Ynet Source from Tehran Killed by Security Forces - Zeev Avrahami (Ynet News)
    I asked an Iranian exile friend to connect me with activists inside Tehran who could tell us about life in Iran. We've spoken to Azita ten times.
    I asked her why she agreed to speak to someone from "the Little Satan."
    She said, "I want the world to know about the other Iranians. We want people to know what we're going through. We don't want the world to say it didn't know."
    We spoke a lot during the summer war. "What kind of crazy reality is this," she said, "when war gives us hope - when the planes bombing overhead make us feel more alive?"
    Her greatest fear was betrayal by the West - its unwillingness to join their fight against the tyrants ruling their lives.
    She told me how more and more people were joining the resistance, how music was being played in the streets, how women were walking without hijabs.
    She described an unbearable economic reality, a daily struggle to afford life's basic necessities and a total lack of faith in a regime that had failed to protect its people - even its top commanders and scientists - from Israeli strikes.
    And yet, she was full of hope. The despair had vanished. "We've lost our fear of death," she told me.
    On Tuesday I received the news. Security forces had shot her dead in the street.
    See also Iranian Demonstrators Call for International Support - Azita in Tehran (Ynet News)

Iranians Appeal to Israel and America - Alex Winston (Jerusalem Post)
    For nearly half a century, the Islamic Republic has taught Iranians that Israel and the U.S. were the source of their suffering.
    "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" were pillars of the regime.
    But the voices of ordinary Iranians and the language of the regime are two different things. As the protests sweeping Iran have moved into their third week, that entire worldview is collapsing in real time.
    Across Iran, protesters are holding handwritten signs addressing Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump. Streets are being renamed after Trump.
    Video messages circulate on social media appealing directly to Israel and the U.S. for help.
    This is a political verdict by the Iranian people, who are appealing to those they believe actually have power and the will to use it.
    When Iranians are beaten, imprisoned, and brutally murdered in the streets, they look to the two actors the regime itself fears most.

Iran's Murderous Regime Is Irredeemable - Editorial (New York Times)
    The Iranians demonstrating against their government are displaying awe-inspiring bravery.
    They deserve the admiration of everybody who believes in democracy, freedom and equality under the law.
    How to help them achieve liberty is a harder problem.
    Before the 1979 revolution, Iran had per capita incomes above the global average. Today, Iran's per capita income is less than half the global average - falling behind that of Guatemala, Iraq, Kosovo, Libya, and South Africa.
    The Khamenei regime is too depraved to be reformed. It has had plenty of chances to choose a different path. The ayatollahs have shown themselves to be beyond rehabilitation.
    The protest movement represents the best hope for an Iran that does less damage in the world and better serves its own people.

The Iranian People Deserve Regime Change - Editorial (Telegraph-UK)
    The violence targeted at protesters in Iran is shocking in its scale and depravity.
    The regime's forces are firing live ammunition into crowds of protesters; bodies recovered by families show that some were shot at close range from behind.
    The brutal repression of the current protests follows a long and bloody trail left by the ayatollahs over decades.
    The only way to bring this to an end is for the regime in Tehran to be toppled.
    There is no appetite in the West to put boots on Iranian ground, but there is also no need to.
    The people who have suffered for too long clearly want an end to the repression and violence of the Islamic Republic.
    The task of regime change here is one of freeing the population to choose for themselves.

IDF Enlists Older Immigrant Volunteers in Reserve Units (Jerusalem Post)
    The IDF has announced a national initiative aimed at integrating skilled immigrants into the military reserves who arrived in Israel at an older age and were previously unable to enlist through standard tracks.
    The program allows eligible immigrants aged 26 and older to complete a condensed, two-week basic training course before being assigned to active reserve units in roles aligned with their professional and academic backgrounds.
    Placements include positions in the Medical Corps for doctors and paramedics; technology and maintenance roles for technicians and engineers; Home Front Command positions focused on engineering, hazardous materials management, and community resilience; and logistics and transport roles such as drivers and crane operators.
    The program is open to immigrants with a basic command of Hebrew and requires a commitment to active reserve service of five years, subject to operational needs.
    Reserve duty is compensated through the National Insurance Institute.

Women Serving in IDF Combat Roles at Record High - Yossi Yehoshua (Ynet News)
    8,500 women served in IDF combat roles in 2025 - more than double the number in 2020.
    5,000 women enlisted as combat soldiers over the past year, a tenfold increase compared with a decade ago.
    One-fifth of combat forces are women, and there are currently six female combat battalion commanders.
    Since the start of the war, 65,000 women have served in the reserves, compared with 7,000 during the 2014 conflict.
    Women are now integrated in border defense, combat intelligence, infantry frameworks, and mixed-gender units.
    Women who previously performed national civilian service in place of IDF service have begun volunteering for reserve duty.
    After completing abbreviated basic training, they are assigned to roles aligned with their civilian expertise, primarily in medicine, logistics, casualty services, resilience centers, and the military legal system.

Is America Still Good for the Jews? - Stephen Daisley (Jewish Chronicle-UK)
    Just ten or twenty years ago, the U.S. was the most philosemitic nation on Earth with the exception of Israel.
    The Constitution guaranteed religious pluralism and the culture was one in which Jews flourished in every conceivable profession and civic field.
    Support for Israel was firmly bipartisan. By the dawn of the 21st century, antisemitism had been all but expelled from the mainstream.
    A nation founded on liberalism and Protestant ethics is one primed to feel not just sympathy but solidarity with God's chosen people.
    Jews found a home in America because it was their God who built the house. The Jews cannot be written out of America's story because their tradition is its co-author.

The Nazi War Criminal the Arab World Protected - Ariel Bulshtein (Israel Hayom)
    Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia provided a stage for the lethal operations of Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, Jerusalem's Grand Mufti.
    Throughout the 1920s and 1930s he had orchestrated anti-Jewish pogroms in the Land of Israel, and during World War II, he managed German propaganda to the Muslim world and developed strategies to mobilize Muslim minorities across the Soviet Union and the Balkans for the Third Reich.
    In Yugoslavia he helped raise three Waffen-SS divisions composed entirely of local Muslims from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
    These units perpetrated horrific war crimes - massacring Serbs and Jews, incinerating entire villages with their inhabitants still inside, carrying out systematic rape, torture, and pillage.
    When the war concluded in 1945, Yugoslavia's liberated government moved to investigate the Mufti's role in Nazi atrocities, formally listing him as a war criminal and petitioning a UN special committee for his extradition.
    Al-Husseini's allies throughout the Arab world unleashed tremendous pressure and threats that forced Yugoslav authorities to retreat from extradition demands.