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[00:00:14] 15 days to the elections, the fierce battles within the blocs
[00:00:18] and the new campaign of the Eisenkots. Whoever is counting on
[00:00:21] Gadi being in politics for only four years and we will be able to fold him, whoever is counting on
[00:00:25] that, what? Doesn't know me well
[00:00:27] enough.
[00:00:30] Luxury watches and designer bags in cash, how much
[00:00:33] did we tell them, wait, wait, wait, wait, one day it
[00:00:36] came and it came. How did Kfar Saba become a corruption
[00:00:40] factory and an investigation here by News, which started the
[00:00:43] investigation. I must say that I personally, neither I
[00:00:47] nor my ten friends, were
[00:00:48] surprised.
[00:01:17] Hello to you. An annual trip of 15-year-old students
[00:01:20] ends today in disaster. One boy
[00:01:23] was killed. 23 were injured by an explosion
[00:01:27] whose cause is still being investigated even at this hour. The students of the
[00:01:30] Ort Ma'alot high school were hiking in the Ramim Ridge
[00:01:34] area in the north, war remnants
[00:01:37] scattered in the area were collected by one of them, and this
[00:01:40] is what apparently led to the disaster. Rubi Amshalag
[00:01:44] is there at the explosion site. Hello Rubi,
[00:01:47] you reported today for the first time that there is, there is a not
[00:01:51] small sign near this area where they were hiking
[00:01:55] from the KKL that prohibits, prohibits entry
[00:01:57] to the area.
[00:02:01] Yes, Tali, I assume we will hear many more versions regarding this sign
[00:02:04] that is located right here behind me, a sign from the KKL which is actually not a
[00:02:08] regulatory body, that prohibits entry to the area and says that it is
[00:02:12] because of the war results that one cannot enter here. On the other hand,
[00:02:16] the Ministry of Education approved this trip. I assume that about this
[00:02:19] division of sectors, responsibility, blame, whatever you want to call it,
[00:02:23] we will hear much more. A 14-year-old boy paid with his life for
[00:02:27] this matter, and about 20
[00:02:30] were injured, some seriously. You need to understand, Tali, we are only
[00:02:34] in an open area, it is not a hiking trail inside
[00:02:37] a reserve, it is impossible to clean and clear all
[00:02:40] these areas. Just a month ago, a group of
[00:02:44] foreign workers from Thailand were injured in Metula, in a very similar incident,
[00:02:48] they simply stepped on such an explosive device that was
[00:02:51] under the brush. During the war, we reported many
[00:02:55] times about those cluster bombs that Hezbollah fires here and about
[00:02:58] the long-term damage. An area that is simply contaminated
[00:03:01] as a result of the presence of those submunitions in the area, this
[00:03:05] is something that unfortunately will accompany us for many
[00:03:08] years to come, a danger in the open areas.
[00:03:12] This sign is not really something that can stop anyone, I don't know
[00:03:15] if this group came from here or not, you need
[00:03:19] to understand that the place where we are standing is a KKL scenic
[00:03:23] route that crosses the Naftali Mountains from the Yiftah area
[00:03:27] above Kiryat Shmona and to the Kfar Giladi area. This road with
[00:03:30] new asphalt, meaning that driving on the road itself is not dangerous, but when you
[00:03:34] go off to the side, these terrible surprises can be
[00:03:38] waiting for you everywhere, and from an initial IDF investigation
[00:03:42] it really is a cluster munition from the IDF, what caused
[00:03:46] the great damage is that those students apparently collected that
[00:03:49] bomb, I don't know if they knew and understood what it was,
[00:03:52] they stood in a close circle, passed it from hand to hand and then
[00:03:56] this terrible explosion happened, Rubi, thank you very much, and more.
[00:04:00] About what happened in the north in the report by Rubi Amshalag and Itzik
[00:04:04] Zoaretz.
[00:04:06] These are the difficult images seconds after the deadly explosion during
[00:04:10] a school trip on the Ramim Ridge in the Upper
[00:04:13] Galilee. I called Mada, Mada
[00:04:15] and the police, I don't like United Hatzalah.
[00:04:19] The scene was, children scattered everywhere,
[00:04:23] injured, I started to treat
[00:04:26] them.
[00:04:30] I had to take command because I was the only one there, we started to do CPR on
[00:04:34] one of the children there and I started
[00:04:37] to do first aid
[00:04:41] on the rabbi and on two
[00:04:43] children
[00:04:45] and on
[00:04:48] some teenagers who were
[00:04:49] there.
[00:04:53] It happened a few minutes before 3 PM, students from the Ort Ma'alot
[00:04:57] high school were hiking in the area. Park lookout
[00:05:01] near the Lebanese border. According to the initial investigation, one of
[00:05:04] the students noticed a small object that was lying on
[00:05:08] the ground, the size of a hand grenade, he picked it up,
[00:05:11] passed it to
[00:05:20] Israel Begun explosion
[00:05:23] in the north, it turns out that there was an incident of
[00:05:27] an unexploded ordnance explosion, currently all
[00:05:29] the circumstances are being investigated,
[00:05:33] we closed the scene, evacuated the injured to hospitals
[00:05:36] in the north, and currently we are investigating
[00:05:40] the incident. The explosion was deadly, one of the students, 15
[00:05:43] years old, was killed, 24 were injured, four of them
[00:05:46] seriously. Large forces of MDA police and IDF flocked
[00:05:50] to the scene and air force and MDA helicopters evacuated
[00:05:53] the injured to hospitals, I did a resilience
[00:05:56] round, I am a resilience medic in United Hatzalah,
[00:06:00] unequivocally this saves lives, to provide initial
[00:06:03] response on the ground in a real incident, this is something
[00:06:07] that prevents later, it actually reduces
[00:06:10] the chances of post-trauma. We met quite a few injured
[00:06:14] at the scene and actually arrived with large forces, ambulances,
[00:06:17] vehicles, helicopters,
[00:06:20] and actually started to perform some triage on the ground and evacuation of all
[00:06:24] the injured to different hospitals, it looked like
[00:06:27] a scene of a terror incident, an incident of
[00:06:30] fear, and it was really not pleasant to see all these sights,
[00:06:33] all the backpacks, all the
[00:06:36] injured, the IDF estimates that it is a cluster
[00:06:40] munition, one of dozens. We
[00:07:14] are
[00:07:20] here at a difficult event, unfortunately, of
[00:07:22] a trip, as you already wrote, which has a number
[00:07:26] of casualties, unfortunately, probably from an unexploded ordnance. I went
[00:07:29] inside and met some of the children, we are currently helping
[00:07:33] them to get out of the area and we are currently investigating the event with them. The Upper Galilee
[00:07:36] is a region where many people hike in recent years. The last three
[00:07:40] years it has been war. This connection is a tragic connection,
[00:07:44] as we see today. I embrace
[00:07:47] very much, embrace very much, on my behalf, on behalf of all the residents
[00:07:50] of the Galilee, my council, which is part of its region, the families,
[00:07:53] and we will continue to help in any way we can. Now it is being investigated how the
[00:07:57] submunition was located in the area where the students hiked, and if it was possible
[00:08:01] to detect it before the disaster. The police emphasize that the
[00:08:04] trip to the place received all the necessary approvals,
[00:08:08] a very difficult event in which children
[00:08:11] who went on a trip were injured unfortunately,
[00:08:15] probably, and I say the suspicion, according
[00:08:17] to the findings of the police sappers of Israel, which is the most
[00:08:21] professional body in the country, it seems that it is an unexploded
[00:08:24] ordnance as a result of the war, from the three
[00:08:27] years of war against Hezbollah. In the coming
[00:08:30] days,
[00:08:33] we will reduce trips or stop these trips to re-examine
[00:08:36] whether we are endangering the children, whether
[00:08:40] the State of Israel is endangering the children. And that it allows them to go
[00:08:43] out. Three years after the outbreak of the war, as more and more hikers
[00:08:47] return to the trails in the north. Today's disaster
[00:08:50] on the Ramim Ridge illustrates how much the danger still exists.
