The Times of Israel
Day 507 - Tanks in the West Bank and IAF buzzes Nasrallah funeral
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- Day 507 - Tanks in the West Bank and IAF buzzes Nasrallah funeral
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- 21:02
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/lazar-berman/) (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/sue-surkes/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's Daily Briefing.
The White House says that it supports Israel’s decision to delay releasing 600 Palestinian prisoners, citing the “barbaric treatment” of Israeli hostages by Hamas. At the same time, we’re hearing for the first time from US President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff that he will come to the region this week to try and negotiate an extension of the first phase of the ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas, which is supposed to conclude at the end of the week with the return of four additional bodies of ho...
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- Day 506 - Torture, isolation: What 6 freed hostages endured
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- 21:57
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Editor David Horovitz (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/david-horovitz/) (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/sue-surkes/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's Daily Briefing.
Six Israelis held hostage by Hamas were released yesterday -- four whom were taken on October 7, 2023, and two who were in the Strip for about a decade. Horovitz relates what we're beginning to learn about the horrific conditions of their captivities.
Hamas published a video Saturday showing Israeli hostages Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa Dalal being forced to watch as other captives were freed and begging to be saved as well. Also with this in mind, Israel said early Sunday that it was delaying the release of hundreds of Palestinian...
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- Day 505 - 6 gaunt hostages released by Hamas, 2 after a decade
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- 19:21
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/emanuel-fabian/) (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/sue-surkes/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's Daily Briefing.
Kibbutz Nir Oz said early Saturday morning that resident Shiri Bibas was murdered while held captive in Gaza, after Hamas handed over her body overnight and it was brought to Israel for identification. Fabian updates us on what we know of her and her children's fate.
Hostages Tal Shoham, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert, Eliya Cohen, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed were released from captivity and returned to Israel today, as part of the ongoing ceasefire-hostage deal between Israel and Hamas.
The terr...
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- Friday Focus: After 3 years of Ukraine War, should anyone care?
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- 33:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Welcome to The Times of Israel's newest podcast series, Friday Focus (https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/friday-focus/) . Each Friday, join diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman and host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan for a deep dive into what's behind the news that spins the globe.
Ahead of the three-year mark of the ongoing Ukraine war, Berman assesses how the potential winding down of the conflict is stirring up all sorts of other battles on the international stage.
We discuss the origins of the current Russo-Ukraine war and the competing narratives surrounding it, even as Israel attempts to trod on semi-neutral ground.
Finally, we hear how US President Donald Trump views the conflict that is occurring far from his borders, and his country's "obligation" to fund it.
This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves.
IMAGE: President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr...
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- Day 504 - Where is Shiri Bibas?
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- 38:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/lazar-berman/) (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/sue-surkes/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's Daily Briefing updates, followed by the weekly Friday Focus (https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/friday-focus/) , The Times of Israel's newest podcast series. Each Friday, catch Berman and Borschel-Dan for a deep dive into what's behind the news that spins the globe.
Slain hostages Oded Lifshitz, and brothers Ariel and Kfir Bibas, were identified after their remains were returned to Israel by Hamas on Thursday but the military said another body sent by the terror group was not the young boys’ mother Shiri Silberman Bibas. We learn more about the fates of th...
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- Friday Focus: After 3 years of Ukraine War, should anyone care?
- Runtime
- 33:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's newest podcast series, Friday Focus. Each Friday, join diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman and host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan for a deep dive into what's behind the news that spins the globe.
Ahead of the three-year mark of the ongoing Ukraine war, Berman assesses how the potential winding down of the conflict is stirring up all sorts of other battles on the international stage.
We discuss the origins of the current Russo-Ukraine war and the competing narratives surrounding it, even as Israel attempts to trod on semi-neutral ground.
Finally, we hear how US President Donald Trump views the conflict that is occurring far from his borders, and his country's "obligation" to fund it.
This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves.
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- Day 503 - In grotesque 'ceremony,' Hamas hands over 4 coffins
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- 17:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Editor David Horovitz (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/david-horovitz/) (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/sue-surkes/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's episode.
