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It is Tuesday, Nissan 5782, on Edge,
March 31st, 2026, and it's Erev Bedikas
Chametz. My name is Gershon Schwartz,
and I'm your host on Edge.
On Edge. Your daily report of the news
of the last 24 hours, powered by Yiddish
24, provided to you by The Click.
The assassin's bullet doesn't match the
rifle in Charlie Kirk's murder. An
American journalist was just kidnapped
by Hezbollah terrorists in Iraq,
Baghdad. Besides that, Trump is positive
the war is coming to an end. Israeli
Defense Minister Israel Katz just
ordered that all houses on the border of
Lebanon and Israel shall be destroyed.
And defeated Iran can't even beat the US
Army, so they're coming for your Apple
and Tesla instead. Also, I do know that
some of you have asked if there are some
updates with the Nancy Guthrie's
kidnapping case, and of course, the war
in Pakistan and Afghanistan, some of you
asked. So, wait until the very end, and
I will give you some interesting updates
on those. Now,
as the war enters its second month, the
United States and Israel carried out
massive bombings
um
across Iran last night. American and
Israeli fighter jets worked together
very hard to drop heavy 2,000-lb bunker
buster bombs on the city of Isfahan last
night. They did it with a B-2 bombers,
right? They hit an Iranian nuclear site
and an underground missile base causing
huge explosions that destroyed munitions
and weapons, and it caused huge fires
that people saw that on satellite images
it could be seen from space. Now, if you
know the magnificent uh if you if you
know the magnitude of that, you
understand what that looks like. Israel
also bombed military targets right
inside the capital of of the city of
Tehran. Now,
capital city of Tehran, sorry. The
Israeli strikes were so heavy that they
knocked out the power in several
neighborhoods. They also now just struck
a massive steel plant in Iran as well.
Secretary of War Pete Hexeth gave a
major update from the Pentagon this
morning at 8:00 a.m. He said the
military has bombed more than 11,000
Iranian targets in the last 30 days.
Now, he confirmed that the American
military carried out 200 sudden strikes
last night alone, destroying another
major command bunker. Hexeth described a
very harsh reality for Iranian leaders.
He said they are forced to run away with
no water, no power, and no oxygen. He
then added that they no longer feel safe
hiding in their underground caves. He
gave a strong warning saying, "President
Trump means what he says, and he does
not back down. You can ask Khamenei
about that."
Where is he now? Even with these heavy
attacks, Iran quickly struck back in
several areas. Iranian Iranian drones
hit a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker.
They also fired cluster bombs, those
bombs that uh break apart midair into
central Israel. Six people were injured,
sadly. They say eight, including a
mother and her two children, well,
lightly, they say. It has been a very
busy and dangerous night in northern
Israel, too, from Hezbollah's side.
Hezbollah fired over uh over 40 rockets
and drones into the area, into the north
north Israel. Three men were lightly
injured by the blasts, including a
6-year-old child who was hurt by
shattered window glass.
Now, let's talk about your matzos. I
know it's erev Pesach now. Erev bedikas
chametz
in an hour or two you're going to do
bedikas chametz, depending where you are
in the world, in America at least I know
this is an hour or two. Now, here is my
suggestion to you. You can still run
into your local grocery right before Yom
Tov and get yourself matzos if they are
still available. Throughout Yom Tov
Pesach, Montreal matzah is the best Now,
you should remember this for next year.
Montreal matzah is the best most
healthiest matzah out there. They have
regular matzos, obviously. They have
extra thin matzos, those light matzos,
easy to digest. They have also spelt
matzos, a line of whole wheat, and a
line of oat matzos for those with
celiac. Now, delicious matzos, okay? You
can They have pop-up shops every single
year. This time it was in 4320 14th
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Still pop
by, get yourself some matzah, and have
yourself a wonderful Yom Tov with
matzah. President Donald J. Trump just
gave Iran a 1-week deadline to reach a
ceasefire deal. If you remember,
Thursday gave them 5 days, then 10 days,
and now a week. Maybe
when a week is over,
he will extend it again. I'm only
kidding. Anyway, but if they refuse, he
is threatening to completely destroy
their power plants and water
desalination plants. Those facilities,
the water desalination plants, that
remove salt from ocean water to make it
drinkable. Again, President Trump is now
publicly threatening to deploy US ground
troops to physically seize Kharg Island,
the beating heart of Iran's oil
industry. As you know already, we
reported yesterday that they already
stationed over 50,000 troops, or they
have a plan to have a ground operation.