[00:08:54] The fire may have ceased, but there may still be unexploded
[00:08:57] ordnances that have not detonated. Today,
[00:09:00] one of them claimed the life of a 15-year-old boy who went out with his friends
[00:09:03] for a trip in the morning and did not return
[00:09:07] home. Yes, and that unexploded
[00:09:11] cluster munition, Roi Sharon. And also what the IDF estimates caused
[00:09:14] this accident. Yes, ah, Hezbollah fired a lot of munitions during
[00:09:18] the war, also rockets, cluster bombs, mortars, with all kinds
[00:09:21] of explosives that reached Israel and not all of them
[00:09:24] detonated. We saw this also with Iranian missiles, not always
[00:09:27] did the explosion detonate, and the working
[00:09:30] assumption now is that there are more such, because no one knew
[00:09:34] about this unexploded ordnance, they scanned the approved
[00:09:38] hiking trails, the Ministry of Education approved this route,
[00:09:41] now. It is issuing in the last hours an instruction
[00:09:44] that says do not deviate from the trails, because no
[00:09:48] one really checks under the fallen leaves
[00:09:51] if a bomb remained, this is not something on the scale we saw from
[00:09:55] Iranian missiles, it doesn't look like a mortar bomb with
[00:09:58] something that everyone knows what a bomb looks like and can be careful of, it's
[00:10:02] a small can, a type of grenade that is small, it doesn't
[00:10:05] look like a classic bomb
[00:10:08] in drawings, and whoever sees such metal, such
[00:10:11] iron. It is clear that you should not pick it up, it is hard to argue
[00:10:15] with a 15-year-old boy, in a corrected place, there should not be
[00:10:18] explosives in areas where people hike, but it is very difficult to sweep
[00:10:22] the area which is an open area. With
[00:10:25] a lot of vegetation, even animals incidentally can trigger such
[00:10:29] bombs, and it's very difficult, so what they did in the meantime
[00:10:32] is to approve the path, literally the route where people walk, and therefore
[00:10:36] the IDF recommends, do not deviate from the path, they deviated from the path, but it's also
[00:10:39] logical for hikers, to walk 30 meters to the right, 30
[00:10:43] meters to the left to sit in the shade,
[00:10:45] and this disaster, now the goal is to prevent the next
[00:10:48] disaster, with the working assumption in the IDF, there are more
[00:10:52] such unexploded ordnance in the area and it will take
[00:10:55] a long time until the nature and parks authorities, the IDF, the police,
[00:10:58] and local authorities can say
[00:11:01] that this area is clean, and therefore in the meantime it is recommended to increase
[00:11:04] caution and stay strictly on the trail. Yes, be very careful,
[00:11:08] thank you, Roi, and Orly El Kalal is at Rambam
[00:11:11] Hospital, Orly, an update on the condition of the injured who were evacuated
[00:11:15] there.
[00:11:18] Yes, that's right, Tali, four injured people arrived at Rambam
[00:11:21] Hospital in Haifa, a man about 60 years old, the guide for
[00:11:25] the trip, who was seriously injured, is still in the operating
[00:11:28] room, he is the only one who arrived at the operating room, the three teenagers suffered
[00:11:32] moderate to light injuries, one of them is hospitalized in the intensive
[00:11:36] care unit at the children's hospital here at Rambam
[00:11:39] Hospital in Haifa, to the other hospitals, six injured people
[00:11:43] arrived at Galilee Ben Harieh, one seriously, the others moderately and lightly,
[00:11:46] and 13 injured people arrived at Ziv Hospital in Safed,
[00:11:50] one seriously, the others moderately and lightly. Another
[00:11:53] thing, following Roi's words, from the sappers'
[00:11:56] investigation, according to the findings on the ground and according to
[00:12:00] the testimonies taken so far from what they managed to take from
[00:12:04] those who were on the ground and also in the hospitals, because the children are still traumatized
[00:12:08] and it's a bit difficult to get more
[00:12:10] information from them. They walked a certain distance with
[00:12:14] that cluster bomb, they didn't pick it up there and then it
[00:12:17] exploded. One of the students carried it with him
[00:12:20] in his hand, not even in his bag, and one of the children says
[00:12:24] here. In the hospital, I simply heard a huge boom, a huge explosion,
[00:12:28] we were thrown backward, and then when I woke up, I suddenly saw that I had
[00:12:32] blood on my legs and on my hands, this is the testimony of
[00:12:35] one of them who is here and who also tells the medical
[00:12:38] staff and also the family members, but
[00:12:41] currently the investigation is of course by the sappers, and even now
[00:12:44] it is clear to them that there was a journey of that
[00:12:47] explosive, that item, the explosive
[00:12:51] cluster bomb for a certain distance, and then when they were
[00:12:54] in some kind of... that cluster bomb
[00:12:56] exploded. Orly, thank you for this
[00:13:00] update. The students of the school in the north, the parents
[00:13:04] and teachers are still struggling to comprehend this disaster that happened
[00:13:07] during the annual trip. The testimonies from the scene and the hospital
[00:13:11] in the report by our correspondent Uri
[00:13:12] Salam.
[00:13:15] 50 students from the Ort Ma'alot Tarsihha high school prepared their backpacks
[00:13:19] with food and water this morning, checked and saw that the weather was pleasant and set
[00:13:22] out excitedly for the annual trip with their friends.
[00:13:25] And then in one moment the trip turned into
[00:13:27] a disaster.
[00:13:31] The trip took place on the Ramim Ridge near the Lebanese border. During the walk
[00:13:35] on the trail, an unexploded ordnance exploded near the students, leading to the death of
[00:13:39] one of them, only 15 years old. More than 20
[00:13:42] other students were injured, two of them seriously. School
[00:13:46] bags, bottles and shoes were found scattered at the side
[00:13:49] of the road. We called him, at first there was no reception, you don't
[00:13:53] know if he was injured. Injured and if he was there or not there
[00:13:57] and after a few minutes we managed, he called us back, we spoke to him, he
[00:14:00] was not physically injured, he was nearby, heard
[00:14:04] the explosion, the explosion, ran away the moment it exploded and saw
[00:14:07] probably things that a child is not supposed to see and he disconnected very
[00:14:11] quickly because he wanted to give the phone to other children so they could call
[00:14:15] and update their parents that they
[00:14:16] are fine.
[00:14:21] Alongside the medical teams and the police, parents rushed to the scene. They searched
[00:14:25] for answers, every new piece of information that was discovered raised the level
[00:14:29] of stress. Whoever fired that rocket wanted exactly these trips, he wanted
[00:14:32] to harm us, he wanted to remove us from our homes. We personally, as a
[00:14:36] family, suffered two direct missile hits inside the house, we are residents
[00:14:39] of Shtula who moved to the north, this incident is a continuation of Hezbollah's
[00:14:43] war, this unexploded ordnance did not get here by itself. The reports that began to arrive
[00:14:47] reminded of the war routine they knew in recent years.
[00:14:50] We have been talking for three years about bringing life back to the north, about children returning
[00:14:54] to school. About families returning home, about hikers returning to the trails,
[00:14:58] but returning to routine is not just a decision to open a road as we saw, it
[00:15:02] is not just a school that comes to hike on a hiking trail, one must
[00:15:05] ensure that the area is indeed safe.
[00:15:09] Later, relatives and friends arrived at the hospitals where the injured
[00:15:13] students were evacuated. We received from the event in the north two
[00:15:16] helicopters with four injured, three
[00:15:19] teenagers and one injured adult, all are defined
[00:15:23] as moderately injured. All will undergo the necessary
[00:15:26] CT scans and we will continue to treat them according to the type
[00:15:30] of injuries that we will diagnose. Six
[00:15:33] injured from the event in the northern pole arrived at the Galilee Medical Center
[00:15:41] in the last hour. Two are in serious condition, one was rushed to the operating room, his condition is stable
[00:15:45] but the surgery is not yet finished. Three others
[00:15:48] are in moderate condition and will require surgery later tonight and two
[00:15:51] are in light condition. They will probably spend the upcoming
[00:15:55] night close to their children's beds in the ward and at home. Over time they
[00:15:59] will begin to pick up the pieces and understand what exactly happened
[00:16:02] there.
[00:16:05] We are going to you in the meantime.
[00:16:11] Yes, look, there are quite a few parents who are worried, if we see
[00:16:14] that there is a route here that received the approval of the Ministry of Education, IDF approval, yet
[00:16:18] we saw that there was a KKL sign that prohibits, so something here
[00:16:22] didn't work properly, and the parents are worried and they have no one to receive, there is no one
[00:16:26] who is currently taking responsibility, we are waiting for the statement of the Minister
[00:16:29] of Education Kish, currently I understand that there are heads of local authorities, I saw the head of the
[00:16:33] Yokneam municipality now announcing that he prohibits the students in his
[00:16:37] authority from going on trips in the border
[00:16:40] area and asks all teachers to give instructions
[00:16:43] to students on how to behave when they see
[00:16:46] unexploded ordnance and that is a question whether it really happened
[00:16:49] and someone did it before, was this route, which might have
[00:16:53] been suspected of having unexploded ordnance, did someone brief the staff, did the lead
[00:16:56] of the trip undergo any briefing, who was with them
[00:17:00] there? We know that one of the injured, the teacher for the trip, explained that he was
[00:17:03] there nearby, these are questions that we still don't know the answer
[00:17:07] to. Look, in the end there are very very clear CEO circulars,
[00:17:10] even at the level of how much water each student can take on a trip
[00:17:14] and how much is needed, and these CEO circulars were really written
[00:17:18] in blood because unfortunately there were accidents
[00:17:21] on trips in the past, drowned
[00:17:24] in a water source, and then they forced there to be a lifeguard on every trip, if not they
[00:17:28] don't go into the water, so we need to do some soul-searching here without a doubt,
[00:17:32] there was an initial approval here, we understand, how it passed, the
[00:17:35] police will have to investigate, also with.
