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00:00:10All they did was talk about Khamenei's
00:00:13enemies on Saturday night on Kan 11
00:00:16and on Kanbox with Ran Benyamini.
00:00:43Hello everyone, good morning, thank you for being with us here, Kan News on Reshet Bet
00:00:46and Kan 11, all the news of the morning, from now until eight,
00:00:50Thursday, 23rd of Av 5786, August 6th,
00:00:542026, and we are opening,
00:00:57unfortunately, with difficult news, painful news that the IDF Spokesperson is allowing
00:01:00to publish in the last few minutes. Two soldiers
00:01:03fell yesterday in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah violated the
00:01:06ceasefire and that is what led to the completion and attacks by the IDF in Lebanon.
00:01:10We are with you, Carmela Menashe, our reporter, hello Carmela.
00:01:14Hello Ram, Major (res.) Harel Ben Shatok,
00:01:1834, from Nokdim, company commander in Battalion
00:01:212855, the Spearhead Formation,
00:01:2555, fell in battle in southern Lebanon. Staff Sergeant (res.)
00:01:28Tamir Vaknin, 33,
00:01:32from Eilat, a soldier in Battalion
00:01:342855, Spearhead, fell
00:01:38in the same battle in southern Lebanon. Four
00:01:41IDF reserve soldiers were seriously wounded.
00:01:44The soldiers were evacuated to receive medical treatment, and their families
00:01:47were notified. Yesterday, near 12 o'clock, an IDF
00:01:51force from the 55th
00:01:54Divisional Combat Team operated in the Majdal Zun
00:01:57area in southern Lebanon, to
00:02:00secure the area and destroy terror infrastructure. During
00:02:03the operation, the force entered a site
00:02:07in the area. As the force entered the site,
00:02:10an explosion occurred. As a result of the explosion,
00:02:14Major (res.) Harel Biranstock and Staff Sergeant
00:02:17Tamir Vaknin fell, and
00:02:20four IDF reserve soldiers were seriously
00:02:23wounded. The soldiers, as mentioned, were evacuated to receive
00:02:27medical treatment. After the incident, the air
00:02:30and the fire complex of the Northern Command and the fire brigade
00:02:34of Division 91 attacked targets
00:02:37in the area. The IDF does not know at this stage when
00:02:40the explosive device was planted in the building that the soldiers
00:02:44entered, and whether it was a new device that was planted there
00:02:48recently. In any case, this is within
00:02:51the yellow line, where the IDF is located, and where
00:02:54these houses were
00:02:57during the last period. We
00:03:01are, as mentioned, in a ceasefire. Thank you
00:03:03Carmela. Major (res.) Harel
00:03:06Biranstock and Staff Sergeant (res.) Tamir
00:03:09Vaknin, may their memory be blessed.
00:03:12We will, of course, return and elaborate further.
00:03:16Now to Iran, agreement and escalation in Washington. They still hope for a deal
00:03:19to open the Strait of Hormuz to traffic this week. The proposals
00:03:23that came up in talks between Iran and Oman are now awaiting approval from
00:03:26Tehran, and meanwhile, in the United States, the shortage
00:03:30of missiles is increasing. If there is a need to return to fighting, our
00:03:34Washington correspondent Eitan Gutman reports. The United States believed that at this stage
00:03:38it would be possible to announce the full opening of the Strait of Hormuz, but
00:03:41the talks with Iran mediated by Oman are proving to be more
00:03:45complicated than promised. According to reports, the
00:03:49parties are now awaiting the approval of Iran's Supreme Leader for the agreements
00:03:52reached, and only then will the deal be finalized.
00:03:56President Trump, who constantly reminds everyone of the option to return to fighting,
00:04:00seems willing to give the diplomatic process more time for now.
00:04:13I prefer to make a deal because I don't want to kill people. We are currently
00:04:17talking to the Iranians and we'll see what happens. They respect us
00:04:20now, Trump said in a speech he gave last night in Las Vegas. The agreement
00:04:24currently being discussed is supposed to divide the routes in the Strait of Hormuz
00:04:27and recognize, even if only temporarily, some
00:04:31Iranian sovereignty over the strait. In recent days, relative calm
00:04:34has been maintained, but in the last few hours a ship passing through the area
00:04:38reported hearing explosion sounds. No damage or
00:04:41casualties have been reported. The American administration hopes that the deal will be finalized by
00:04:44the end of the week, and that immediately after that it will be possible to resume
00:04:48talks on the nuclear issue mediated by
00:04:51Pakistan. And despite the fact that the military option is still on the table
00:04:54for the United States, the Americans have not yet solved
00:04:58their problem of missile shortages. Long-range and interceptor missiles.
00:05:02The Washington Post reports that last Friday, on the sidelines of a cabinet
00:05:05meeting, the President rebuked Secretary of War Pete
00:05:08Hags, who, he claimed, misled him regarding armaments.
00:05:12He promised there was no longer a shortage. The administration does not admit
00:05:15that the supply has dwindled, but according to reports in the United States,
00:05:19the Americans lack both interceptor missiles for Patriot
00:05:22and THAAD systems, and long-range guided ballistic missiles.
00:05:26These two components are supposed to be used by the US military if a return
00:05:30to intense fighting is decided upon. Natan Gutman,
00:05:33Washington. The promises of governance are once again shattering
00:05:37on the ground of reality in the Negev. After our correspondent Assaf Pozayeff reported here
00:05:40that masked gunmen with M16 rifles prevented an Israel Electric Corporation
00:05:43team from repairing a transformer that was damaged by gunfire near two
00:05:47large police stations, it now turns out that the cumulative
00:05:51damage from shooting at electrical transformers amounts to millions
00:05:54of shekels. Where is the police? Where is the governance? Our correspondent Assaf
00:05:58Pozay is still following up. The main promise of the previous
00:06:01election campaign was governance and security, and this
00:06:04is governance in the style of the Negev. This is just one story. Near two large
00:06:08police stations, masked gunmen with M16
00:06:11IDF rifles block a street in Tel
00:06:14Sheva and threaten Israel Electric Corporation workers
00:06:18not to repair a transformer they shot at. One of the workers said: I've already
00:06:21experienced shooting incidents in the Bedouin sector, but I've never been a few meters
00:06:25away from masked armed men with a finger on the trigger. After
00:06:29a minute or two, a Skoda car approached us and the driver told
00:06:32us not to fix it there. The message was clear.
00:06:36Said Meital Harel, maintenance and operations manager at Israel Electric Corporation's South
00:06:40division. When the team arrived around the entrance to Tel
00:06:43Sheva, to actually go through the gate to fix
00:06:46the malfunction, they saw masked men with
00:06:50M16 weapons pointed at them. At that moment,
00:06:54when they arrived with the security guards of the Israel Electric Corporation, they simply made a U-turn
00:06:58and left the settlement quickly. Why did they shoot at the
00:07:01transformer in the first place? To damage the electricity of the rival
00:07:04family? A known practice among some of the feuding families
00:07:08in the Bedouin sector. Sometimes it also happens as a result of this.
00:07:12One doesn't have electricity, so he wants his neighbor
00:07:15not to have electricity either. And so, Khalil Al Baz, a resident of Tel
00:07:19Sheva, three days, cancer patients, sick
00:07:22elderly people in the August heat, we have no electricity, and most
00:07:26importantly, governance. Where
00:07:29is the governance they talk about? The Israel Electric
00:07:32Corporation recently calculated all the damages that the shooting at transformers
00:07:35in the sector causes to taxpayers, five million
00:07:39shekels every year. In the last year alone, they shot at.
00:07:51four times the legal electricity consumption. As I said, this
00:07:55has been happening for years. This is the governance of
00:07:57the Negev. The police response was received: an online complaint hours
00:08:01after the incident, by a person who was not present at the scene. The incident is under
00:08:05investigation at the Ayarot station.
00:08:086:12 exactly this morning on Reshet Bet. Now to the newspapers.
00:08:14Kan News on Reshet Bet, newspaper headlines.
00:08:17Let's start
00:08:20with Maariv. Casualties in IDF activity in southern Lebanon.
00:08:24This is the main headline. At the time the newspapers went to print, it was not
00:08:27yet allowed to publish the names of the casualties, but as mentioned, a few
00:08:31minutes ago, the IDF spokesperson allowed to publish that two soldiers fell
00:08:35in southern Lebanon yesterday: Major (res.) Harel Biranstock
00:08:38and Staff Sergeant (res.) Tamir Vaknin. May
00:08:42their memory be blessed. In Maariv it was written about the renewed escalation in southern
00:08:46Lebanon. The IDF announced that Hezbollah had blatantly violated the ceasefire, and
00:08:50it began a targeted attack. "We will act with force
00:08:53against the terrorist organization," says the IDF. Meanwhile, Beirut
00:08:57offers to expand the pilot
00:09:00zones for Benny and Elihai. Iran announced: We have reached agreements with
00:09:03Oman on the Hormuz outline. The detention
00:09:06of Ahmed Al Rajoub, suspected of murdering attorney Arbel
00:09:10Feldman, may his memory be a blessing, in his office, was extended.
00:09:13Lawyers held a two-minute silence in the courthouse plaza
00:09:16in protest of the violence. The court
00:09:20blocked the transfer of hundreds of millions to Haredim and to Strock's
00:09:23office. Netanyahu says about the petition to fire Minister Ben-Gvir, "I will
00:09:27not do it, it is not legal." So in the newspaper
00:09:30Maariv. In Yedioth Ahronoth, escalation in Lebanon is the main
00:09:32headline. In response to a severe violation of the ceasefire by
00:09:36Hezbollah, the army launched a series of attacks in the Tyre area and instructed
00:09:40residents to evacuate immediately. Due to the incidents,
00:09:43the talks between Israel and Lebanon in Rome were shortened.
00:09:46Reports: agreement on the Strait of Hormuz to be signed by tomorrow.
00:09:50This is also on the front page. The banner headline in Yedioth Ahronoth: IDF demanded
00:09:53to attack powerfully in Lebanon,
00:09:57the political echelon blocked it.
00:10:00So in Yedioth. Let's move to Haaretz. IDF attacked in southern Lebanon
00:10:04claiming Hezbollah violated the ceasefire
00:10:07agreement. Talks between Israel and Lebanon
00:10:10continued in Rome.
00:10:15Zvi Bar'el writes, the referral from the front page
00:10:17to page four, where the full column is. More headlines on the front page
00:10:21of Haaretz, destruction, roadblocks and arrests.
00:10:25Residents of Qalandiya fear that the operation will also
00:10:28lead to their expulsion.
00:10:31The High Court of Justice froze the transfer of hundreds of millions to Haredim and settlers
00:10:34due to concern of a flaw in the process. The Shadow, meaning
00:10:37the singer Yoav Eliassi, and three other police officers were interrogated on suspicion of breach of trust
00:10:41following the Haaretz investigation. The picture on the front page
00:10:45of Israel Hayom is a blurred picture of a young
00:10:48woman, and the quote is as follows: "I heard
00:10:51the soldiers' screams, their last moments.
