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It's Wednesday, Parshas Lech Lecha, Yitro, Shimon Pazein, October 21st, 2026. My name is Gershon Schwartz and I am your host on >> Arutz >> Your daily report of the news of the last 24 hours. So, welcome all everyone again on YouTube on Rega News um everywhere, basically. There's 24.com the click, click 613, the place where you can get everything you need minyanim to kosher food to if you're stuck somewhere in Thailand and you need help finding a minyan. Okay. Trump is worried about the economy. The House of Representatives, you know this already. >> The House of Representatives >> Who knows this? Anyway worried about the economy. Is he worried? Should we be worried? I mean, Russia lets an American teacher go home. Netanyahu wanted to bomb Iran again and Trump said not before the elections. Iran says not one bit of its uranium leaves the country. Los Angeles admits it has no way to check if voters are citizens, actually. An American ambassador says Zionism became the problem and a computer tells that tells how old you really are from one selfie. Well, couldn't AI really do this? You know, people are tap dancing around me. Tab. Have you heard of Tab? It's a it's a new phenomenon. Somebody designed it. It's free. And it's just like it just chats with you. Uh-oh. Where where the world is going with AI? I have prepared a beautiful, interesting documentary and for you guys, which I will be streaming soon. I've worked on it for a long time. Didn't use AI for that because I needed to gather the material myself and speak to people before I could put it out because there's a lot of information you might want to know exactly where it started. Yes, but this Motzei Shabbos something else special is coming out and because the world is so worried, if you listen to the news and we'll talk about it soon. Okay, first of all, let's thank our sponsors. Maim Chaim Organic Line. You know Maim Chaim Organic Line? 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Today, President Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff sat with Putin for about 3 hours in a place in a in the palace in St. St. Petersburg. And Witkoff told Putin this, because of you, he's going home to his family as if Putin wasn't the one who locked him up in the first place. President Trump wrote, "Welcome home, Stefan. It's great to have you back and no prisoner swap was needed." Witkoff met him in prison prison, sorry, and he is now flying home. Witkoff came to Putin straight from Oslo, Norway. There on Tuesday, he met Zelensky, President Zelensky, Norway's Prime Minister, and Finland's President. Jared Kushner joined by video because he was sick. Zelensky made an offer. Ukraine will stop hitting Russia's oil refineries in exchange for more Patriot air defense missiles. Kushner pushed him to stop those attacks and Trump already agreed to lift the sanctions on Russian diesel. Zelensky's answer, "Let's see what Putin says." And he also says, "America is sharing intelligence again." His words, "We can know now when a Russian ballistic missile is incoming." And Trump said this, "We want Zelensky to make a deal. They don't make a deal, it's just going to get worse." Today, the Kremlin sounded more positive. It says Putin is ready in principle to sit down with Ukraine and America together in mid-November. On the ground, Russian drones killed three people near Kyiv on Tuesday. And overnight near Kharkiv, they killed a woman of 81 and a man of 83. And this evening, ballistic missiles hit Kyiv and people were injured. Simple and logical, right? Anyway, and from Russia straight to the drama in the Middle East. The Financial Times reports that Netanyahu ordered the IDF to get ready to bomb Iran again. Partly out of fear of Iran's next steps on its nuclear program. For several days now, the plan was for the weekend of October 10th. Nuclear sites, regime sites, power plants, and even bigger than the war in February. And President Trump stopped it, obviously. He doesn't want a war before the midterm elections on November 3rd. He's worried about the economy and about, obviously, gas prices. Worried, huh? Should we be concerned? Now, reports even say that his son, Donald Trump Jr., privately opposed the actual war with Iran right now. When War Secretary Pete Hoekstra um was in Israel on Monday, Israel gave him a new list of targets. Israeli sources deny the entire story. The Jerusalem Post says the IDF was never planning an attack of for October 10th. And it hints the leak was meant to sway the Israeli election. But starting tomorrow, IDF is canceling soldiers' vacations until the Israeli election. Turns out that sometimes if the election the elections in America are Tehran's best protection. Sometimes I I mean, all the time. I've been saying this all the time already that Tehran has the advantage here. They don't have any elections. I mean, American power is limited by 4 years. And yeah. Anyway, and and Iran is playing tough again. Mohsen Mohsen Rezaei, which is who's Iran's top security official, said this. Not even a tiny bit of nuclear material will leave Iran. And he said, "No talks until America makes the first move." Pakistan's army chief, Asim Munir, flew to Tehran on Tuesday to try and make peace between them, obviously. Iran told him what he wants first. America must end the blockade on its ports, lift the sanctions on its oil, and stop the fighting everywhere in the region. Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, said the Strait of Hormuz stays closed until there is a deal. And oil jumped around $110 a barrel right now. In short, the Iranians want everything and they want it now. But maybe the Iranians should be should listen to what Pakistani general brought in his bag. A Lebanese paper close to Hezbollah, Al Akbar, name it, claims he brought a final warning from Washington. Given given on the nuclear program first or a big attack is coming. That was actually what he brought in his bag. Mainly on the Pickaxe Mountain. That is Iran's nuclear site dug deep inside the mountain next to Natanz Natanz, sorry. Or in other words, if the mountain won't come to Muhammad, the bombs will come to the mountain. Do you know that joke? And breaking news this evening, America is ordering its embassy staff I meant obviously they meant the the the the terrorists. America's ordering its embassy staff in Saudi Arabia out. Everyone who is not needed and their families because of the Houthi attacks NBC reports America that the United States is also quietly cutting troops at its [music] bases um bases basically in the Middle East. And Axios, which is a news agency, reports that while Benjamin Netanyahu was meeting Hexeth, dozens of Israeli jets flew towards Iran's border on a route like a real strike. Guest stay, want a thousand dollars? Well, I've got you a little bit on edge right now because I just said you want a thousand dollars. 