Current Events - March 2026

Hi, this is Dov Odvorsky. With my special current events segment. We don't do this too often. Remember I Mordechai Berger was once on an El Al flight. And it was snowing outside very heavily. But he had been upgraded to business class cuz he traveled a lot. And he said they were bringing them drinks and this and that and he was sitting in a big seat and he was really very happy. He didn't care. But everybody in the back, you know, in the economy less, economy minus. >> [laughter] >> They didn't have economy plus back then. They only had economy minus. You know, people are on top of each other and they're going crazy. So he said suddenly there's an announcement from the pilot. And he says, uh people are saying that they want to hear my voice. There is a lot of snow. That was the end. >> [laughter] >> Cuz it's stating the obvious. So I've been asked, uh could you say something uh about the war that's going on in our show and the missile attacks. And uh what could I say? There's a lot of snow. >> [laughter] >> I don't know what I'm going to say at this point. I spoke about you know, the wars in the past. But um I'll I'll share with you my insights. First of all, I am so over missile attacks. Okay? I'm so sick of them already. Uh I spoke uh I have a I have a little show and we have a minyan every Shabbos and Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur we have a bigger minyan, you know. And uh I said this past year it's just absolutely wild. I grew up in Long Island. You know, I never once had a missile attack. Now, we'll be coming missile connoisseurs. I don't know where the missiles coming from. Are they from Iran? Are they from the Houthis? Yeah, the Houthis ones aren't so bad. I don't know if it pays to go to the bomb shelter. Those Iranian ones are a little worse, etc. You know. But to [clears throat] be perfectly clear, you should definitely go to the bomb shelter. You should definitely take precautions. That goes without saying. But you have to appreciate what's taking place here. Because this is amazing. I still remember the mullahs in Iran took over the country. The Shah fled. Um people were killed. They took the Americans hostages in the embassy. It was a terrible thing. In 1979, '89, '99, '09, '19, '26. You're talking about close to 50 years that Iran has been a thorn in the side not just of Israel, but the whole world. They don't want to just kill us. They want to kill everybody. And they're not shy about it. And everyone knows they're a problem. And no one did anything about it. Everybody was afraid. And when they were building the nuclear reactor, the Marsha Shapiro told me once, this is his greatest pachad, that if they get a a nuclear bomb, they'll just blow Israel off the map. And they weren't shy about their intentions to do it even. So, they took out the nuclear reactor, baruch hashem. But they still have a lot of missiles and and ballistic missiles. Ballistic missiles take out a city block. It's not like these Hamas rockets that they hit the you know, hit the building or something. Uh it takes out the you just have to get close. It takes out the whole block. You know, look at the pictures, mafchid. And finally, Donald Trump said, "I had enough. I'm taking them out. Everything. Every missile, every drone, every launcher." He sank their entire navy. He blew everything up. I remember when they blew up the entire navy, the Iranians said, "Now we're really going to get upset. Now you're really going to be sorry." I'm like, "Yeah. What are you going to do now?" And baruch hashem, the missiles have you know, started to die down. Of course, Hezbollah woke up in Lebanon and ends up we didn't take away all of their missiles, so now they're shooting missiles at us again. I don't know why they're not answering their beepers, but um uh they uh they're shooting at us. And it's pachad. But the only thing worse uh than a existentialistic threat is if you have the opportunity to remove it and you don't. And so the most powerful country in the world which has not always appreciated its power has a president who appreciates it. I remember they asked Trump at one point, "Did Israel push you into this war?" He goes, "No, I pushed them. I told them I'm going after Iran. I want you to help." And he said, "Yes, sir, Mr. President." His goal is that there shouldn't be any missiles, any drones, anything left in Iran that they can use to threaten people. And the same thing with Hezbollah. And we'll be for the first time in 50 years not to have this pistol against our head. So, uh >> [clears throat] >> for all the people who have gotten killed. And there should be no more killed or wounded. And uh we should be to take this out once and for all. And to remove these threats from us. And that we should be able to be but off in our land without any more fear or worry from outside evil forces. And now if we could just dive in to remove the internal evil forces, then we'll be to an embassy Yeshua. We should keep diving. We should keep hoping, keep anticipating a Yeshua Yeshua. This is David Olavsky wishing everybody a safe and happy Pesach.