SARAH BEN-NUN, Jerusalem Post, OCTOBER 27, 2026 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to address supporters at Likud’s election headquarters in Jerusalem early Wednesday morning, as party MK Amit Halevi and supporters argued that the final vote count would give his bloc a stronger result than the initial exit polls suggested. Halevi urged patience, telling The Jerusalem Post that the initial projection of 50 seats for Netanyahu’s bloc understated its support and would not be the final outcome. His confidence echoed that of supporters in the hall, where chants of “Only Bibi!” accompanied repeated assertions that Netanyahu would find a way to form the next government. Channel 11,12, and 13 projected Likud would earn 27 seats and put Netanyahu’s bloc and the four-party opposition grouping at 51-52 seats, with Ra’am and the Joint List taking 18-19. All three channels projected Yashar to receive 21-22 seats, with the opposition bloc to receive 49-52 seats. Neither bloc had a projected majority in the 120-member Knesset. Channel 14 continued to offer a substantially more favorable picture for Netanyahu, raising its projection to 31 seats for Likud and 62 for his bloc.

Toby Axelrod, Jewish Telegraphic News What could one purchase with boxes of Crisco, bags of coffee and cartons of cigarettes in chaotic postwar Germany? For Moishe Saksenhaus, a young Holocaust survivor from Belarus, the answer was: two Jewish ritual textiles, hundreds of years old. The seller said he’d stolen them himself from a burning Berlin synagogue on Nov. 9, 1938 — the November Pogrom, commonly called Kristallnacht. Moishe brought those two items — a Torah wimple, or sash, and a parochet, or Torah ark curtain — with him to America, taking them out of their suitcase only on special occasions. After Moishe’s death in 1993, his family donated them to his synagogue, Temple Chai in Phoenix, Arizona. They remained on display there until the building was deconsecrated in 2026. The congregation moved to a new location in nearby Scottsdale this spring. Last week, nearly 88 years after Kristallnacht the two items made their way back to Berlin. In a ceremony at the site of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation-Centrum Judaicum museum and archive, on Oranienburger Strasse, Associate Rabbi Bonnie Koppell of Temple Chai handed them over to Berlin Jewish Community president Gideon Joffe. “There were people who felt individually attached to the items” in Phoenix, Koppell told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in a phone interview before her trip. “But ultimately, I think everyone realized that they belonged in their home. If the people from whom they were stolen wanted them back, that was where they belong.” The handover took place Oct. 22 in the presence of Joffe, Rabbi Gesa Ederberg, historian Rabbi Andreas Nachama, members of the Berlin community and 29 visitors from Arizona. “It’s been a very moving and touching journey, for both our guests from the United States and for these historical items,” said Nickolai Todorov, a Berlin Jew who accompanied the U.S. visitors as a tour guide. “It was just a special thing to be an eyewitness to.”