Coffins holding what are believed to be the bodies of four slain hostages were driven across the border from the Gaza Strip back into Israel this morning, 503 days after they were abducted alive by Hamas-led terrorists. The four were named by Israel and by their terrorist captors as Shiri Bibas, Ariel Bibas, Kfir Bibas, and Oded Lifshitz, all kidnapped from their homes in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023.
In today's episode, we hear about two ceremonies conducted this morning: one, a cynically staged Hamas propaganda fest in Gaza; the ot...
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- What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Why is Israel handing Gaza back to Hamas?
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- 38:19
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur.
Ahead of a fateful day for Israelis in which Hamas for the first time will release the bodies of hostages who died on October 7, 2023, or in captivity, including potentially the Bibas family, Rettig Gur discusses how the iconic little red-haired boys have entered all Israelis' heart to become everyone's children.
We hear how the series of staged hostage-release ceremonies are a way for the terrorists to mock Israelis and show Gazans who is in charge. He wonders what could make Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continue with this farce into a second phase of the hostage release-ceasefire deal.
We hear about a recent poll from the Israel Democracy Institute on support for proceeding to the second stage of the ceasefire agree...
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- What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Why is Israel handing Gaza back to Hamas?
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- 39:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur.
Ahead of a fateful day for Israelis in which Hamas for the first time will release the bodies of hostages who died on October 7, 2023, or in captivity, including potentially the Bibas family, Rettig Gur discusses how the iconic little red-haired boys have entered all Israelis' heart to become everyone's children.
We hear how the series of staged hostage-release ceremonies are a way for the terrorists to mock Israelis and show Gazans who is in charge. He wonders what could make Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continue with this farce into a second phase of the hostage release-ceasefire deal.
We hear about a recent poll from the Israel Democracy Institute on support for proceeding to the second stage of the ceasefire agreement and learn that an o...
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- Day 502 - Hamas fights for survival with 'grand gestures'
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- 29:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.
In a surprise move, six living hostages will be released on Saturday, including Israelis Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who have been held by Hamas since entering the Strip on their own in 2014 and 2015, respectively. The other four — Tal Shoham, Omer Shem-Tov, Omer Wenkert, and Eliya Cohen — were kidnapped during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel. Why are six being released versus the agreed-upon three, and why is Hamas offering a much more generous phase 2 deal?
Former White House Mideast czar Brett McGurk last week penned his first op-ed since leaving government, taking the opportunity to defend the Biden administration’s handling of the hostage negotiations and insisting that Hamas was consis...
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- Day 502 - Hamas fights for survival with 'grand gestures'
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- 28:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
US bureau chief Jacob Magid (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jacob-magid/) (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/sue-surkes/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's episode.
In a surprise move, six living hostages will be released on Saturday, including Israelis Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who have been held by Hamas since entering the Strip on their own in 2014 and 2015, respectively. The other four — Tal Shoham, Omer Shem-Tov, Omer Wenkert, and Eliya Cohen — were kidnapped during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel. Why are six being released versus the agreed-upon three, and why is Hamas offering a much more generous phase 2 deal?
Former White House Mideast czar Brett McGurk...
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- Day 501 - IDF withdraws to a possible 'buffer zone' on Lebanon border
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- 24:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/emanuel-fabian/) (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/sue-surkes/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's episode.
Today as the extended deadline for IDF withdrawal from Lebanon under the US-brokered ceasefire expires, Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “Starting today, the IDF will remain in a buffer zone in Lebanon in five strategic outposts and will continue to enforce forcefully and without compromise against any violation by Hezbollah.” Fabian explains why these five points and whether there is now a "buffer zone" on the border.
Israel is expecting to receive the bodies of four hostages from Hamas on Thursday under the provisions o...
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- Day 501 - IDF withdraws to a possible 'buffer zone' on Lebanon border
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- 26:04
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.
Today as the extended deadline for IDF withdrawal from Lebanon under the US-brokered ceasefire expires, Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “Starting today, the IDF will remain in a buffer zone in Lebanon in five strategic outposts and will continue to enforce forcefully and without compromise against any violation by Hezbollah.” Fabian explains why these five points and whether there is now a "buffer zone" on the border.
Israel is expecting to receive the bodies of four hostages from Hamas on Thursday under the provisions of the first stage of an ongoing ceasefire deal with the Palestinian terror group. We hear how the IDF is preparing to receive the bodies and how the families will eventually be informed of their i...