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Website is guestday.com. [email protected] is the email address and if you want to advertise on Edge, be my guest. Call me on 845-671-1775 press five to leave me messages just for feedback and you know, all that. Or if you want to speak to me press one and we'll take care of you and give you our proposal package deal how we can help you and be of assistance. Back to Israel. The Israeli elections next Tuesday, October 27th. I don't know if you know this. Netanyahu told I24 News, Channel 24, I24 that the Mossad has information that Iran may use one of its terror groups to mess up the votes. And Iran is pushing propaganda online. And about Hezbollah, Hamas, and Hamas, his words are neither of them will survive once the regime falls. Let's just hope they both disappear into the ballot boxes. On to France, France, say where the police French toasted, joking, where the police can rest but only for a few days while they're eating the French toast. Okay, enough with that joke. The last two nights were calmer with curfews in parts of the country. Well, now the the problem is that Fox News I I'll tell you something else. Yesterday, if you heard my news yesterday, those of you heard my news yesterday would know already that they were standing right outside Louis Vuitton and all the other luxury stores selling their goods, the stolen goods, the looted goods outside on stalls. Anyway, Fox News got hold of a State Department paper. It warns that far left groups are planning an even rougher protest this weekend in France. Right when Marine Le Pen's party, the National or Marine Marine Le Pen's party, I pronounce his name right, I never know with the French by the way. Someone help me. The National Rally holds its big convention in Orleans. France's Prime Minister says that the far left wants to overthrow the government. And he promised a huge police force on Shabbas. And President Macron called Trump's claims about the French riots, his word, stupid. And Paris will again look like the set of an action film. And here is the typical French reaction. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the You see, this is me in French. The far-left leader who is running for president found the real problem with France, not the economy and not the riots. Benjamin Netanyahu, in his words, "It's Mr. Netanyahu who weighs the elections in Marseille and Toulouse and Toulouse." in Anyway, I'm not going to say all these names. Places, cities in Paris. Providence in Paris, okay? And he blamed the Russians as well. It seems Netanyahu is busier with French politics than with Jerusalem. Segulas and nifluos, need a segula. Now, when I talk about segulas, the only thing that worries me sometimes is when where does it come from, okay? If you want to hear all kinds of interesting segulas, nifluos, there is a hotline for it. The segulas and nifluos hotline, daily shower of interesting segulas from the Bal Shem Tov himself, and it's in Yiddish. So, it can change a person's life. 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And to this and this, "If the Republicans win, you will each have $5,000 in your pockets. If we lose, you get nothing. He says, "Tariffs will pay for it." Experts say it would cost over a trillion dollars to do this. Listen to this. And all this while a new poll says that only 33% like the job he's doing. It seems buying votes has never been more open. But, the Democrats are not staying behind. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, gave about 80 million dollars in the last 2 months alone. Most of it to win the house for the Democrats. And 2 and 1/2 million of it to help Governor Kathy Hochul. Because in America, politics, democracy, is first of all about who brings in the bigger check. And while the big money pours out, there are also embarrassments. In Michigan, a hidden camera caught a Democratic Party worker, Abdul El-Sayed. He said the Democrats running for this Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, the the Democrat who's run the primary in the Democratic primary, who's running for Senate, Abdul El-Sayed gets money from overseas. And about El-Sayed and Hamas, he said this, "He has to play the game." El-Sayed's campaign says it's untrue. And the party says he no longer works there. Once again, the hidden camera is the biggest enemy in politics. If you thought that was embarrassing, look at California. On Monday, we told you about the 20,000 names the government says are likely not American citizens. Now, Los Angeles election officials told a federal court that they have no way to check if a voter is a citizen. And that they just take the voter's word for it. And California still has not set those ballots aside. In California, democracy is open to everyone, literally. And I already told you that in Michigan, I think in Michigan, Minneapolis, yeah, I think it is, that you can actually vouch for eight people and vote. How crazy is [music] that? You can If you're a resident, you're a resident, you can go and register yourself to vote and vouch for another eight people who are not even American citizens to vote. Welcome to the United States of America where we're parted by 50 states and each state has its own rules and those regulations and we're parted by a government that's also parted in so many different ways, which is why the midterm elections is so important and which is why I urge you my friends listening on Edge today that if you haven't done so, now is the time to register to vote. And yes, it's important and my friends listening abroad, if you have friends living in an NY 17 district and Monsey is a big country. It's huge. NY 17 is huge. Lots of Lots of Yidden live here and it's amazing. But at the same time, we got to remember who the true the true people that we have to show our kavod hatov to and that's Mike Lawler, my friend. You can check it out for yourself. If you don't believe me, how about this? Go call his office if you actually have a problem or even if it's a small problem like a from a passport to an IRS problem to a problem with any official, any company, you have your bills are being charged overcharged by some sort of company, for anything, call them. >> [music] >> You will see how fast they respond and how fast they help you. So, this is my word to you. Go out and register you, your kids over 18 and go out and register yourself if you haven't yet. You the the the deadline is this October 24th when election early election voting starts or early voting starts. You can have your ballot mailed to you if you can't go to the voting booth which is on November 3rd, but early voting begins this next week, May Hashem. Go out and [music] vote, my friends. Go out and vote. What can I tell you? It's important to vote, okay? And now to a surprising quote from a diplomat. You all know his name already. America's ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack, spoke on Tuesday. >> Lebanese immigrant family in a Jewish neighborhood. I went to shul by myself tonight. There was no anti-Semitism in the US. It just didn't exist. Very little anti-Semitism even in the region. The Jews existed side by side forever. Zionism in '48 became another issue. The answer is simple. You You have 10 million Jews living in Israel. If you take the arc of Islam, if you take the Levant, the Gulf, Northern Africa, the Caucasus, Central Asia, you have a billion Muslims. >> What he's saying, America's ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack, spoke on Tuesday at a conference in Qatar. He says that there was very little anti-Semitism in the region, and that is his words. Zionism is 1948 in 1948 became another issue. And at the same conference, he also said Iran is not an evil regime. This is what he said. And he did not take it back, and the State Department had no comment about that. This is This is the reason why Israel recently in the news, if you haven't heard, they've actually requested from Trump to fire him as the ambassador. He's not doing a good job, and he's actually an aid more than a help aid for them for the for the for the thingy is more than whatever, the Americans. Okay, um let us continue to where we are up to. Also today, near Beitar Illit, Brad Lander, New York City former comptroller, now running for Congress, was detained by Israeli police. He was there with about 80 left-wing rabbis and activists helping Arabs pick olives. Lander was let go, and all but four of the others, too. Lander's words are the following, "Harvesting olives is not a crime under any law." And Israel's Foreign Ministry answered, "This was not about harvesting olives, it was about harvesting headlines." And Israel's President Herzog called for a crackdown on violent settlers. And we continue in New York. Mamdani had a Jewish lawyer, Douglas Keith, to run the committee that picks judges for the city's courts. Back in July, the committee had 18 members, and not one of them was Jewish. Four Jewish lawyers groups obviously complained. Mamdani says religion had nothing to do with it. Good to know, there are already excuses for everything. And speaking of Mamdani, it turns out he stars not only in um committees, a new app in the app stores called Betekh, Betekh, which is the digital defender, organizes online attacks against Israel. The app gives its users ready-made replies to copy and paste into discussions and tools to report Israeli content so it gets uh so uh so so so it gets taken down. And people upload screenshots to prove they took part. And who shows up in the app? Well, that's right, Ma'am Hamdani himself in a video from July about Netanyahu. On to the next news, crazy criminal stories from Florida. David uh Sarten Jr., 40, a bank robber who already did time for robbing five banks in Texas. He was out of prison, but still on the watch, and now he is charged with robbing two more banks in Largo and St. Petersburg wearing a mask of an old man. When agents searched his home, they found a fake gun and his journal. The title? God's best friend is a bank robber. Uncle Henry, cops and robbers, the world through the eyes of a bank robber. It turns out that at least uh at least had an an open conversation with the creator about the line of work. That's basically what he had in his journal. Anyway, Did you understand this? Yeah? So, the story? Crazy people, right? Crazy world, I meant. Now, a scare on the internet. Websites are going dark around the world. AI found what experts call the most severe flaws ever in the basic software that runs the web. Finland's government websites and some BBC pages went offline, and America's NSA told organizations, "If you can't fix it, go offline." [music] And we finish with technology that will make you want to put on a filter. Doctors in big Boston hospital built a computer that looks like a looks at a photo of your face and tells how old your body really is. And basically can tell how old you are, yeah. Not how old it says your ID is, but it can actually tell that. Check 38,000 patients already. Those with faces that look like 5 years older than their real age were more likely to die sooner. They say the doctors say it can help decide if a cancer patient can handle heart treatment. And there was already a free website where anyone can upload a selfie and get a number. One more detail. >> [music] >> A nose job made people look about a year older to the computer. Our tip for the day, before you upload a selfie, get a good night's sleep or a good makeup artist. >> [laughter] >> And before we go, let's do this. Motzei Shabbos, don't miss our special with Jake Turx. He's the senior White House correspondent for the Mishpacha. 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