[00:17:37] The head of the yeshiva, of course, also with the trip coordinator, although on the face of it it seems
[00:17:41] that everyone here acted properly, and yet there was a very very great
[00:17:45] disaster here, currently the Ministry of Education also needs to take care of the children, we know that they
[00:17:48] are there in one of the kibbutzim in Yiftah, if I'm not mistaken, these
[00:17:52] are the second circle, they are suffering from trauma, they need
[00:17:55] resilience treatment, they saw their friend who was killed, their teachers and staff,
[00:17:59] and their friends were injured, they need to be treated
[00:18:02] first of all and also of course the injured in the
[00:18:06] hospital. Students, after all, aged 14-15
[00:18:09] who undoubtedly experienced a very very very severe
[00:18:13] trauma and there are still many many questions that have no answer, so following what
[00:18:17] you are saying, let's bring in our correspondent Haim Golditch.
[00:18:20] Haim is in Ma'alot Tarshiha this evening, where
[00:18:23] the residents are undoubtedly still
[00:18:25] stunned.
[00:18:28] Yes, Talia, we are here at the Ort Ma'alot Tarshiha
[00:18:31] high school, here behind me parents of students, social
[00:18:35] workers and workers are currently gathering. From the municipality, the educational
[00:18:39] teams, they are embracing the rest of the school students, a very
[00:18:43] large high school, there are many students here, only 50 students
[00:18:46] went on this trip, and there are many more students, some of them siblings, who know
[00:18:49] the students, so now they are focusing on embracing them,
[00:18:52] investigating the event, making contact with all the families, making sure everyone is present, everyone
[00:18:56] receives treatment, medical and also psychological, the
[00:18:59] school does say that this event, this
[00:19:03] trip, was approved by the Ministry of Education, as we heard, the Ministry of Education approved
[00:19:06] it in a completely organized manner, indeed this tragedy
[00:19:09] happened on an approved and planned trip,
[00:19:12] and here they are trying to ease the blow that fell upon them, accompanying
[00:19:16] the students and perhaps later they will give their
[00:19:20] response to everything that happened. Haim, thank you very much, we will of course
[00:19:24] continue to follow and update on this
[00:19:27] matter. Now
[00:19:28] to the elections.
[00:19:32] 15 days until the opening of the polls. The statement of
[00:19:36] President Herzog. That he will act in every way to prevent
[00:19:40] repeat elections worries the heads of the change bloc who continue to bicker
[00:19:44] among themselves in the Netanyahu bloc after the attacks from the Likud
[00:19:47] and Religious Zionism, Vinter today tries to fight
[00:19:50] back. Our political correspondent
[00:19:52] reports how many eyebrows were raised simultaneously when President
[00:19:56] Herzog issued this statement today: I will do everything to ensure
[00:20:00] that Israel has a stable government, but I will say
[00:20:03] more than that, I will really and truly do
[00:20:06] everything I can so that there are no repeat
[00:20:10] elections. In case of a stalemate, will you try to promote a unity
[00:20:13] government? I don't want to get into that now. Opposition
[00:20:17] Leader Lapid rushed to write: "I very much hope that President Herzog will
[00:20:20] not try to push for another fake unity government in which Netanyahu
[00:20:24] will once again trample his partners." I also call on the other parties in the camp
[00:20:28] to declare in advance that they will not be part of such a government. And the jab
[00:20:31] at the partners is quite clear, especially as the background is the continued
[00:20:35] mutual suspicion. Also, they demanded to be prime minister.
[00:20:38] Who? who will pay the fine for going to
[00:20:41] Arab parties if they are not the prime minister, surely they demanded it. Liberman tried today
[00:20:45] to respond to this claim. There were no
[00:20:48] Arab or Haredi parties. And I tell you that the other parties
[00:20:52] of the ministers' bloc, we will bring a clear majority,
[00:20:55] especially now this tension somewhat injects motivation
[00:20:59] and adrenaline into the ministers' bloc, and the motivation
[00:21:03] in the bloc was fueled last night, among other things, by attacks by party leaders on
[00:21:07] Bennett, who joked that Netanyahu could be a minister
[00:21:10] in his government. I have no problem with Netanyahu being a minister
[00:21:13] in our government. Whoever was in office
[00:21:17] is not fit to serve in office.
[00:21:22] While in the other bloc there is unity at least on one issue,
[00:21:26] the attacks on Ofer Winter. I say to Ofer and I say mainly to the people
[00:21:29] who surround him because unfortunately I don't see him listening. Don't be the rebirth
[00:21:33] of 20-26. Don't
[00:21:35] take responsibility that the left will rise on your backs, we will get a Palestinian
[00:21:39] state, we will get a judicial dictatorship, we will get a severe blow to the Jewish identity of
[00:21:43] the State of Israel, don't take the responsibility, you will be remembered for
[00:21:46] eternity. After a few days of demands of this kind, today.
[00:21:53] I'm not offended, it's not personal, I just think he's harming the entire bloc, he's harming the right,
[00:21:57] I don't understand him. In yesterday's News poll, Winter passed the
[00:22:00] electoral threshold, albeit just barely, so it's unclear whether
[00:22:04] the attacks from the right are breaking him or actually gaining
[00:22:08] him public prominence.
[00:22:10] So, we're going to you, is Herzog indeed preparing the ground
[00:22:13] for efforts to form a unity government? Look, sources in the
[00:22:17] change bloc claim that Herzog is preparing the ground for
[00:22:20] the possibility that if there really isn't a clear
[00:22:24] decision at the polls, he will call Netanyahu and the Eisenkots
[00:22:28] to form a joint government. There were meetings of party
[00:22:31] leaders with President Herzog during the election period, they heard from him
[00:22:34] mainly requests to moderate the discourse, some
[00:22:37] of them interpret this as a call for unity the day
[00:22:40] after, from the President's office they tell us he will do
[00:22:44] everything to prevent repeat elections, there are a variety of options
[00:22:47] on the table, that's all they want to tell us officially,
[00:22:51] what are the options? So one of them is undoubtedly a unity
[00:22:54] government, another option is using a pardon for Netanyahu
[00:22:58] as a political tool, ah, an attempt to make Netanyahu withdraw
[00:23:02] from the political arena in this way, this is something that President Herzog
[00:23:06] tried to promote in the past, but Netanyahu didn't answer the phone
[00:23:09] as they say, ah, but maybe something will change after
[00:23:13] we reach the end of another election campaign without a decision, it could be
[00:23:16] that this changes something in the campaign that Netanyahu can also use, in any case, Herzog.
[00:23:20] keeps the public statement that he will do everything to prevent repeat
[00:23:24] elections, he doesn't want to elaborate, but the change bloc
[00:23:27] understood what they understood. Okay, so let's add Shahar Glick to this topic,
[00:23:31] hello Shahar, what do you say, is there a possibility for a unity
[00:23:34] government? Look, in the end, in politics, everything is a matter of alternatives. The question is what
[00:23:38] are the alternatives? And if we really reach this deadlock, they won't be able to form
[00:23:41] a government with the help of the Arabs, Netanyahu won't be able to form a government with the help
[00:23:44] of the Haredim, and we are on our way to repeat elections, and the options are either
[00:23:48] repeat elections or this, then... It's possible that suddenly election promises
[00:23:51] will change. I remind you, Bennett already did this. He said that to prevent repeat
[00:23:55] elections he is saving Israel and breaking his non-core
[00:23:59] election promises. And therefore this can happen. I think there is some possibility for this
[00:24:02] because indeed this field of, I think, from Smotrich
[00:24:06] to Yair Golan, there is more or less an agreement that they are not persona non grata,
[00:24:10] you can see them or at least up to Gadizenkot, this is something possible.
[00:24:13] The main debate will be who stands first. And in this sense, Gadi
[00:24:17] Eisenkot learned a lot from Benny Gantz's mistakes. In the past, he won't
[00:24:20] let Netanyahu, as they say, trick him even if suddenly one of them is
[00:24:24] first, it won't be with such large holes in this agreement, but I
[00:24:28] think everything will rise and fall on this, in the end each of them will want to be first
[00:24:32] and I find it difficult to see anyone of them giving up without at least some
[00:24:36] equivalent that is worth being prime minister. In any case, let's get to the elections
[00:24:39] first. Yes, thank you very much, thank you Yaara. In another
[00:24:43] 15 days, the debate in the Haredi street also reaches the
[00:24:46] polls, unlike other election campaigns, this time the results will be a bit
[00:24:50] less obvious when the modern Haredi
[00:24:54] enters the picture, who in normal times is considered second-class, but during
[00:24:57] elections is courted by the leaders of the United Torah Judaism party.
[00:25:01] Daniel Grobais with the campaign that tries to pursue
[00:25:04] the margins of the
[00:25:05] sector.
[00:25:14] United Torah Judaism has a rigid and loyal electorate.
[00:25:17] Hundreds of thousands of people who will vote.
[00:25:35] This phrase, which calls for always acting according to the instructions of the rabbis and rebbes,
[00:25:39] also translates into voting at the polls. But alongside
[00:25:42] the stable majority, there is another segment, the modern Haredi
[00:25:46] public.
[00:25:53] Doesn't do that, he lives in two
[00:25:56] worlds, and that's
[00:25:58] forbidden, to create a new stream within the Haredi
[00:26:02] world, that's it. It's difficult to define
[00:26:06] precisely who a modern Haredi is. Many of them are present on social
[00:26:10] networks, study at universities, even enlist
[00:26:13] in the IDF and are characterized by an open approach to the world outside the boundaries
[00:26:16] of the community. This way of life often clashes with
[00:26:20] the approach of the veteran Haredi parties. What do they want
[00:26:24] with us? To integrate into the general
[00:26:27] public, and that's not comfortable, that's not
[00:26:30] right.