The war is expanding into new areas. New
areas. The American Embassy in Saudi
Arabia is ordering all Americans to stay
safely inside. This comes after an
Iranian commander claimed Iran fired
missiles and drones at a base housing
American pilots in Saudi Arabia. Iran's
foreign foreign minister Abbas Araqchi
said "Tehran is fully prepared for a
ground operation, a ground war with
American troops." He also denied that
actual peace talks are
going to happen. He said the last time
he spoke to Steve Whitcomb was before
the war started. Now, Iran's terror
army, the IRGC, is threatening to attack
major American businesses targeting
starting tomorrow,
April Fool's Day.
They specifically threatened companies
like Apple, Google, Boeing, and Tesla.
The White House responded very quickly
saying "It's April Fool's Day, so that
doesn't mean anything." I'm kidding.
Saying that the American military is
fully prepared to defend these
companies.
The American soldiers are highly
motivated. Secretary of War Pete Hexeth
just returned from a secret trip over
the weekend to visit his troops near the
Middle East. He said "Their spirits are
the highest he's ever seen." When he
asked the young soldier
and young pilots what they needed,
nobody asked to be sent home. Instead,
they told him "Sir,
let's finish the mission.
We're ready for more. Get us more bombs,
bigger bombs, more targets, and let us
finish this." This matches new orders
from Pete Hegseth. He recently declared
that enemies would receive no quarter.
That is a term, a military term, meaning
no prisoners will be taken and
absolutely no mercy will be shown.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said today that the trillion
dollars Iran spent trying to destroy
America and Israel has been completely
wasted. He added that while Iran can
still fire missiles, they no longer
threaten the existence of Israel.
Netanyahu also promised to reveal new
alliances against Iran very soon.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir
Putin just spoke with the President of
the United Arab Emirates. Putin told him
that he is seriously concerned about the
ongoing war.
Meanwhile, the President of Syria is
traveling for official visits across
Europe right now. Ahmad al-Shara,
you know, the guy that used to be an
ISIS and Al-Qaeda terrorist and now he
is the President of Syria, supposedly
taking Syria back and making it more
diplomatic, traveled to London
and met with British Prime Minister Keir
Starmer in 10 Downing Street. What is
very interesting is that the United
Kingdom is meeting with Syria right
after President Trump publicly
threatened to drop America's partnership
with the UK. In fact,
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth strongly
criticized European countries today for
refusing to help the United States. For
instance, Spain and France. He pointed
out that America is fighting the war to
protect the free world. He said America
is destroying missiles that threaten
Europe, those very countries, Spain and
France. But he noted that when America
asks these friendly countries to simply
let American jets fly through their sky,
they refused to let them pass. Hegseth
warned that you do not have much of a
partnership if countries refuse to stand
with you when you actually need them.
And Marco Rubio said the same thing that
their NATO alliances and, you know,
contracts will be have have to be
reviewed. And especially Trump posted on
Truth Social very angrily against France
and Spain. He mentions France saying
that
"This will be remembered." he said.
"These Iranian leaders are deranged
scumbags." he said. "They've been
killing innocent people all over the
world for 47 years and now I, as the
47th president, ironically, of the
United States of America, I'm killing
them. What a great honor it is to do
so." he says. We now have the staggering
total numbers of the damage done to
Iran's military over the last month.
First,
just a note that they've only fired
three ballistic missiles so far today.
Well, it went down. The numbers keep on
going down. So, it looks like they are
they their stockpile is going down and
down and down. First, the top leadership
has been almost completely wiped out.
This includes the supreme leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the top
commander of the IRGC Navy,
um the Commodore Alizera Alireza
Tangerina I called him last time, and
several other top generals like Ali
Larajani,
and other ones. As for the troops on the
ground, more than 6,000 Iranian military
personnel have been killed. Another 15,
some people say 20, have been severely
wounded. As for the weapons and bases,
the United States and Israel have
destroyed more than 11,000 military
targets.
Now, listen to this. More than 190
ballistic missile launchers have been
completely wiped out and Iran's air
defense system is now completely
shattered. Finally, the Iranian Navy is
devastated.
American forces have destroyed over 150
Iranian naval ships. This includes
sinking their major warships, which we
heard about, they torpedoed one of their
ships, remember? It hasn't happened
since World War
and the massive drone launching ship as
well.
New photos show the massive damage from
the recent American and Israeli strikes
into Iran. Almost a dozen airplanes were
destroyed right on the runway at the at
the Mehrabad Airport. The Israeli
military says that in the coming days
they will finish completely destroying
Iran's weapon factories. They said,
"These are the exact factories that
build the weapons used against Israel,
Gaza, and Lebanon."