00:10:55In my mind, I see dead children in Gaza,
00:10:58crying mothers, it's on me." Her service
00:11:01in the war left the speaker shattered. The army abandoned
00:11:05her time after time. This is an article by Tom Levinson with a reference
00:11:09to page three, so maybe we'll read a little more. As mentioned,
00:11:13the headline is, "I see dead children, it's on me." She heard the
00:11:16screams on the radio, she
00:11:19heard, she heard the screams and
00:11:23the shooting on the radio, she saw the rockets explode, and today she knows about
00:11:26the children who died in Gaza in attacks she participated in, even after
00:11:30she was diagnosed with PTSD and started receiving
00:11:33psychiatric treatment, the recognition by the Ministry of Defense for her
00:11:37was delayed and was only given after a request from
00:11:40Haaretz. The full story is on page three
00:11:43of the newspaper. Let's move to Israel Hayom. The main
00:11:46headline: "Respond with extensive attacks in Lebanon."
00:11:50This is an unclear quote from whom, perhaps
00:11:53a military source. Because the political echelon, it is written, did
00:11:57not rush to approve the IDF's recommendation to give a chance to contacts with
00:12:00Lebanon. First publication in Israel Hayom: Israel and Gulf states
00:12:04in talks to establish an energy pipeline
00:12:08that will bypass the Strait of Hormuz
00:12:11and the Bab el Mandeb Strait. So
00:12:13in Israel Hayom. Let's move to the Haredi newspapers. The
00:12:16HaMevaser newspaper. Here, if you look for
00:12:20the escalation in southern Lebanon, it's only at the bottom of the page, because there's
00:12:24a much, much larger headline, and probably much more important
00:12:27in the eyes of the editors of HaMevaser newspaper. "The
00:12:31continued persecution of the Torah world: the High Court froze hundreds of millions
00:12:34allocated for Haredi education." This is
00:12:37the main and very important headline in HaMevaser newspaper.
00:12:41In Yated Ne'eman, at least here on the front page, the
00:12:44main headline is "Escalation on the Northern Border, Winds of War
00:12:47in Lebanon." These are the
00:12:50newspaper headlines. 6
00:17:38May their memory be blessed. We will
00:17:40continue to deal with this later. Now this morning
00:17:44here on Kan News on Reshet Bet, the weather forecast. Oren
00:17:47Dudov, duty forecaster at the Meteorological Service. Hello Oren.
00:17:51Hello, good morning. So let's start the morning with partly
00:17:54cloudy weather. Later today it will become fair to clear.
00:17:58We will feel a slight drop in temperatures, mainly in the cities
00:18:01and inland. They will still be slightly higher than usual
00:18:05for the season, but not far from the seasonal
00:18:07average. Still heat stress, mostly moderate
00:18:11to heavy in most areas, as is typical for the Israeli summer.
00:18:14Towards the end of the week, and tomorrow,
00:18:17temperatures will continue to drop slightly, but still,
00:18:20as mentioned, heat stress that is classic
00:18:23for the Israeli summer. From Saturday onwards into mid-
00:18:27next week, we will begin a renewed gradual warming
00:18:29towards another summer heat wave
00:18:33that will accompany us from the beginning of next week
00:18:37towards. Mid-next week, but it won't be as extreme as it was
00:18:40last week, at the beginning of the month. We will
00:18:43continue to monitor. Meanwhile, stay cool as
00:18:46much as possible. Absolutely, drink water,
00:18:49and as usual, we will also make sure to provide water in
00:18:52bowls for cats, dogs,
00:18:55and birds, animals that also
00:19:08with the next news, murder, again murder, this time
00:19:11in Tayibe. Last night a 57-year-old resident of Tira
00:19:15was murdered in his car. This is the 154th
00:19:19murder in the Arab community since the beginning of the year. Our correspondent Hadas
00:19:22Greenberg with the details. Murder in Tayibe. Around 10
00:19:25PM last night, a 57-year-old man was shot at close range while sitting
00:19:29in his car. MDA teams that arrived at the scene were forced to pronounce him dead
00:19:32on the spot. The deceased is Khuziyyat Bishara, a 56-year-old
00:19:36resident of Tira.
00:19:38His wife, Susan Bishara, was murdered a year ago in April last
00:19:42year, after she was threatened. After the murder
00:19:45of his wife, Ziyad Bishara said that
00:19:49he feared he was next in line. Just a week ago,
00:19:52Bishara's son was accused of murdering a young
00:19:55man in Tayibe and attempting to murder another young man.
00:19:59The police, as mentioned, opened an investigation into the circumstances of Ziyad
00:20:02Bishara's murder. Since the beginning of the year, 154 people
00:20:05have been murdered
00:20:08in the Arab community. Yes, terrible. This is also related
00:20:11to the governance we talked about earlier. This morning, now
00:20:15a short break, back soon.
00:20:18Back soon with Ran
00:20:21Benyamini. Kan News, on Reshet
00:20:25Bet. Playing with
00:20:27the children.
00:20:31All that was forbidden to tell about Khamenei.
00:20:35Enemies, Saturday night. 11 and Kanbox.
00:20:49One day he called. It's
00:23:086:27 this morning on Reshet Bet. Now the morning
00:23:11headlines. A short while ago, the IDF Spokesperson allowed to publish that
00:23:15two IDF soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade fell in southern Lebanon
00:23:19yesterday. In an explosion of an explosive device in a
00:23:22booby-trapped building in the village of Majdal Zun. Major
00:23:25(res.) Harel Biranstock, company commander in Battalion
00:23:282855, Spearhead Formation, 34
00:23:32years old from Nokdim, and Staff Sergeant (res.)
00:23:36Tamir Vaknin, 33 years old from Eilat. May
00:23:39their memory be blessed. In the incident, four soldiers were seriously
00:23:43wounded, and their families were notified. Our correspondents Carmela
00:23:46Menashe and Itai Blumental report that the area where
00:23:50the booby-trapped building was located has been under IDF control for a long time,
00:23:54and it seems the army was not aware of the booby-trapped
00:23:57building.
00:23:59The tension in the Persian Gulf. President Trump reiterates that Iran must
00:24:03not have nuclear weapons and he prefers to reach
00:24:06a deal with Tehran because he does not like to kill
00:24:10people.
00:24:21They respect us, our correspondent Natan Gutman reports that at the event in Las Vegas
00:24:25last night, the American President stated that the administration
00:24:28is in contact with the Iranian regime. "We'll see what
00:24:31happens," he said. "Once the issue with Iran is resolved,
00:24:35fuel prices will drop," the President promises.
00:24:39The question is when this issue with
00:24:42Iran will be resolved. These are the
00:24:43morning headlines.
00:24:48Returning to the escalation in Lebanon. In Lebanon, they are trying to take advantage of the round of negotiations
00:24:52that has been taking place for two days in Rome to at least
00:24:55reduce the Israeli response to Hezbollah's
00:24:58violations. Head of the Arab World department, Roie Kais, we are with you Roie.
00:25:02It seems that the leadership in Beirut is pinning hopes on the Americans. Hello
00:25:05Roie. Yes, so on the Lebanese side, they are trying to take advantage
00:25:09of the fact that this escalation is happening in the midst
00:25:12of a direct round of talks between Israel and Lebanon
00:25:16that is taking place in Rome under American auspices, to try and
00:25:20do what, from their perspective, is damage control. In other
00:25:23words, to restrain the Israeli response as much as possible,
00:25:27with the Lebanese, of course, wanting to enlist
00:25:30the Americans to put pressure on Israel regarding
00:25:34this issue. It's no coincidence that yesterday, in the midst of the talks and immediately
00:25:38after Israel and the IDF issued an evacuation order for the village of Al
00:25:42Mansouri, a Shiite village in southern Lebanon, following Hezbollah's
00:25:45violation, the Lebanese delegation told the Israeli
00:25:48delegation, "Come on, cancel it, we are still in negotiations."
00:25:52The Lebanese are counting on the fact that ultimately
00:25:55the Americans, who are sponsoring this whole thing, want
00:25:59the talks to succeed, which are currently progressing quite slowly.
00:26:02And the understanding that if there is too significant an escalation
00:26:06in the Lebanese arena, it will naturally harm
00:26:09the talks. The one who is in the middle, of course, is the Lebanese
00:26:12Hezbollah organization. Sheikh Na'im Qassem, who leads
00:26:16it, has been issuing very militant statements in recent
00:26:20days and in the last 24 hours against these negotiations. He even says
00:26:23himself that he needs to put a spoke in the wheels, accusing the Lebanese
00:26:27leadership of very serious accusations. And therefore, his
00:26:30interest is naturally to continue
00:26:32with provocations and attempts to harm our
00:26:36forces on the ground, because from Na'im Qassem's perspective, and they do
00:26:39not hide this in Hezbollah, the preferred path for resolving
00:26:43the Lebanese issue is not the direct path between the Lebanese state
00:26:47and Israel, because that takes away Hezbollah's power. It is actually
00:26:50the path between the United States and Iran, because
00:26:53there the Iranians remain in the picture of the Lebanese
00:26:56arena, and that naturally strengthens Hezbollah against
00:27:00the Lebanese state. Thank you.
00:27:04Now to a completely different matter. We are in August, the big
00:27:07holiday, also a period between times, many go out to hike in nature.
00:27:10The question is what does nature look like? This morning we are reporting that forest rangers of
00:27:14the Jewish National Fund were shocked to discover in the Nahshon
00:27:18Forest in the Judean lowlands, huge piles of garbage
00:27:21that were probably unloaded from garbage trucks in the heart of the
00:27:25natural area. It is estimated that 40 cubic meters of concentrated
00:27:28waste were dumped in the forest, which causes real damage to the
00:27:33environment. Not to mention the disgust that awaits anyone who comes to hike
00:27:37in the forest or have a picnic. Haim Teperberg, director of the Jewish National Fund's
00:27:40inspection unit. Hello Haim.
00:27:43Good morning. On the radio, you can't convey the smell, but we'll try to convey the sights.
00:27:47What does it look like on the ground?
00:27:50Look, we are talking about a much broader phenomenon,
00:27:54not a specific point. Here in
00:27:57Mateh Yehuda, they saw a pile of 40 cubic meters, we are talking
00:28:00about hundreds of thousands of cubic meters
00:28:04that are being dumped today in open areas and on JNF
00:28:07lands, not just one point, like
00:28:11this, freely, turning our nature into a garbage dump.
00:28:14Yes, it's easiest today to, look,
00:28:17dumping waste at authorized sites costs
00:28:20a lot of money today. Entering an authorized site to dump
00:28:23mixed waste costs between 150 and 400
00:28:27shekels per ton of waste. That's
00:28:30not a small amount. It's better. Or a contractor to take
00:28:34the risk and go down some
00:28:37side road into the open areas where no one sees them
00:28:40and dump it.
00:28:43And you, as the director of the KKL-JNF enforcement unit,
00:28:46sometimes see this in real time,
00:28:49as it happens.
00:28:51Look, we are the KKL-JNF enforcement unit.
00:28:55The KKL-JNF invests
00:28:59many resources
00:29:02in this issue. In enforcement.
00:29:05If it's with technological means, we have today
00:29:09a visual array, one of the most advanced
00:29:11in the world, and we
00:29:15control the area quite,
00:29:18quite well and fully. But we should not forget
00:29:22that we currently manage about two million dunams of forest lands,
00:29:26and that's a lot. But
00:29:28you have enforcement powers. What can you do when you see something like this?
