Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-04-30 at 23:01

HEADLINES
- Iran recovers munitions as Trump weighs action
- NH lawmaker pushes Holocaust denier on commission
- Artemis II crew welcomed to Oval Office

The time is now 11:01 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.

In Iranian Retaliation, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Senate Armed Services Committee that a congressman was spreading falsehoods about the fortification of Kuwaiti bases during Operation Epic Fury against Iran. Representative Patrick Ryan of New York pressed Hegseth on an Iranian drone attack that killed six US Army Reserve soldiers in early March, saying troops on the ground knew they were in a vulnerable position. Ryan cited survivors who described the base as lacking counter-drone, counter-rocket, counter-mortar and counter-artillery capabilities and said the building’s protection was as weak as one could imagine. Hegseth countered that before Epic Fury US bases in the region were in a maximum defensive posture, a point Ryan said contradicted the troops’ testimony. The exchange included Hegseth’s interruption of Ryan with the question, “Can I speak, or are you just going to monologue falsehoods?”

In US Military Role, Iran races to dig out missiles, munitions as Trump weighs digging back into war. The Iranian regime is using the weekslong ceasefire to recover missiles, launchers and other munitions buried underground or hidden by prior US and Israeli strikes, while President Trump weighs the next steps and whether to resume military action in the region.

In US Policy Concerning Israel, a senior Trump administration official said for War Powers Resolution purposes the United States’ hostilities with Iran that began in February have terminated, noting that a two-week ceasefire began on April 7 and has since been extended, with no exchange of fire since April 7. Separately, the Trump administration argued that the Iran conflict ended before the 60-day clock under the War Powers Resolution, a claim critics say cannot pause the clock and that lawmakers are demanding a vote.

In Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hate, a New Hampshire Republican lawmaker pushed to insert a Holocaust denier on the state’s Holocaust education commission, bringing Germar Rudolf to testify along with two other deniers; testimony happened during a January hearing livestreamed to the public, and included a man who grew up Jewish and has led protests outside a Michigan synagogue. Sabourin dit Choinière’s actions were first reported by NPR, and he described visiting Dachau and seeing a gas chamber, a claim tied to Rudolf’s presence; the Dachau historic site notes that the chamber’s lack of use remains unexplained. In the same topic, Representative Travis Corcoran faced a disciplinary hearing for a tweet referencing a “final solution” aimed at a Jewish colleague; he said the remark was a joke, called the disciplinary process a “kangaroo court,” and later posted an apology.

In Uplifting News, Sheryl Sandberg announced the endowment of a new scholarship fund at Camp Ramah in California in honor of her late husband, Dave Goldberg. The scholarship, announced with Goldberg’s brother Rob and Sandberg’s current husband Tom Bernthal, honors a man who led SurveyMonkey and died in 2015 after a head injury; Sandberg recalled Goldberg’s Ramah experience and its role in shaping his Jewish identity, noting the aim to give other children a summer like that. Also, President Donald Trump welcomed NASA’s Artemis II astronauts to the Oval Office to celebrate their Moon mission, praising their bravery and noting the crew’s achievement. The Artemis II crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman—returned from a 10-day mission, and Isaacman spoke of plans for a follow-on moon landing in 2028 and for Artemis III in 2027, with ongoing preparations at NASA.

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https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rymga00zczl
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-894811
https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-894806
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