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[00:00:00] Five, have a good evening.
[00:00:14] Good evening to you. This is what awaits us here. In the IDF, they are investigating the incident
[00:00:18] in which two reserve paratroopers fell. The reaction was curbed, and the families
[00:00:21] are still struggling to cope. Hardin and Edelstein
[00:00:25] will launch their party today. We will check who needs another party. Right-wing,
[00:00:28] and if they plan to bypass the primaries and return to the Likud
[00:00:31] after the elections, and also Beitar Jerusalem bids farewell to a legend.
[00:00:35] The defender Shimon Sharnucha passed away today.
[00:00:39] His good friend who played alongside him for years will be with us here. And also
[00:00:43] Chef Granit comes down to the people and opens
[00:00:46] his shawarma place. I said it. We will have a first taste test from the Machane Yehuda market,
[00:00:49] but first of all, the disappearance of Eldar
[00:00:53] Dean raises difficult questions about the police's conduct
[00:00:57] in the first days of the investigation. He was portrayed as someone who fled
[00:01:00] justice and not as someone who might be in danger of death.
[00:01:03] The report about finding a body, which is suspected to be related to Eldar,
[00:01:07] was revealed to his mother who hadn't slept since he disappeared
[00:01:10] through the media and not from the police. Here in
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[00:01:56] Committee for the 26th Knesset. Again, hello to you. This morning
[00:02:09] we woke up to difficult news about the fall of two IDF soldiers
[00:02:12] yesterday in the booby-trapped house in southern Lebanon.
[00:02:15] In a short while, Sergeant First Class Tamir Vaknin, 33, from Eilat,
[00:02:19] a combat medic and paratrooper, will be laid to rest. Tamir leaves behind parents
[00:02:23] and two siblings. Earlier today, the funeral of Company Commander
[00:02:26] Captain (res.) Harel Biranstock, may his memory be blessed, was held.
[00:02:30] Harel, 34, leaves behind a wife, four children,
[00:02:34] parents, brothers and sisters. Here are words spoken
[00:02:37] by his mother. You built a home with our Elia,
[00:02:40] who is a true daughter to us, a sweet family,
[00:02:43] the sweetest, most charming, the most charming.
[00:02:47] Wonderful, the most wonderful, a balanced,
[00:02:50] happy, healthy family. Elia, the hero, stood by your side
[00:02:53] in everything. With nobility of spirit, because she knew
[00:02:56] how important the army was to you and how valuable leadership was in your eyes. You loved what you did and always said,
[00:03:08] "Mom, everyone dies in the end, and if you have to die,
[00:03:12] then at least like this." We are with the escalation in Lebanon. In the incident,
[00:03:15] four soldiers were also wounded, Itai Blumenthal, what can we
[00:03:19] tell about this incident? Yes, when you see the funeral,
[00:03:22] your heart just breaks. This incident
[00:03:24] happened yesterday around 12 noon, when the soldiers
[00:03:27] of Brigade 55, the spearhead brigade, the paratroopers'
[00:03:30] brigade, were performing security work for a bulldozer
[00:03:33] that was working in the village of Majdel Zoun in southern Lebanon
[00:03:37] within the Israeli security strip. For a reason that is still unclear,
[00:03:40] it was learned that the soldiers entered a building, a building
[00:03:43] that turned out to be booby-trapped, and due to the enormous
[00:03:47] explosion, the company commander, Major (res.) Eyal Biranstock,
[00:03:51] and a soldier, Staff Sergeant (res.) Tamir Vaknin, were killed.
[00:03:54] Four other soldiers were seriously wounded. Yes, we can say
[00:03:57] that their condition is stabilizing at Rambam Hospital.
[00:04:01] They are currently out of danger. The IDF is investigating the incident.
[00:04:04] I think the main thing now that everyone is dealing with,
[00:04:07] especially in Israel, is to understand if there was a violation
[00:04:10] of the ceasefire. If Hezbollah terrorists arrived at that building
[00:04:14] in the last few days and booby-trapped it, then there is an incident
[00:04:17] that is much more serious than the incident we can
[00:04:20] assume happened. So the IDF is investigating this incident,
[00:04:24] both the conduct of the soldiers and everything related to clearing
[00:04:26] a building before entering. But it is definitely a very
[00:04:30] difficult incident that is happening during direct talks between Israel
[00:04:34] and Lebanon in Rome, meaning this whole agreement and the agreed
[00:04:37] situation severely limit the freedom of action. Is there a connection
[00:04:41] between these things and the reactions? We will elaborate immediately.
[00:04:44] Roy Kais, how is Hezbollah reacting, if at all, to the incident and the IDF
[00:04:47] attacks following this event? So, you see, at least for now,
[00:04:51] what I've seen, there hasn't been any official statement from Hezbollah
[00:04:54] regarding the incident. This difficult one in which two soldiers fell and several
[00:04:57] others were injured. The thing is, in the end,
[00:05:01] we have to remember the following, and I think the connection made in the chemical
[00:05:04] conversation is correct. This incident and in general, we saw a lot of
[00:05:08] provocations by Hezbollah against the forces, including the launching of drones,
[00:05:11] they occur when Israel and Lebanon are trying to reach
[00:05:15] agreements in direct negotiations in Rome. Today, despite
[00:05:19] the difficult incident and despite the escalation that included IDF
[00:05:23] attacks in southern Lebanon, including today in Al-Mansouri, where there was an evacuation
[00:05:26] warning, the talks continued, today for the third consecutive
[00:05:30] day, at least for now, no new agreements are known, but
[00:05:33] it seems that in the end, when looking at who is trying
[00:05:36] to calm the situation here, it is the Americans, of course, those who are sponsoring
[00:05:40] these negotiations in Rome, and therefore
[00:05:43] we can come and estimate that in the end, when looking
[00:05:47] at the reactions of the IDF, at least what we have seen so far,
[00:05:50] it is likely that the Lebanese side tried to enlist the American
[00:05:54] side to limit the Israeli response. At the end of the day,
[00:05:58] we also need to remember the following, Hezbollah's ultimate goal
[00:06:01] is to hinder and collapse the direct dialogue between Israel
[00:06:05] and Lebanon, and therefore I think that the Americans
[00:06:08] and also the Lebanese military do not want a dramatic
[00:06:11] Israeli response, which would lead to that completely.