[00:26:42] The big challenge for United Torah Judaism is to convince those
[00:26:45] swing voters, for whom voting according to the rabbis' instructions is not
[00:26:49] self-evident, that the "Gimmel" ballot in the polls
[00:26:52] also represents them. If the Torah
[00:26:55] represents those who study and those who went
[00:26:58] into the world of action to the same extent, that's a preliminary question.
[00:27:07] United Torah Judaism is starting to target in the final stretch of the
[00:27:10] election campaign this segment of the
[00:27:12] population,
[00:27:15] and recently also to hold parlor meetings where
[00:27:18] Knesset members engage in dialogue with that audience. The problem in the sector
[00:27:22] is a problem that the great rabbis of Israel see it and I am trying to translate
[00:27:25] it into my language not because I am afraid
[00:27:29] of anyone. The main point of contention that keeps coming up is
[00:27:32] the educational institutions that belong to the Haredi parties
[00:27:35] and the veteran establishment. Attempts to establish Haredi state
[00:27:39] education under state sponsorship are usually
[00:27:42] met with opposition from the Haredi leadership.
[00:27:46] What happened in the state-religious schools are the institutions
[00:27:49] that opened during the previous mayor's term. What is happening today in the state-religious schools, no
[00:27:53] new frameworks are opening. If there
[00:27:56] is a need for another class due to registration, I give them another class, but we have not opened any
[00:27:59] new framework.
[00:28:02] United Torah Judaism chairman Yaakov Asher claims that state Haredi
[00:28:06] education is a red line, but intermediate
[00:28:09] solutions can be found. When I come and say to the rabbis,
[00:28:13] there are some who think that it should be done this way and that way and so on, I tell
[00:28:16] you, the state wants this thing, if these are things
[00:28:20] from the state-religious schools or things of this kind, it's a red line, it's
[00:28:23] taboo, what to do? The solution is to create schools like
[00:28:27] the state-religious schools, at exactly the same level, and there's no problem doing that,
[00:28:30] and they do it and I promise you.
[00:28:35] Also in the Hasidic part of United Torah Judaism, the new designated
[00:28:38] Knesset member from the Belz Hasidic dynasty, Elyakim Stark, conveyed
[00:28:42] similar messages in a meeting on Thursday with such a community in the city
[00:28:45] of Beitar Illit. I believe that every Someone sitting here has
[00:28:49] something against being screwed over, that he feels ignored,
[00:28:53] that he was taken for granted, that he is suffering, that he suffered
[00:28:56] from the establishment, and instead of getting stuck and going with what we were told
[00:29:00] for 70 years that it's impossible,
[00:29:02] everything that this group shows that it is possible, and that gives me
[00:29:06] a lot of inspiration, that yes, it is possible to change
[00:29:09] things that have not been touched for 70, 80 years. And so,
[00:29:13] the part that is sometimes seen as the black sheep of the Haredi
[00:29:16] public, in normal times, gets
[00:29:19] center stage before the elections. Will these statements
[00:29:22] also have an impact afterward? A big doubt, but the very discourse
[00:29:26] indicates the internal and far-reaching
[00:29:29] shifts in the sector.
[00:29:32] So. We want to ask now if Israel is heading for another round of elections
[00:29:35] or if a last-minute surprise is expected. It's not really possible
[00:29:39] to answer these questions, but the history teaches
[00:29:43] that nothing is certain until the real results. Yes, Tali,
[00:29:46] let's go back to the moment this deadlock began. 2019 elections.
[00:29:49] The polls signaled a sure victory for the Netanyahu
[00:29:53] bloc with a large and broad coalition, but then two
[00:29:56] surprises arrived together. The first, on election day, contrary
[00:30:00] to all predictions, Bennett did not pass the electoral threshold, and then Lieberman announced
[00:30:04] that he was leaving the bloc, and Israel found itself in a dead end
[00:30:07] that no one predicted. Repeated elections. A year
[00:30:11] later, in the third round of elections, everyone estimated, just like now, that we
[00:30:15] were heading for a stalemate in the bloc picture, that there was no way out
[00:30:18] of the crisis. There, the surprise came after the elections, with the Corona
[00:30:21] crisis and the rotation agreement with Gantz, which brought us an unprecedented
[00:30:25] unity government. In the next round of elections in 2021,
[00:30:28] Ra'am rose above the electoral threshold, unlike anything
[00:30:31] previously. Then, Naftali Bennett crossed the lines and, contrary
[00:30:35] to his promises, formed a government with Lapid and Abbas. In the elections
[00:30:39] after that in 2022, Meretz
[00:30:41] fell below the electoral threshold, contrary to predictions, and made the
[00:30:45] Netanyahu coalition large and stable. The last decade
[00:30:48] teaches us that in almost all election campaigns there were surprises,
[00:30:51] in the results, in the decisions afterward, or sometimes both.
[00:30:54] What's going to happen this time? The polls predict a stalemate, but
[00:30:58] nothing is certain yet. There are many parties that can suddenly fall
[00:31:02] below the electoral threshold, or parties that will surprise us
[00:31:05] and pass without us even thinking enough about them, and of course,
[00:31:09] the question is what the politicians will do after election night, how many
[00:31:12] party leaders might suddenly join the other side. Can
[00:31:16] they really promise us that there will be no defectors from the parties
[00:31:19] who will move from side to side to complete a government? After all
[00:31:23] the lines have already been crossed, one can say that this election campaign is predictable
[00:31:26] in advance, but the interesting part will come on the day after, starting
[00:31:29] on October 28th. No doubt, Shahar, thank
[00:31:32] you very much. Lebanese security forces found
[00:31:36] about 500 kilograms of explosives on their way to Hezbollah
[00:31:39] strongholds. In the country, they believe that the terrorist organization wants to renew
[00:31:43] political assassinations. Or are its eyes set on another
[00:31:46] round against Israel, or both? Our Arab affairs correspondent, Liran
[00:31:50] Aharoni, with the details.
[00:31:53] A new security affair involving the terrorist organization Hezbollah
[00:31:57] has been occupying Lebanon in recent days. Local
[00:32:00] media reported that at least 500 kilograms of explosives
[00:32:04] were found inside a truck that was stopped for inspection at a checkpoint of the local
[00:32:07] internal security mechanism. According to the reports, two people who were in the truck are Hezbollah activists
[00:32:11] and that the shipment came from one of Hezbollah's strongholds in eastern Lebanon.
[00:32:18] "Mr. President, rest assured that
[00:32:22] our government will not tolerate anyone who imagines
[00:32:25] meddling with the security, safety and stability of the country.
[00:32:29] It will also deal firmly with any
[00:32:33] weapons outside the legal framework, whether in terms of possession,
[00:32:36] transport or use." A Lebanese politician from the camp
[00:32:39] that opposes Hezbollah told our correspondent Roy Kais today that the terrorist organization
[00:32:43] is putting pressure on the authorities to quash the affair. According to the same source,
[00:32:47] the camp that opposes Hezbollah is exerting counter-pressure on the authorities
[00:32:50] in the country, in order to expand the investigation to understand if there is a larger
[00:32:54] plan by
[00:32:55] Hezbollah.
[00:33:01] "Its foundation is a group of women, as happened in 2005
[00:33:03] and 2006. Today, the scene returns to 2005
[00:33:07] and 2006." The fear among
[00:33:10] opponents of Hezbollah is a renewal of political assassinations within Lebanon, because
[00:33:14] through them.
[00:33:41] "before everyone, and in plain sight."
[00:34:19] "Is Hezbollah helping a stage that resembles the stage that was before 2000? This is part of it. Is Hezbollah going
[00:34:22] to a place that resembles the stage that was before March 2nd, 15 months
[00:34:26] ago, when the FBI and others came? You can put all
[00:34:29] the theories." This involves Hezbollah's attempts to renew
[00:34:33] political assassinations within Lebanon or to arm itself for another round against
[00:34:36] Israel. There are attempts by Hezbollah to strengthen itself militarily
[00:34:39] and politically after the blows it suffered in the last three
[00:34:42] years, while at the same time the disturbing question arises: how many trucks and shipments
[00:34:46] of explosives for Hezbollah were not
[00:34:48] seized?
[00:34:50] And from Lebanon to Saudi Arabia, where following the Houthi attacks,
[00:34:53] the authorities suspended airport operations in the capital.
[00:34:57] Roy Kais, our correspondent for the Arab world, we go to Roy. At the same time, it seems
[00:35:00] that Saudi Crown Prince Bin Salman is personally
[00:35:03] taking increased precautionary measures.
