The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they happen.
US military says it destroyed 8 Houthi drones in past day
The US military says it has destroyed eight Houthi drones in Yemen and one over the Gulf of Aden in the past 24 hours.
US Central Command says on the social media site X that there were no injuries or damage reported to US, coalition or merchant vessels in the incident.
Netanyahu pulls ‘Rabbis Bill’ from Knesset agenda hours before scheduled vote
Ahead of Wednesday morning’s scheduled vote, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to drop the “Rabbis Bill” from the agenda of the Knesset plenum and the parliamentary committee that’s deliberating the highly contentious legislation, according to a statement from the coalition cited by Hebrew media outlets.
The statement released overnight says Netanyahu ordered the move after consulting with coalition whip Ofir Katz, who was set to remove two fellow Likud lawmakers from the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee over their opposition to the bill.
Noam Chomsky’s wife denies reports of his death in wake of stroke
NEW YORK— Noam Chomsky’s wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, says reports that the famed linguist and activist had died are untrue.
“No, it is false,” she writes in response to an emailed query from The Associated Press. Noam Chomsky, 95, has been hospitalized in Brazil while recovering from a stroke suffered a year ago, Valeria Chomsky told the AP last week.
On Tuesday, Chomsky was trending on X as false reports of his death abounded. Jacobin and The New Statesman published obituaries for Chomsky, though the former changed its headline from “We remember Noam Chomsky” to “Let’s Celebrate Noam Chomsky.” The New Statesman took its essay by former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis down altogether.
The Chomskys have had a residence in Brazil since 2015. Noam Chomsky, known to millions for his criticisms of US foreign policy, taught for decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2017, he joined the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson.