By PNW Staff
September 17, 2026
Prophecy News Watch
That might sound like a small detail. Against the recent history of the Temple Mount, however, it illustrates an extraordinary transformation.
For years, Jews could be removed or detained for visibly praying there. Even carrying Jewish prayer books was heavily restricted. This Rosh Hashanah, a large group spent hours openly praying, some wearing prayer shawls and carrying approved prayer books.
By PNW Staff
September 17, 2026
Prophecy News Watch
The significance of the silver trumpets could easily be missed.
God commanded Moses in Numbers 10 to make two trumpets of hammered silver. They became associated with Israel’s national life and worship, and Scripture specifically commanded their use during appointed festivals and over certain sacrifices.
For generations, Christians have read those passages as descriptions of Israel’s ancient past.
Now the sound of silver trumpets has been heard again on the mountain where the Temple once stood.
Rabbi Josh Wander, who participated in the Rosh Hashanah gathering, believes this was the first time in thousands of years that the shofar and silver trumpets had sounded together on the Temple Mount.
It was not completely permitted. Police briefly detained those responsible for bringing the instruments onto the Mount, and Israeli authorities confirmed that administrative proceedings were opened. But according to Wander, worshippers were allowed to finish each round of blasts before police intervened.
By PNW Staff
September 18, 2026
It is one of the fuels that makes the American economy move.
Diesel powers the trucks hauling groceries to supermarkets, tractors harvesting crops, construction equipment building homes and infrastructure, and countless commercial vehicles moving goods across the country.
CNN recently highlighted the pressure farmers are experiencing during harvest, including one farmer who said filling his combine was approaching $1,000. Higher harvesting and transportation expenses don’t simply disappear. Eventually, businesses have to absorb them, cut expenses elsewhere or pass some portion of them along.
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By PNW Staff
September 18, 2026
Americans may look at fuel protests in Syria, shortages in Indonesia or blackouts in Bangladesh and assume this is someone else’s crisis. But energy markets don’t respect national borders. The same global system that is producing shortages and unrest overseas is already pushing American fuel prices into territory that would have seemed extraordinary just months ago.
The question is no longer whether America will feel the global fuel crisis.
It already is.
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026
Abraham and Szor previously co-directed “No Other Land” (2024) with Palestinian filmmakers Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal, a documentary on Israeli demolitions and displacement of Palestinian communities in Masafer Yatta, in Judea and Samaria. That film won the 2025 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature after earlier wins at the Berlin Film Festival, the European Film Academy and the Gotham Awards, but drew the same charge now leveled at “Naza”: that it presents a one-sided account.
Critics writing in the Jewish Journal and for Creative Community for Peace argued the film “demonizes Israelis” by omitting the security rationale behind Israeli policy, noting that Israeli forces thwarted more than 1,000 terror attacks in Judea and Samaria in 2024 alone, and that it gave short shrift to the Hamas massacre of October 7. Zohar attacked that film as well at the time, calling its Oscar win “a sad moment for the world of cinema” and accusing it of “defamation” that “distorts Israel’s image.” Notably, “No Other Land” also drew fire from the opposite direction: the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel opposed the film on “anti-normalization” grounds, objecting to Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers working together at all.
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026
As a legal matter, Zohar does not have the authority to revoke citizenship on his own; Israeli law allows it only in narrow circumstances involving treason or espionage, and any such action would require further government and legal proceedings.
Writing in JNS, Fiamma Nirenstein, a senior research fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, drew directly on her own reporting from Gaza to challenge the film’s account. She described visiting IDF command tents at Tze’elim, where officers explained how strike decisions are issued in real time to protect both soldiers and civilians, and meeting the military lawyers who determine under international law whether a target is lawful. “Never in the history of warfare has an army done so much to try to protect the civilian population of its enemy,” she wrote, calling the anonymous accusations in “Naza” “one of the oldest weapons in the arsenal of antisemitism: a blood libel.”
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By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026
But a terrible war is not genocide.”
Culture Minister Miki Zohar announced he would move to revoke the directors’ Israeli citizenship, calling them “despicable creators” who are “willing to harm their homeland in order to receive applause from antisemites around the world” and accusing them of “an act of treason against the state.”
By PNW Staff
September 17, 2026
Prophecy News Watch
For nearly two thousand years, these were sounds that belonged to the #Bible.
The Temple was gone. The sacrifices had ceased. The priestly service ended. The silver #trumpets associated with Israel’s ancient worship became artifacts of another age.
But on Rosh Hashanah this year, something remarkable happened on the #Temple Mount.
Hundreds of #Jews ascended the mountain. Organized #Jewish #prayer continued there for hours. #Worshippers openly carried prayer books and wore #traditional prayer shawls.
Then the shofar sounded.
And beside it sounded two silver trumpets—recreating a combination of instruments #associated with worship in ancient Jerusalem.
A Temple has not been rebuilt. Sacrifices have not resumed.
But increasingly, people are preparing as though they someday could.
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By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026
That same ceremony gave its award for Best International Feature to “The Zone of Interest,” whose director, Jonathan Glazer, used his acceptance speech to draw a line from the Holocaust to the war in Gaza, saying his film shows “where dehumanization leads, at its worst.” Glazer went on to serve as an executive producer of “Naza.”
The pattern held at Venice as well. Palestinian flags were visible among the crowd during “Naza’s” 25-minute ovation, a year after Kaouther Ben Hania’s “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” centered on the killing of a six-year-old Palestinian girl and the medics who came to save her, took one of the festival’s top prizes. It is now two consecutive years in which a film built around allegations against Israel has dominated the world’s most prestigious film festival.
Three years after October 7, the pattern is consistent. An anonymous, contested allegation against Israel migrates easily into headlines, into casualty counts and onto the world’s most prominent stages. The documented, verified record of what was done to Israel that day struggles for the same reach, even when, as with “Fauda,” it arrives in the form of the most-watched drama on Netflix.
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026
The study also found that Israel has achieved one of the lowest civilian-to-combatant casualty ratios in modern warfare, roughly 1.4 to 1, compared to figures as high as 5 to 1 in the Iraq War.
That same asymmetry has surfaced repeatedly on the red carpet. At the 2024 Academy Awards, stars including Billie Eilish, Mark Ruffalo and Ramy Youssef wore a red enamel pin distributed by the group Artists4Ceasefire, showing a hand with a black heart inside a red circle, meant to call for a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of the hostages.
To many Jewish observers, the image evoked something else: the 2000 lynching of two IDF reservists in Ramallah, in which a mob displayed blood-soaked hands from a window to a cheering crowd below, one of the defining images of the Second Intifada.
