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It's Wednesday, Parshas Vayeira, and Z'eitza, and Cheshvan 25, 5777. My name is Gershon Schwartz, and I'm your host on Edge today, October 28, 2026. >> On Edge. Your daily report of the news of the last 24 hours. >> Well, yesterday I had a schmooze with Shraga Stern from, you know, my good friend Shraga, who's a good analyst, I would say, an analys- analyst. An ana- an analyzer when it comes to politics. Anyway, the point is that thank you so much for all of you for joining today from Rega News, Yeshiva International News, and and all the other platforms that really where else am on today. So, it's great to have you. Um I'll give you quickly what's going on. So, Israel counted almost all the votes, almost, they say, and nobody won so far. So, Trump says he saved Netanyahu. He claims he did win. America tells the Gulf to get ready for another round with Iran right after the midterms. Brazil's losing candidate runs away to Miami. And a Chabad bachur stabbed in Midtown goes right back to put on tefillin. And two high-speed train crashes in Spain. I don't know if we'll cover all of this, but we'll see what we can get through today. But first, before we do so, uh today's sponsors will be InnerPower, Geste, Mayim Chaim, and uh obviously YS Capital Group, Protobyte, and the Drive Express. And as well, we'll talk about some real estate in Israel, if you're interested in buying. First of all, let's talk about InnerPower. Today's show is brought to you by InnerPower. Um it is a new workshop from Shmuel Leder Moskowitz. You may know him from his Business Link workshop that which I advertised here, where he helped hundreds of people grow in business. It's the seventh course that he did. Today, this is his eighth and almost ninth, actually. So, now, he has taken that work further. InnerPower is a new kind of course. It's six sessions that help your mind, your heart, and your instincts all work together. 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The number is If I can remember If I can remember correctly, the number for Kol Ha'ir I don't remember it offhand. I have to always memorize. But, Kol Ha'ir is the main hotline, everyone knows it. 118 from the main menu, which is where you will hear my just just like the last recent show before the news of today, obviously. So, you might have to go back by pressing the pound key. All right, about 85% of the votes have been counted in Israel and so far nobody has a government. Yesterday we told you um about the potential candidates, right? Who are basically going to be running. And we told you about the potentially going to be probably the head of the country. Now, the exit polls we told you about yesterday also had Eisenkot's side slightly ahead. Some of on that side started obviously celebrating and then the real ballots came out came in and it turned around. So, basically Netanyahu's side is now at about 53 seats, Eisenkot's side is about 48. He's on the left, but he really he's a right-winger. If you listen to my speech yesterday with Sragi on the standing Yiddish. And the Arab parties have between, which is very very historic, 17 and 19 seats, the most they've ever had. Now, so here is the problem. Netanyahu can't get to 61 without his own partners. And the other side can't get there either unless it brings the Arab parties in. Netanyahu's Likud is the biggest party with about 26 seats. Eisenkot's party, Yasha, has about 21 seats. Bennett's party has 12. Yasha, right? United Torah Judaism has seven and Shas has six or seven. The soldiers' votes, more than half a million of them, will be counted by Thursday evening. Turnout was 77.7%, the highest since 1999. Last night at the Likud head quarters in Jerusalem, Netanyahu spoke to his people. His words were Israel stands before historic once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with our partners President Trump to remove the existential threat from Iran once and for all. And about the government with the Arab parties, he said a shame and a disgrace. Eisenkot on his side also says that he won. Now, let's listen to this. And who takes the credit? Last night, President Trump reposted a message on Truth Social from a man named Irving C. Schwartz. Now, my relationship you. His words are, "When President Trump endorsed Bibi Netanyahu, the the whole tide turned. And Trump himself told reporters, 'When the endorsement came out, it helped him very well by a very lot.'" But Trump doesn't only want credit, he wants the he wants to say in the next government. Sources close to Trump told Ynet today that he wants to make sure Ben Gvir, who's a far-right winger, is not in Netanyahu's next government. He's a hard-right person and as well probably Smotrich as well. So, what does Trump's team want instead? A unity government. Netanyahu and Eisenkot together. The Israeli papers Yedioth Ahronoth reported they plan a rotation. Netanyahu stays Prime Minister for about 2 years, and in that time he he works on a peace deal with Saudi Arabia, and then he leaves politics. And the report says American officials have raised a pardon for Netanyahu in his corruption trial from Israel's president, obviously. The president of his Herzog denied any part in it. Why does Trump want this? Okay. So, now we spoke about the lengths also with Shraga yesterday how this works and how Eisenkot would probably join, but this is a new. Saudi Arabia. The Jerusalem Post reports that Trump's advisers believe a Saudi deal won't won't move while Ben Gvir and Smotrich sit in the government, which is actually what the prince has kind of said. His father also was against it, but there is a problem. Eisenkot has said again and again that he won't sit under Netanyahu, not even in a rotation. Maybe that's for running, I don't know. And America's ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, denied that America is pushing for a unity government at all. Ben Gvir is warning against it. His words, "Don't make this mistake. Don't destroy the state of Israel." Okay. And while Netanyahu talks about Iran, America is getting ready. The Wall Street Journal um from America reports that America told the