After 36 years of iron-fisted rule, Iran confirmed that 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in US–Israeli attack. Read it at Ynetnews, Times of Israel, New York Times, and Iran International.

“Concerns over the activation of Iran’s sleeper cells in America have increased after a deadly shooting in Austin involving a suspect with alleged ties to Iran and a separate gun attack on an Iranian dissident’s gym in Canada.” Read it at Iran International.

The rockets fell into the Mediterranean Sea before reaching Cyprus, but the intention was there. Read it at Israel National News.

“Irish Jews, a small community of about 2,200, reported 143 incidents between July 2025 and January 2026.” Not surprising considering that Ireland elected Catherine Connolly as president last year. She’s an outspoken Hamas supporter. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

A recent analysis of adults with insomnia, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, found that people prescribed melatonin for more than a year are at greater risk of heart issues. Read it at Circulation.

Of course. Read it at the Times of Israel.

Well, this is what Iran does all the time. Read it at Iran International.

I’d love it if Arab states would now turn their back on their ridiculous policies against Israel and realise that they share a common enemy in Iran. Read it at the Times of Israel.

You’d better walk! Read the study at Nature Human Behaviour.

It’s time for rest and contemplation.

It’s still a few hours to go before Shabbat begins, but I need to zoom out. The news about the Iranian regime’s bombardment of Israel and neighbouring Arab countries is simply too much right now. The ayatollahs must go. Free Iran!

I’m not sure people really care that much about the Oscars nowadays, but there were quite a few really good films lately. Read it at the BBC.

The irony! 🤣 Read it at the Times of Israel.

Wikipedia has a list of journalists killed by Russia here.

It’s Friday afternoon. Yay!!! ✡

Where’s the crowd crying about children being killed? Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

Iran has executed a Swedish-Iranian man identified as Kourosh Keyvani after convicting him of espionage for Israel. Read it at Iran International.

All of it? Read it at the Journal of Affective Disorders.

“Three weeks into the war, the Iranian regime is signaling that it believes it is winning and has the power to impose a settlement on Washington that entrenches Tehran’s dominance of Middle East energy resources for decades to come,” Yaroslav Trofimov of the Wall Street Journal writes.

Let’s prove them wrong.

God hates Texas? Boom! ☄️ Read it at FOX 26 Houston.

This fake news is hilarious—and true. Read it at The Babylon Bee.

The far-left "Palestine" crowd is so predictable. They simply love terrorism, being it Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Cuban dictatorship.

This movement is really, really sick.

It’s Friday afternoon! 🙂

An a new study, scientists explored how space-like conditions affect sperm navigation. Read it at Communications Biology.

Know hope!

Jennifer Murtazashvili in the Washington Post:

“The liberal internationalist left and the isolationist right—two camps that have agreed on almost nothing for decades—have suddenly found themselves in lockstep, racing to declare the war a failure before it had barely begun. This is the new blob: not the old foreign-policy establishment that the term originally described but a new amalgamation that has arrived at the same conclusion from opposite directions. Together they are the most powerful engine of the alt-war.”

The irony is that these racists are blaming Zionism of being racist. It’s a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Read it at the Telegraph.

How does a 21-year-old from Cambridge end up living in a Hezbollah-controlled neighbourhood of Beirut, making pro-Iran propaganda? Read Jay Solomon at the Free Press.