00:29:32First of all, we never work alone, okay, always
00:29:36in incidents where we go out
00:29:38for enforcement operations and enforcement activities, covert
00:29:42investigations, we collaborate with enforcement
00:29:44bodies. In such cases of waste, whether it's green
00:29:48police and green patrol, and the Ministry of
00:29:51Environmental Protection, we work together, and there is enforcement, there
00:29:54are arrests, there are indictments. Look, I have
00:29:57to tell you that in the last year and a half, two
00:30:00years, uh, there are indictments,
00:30:03dozens of trucks have been confiscated
00:30:06and bulldozers,
00:30:08and private cars and Jeeps of the contractors. The
00:30:11contractors, it's a very organized thing, they come and block
00:30:15the entrances to the forest. The trucks come in, they actually
00:30:18build landfills, illegal landfills,
00:30:21in the forests, in the open areas. So here,
00:30:25despite all that, you say there is enforcement activity, yet it
00:30:28continues, so what's not working here? Look.
00:30:32At the point you brought up at the beginning in Mateh
00:30:35Yehuda, it's obvious, you know, it's in an area where people
00:30:39walk around and see. Most of these landfills are in hidden
00:30:42places that you can't see. Only with
00:30:46information and only with aerial surveillance can we locate
00:30:49them, and then we start dealing with them. In these
00:30:53two years, we have invested thousands of hours, thousands
00:30:56of working hours in collecting material,
00:30:59in incrimination, until we reach. So what else do you
00:31:03need to get to a point where you have a full
00:31:06picture of all these law violations? Do you need more manpower,
00:31:10more technological means? What's missing,
00:31:12Haim? Look, technological
00:31:16means,
00:31:18We usually advance with progress there,
00:31:22okay, that technology is advancing, we are advancing
00:31:25with it, we can be, the quality
00:31:28of our enforcement can be,
00:31:31very good, even excellent, and we work and we catch and we
00:31:35eradicate, but let's be, Ran, let's be fair
00:31:38to ourselves and to the public, enforcement is not
00:31:41a solution, enforcement is a means, we can reduce. The
00:31:45phenomenon, we can hurt the pockets
00:31:48of the ... spouts, of
00:31:51the contractors, of the owners of the trucks. The solution is
00:31:54of the state. That is, we are
00:31:57at waste disposal sites, today, today, look, today,
00:32:01in order for them to get form four for a house, they have to give
00:32:05approval for disposal at regulated disposal sites, so the contractors
00:32:08get approval for disposal, but they don't dispose at the site, they throw
00:32:12in the forest. We are talking about something complex. Today we
00:32:15need, the state needs to encourage the contractors,
00:32:19to dump at their sites, why
00:32:21should they pay 5, 6,000 shekels for a truck,
00:32:25so it's clear that they will look for the open areas, and what body is a governmental ministry
00:32:29needs, needs to ensure that the law
00:32:32is preserved,
00:32:35that the law is preserved or to strengthen the law, that the law
00:32:37is preserved, both and also enforcement units, okay,
00:32:41that there are enforcement units to uphold the law, and the enforcement units.
00:32:45All of them do their work faithfully
00:32:48and indeed so. The state, the government ministries
00:32:51need to strengthen the law. The Ministry of Environmental
00:32:54Protection, the Ministry of National Security, the Ministry of
00:32:57Justice. You, you as the head, as the head of the
00:33:00inspection unit of Keren Kayemet LeIsrael, are in contact with
00:33:03these ministries, not getting enough assistance? Let's, let's open this up,
00:33:07Haim. No problem opening, everything is open,
00:33:11Ran, we work as one. As soon as we
00:33:15work together with several hats, then the quality of our enforcement,
00:33:18our professionalism, is maximized,
00:33:22but again, as soon as there is no, no, no
00:33:26law or no tightening of the law, that they will be tougher with
00:33:29these people, and that they will encourage
00:33:32them to come and dump at the regulated sites, then why would
00:33:36that happen?
00:33:38Tell me, finally, Haim, what, now we talked about
00:33:42contractors who really do this with large quantities of'. And trucks and so on, what
00:33:46about the lone hiker at this
00:33:49time? How, uh, how is the awareness of Israeli
00:33:53citizens, their
00:33:54education?
00:33:58It is clear that the issue of environmental
00:34:01quality, it is an educational issue, it needs to be instilled
00:34:04in the education system,
00:34:07like many other things, and this way in the next generation maybe we will
00:34:11somewhat reduce this
00:34:14issue. Keren Kayemet with its public relations
00:34:17system, as everyone sees on television,
00:34:20on the radio, we do indeed communicate this
00:34:23outwards, whether it's about waste or about fire,
00:34:27or about receiving public that Keren Kayemet
00:34:30invests many millions to
00:34:33maximize the public's enjoyment at its
00:34:37sites, and
00:34:40yes, we just need to implement this and protect our
00:34:44nature. Especially Haim Tepperberg, director of the inspection unit
00:34:47of JNF, thank you very much Haim, thank you Ran,
00:34:51but if I may add one more small thing, we,
00:34:54we are in extreme weather days, we
00:34:57invite the public to enjoy our sites always
00:35:00and at all times, and we ask everyone to be our
00:35:04eyes and our ears in the field and to protect against
00:35:08fire and waste and to report anything that is
00:35:11not in order to the public, thank you very much Ran, thank you.
00:35:16This morning on Reshet Bet, almost 6:40,
00:35:19a little politics in the next few minutes, a little over 80 days
00:35:23until the elections, October 27th, that's the day, we are
00:35:26getting closer, here with us in the studio is Yair Ettinger, our commentator
00:35:30on religion and state, hello Yair, good morning, so let's
00:35:34talk about religion and politics with the news published just
00:35:37for the first time by our political reporter Shahar
00:35:40Glick about the fact that associates of Chairman of the Yesh Atid party Gadi
00:35:43Eizenkot. Behind the scenes, the establishment of
00:35:47the ultra-Orthodox public party that appeals to the liberal
00:35:50ultra-Orthodox public, they were also involved in forming
00:35:54its infrastructure and strategy. Yes,
00:35:57so many people saw in the last two or three
00:36:00weeks across the country a huge
00:36:03campaign on buses, billboards.
00:36:06The ultra-Orthodox public, Moti Litner, someone a rather
00:36:10unknown person, and two headlines
00:36:13are somehow connected. About Moti Litner this morning, so indeed
00:36:17the first one concerns Aizenkot because people working
00:36:19with Aizenkot behind
00:36:23the scenes were involved, as our reporter Shahar Glick published yesterday.
00:36:28They were involved in the establishment of that party. Let's say a word about
00:36:31this party. This is basically a party, currently the campaign is focused on Litner
00:36:35wanting a reserved spot
00:36:38in the party, in the monopoly called
00:36:42United Torah Judaism. But in fact, he is aiming for an independent
00:36:45run after his request will likely be rejected.
00:36:49And this is a politician from Beit Shemesh, he has a faction of
00:36:53two mandates in Beit Shemesh, he is even a member
00:36:56of the coalition, but... he challenges United Torah Judaism
00:36:59and he because he is not part, he is not part, not in terms
00:37:02of his messages, in terms of messages he goes on a delicate line
00:37:06says I represent the working
00:37:08Haredim, I represent the many American
00:37:12Haredim who also serve in the army more integrated into Israeli
00:37:15society, my line is not a separatist line, enlistment, he
00:37:19says yes, whoever doesn't study should enlist, he goes on
00:37:22a certain line, he is not in open rebellion against United
00:37:26Torah Judaism. Whoever pulls the strings, one can say, is Gadi
00:37:30Eisenkot, according to what Shahar Glick published
00:37:34yesterday, Gadi Eisenkot's advisors are involved
00:37:36in the matter, and yes, and were involved in all stages, they really
00:37:40want there to be a liberal ultra-Orthodox party, or do they want these
00:37:44votes to be wasted, wasted,
00:37:48burned because he won't pass the electoral threshold, so here it's already a matter of interpretation,
00:37:52what is really the intention behind this, is the intention really
00:37:55to thwart this attempt?
00:37:57This or the intention is perhaps also to integrate the Haredim, it could be that Moti
00:38:01Litner in some constellation hopes
00:38:04for a reservation in one of the parties, if not Haredi, perhaps not Haredi, because there
00:38:08is already a stage of speculation here, but it's very very
00:38:11interesting that these very very veteran political advisors
00:38:14are involved in the establishment of
00:38:18the party, that's one part. The second headline
00:38:21we promised is a new old name, a new old name, it
00:38:25was published in Channel 12 News.
00:38:27That the one who is in contact with Moti Litner
00:38:31is Eli Yishai, former chairman of Shas
00:38:35we know he has been on the bench for over
00:38:38a decade because after his removal when
00:38:42Aryeh Deri arrived at first there was some shared rule if
00:38:45you remember there was a triangle of several chairmen
00:38:48together with Ariel Attias at some point Eli Yishai
00:38:52simply resigned and he told us Eli Yishai in an interview
00:38:55three years ago. He said: I intend to return, I haven't
00:38:59gone anywhere, and now this publication
00:39:02that he is in contact with Moti Litner, would you define Eli
00:39:06Yishai as a liberal Haredi? No, but he
00:39:09is definitely a Haredi who is not part of this monopoly, he is not part
00:39:12of the establishment, of the power, and it should be remembered that the Haredi parties,
00:39:16ah, yes, indeed, anyone who runs against the parties, even if his messages
00:39:20are not rebellious against the parties and says the parties cause
00:39:23harm, anyone who runs outside, the very fact of running outside
00:39:27is... to cast doubt or to rebel
00:39:30against the parties, so Yair, as someone who knows both the leaders of the public and also
00:39:34the public itself, the ultra-Orthodox public, how much does this really reflect the sentiments within
00:39:38the ultra-Orthodox public? Excellent, so I would really not bet that these parties
00:39:41will pass, will reach the next Knesset, it's not a major split, but I
00:39:45would say that this is a breaking of a fear
00:39:48barrier against those large empires
00:39:51that are United Torah Judaism and Shas, which it should be remembered
00:39:55are not just parties but employers. Big ones, they
00:39:58churn out a lot of money, it's an establishment with a lot of power against
00:40:02these parties, suddenly how many, there are small
00:40:05parties, fragments of parties, attempts, and it seems
00:40:09to me
00:40:12that Litner's party is not the only one, there are two or three other such
00:40:15attempts, it seems to me that those people
00:40:19who criticize the establishment who say, we are willing to run outside, they are not currently
00:40:23so afraid, when Eli Yishai did this at some point there was his party
00:40:27that he.
00:40:32What are you doing running against the words of Rabbi Ovadia? I think that time has passed.
00:40:35Currently, the fear barrier is
00:40:38in one of the most difficult election campaigns
00:40:41in its history, it was right to define it this way. Yes, absolutely,
00:40:44because there are these winds of rebellion, and it's not
00:40:48just competing parties, it's also people who are unmotivated
00:40:51to vote, people who are disappointed with the party for Aryeh
00:40:54Deri. Opposition of all kinds comes
00:40:58to Shas conferences and boos him because there are all kinds of calculations
00:41:01with rabbis around Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and his appointment to the Council of Sages.
