Read the Full Transcript of Donald Trump’s Interview on the Gaza Ceasefire With TIME

 https://time.com/7327689/trump-israel-gaza-deal-interview-transcript

You told Netanyahu you will not allow him to annex the West Bank. There are still forces in his coalition who are pressing for it. I'm just wondering what, what are the consequences if they move forward?

It won't happen. It won't happen. It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries. And you can't do that now. We've had great Arab support. It won't happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries. It will not happen. Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened.

Well, Marwan Barghouti is seen by many as the one figure who could unite Palestinians behind a two-state solution. He tops most polls amongst Palestinians for whom they would vote for in a presidential election. But he's in prison, and Israel has refused to let him out. He was arrested in 2002. Ron Lauder, a big support of yours, recently encouraged Israel to let him out. Do you think Israel should release him from prison?

I am literally being confronted with that question about 15 minutes before you called. That was the question. That was my question of the day. So I'll be making a decision. 

Trump is self proclaimed ruler of Isael

 https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-871430

Israel will lose all support from the United States if it decides to annex the West Bank, US President Donald Trump told Time Magazine in an interview published Thursday afternoon. 

"Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened," he said. "It won't happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries."

When asked about the possibility of Marwan Barghouti being a top candidate to lead a Palestinian state, Trump said that it is his "question of the day," and that he'll "be making a decision."

*Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik, The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s Commentary to the Gospels*, ed. Shaul Magid (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

 https://www.academia.edu/41218586/_Elijah_Zvi_Soloveitchik_The_Bible_the_Talmud_and_the_New_Testament_Elijah_Zvi_Soloveitchik_s_Commentary_to_the_Gospels_ed_Shaul_Magid_Philadelphia_University_of_Pennsylvania_Press_2019_

Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s maternal grandfather was Hayyim Volozhin, the disciple of the Vilna Gaon, who founded the great yeshiva in Volozhin. And his brother, Isaac Zev Soloveitchik, was the father of a rabbinical dynasty. That dynasty began with Isaac Zev’s son, Joseph Dov Soloveitchik (the Beit ha-Levi), who was the father of Hayyim Soloveitchik (the Brisker Rav), who was the father of the next Isaac Zev Soloveitchik (Velvele Brisker) and Moses Soloveitchik (a distinguished rabbi who emigrated from Volozhin to Khislavishi to Warsaw to New York, where he taught at Yeshiva University), who was the father of Joseph Dov Baer...

Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s commentary on the New Testament, particularly the Gospels, offers a unique intersection of Jewish and Christian texts. This work emphasizes the importance of Soloveitchik's insights into the relationship between Hasidism and Christianity. The book serves as a comprehensive exploration of Soloveitchik’s writings, contextualizing his interpretations within both Jewish and modern Christian perspectives.

Trump says East Wing being demolished for White House ballroom: ‘We had to take down the existing structure’ - Trump lies again surprised?

 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5568467-trump-white-house-east-wing-ballroom

The entire East Wing of the White House is being demolished to make way for President Trump’s planned massive ballroom.

“In order to do it properly we had to take down the existing structure,” Trump, flanked by renderings of the ballroom, told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. 

Shortly after the project was originally announced in July, the president said that the construction of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom wouldn’t “interfere with the current building.”

“It’ll be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of,” Trump said.

Trump Wants the American People to Pay Him $230 Million

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/opinion/trump-230-million-justice-department.html

 The president’s conflict of interest in this situation is so broad as to have no parallel in American history. One ethics expert called it a “travesty.” Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, called it “head spinning chutzpah.” Even Mr. Trump seemed to acknowledge the bizarre nature of the demand that the government he controls pay him a fortune. “I’m the one that makes the decision, and that decision would have to go across my desk, and it’s awfully strange to make a decision where I’m paying myself,” he said. But no sense of shame seems likely to stop his demand for payback. His promise to give the Treasury cash to charity adds to the outrage, given his record of exploiting philanthropy for personal gain.

‘War on Torah students’: Haredi MKs condemn ‘despicable arrests’ of draft dodgers

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/war-on-torah-students-haredi-mks-condemn-despicable-arrests-of-draft-dodgers/

Ultra-Orthodox activists and lawmakers on Wednesday raged against what they described as a “wave of arrests” by the IDF of yeshiva students who ignored enlistment orders and are evading military service, framing the military’s activities as “religious persecution” aimed at criminalizing Torah scholars.

According to the hardline Jerusalem Faction, the IDF resumed enforcement operations last Friday, raiding a number of homes in Jerusalem, the West Bank community of Adam, Ramat Gan, and Givatayim.

Among those the group listed as arrested was Ariel Rosenzweig, a student at the Neve Eretz Yeshiva who was detained during the seven-day mourning period for his late father. The Jerusalem Faction later announced that Rosenzweig had been released from custody.