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- Day 500 - Trump team pushes for talks, unclear what PM wants
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- 17:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/lazar-berman/) (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/sue-surkes/) joins host Jessica Steinberg (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jessica-steinberg/) for today's episode.
Following US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's Sunday visit in Israel, Berman discusses the seemingly coordinated statements made by Rubio and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister spoke about the deep synchronicity between him and the Trump administration, a relationship Netanyahu says he has cultivated for years, leading to an unprecedented opportunity in Israel's history.
Berman notes that there did not seem to be any pressure to discuss the second phase of the hostage deal, until Trump's Mideast envoy Steve Wi...
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- Day 499 - Freed Nir Oz hostages reveal torture, Hamas torment
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- 20:23
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/david-horovitz/) (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/sue-surkes/) joins host Jessica Steinberg (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jessica-steinberg/) for today's episode.
As certain details emerge regarding the 15-month captivity of the three hostages released on Saturday, Horovitz discusses the scraps of information shared so far, including what's known about Iair Horn's brother Eitan, who is still a captive, that Sagui Dekel-Chen was tortured, and the potential implications of any information that is shared.
Horovitz also reviews the latest in the hostage deal, how many hostages remain to be released in the first stage and the delayed start to negotiations for the second stage of t...
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- Day 498 - 3 freed hostages find new baby, murdered dad, captive brother
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- 23:37
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/emanuel-fabian/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's episode.
Released hostages Sagui Dekel-Chen, Sasha Troufanov and Iair Horn crossed back into Israel this morning after being paraded on a stage in southern Gaza in a propaganda-filled release ceremony by the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups after 498 days in captivity. Fabian fills us in on the ceremony and their health status. We learn about how the IDF has handled the heightened tensions in the Gaza Strip this past week and its readiness to return to war-footing.
In a meeting on Friday morning, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi apologized to four...
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- Friday Focus: Decoding Trump’s foreign policy
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- 34:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's newest podcast series, Friday Focus. Each Friday, join diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman and host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan for a deep dive into what's behind the news that spins the globe.
This week, Berman assesses how the current Trump administration's foreign policy seems to be shaping up. From the US president's bombshell February 4, 2025, proposal to transfer Gaza's population from the Strip to reset the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to efforts to end the Ukraine War, Trump's gaze appears to be as global as it is domestic.
So how does that square with his promise to "Make America Great Again"?
Berman zooms out and in 30 minutes illustrates how the president appears to be adopting a new motto: "Speak brashly and carry a big stick."
This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves.
IMAGE: US President Donald Trump takes questions during a join...
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- Day 497 - Decoding Trump’s foreign policy
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- 34:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode, part of The Times of Israel's newest podcast series, Friday Focus. Each Friday, join Berman and Borschel-Dan for a deep dive into what's behind the news that spins the globe.
This week, Berman assesses how the current Trump administration's foreign policy seems to be shaping up. From the US president's bombshell February 4, 2025, proposal to transfer Gaza's population from the Strip to reset the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to efforts to end the Ukraine War, Trump's gaze appears to be as global as it is domestic.
So how does that square with his promise to "Make America Great Again"?
Berman zooms out and in 30 minutes illustrates how the president appears to be adopting a new...
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- What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Trump's Gaza plan is a warning
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- 29:47
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur.
On February 4, 2025, US President Donald Trump made a bombshell proposal to resettle the population of Gaza (https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-with-netanyahu-in-oval-office-trump-talks-of-permanently-resettling-gazans/) . The announcement caught the world by surprise and over a week later, no one is entirely sure what Trump intends beyond restarting and resetting the discussion of Gaza after the war.
We discuss Israeli comedian Reshef Levy (https://x.com/ReshefLevi/status/1888366585456259540) 's biting Hebrew-language assessment of politicians' responses and how they reflect the ambivalence the plan has aroused in the Israeli public.
We wonder if the Trump proposal is based on previous historic plans such as the 1947...