00:41:05There are all kinds of fragments, all kinds of types
00:41:09of criticism that he
00:41:12receives, both from the more integrating direction and also from the more
00:41:16segregating direction. Aryeh Deri is in a difficult
00:41:19election campaign, and on the other hand, we know that he knows how to play politics and get back his
00:41:23mandates even at the last minute, so let's continue with playing politics and talk
00:41:26about the Prime Minister's U-turn this week, who just
00:41:30a few weeks
00:41:33ago promoted and pushed the exemption law, even though physically he was not
00:41:37there to be seen voting. In favor, but the
00:41:41coalition indeed promoted the detention law, and now this week,
00:41:44a turnaround, yes, not a turnaround and not a half turnaround,
00:41:47ah, let's just say, he said in closed-door conversations, in quotation marks,
00:41:51that he thinks the exemption law was a mistake, and now in the next
00:41:54government they will act to pass a conscription law that will really conscript, and whoever doesn't
00:41:58enlist will go to jail, even
00:42:01so, so there's some kind of message sheet that we hear, essentially
00:42:05it's a kind of dance that the Prime Minister is dancing with Yitzhak Goldknopf
00:42:09and with also. Factors within Haredi politics that say we are not together
00:42:13the match between us is doubtful it could be that we
00:42:15will look for a match outside, yes you are smiling
00:42:19because it sounds, how shall we put it delicately, not exactly realistic,
00:42:23somewhat staged, we know that in the end politicians
00:42:27are judged not by their statements but by their actions, we are already seeing
00:42:31in the past few weeks budgetary transfers, exactly, budgetary transfers
00:42:34by the way, also to what is called yeshivas for dropouts, where
00:42:38the students are.
00:42:40Those who don't study Torah, who dropped out of Torah
00:42:43study frameworks who could have enlisted according to the Likud. Yes, these are institutions
00:42:47whose purpose is to prevent those who don't study from
00:42:51enlisting, and therefore actions are much more interesting than
00:42:54statements. Ah, but nevertheless, I think we are
00:42:58about 80-something days before the election campaign, just two weeks
00:43:02ago we finished the big legislative blitz,
00:43:05that Netanyahu gave to Shas and United Torah Judaism, and these 80-something
00:43:09days. I think that one of the goals from the Likud's
00:43:12perspective is to make us forget those actions or
00:43:16that very close cooperation with the ultra-Orthodox
00:43:20parties, perhaps to appeal a little to the Likud
00:43:23audience who doesn't like this connection so much, or which Ettinger, is our
00:43:27memory really that short? I think so, no, yes,
00:43:31yes, I think the Israeli voter's memory is short,
00:43:34will it completely be forgotten? I don't know, but it might
00:43:38dull the sting of
00:43:41last month. Yes, good, a few words about the Religious Zionism
00:43:44party this week, developments on that front?
00:43:47Uh, not so much, I think there were primaries
00:43:50of, rather limited primaries of Religious
00:43:53Zionism, that was last week already, currently
00:43:56waiting to see, Bezalel Smotrich said he intends
00:44:00to bring another voice, another reserved spot, it's clear that this
00:44:03will happen in the higher places, he said he wants
00:44:06to improve the representation of the party because he understands
00:44:10very well that the
00:44:13team that was elected last week is
00:44:15made of one type, so they are waiting for that name
00:44:19that might appeal to a different
00:44:23audience or diversify the list, that's not
00:44:26happening yet, yes, so to conclude, apropos names,
00:44:29let's talk about the, ah, competition
00:44:32in a not very large area called the Third Bloc, many
00:44:36candidates there who today will launch.
00:44:51Can it really be defined as a center, neither here nor there, or
00:44:55does the tendency lean more to the right? Yes, no, it's
00:44:58the center, it's the center that hopes to be the center, but in connection
00:45:02with your previous question about religious Zionism, notice that all these parties have
00:45:06representation for MKs or
00:45:09for those who are want to be MKs who are Religious
00:45:13Zionists, and there it's actually this derby
00:45:16happening outside the party defined as Religious Zionism, meaning
00:45:19Ropper and Hendel, that's on the spectrum
00:45:22and you mentioned Edelstein, there's
00:45:25Winter there, they are all of course working in these areas outside
00:45:28the party called Religious Zionism, outside a sectoral party
00:45:32but with a very prominent presence within
00:45:36the sector. Ah, this is the next contest, and I think
00:45:39that there's a, there's truth in what whoever thinks
00:45:43that this could decide the elections, there's nothing to
00:45:47rely on, so is this a risk in your opinion as a commentator on religion and state? What were
00:45:50these elections about? About what they were last time, about
00:45:54Netanyahu, not only was there no October 7th, we were then before
00:45:57right 80, a little over 80 days
00:46:00until October 27th, it was very interesting. Ettinger, our commentator, thank you very much.
00:46:04Thank you, and again let's repeat the news
00:46:08we started the broadcast with. So the IDF spokesman allowed to publish today, allowed
00:46:12this morning to publish, that in southern Lebanon two IDF soldiers fell yesterday
00:46:16from the 55th Paratroopers Brigade in an explosion of an improvised
00:46:19explosive device in a booby-trapped building in the village of Majdal Zun. Major
00:46:23(res.) Harel Birnstock, company commander in Battalion
00:46:252855 of the Spearhead formation, 34 years
00:46:29old from Nokdim, and Staff Sergeant Major (res.) Tamir Vaknin,
00:46:3233 years old from Eilat.
00:46:35In the incident, four soldiers
00:46:38were severely wounded. Their families were notified.
00:46:42The area, the incident, the clash was in an area where
00:46:45the IDF had long been in control.
00:46:49Apparently, the army did not know about the booby-trapped building.
00:46:53As a result of the explosion, Harel Birnstock
00:46:57and Tamir Vaknin, IDF soldiers, fell. May their memory
00:47:00be blessed. Now
00:47:04we are with you, Yoav Krakovsky,
00:47:07our political commentator. Yoav, are you with us? Hello Ran, good
00:47:11morning, hello, good, we talked a little politics with Yair, let's
00:47:14continue with you. You know, following the
00:47:18security escalation, Yoav, this
00:47:22is happening in the week when Defense Minister Haim Katz launches, excuse
00:47:25me, Yisrael Katz launches his campaign
00:47:28in prime time where it was quoted
00:47:31verbatim, a real defense minister, a powerful one, with an
00:47:35eloquent smile, a right-wing defense minister, very
00:47:39right-wing, very right-wing, and a powerful one, that was also true,
00:47:42and in fact we see what
00:47:44this defense minister wants to do, unlike the defense
00:47:48minister who didn't talk about it, it must be said, the former
00:47:51defense minister, Yoav Gallant, hardly gave interviews throughout
00:47:55his tenure, we hardly heard him, especially after
00:47:58October 7th, only after he resigned or
00:48:02was fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
00:48:05from his position, what we see is a defense minister who has been
00:48:09Ran, throughout his entire term, throughout
00:48:13his entire term in prime time, and it started
00:48:16with the cancellation of
00:48:19the administrative detentions, which was. Direct
00:48:22communication with the base and continued throughout, also
00:48:26the appointment of Eyal Zamir, it's about
00:48:30a more aggressive Chief of Staff, you remember the
00:48:32expressions then of Eyal
00:48:36Zamir's floor being the ceiling of Herzi Halevi, this is basically
00:48:39perhaps the main message, constantly talking about a lot of power
00:48:43and if necessary even more power in order
00:48:47to try to demonstrate belligerence,
00:48:50initiative, this.
00:48:55And I saw in the video of the Minister of Defense bragging about military achievements,
00:48:59and it's nice, in quotation marks, that before October 7th, and certainly on that
00:49:02terrible day, all the failures were not
00:49:06related to the political echelon, it was only the army, but after military
00:49:09achievements, the army is not mentioned, it's only the Minister of Defense
00:49:12himself, that's right, that's exactly the point, and it's always been this
00:49:16way, by the way, it should be emphasized that both the Prime Minister and the current
00:49:19Minister of Defense actually say. Our main
00:49:23takeaway from the events of October 7th is
00:49:27that we make the decisions. There is no more political
00:49:30echelon, excuse me, there is no more military echelon, no more professional
00:49:34echelon. This is true for what is happening in the security establishment, this
00:49:38is also true for other ministers in the government, Shlomo
00:49:41Karhi who completely ignores any ruling or statement from
00:49:45the High Court or the professional echelon in the Ministry of Communications, this is true
00:49:48across the board in the government, this is ostensibly what we see. Short
00:49:58time and I want to hear your perspective on what is called the Third Bloc and those
00:50:02who will present their new party today,
00:50:05Gilden and Yuli Edelstein, two right-wing
00:50:08figures, two former Likud members, and this is suspicious in the eyes
00:50:12of many who say or suspect
00:50:15that perhaps they will eventually join Netanyahu.
00:50:18Is there a basis for this concern or
00:50:22suspicion? There are four parties developing in this bloc, the Third
00:50:25Bloc, the Zionist Home that launched yesterday, Gil Adradan and Edelstein
00:50:29today, Blue and White and Ofer Winter, I would place them on a type
00:50:31of spectrum, the Zionist Home
00:50:34is perhaps closer to the possibility
00:50:38of joining Eisenkot, but the Zionist Home reservists, that's Hendel and Trupper,
00:50:42Trupper exactly, but Gilad Erdan,
00:50:45Edelstein, Blue and White and Winter, much much
00:50:48more connected to the possibility of joining Benjamin Netanyahu, regarding
00:50:51Gilad Erdan. Let's say that they can be looked at exactly
00:50:55with the same eyes that we looked at or look at Kahlon and
00:50:59Gidon Saar, people who were harmed by Benjamin
00:51:02Netanyahu, and when they
00:51:05know that they are on Netanyahu's list in the Likud, they are not, they are not likely
00:51:09to get positions. The purpose of such a list is to improve
00:51:12their position against Netanyahu, and perhaps
00:51:16then when Netanyahu needs you for a coalition, he is the best
00:51:19legitimate suitor, when you are on his list. He doesn't really count
00:51:23you, so Edelstein and Erdan, who were very hurt
00:51:27by Netanyahu, want to perhaps improve their position in order
00:51:30to join him in the government after
00:51:33the elections, they are not ready to join
00:51:36a government with the participation of Yair Golan, Yoav, in 20
00:51:39seconds, a new name or an old new Likud member
00:51:42who moves to Yisrael Beiteinu, MK
00:51:45Dennis, in fact, you know, he takes his shares,
00:51:49very, very significant shares, in his struggle within
00:51:52the coalition against the Likud, against Prime Minister
00:51:55Benjamin Netanyahu, and tries to realize them in a realistic spot in Yisrael
00:51:59Beiteinu, leaving something of Yisrael Beiteinu, that still talks
00:52:03to the public of new immigrants, immigrants
00:52:06from France, so this is actually an attempt to realize
00:52:09a successful share for him, with many
00:52:13names that Lieberman brought in the last period, at least for Ayalon,
00:52:16a realistic spot is guaranteed in the top ten of Yoav, thank you very much,
00:52:19thank you, we're finishing the first hour, Guy writes,
00:52:23Huppert Hayut, Rachel Eli, Yossi Tenoury, I'm Ran Binyamini, commercials, news
00:52:27at seven o'clock and we're
00:52:28here.
