure of nerve and despicable political hatred of the region’s only free democracy. The “international community” has treated Israel like a pariah for 77 years––especially the UN, which has formally condemned Israel more than all the world’s nations combined.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409027

Although wars are destructive, they are also often unavoidable and even necessary; in addition, they are also sources of new technologies, innovations, and, of course, political changes.

As a result of wars between Britain and the American colonies in 1776 and 1812, for example, the groundwork was laid for a new nation and a new political identity.

Similarly, the Mexican-American War of 1847-1849 was the basis for America’s continental expansion and it reaffirmed its national identity, as well as its economic, military and technological power.

The American Civil War (1861-65) ended the institution of slavery and opened a massive expansion westward with newly-formed states. America became coast-to-coast.

In 1898, when Spain attacked American ships, it led to the Spanish-American War. As a result, the United States conquered the islands of Puerto Rico; the territory has been under U.S. sovereignty ever since. Although not a state, its inhabitants were given US citizenship.

The First and Second World Wars confirmed America’s dominant position. As a result of these wars, the USA became the greatest democracy in the world.

For Israel, and for Hamas/Palestinian Arabs, the war in Gaza is also definitional. It is a way of clarifying who the sides are and what they represent. In that sense, Israel’s war against terrorism, and the war in Gaza are existential.

The nation-state of Israel has been fighting for its survival since its establishment in 1948. It won its War of Independence against five Arab countries in 1949, and against some of them again in 1956, 1967, and 1973. However, because many countries and organizations support Palestinianism and Palestinian Arab terrorist groups, that war and the current war in Gaza continue.

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A “senior official” of the Israel Defense Forces says Israel is on the way to a “decisive victory” in Gaza.

Military plans indicate that in two months Hamas will control only about 30% of Gaza, down from 40% in recent days. [In the current phase,] the IDF is destroying infrastructure both above and below ground.

The IDF assesses that Hamas

is in severe distress both militarily and civilian-wise. It has lost its command chain and is in a deadlock. Cracks are forming in the population’s dependency on the group, and pressure is mounting—but a full breakdown has not yet occurred. That collapse, they believe, may come through intensified military pressure and control over aid delivery.

Some say Israel can’t afford to keep fighting in Gaza because the situation of the twenty-or-so remaining live hostages is too dire, and Israel urgently has to make a deal for their release. The problem is that according to reports from Doha, Hamas—despite its own dismal situation—keeps stonewalling such a deal.

US envoy Steve Witkoff, who has been pushing hard for a deal in Doha, says: “What I have seen from Hamas is disappointing and completely unacceptable.”

Some in the Israeli security establishment have been saying all along that the hostages are so precious to Hamas as leverage over Israel that Hamas will never agree—unless compelled—to give all of them up.

As the above-quoted senior IDF official put it:

“Hamas will not return all the hostages at once—they’ll play a game and always keep some in their hands…. What drives Hamas to a deal is military pressure— that’s what has brought hostages back so far.”

… Asked what a military victory over Hamas would look like, the official outlined the following phases: destruction of Hamas’s military wing, dismantling of its governing capabilities, capture and retention of territory, and control over humanitarian aid while cutting Hamas off from it.

Hamas is in dire financial straits, too—“the worst…in its history, with government employees in Gaza receiving just 900 shekels (approximately $250) a month for the past four months.”