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- Day 496 - Likud lawmakers push together for Haredi draft
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- 19:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Political correspondent Sam Sokol (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/sam-sokol/) and environmental reporter Sue Surkes (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/sue-surkes/) join host Jessica Steinberg (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jessica-steinberg/) for today's episode.
Sokol looks at the coalition's struggle over ultra-Orthodox army service exemptions, between those who want to minimize exemptions and those who want to use legislation to create a gradual increase leading to universal enlistment. He discusses a recent Likud lawmaker conference on the subject, that called for a more universal Haredi draft and sanctions on draft dodgers.
In honor of Tu B'Shvat, the Jewish holiday of the trees, Surkes reports on the new Jewish Climate Trust, with heavy involvement from...
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- Day 495 – With ceasefire stalling, Israel scrambles to respond
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- 23:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
US bureau chief Jacob Magid (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jacob-magid/) (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/emanuel-fabian/) joins host Jessica Steinberg (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jessica-steinberg/) for today's episode.
Magid discusses how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flip-flopped Tuesday night with a series of statements regarding the current ceasefire and the number of hostages to be released on Saturday. Magid suggests it could be part of an ongoing effort to back US President Donald Trump's demands and to also keep Hamas guessing.
As the IDF prepares to move enlisted soldiers down south to the Gaza border and called on reservists to ready themselves, Magid says there may be more legitimacy from the US toward Israel to battle Hamas again in or...
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- Day 494 - Will the ceasefire hold? Cabinet discusses next steps
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- 20:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Political correspondent Tal Schneider (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/tal-schneider/) and diaspora reporter Zev Stub (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/zev-stub/) (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/emanuel-fabian/) join host Jessica Steinberg (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jessica-steinberg/) for today's episode.
Schneider discusses further details about some of the hostages that have emerged from the recently released hostages, including signs of life about twin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman. There is also the news that hostage Shlomo Mansour, 86, appears to have been killed on October 7, 2023, his body taken into captivity by Hamas terrorists.
As the government cabinet meets Tuesday morning to discuss the Hamas accusation that Israel has breached the c...
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- Day 493 - Netanyahu has Trump's support but what's his game plan?
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- 20:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/david-horovitz/) (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/emanuel-fabian/) joins host Jessica Steinberg (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jessica-steinberg/) for today's episode.
With the return to Israel of the three most recently released hostages, several hostage families are receiving the first signs of life from their loved ones, including hostage Alon Ohel. Horovitz discusses the heartbreaking descriptions shared by Idit Ohel, Alon Ohel's mother, on the Sunday night news. Ohel broke down crying as she described her son's injuries and abuses, now known by the family as Ohel was held until Saturday with released hostages Or Levy and Eli Sharabi.
Horovitz talks about Prime Minister Ben...
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- Day 492 - 2 released hostages didn't know loved ones were killed
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- 20:07
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/emanuel-fabian/) joins host Jessica Steinberg (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jessica-steinberg/) for today's episode.
As the three hostages, Or Levy, Eli Sharabi and Ohad Ben Ami return to Israel, questions arise about what they knew of their families' fates as they were released. Fabian discusses some of the details about what each man learned upon coming home to Israel, whether Eli Sharabi found out that his wife and daughters had been killed from Hamas, the Red Cross or his family, and if Or Levy knew his wife Eynav had been killed before he was taken into captivity.
Palestinians are allowed to return to northern Gaza, along the Netzarim Corridor, after the IDF cleared out its remaining posi...
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- Day 491 - Emaciated, 3 released hostages to now learn families' fates
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- 21:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/emanuel-fabian/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's episode.
Eli Sharabi, 52, Or Levy, 34, and Ohad Ben Ami, 56, are back home in Israel after 491 days of captivity. Sharabi was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri when Hamas terrorists rampaged through southern Israel on October 7, 2023. His wife and daughters were murdered in their home’s safe room and he and his brother Yossi were taken captive. Brother Yossi has since been confirmed dead and Hamas is holding his body.
Or Levy, 34, was kidnapped from the Supernova rave near Kibbutz Re’im on October 7. His wife Eynav was killed, and their now three-year-old son Almog has been staying ...
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- Day 490 - With US backing, Israel wants more hostages in first stage
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- 10:55
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/lazar-berman/) joins host Jessica Steinberg (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jessica-steinberg/) for today's episode.
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent Thursday on Capitol Hill, Berman reports from the Capitol, where much of the focus is still on US President Donald Trump's proposal to offer Gazans to relocate from the war-torn region.
Berman says the atmosphere toward Netanyahu is friendly and the prime minister's entourage is "almost giddy" with the sense of friendship and support from the Trump administration, following the criticism and tension that existed with members of the Biden administration.
While the date to restart negotiations over the second phase of t...
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- Day 489 - Trump's Gaza plan pleases some MKs, alarms others
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- 21:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Political correspondent Sam Sokol (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/sam-sokol/) and reporter Diana Bletter (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/diana-bletter/) join host Jessica Steinberg (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jessica-steinberg/) for today's episode.
Sokol discusses the variety of reactions from Knesset members to the remarks made by US President Donald Trump suggesting the relocation of Gazans from the Strip during the expected long reconstruction period. He looks at the predictably pleased statements from the far-right flank of the government, including former national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and the more guarded comments of Opposition Leader Yair Lapid and National Unity party leader Benny Gantz.
Blette...
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- Day 488 - Trump thrills Netanyahu, calls Gaza a hellhole
- Runtime
- 21:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
US bureau chief Jacob Magid (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jacob-magid/) joins host Jessica Steinberg (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jessica-steinberg/) for today's episode.
After US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in the White House on Tuesday, Trump repeated his statements to the press about relocating all Gazans, possibly placing US troops in Gaza and annexing the West Bank.
Magid reviews the highlights of Trump's comments and the press conference that followed, as well as reactions from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, condemning Trump's plan.
Magid discusses Trump's ideas regarding a peace process with Saudi Arabia and looks at the US President's statements regarding the annexation of the West Bank as...
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- Day 488 - Trump thrills Netanyahu, calls Gaza a hellhole
- Runtime
- 22:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode.
After US President Daniel Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in the White House on Tuesday, Trump repeated his statements to the press about relocating all Gazans, possibly placing US troops in Gaza and annexing the West Bank.
Magid reviews the highlights of Trump's comments and the press conference that followed, as well as reactions from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, condemning Trump's plan.
Magid discusses Trump's ideas regarding a peace process with Saudi Arabia and looks at the US President's statements regarding the annexation of the West Bank as a pressure tactic and one that naturally emboldens Netanyahu's far-right coalition partners.
In Magid's exit interview with Israel's...
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- Day 487 - Annexation? Saudi normalization? What's on the table in DC
- Runtime
- 18:53
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Editor David Horovitz (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/david-horovitz/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's episode.
Eight were wounded, two critically, in the shooting attack at an army checkpoint near the northern West Bank village of Tayasir this morning. Horovitz updates on what we knew about the attack at recording time. Sadly, two soldiers' deaths were subsequently announced.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently in Washington, DC, and set to meet with US President Donald Trump today. Yesterday, reporters were given mixed signals surrounding the president's willingness to see Israel annex the West Bank. Horovitz explains.
Amid mounting talk of a peace deal between Saudi ...
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- Day 486 - Sadism, cages, starvation: Released hostages speak
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- 24:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/biranit-goren/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's episode.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington, DC, yesterday and is set to meet with US President Donald Trump tomorrow. In the meantime, he will meet and potentially start up talks about the second phase of the hostage release deal with US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff. Who is Witkoff and is he the key to Trump's idea of depopulating the Gaza Strip?
We discuss what we're learning about the treatment meted out to the three men freed on Saturday: Yarden Bibas, Ofer Calderon and Keith Siegel.
In an interview that aired on Israel’s Uvda investigative progr...
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- Day 485 - Pulling out of Gaza, IDF trains its sights on West Bank
- Runtime
- 19:20
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/emanuel-fabian/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's episode.
The Israeli military on Saturday carried out three drone strikes on terror operatives in the northern West Bank. The strikes came as the Israel Defense Forces expanded an ongoing counterterrorism operation in the northern West Bank, now in its 13th day. What has been the scope of the operation so far?
On Friday, IDF troops operating in a buffer zone in southern Syria came under fire in the first such incident since Israeli forces deployed to the buffer zone on the border between Israel and Syria. The IDF said soldiers returned fire toward the source of the shooting. Who was shooti...
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- Day 484 - 2 freed men were hugged by their kids; Yarden Bibas was not
- Runtime
- 21:33
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Editor David Horovitz (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/david-horovitz/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's episode.
Three Israeli hostages were freed from Hamas captivity today and returned to their families in Israel: Yarden Bibas, Ofer Calderon and Keith Siegel. Horovitz compares today's two release "ceremonies" with the bedlam experienced on Thursday. We also learn how Hamas symbolically reminded onlookers of the horrors of October 7, 2023.
As we are increasingly hearing details of how those who are now released were treated in captivity, the mother of freed hostage Emily Damari revealed Friday that her daughter was held by Hamas at UNRWA facilities in the Gaza Strip, and that her captors refused to gi...
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- Day 483 - After chaotic hostage scene, Israel demands calmer handover
- Runtime
- 20:29
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Reporter Amy Spiro (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amy-spiro/) joins host Jessica Steinberg (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's episode.
With the release home of hostage and surveillance soldier Agam Berger, followed by the terrifying mayhem surrounding the release of hostages Arbel Yehoud, Gadi Mozes and the five Thai hostages, Spiro discusses Israel's delay of the release of Palestinian prisoners, and its demand to Hamas to guarantee safe passage in the release of future hostages.
Spiro reviews what is known about the release of the Thai hostages, Pongsak Thenna, Sathian Suwannakham, Watchara Sriaoun, Bannawat Seathao, and Surasak Lamnau, and reactions from the Thai Embassy.
US President Donald Trump's Mideast e...
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- What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Death penalty for terrorists?
- Runtime
- 28:57
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to a bonus episode of What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur.
This week, we answer a slew of listeners' responses to our conversation last week, "Excruciating dilemmas as murderers set to be released, (https://www.timesofisrael.com/daily-briefing-jan-24-day-476-excruciating-dilemmas-as-murderers-set-to-be-released/) " about the painful issue of the release of Palestinian security prisoners as part of the hostage release-ceasefire deal.
We received dozens of emails from listeners who asked how an Israeli implementation of the death penalty for mass murderers may shift future terrible negotiations as the nation currently reels from the reality that terrorists with blood on their hands are being freed.
We speak about the two cases in which Nazis were sentenced with th...
- Title
- What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Death penalty for terrorists?
- Runtime
- 30:08
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to a bonus episode of What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur.
This week, we answer a slew of listeners' responses to our conversation last week, "Excruciating dilemmas as murderers set to be released," about the painful issue of the release of Palestinian security prisoners as part of the hostage release-ceasefire deal.
We received dozens of emails from listeners who asked how an Israeli implementation of the death penalty for mass murderers may shift future terrible negotiations as the nation currently reels from the reality that terrorists with blood on their hands are being freed.
We speak about the two cases in which Nazis were sentenced with the death penalty and one case in which an Israeli IDF officer was executed by a firing squad in 1948 after being falsely accused of treason.
- Title
- Day 482 – Hamas theatrics and utter bedlam as 8 hostages freed
- Runtime
- 21:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/emanuel-fabian/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's episode.
This morning, 8 hostages — 3 Israeli and 5 Thai — returned to Israel from Gaza where they were taken by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad on October 7, 2023.
Agam Berger, 20, the final surveillance officer among seven young women taken hostage on October 7 was released from the northern Gaza Strip in a staged ceremony this morning. Fabian debriefs us on what we know about her health and describes the situation in the northern part of the Strip as the IDF allows residents to return there.
Just before 1 pm, two other Israeli civilians were released from w...
- Title
- Day 482 – Hamas theatrics and utter bedlam as 8 hostages freed
- Runtime
- 22:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode.
This morning, 8 hostages — 3 Israelis and 5 Thais — returned to Israel from Gaza where they were taken by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists on October 7, 2023.
Agam Berger, 20, the final surveillance officer among seven young women taken hostage on October 7 was released from the northern Gaza Strip in a staged ceremony this morning. Fabian debriefs us on what we know about her health and describes the situation in the northern part of the Strip as the IDF allows residents to return there.