00:52:37All they did was talk about Khamenei,
00:52:40Enemies, Saturday night on Kan 11 and Kan
00:56:17Hello and good morning, seven o'clock now with the news update. This morning
00:56:21it was cleared for publication that in southern Lebanon yesterday, two IDF
00:56:25soldiers from the 55th Paratroopers Brigade fell in an explosion
00:56:28of an improvised explosive device in a booby-trapped building in the village of Majdal Zoun. Major
00:56:32(res.) Harel Birnstock, commander of Battalion
00:56:352855 of the Spearhead formation, 34 years
00:56:39old from Nokdim, and Staff Sergeant Major (res.)
00:56:42Tamir Vaknin, 33 years old from Eilat. Notification was given
00:56:46to their families. May their memory be blessed. In the same
00:56:50incident, four reserve soldiers were severely
00:56:53wounded. The incident occurred yesterday around 12
00:56:57noon in the village of Btater which is located within the Israeli
00:57:00security zone. Paratroopers in reserve secured
00:57:04engineering works with mechanical equipment and entered
00:57:07a building that turned out to be booby-trapped. The IDF says
00:57:10that this is a violation of the ceasefire. And against the backdrop
00:57:12of the rising tension in Lebanon,
00:57:15Israeli sources say that the response to Hezbollah's violation
00:57:19of the ceasefire is not yet over, and that
00:57:23additional options are being considered. Last night, for the first time in
00:57:26many weeks, the Air Force attacked a series of targets in the Tyre
00:57:30area and in southern Lebanon. Itay Blumental, our military and security
00:57:33correspondent. Last night's attacks are a continuation of yesterday's
00:57:36IDF attacks. That's right, Yontan, for the first time in many
00:57:40weeks, the Air Force attacked yesterday afternoon, a series of targets in southern
00:57:43Lebanon, headquarters, weapons depots, and Hezbollah infrastructure.
00:57:47The IDF explained that this was a response to the terrorist organization's violation
00:57:51of the ceasefire. At this stage, we cannot elaborate on the incident
00:57:55that occurred yesterday afternoon. Israeli officials
00:57:58tell us that Israel's response to Hezbollah's violation is not yet
00:58:01over, and that additional options are currently being considered,
00:58:05including actions that were considered sensitive. Israel's response
00:58:08is subject to the approval of the political echelon. And beyond the IDF
00:58:11attacks, yesterday the IDF unusually issued an evacuation notice to the residents of the village of Al Mansouri
00:58:15in the western sector. The first evacuation notice in
00:58:19many weeks, the IDF explained that this is a village that is under
00:58:22Israeli control and that residents of the village returned inside
00:58:26under the guise of the Lebanese army, contrary to the agreement signed between
00:58:29Israel and Lebanon with US mediation.
00:58:31Regarding
00:58:34the escalation in the north, the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon
00:58:37were suspended. Our political correspondent Gili Cohen, you are reporting on the reason
00:58:41for the suspension of the talks, Gili, yes Yontan,
00:58:44hello, the negotiations are expected to resume today. To Rome between
00:58:48Israel and Lebanon, after
00:58:50they were suspended yesterday, the reason, according to a source in the Israeli
00:58:53negotiating team, is rooted
00:58:56in leaks,
00:58:58whose source, at least according to that source, is on the Lebanese side, but
00:59:02the truth is that there is also a kind of flexing of muscles by
00:59:05the Israeli delegation in light of the escalation
00:59:09and the violation of the ceasefire that
00:59:11was recorded. In Israel, there is great
00:59:14concern about this escalation.
00:59:17And they also intend to take additional
00:59:21steps after the incident
00:59:24in the north. Thank you, Gili. Now to the tension
00:59:27in the Persian Gulf. President Trump reiterated that Iran must not have
00:59:31nuclear weapons and that he prefers to reach a deal with Tehran because
00:59:35he doesn't like to kill people, as he put it. Nathan
00:59:38Guttman, our correspondent in Washington, with the report. The United States
00:59:42hopes to reach an agreement with Iran on opening the Strait of Hormuz as early as today
00:59:45or tomorrow. The talks are at
00:59:52a standstill, waiting for the Iranian side's approval and the Supreme Leader's agreement
00:59:55to understandings that have already been reached. Last night, a ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz
00:59:59reported hearing explosions, but beyond that, the relative calm
01:00:03in the strait has been maintained for several days. President Trump said
01:00:06yesterday that he prefers to make a deal over returning
01:00:09to war because he doesn't want to kill people, in his words.
01:00:12Trump reiterated that he is still waiting to see what the outcome of the negotiations with
01:00:16the Iranians will be. The intention of the United States is to return to direct talks with
01:00:20Iran on the nuclear issue immediately after an agreement is reached regarding the Strait
01:00:24of Hormuz. Yoav Horowitz, who was Netanyahu's confidant, Director-General
01:00:28of the Prime Minister's Office, reveals
01:00:31everything tomorrow in the Friday News Edition on Kan News,
01:00:34the full interview with our correspondent Gili
01:00:36Cohen.
01:00:39I really wanted to work with Netanyahu, and I knew a Netanyahu
01:00:43who I thought was statesmanlike.
01:00:49If I ever thought that was true, today I know it's not
01:00:51true. Power corrupts
01:00:55both moral values, but it corrupts the perception
01:00:58of reality.
01:01:01The State of Israel files an indictment against Benjamin Netanyahu, going
01:01:04to war against the State
01:01:05of Israel.
01:01:10And that's all for our news update for this hour. Immediately after us, this morning
01:01:13Emran Benyaminy on Kan News on Reshet Bet. Our next update is at 8:00.
01:01:18Have a good and quiet morning, see you in the meantime.
01:01:347:05. Hello and good morning from Jerusalem.
01:01:37This morning, the second hour. We continue until 8:00 on your radio
01:01:41and live on Kan 11. And we begin with the serious incident
01:01:45yesterday in southern Lebanon.
01:01:47The IDF Spokesperson allowed for publication this morning that two soldiers were killed
01:01:51and four were seriously wounded by an explosion in a
01:01:54booby-trapped building. We are now with Carmela Menashe, our correspondent, with the details. Hello
01:01:58Carmela. Hello Ran. Major (res.)
01:02:02Harel Biranstock, 34 from Nokdim, company commander
01:02:06in the 2855 spearhead formation
01:02:10of the 55th Brigade, fell in battle in southern
01:02:13Lebanon. Staff Sergeant (res.) Tamir Varkanin, 33
01:02:16from Eilat, a soldier in the 2855th
01:02:19Battalion, spearhead, fell
01:02:23also in the same battle in southern Lebanon. Four reserve IDF
01:02:26soldiers were seriously wounded. The soldiers
01:02:30received medical treatment. Their families
01:02:33were notified. Yesterday, near 12:00, an IDF
01:02:36force from the brigade's combat team, the 55th
01:02:39Brigade, operated in the area of Majdal Zoun in southern
01:02:43Lebanon, to clear the area and destroy terrorist
01:02:47infrastructure. During the operation, the force entered
01:02:50a site in the area. When the force entered the site,
01:02:54an explosion occurred. incident
01:02:57and they fall and give their lives, but in life itself, there are
01:03:13After the incident and for the first time in many weeks, the Air
01:03:16Force, guided by the Northern Command's fire complex
01:03:19and the 91st Division's fire brigade,
01:03:23attacked targets in the area. The village
01:03:26of Majdal Zoun is located within the yellow line and under IDF
01:03:30control. The IDF does not know at this stage when
01:03:33the explosive device was placed in the building that the soldiers entered, whether
01:03:37it was a new device that was placed there recently. The IDF
01:03:41is investigating the incident and in the meantime defines
01:03:44the incident as a flagrant violation of the ceasefire.
01:03:47Thank you, Carmela. Staff Sergeant (res.)
01:03:50Tamir Varkanin, and Major (res.) Harel
01:03:53Biranstock, may their memory be a blessing. And we now say hello to Michael
01:03:57Tomer, a childhood friend of Major Biranstock.
01:04:01Hello Michael, hello, thank you for speaking with us. First of all,
01:04:05we share your profound sorrow. Thank you.
01:04:09Tell us who he was to you?
01:04:12A childhood friend, we actually grew up together since I can
01:04:16remember myself, through all the stages
01:04:19of life, kindergarten, school,
01:04:22high school, guiding in the youth movement
01:04:25together, and later in life, through all the stages
01:04:28of life. He was a perfect father
01:04:32to four sweet children and a perfect
01:04:35man to his amazing wife Alia,
01:04:38and
01:04:41actually, what can I say, he was a person
01:04:44who gave himself 100%
01:04:47to protecting the country, to protecting
01:04:50us. Since the beginning of the war, he served
01:04:54countless days of reserve duty, many rotations, and even between
01:04:57rotations in the reserves in the brigade. A maneuverable
01:05:01brigade, he dedicated his entire self to reserve
01:05:04duty and to protecting us, and despite
01:05:08the costs, despite knowing what it entailed, both the personal
01:05:12costs concerning his family, as a family man
01:05:16and also as a civil
01:05:19engineer,
01:05:22the consequences for his profession, for his professional advancement, he just put everything
01:05:25aside, without, without thinking twice, he just put everything
01:05:29aside. And he dedicated his entire self to the reserves
01:05:33and to protecting us, and in the end he also gave
01:05:36his life. When did you last see him? When
01:05:39did you talk?
01:05:41So we were just messaging on the morning of the incident.
01:05:45Uh, we asked when, I asked him when we would ride again
01:05:49together. I hoped that as soon as he got out of reserve duty, we could
01:05:53meet, we could ride off-road bikes
01:05:56together. And so, just before he
01:06:00went into Lebanon, he sent a picture
01:06:02of himself and said, there's
01:06:06no time, we need to go into
01:06:08Lebanon.
01:06:10Uh, and when during the afternoon I realized something had happened
01:06:14in his sector, I sent him a message
01:06:16hoping that it wasn't him. He wouldn't
01:06:20get that message. But you were afraid
01:06:24it was him? I was afraid
01:06:26it was him, of course, because I knew that I knew it was in his sector, and I knew
01:06:30that he was a person
01:06:34who would not let any incident pass him by. He would always be
01:06:38at the center. I would always make sure to protect
01:06:40his soldiers and to protect those around him in the most professional way, in the
01:06:44most... an admired commander
01:06:47from his regular service until every stage of his
01:06:50reserve duty. A truly legendary
01:06:53person, a father of four children
01:06:56who was barely home in recent
01:06:59years. He was barely home because he was constantly rotating
01:07:02between duties, and even between duties, he was always
01:07:06every time we met, he had just finished a phone call
01:07:09related to reserve duty, another arrangement that needed to be made. His mind
01:07:13was always on reserve duty, or suddenly, even
01:07:17between duties, suddenly, "come for a day here and there."
01:07:20Absolutely not a minute
01:07:23of rest, he really
01:07:26gave his all. Yes, is there a phrase
01:07:30of his that resonates in your
01:07:33mind? What's most amazing
01:07:37about Harel is that with all this immense dedication
01:07:40and... 100% of the...
01:07:44and the understanding of exactly what
01:07:48was right to do, he just didn't take himself
01:07:51with such a bloated chest of "I'm the best in reserve duty, I do this and I do that."
01:07:54Everything was very clear to him,
01:07:56very
01:07:59simple. It was clear to him that he was here
01:08:02to protect the people of Israel, and that's what was required of him in this historical
01:08:05period. That's what the people of Israel needed from him, and he just did it without
01:08:09making a fuss, without taking himself too seriously.