[00:06:14] The security and political are intertwined. Gili Cohen, and all this is happening
[00:06:18] while the talks, as they said here, between Israel
[00:06:22] and Lebanon in Rome are continuing.
[00:06:25] Yes, Karen, they are continuing. The truth is that they ended a little over an hour
[00:06:29] ago, and at least
[00:06:32] for now, we don't know what happened in them. There is some
[00:06:36] information coming from the Lebanese side about things
[00:06:39] they discussed, but at least
[00:06:43] for now, we are not receiving an answer from the Israeli side
[00:06:46] as to whether that is indeed what happened in the room or not. Let's just mention that yesterday, the negotiation team
[00:06:50] complained that there were repeated leaks from the Lebanese side.
[00:06:54] So, how do we say it? For now, we can't say what really happened
[00:06:57] in the talks and if any progress was made, whether
[00:07:01] in the continued implementation of the pilot or in other issues. This evening,
[00:07:04] let's remember, the political-security cabinet is supposed to deal with Gaza.
[00:07:08] I assume it will also discuss the escalation in the north.
[00:07:10] We will wait and see. Ilay Cohen, thank you very much.
[00:07:13] And does the great United States have ammunition
[00:07:17] problems? Perhaps that's the reason, Moab Vardi, why Trump
[00:07:20] is not escalating his response to Iran and is going for a deal,
[00:07:24] because according to reports, there was a very strong argument
[00:07:26] between Pete Kexed, the US Secretary of War, and the President.
[00:07:30] Correct. According to a Washington Post report last night,
[00:07:33] Trump called off the attack, his intention to go
[00:07:36] into a wide-ranging war in Iran, due to a shortage of missiles,
[00:07:40] a shortage of missiles and especially of the US. Then, according
[00:07:43] to the report, last Friday, at the cabinet meeting held
[00:07:47] at Camp David, Trump actually says to Pete Kexed
[00:07:50] and those present, "It turns out there was no ammunition problem at all,
[00:07:54] and you didn't update me. You, Pete Kexed, why didn't you update me
[00:07:58] that the problem was already solved? Because I didn't know that the problem
[00:08:01] was resolved and we had already managed to compensate for the shortage, we didn't
[00:08:05] launch an attack." And this, of course, is very problematic. And Pete Kexed,
[00:08:08] according to the report, blames his deputy, who was supposed to report
[00:08:11] to Trump, and so on. What's interesting here is that first
[00:08:15] of all, Trump denies that there was any problem at all, or that
[00:08:19] there was such an argument or problem between them. But what is certain
[00:08:22] is that there is a problem with missiles and ammunition. We see it both
[00:08:26] in the Iranian arena, in the Gulf, and in the arena in Ukraine, and this
[00:08:30] is something that is very, very disturbing. And the problem here is
[00:08:33] that first of all, the use of ballistic
[00:08:37] missiles is huge both in Ukraine and here. It is huge, it depletes
[00:08:41] stocks,
[00:08:43] and the production rate that is supposed to compensate for the missiles that are being
[00:08:47] fired is not managing to close the gap, and that is a problem.
[00:08:50] So now it could be that the missiles were just an excuse
[00:08:54] that leaked to actually give Trump
[00:08:57] a way to not escalate the war and then perhaps this leak
[00:09:01] was also intended to say that there is no missile problem.
[00:09:04] What needs to be said are two things: first, that there is
[00:09:08] a problem with ammunition, whether missiles or other ammunition,
[00:09:12] that affects everyone who is currently confronting Iran. This currently
[00:09:16] affects Israel, the United States, and Ukraine in this sense,
[00:09:19] this entire axis. And the second thing is that it supposedly
[00:09:23] contradicts, but it's not necessarily contradictory. Even if there is no
[00:09:26] concrete missile problem right now, let's say that it's possible to bring
[00:09:30] from other sectors or compensate to launch one attack,
[00:09:33] Trump has not changed his stance right now and he is trying to do
[00:09:37] everything in his power to avoid war and achieve the goal
[00:09:41] he wants through a diplomatic agreement. Thank you very much, Moab Vardi.
[00:09:45] We want to return to the difficult incident that happened yesterday
[00:09:48] in Lebanon. Matan, his brother, joins us now. Rabbi Harel
[00:09:52] Biranstock, may his memory be blessed. Hello, Matan.
[00:09:56] Hello and blessings. First of all, we hug you, your family,
[00:09:59] and share your sorrow. Thank you for talking to us on this
[00:10:03] difficult day. Since this morning, we have been exposed
[00:10:07] to many stories about your brother, may his memory
[00:10:10] be blessed. Tell us about him.
[00:10:14] Umm, Harel was the eldest. He was 34 years old, a big brother to five children.
[00:10:18] Harel was eight years older than me. Harel
[00:10:21] was a person who was the life of the party.
[00:10:25] No one saw him without immediately
[00:10:29] smiling. He was a person full
[00:10:31] of laughter, of silliness
[00:10:35] sometimes. A person with incredible
[00:10:38] life force. Really, he loved
[00:10:42] to travel very much, he loved sports very much, he was very, very
[00:10:46] competitive. And he was really very,
[00:10:49] very connected to his family, to his children, each child
[00:10:52] was his whole world. His wife Elia also had an amazing,
[00:10:55] amazing relationship. And at the same time,
[00:10:58] he was truly a commander and a completely uncompromising
[00:11:01] person. He was zero, zero
[00:11:04] shortcuts and uncompromising in anything.