Several hours later, two Israeli civilians were released amid a seething mob in Khan Younis: 29-year-old Arbel Yehoud, who was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz, and her fellow kibbutznik Gadi Moshe Mozes...
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- Day 481 - Trump's new deal - moving Gazans out of Gaza?
- Runtime
- 21:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
US bureau chief Jacob Magid (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jacob-magid/) joins host Jessica Steinberg (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jessica-steinberg/) for today's episode.
Magid takes a look at President Donald Trump's first week in office, including Trump's controversial comments regarding Gazans and where they could be moved, even temporarily during the reconstruction of parts of Gaza, and how Egypt and Jordan view the influx of Palestinians as a security threat.
He also discusses Steve Witkoff's role in hostage negotiations and his seemingly personal connection to the families of released hostages, as Witkoff touches down in Israel for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Saudi Arabia.
Magid shares insights from his interv...
- Title
- Day 481 – Trump’s new deal – moving Gazans out of Gaza?
- Runtime
- 22:38
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Jessica Steinberg for today’s episode.
Magid takes a look at President Donald Trump’s first week in office, including Trump’s controversial comments regarding Gazans and where they could be moved, even temporarily during the reconstruction of parts of Gaza, and how Egypt and Jordan view the influx of Palestinians as a security threat.
He also discusses Steve Witkoff’s role in hostage negotiations and his seemingly personal connection to the families of released hostages, as Witkoff touches down in Israel for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Saudi Arabia.
Magid shares insights from his interview with Barbara Leaf, a top Middle East diplomat from the Biden administration as they explored the ongoing challenges in Gaza post-wa...
- Title
- Day 480 - Quagmire in judicial branch as justice minister flexes
- Runtime
- 22:31
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Legal reporter Jeremy Sharon (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jeremy-sharon/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's episode.
Sharon was in court yesterday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resumed his testimony in his corruption trial. We hear whether the premier seems in good health following his prostate surgery even as his hearing was canceled today and tomorrow over a judge's illness.
We learn that an angry Netanyahu alleged that key aspects of the case against him rested on testimony that had been illegitimately obtained from witnesses such as former aides Nir Hefetz, Ari Harrow, and Shlomo Filber and that aspects of the indictment against him are factually inaccurate.
After an u...
- Title
- Day 480 - Quagmire in judicial branch as justice minister flexes
- Runtime
- 23:17
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Legal reporter Jeremy Sharon joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.
Sharon was in court yesterday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resumed his testimony in his corruption trial. We hear whether the premier seems in good health following his prostate surgery even as his hearing was canceled today and tomorrow over a judge's illness.
We learn that an angry Netanyahu alleged that key aspects of the case against him rested on testimony that had been illegitimately obtained from witnesses such as former aides Nir Hefetz, Ari Harrow, and Shlomo Filber and that aspects of the indictment against him are factually inaccurate.
After an unprecedented 16 months without a permanent Supreme Court president and in the face of unrelenting opposition from Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Justic...
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- What Matters Now to Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan: What to do when 'friends' disappoint
- Runtime
- 35:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to a bonus episode of What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Dayan is leading Yad Vashem's delegation to Auschwitz to observe the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation on January 27, 2025, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Ahead of his trip, Borschel-Dan sat with Dayan in his Jerusalem office to speak about the role of the institution in the past 15 months, following the murderous Hamas onslaught on southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
Following the massacre of 1,200 and hostage-taking of another 251, Dayan quickly experienced a betrayal from leaders he once considered "friends," such as António Guterres, the current Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Pope Francis, a fello...
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- Day 479 – Some Gazans return north as more hostages set to be freed
- Runtime
- 21:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Political correspondent Tal Schneider (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/tal-schneider/) and reporter Sue Surkes (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/sue-surkes/) join host Jessica Steinberg (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jessica-steinberg/) for today's episode.
Israel allows thousands of Gazans to return to the north of the Strip, as per the hostage-ceasefire deal, following confirmation that hostages Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger and a third hostage would be released this week on Thursday, while three more hostages, all men, will be released on Saturday, Schneider notes.
She also reviews the latest regarding the Hezbollah ceasefire, which is being extended until February 18, during which time the Lebanese army is supposed to to deploy to the eastern part of southern...