01:08:12He just put
01:08:16himself there, and without overthinking
01:08:20it, and without considering the enormous price he was paying
01:08:24in his personal life. We owe so much to this
01:08:27person. What is important for you that the public knows about who he was
01:08:31as a person? It's important to me that they know there are people like this, that there
01:08:35are people who just put their whole lives aside,
01:08:38and that we should appreciate them, not only at a moment when there's an
01:08:42כזה ו והם נופלים והם מוסרים את
01:08:46people walking among us
01:08:49who put their whole lives aside, their personal lives, their connection
01:08:53with their children, their profession,
01:08:57and simply dedicate everything to protecting us
01:09:00and giving their all so that we can live our lives. We need to appreciate
01:09:04them. We need to know that this is something so not
01:09:07obvious. Michael Tomer, childhood friend of
01:09:10Major Harel Biranstock, who fell yesterday
01:09:13in Lebanon. Thank you very much for finding the
01:09:17strength to talk to us this morning about him and for allowing us
01:09:20to get to know him, even a little. Thank you very much and again, our condolences
01:09:24for the heavy loss. Thank you. Thank you. Major General (res.)
01:09:27Israel Ziv, former head of the IDF Operations Division. Hello
01:09:30Israel. Good morning. A difficult
01:09:33morning. Very difficult. Israel, what are your insights from the details
01:09:37published about this severe incident, a booby-trapped
01:09:40building in an area where the IDF has been in control for a long
01:09:42time?
01:09:45First of all, with your permission, I would like to express my condolences to the
01:09:48families and wish a speedy recovery to the wounded.
01:09:51Of course. It is unclear whether
01:09:54the explosive device was indeed placed before the signing
01:09:58of the agreement or after the signing of the agreement. But one thing
01:10:01is clear, the further the talks progress, the
01:10:05motivation of Hezbollah and also Iran behind it
01:10:09to jeopardize the process is much higher.
01:10:12Therefore, we are likely,
01:10:15in my estimation, to see additional incidents of this kind or
01:10:18others, and there is a real trap here,
01:10:22a strategic trap and also a tactical
01:10:25one, because on the one hand, Israel cannot not respond, right? Because that would erode
01:10:29deterrence, it endangers the forces. On the other
01:10:32hand, when it's clear that the Lebanese army is not doing enough, it's necessary
01:10:36to understand that they also have a fear of being dragged
01:10:39into a civil war.
01:10:42But the question is, when was the explosive device placed? Was it during
01:10:46the recent ceasefire or before, and only discovered now?
01:10:49Does this question and the answer to it change anything
01:10:52regarding the Israeli response and the accusation
01:10:56that Hezbollah violated the ceasefire? Not really, because
01:10:59it's clear
01:11:02that if it was an isolated incident, then that question would be very
01:11:05relevant. But the underlying assumption should be that the more the talks
01:11:09progress, the motivation of the other
01:11:12side, of Hezbollah and Iran - Iran is pushing for this - is
01:11:15to thwart the agreement by dragging Israel into war.
01:11:19And how does Israel respond? Militarily, is the IDF's response that you've seen so
01:11:23far the appropriate and adequate response to what
01:11:25happened? So, look, that's the central
01:11:28question, because look, there are
01:11:31two things Israel needs to adopt, two conclusions
01:11:35Israel needs to adopt. One, you can't drag out
01:11:39the agreement, you have to go with it all the way decisively. Otherwise
01:11:43you're giving a very big prize, actually, to Hezbollah,
01:11:47if the agreement is canceled or the process is canceled or stopped, that's
01:11:51a big prize for Hezbollah and Iran.
01:11:53On the other hand, you have to start
01:11:56changing the situation on the ground, meaning pushing the Lebanese
01:12:00army to do more. And therefore, I think that
01:12:03in parallel, first of all, we need to quickly finalize the agreement, not
01:12:07to delay. The problem currently, the bone of contention, is
01:12:11the monitoring mechanism. So we need to decide on it. It's not something
01:12:14that if we stall for time, some solution
01:12:18will be found. But one thing is certain, in order
01:12:21to finalize the agreement, the demand is
01:12:24from Lebanon and perhaps also the United States,
01:12:27that the response will be more moderate. So
01:12:31I agree with that. I think that you can't not respond,
01:12:34on the other hand, you have to be very
01:12:36surgical and hit Hezbollah
01:12:40and less the civilian population. Because then you
01:12:43are actually punishing or harming the Lebanese government,
01:12:46and here we need to act very
01:12:50measuredly. That is, you are calling not to escalate the response.
01:12:54Definitely not to escalate the response, but on the other hand, it also needs to be clear to the Lebanese
01:12:57government that this is not some new status quo that is convenient for them, because
01:13:01we also need to exert some leverage on them, such as not advancing the
01:13:05economic aid they expect and so on and so forth. That is, they should understand
01:13:09that not all the time is in their hands.
01:13:12So when reports speak of the IDF demanding a powerful attack in Lebanon
01:13:15and the political echelon blocked it, then
01:13:18in your opinion, Major General (res.) Israel, is the political echelon
01:13:22here? Yes, because this
01:13:25already belongs more to the image and internal politics
01:13:28of but will not complete
01:13:32threatens more. And I think that in this case, it's really
01:13:35the wrong direction. We need to be much more
01:13:39focused here and give this strategic
01:13:42agreement a chance to succeed. So, interestingly enough, let's talk
01:13:45about Iran. The agreement forming between Oman
01:13:48and Iran might remove the issue of closing the Strait of Hormuz from the agenda
01:13:52and allow negotiations on the nuclear program. We've seen this before.
01:13:55This is not we are not out of that movie yet, it's
01:13:58a series. The problem here is, look,
01:14:02the separation between Hormuz and the nuclear program is not
01:14:05good, it reduces leverage, because let's assume
01:14:09that this move regarding Hormuz succeeds, there is still a dispute over
01:14:13control, this idea of creating a square
01:14:17where ships entering pass
01:14:19close to the Iranian coast so that they can even with rifles
01:14:23shoot at them and then send them back out on the other
01:14:27side, is in my opinion a very bad idea. It gives strength
01:14:31to the Iranians, because at any given moment, if the Revolutionary Guard
01:14:34feels like it, they can overturn the agreement. On the other hand, if it
01:14:37works, the Americans won't want to
01:14:41overturn the agreement to pressure on the nuclear program. You lose a nuclear
01:14:45leverage, the most important leverage that Hormuz also puts pressure on
01:14:47the Iranians. Therefore, my heart is not
01:14:51so happy and joyful about this Hormuz agreement. I'm very
01:14:55concerned that the nuclear issue will be pushed aside and we won't see
01:14:59it anytime soon, if at all. So what kind of period are we heading into regarding
01:15:03Iran, when the IDF is highly alert and President Trump changes
01:15:06his mind every moment? At the beginning of the week, last weekend, we were really
01:15:10on high alert. A second later, Trump again
01:15:14gives an opportunity for negotiations. How long can the IDF
01:15:17maintain such alertness?
01:15:20First of all, it must be said that there is
01:15:24an unreasonable
01:15:25attrition
01:15:28in maintaining readiness, where indeed
01:15:32people, entire families, truly have no
01:15:35life. This is, I meet these friends, these
01:15:38pilots, compared to other entities
01:15:41altogether. The country is not breathing because they are constantly jumping
01:15:45and waiting to run to Iran. We need leadership here that will calm things down.
01:15:49We can also tell the Americans, I don't think they even want us involved, that's
01:15:52a fact. But even if so, give us
01:15:56a week, it's not something that is so urgent right now that the IDF needs
01:15:59to be constantly
01:16:02open canopies and the entire state of Israel
01:16:05holding its breath, not going on vacations, not anything. We need to calm things down.
01:16:09The second thing is, look, Israel, on the other hand, needs to look
01:16:13soberly at the fact that it might be that the responsibility for overseeing
01:16:16the nuclear program and for the response will be ours as Americans. At some point,
01:16:20they will get tired. Yes, Israel, I want to conclude by talking to you for one more minute about another
01:16:23open front. The front of Gaza
01:16:27and Hamas and the road
01:16:29map of Trump's peace council with the possibility of Hamas disarming.
01:16:33I want to describe
01:16:37to you and our listeners a cartoon from recent testimonies
01:16:40from today. We see two Hamas members, two Hamasniks in front of lockers,
01:16:44yes, cells where weapons are stored, and one
01:16:48Hamasnik asks the other, "Do you remember the code to open
01:16:51it?" And the second Hamasnik says, "7 10 20."
01:17:00Is this what's happening? Did Hamas really disarm? Does
01:17:04this seem plausible to you? There are two
01:17:07very, very serious
01:17:10problems. One is that he is not really disarming. He is indeed storing, and storage is
01:17:14not disarmament. This is unequivocally clear. And the second
01:17:17thing is that there is no real
01:17:20mechanism here that guarantees this. On the contrary, the mechanism in question
01:17:25has very little chance of success, first because an international
01:17:29force will not do the job there. This is a type of
01:17:32UNIFIL repeating itself with different letters. And the second
01:17:36thing is this whole idea of a technocratic government.
01:17:39This is a bad joke,
01:17:43because who would give them authority? What power do they have
01:17:47Hezbollah has no problem putting on this show because
01:17:50he knows it's nothing, and he does a 'poof' and kicks them
01:17:54out. And also, the public there will not trust someone who is temporary and needs
01:17:58to go somewhere in two or three years.
01:18:01And therefore, this is a cluster, this is a kind of mask.
01:18:05There's no real thing there. The thing
01:18:37that IDF forces operating in southern Lebanon are also forced to chase
01:18:41Israelis who again and again cross into
01:18:45Lebanese territory. Yesterday, a group of boys and girls crossed the border
01:18:48to settle beyond the enemy
01:18:51line. Rubi Amar, our correspondent, continues to report on
01:18:54this phenomenon. While the IDF is looking into Lebanon, it was forced yesterday
01:18:58to deal once again with activists of the movement calling itself
01:19:02'Ori Tzafon' who infiltrated Lebanon. This happened yesterday afternoon
01:19:05during a high alert while the IDF was attacking in Lebanon after
01:19:09a severe violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah. Dozens of teenagers
01:19:13crossed the border in the village of Rajar into Lebanon. IDF forces
01:19:16chased them for several hours. This is what some
01:19:20girls sounded like in a video they circulated from within Lebanon. We are here
01:19:23in Lebanon near Hezbollah, sending a message to all the Sunni people of Israel
01:19:27and to the Hezbollah organization. You harmed us, you went to war with us. We will retaliate
01:19:30against you, we will defeat you, and we will take back the land you took from us, which is ours, and we will settle
01:19:34it, and we will return here after the war, and with God's help, we will be victorious here.
01:19:38In Israeli territory, supporters gathered and confronted police officers who tried
01:19:42to distance them from the
01:19:43border.
01:19:50This illegal activity, which troubles IDF forces who are supposed
01:19:54to protect the security of Israeli residents, is part of a larger wave.
01:19:57In recent weeks, we have been reporting almost daily on the crossing of the border
01:20:01into Syria by activists of the movement calling itself "Pioneers
01:20:05of the Bashan." They too are calling to settle the areas beyond
01:20:08the border, while ignoring the law. Security forces
01:20:11are struggling to stop the phenomenon, and law enforcement, or the teeth of
01:20:14the law, are hardly implemented. There are no indictments
01:20:18and very few arrests of
01:20:21the offenders. Yes, 7:24, and the
01:20:24upcoming report also fits the definition of lawlessness.