Now, to keep the pressure on, the
American military is moving more ships
into the area. The USS George H.W. Bush
aircraft carrier just left Virginia. It
is sailing to the Middle East to replace
another aircraft carrier that was
damaged earlier in the fighting.
China and Pakistan officially just
announced a joint five-point proposal to
end the war. Pakistan is acting as the
mediator to try and broker peace between
Washington and Tehran. Well, it's
basically saying, "We want you to stop
fighting,
and we want you to allow the Strait of
Hormuz to be safely reopened again, and
we want you to come to agreements, and
to make an agreement." So, this is it's
separated somehow in five points. Well,
good luck to that. Now, in Lebanon, four
more Israeli soldiers Hashem Yimkach
Damam were killed in a battle in
southern Lebanon. Two other soldiers
were wounded. The Israeli army is
pushing deeper into the area where
Hezbollah is fighting
the ground invasion. These soldiers were
part of a special forces unit that that
scouts the area ahead of the main army.
Very, very sad.
Yesterday morning the Israeli Air Force
struck an apartment on the Dahiya
neighborhood in Beirut.
Now, they killed, obviously,
major generals in the IRGC
and Hezbollah members. The strike left
one person dead and 17 others wounded,
but more importantly, it eliminated
three Islamic terrorists. One of the
dead is Hamza Ibrahim al-Rakin as his
name. He was the deputy commander of the
1800 unit, 1800 for Hezbollah. Rakin was
the main middleman between the terror
group and the Palestinian terrorists
organizations like Hamas. He coordinated
the attacks across Lebanon, Gaza, Syria,
and the West Bank.
Another top Iranian aerospace officer,
Sayyid Ali Tavasoli, has also just been
eliminated. He was a senior commander in
the IRGC Aerospace Force. This is the
specific branch of the Iranian terror
army that builds, tests, and fires all
of Iran's ballistic missiles and
kamikaze drones. Yeah, taking him out is
a massive blow to their ability to
launch air strikes. Now, remember
yesterday I mentioned the elite Israeli
ski unit? You remember that? Okay. So,
So, high up in the frozen mountains on
the Lebanon-Syria border, they just
launched their first Alpine mission.
Dressed in all white winter gear to
camouflage perfectly in in the deep
snow, they are operating in the freezing
cold. Their mission is to hunt down
Iranian back terrorists, Hezbollah, and
destroy the infrastructure in the
hardest and the harshest winter
conditions in Israel. The military is
also stopping undercover attacks on the
ground. On Sunday night, Israeli forces
intercepted a terror cell in southern
Lebanon. The terrorists were disguised
as paramedics, Hezbollah terrorists, and
were using an ambulance to hide and
transport weapons. Israel is now
officially setting up a new 30-km buffer
zone inside Lebanon to stop terrorists
from ever returning to the border again.
As the war escalates, the United Nations
is heavily condemning
Well, that's what they're good at doing,
Israel, after three Indonesian UN
peacekeepers died. Three
so far in two separate explosions in
southern Lebanon. Evidence shows these
peacekeepers were actually killed in
logistics convoy explosion caused by the
ongoing combat environment
through Hezbollah, not targeted Israeli
air strikes. And also today, Israeli
parliament just passed a new law
bringing the death penalty for
Palestinian terrorists convicted of
murdering Yidden.
Breaking news just now just came in.
Like I said in the beginning, I I
mentioned it, but I I'm bringing it in
now to you. There is a very concerning
video coming out of Iraq today.
The photo shows an American journalist
named Shelly Kittelson being kidnapped
on the streets of central Baghdad. She
is a well-known reporter who writes for
the American news outlets. Iraqi police
actually chased the kidnappers' getaway
car until it flipped over and then
arrested one suspect. However, Kittelson
is still missing. And Marco Rubio says
officials believe an Iranian-backed
terror group, Hezbollah, is responsible
for taking her. The State Department is
coordinating with the FBI to secure her
release. And all Americans are now urged
to leave Iraq immediately. The country
remains at level four travel advisory.
The war
and the blocked ocean trade routes are
still hurting the global markets, the
global economy. With oil prices staying
at very, very high, we are seeing major
problems around the world today in terms
of finance. Over in France, police
investigated a stopped bomb attack, like
we spoke spoke about yesterday or two
days ago. A bomb plot outside Bank of
America
Bank of America's building in Paris, the
headquarters. They believe Iran is
connected to the terror plot in uh in I
think it's Myanmar Myanmar, the fuel
supply is running so low that drivers
are waiting in lines for hours. And
Kuwait had to issue an oil spill
warning. This comes right after the
firefighters put out a fire from the
Iranian drone attack that I reported
before on the giant Kuwaiti oil tanker.