[00:11:08] And his commander told today that he wanted to take on the next
[00:11:11] mission that was supposed to come, to get the most complex tasks
[00:11:15] of the battalion, out of a real
[00:11:19] desire for excellence and always to be 100% in every
[00:11:21] mission and every project he undertakes. Yes, Matan, you also do
[00:11:25] quite a bit of reserve duty. Did you talk about it, about this challenge
[00:11:29] of managing a family? He also worked at Elbit, he also did things
[00:11:32] for Israeli society. Soon we will talk about his conversions for the sake of peace.
[00:11:36] Did you talk about it at home, about this price, about the challenge
[00:11:40] of being a good commander to soldiers, but also a father
[00:11:43] and a husband? Oh, of course,
[00:11:47] he was, since October 7th, he was,
[00:11:50] he served as a company commander. He always talked about this role as truly
[00:11:55] the role of his life. It was
[00:11:59] half, if not the main work he did in the last
[00:12:02] three months, in the last
[00:12:05] three years. And it clearly leads
[00:12:09] to social costs. It takes a lot, a lot
[00:12:12] from the family, from work in general, no need to talk about it. But he received
[00:12:16] a very, very strong support from his family, also the family
[00:12:20] especially from Alia and their four wonderful children,
[00:12:23] and also from our home barracks. I have another
[00:12:27] brother who is also a company commander in the reserves. I also
[00:12:30] did quite a bit of reserve duty, which is
[00:12:33] what it's all about. The picture of your brother,
[00:12:36] which cannot be ignored, there is one picture, you probably haven't seen it yet, of his daughter
[00:12:40] holding a teddy bear in this very complex
[00:12:44] place. How much do you understand and prepare
[00:12:46] for the fact that you need to be there? That picture
[00:12:50] is truly just... Clearly we are here for each other, and the children are our flesh
[00:12:54] and blood,
[00:13:10] and they are the beating heart of the family. The children
[00:13:13] and grandchildren, also of Harel and Alia's children,
[00:13:17] and all the other grandchildren, they are our
[00:13:20] driving force. We are here for them,
[00:13:23] also for Alia, his wife.
[00:13:27] Our first priority is that very, very hard,
[00:13:30] and receive the things that Harel wanted to pass on to them,
[00:13:32] whether in experiences or in education. Of course,
[00:13:35] they are our top priority. One word about his initiative. He enlisted to help the Shalva
[00:13:39] Band. He even ran in the New York Marathon to raise
[00:13:43] money for them. So not just a commander and a fighter,
[00:13:46] but also someone who cared deeply about Israeli society.
[00:13:49] Yes. The association is an association
[00:13:52] that accompanies, yes, it's an association that accompanies
[00:13:56] people with special needs, such as Down syndrome,
[00:14:00] and so on. Part of them
[00:14:04] has a project of fundraising
[00:14:06] for the New York Marathon, a fundraising project where
[00:14:09] every runner raises tens of thousands
[00:14:13] of shekels in order to run in the race.
[00:14:16] Harel did it, worked
[00:14:19] worked really hard to raise the money, we are talking about
[00:14:22] tens of thousands of shekels. And he did
[00:14:31] it, and during that time, during that time he had a reserve
[00:14:34] duty order, and he carried out the order, and the race
[00:14:38] was in November, and he was in the maneuver in Lebanon,
[00:14:40] which started on October 24, which means
[00:14:44] without training for the marathon, he still couldn't raise
[00:14:48] the, all his fundraising stopped because he was really
[00:14:51] invested in the maneuver in Lebanon.
[00:14:54] And in the end, he succeeded, and he is amazing. Matan, immediately
[00:14:57] after the maneuver, he flew to New York
[00:15:01] and did it successfully. Like a giant, amazing.
[00:15:04] You sound like a special family. We wish you from here that you will not
[00:15:07] know sorrow, and thank you also for the days
[00:15:11] you are doing and for what he did for the State of Israel. Thank
[00:15:14] you very much, thank you. Thank you, thank you.
[00:15:17] Now we have this announcement that was received in the last
[00:15:20] few minutes, that the police announced that the body found
[00:15:24] this morning in the Petah Tikva area is that of Eldar Dean,
[00:15:27] who has been missing for about three weeks. Two of his friends
[00:15:31] have been arrested and are suspected of murder. We will update
[00:15:34] with all the new details in this case. We are now going
[00:15:37] for a short break, and after that, why was
[00:15:41] the singer arrested who has been singing for years in front of the central
[00:15:44] bus station in Beersheba? And we also went to taste
[00:15:48] the new shawarma of Chef Asaf Granit in Jerusalem.
[00:15:51] Short break, and we continue.
[00:15:54] With all my heart, we're going to have an amazing evening.
[00:15:57] My husband and I had a pothos in the bedroom.
[00:16:01] It died for some reason.
[00:16:04] As a therapy client, I'm not picky. I'm a Holocaust
[00:16:07] survivor. Bring me bread and I'll be fine.