[00:35:07] Yes, Tali, so after the deadly attack on Saturday and the attack
[00:35:11] that followed yesterday, Riyadh is simply not taking
[00:35:14] any chances. They have suspended operations at the capital's airport
[00:35:17] until at least this coming Saturday, partly
[00:35:21] due to the fact that there are probably significant damages that need to be repaired
[00:35:24] before reopening, but no less because the exchange
[00:35:28] of information between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in Yemen continues
[00:35:31] all the time, and in the current situation, this strategic facility is simply
[00:35:35] not safe. What else the Saudis are doing in the last day
[00:35:38] in an unusual and even quite official way, is that they are publishing
[00:35:42] footage from the security cameras of the airport
[00:35:45] that show the moment of the deadly impact in the passenger hall
[00:35:48] on Saturday, at a time when there were also Muslim
[00:35:51] pilgrims there. The Saudis are doing this to gather support
[00:35:55] from outside for their campaign against the Houthis, something they haven't achieved
[00:35:59] as they expected. If we're already talking about not taking risks, then
[00:36:03] the one who isn't taking risks these days is the Saudi Crown Prince,
[00:36:06] Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of the kingdom,
[00:36:10] who, according to the Wall Street Journal, is moving between palaces surrounded by very
[00:36:14] heavy security. Palaces that are equipped
[00:36:17] with bunkers, and it is also claimed that his security detail, Bin
[00:36:20] Salman's, is carefully screened against the backdrop of the increasing attacks by
[00:36:24] the Houthis against the kingdom. In this context, it's interesting to see
[00:36:28] that all the Houthi leaders in the last day are trying
[00:36:31] to encourage elements within Saudi Arabia, including within the royal family,
[00:36:35] to stage a coup against Bin Salman. He even says, "We are willing to help
[00:36:39] you with this." A coup is not something we're likely to see
[00:36:43] in the near future, but there's no doubt that these are very difficult days
[00:36:46] for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Absolutely.
[00:36:50] Thank you very much, Roi. Abnormal concentrations of a carcinogenic
[00:36:53] substance were found in the area around the refinery complex,
[00:36:57] leading to the closure of two schools in Kiryat
[00:37:01] Ata. Damage repair work caused by the Iranian missiles
[00:37:04] at the refineries was stopped on instructions to the public. In a report by
[00:37:08] our correspondent Michal Wasserman. Two schools
[00:37:11] in Kiryat Ata were closed today due to high concentrations
[00:37:15] of benzene. The social high school Kiryat Ata, located
[00:37:18] within the industrial zone, and the Razim school, where
[00:37:22] special education students study, located in the same
[00:37:25] area. Yesterday at 11:15 p.m., we
[00:37:29] received a message that there would be no classes at Sapir
[00:37:33] school, a special education school, and that we should deal with it.
[00:37:36] Already last Wednesday, abnormal concentrations
[00:37:39] were measured in the industrial zone in Kiryat Ata and at another
[00:37:42] monitoring station in the Checkpost area. I generally feel
[00:37:46] that there is a lot of air pollution. When I'm little, it's hard for me to breathe. There
[00:37:50] is a general difficulty here. When I train, I train a lot. I
[00:37:53] run a lot, so yes, I feel the air pollution. It's very hard to breathe here.
[00:37:57] Yesterday evening, benzene concentrations exceeded the daily permitted standard
[00:38:01] by more than three times, and therefore, an hour and a quarter before
[00:38:04] midnight, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Environmental Protection announced
[00:38:08] the cancellation of classes today and an instruction for those working within a kilometer
[00:38:12] radius of the refinery complex not to spend time outside
[00:38:15] without need. The exceedance was yesterday
[00:38:18] and it was the day before yesterday and it was also before, but the Clean Air Law
[00:38:22] allows for seven exceedances at each monitoring station. The Ministry of Environmental
[00:38:26] Protection instructed the refineries to stop maintenance
[00:38:29] work that was being done to repair the damage
[00:38:32] from the war. What happened in recent
[00:38:35] days is a very strong red light for the regulatory
[00:38:38] bodies, for the Ministry of Environmental Protection,
[00:38:42] for the Ministry of Energy, for the Ministry of Interior, for government officials, friends,
[00:38:45] promote the plan of Government Resolution
[00:38:48] 12:31, to evacuate the refineries
[00:38:51] from here. The health of the residents is more important
[00:38:54] than anything. From Bazan Group.
[00:38:57] Planned maintenance work began last Thursday
[00:39:01] at the Gadiv factory. At the beginning of the work, high benzene concentrations
[00:39:04] were measured at several monitoring points and the work was stopped
[00:39:08] to locate the source of the exceedances. The resumption of work was carried
[00:39:12] out after completing the required actions and in coordination with the relevant
[00:39:15] authorities. Environmental organizations say today that this is a continuous
[00:39:18] negligence that must stop.
[00:39:22] Instead of evacuating the polluting refineries, they are evacuating Israeli
[00:39:25] children from schools and asking the public
[00:39:28] in Kiryat Ata and Haifa to close their windows
[00:39:31] and stay indoors. In fact, every day hundreds of thousands of residents of Haifa Bay
[00:39:35] pay with their health for the continuous failure
[00:39:38] of the government, which drags its feet in implementing the decision to evacuate
[00:39:42] the petrochemical industry from the bay. According
[00:39:45] to the data, during the day there was a decrease in benzene concentrations, but
[00:39:48] this event once again raises the question that has been bothering the residents in the area
[00:39:52] for decades: who guarantees that the air they breathe
[00:39:56] is safe, and who is responsible for the repeated
[00:39:59] exceedances? This is infuriating, no less
[00:40:02] infuriating. I feel there's no transparency,
[00:40:05] I feel we don't know what's happening with our children. However, I discover
[00:40:09] this morning that last Wednesday there was already an exceedance of
[00:40:12] 69% in the level
[00:40:15] of benzene
[00:40:17] in the area. No one disclosed it, no one said anything, the school continued to operate
[00:40:21] as usual until yesterday. Yesterday they had an activity
[00:40:24] day, a field day, they were in the yard.
[00:40:27] And this is what our children breathed.
[00:40:31] They breathe pollution and schools are closed instead of closing polluting
[00:40:34] factories. A bribery case involving
[00:40:37] millions was exposed today in the Kfar Saba municipality. A covert investigation
[00:40:41] that lasted a year raised suspicions that the mayor's wife
[00:40:44] received bribes in exchange for rigging tenders.
[00:40:48] At the home of the mayor and his wife, watches, jewelry
[00:40:51] and luxury cars were seized. Hadas Grinberg with the details.
[00:40:55] Yes, this morning, exactly at five
[00:40:59] o'clock, investigators from Unit 433 arrived at the office of Mayor
[00:41:02] Rafi Saar. A new public corruption case of large
[00:41:06] scale was exposed today by Lahav 433, in which the Mayor
[00:41:09] of Kfar Saba, his wife, the CEO of the Kfar Saba
[00:41:13] Economic Company, public figures and businessmen were arrested, a total
[00:41:16] of 17 detainees. How many times did we tell them, wait, wait, wait,
[00:41:20] wait, one day it will come, and it has come. That's
[00:41:24] how a citizen documented this morning the raid by the investigators
[00:41:27] on the municipality. Here are the investigators, and they
[00:41:31] will soon enter the Mayor's office. Wow,
[00:41:34] drama. Today we seized hundreds of thousands of shekels,
[00:41:37] cars, luxury bags, luxury watches
[00:41:40] that we managed to seize at the homes of the suspects, a car
[00:41:44] whose value is commensurate with the offense,
[00:41:48] related to those tenders that were sold, which are
[00:41:51] worth millions. This is a covert investigation that began about a year and a half
[00:41:54] ago, during which it emerged that tenders in the municipality operated through
[00:41:58] bribery in almost every possible field. Tenders that were rigged
[00:42:01] for associates, businessmen, some of whom were criminals. In return
[00:42:05] for this, the mayor's wife received cash
[00:42:08] in bundles. We understand.
[00:42:11] Interested parties in the local
[00:42:13] authority
[00:42:16] use their connections with the mayor's wife
[00:42:19] and bribe her, pay money,
[00:42:22] in order to exert her influence on the mayor, and also on
[00:42:26] the CEO of the economic company of that city. This is how the
[00:42:29] system worked: businessmen contacted the mayor's wife, she worked
[00:42:33] to ensure they won tenders, and when they encountered difficulties and had to conceal
[00:42:37] a flawed tender, the projects were transferred to the economic company. There was
[00:42:40] coordination with the CEO of the economic company who knew who to approve.
[00:42:44] In addition, the economic company placed obstacles in front of those
[00:42:48] who applied for tenders and whom they did not want to win. There is
[00:42:51] truly a violation of public interests within
[00:42:54] the city. Instead of giving the tender to someone
[00:42:58] who deserves to do it, they give it to whoever pays
[00:43:01] money. The rigged tenders involved everything: projects for renovating educational institutions,
[00:43:05] entertainment complexes, urban renewal and more, with criminals, according
[00:43:09] to suspicion, who previously supported the mayor in his election, being part of the rigged
[00:43:13] tenders. Sometimes they threatened those who applied for tenders
[00:43:16] and also put pressure on the mayor and his wife to win
[00:43:20] tenders. As anyone who was in the discussion now could hear
[00:43:24] the police representatives fully admit that they have
[00:43:27] no evidence whatsoever that he received even one shekel
[00:43:30] directly into his pocket. They have
[00:43:33] suspicions that money passed through his wife, they have suspicions that his wife
[00:43:37] approached him, they have suspicions that
[00:43:44] he didn't receive a single shekel from anyone. This is the second
[00:43:48] time in the last decade that a mayor
[00:43:51] has been arrested on such serious suspicions. So
[00:43:54] indeed, this is a difficult day for all of us here in the city. However, I
[00:43:58] must say that personally, neither I nor my fellow council members
[00:44:02] were surprised. The extent of the bribe is estimated
[00:44:04] at millions. This is the footage from this morning from the mayor's house, where
[00:44:08] hundreds of thousands of shekels were seized,
[00:44:10] as well as valuable items, including his wife's Tesla and Audi
[00:44:13] cars, and also watches and bags.