Despite all the chaos from the war,
there is some very good news for
American economy today. The United
States stock market had a massive rally,
gaining roughly a trillion dollars in
value in a single day. Financial experts
say investors are feeling very hopeful
right now. They are hoping that the
President Trump's new one-week ceasefire
deadline might actually push Iran into
sign a peace deal and end the fighting.
As well, Trump just said that he is
going to be out of there in two to three
weeks. That's what he just said.
Meanwhile,
there was massive major no kings
protests in the US as well. Trump said,
"Well, I might have a lot of powers, but
I'm definitely no king, he said.
Meanwhile,
um he said also that regime change is
not a goal of this operation, and he
says that, yeah, that's what he says.
But in the meantime, I I guess they're
not looking for that, but it looks like
the regime has changed by force anyway.
Meanwhile, back in the US, wait times at
American airports finally dropped from
hours down to minutes at today, which is
a good thing cuz a lot of people are
traveling for Pesach. President Trump
gave TSA security
workers an emergency double paycheck
specifically to end the weeks of travel
chaos, even though the border the
broader government shutdown is still
happening. But President Trump is trying
to end the government shutdown of the
Homeland Security Department. We know we
all know we we all now know that we have
a new Homeland Security uh secretary,
Mark Wayne Mullen. He is considering
calling Congress back from their 2-week
vacation. They're on vacation right now
for a rare special session to force a
deal. Now, Florida like such nice the
government shutdown, and they're on
vacation.
Unbelievable. Florida is officially
renaming a major airport after President
Donald J. Trump.
Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new bill
renaming the Palm Beach International
Airport to President Donald J. Trump
International Airport starting July 1st.
Well, this didn't this didn't end there.
Just hours later, President Trump shared
plans for a new presidential library and
museum in Miami. He's definitely leaving
a lot of legacy after himself. He posted
an AI-generated video on Truth Social
saying the project is coming very soon.
The library will be a 50-story high-rise
building featuring a ball room, a golden
statue, and the Air Force One housed
entirely inside the skyscraper.
You'll remember the terrible day last
September when conservative
commentator Charlie Kirk was
assassinated in Utah Valley University
with one bullet, one bullet.
Police caught Tyler Robinson, the man
accused the man allegedly believed to be
pulling the trigger from 200 yards away
with one bullet took his life away.
Well, in a massive new development
today, Robinson's lawyers filed court
papers saying the the fatal bullet does
not actually match Robinson's file. A
new report from federal weapons experts
say the test was inconclusive. They
could not prove that the bullet fragment
found during the autopsy came from the
gun dropped at the scene.
Because of this mismatch, the FBI is now
being forced to run emergency retests.
Robinson's defense team is also claiming
that the DNA found at the gun actually
belongs to multiple different people,
not just him. Because of this new
bombshell,
his lawyers are now asking the judge to
delay his court hearing.
They also are fighting to ban all TV
cameras from the courtroom when he
returns to court on April 17th. However,
prosecutors
do say that they are not backing down
and will still seek the death penalty.
They claim they have Robinson's DNA
directly on the gun's trigger.
They also say
they have text messages where Robinson
told his partner he targeted Kirk
because he, quote, had enough of this
hatred.
Well, there you have it. The FBI is
reopening a 10-year-old case about a
Chinese spy who targeted Democratic
Representative Eric Swalwell, who's
running right now for midterm elections.
FBI Director Kash Patel wants to release
an old investigation the old
investigation files on the congressman
who is currently running for governor of
California. The files involve a person
who officials believe was a Chinese spy
who reportedly managed to gain his trust
and steal US secrets. Swalwell's legal
team sent a cease and desist letter to
Patel to try and stop the files from
going public and ruining, obviously, his
campaign. In Washington, Representatives
Rashida Tlaib, a known Hamas sympathizer
and a terrorist supporter, is trying to
stop America from helping Israel. She
introduced a resolution to block
American support for the Israeli
military operations specifically in
Lebanon.
Here are two quick political updates
today for you. Federal investigators are
looking into whether New York City
Councilwoman Farah Louis and her sister
took bribes from a company that runs
migrant shelters. And in California, in
separate story, a major police
investigation into voting ballots was
just stopped. A local sheriff was
investigating votes now for the midterm
elections for proposition 50. But he had
to pause the investigation after the
state's top lawyer stepped in.
