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00:00:00Five, have a good evening.
00:00:14Good evening to you. This is what awaits us here. In the IDF, they are investigating the incident
00:00:18in which two reserve paratroopers fell. The reaction was curbed, and the families
00:00:21are still struggling to cope. Hardin and Edelstein
00:00:25will launch their party today. We will check who needs another party. Right-wing,
00:00:28and if they plan to bypass the primaries and return to the Likud
00:00:31after the elections, and also Beitar Jerusalem bids farewell to a legend.
00:00:35The defender Shimon Sharnucha passed away today.
00:00:39His good friend who played alongside him for years will be with us here. And also
00:00:43Chef Granit comes down to the people and opens
00:00:46his shawarma place. I said it. We will have a first taste test from the Machane Yehuda market,
00:00:49but first of all, the disappearance of Eldar
00:00:53Dean raises difficult questions about the police's conduct
00:00:57in the first days of the investigation. He was portrayed as someone who fled
00:01:00justice and not as someone who might be in danger of death.
00:01:03The report about finding a body, which is suspected to be related to Eldar,
00:01:07was revealed to his mother who hadn't slept since he disappeared
00:01:10through the media and not from the police. Here in
00:01:14one minute, and we are
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00:01:56Committee for the 26th Knesset. Again, hello to you. This morning
00:02:09we woke up to difficult news about the fall of two IDF soldiers
00:02:12yesterday in the booby-trapped house in southern Lebanon.
00:02:15In a short while, Sergeant First Class Tamir Vaknin, 33, from Eilat,
00:02:19a combat medic and paratrooper, will be laid to rest. Tamir leaves behind parents
00:02:23and two siblings. Earlier today, the funeral of Company Commander
00:02:26Captain (res.) Harel Biranstock, may his memory be blessed, was held.
00:02:30Harel, 34, leaves behind a wife, four children,
00:02:34parents, brothers and sisters. Here are words spoken
00:02:37by his mother. You built a home with our Elia,
00:02:40who is a true daughter to us, a sweet family,
00:02:43the sweetest, most charming, the most charming.
00:02:47Wonderful, the most wonderful, a balanced,
00:02:50happy, healthy family. Elia, the hero, stood by your side
00:02:53in everything. With nobility of spirit, because she knew
00:02:56how important the army was to you and how valuable leadership was in your eyes. You loved what you did and always said,
00:03:08"Mom, everyone dies in the end, and if you have to die,
00:03:12then at least like this." We are with the escalation in Lebanon. In the incident,
00:03:15four soldiers were also wounded, Itai Blumenthal, what can we
00:03:19tell about this incident? Yes, when you see the funeral,
00:03:22your heart just breaks. This incident
00:03:24happened yesterday around 12 noon, when the soldiers
00:03:27of Brigade 55, the spearhead brigade, the paratroopers'
00:03:30brigade, were performing security work for a bulldozer
00:03:33that was working in the village of Majdel Zoun in southern Lebanon
00:03:37within the Israeli security strip. For a reason that is still unclear,
00:03:40it was learned that the soldiers entered a building, a building
00:03:43that turned out to be booby-trapped, and due to the enormous
00:03:47explosion, the company commander, Major (res.) Eyal Biranstock,
00:03:51and a soldier, Staff Sergeant (res.) Tamir Vaknin, were killed.
00:03:54Four other soldiers were seriously wounded. Yes, we can say
00:03:57that their condition is stabilizing at Rambam Hospital.
00:04:01They are currently out of danger. The IDF is investigating the incident.
00:04:04I think the main thing now that everyone is dealing with,
00:04:07especially in Israel, is to understand if there was a violation
00:04:10of the ceasefire. If Hezbollah terrorists arrived at that building
00:04:14in the last few days and booby-trapped it, then there is an incident
00:04:17that is much more serious than the incident we can
00:04:20assume happened. So the IDF is investigating this incident,
00:04:24both the conduct of the soldiers and everything related to clearing
00:04:26a building before entering. But it is definitely a very
00:04:30difficult incident that is happening during direct talks between Israel
00:04:34and Lebanon in Rome, meaning this whole agreement and the agreed
00:04:37situation severely limit the freedom of action. Is there a connection
00:04:41between these things and the reactions? We will elaborate immediately.
00:04:44Roy Kais, how is Hezbollah reacting, if at all, to the incident and the IDF
00:04:47attacks following this event? So, you see, at least for now,
00:04:51what I've seen, there hasn't been any official statement from Hezbollah
00:04:54regarding the incident. This difficult one in which two soldiers fell and several
00:04:57others were injured. The thing is, in the end,
00:05:01we have to remember the following, and I think the connection made in the chemical
00:05:04conversation is correct. This incident and in general, we saw a lot of
00:05:08provocations by Hezbollah against the forces, including the launching of drones,
00:05:11they occur when Israel and Lebanon are trying to reach
00:05:15agreements in direct negotiations in Rome. Today, despite
00:05:19the difficult incident and despite the escalation that included IDF
00:05:23attacks in southern Lebanon, including today in Al-Mansouri, where there was an evacuation
00:05:26warning, the talks continued, today for the third consecutive
00:05:30day, at least for now, no new agreements are known, but
00:05:33it seems that in the end, when looking at who is trying
00:05:36to calm the situation here, it is the Americans, of course, those who are sponsoring
00:05:40these negotiations in Rome, and therefore
00:05:43we can come and estimate that in the end, when looking
00:05:47at the reactions of the IDF, at least what we have seen so far,
00:05:50it is likely that the Lebanese side tried to enlist the American
00:05:54side to limit the Israeli response. At the end of the day,
00:05:58we also need to remember the following, Hezbollah's ultimate goal
00:06:01is to hinder and collapse the direct dialogue between Israel
00:06:05and Lebanon, and therefore I think that the Americans
00:06:08and also the Lebanese military do not want a dramatic
00:06:11Israeli response, which would lead to that completely.