[00:44:17] This is a young woman, with no criminal record,
[00:44:20] she has a company that does projects for us. The only thing I regret, not the only one,
[00:44:24] but the significant one, is that this arrest took place at her home before
[00:44:28] her minor daughters left for school. That is, all this
[00:44:32] could have been done after they left for school. Police representatives
[00:44:35] today referred to the mayor in court and said, the mayor was
[00:44:39] aware of the money and of his wife's
[00:44:42] involvement and awareness of her offenses. The bribery offenses were committed
[00:44:45] together with his wife, the police said, she played a central
[00:44:49] role, exploited her position as the mayor's wife to advance personal
[00:44:53] interests and receive bribery money. She worked to advance
[00:44:56] processes, in return she received a lot of money, and committed
[00:45:00] criminal acts for years. Mayors
[00:45:04] are investigated very many times, it's a very, very dangerous
[00:45:07] and problematic profession, it often ends in. Many
[00:45:12] fewer cases reach the courtrooms.
[00:45:15] The arrest of the mayor and his wife was extended today for eight
[00:45:18] days. The investigation is, as mentioned, only
[00:45:21] at its beginning. Hadas, and I, each bring
[00:45:25] the mayor's version and more new details from the investigation.
[00:45:28] Hadas. That's right, hello Tali. So Mayor
[00:45:32] Rafi Saar says today in his interrogation, we can see
[00:45:35] the things now on the screen: I
[00:45:38] didn't receive money from anyone. So the interrogator asks him,
[00:45:42] so where did the hundreds of thousands of shekels found in your house come from? And the mayor
[00:45:46] answers, that's my wife's, I don't know the source of the money,
[00:45:50] the money is hers, I am not involved in any
[00:45:53] improper incident. We are also publishing
[00:45:56] Tali for the first time, in continuation of what we saw in the report,
[00:45:59] the money and bundles of cash were not only found at home, they also hid them
[00:46:03] in their cars and also in the homes of
[00:46:07] relatives. In addition to this, during the wiretaps
[00:46:10] carried out on them in the last year and a half, they are heard
[00:46:13] on the wire, talking about money, about the bribe, also
[00:46:16] counting money, some of the involved
[00:46:20] parties we mentioned, in addition, the mayor and his wife are heard on wiretaps
[00:46:24] worried that they will be caught. One can say, Tali,
[00:46:27] that signs indicating the exposure of this affair were already present several months ago. The mayor
[00:46:31] and his wife landed at Ben Gurion Airport and were caught with 24 thousand
[00:46:35] shekels in cash, an investigation conducted by the Tax
[00:46:38] Authority. At this stage, the mayor's wife is not cooperating
[00:46:41] with the investigation, and he, for his part, his defense
[00:46:44] line shifts the money trail from him
[00:46:47] to her. Hadas, thank you very much.
[00:46:51] This arrest of the mayor of Kfar Saba comes two years after
[00:46:54] a comprehensive investigation by our correspondent Oren Aharoni. Hello Oren,
[00:46:58] a comprehensive investigation into what's happening in the Kfar
[00:47:00] Saba municipality. Yes, Tali, two years ago
[00:47:04] we received information regarding the Kfar Saba municipality and the economic
[00:47:08] company about all sorts of strange things happening
[00:47:11] behind the scenes, and we actually went to investigate, and this
[00:47:14] is actually the basis of the investigation
[00:47:17] and the arrests today of the mayor, his wife, and the director of the economic
[00:47:20] company. We discovered
[00:47:23] that it manages millions of shekels without transparency
[00:47:27] with a non-existent board of directors, problematic
[00:47:30] tenders, problematic projects, problematic
[00:47:34] money transfers, and staffing positions with many
[00:47:37] question marks. When we asked to understand who actually supervises
[00:47:41] this, who approves these things, who sees
[00:47:45] these things, who then checks and sees where money went
[00:47:48] and didn't, we didn't get answers. We actually discovered
[00:47:51] a place that is completely unsupervised, run by someone
[00:47:55] who is only accountable to the mayor, that there isn't really a board of directors
[00:47:58] that meets and supervises all the decisions, and this is a lot
[00:48:01] of money, money of Kfar Saba residents, money
[00:48:05] that goes to unknown places, whose suspicions
[00:48:08] we see today, where it's going, and we're trying
[00:48:12] to check, trying to get answers, not really getting
[00:48:15] them. Here's a clip from the report we broadcast back then. I want
[00:48:18] to convene a board meeting, I have a lot of questions, about this technical question we will address it.
[00:48:23] There's a tender that looks like it was rigged
[00:48:26] for a specific person to win a new position. There are works that we don't
[00:48:30] know about, there's no company budget, no work plan.
[00:48:34] Eisge. Oren, what's
[00:48:36] up?
[00:48:39] How are you? Do you know Hava
[00:48:42] Levi, board member? Friends, you're
[00:48:45] first of all bursting in here in the middle of the day. No,
[00:48:48] nothing close, because you're not answering if you want to.
[00:49:23] After a gag order was imposed on the investigation of the incident, the British
[00:49:26] Prime Minister clarified today that the attempted attack on the British Air Force
[00:49:29] base two weeks ago was carried out by the Iranian
[00:49:33] Revolutionary Guard. Dov Giller, our correspondent
[00:49:36] in Europe, good evening Dov. What led him to speak
[00:49:39] to the media and what does Britain intend to do
[00:49:42] about it?
[00:49:45] Good questions. I want to take you back to September 27th, when
[00:49:49] this affair exploded, and we still don't know exactly what happened there. Five were arrested,
[00:49:52] then released. There were three commercial vehicles
[00:49:56] that may have tried to attack the British
[00:49:59] Air Force base in Fairford because of the American bombers
[00:50:03] stationed there, from which they launched bombings
[00:50:06] in Iran. To this day, it's not clear what happened there. What is happening is that British
[00:50:09] Prime Minister Andy Burnham came out today
[00:50:13] to the media in the British Parliament and said: We are almost completely
[00:50:17] sure that it was the Revolutionary Guard and that it was directed from Iran.
[00:50:21] Sanctions are also being imposed on two, two senior officials, one in the Revolutionary
[00:50:24] Guard, and one who tries to harm opponents
[00:50:28] of the regime around the world, who are probably connected to this
[00:50:31] issue. But it's not entirely clear what exactly happened there.
[00:50:34] The Americans did evacuate their B1 bombers to the United States a week ago
[00:50:38] due to fears that the Iranians would attack with explosive charges inside the base.
[00:50:41] It's not clear that this is what was going to happen. In any case,
[00:50:45] they summoned the Iranian ambassador, reprimanded him,
[00:50:48] imposed sanctions, but nothing substantial against a country that just
[00:50:52] tried to attack you on your territory. There are still diplomatic relations,
[00:50:55] there are still routines that this ambassador goes to.
[00:50:58] Uh, what is true, the Iranians were behind the attempted attacks
[00:51:02] on the Jewish community, arson, attempted attacks, and that was a few
[00:51:06] months ago, and two more that were discovered now who tried to attack the synagogue
[00:51:09] in Manchester, and they still haven't taken significant
[00:51:12] action against the state of Iran that sends its terror
[00:51:16] into Britain. Let's hear the Prime Minister, Burnham, talk about this issue today
[00:51:20] in Parliament.
[00:51:22] honorable friend, the home secretary will update the house regarding the incident at Raf
[00:51:26] Fairford, but I can confirm our assessment that it
[00:51:30] is highly likely to have been coordinated in
[00:51:34] Iran, almost certainly directed by
[00:51:37] Iran's Islamic revolutionary guard. We will
[00:51:41] not tolerate these threats on our soil, we will crack
[00:51:44] down on Iran's use of criminal networks, using our full range of
[00:51:48] powers to target them and their funding streams, and we
[00:51:51] will bring...
[00:52:05] a pro-Palestinian attack from the crowd. The disappointment of
[00:52:08] Israelis after the decision in their favorite destination
[01:00:47] Enough.
[01:06:51] Augmented reality glasses first appeared a few years ago and didn't really
[01:06:54] manage to penetrate the market and our daily lives, but now
[01:06:58] there are those who strive to bring them into operating rooms.
[01:07:02] This, of course, holds great promise for improving accuracy in complex surgeries
[01:07:06] and also a challenge. How do we ensure that they can be trusted
[01:07:09] as an aid in the holiest of holies
[01:07:12] of medicine? Tonight in Madman with Nov Reuveni from Bat
[01:07:16] for the future with the surgeons who are developing platforms
[01:07:19] for the surgery platforms of
[01:07:21] tomorrow.
