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.
Shots rang out in the Yabna camp in the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city, as troops of the Givati Infantry Brigade closed in on an RPG-wielding Hamas operative who had been spotted just a few hundred meters from Col. Liron Betito’s makeshift command center.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The White House is holding up delivery of a fleet of F-15 jet fighters to Israel.
The $18 billion sale of 50 fighter planes is “one of the largest arms deals with Israel in recent years,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
A United Nations agency has warned that developments in artificial intelligence could spawn a new surge in Holocaust denial.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Israel Defense Forces killed a senior member of Hezbollah’s rocket unit in a drone strike in southern Lebanon Monday morning, as a top Biden administration official was in Jerusalem for meetings with Israeli leaders aimed at preventing further escalation along the northern border.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Lebanese Al Mayadeen network released a nine-minute video on Tuesday showing footage captured of Israel by one of Hezbollah’s new ‘Hoopoe’ drones.
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) penetrated deep into Israeli airspace, capturing detailed footage of the port of Haifa, including sensitive sites such as chemical and oil storage facilities….
Two key Democratic lawmakers have signed off on a major arms sale ale to Israel following pressure from the Biden administration and pro-Israel advocates, according to The Washington Post.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
A senior Israeli negotiator told AFP on Monday that dozens of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are certainly alive and that Israel cannot accept halting the war until all captives are released in a deal.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Released Israeli hostage Amit Soussana on Monday recalled the sexual assault she experienced at the hands of Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip during a White House event marking International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met on Monday with a bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation visiting the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on a trip organized by AIPAC’s American Israel Education Foundation.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Meeting with commanders serving in Rafah on Sunday, IDF Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman said that fighting in the southernmost city in Gaza would continue until Hamas was defeated there.
Read more: The Times of Israel
With Israel on the verge of a third full-blown war against Hezbollah because of the Lebanese organization’s constant firing of deadly missiles, drones and rockets, the differences and similarities between Hezbollah and Hamas are now under the microscope.
Read more: Fox News
Eleven funerals were held across Israel on Sunday for Israel Defense Forces troops who died over the weekend in three separate incidents in fighting in the Gaza Strip.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Amos Hochstein, deputy assistant to the U.S. president and senior adviser for energy and investment, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on Monday as the Biden administration attempts to prevent a wider war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The US has provided Israel with intelligence capabilities never before seen prior to October 7, a senior official told The Washington Post on Friday.
A notable example of such capabilities was Israel’s recent hostage rescue operation, the official said.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Iran has started up new cascades of advanced centrifuges and plans to install others in the coming weeks after facing criticism over its nuclear program, the United Nations’ atomic watchdog said Friday. The U.S. called the moves “nuclear escalations.”
Read more: NBC News
Hezbollah claims responsibility for launching dozens of Katyusha and Falaq rockets at the northern city of Kiryat Shmona and the nearby town of Kfar Szold.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The US Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and China, on the world’s waterways. But instead of a global power, the Navy finds itself locked in combat with a shadowy, Iran-backed rebel group based in Yemen.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The fate of the 120 remaining hostages in Gaza is crucial to any deal to end the protracted and bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas. But a senior Hamas official has told CNN that “no one has an idea” how many of them are alive, and that any deal to release them must include guarantees of a permanent ceasefire and the complete withdrawal of…