United Torah Judaism chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf slammed the arrests, claiming that yeshiva students “have been made into criminals — solely because they are Torah learners, all under the auspices of the government of Israel.”

Trump demands $230 million of taxpayer's money

Grift! Trump plots to pocket $230M from taxpayers over his own ‘Joker’ intel scandal

The return of Hamas: With wave of executions, terror group reasserts control in Gaza

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-return-of-hamas-with-wave-of-executions-terror-group-reasserts-control-in-gaza

“Hamas operatives are on the ground and naturally they’ll rule,” said Salah. He claimed most Gazans don’t want Hamas rule, “but feel there is a vacuum; there is no one to enter and replace them.”

We are heading towards Hamas staying in power

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/416618

The Arab affairs commentator, Zvi Yehezkeli, warns that the Trump administration - together with the mediators in the hostage deal - is about to bring about a situation in which Hamas will remain in power in the Gaza Strip.

"The mediators' working assumption is that you cannot remove Hamas from power. They are assuming that it will simply return rebranded. You can include Hamas in any government and they know how to operate in a 'quiet jihad.' The mediators tell Hamas, 'Give Israel all the bodies and then you will see Gaza's rehabilitation and your return to power. You will benefit from it'," explains Yehezkeli.

Blood test 95% accurate in spotting suicide risk in bipolar patients, says Israeli scientist

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/blood-test-95-accurate-in-spotting-suicide-risk-in-bipolar-patients-says-israeli-scientist

A researcher from the University of Haifa says that she has developed a new method to predict a high suicide risk among patients with bipolar disorder through a simple blood test.

Prof. Shani Stern of Haifa’s Sagol Department of Neurobiology, who worked on the study with researchers from Canada and Italy, said the team developed an artificial-intelligence algorithm based on genetic changes in the white blood cells of patients with bipolar disorder.

The groundbreaking study, published in the peer-reviewed Translational Psychiatry, achieved more than 95% accuracy.

Republican nominee’s ally draws outrage with remarks about Jews, gay marriage

 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/21/ciattarelli-new-jersey-jewish-lgbtq-00617399

Jack Ciattarelli affirmed his support of same-sex marriage and the Jewish community, but did not condemn the comments.

An unpaid adviser to the Republican nominee for governor of New Jersey advocated for a ban on same-sex marriage and insisted he personally isn’t “taking money from Jews.”

Ibrar Nadeem, the Muslim relations adviser to Jack Ciattarelli, hosted an event Saturday where he delivered a wide-ranging, 20-minute speech that included a call to ban same-sex marriage. Toward the end of his remarks, Nadeem, who is Muslim, said that people in his community accuse him of “taking money from Jews,” to which he replied: “I check my bank account every day, brother, it is not there.”

Ciattarelli has sought to garner support among the Jewish community throughout the race, including by visiting Israel. The Vaad — an influential group of leaders of the Orthodox Jewish community in Lakewood and nearby towns that backed Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in 2021 — is reportedly poised to endorse Ciattarelli.

Trump says he ‘could be’ seeking $230 million from his own Justice Department

 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/21/politics/justice-department-trump-compensenation

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he “could be” seeking $230 million from his own Justice Department as compensation for past investigations into him, though he professed to have little knowledge of the specifics and said he would give the money to charity.

“With the country, it’s interesting, because I’m the one that makes the decision,” Trump said Tuesday.

“It’s awfully strange to make a decision where I’m paying myself. In other words, did you ever have one of those cases where you have to decide how much you’re paying yourself in damages?” he said.

A settlement to Trump would come from taxpayer funds.

Asked to confirm the $230 million amount, a spokesperson for Trump’s outside legal team said only that “President Trump continues to fight back against all Democrat-led Witch Hunts, including the ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ hoax and the un-Constitutional and un-American weaponization of our justice system by Crooked Joe Biden and his handlers.”

The return of Hamas: With wave of executions, terror group reasserts control in Gaza

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-return-of-hamas-with-wave-of-executions-terror-group-reasserts-control-in-gaza

Hamas does not announce these actions on its official social media accounts. But every few days since the ceasefire began and the Israel Defense Forces partially withdrew, Telegram channels linked to Hamas have been publishing footage showing violence against Gaza residents — people being shot in the legs or hit with stone blocks in ostensible punishment for alleged crimes including stealing aid, using drugs and collaborating with Israel.

At least two public incidents of multiple executions were filmed on October 13 and subsequently acknowledged by Hamas-affiliated media. The footage provoked an uproar online and increasing anger from US President Donald Trump, who is adamant that Hamas must and will disarm. It was also followed by a warning from the US State Department that Hamas was planning further attacks against the people of Gaza, and that these attacks would constitute “a direct and grave violation of the ceasefire agreement.”