[01:07:26] This is seemingly another routine morning in the operating room wing of the
[01:07:30] Sheba Hospital, but today we will get a glimpse into
[01:07:33] the future.
[01:07:36] Dr. Eyal Mor is now preparing for a complex surgery to remove a large
[01:07:40] and dangerous cancerous tumor, deep inside the abdominal cavity of a young
[01:07:44] patient. This time, in addition to the routine surgical tools, he will also use
[01:07:47] a completely different tool, Apple's augmented reality
[01:07:51] glasses.
[01:07:54] One of the things we see in these complex surgeries is
[01:07:57] that the tumor actually distorts the normal anatomy,
[01:08:01] meaning it creates a great challenge for the surgeon
[01:08:05] to identify which organs we want to preserve
[01:08:08] and which areas we actually want to remove, and therefore you need
[01:08:12] to enlist all possible tools to be as
[01:08:15] accurate as possible. As accurate as possible, exactly. This is exactly the purpose of
[01:08:19] this technology, to help us in these very delicate stages. Apple's
[01:08:22] glasses, which did not achieve great success in the market,
[01:08:26] are now being harnessed for the benefit of this complex
[01:08:29] mission. Today, what we see, we look at a CT scan on a 2D
[01:08:32] display, and our brain actually translates it into 3D.
[01:08:36] Uh, these glasses actually allow
[01:08:39] us to see the tumor and the anatomical structures
[01:08:42] in 3D, just like in reality. And today, one of the studies we are examining
[01:08:46] and developing is a system that will allow us to project the model even during
[01:08:50] surgery, to provide the surgeon with as much information as possible
[01:08:53] and as much accuracy regarding where those structures that we want
[01:08:57] to preserve are located.
[01:09:00] To an outsider, it may seem amusing, but when looking
[01:09:03] through the glasses, a whole world unfolds, an additional
[01:09:07] and deeper layer of imaging over the physical
[01:09:10] space. This is the patient's imaging and here we. We can see the tumor
[01:09:13] itself and we can examine it from all angles and see exactly
[01:09:17] where this thing is located. The system they are developing here allows taking
[01:09:21] advanced imaging a few steps further,
[01:09:24] placing them in space, examining them from all directions and also
[01:09:28] projecting them directly onto the patient's body during
[01:09:31] surgery. You can see here the important
[01:09:35] blood vessels, we see the tumor behind the peritoneum
[01:09:38] and above the kidney, and at this stage I can already see. And what
[01:09:43] I need to be careful of, what I am saving, what I will try not
[01:09:47] to harm, and what, and where the
[01:09:50] tumor is actually located, during the surgery, I will. What you see here
[01:09:54] is happening as part of a research led by Dr. Mor
[01:09:57] in Sheba, at this stage, the surgical procedures themselves
[01:10:00] are not yet performed while he is wearing the glasses,
[01:10:04] for that, several more steps need to be taken, if that
[01:10:07] is, according to him, this is undoubtedly the goal. This is very similar to what was
[01:10:10] once when we used to drive. We used to use a map or we used to
[01:10:14] stop someone on the street to ask how we
[01:10:17] how we actually get to the destination we need to reach.
[01:10:21] And today we already have applications like Waze and Google Maps, and surgeons
[01:10:24] also need to. The turn of the surgeons has come, this is
[01:10:28] a fixed situation where we
[01:10:31] know very, very well how to take the imaging, the CT, the
[01:10:35] MRI, the ultrasound, to create very, very good, very, very
[01:10:39] beautiful 3D images, but their clinical use is limited.
[01:10:42] We enter the operating room and our computerized
[01:10:45] 3D plans we leave
[01:10:49] on the wall on A4 sheets that are often printed in black
[01:10:53] and white, we constantly need to disengage from the surgical
[01:10:56] field to go back and look at these A4
[01:10:59] sheets hanging on the wall.
[01:11:03] In another department of Sheba Hospital, which focuses on oral,
[01:11:07] jaw and throat surgeries, they are also working on an innovative
[01:11:10] development that will bring augmented reality glasses into operating
[01:11:14] rooms and help bridge one of the significant
[01:11:17] gaps that surgeons currently face. We are developing a system
[01:11:21] that will be able to give us all the patient's imaging information
[01:11:25] in real time, all the time, without detaching
[01:11:28] from it. This is the surgeon's field of vision in real time, together with the
[01:11:31] glasses, where in layers, you can also see the patient
[01:11:35] himself through the glasses and also his imaging on him. You can see
[01:11:38] the eye sockets, you can see the nasal cavity, you can see the base
[01:11:42] of the skull and also the areas where there is
[01:11:45] a plan to perform a jaw osteotomy, meaning I have the ability
[01:11:49] to understand and navigate in space optimally, which was not available until
[01:11:52] today. The potential is, of course, enormous and significant, but it also
[01:11:56] presents a challenge. To introduce such technology into the holiest of
[01:11:59] holies of the hospital, it is essential to ensure that its
[01:12:03] accuracy can be fully trusted. To that end, research
[01:12:06] and development efforts continue at full speed, in this case,
[01:12:10] hope that this will change the surgical world. Once
[01:12:13] we can be precise and once we, as surgeons, receive
[01:12:17] real-time feedback, it's a completely
[01:12:19] different experience. The glasses themselves are, of course, just the platform for
[01:12:23] advanced developments that try to meet the diverse needs of
[01:12:26] various medical fields. One of them recently
[01:12:29] received unprecedented FDA approval.
[01:12:33] Beat vision vision pro. The system developed by Stryker
[01:12:37] is the first ever to receive official approval for use
[01:12:40] with Apple's Vision Pro
[01:12:42] glasses. The approval is limited to hip arthroscopy surgery
[01:12:46] during which a small camera is inserted
[01:12:49] into the joint. If until now the surgeon had to avert his gaze
[01:12:52] from the patient to the screens to see.
[01:13:55] This developed into an alert system
[01:13:57] that will help us navigate exactly as Waze
[01:14:01] alerts us to all sorts of traffic jams, so here
[01:14:05] too we will have alerts for areas that are important and we want
[01:14:08] on the roadside, right? This is exactly the direction of
[01:14:12] that model or that application.
[01:14:14] The
[01:14:17] introduction of new technologies into operating rooms is a complex process
[01:14:21] that requires strict control and research, and it will probably take more time
[01:14:25] until we see more and more surgeons using such glasses
[01:14:28] during their work,
[01:14:31] והעתיד בתקווה יבאי איתו ניתוחים בטוחים
[01:14:35] and more precise surgeries.
[01:14:48] Amazing, there's room for optimism, at least in this
[01:14:51] field. Federal agents raided the home
[01:14:54] this morning of a Democratic Congresswoman known
[01:14:57] for her criticism of the Trump administration and her fierce opposition
[01:15:01] to Israel. This move, happening just weeks before the midterm
[01:15:04] elections in the United States, is stirring up a storm in the American
[01:15:07] political system. Nathan Goodman, our Washington
[01:15:10] correspondent. What's the reason, Nathan, for this
[01:15:13] raid? Tali, this raid on a Congresswoman's
[01:15:17] home is an unusual step, especially since we are
[01:15:20] just three weeks before the midterm elections in which the Congresswoman,
[01:15:24] Ilhan Omar, is running and seeking
[01:15:27] re-election. Federal agents arrived at her home
[01:15:30] in Washington, the home where she resides when she is in Congress
[01:15:34] early in the morning, raided the house and confiscated documents
[01:15:37] and various items. In a short statement by
[01:15:40] the authorities, it was reported that Ilhan Omar is suspected of violating
[01:15:44] US immigration laws. Let's remember Ilhan Omar, a member of Congress,
[01:15:48] a Democratic progressive
[01:15:51] congresswoman. She is an immigrant from Somalia. She arrived as a child with. And according
[01:15:55] to allegations by the administration and by
[01:15:59] officials, she entered or moved to
[01:16:03] permanent residency illegally. There was also a rumor that was spread over the years
[01:16:07] that she married her brother to stay in the United
[01:16:10] States. The Trump administration has been trying for a long time
[01:16:13] to find reasons to deport Ilhan Omar or
[01:16:17] to find criminal proceedings against her, because she is
[01:16:20] a very harsh critic of the administration. She is also a very
[01:16:23] harsh critic of Israel. She calls for an end to aid to Israel, accuses
[01:16:27] Israel of genocide, and was herself previously recorded
[01:16:30] making anti-Semitic statements. All these things are not related to the current
[01:16:34] raid, it's more related to the administration's struggle against her. The administration
[01:16:38] says we have evidence that can indicate that she allegedly
[01:16:41] violated immigration laws. Ilhan Omar herself said
[01:16:45] that this is political persecution and that there is no basis
[01:16:48] for the accusations. Thank you very much, Nathan.
[01:16:51] Ukrainian attacks against Russian computing centers
[01:16:55] in recent days have led not only to disruptions for Russian citizens, but
[01:16:59] to a real blow to Putin's bot army,
[01:17:03] and a significant decrease in hate speech on social networks.