[00:19:38] tests, DNA and all the forensic findings. And we will just mention
[00:19:42] that what remained of the body were bones. Two and a half weeks
[00:19:45] passed, but the weather and the
[00:19:48] yes, the weather and other conditions
[00:19:52] unfortunately led to this, and ultimately,
[00:19:55] as stated, it was his body. And now we are already talking
[00:19:58] about a murder case, not a missing person, and not as the police
[00:20:02] feared, that he had fled. A murder case for Eldar
[00:20:05] Dean, whose two main suspects are his two friends, Omri Perez,
[00:20:09] and Maxim Barberman. And if we go
[00:20:12] back, Karen, to explain how this case developed,
[00:20:15] then two and a half weeks ago, on July 18, Eldar
[00:20:18] Dean went out with his two friends, Maxim and Omri,
[00:20:21] to a park in Hod Hasharon, where, among other things, they took
[00:20:25] drugs and celebrated. At a certain point, they had
[00:20:29] an argument, and the two friends left Eldar, and he remained there
[00:20:32] alone. After some time, the friends returned
[00:20:36] and met Eldar again, and he, according to
[00:20:39] the police's understanding from the investigation, introduced them to another group.
[00:20:42] Then another fight developed, and after this fight between
[00:20:46] the groups, Omri, together with Maxim
[00:20:50] and Eldar, left the scene, drove
[00:20:53] Maxim's mother's car, and left him at the gas station
[00:20:56] in Petah Tikva. Perhaps we can see now on screen
[00:21:00] Eldar's last sighting at the gas station
[00:21:04] in Petah Tikva. The images we are seeing
[00:21:07] are of his mother, who, it must be said, did not stop
[00:21:10] saying, "I am worried about my son." And when the police
[00:21:14] said, at the time, that his life was not in danger,
[00:21:17] our hearts go out to the mother who received this news, even though
[00:21:21] she did not stop talking about it.
[00:21:25] Right, listen, I was at the scene today when his mother was there,
[00:21:28] and it was a very difficult and heartbreaking sight. They still
[00:21:32] didn't know if it was indeed his body, but let's remember
[00:21:35] something important, Karen, and you interrupted me at that
[00:21:39] moment, the gas station that Eldar arrived at. And now we are seeing
[00:21:42] him. Behind the gas station, his body was found, meaning
[00:21:46] at a distance of about less than 100 meters, 50 meters,
[00:21:49] an open area. That means they should have conducted the search
[00:21:53] and looked for him there. Hadass, elaborate on this,
[00:21:56] how was this search not conducted before? That's a good question,
[00:21:59] but we can also touch on this story and say, Karen,
[00:22:03] that this investigation started as a missing person investigation
[00:22:07] from the Dimona station, and ultimately, this investigation only
[00:22:11] yesterday, yesterday transferred to... Sharon,
[00:22:14] and as soon as it transferred to Sharon, this morning the body was already
[00:22:17] found. Throughout this entire
[00:22:20] period, each of the units investigated something else.
[00:22:23] The Dimona investigation, the Dimona station investigated his disappearance,
[00:22:27] and the Sharon station investigated this fight I told you about
[00:22:31] between the friends. A lot
[00:22:34] of question marks, and you will check this and report on it
[00:22:38] throughout this evening. Thank you very much for these details.
[00:22:41] You're welcome. In one transition, elections now. Almost a month
[00:22:45] remains until the closing of the lists for the next Knesset.
[00:22:49] After promos, trailers, and quite a few endless
[00:22:52] teasers, it must be said, today it finally happened.
[00:22:56] Anna Pines, you are at the launch party of the new
[00:23:00] party of Gila Darden and Yuli Edelstein,
[00:23:03] both former Likud. Hello, yes, so right here behind
[00:23:07] us, final preparations are still underway for this party
[00:23:10] that will be officially launched today. Yesterday, they already announced this press
[00:23:14] conference. From what we understand, they will start today
[00:23:17] already with the campaigns. This
[00:23:21] is what they promise, what is called.
[00:23:24] Time will tell if this will indeed happen.
[00:23:27] There are a few more names that are already, as they say,
[00:23:31] being discussed for joining
[00:23:32] the new party. Nothing
[00:23:36] has been officially announced yet. Former Beit Shemesh Mayor
[00:23:39] Aliza Bloch is one of these names, as is Colonel (res.)
[00:23:43] Hezi Nahama, and even Orens Maja. Some of the names
[00:23:47] that came up in the context of the new party. It is still unclear
[00:23:58] if in the future they will unite with parties with a very similar
[00:24:00] platform, like Gantz's
[00:24:03] or Troper and Handel's. But the press conference
[00:24:06] will begin immediately, and we will update here,
[00:24:10] try to understand what is behind this move. Shahr Glick, you are
[00:24:13] joining us now. Is this what we needed, another right-wing
[00:24:17] party? Because the messages Anna spoke about are quite similar
[00:24:21] to yesterday's launch party of Hili Troper and Yoaz.
[00:24:24] What is expected to happen in the end? Everyone will unite into one bloc,
[00:24:28] join the Likud, or not the Likud? How do you see
[00:24:31] it?
[00:24:34] Look, the assumption is that in the 33 days remaining
[00:24:37] until the closing of the lists, things will still change.
[00:24:41] Meaning, it's clear that all these parties in this space between
[00:24:45] the blocs are currently a starting point for future
[00:24:48] negotiations on alliances either within this space, or with
[00:24:52] different parties in the various blocs. And therefore, there is indeed
[00:24:55] a difference in this matter between the parties. Meaning, yesterday,
[00:24:58] Troper and Handel announced their party. It's completely clear
[00:25:02] that they are a party that identifies more with the opposition bloc
[00:25:06] than with the coalition. They are willing to complete 61
[00:25:09] seats. They make it clear that Netanyahu should not be prime minister.
