The truth is a powerful weapon, but it is hard to find in a world where we are inundated with agenda-driven reporting. The CUFI Daily Briefing will help you understand current events so you can become a confident defender of Israel.
Sign up to receive our daily email news roundup – so you can fight the lies with truth.
A British couple detained in Iran since January 2025 have been sentenced to 10 years in jail for espionage, their family announced on Thursday, prompting condemnation from the UK government.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Israel Defense Forces struck Hezbollah terror infrastructure sites across Southern Lebanon overnight Wednesday, targeting weapons storage facilities, missile launchers and military installations being used to plan attacks against Israel, according to the military.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and the Israel Airports Authority refuted conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson’s claim that he received “bizarre” treatment at the hands of Israeli security during his recent visit to the Jewish state.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Iran on Thursday repeated its assertion that no country can “deprive” it of its “right” to nuclear enrichment, as US President Donald Trump continued to send US military assets into the Middle East in what a report called the biggest build-up of American air power in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Read more: The Time of Israel
The European Council, the European Union’s chief decision-making body, on Thursday formalized its decision to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Iranians shouted slogans against the leader of the Islamic Republic on Tuesday as they gathered to commemorate protesters killed in a crackdown on nationwide demonstrations that rights groups said left thousands dead, according to videos verified by AFP.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Conservative media personality Tucker Carlson visited Israel briefly on Wednesday for a filmed sit-down with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, focused on claims about the treatment of Christians in Israel and the wider region, sources told The Jerusalem Post.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
HispanTV, an Iranian Spanish-language news channel, spreads antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories and glorifies terrorism, according to a report from the Anti-Defamation League released on Tuesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
A new survey released on Feb. 17 finds that a significant share of Jewish college students in the United States report encountering antisemitism on campus, with many altering how they express their Jewish identity as a result.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
An Israeli soldier was killed in the southern Gaza Strip overnight Tuesday, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Staff Sgt. Ofri Yafe, 21, from HaYogev, a moshav in northern Israel, served in the Paratroopers Reconnaissance Unit.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Lebanese military will need at least four months to carry out the second phase of its plan to disarm the Hezbollah terrorist group and other non-state actors in the country’s south, Beirut said on Monday, according to AFP.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The U.S. Department of Justice said last week that it is investigating alleged discrimination against Jewish students at Lincoln Memorial University, a private school in Harrogate, Tenn.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli Minister of Culture and Sports Miki Zohar urged the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday to censure Switzerland’s Broadcasting Corporation after one of its commentators accused an Israeli athlete of supporting “genocide.”
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened the US military, saying that the “strongest military force may be struck so hard that it cannot get up again,” in a post on X/Twitter on Tuesday.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Iran and the United States held a second round of talks over Iran’s nuclear program in Geneva on Tuesday, with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying afterward that an understanding had been reached on the main “guiding principles” but work still needed to be done.
Read more: The Times of Israel
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stressed on Sunday the challenge in negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran due to the “pure theology” that drives its decision-making.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The online publishing platform Substack profited from subscription-based newsletters that spread Nazi propaganda, white supremacy, and antisemitism, according to an investigation published by The Guardian.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with Rafael Grossi, head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, in Geneva on Monday, ahead of a second round of indirect nuclear talks there with the United States on Tuesday.
Read more: The Times of Israel