[01:17:07] Dov Giller's report. Not only
[01:17:09] energy facilities, three huge computing centers in Russia have been hit
[01:17:13] in recent days by Ukrainian forces. Data centers belonging
[01:17:16] to the computer giant Yandex, the Russian equivalent of Google, three
[01:17:20] of the largest in the country. The activity of the data centers is completely
[01:17:23] disrupted, the infrastructure resources.
[01:17:55] reached Yandex data centers, it
[01:17:59] suddenly became a little easier to breathe on
[01:18:02] many social media platforms. A lot of
[01:18:05] people noticed it.
[01:18:37] and extreme right-wing parties and also from the left, which is usually pro-Palestine, both
[01:18:41] these and those started to suffer a significant decrease in their activity, some
[01:18:45] institutes are talking about a decrease of even
[01:18:47] 0.2% of their total activity, which is pretty
[01:18:51] crazy. But there are those who didn't need the burning of Yandex data centers
[01:18:55] to feel the Russian involvement in all the political processes that the
[01:18:58] world has undergone in the last decade. For example, the former British Prime Minister Andy
[01:19:02] Burnham who was interested in his secret services about one particular thing with
[01:19:06] his entry into office.
[01:19:22] The kingdom decided to leave the European Union, so let's assume that most
[01:19:25] voters reached their conclusions independently only. What about those
[01:19:29] whose minds Russia played with to weaken the European Union,
[01:19:33] and led to the result that Britain is paying a price for to this very day.
[01:20:08] Today, the European Union continued to impose sanctions on Russia, no less
[01:20:11] than 1600 people and companies related to Russia's arms industry,
[01:20:14] with an emphasis on those involved in the production of drones. But beyond the war
[01:20:18] of Russia's color, if the phenomenon of declining hate speech and
[01:20:21] incitement on the web continues, as well as a decrease in voter turnout for extreme left-wing
[01:20:25] and extreme right-wing parties. In Europe, they are expected to welcome these images
[01:20:29] coming from Yandex centers in Russia and say "burn
[01:20:32] by them," Dov Giller
[01:20:33] from Berlin.
[01:20:36] The new flight route of Arkia to Tokyo was supposed to be
[01:20:39] the refreshing innovation of the summer for Israeli passengers, but just
[01:20:43] before the first takeoff, the airline announced that Japan is not
[01:20:47] cooperating at the moment. Ofir Alpern with the disappointed
[01:20:50] passengers.
[01:20:55] This was one of the biggest news of the summer for Israeli travelers.
[01:20:58] In early June, Arkia announced the opening of a direct route to Tokyo for the first
[01:21:02] time in its history. Two flights a week, tickets starting from about $1500.
[01:21:06] New competition for El Al, which was
[01:21:09] the only one to operate the route. We set out today with
[01:21:13] direct flights to Tokyo with an Israeli company
[01:21:16] at a very attractive price. I think we pretty much broke the monopoly on
[01:21:20] this very popular route. And the demand certainly exists. Last
[01:21:24] year, more than 93,000 Israelis
[01:21:27] visited Japan, a jump of more than 50% in one
[01:21:30] year. However, now, less than two weeks before the inaugural
[01:21:32] flight, the plans are changing. Arkia
[01:21:36] announced that as of now, approvals for operating
[01:21:39] their direct route to Tokyo have not yet been received.
[01:21:43] The authorities in Japan did not approve
[01:21:46] operating the route using wet-leased aircraft.
[01:21:49] A wet lease is essentially a flight operated
[01:21:53] by a foreign aircraft and by a foreign crew with
[01:21:56] Israeli representation in Arkia's case. My wife and
[01:22:00] I have been dreaming for a long time about this
[01:22:03] trip. Uh, finally we had the opportunity
[01:22:06] both financially and
[01:22:10] in terms of time, we found these processes very, very precisely,
[01:22:14] very, very calculated,
[01:22:17] so there was quite a lot of thought and preparations
[01:22:20] for this. And now the passengers who have already booked direct flights
[01:22:23] to Tokyo are forced to choose between several alternatives offered to them.
[01:22:27] They offered to change to another destination of
[01:22:31] Arkia, they offered another option to fly
[01:22:34] via a connecting flight, essentially a stopover
[01:22:37] in between and then arriving in Tokyo
[01:22:41] later, and cancellation with a full refund, of course. We bought it through
[01:22:44] El Al, we thought of flying through
[01:22:47] Bangkok and from there buying
[01:22:50] a connecting flight to Tokyo,
[01:22:54] but in the end, we gave
[01:22:57] up on the idea, we canceled the ticket
[01:23:00] and switched to Arkia so we would have a direct flight.
[01:23:04] We'll have to shorten it or maybe add some beach days.
[01:23:11] These flights. Arkia emphasizes that they are not giving up on
[01:23:13] the Tokyo route, and they are currently trying
[01:23:17] to get approval to operate it using the company's own aircraft, but
[01:23:21] even this option presents a significant challenge. As
[01:23:24] of now, Arkia does not have
[01:23:27] self-operated aircraft that can fly directly from Israel
[01:23:31] to Tokyo. The aircraft are narrow-body aircraft that cannot
[01:23:35] cover such long distances of 11, 12, 13
[01:23:38] hours. The truth is that it's very disappointing. I read
[01:23:42] a bit about the wet leasing
[01:23:45] part, other companies also use it when starting a new route to a new
[01:23:48] destination, so it's not to judge it harshly, but it is
[01:23:52] disappointing, especially since we are quite close
[01:23:55] to leaving for our trip and with many, many
[01:23:58] preparations. Arkia has been selling tickets to Tokyo for four months now,
[01:24:02] and only now, just before takeoff, passengers discover
[01:24:05] that approvals have not yet been received, and this is not an isolated incident. El Al
[01:24:09] also recently had to cancel the new route to Hanoi due to lack
[01:24:12] of approvals. Two companies, two routes promised to passengers that
[01:24:16] did not materialize.
[01:24:19] Jerry Seinfeld. The comedian says Israel is already used
[01:24:22] to pro-Palestinian attacks against it, but this time he had a witty
[01:24:26] response up his sleeve. During a performance
[01:24:29] in Chicago, he told a protester who interrupted him, "I
[01:24:32] will donate all the money you paid for the ticket to Israel," Tamar
[01:24:35] Ushankov, with the incident that continues the love story of
[01:24:39] Seinfeld
[01:24:40] and Israelis.
[01:24:49] In the performance of the king.
[01:37:31] has halved. Huge queues are expected. Pass it to me, I'll
[01:37:35] send it to you guys in the group. How can we know if it's real?
[01:37:39] Oh, good question. Luckily, Omri Barak is here and he'll explain to us how
[01:37:43] to be careful. They want to influence public opinion with false
[01:37:47] information. Is the message trying to provoke an extreme reaction?
[01:37:50] Think about it, who has an interest in publishing the story? Maybe it's an attempt at undue
[01:37:54] influence? Unfortunately, it's very easy to distort
[01:37:57] the truth. Always check before sharing.
[01:38:00] On October 27th, your choice
[01:38:03] matters.
[01:38:08] With this, we conclude all updates all the time on the website and in the Kan
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[01:38:30] Israel, the nation of startups, ideas that changed the world started
[01:38:33] here, in the living room, in the yard, in mom's kitchen. Almost every
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[01:38:44] But born. To reality there is a great distance, so how
[01:38:48] easy is it really to turn a small investment into big money?
[01:38:51] Sell, sell, sell. To meet with so many city heads within
[01:38:55] the time frame, insane. This is exactly what our contestants
[01:38:59] are about to discover in "Double the Money." Do you want to take an ice
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[01:39:09] they choose. Each of you receives a thousand shekels.
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[01:39:15] 32, which you will need to double to earn
[01:39:19] 64,
[01:39:21] at least. We have three hours of selling. Hello,
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[01:39:31] us. From week to week, the sum will grow, the pressure will rise,
[01:39:34] and the couples will set off again with bigger ideas, bolder
[01:39:38] and much more surprising. What are you? A commercial
[01:39:42] video, and you pay 3000 shekels, we are at 12,
[01:39:46] I'm really on the phone. They will do anything to double the
[01:39:50] money and stay in the game. We are going through this
[01:39:53] doubling, and let's go, we are in the world. On the way, they will discover that the distance between
[01:39:56] success.
[01:40:07] That all they have in this crazy journey is each other, they need to change business, but you have a good venture,
[01:40:10] you want to give up on it, but your goal in the end is to bring money, I just pray
[01:40:14] that there is someone else who is worse than me. At the end of the season, the couple that earns
[01:40:18] the largest amount will come out of the grand
[01:40:21] finale with a quarter of a million shekels in cash, so
[01:40:25] who will double the money? Let's begin.
[01:40:37] Come on, darling, good luck. Good luck, Dudu. Oh.
[01:40:41] Cool. Are we first?
[01:40:44] Yes, I'm Shayan Tzadgi, 42 years old, lives
[01:40:48] in Emek Hefer. I'm Dudu Bodbul, 40 years old, originally
[01:40:51] from Ramla. I didn't say I'm from Ramla, I have to say this, listen, they caused me
[01:40:55] problems, no, I'm not first of all.