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- Day 478 - Hamas violates Gaza ceasefire; Lebanon truce expires
- Runtime
- 19:12
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/emanuel-fabian/) and reporter Amy Spiro (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amy-spiro/) joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/amanda-borschel-dan/) for today's episode.
Yesterday, the four female soldiers held hostage in Gaza for 477 days — Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, and Liri Albag — were reunited with their loved ones, embracing them with smiles and tears after their release from captivity. Today, we concentrate on the Hamas violation of the ceasefire deal due to the failure to free civilian hostage Arbel Yehud and Israel’s consequent decision to pause its pulling out from part of the Netzarim Corridor — even as thousands of Palestinians gather on the coastal road in c...
- Title
- Day 476 - Excruciating dilemmas as murderers set to be released (Full video)
- Runtime
- 34:05
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode, a special Friday Focus on the painful issue of the release of Palestinian security prisoners as part of the hostage release-ceasefire deal.
Tomorrow, another four hostages are set to be released from Gaza -- presumably women and presumably alive. Alongside the Israelis' release, however, up to 200 Palestinian prisoners could also be released, according to the current formula of 30 Palestinian prisoners for every civilian and 50 for every female soldier.
Rettig Gur takes on this complicated and emotional subject through looking at the history of terrorist hostage-taking and previous so-called exchanges of the abductees and Palestinian prisoners -- including those who were serving multiple life sentences.
We sp...
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- What Matters Now to Adir Miller and mom Marianne: Getting the last laugh after the Holocaust
- Runtime
- 36:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with comedian/filmmaker Adir Miller and his mother Marianne Miller, a child Holocaust survivor.
On January 27, Marianne -- a well-known Israeli speaker and educator -- will address the United Nations General Assembly on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Born in wartime Budapest, Marianne will speak in New York about her survival story, surrounded by three generations of her family, as she was last year while leading a March of the Living delegation from the city of her birth to Auschwitz.
As a baby, Marianne was saved by her mother, who tore off her yellow star and, holding her daughter, ran away from a transport for mothers and children to certain death. They evaded capture aft...
- Title
- What Matters Now to Adir Miller and mom Marianne: Getting the last laugh after the Holocaust
- Runtime
- 37:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with comedian/filmmaker Adir Miller and his mother Marianne Miller, a child Holocaust survivor.
On January 27, Marianne -- a well-known Israeli speaker and educator -- will address the United Nations General Assembly on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Born in wartime Budapest, Marianne will speak in New York about her survival story, surrounded by three generations of her family, as she was last year while leading a March of the Living delegation from the city of her birth to Auschwitz.
As a baby, Marianne was saved by her mother, who tore off her yellow star and, holding her daughter, ran away from a transport for mothers and children to certain death. They evaded capture after Marianne's mother bri...
- Title
- Day 475 – Tensions grow as next release of hostages nears
- Runtime
- 29:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz joins host Jessica Steinberg for today’s episode.
Horovitz reviews the fraught, ongoing process of the hostage releases, both those that took place last Sunday and the four living women expected to be released on Saturday. He comments on how every day carries a new twist in the ceasefire and hostage exchange, and the terrifying moment of transfer in Gaza City, last Sunday.
He also talks about some of the behind-the-scenes aspects of the ceasefire, how and why it finally came about, the cooperation between the Trump and Biden administrations, the weakened Hezbollah and positioning of Hamas, along with the fact that it’s not an easy deal for Israel, but it will save hostages’ lives.
Discussion of phase two of the deal has also begun, as ...
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- Day 474 - As IDF operates in West Bank, settlers step up violence
- Runtime
- 28:07
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian and settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon join host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.
Four people were wounded yesterday evening by a terrorist who went on a stabbing spree in a trendy Tel Aviv neighborhood, emergency services and Israel Police said, before he was shot dead. An off-duty IDF tank officer who had lost a hand during fighting in the Gaza Strip was among those who attempted to neutralize the terrorist. Fabian tells us more.
Yesterday, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and the head of the IDF Southern Command Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman both announced their resignations, 15 months into the war sparked by Hamas’s attack and two days after a ceasefire and hostage release deal with the terror group in the Gaza Strip went into effect. Why now and who is in ...