[00:25:12] Meaning, from this point of view, they are between the blocs, but with
[00:25:16] a very clear leaning towards the opposition. In contrast,
[00:25:20] Arden and Edelstein, who are forming their party tonight, are flirting
[00:25:23] with the coalition. They want to be part of the national
[00:25:27] camp. The discourse will be about a broad unity government
[00:25:30] and a Zionist government, etc., but they are much more with
[00:25:34] the right, flirting with the national camp. They do want to neutralize
[00:25:38] the Haredi parties. They do talk about the space between the blocs,
[00:25:41] but really, it should be remembered that they, and also Benny
[00:25:44] Gantz and Dedi Simhi, all these players, this is only the first
[00:25:48] stage. There are another 33
[00:25:50] days, which is an eternity in terms of politics, and they may
[00:25:54] yet unite with each other, or indeed with other parties. Thank you very
[00:25:57] much, Shahar Glick. Yaara Shapira, now we have your take on this,
[00:26:01] and also one question, Ayelet Shaked, does that mean
[00:26:05] no place? Both she and Moshe Kahlon
[00:26:08] are being offered, and the answer is that they currently do not
[00:26:12] want to enter. Look, Moshe Kahlon is being offered, and the answer
[00:26:15] is that he doesn't want to enter. In Ayelet Shaked's case,
[00:26:19] she didn't want this specific merger, and also
[00:26:22] they weren't very keen on her from the other side.
[00:26:26] In any case, both of them currently find themselves outside all these
[00:26:30] political alignments. Now, look, if we count, there's Gantz
[00:26:33] and Dedi Simhi, assuming Dedi Simhi stays with Gantz,
[00:26:37] there's here doubt about Ofer Winter, if he might
[00:26:41] run. There's Arden and Edelstein, there's
[00:26:45] Hili Troper and Yoaz Hendel,
[00:26:48] a lot of parties that are seemingly in the middle
[00:26:51] between the blocs. There's no chance, absolutely zero,
[00:26:54] that all of them will pass the electoral threshold.
[00:26:57] Uh, and therefore, I think that in the meantime, something
[00:27:01] in these announcements is intended as a prerequisite
[00:27:04] for negotiations that we will see closer to the closing of the lists.
[00:27:07] Everyone who sees themselves as a group, announces
[00:27:11] the formation of a party. In about a month,
[00:27:14] when we get closer to the closing of the lists, all these people will talk among themselves
[00:27:17] and see how perhaps all of them together can pass the electoral
[00:27:21] threshold. Another name that returns to our lives, perhaps
[00:27:24] we will put a question mark, and perhaps the answer is
[00:27:28] Yair Rettinger. Eli Yishai is back.
[00:27:32] Eli Yishai has a report on Channel 12 that he is
[00:27:35] in talks with a party called
[00:27:39] the Haredi Public. This is the party that challenges
[00:27:42] United Torah Judaism and Shas, a party of
[00:27:46] independent Haredim. Now, it's not the only party, there are
[00:27:50] other such parties, or some intentions to form
[00:27:53] independent Haredi parties. We have already seen one or two,
[00:27:57] or even. What's interesting about this party of Moti
[00:28:01] Leitner, whoever saw the campaign
[00:28:04] on the buses, "The Haredi Public," is that this
[00:28:08] connection is supposed to create here
[00:28:11] a kind of Sephardic Ashkenazi connection, something
[00:28:15] we haven't really seen before. Does it have a chance
[00:28:18] in terms of the electoral threshold? I don't really
[00:28:22] know, but nevertheless, what's interesting here
[00:28:26] is that Eli Yishai already made moves after he left
[00:28:29] Shas. He already made moves
[00:28:33] for an independent party together with us.
[00:28:36] He allied with Ben Gvir at the time, or with Otzma Yehudit.
[00:28:40] But here, it seems to me that in the past there was
[00:28:43] a very tough war against him from Shas. What are
[00:28:47] you doing against the will of Maran and Rabbi Ovadia,
[00:28:50] etc.? Here, it seems to me that a line has been crossed.
[00:28:54] There is perhaps more courage or a barrier has been broken
[00:28:57] for those independent elements in the Haredi public to come
[00:29:01] and say, "We are going alone." Do you see this happening,
[00:29:05] a new Haredi party without a spiritual rabbi or a spiritual
[00:29:09] leader who tells them to vote and put the ballot in the box?
[00:29:12] Does it have a chance? Because Eli Yishai proved that he already
[00:29:15] did it. He did it at the time with Rabbi Mazuz, with "Yachad Ha'Am Itanu" (Together with Our People). He already crossed. what a barrier and again I say here
[00:29:19] it seems to me that something has changed in the public the ultra-Orthodox community, that
[00:29:22] monopoly of Shas, it seems to me, has weakened a little, and those
[00:29:25] independent factors are now daring more. Will this end
[00:29:28] in a party or in a reservation in another party? It's impossible to know at this
[00:29:31] stage, it will be interesting, a benign dragging, thank you
[00:29:35] very much, to both of you, we will still remain in politics, we are going to the launch
[00:29:39] party, you could call it that, Gila Gamliel
[00:29:41] and Yuli Edelstein, Anna Pines, we are returning to you, something is starting to happen
[00:29:45] there, and Major (res.) Bin Shatok,
[00:29:48] may their memory be blessed, who fell in combat
[00:29:52] in Lebanon, we pray for the recovery
[00:29:55] of the wounded, for the safety and success of IDF soldiers
[00:29:58] and security forces on all fronts. May
[00:30:01] their memory be
[00:30:04] blessed.
[00:30:06] This is one of the hardest days of my life, but also one
[00:30:10] of the most important and significant days
[00:30:12] of my life. It is hard for me, because this evening I
[00:30:16] am leaving the political home where I grew up for more than 30
[00:30:19] years. A home where I grew, a home where
[00:30:23] I had the privilege of serving the State of Israel as a Member of Knesset,
[00:30:26] as a minister or as an ambassador.