several Gulf countries to be ready for a short yet intensive attack on Iran when after the midterm elections, which is next week Tuesday. The White House didn't deny it and they said Trump keeps all options on the table. And Trump himself gave a hint on Friday. He said, "We may do another little epic fury or they'll agree." Epic Fury as you remember is the name America gave, Trump really gave, its attack on Iran this year. Now he says, "As for Iran, you'll see in about 2 weeks, if you don't mind." And on the ground America is sending another Patriot missile defense battery from Texas to the Middle East reportedly to Israel. Next month another aircraft carrier group and a unit of Marines are expected to join the about 20 American warships already there. And the talks, well, on Sunday Qatar handed Iran a new draft deal. 7 days with the steps every day to build trust. Now today a senior Iranian official told Reuters, Reuters is a news agency, "Unacceptable ideas and not an offer." And at his rally in Lubbock, Texas, Trump told the crowd, "Somebody asked me when will the war in Iran end?" "Whenever I want it to end," he asked he answered. Now Iran didn't fix anything. So what is left of Iran's nuclear program? Yesterday the head of the UN UN's nuclear watchdog Rafael Grossi briefed the UN Security Council as the following. He said that since June 2025 we have not identified any activity to repair or reconstruct the bombed sites. But don't relax, he says. Iran still won't let the inspectors into those sites. And Iran still has 440.9 kilos of uranium enriched up to 60% might I tell you that you do not need more than what? 10% I think or maybe less for powering equipment, maybe 20%. 60% is already weapons grade and there's only the only reason why they need 60 is because they want to make a bomb. A bomb needs 90. So that's a very short step to that. It takes a long time to get to 60, but from 60 to 90 it's a matter of of what? Weeks, months? America, Britain, and France called the meeting um obviously, and then the ones behind it. Russia and China tried to obviously block, and they failed. Now, Guest Tay Guerrillas, I know you're on edge because I did tell you that you could win $1,000, and I was right because you could win up to $1,000 worth of Shabbos on the Go if you call 845-999-8452, which is Guest Tay's number. You should book yourself a villa, a house anywhere in the world right now with with winters coming up. Right now is the time to actually book. 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On Sunday, um we told you already 2 days ago, Flavio Bolsonaro lost the election for President Lula da Silva now by more than 4 million votes. He didn't He didn't accept it. On Monday, Supreme Court judge ordered him to to hand over his passport in a money laundering investigation. He had 24 hours. He didn't hand them over. So, the police canceled them. And so, what does what does he do right now? It's Thursday Tuesday night. He crossed the border into Argentina by land. From there, a flight to Ecuador, and from Ecuador he went to Miami. He landed in Miami this morning with his family. The state department says that it will give him and his family visas to stay. And Trump before he left for Texas, told reporters at Joint Base Andrews, "I would approve and I think they're fine people." Trump also called the election in Brazil very strange and terrible. And while we were on that part of the world, last night at his rally in Corpus Christi, Texas, Trump talked about Venezuela. His words, "First of all, you know that Venezuela that we're going to see billions of dollars of oil from Venezuela." He said, "But first of all, it will become a prosperous country. And who knows, maybe some someday soon it will become a prosperous 51st state. And instead of a president, we'll have an election for a governor. How about that?" Yesterday we told you about the first million barrel first million barrels of oil from Venezuela. And here is how Trump put it. Now, we look over Venezuela very successfully and they've sent me as a gift a He says a boatload of million million of barrels of oil. Do you Does anyone here remember on edge that he said very similar statements back then with uh Back then he said a very similar statement when it came to um Iran, through the Strait of Hormuz, that he received a gift from Iran, a million barrels of oil. Maybe Maybe it's not even a gift. Maybe he just confiscated it. I don't know. Anyway, the point is that this is actually a gift. Just after midnight, a terrorist with two knives attacked two police guards outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, which is in Serbia. He shouted "Allahu Akbar" and the guard was cut in the face lightly and another officer shot the terrorist and he's dead right now. Serbia's interior minister, um whatever the name is, called it a terrorist attack. Well, he says the terrorist was a minor who did ISIS and showed his its flag on Instagram. And the security services were already watching him before the embassy was closed at the time. Last Wednesday evening, in Midtown Manhattan, I told you two Yidden were stabbed with a syringe 5 minutes apart. On West 47th Street, a 26-year-old Chabad bocher from Crown Heights, his name is Yossi, was stabbed in the back. He went to Bellevue Hospital a few blocks away. A 37-year-old man with a couple was also jabbed in the arm with that same syringe. And court papers say that the attacker, a woman, told him, "I have a gun. I'm going to kill you." In Russian they say. And then she asked a third man if he was Jewish. He said he was Muslim, so she said sorry and walked away. The prosecutor said she selected both of her targets because she believed them to be Jewish. A 32-year-old woman from Brooklyn, Anna Macha Mochalova, was arrested on Shabbos and it seems to be the same woman and charged with hate crimes, obviously with the help of Shomrim from that area. Her lawyer said that they have the wrong person. And she is back in court tomorrow. And Yossef, the Chabad bocher, next day, like a true Chabad's bocher, was back in 47th Street putting on film with people. His words, "We can't allow some hate to stop us." And