01:20:28Again and again, murder in Arab society, this happened in the last hour. Orly Alcalay,
01:20:31our correspondent, with the first details. Hello Orly, yes, hello
01:20:35Ran, this is happening in the town of Mqably Shvut. Large
01:20:49police forces are at the murder scene and have opened an investigation. 12 hours, two murdered. Last night,
01:20:55Ziad Bashar, 57
01:20:59years old, a resident of Tayibe, was murdered, allegedly as part
01:21:02of a blood feud. Unknown individuals called him to come to the school
01:21:06yard, and there they opened fire and shot
01:21:09him. A year after his wife was murdered,
01:21:13he said, "I'll be next." And when she was murdered, he said:
01:21:16"I'll be next." He probably knew what he was talking about.
01:21:20160 murders in Arab society since the beginning
01:21:23of the year. This is what we are talking about when they probably say
01:21:27governance, yes, governance that does not exist. Thank you Orly,
01:21:30thank you.
01:21:37Now, a little over 8 days before October 27th,
01:21:41election day, the minister, ambassador
01:21:44and former Likud senior figure, Gila Gamliel will officially launch her new party
01:21:48tonight. Alongside her, as number two, Yuli
01:21:51Edelstein, also a former Likud senior figure. Yaara Shapira, our political
01:21:55correspondent, has the details. Hello Yaara, yes Ran,
01:21:58finally, after quite a few delays, Erdan will officially launch
01:22:02his party tonight. Delays, by the way, stemming from both technical reasons and
01:22:05substantive reasons of listing the list and adding women.
01:22:09The only ones who will be there are Gilad Erdan and his number two, Yuli
01:22:13Edelstein, who will talk
01:22:15about the need for a liberal
01:22:18right-wing party, they will present themselves as a party that is indeed right-wing
01:22:2261
01:22:24for Netanyahu, and will also advocate for equality of burden, which
01:22:28explains who they don't want in Netanyahu's coalition, the
01:22:31Haredim, they don't want them and will likely seek to include
01:22:35parties from the other bloc. This is
01:22:38more or less Erdan and Edelstein's platform. They have
01:22:41other people on the list who are already committed
01:22:45to them, such as Aliza Bloch and Chezi Nachama. But I assume they want
01:22:49to keep the suspense, and therefore tonight only Erdan
01:22:52and Edelstein will be present, and in the coming
01:22:56days, the other members will join. They are also in talks with
01:23:00other figures. And so, tonight, another
01:23:04party will be formed in the range of the blocs.
01:23:07Yes, it's a bit hard to count. Thank you very much, Yaara
01:23:10Shapira. We will now say hello to MK Naama Lazimi
01:23:14from the Democrats party. Hello.
01:23:16Hello. First of all, I must express my condolences.
01:23:20Two fallen soldiers this morning. A difficult
01:23:23morning indeed. How do you think we should act now in Lebanon? Deepen our
01:23:26presence there, or perhaps withdraw and let the Lebanese army act? What
01:23:30is your position? Look, ultimately, we need to create a settlement, but a real
01:23:34settlement, not a temporary settlement, and not a settlement that
01:23:37does not allow for any decision or any resolution. Netanyahu
01:23:40is incapable of doing this, and therefore
01:23:43the reality is still bloody and difficult. The residents of the north deserve
01:23:47peace, and all citizens of the country deserve
01:23:50a settlement that will allow for genuine security. This is not happening
01:23:54right now. A settlement with the Lebanese government is the solution. The presence of IDF
01:23:57forces, large IDF forces today in southern Lebanon, is an essential
01:24:01presence. First of all, it seems
01:24:03that in the near future, there will be an IDF presence. But
01:24:07this bloody reality that does not allow for anything, neither here nor there,
01:24:11for such a long time, this is not the way to live, neither for the residents of
01:24:15Lebanon, nor for the residents of
01:24:18Israel. We all see what is happening. Here, the Lebanese government wants
01:24:21an agreement with Israel. Israel is dragging its feet.
01:24:25The reality with Hezbollah is not a reality of defeat. This is not
01:24:29how you manage a normal
01:24:31reality. And also,
01:24:35we also deserve to know that there
01:24:37is a government that takes responsibility and understands that we need to close
01:24:41fronts and not leave them all open for a permanent
01:24:44state of emergency. Netanyahu will not do
01:24:47this, and you need to do it. The question,
01:24:50Naama. What part will you have in the Democrats party
01:24:54if you form the next coalition? What involvement will you have in security matters, because
01:24:58your party chairman, Yair Golan, is a former Deputy Chief of Staff. He
01:25:02wants the defense portfolio, but the other partners, how shall we put it delicately, are hesitant about
01:25:06this idea. They are taking it off the table. Listen,
01:25:08the other partners will sit with us at the negotiating
01:25:12table, and ultimately everything depends on mandates. What worries
01:25:16me much more than the distribution of portfolios, I want to say,
01:25:19is proxy parties like the party that Yaara Shapira
01:25:23reported on a moment ago, buffer parties for
01:25:25Netanyahu. When Netanyahu loses elections, he forms
01:25:29buffer parties, parties that complete his 61, even if they
01:25:33say they won't complete him. I
01:25:36remind you that ultimately, parties of former Likud members
01:25:39proved themselves to be Netanyahu's most loyal parties.
01:25:42See Gideon Sa'ar
01:25:45now. And I call on the Israeli
01:25:47public not to be dazzled by all the press conferences.
01:25:51Meanwhile, the electoral threshold also shows that they are not dazzled, but nonetheless,
01:25:55to understand that in the end, only those committed to democratic
01:25:58Israel and to the decisions that need to be made
01:26:02will do what needs to be done. But on what basis do you say they will return
01:26:05to Netanyahu? Based on the political reality
01:26:09that has always existed. Ultimately,
01:26:12these are former Likud members. Ultimately,
01:26:15a party that has direct
01:26:17responsibility for
01:26:20our current reality, whether it's the governmental coup or
01:26:23October 7th. Even Yuli Edelstein was not
01:26:27there for a state inquiry commission, and I
01:26:30remind you that he also dragged his feet in a very deliberate
01:26:32manner
01:26:35regarding the enlistment law. The fact that he is more
01:26:38enthusiastic about evasion than Yuli Edelstein
01:26:42does not erase the fact that during wartime, he dragged his feet
01:26:45in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. So I don't buy these
01:26:48things. He moved
01:26:51from the Likud to Yisrael Beiteinu, which is part of the change bloc,
01:26:55your bloc. Is he a legitimate partner
01:26:57for you, Danilo? Lieberman is, of course, a legitimate partner. I
01:27:01don't understand this connection. I don't
01:27:04understand this connection. We want people who do not support
01:27:07a regime coup, who support a state inquiry
01:27:10commission, and who are
01:27:13there for the day after to take the responsibility the country needs. The
01:27:17fact that after four years he voted against the law of the "empty" I... That doesn't impress
01:27:20me. The country deserves much more. Better than that. I understand that I am probably
01:27:24saying something that is strange to some of our partners, but I
01:27:28think that after four such difficult years, we deserve
01:27:32people whom we know exactly for whom
01:27:35they exist and that together we can fix and rebuild
01:27:38anew. There are also ideological gaps, and that's okay, but this country has
01:27:42decisions that we are obliged to implement and make. Let's
01:27:46talk about the High Court's decision yesterday. High Court Justice
01:27:49El Two. Receives partly your petition. More
01:27:53correctly, issues an order to show cause that freezes all the money transfers
01:27:56that were in the Finance and patiently. A short break
01:27:59the day before yesterday.
01:28:01So, from a principled, constitutional point of view, MK Lazimi, as a legislator,
01:28:05as an MK, does it seem proper and correct to you that one judge
01:28:08would cancel decisions made by members of the Knesset?
01:28:12First of all, it is not proper or correct to hold an unlawful and illegal discussion.
01:28:15What is happening here is that we, why is it not correct? The Knesset's legal advisor
01:28:18determined that according to the regulations and according to the Knesset Committee's decision, the Speaker
01:28:22of the Knesset is authorized to allow sessions to be held during the recess
01:28:26with the approval of the Agreements Committee, and if there are no agreements, then the Speaker
01:28:29of the Knesset can, in special cases, order a discussion even without it.
01:28:47of the Knesset, I will just say, this was not said this week, it was said four
01:28:51years ago in the previous
01:28:53Knesset, six days before the previous elections, you were a Member
01:28:57of Knesset in the coalition, a Member of the Finance Committee, you did exactly
01:29:00the same thing, copy-paste. Only then the procedure bothered
01:29:04you less. Absolutely not what you are saying here, I want
01:29:08to remind you exactly of the reality that existed at the time, a year after
01:29:11a budget passed, just for things that are
01:29:15completely not sectarian, sectoral,
01:29:18encouraging draft dodging. Is this also okay? I want to tell you that this
01:29:22is also not really okay, I have no intention of defending such a thing, but
01:29:26do not compare what was done here, election bribery
01:29:28from the highest level, the day before yesterday, election bribery.
01:29:32The Ministry of Religious Services 80 million, Strzok's Ministry
01:29:36250 million, the Ministry of Education close to 900
01:29:40million for religious and Haredi education. The judge did not say what is allowed and what is not allowed,
01:29:43he spoke about the procedure, and you did exactly the same procedure six
01:29:47days before the elections. He said to include what
01:29:50was passed, some of what was passed is now in legal
01:29:54proceedings. Yes, we are fighting against
01:29:57the budgets for shirking, right?
01:30:00Budgets encouraging draft dodging 47 million
01:30:03for youth and yeshiva students who might drop out
01:30:07of yeshiva and enlist. Why
01:30:09fund this? Now during elections? And also, tell me, didn't Netanyahu
01:30:13say a week ago that he wants to recruit? So I don't
01:30:16understand, if he wants to recruit, why is he transferring tens of millions to keep
01:30:20yeshiva students from, God forbid, going there? Let's end
01:30:23with this question mark. Member of Knesset Naama wants
01:30:27to say,
01:30:29one must distinguish between things that are perhaps necessary.
01:30:36What happened the day before yesterday is exactly that, and we will stand guard. Member
01:30:40of Knesset Naama Zim from the Democrats party, thank you very much, thank you very much.
01:30:447:35 time to hear what's happening outside.
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01:31:07after which, among other things, more details
01:31:11about the 'Shadow' case. We'll be
01:31:13back soon.
01:31:15We
01:31:20want to say hello now to Tomer
01:31:22Marciano, the cousin of Sergeant First Class (res.)
01:31:26Tamir Vaknin, 33 years old from Eilat.
01:31:29Hello, Tomer. Hello, thank you very much for
01:31:32speaking with us, and we also share your sorrow. We spoke
01:31:36earlier with a childhood friend of Major (res.) Harel Biranstock.
01:31:40You are Tamir Vaknin's cousin.
01:31:43A very difficult morning, very difficult. Please tell us
01:31:46so we can get to know him a bit.
01:31:50Yes, we are still up from yesterday
01:31:54trying to digest this unbelievable news.
01:31:57Uh, we are cousins, but in our family,
01:32:01we all grew up like siblings.
01:32:03Tamir is like my younger brother.