[00:30:29] And unfortunately, I can no longer call it home,
[00:30:33] because the Likud representatives no longer represent
[00:30:37] the Likud voters whom I love so
[00:30:39] much. But this is also a day of mission
[00:30:43] for me, because I could have stayed in the safe place,
[00:30:46] I had the option to continue on the public path
[00:30:49] I knew, but there are moments when a person must
[00:30:53] choose between their personal future and the future
[00:30:56] of their country. I chose the State
[00:31:00] of Israel. I am not leaving the home where
[00:31:03] I grew up. I am going out to ensure there will be
[00:31:06] a party that can fulfill them. I grew up
[00:31:10] in Ashkelon in a religious Zionist home. I was educated in the Bnei Akiva
[00:31:13] Netiv Meir yeshiva in Jerusalem. All my life
[00:31:17] I have been a right-winger, I have never wavered. I believe
[00:31:21] in the Land of Israel, I believe in settlement, I believe
[00:31:24] in governance, and I
[00:31:25] am against it.
[00:31:31] Gamliel needs to remember his ultimate goal. Ultimately, Gila Gamliel wants to succeed
[00:31:34] Netanyahu as the leader
[00:31:37] of the national camp, let's call it
[00:31:40] that. He sees
[00:31:43] this party as a way to do it
[00:31:46] and to land from above in a round. Therefore, the first
[00:31:50] thing he needs is to say, I am a right-winger, I
[00:31:52] am a right-winger, I am not in the Likud because 1 2
[00:31:56] 3. Afterwards, if, for example, he grants the
[00:32:00] government to Netanyahu's government, that would be a bad way
[00:32:03] to return. Yes, they will forgive him. Thank you Yaara Shapira. We are with this story
[00:32:07] in the hot summer days, the big vacation, families go out to enjoy
[00:32:10] themselves and encounter the queue-skip certificate that has become
[00:32:13] very common in recent years. This is what former Deputy Minister
[00:32:17] Abir Kara wrote about this issue: "Over a million exemptions
[00:32:20] were distributed in a reckless manner. What should have been
[00:32:23] for exceptional cases became a nuisance due to the negligence of the National
[00:32:27] Insurance Institute and foolish Members of Knesset. A thriving
[00:32:30] market for counterfeits has emerged." Joining us now is Abir
[00:32:33] Kara. Hello Keren, good afternoon. What
[00:32:37] is the problem with the queue-skip? There is no problem with
[00:32:40] a queue-skip, but a queue-skip is a benefit that they wanted to give
[00:32:44] to people only in exceptional and rare cases. In 2013,
[00:32:47] they passed it into law for the first time. Until 2013, by the way, people
[00:32:51] managed in the supermarket without a queue-skip. They knew how to get past each other without any
[00:32:54] problem. In 2013, when the law passed, Keren,
[00:32:58] only those who had a 50% disability certificate
[00:33:01] with mobility were eligible to receive the exemption. But over the years, they
[00:33:05] expanded this exemption more and more. We reached a situation
[00:33:08] where today there are more than a million exemptions, including
[00:33:12] counterfeits. This means that there is no meaning to the queue-skip. Everyone
[00:33:15] has a queue-skip. Now I ask myself, and you see people going
[00:33:19] to amusement parks, people going to parks, people going to all sorts
[00:33:22] of places. What is your right as a citizen who is here in this country?
[00:33:26] When you stand in line, the whole point of a line is that you will stand
[00:33:30] there all that time and wait so that you can receive the service
[00:33:33] at your time. Now, Keren, you need to understand, around this event there is
[00:33:37] an industry of counterfeits. More than 80% of these tickets are completely
[00:33:41] fake. You can now type on the internet, go in and search.
[00:33:45] For 399 shekels, you get the right to cut in front of everyone.
[00:33:48] And then we see people who pay a lot of money to go
[00:33:52] to amusement parks, stand in line, and are passed by all
[00:33:55] sorts of ruffians who could have, I'll tell you why I say
[00:33:59] ruffians, it's true, it's not everyone, it's true that there are people for whom this
[00:34:03] entitlement is perhaps important, all these things are true, but what
[00:34:06] happened now is that most of the people standing
[00:34:09] in line, it's longer than the regular line, and that's
[00:34:13] thanks to the people standing there, and therefore.
[00:34:15] I want to ask you, what about enforcement? A well-ordered country needs
[00:34:19] enforcement for this story. How do we reach numbers of a million exemptions
[00:34:22] and such a counterfeiting industry? Where is the country? You see me every
[00:34:26] evening, apparently, when I bring all sorts of stories about fraud and scams
[00:34:29] and trickery. Unfortunately, there is no police, no
[00:34:33] enforcement. The State of Israel has shirked its responsibility for law
[00:34:36] and order, and this is indeed part of the rules of these things. When we
[00:34:40] look at the disabled parking permits, Keren, a disabled parking permit from
[00:34:43] 2019. In 2019,
[00:34:49] we know that real disabled people, like my mother, who is 100% disabled, when she
[00:34:52] looks for parking today, she can't find any, because everyone was given one, and
[00:34:55] athletes were given a disabled parking permit. Now, how were these given? There was
[00:34:58] a lot of fraud. A ring was caught in 2024. We
[00:35:02] know there was fraud in this matter. We know that doctors in some cases received
[00:35:06] and issued 10,500 disabled parking permits in one day, in one day.
[00:35:10] Today everyone has a disabled parking permit, everyone parks on the sidewalks. There is
[00:35:13] no police, you know what, and we, the ordinary citizen who wants
[00:35:17] to cross the street, if you live in Tel Aviv, you know, when you want to cross
[00:35:21] the street, there is no sidewalk free. Today all the cars are disabled cars. So
[00:35:24] this thing is impossible, it requires fundamental and immediate treatment.