he's continuing to do his work. Now to Brooklyn. Have you ever listened to my By the way, shmooze with Maybe I should put it on again. It's a It's a wonderful speech, a wonderful interview I had on Pesach live in front of audience, actually, with Rabbi Getsel Markowitz. Oh, you're going to love it. You're going to love it. Maybe I should put it on a Rega News. You guys should should enjoy it. It's a great episode. It's on YouTube, you can find it. But I might ask Mr. Rega News to put it on again for you guys. Okay, let's Jewish International. All right, in Brooklyn. A federal jury in Brooklyn convicted a 27-year-old woman from born in Brooklyn. Her name is Halima Salman. Halima Salman sorry, getting military training from ISIS. It is believed to be the first time a woman accused of joining ISIS to trial in an American federal court. The jury saw a video of her with an assault rifle, a picture of her with an ISIS flag, and a paper found on her husband's phone saying she finished the training with ISIS. She cried in court and said she couldn't get out. Her words were, "You try to leave, it's a death sentence." She faced up She faces right now up to 10 years in prison. And sentencing is February 2nd. We know of stories like this. It makes a lot of sense. You know what? 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That also helps clearly and I will make a list of that and I will send send it to the company. You never know what's going to happen. One more poll, six days before the election right now in America in the Siena poll out this morning has Governor Kathy Hochul at about 54 and Bruce Blakeman at 40. That's 14 points. In September, it was nine. Siena says Blakeman's quickly running out of time close to a close gap that is growing rather than narrowing. And in the Attorney General, the Attorney General Letitia James leads this new woman we told you about yesterday 54 to 39. But the White House is actually interesting. Listen to my yesterday's news, you'll see. The White House is not giving up on Blakeman. Yeshiva World News reports that on Tuesday the White House political office had held a conference call with about 15 rabbonim and askanim from the Hasidic communities, Brooklyn, Nassau and also Orange and Rockland as well. Not Orange Rockland the company but the message was Trump is behind Blakeman 100%. He has to come to New York he has come to New York more than any other state for him and endorsed him more than 10 times and they say their own polls give Blakeman a very strong chance. They didn't share the numbers. Election day is next Tuesday like you said. We got to go out and vote. And I must tell you again and again and again, going out to vote is first of all your right as an as an American citizen. Do not go out and vote if you have a green card because you might be at risk for getting arrested. It's actually very dangerous right now. I heard a lot of people do this. So please be careful. Do not vote with a green card. Okay? You cannot. It's illegal. You can only vote if you are an actual American citizen. Okay? Now, if you became one also American citizen, I am an American citizen. I can vote. I have a right to vote. I'm British but I became an American citizen legally. So here's the thing. Going out to vote in the NY in anyway is a very important thing. I urge you my friends go out and vote. Mike Lawler in other words has been here for the community and he's shown he's had has a proven record and almost I would say most of Claudius Road agrees with this that he's Claudius Road's congressman. He is there for anyone. He doesn't ask any questions who you voted for. I promise you if you didn't vote for him last time, even now if you're mad and you're angry, you don't want to vote because he's a Republican so to speak. It's not even doesn't apply there. Ask any community leader in our community Jewish community and they'll tell you they'll vouch for him even if they're Democrat. They will vouch for him. Mike Lawler is known to be the man that loves and helps people just because he doesn't he has a proven record of doing so. So please go out. Remember his name at the ballot. Okay, train crash in Spain. You can still go out to it today is Wednesday. They've closed at 5:00 any voting tomorrow it's open till 8:00 again. Okay, 9:00 to 8:00 and then a Friday and then again on Sunday and that's it. Afterwards you have to wait till the next day Monday and then well Monday you can't go. Tuesday is election day open all day. I don't exactly know the hours but you'll find polling stations. You can call everyone will tell you. It's very easy. Okay, just make sure to go out and vote. Two high speed trains crashed this morning in Spain. At least 68 people are dead because of as a result. It happened near the town of Urda which is in Toledo province and in the line from Madrid to Seville. Both trains had just left Madrid going south. The signal system in that area went down so the trains were being moved by hand and orders from the also with orders from the control center. One train in Iro with 152 people on board was stopped on the track. Behind it came a another train with 397 people. Spanish media reports that someone in the control room gave it a go ahead. So basically it slammed into the back of the of the train of the stopped train and that's what happened. So two cars went flying down the side of the track. About 80 people are in the hospital right now. 15 of them in serious condition. Spain's transport minister called it a go ahead in acceptable inexplicable, sorry. Spanish media reports that among the dead is somebody a former labor minister. I guess a government official. His name is Baniz or Banay, whatever. Now in Spain's second deadly high train crash sorry according to reports, is this year. Basically, this is the second high-speed train crash. Spain declared 3 days of mourning as a result. Well, being that French are toasted, Spain has this anyway. The whole of Yeah, basically, no cheesesteak, no deal. So, we'll finish with a court in a courtroom in Tampa, Florida. Robert Kessler is a 74-year-old. He is blind and in a wheelchair. 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