01:32:07He grew up in our house and we in his
01:32:10house. Uh, Tamir is
01:32:13the funniest person in our group of cousins,
01:32:17the wittiest, with that cynicism
01:32:20that always knew how to come at the right time. A happy
01:32:23person, full of life. I think
01:32:27I sat from about 2 AM until just 15 minutes ago
01:32:30and read our WhatsApp messages. In the last three years, all our messages
01:32:34are "are you coming in? Are you leaving? When are you coming in?
01:32:38Where are you going?" For three consecutive years,
01:32:40he was at the forefront of the front. He started
01:32:43in Lebanon and went down to Gaza and returned to Lebanon
01:32:46and Syria and again
01:32:48to Lebanon.
01:32:51Uh, he didn't stop for a moment and didn't give up on being first,
01:32:54just like what happened in this case.
01:32:58Uh I
01:33:01there's no, there's really no way to describe how big his heart is
01:33:05and how much he is the definition of a king
01:33:07of the land.
01:33:10Tell us, Tomer, about his life,
01:33:13Tamir's life, when he wasn't in the army, during the time he wasn't
01:33:17on reserve duty. In the last three years, he worked
01:33:21at a cyber company.
01:33:25I had a conversation with their HR manager last night,
01:33:28and they were in shock.
01:33:32Totally. Tamir wasn't present much in the last three
01:33:36years, but he made a very serious impact on the people
01:33:40he
01:33:43worked with and touched.
01:33:45Uh,
01:33:48he lived in Tel Aviv, with his mother,
01:33:52for a period of time. In the last few years, he's been outside the city
01:33:55of Eilat.
01:33:57And Eilat is always home, and it's always such an anchor point that we all always
01:34:01go and come from.
01:34:04Tamir is simply a person who loves to live life, a funny person,
01:34:08easygoing, very, very, very easygoing, takes
01:34:11everything in good vibes.
01:34:16I really
01:34:20don't have much left to say. I feel inside that
01:34:23it doesn't matter what words come out of my mouth, it can't describe how big
01:34:27this thing is. It's mainly how unbelievable it is for any of us.
01:34:31When did you receive this difficult
01:34:33news? A small detail,
01:34:37when they entered the restaurant where
01:34:40my aunt works, the employees
01:34:43announced it outside, and I
01:34:46heard the announcement through friends. I received it, I heard the announcement
01:34:50on a friends' WhatsApp group, and I realized it was my aunt, and immediately
01:34:53we all
01:34:54went there as a family.
01:34:58Afterwards, everyone received
01:35:00the message.
01:35:02His mother and brother received the message in Tel Aviv. Another brother received the message here
01:35:06in Eilat with
01:35:07the father.
01:35:11That's it, and we, the whole family, are together.
01:35:16From that moment on,
01:35:19and there are no words that can comfort. Just sending you a big,
01:35:23strengthening hug. Tomer Marciano, cousin of Staff Sergeant (Res.)
01:35:26Tamir Vaknin, may his memory be a blessing. Thank you very much for talking
01:35:30to us. Thank you very much. In this incident, in the explosion
01:35:33of the booby-trapped building yesterday in southern Lebanon, Major (res.) Harel Biranstock
01:35:37was killed. May his memory
01:35:41be blessed.
01:35:48This morning, here are the news on Reshet B. 28.
01:35:51Let's take a short break. We'll be right back.
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01:36:07with Ran Ben Yemini.
01:36:10Here is the news on Reshet B. All that
01:36:14was to tell about Khamenei,
01:36:17enemies, Saturday night,
01:39:27This morning, now to the case that casts a shadow of suspicion
01:39:31on singer Yoav Eliasi, whom Ben Gvir appointed as commander of an emergency response
01:39:34team in Tel Aviv. Eliasi, "The Shadow," is suspected of exploiting his connections
01:39:38with police officers from the district to facilitate concessions for a club in which he is a partner.
01:39:42And yesterday, he was interrogated by Machash, along with three other police officers. Our reporter,
01:39:46Andas Greenberg, has new details from the investigation and also brings, for the first time,
01:39:49the version of one of the suspected police officers. Yesterday, singer Yoav
01:39:53Eliasi, known as "The Shadow," and three police officers from the Tel
01:39:57Aviv district were interrogated by Machash. They are suspected of breach of trust.
01:40:00They were interrogated for about five hours, and at the end of the interrogation,
01:40:04it was decided to remove the officers for three days from police facilities and Eliasi
01:40:07for a week. We are now publishing for the first time the version of
01:40:11one of the suspected police officers. When the investigators accused
01:40:14him of influencing the hearing held for the club belonging to The Shadow's
01:40:18brother, in the conversation he had with another
01:40:22officer in the district, that officer replied to them as follows:
01:40:24"I didn't speak to him, I didn't interfere in any action for the club.
01:40:28I cannot interfere in my role, and I have no connection to this club.
01:40:32I also don't know all its owners." Last night we reported for the first time
01:40:36that The Shadow was summoned this morning for a hearing at the police, at the end of which
01:40:39it will be decided whether he will permanently end his role in the police as commander
01:40:43of an emergency response team of the Tel Aviv district. The hearing will be held before
01:40:46a district volunteer officer who will hear The Shadow's
01:40:49version, and at the end will forward her recommendation to the district commander
01:40:53regarding him. Regarding The Shadow, the investigators asked him yesterday during
01:40:56the interrogation: "Did you ask that your brother's club not be closed?"
01:40:59"Did you contact the station commander?" and he replied, "No."
01:41:03And then he was asked, "Who were the higher-ups you contacted?" The Shadow
01:41:07replied that the only contact he made was to find out who
01:41:10to talk to about the hearing held for his brother's
01:41:13club. When he was asked if he went out with
01:41:16police officers to party at his brother's club, he
01:41:20replied: "I didn't party with police officers. Police officers come
01:41:23to party at my brother's club regardless of me." Today,
01:41:26as mentioned, is the hearing for The Shadow at the police,
01:41:30which is expected to signal the known singer's departure,
01:41:33who is close to Ben Gvir. With us on the line is
01:41:36Yoav Eliasi's lawyer, Attorney Ariel Atri. Hello,
01:41:40Ariel. Good morning. What does The Shadow intend to say
01:41:42at the hearing? Tell the truth. I must note
01:41:46that I don't know the religion that likes the information according to which this is supposed
01:41:49to signal his departure, but the Israel Police definitely wanted
01:41:53from the first moment to know what
01:41:57The Shadow's version is. And today
01:42:00he intends, today he and I intend to be there and tell the full
01:42:04story. There is nothing to hide in this story. There's just a small problem,
01:42:07and these are recordings in Eliasi's voice and correspondence in the Haaretz
01:42:11newspaper from which it appears that he used police connections after
01:42:15violent calls in the complex where he was a partner, right? Ran, I believe, I
01:42:19need to understand why you believe the media. What
01:42:21to do? He says in a voice message, "I'm
01:42:25educating them there in the police. That you can't touch this club." What
01:42:29do you understand? Let's make a distinction and let's
01:42:31be precise. There is no
01:42:34offense in boastful and arrogant words.
01:42:38Okay? Those conversations were private
01:42:40conversations or private correspondences with
01:42:43a person who was a friend like a brother in every sense, okay? And that friend
01:42:47would turn to him, "Please, come and help me with this, help me with this."
01:42:50And Eliasi had two ways, one way to tell him: "I'm not willing to help you,
01:42:54get out of my sight," but you don't talk like that to someone who is... such a friend.
01:42:58Therefore, what he did was say, "I'll try to brush him off," and how
01:43:01do you brush off? "Yes, I will, I will definitely
01:43:05do it. Oh, of course, I did it thanks to me." Wait, I don't understand, who
01:43:08asked whom? The Shadow from the officer or the officer from The Shadow?
01:43:12No, what's happening is that The Shadow boasted,
01:43:15he bragged, but in practice, he did nothing. And this
01:43:19is the significant thing he says. Menashe, one of the officers, is a friend like a brother. I'll talk
01:43:23to him now. Yes, what do you understand from that? I understand from that
01:43:26that he...
01:43:39I have no doubt that this is what he said. Everyone who was interrogated in this case will say
01:43:42the same thing. He didn't turn to anyone and didn't ask anyone for help,
01:43:46and that's what actually happened. This club was closed more
01:43:50than other clubs in the same area. So to come and say that he
01:43:53came and received a favor, that's the furthest thing from it.
01:43:57Even if you read the article carefully, you will see that nowhere does it state
01:44:01that he received a benefit. All that is presented there are those boastful
01:44:04words that he came and said to the person who was
01:44:08at that time a person. Between
01:44:15that person and The Shadow's brother, and therefore
01:44:19he came and decided to come and harm
01:44:20him.
01:44:23Did The Shadow hand over his phone to the police?
01:44:27No, I told the police officers all the correspondence there, you need
01:44:30to understand, I also wouldn't want to hand it over and you wouldn't want to hand over the phone.
01:44:34All the correspondence that exists, they can get it from other interrogations. We
01:44:38are not willing to hand over the phone, for the simple reason that a phone that goes
01:44:42to Machash doesn't come back, and when the center of life is managed there,
01:44:45then there's no reason to come and hand it over. In fact, they took the phone and there's
01:44:49no problem, there's no problem. They won't find anything, they won't find
01:44:53exactly what I said, because if I understand, and you are a
01:44:56lawyer, in terms of words, you are much better than me, and an experienced
01:44:59lawyer, but if I understand your defense line correctly, you
01:45:03are saying he only boasted. The police, for
01:45:06the police, need more evidence than that, and they don't have it.
01:45:10This is not a defense line, this is
01:45:11reality.
01:45:16The reality is, that's what they found, there was no construction, in fact,
01:45:19in fact, even in those cases, say
01:45:22that those boastful words were said, the club
01:45:26was closed, and he intends to continue being a member of the emergency response team, to serve
01:45:29in the police, definitely, definitely, he aspires to return there and continue commanding
01:45:33this wonderful unit, and bring security to the residents of Tel
01:45:37Aviv and Israel. Attorney, of The Shadow, thank you very much. Good
01:45:41morning to you and the listeners. Good morning, Attorney
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01:46:28Here is the news on Reshet B. Tomorrow,
01:51:49to eight. We are concluding "This Morning" Thursday's edition. Written
01:51:52and produced by Ofel Hiyut and Rahel Levy. Edited by Yossi Tanuri. I am
01:51:56Ran Benyemini. Immediately after us, Gili Cohen and Chen
01:51:59Liberman. Have a good, quiet and safe
01:52:03day. Thank you for listening. Goodbye.
01:56:16Hello everyone, and good morning. It's eight o'clock now. We have a news
01:56:18update. This morning it was allowed to be published that in southern
01:56:21Lebanon, two IDF soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade 55 were killed yesterday.
01:56:25Major (res.) Harel Biranstock, commander of a company in Battalion
01:56:292855, Spearhead Formation, 34 years old.
01:56:32And Staff Sergeant (res.) Tamir Vaknin, 33
01:56:35years old from Eilat. Notice was given to the families. May
01:56:39their memory be a blessing. In the same incident, four reserve soldiers
01:56:42were seriously injured. The incident occurred yesterday
01:56:46around 12 noon in the village of Majdal Zoun
01:56:50within the Israeli security zone. Reserve
01:56:53paratroopers were securing engineering works and entered
01:56:56the area.