[00:35:28] We need to bring this issue back to proportion. I know it's not simple, there are
[00:35:32] many forces on the other side who will say, all the comments can be
[00:35:36] correct, it can be true, there are people who are entitled, true, but this
[00:35:39] is only in exceptional and rare cases, and not the wildness and neglect
[00:35:43] that exists today, not from the National Insurance Institute, not from the Ministry
[00:35:47] of Transportation. We need to bring this issue back to proportion. And beyond that,
[00:35:51] there are also those who truly need the queue-skip or the disabled parking permit, and they
[00:35:54] are ultimately harmed when these are given to people who are not entitled
[00:35:58] to them, in the counterfeiting
[00:36:01] industry. Listen, Abir, you do so much, even
[00:36:04] against the lawyers who prey on small businesses and make
[00:36:07] money, even in bureaucracy,
[00:36:10] so how is it that someone like you still doesn't have a political home? Explain
[00:36:14] to us. No, first of all, my political home is you, the citizens who are watching me now
[00:36:18] and then in the studio. I work hard to make this place
[00:36:21] a paradise. This is my life's mission. The Knesset is not an end in
[00:36:25] itself, it is a means to make changes.
[00:36:27] And to make this place a paradise. I have been negotiating in recent days.
[00:36:31] I have presented a series of reforms that I think if we don't implement
[00:36:35] them in the government, I'm talking about huge reforms in the cost
[00:36:38] of living and lowering prices, then we, you
[00:36:42] will have to wait a little longer patiently. I hope it will be closed in the coming
[00:36:45] days. We will tie up the loose ends from all directions, we will ensure that this country
[00:36:49] can be turned into a paradise already in the first hundred days of the next government,
[00:36:53] God willing, God willing. Abir
[00:40:18] people why they vote for whom they
[00:40:20] vote.
[00:40:27] Is there a party today that you feel addresses your
[00:40:30] views? None.
[00:40:32] Who?
[00:40:41] The change seems to me to be that it's clear to me that I will vote.
[00:40:59] We are back with this case. The murder of the boy Imano Zalka by
[00:41:03] a group of teenagers shook an entire country. So how is it that one
[00:41:06] of the defendants in the case may return to the school he
[00:41:10] attended? Joining us now is Yarus Zalka, Imano's
[00:41:13] sister, may his memory be blessed. Hello,
[00:41:17] hello Keren, good afternoon. What was your family's
[00:41:20] first feeling when you heard about the decision to allow
[00:41:24] the defendant to return to school as if nothing had happened?
[00:41:28] I think it's a disgrace and it endangers all
[00:41:32] the students who are going to meet those
[00:41:34] murderers if they really return to
[00:41:38] school. Where does it stand
[00:41:40] now?
[00:41:43] Currently, it is still in process, but we have the
[00:41:46] hearing on the 19th of August, and I hope
[00:41:49] that the final decisions
[00:41:52] will be made there. But in my opinion, this is
[00:41:55] very annoying and it's infuriating and painful
[00:41:59] that such a situation would even exist. If you send them back to
[00:42:03] school, what does that mean? It means that it was okay to participate in such an event
[00:42:06] and you are sent back to school. Where do they learn about
[00:42:10] responsibility and that there is a law that needs to be respected? Where is the punishment
[00:42:13] here, they are basically sent back to school? The court
[00:42:16] seems to try to emphasize rehabilitation considerations and the presumption
[00:42:19] of innocence when it comes to minors. What do you have
[00:42:23] to say to the judges and the system that makes the
[00:42:25] decisions?
[00:42:29] I think this discourse of trying
[00:42:32] to rehabilitate young people and minors
[00:42:35] is strange and in my opinion it's something that shouldn't even be approved
[00:42:39] in this country. In a country that is proper, when can rehabilitation
[00:42:42] happen? Before these cases. But when,
[00:42:45] when there is already a murder and after that there is nothing to rehabilitate, especially, especially
[00:42:49] when it comes to people who don't regret the murder, so what exactly do they want
[00:42:52] to rehabilitate? And more than that, I will say, why does the system
[00:42:55] always think about rehabilitating the murderers and criminals and doesn't think
[00:42:59] about you, how we rehabilitate the victims of the crime, and how
[00:43:02] we rehabilitate those young children who are really
[00:43:06] going to sit with them. Why doesn't the system
[00:43:08] think about them? There is a feeling that as we move
[00:43:12] away a bit from the event, from the murder of Yemanu, then phenomena
[00:43:16] that shook and rattled the country
[00:43:19] and everyone understood that something else needed to happen
[00:43:23] are starting to be normalized. And now time passes and it's inconceivable to hear that these children will not go
[00:43:26] to school for criminals but will return to class
[00:43:30] alongside other normative children.
[00:43:33] I'll tell you what that term "school for criminals" even means. Someone committed
[00:43:36] murder. Their place is in prison. Period. Now. More
[00:43:40] than that, I think that at this stage, every parent,
[00:43:44] every sibling, every teenager who wants to live in safety,
[00:43:47] their place is to come to the court in Lod for the hearings
[00:43:50] that are taking place, because the case of Amin needs to be the turning point
[00:43:54] in Israel, where we say, enough with all this delicate and soft talk
[00:43:58] about young criminals and trying to rehabilitate them. We need to start teaching them
[00:44:01] to take responsibility for their actions. Youth who participated
[00:44:05] in a lynching and murder, their place is in prison. And if here we
[00:44:09] start releasing them to school as if they did nothing, then it means it will be
[00:44:12] okay to murder, it will be okay to participate in acts of violence, because the system
[00:44:16] supports it. Currently, this is the reality, the system
[00:44:20] and among them the police, and among them the prosecution, and among them the court
[00:44:23] system, all of them are very lenient, very accommodating, mainly
[00:44:26] to rehabilitate, rehabilitate, but we are no longer in that reality. I'll tell you,
[00:44:30] Keren, I don't know if you saw, there was another case last week about
[00:44:33] a number of teenagers who attacked a bus driver, broke four
[00:44:37] of his teeth, there was another serious incident.