Now, I don't know if I mentioned this
last week, but I remember the heavy
Do you remember the heavy bombings that
happened? There were There was massive
There was a massive miracle in Bnei
Brak. Do you remember the
Iran fired ballistic missiles and one
the shrapnel landed in Bnei Brak. Now, a
massive piece of Iron Dome intercepted
missile fell straight into a street just
as children had gone back outside to
play. Miraculously, no injuries were
reported. They had much nizam, these
kids.
At the end of the day, they actually
dragged this piece of missile to a one
of their playgrounds and made the whole
thing out of it. In other news, a
13-year-old girl in Melbourne, Australia
is charged with 52 crimes charges of
crimes after a multi-day rampage
targeting Yidden last week. Police say
the teenager and two other girls drove a
stolen black Hyundai
Hyundai sedan through local
neighborhoods Jewish neighborhoods. They
threw eggs and shouted anti-Semitic
remarks at Jews Yidden on the street.
Things escalated on Shabbos Hagadol when
the 13-year-old swerved the stolen car
directly toward a group of Yidden on the
on the sidewalk. Families barely got out
of the way in time to avoid
severe severe severely being hit. Also
in Australia, the family of Zomi
Frankom, an aid worker killed in Gaza 2
years ago, is demanding the audio
recording of the of the IDF strike.
Well, the Israeli ambassador from
Australia, Hillal Newman, told the
family that the audio is strictly in the
IDF's hands. He cannot hand it to them.
Australia's most wanted criminal is
dead. Now, I don't know if you know the
story, police in Victoria shot and
killed Desi Freeman in a heavy gunfight.
He was wanted for murdering two police
officers last year. For 7 months, he
survived off off the grid in a secret
camp until police found him hiding in an
abandoned shipping container. President
Trump is allowing a sanctioned Russian
oil tanker to live to deliver oil to
Cuba. The United States actually has
strict a strict blockade on Cuba banning
normal trade, which is why Russian oil
delivery is a big deal right now. But,
the White House officially gave the ship
permission to go ahead for humanitarian
survival.
You know the country's falling apart.
And finally today, NASA has officially
started the countdown for humanity's
first launch to the moon in 53 years to
be accurate. Now, the Artemis the
Artemis 2 mission will fly astronauts
around the moon starting well well,
tomorrow, April 1st. The launch will
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between Pakistan and Afghanistan right
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for you, sorry. The two countries are
basically in an open border war. It
started last month when Pakistan bombed
targets inside Afghanistan claiming they
were going after terrorists. The Afghan
Taliban immediately fought back and
attacked Pakistani bases. As of today,
all peace attempts and ceasefires have
completely failed. The two sides are
firing heavy artillery at each other
right across the border. The fighting is
so bad that over 115,000
people have been forced to evacuate.
Run away from their homes. China is
currently helping or stepping in to try
and help negotiate peace there.
Good luck to them, too. Finally, today
we have a very short update on the Nancy
Guthrie case as well. As you know, the
84-year-old
um
mother of TV news anchor Savannah
Guthrie was violently kidnapped from her
home in Arizona 2 months ago.
As of today, she is sadly still missing.
A former police boss in the area just
released a grim new theory. He believes
Nancy may have tragically passed away
from her medical issues while the
kidnappers were trying to hide her in
Mexico. He says this would explain why
the kidnappers suddenly stopped asking
the family for ransom money. Meanwhile,
the local police department handling the
investigation is facing a massive
crisis. There are major accusations that
the police corrupted and messed up the
original crime scene. To make matters
even worse, one of their own police
officers was just arrested on a totally
separate kidnapping charge.
Unbelievable. Anyway, Rabbi side,
have yourselves a wonderful kosher and
freilichen Pesach.
And Hashem should help you as Hashem
should help us we should all see each
other as Hashem should help us we should
all have a good from here we remain
we should see if it's a zman
and uh yeah, there's some great news.
Actually, I just uh I want to mention
something great that happened. I think
that's that's a sign Mashiach is
definitely coming.
Something major happened yesterday in
the oilam ha chassidus.
The Satmar Rebbes both signed an
agreement, so to speak, to the yerusha,
which is an amazing step forward.
Um obviously achdus in Klal Yisrael,
which we need. We need this. Hashem
ya'azor Yishmael Yatzel l'chol chayei
bnei Yisrael. Daven for all of them.
Pray for our brothers and sisters in
Eretz Yisrael right now in this time of
war. It should end swiftly with the
Eliyahu HaNavi coming and being mevasser
the besura of the geulah. And Mashiach
should be here with us and take us all
to Yerushalayim and Hakadosh Baruch Hu
amen. Thank you so much for staying
informed, staying staying on edge. We
will see each other
after Pesach. Thank you.
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