The Times of Israel is liveblogging Saturday’s events as they happen.

US President Donald Trump says that he has asked the Defense Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria if the Nigerian government “continues to allow the killing of Christians.”

The US government will also immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, Trump says in a post on Truth Social.

Trump says the US may “very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.”

Four people were killed and three were wounded in the Israeli drone strike on a car in southern Lebanon’s Kfar Roummane, Lebanese media reports.

According to Israeli defense sources, the target was an operative in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force.

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Former chief Sephardic rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, who is also the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, calls for the arrest of anyone who says the world is older than the Genesis story in the Bible.

In a video of a sermon he gave, Yosef claims that the messiah will come in 15 years and that 200 years after that the world will end.

“If there are teachers who explain [to students] that the world has existed for millions of years, gentlemen, arrest them!” continues Yosef. “Don’t tell me when the world was created. The world was created less than 6,000 years ago.”

Freed hostage Segev Kalfon recalls how his Hamas captors tortured him while he was held in Gaza, and, similar to other released hostages, says the terrorists who abused him cited far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s push for harsh treatment of Palestinian security prisoners.

“They would beat us with all [their] force, they would put rings on in order to leave marks. There was hemorrhaging on my neck and back. They would say it’s because of Ben Gvir,” Kalfon says in an interview with Channel 12 news. “[The captors] saw a video, they told us they brought dogs in with their prisoners, and they saw how they beat them, and now we need to get it.”

“They would punch us, film us,” Kalfon adds, saying sometimes he and other captives were beaten as frequently as every other day.

He also says “always” when asked if his Palestinian captors would explicitly link the beatings to Ben Gvir.

Lebanese media reports an Israeli drone strike against a car in the southern Lebanon town of Kfar Roummane, near Nabatieh.

There is no immediate comment from the IDF.

Justice Minister Yariv Levin has instructed Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara that she cannot........

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