[00:44:40] In Jerusalem. How do you as a family truly manage
[00:44:44] to cope? I know you are holding a Torah scroll dedication
[00:44:47] event in Imano's memory.
[00:44:51] Correct. Our coping is very, very
[00:44:54] complex. I haven't returned yet to the life that was, we also won't
[00:44:58] return. But alongside that, we are very
[00:45:02] believing people and very connected to tradition. And there is also
[00:45:06] the dedication of the Torah scroll, as you mentioned, which started as an initiative from the branch where he was.
[00:45:10] There, uh, and it's really happening on Thursday, so I invite
[00:45:13] everyone to come to the procession, uh, to come
[00:45:16] to this event, because doing good deeds is who he was, but
[00:45:20] also the aspect of doing things for the elevation of his soul, that is also something that
[00:45:24] plays a part in this whole struggle, and indeed the dedication of the Torah scroll
[00:45:27] will take place next Thursday. We are talking and we see a picture of him
[00:45:31] with his kind eyes and shy
[00:45:34] smile. Yarus, thank you for what you are doing as a family to raise
[00:45:38] the flag against violence among teenagers. It's very important. Thank
[00:45:42] you for this conversation.
[00:45:45] Thank you Keren. Betar Jerusalem football legend Shimon
[00:45:48] Chernocha passed away yesterday, he was one of the club's
[00:45:51] symbols, and even appeared in one of the popular skits of
[00:45:55] HaGashash HaHiver. Within
[00:45:58] my authority as a judge of the Magistrate's Court for peace
[00:46:01] and within the framework of the Defamation Law from the year Tarmach to the year Hartekh,
[00:46:05] I hereby acquit the defendant, Mr. Shimon Kahal, of all, of all
[00:46:09] charges, because...
[00:55:13] Brauli, who for nine years has been entertaining travelers outside
[00:55:16] the train station in Beer Sheva.
[00:55:20] Because we have no other country,
[00:55:23] let's make peace between us, protect our
[00:55:26] soldiers,
[00:55:30] the faith,
[00:55:33] and now, pay attention to what happened.
[00:55:51] Joining
[00:55:53] us now is the singer Ben Brauli. Hello, good afternoon. Tell me, how does it happen that a singer who just wants
[00:55:57] to do good for travelers outside the train station finds himself in a confrontation with
[00:56:00] a police officer and is even expelled from Beer Sheva for 15 days? What happened?
[00:56:06] The officer came up behind me, tried
[00:56:09] to snatch the phone from
[00:56:12] my hand and tried to pull me.
[00:56:15] I told him that I have a court
[00:56:19] order and he has no right to tell me where and where
[00:56:21] to go, so while he was trying to pull
[00:56:25] me, I ignored him, so he chased
[00:56:28] me, and I told him, don't touch me, I have a court
[00:56:32] order, you have no right to touch me.
[00:56:36] You actually have a court order to sing outside
[00:56:39] the train station, but why do you even need an order? Who is bothered that you are singing
[00:56:43] outside
[00:56:44] the station?
[00:56:48] First of all, it doesn't bother anyone on my part, but we reached
[00:56:51] this situation in 2017
[00:56:55] they gave me tickets, 30 tickets of 700 shekels every
[00:56:59] day, so at the end of the month I went to court and sued
[00:57:03] the municipality. That you
[00:57:11] are disturbing the public who wants to enter the station, why did they give you
[00:57:15] tickets? They told me it was against
[00:57:18] the law to sing in the street. Well, I haven't
[00:57:22] heard that, even though people sing in the street all over the world, that's your job.
[00:57:26] That it's against the law, Ben, you earn your living from it. My livelihood and my
[00:57:30] work. Yes, you think the inspectors called
[00:57:34] the police?
[00:57:36] I know the inspectors called the police, they told me they would
[00:57:40] call the police, I'm not moving. Why, why does it bother
[00:57:43] them, try to think.
[00:57:49] I think it bothers them because, first of all, they're bored.
[00:57:52] They're studying there in accounting.
[00:57:55] They're doing their
[00:57:57] job.
[00:58:00] Yes, and they want to listen, I guess they want to listen to Omer
[00:58:04] Adam, I'm not Omer Adam. You think it's Ben Brauli,
[00:58:08] the musical style that bothers
[00:58:12] them? It could be the musical style, it could be because
[00:58:15] they don't think I should be
[00:58:17] there. Because of my skin color? I'm not
[00:58:21] exactly sure why? Because of your skin color? You think that
[00:58:25] bothers them?
[00:58:28] Yes, why do I say that? There are other people who come
[00:58:31] that it doesn't bother them, they come, smoke cigarettes,
[00:58:35] throw trash, curse,
[00:58:38] shout, but they don't bother them. Tell me,
[00:58:42] Ben, are you planning to go back to singing outside the train
[00:58:44] station?
[00:58:47] Yes, I am planning, but before I plan to get there, I
[00:58:51] plan to sue them, to sue the garbage cans,
[00:58:54] to sue the police officer and also to sue the municipality, because the
[00:58:57] court issued an order and they did not respect it, in fact the
[00:59:01] court allows you to sing
[01:00:39] Good evening and great peace in the IDF, they are still investigating the
[01:00:42] circumstances of the explosion of the device, Israel is attacking Lebanon
[01:00:45] again today, a lot. Both in Israel and in the United States,
[01:00:49] Midani suffers a severe humiliation when he is removed in disgrace
[01:00:53] from an event where he tried to give a speech unsuccessfully, Dedi Shimhi will be here
[01:00:57] who ran with Gantz together with parties.