00:06:14The security and political are intertwined. Gili Cohen, and all this is happening
00:06:18while the talks, as they said here, between Israel
00:06:22and Lebanon in Rome are continuing.
00:06:25Yes, Karen, they are continuing. The truth is that they ended a little over an hour
00:06:29ago, and at least
00:06:32for now, we don't know what happened in them. There is some
00:06:36information coming from the Lebanese side about things
00:06:39they discussed, but at least
00:06:43for now, we are not receiving an answer from the Israeli side
00:06:46as to whether that is indeed what happened in the room or not. Let's just mention that yesterday, the negotiation team
00:06:50complained that there were repeated leaks from the Lebanese side.
00:06:54So, how do we say it? For now, we can't say what really happened
00:06:57in the talks and if any progress was made, whether
00:07:01in the continued implementation of the pilot or in other issues. This evening,
00:07:04let's remember, the political-security cabinet is supposed to deal with Gaza.
00:07:08I assume it will also discuss the escalation in the north.
00:07:10We will wait and see. Ilay Cohen, thank you very much.
00:07:13And does the great United States have ammunition
00:07:17problems? Perhaps that's the reason, Moab Vardi, why Trump
00:07:20is not escalating his response to Iran and is going for a deal,
00:07:24because according to reports, there was a very strong argument
00:07:26between Pete Kexed, the US Secretary of War, and the President.
00:07:30Correct. According to a Washington Post report last night,
00:07:33Trump called off the attack, his intention to go
00:07:36into a wide-ranging war in Iran, due to a shortage of missiles,
00:07:40a shortage of missiles and especially of the US. Then, according
00:07:43to the report, last Friday, at the cabinet meeting held
00:07:47at Camp David, Trump actually says to Pete Kexed
00:07:50and those present, "It turns out there was no ammunition problem at all,
00:07:54and you didn't update me. You, Pete Kexed, why didn't you update me
00:07:58that the problem was already solved? Because I didn't know that the problem
00:08:01was resolved and we had already managed to compensate for the shortage, we didn't
00:08:05launch an attack." And this, of course, is very problematic. And Pete Kexed,
00:08:08according to the report, blames his deputy, who was supposed to report
00:08:11to Trump, and so on. What's interesting here is that first
00:08:15of all, Trump denies that there was any problem at all, or that
00:08:19there was such an argument or problem between them. But what is certain
00:08:22is that there is a problem with missiles and ammunition. We see it both
00:08:26in the Iranian arena, in the Gulf, and in the arena in Ukraine, and this
00:08:30is something that is very, very disturbing. And the problem here is
00:08:33that first of all, the use of ballistic
00:08:37missiles is huge both in Ukraine and here. It is huge, it depletes
00:08:41stocks,
00:08:43and the production rate that is supposed to compensate for the missiles that are being
00:08:47fired is not managing to close the gap, and that is a problem.
00:08:50So now it could be that the missiles were just an excuse
00:08:54that leaked to actually give Trump
00:08:57a way to not escalate the war and then perhaps this leak
00:09:01was also intended to say that there is no missile problem.
00:09:04What needs to be said are two things: first, that there is
00:09:08a problem with ammunition, whether missiles or other ammunition,
00:09:12that affects everyone who is currently confronting Iran. This currently
00:09:16affects Israel, the United States, and Ukraine in this sense,
00:09:19this entire axis. And the second thing is that it supposedly
00:09:23contradicts, but it's not necessarily contradictory. Even if there is no
00:09:26concrete missile problem right now, let's say that it's possible to bring
00:09:30from other sectors or compensate to launch one attack,
00:09:33Trump has not changed his stance right now and he is trying to do
00:09:37everything in his power to avoid war and achieve the goal
00:09:41he wants through a diplomatic agreement. Thank you very much, Moab Vardi.
00:09:45We want to return to the difficult incident that happened yesterday
00:09:48in Lebanon. Matan, his brother, joins us now. Rabbi Harel
00:09:52Biranstock, may his memory be blessed. Hello, Matan.
00:09:56Hello and blessings. First of all, we hug you, your family,
00:09:59and share your sorrow. Thank you for talking to us on this
00:10:03difficult day. Since this morning, we have been exposed
00:10:07to many stories about your brother, may his memory
00:10:10be blessed. Tell us about him.
00:10:14Umm, Harel was the eldest. He was 34 years old, a big brother to five children.
00:10:18Harel was eight years older than me. Harel
00:10:21was a person who was the life of the party.
00:10:25No one saw him without immediately
00:10:29smiling. He was a person full
00:10:31of laughter, of silliness
00:10:35sometimes. A person with incredible
00:10:38life force. Really, he loved
00:10:42to travel very much, he loved sports very much, he was very, very
00:10:46competitive. And he was really very,
00:10:49very connected to his family, to his children, each child
00:10:52was his whole world. His wife Elia also had an amazing,
00:10:55amazing relationship. And at the same time,
00:10:58he was truly a commander and a completely uncompromising
00:11:01person. He was zero, zero
00:11:04shortcuts and uncompromising in anything.
00:11:08And his commander told today that he wanted to take on the next
00:11:11mission that was supposed to come, to get the most complex tasks
00:11:15of the battalion, out of a real
00:11:19desire for excellence and always to be 100% in every
00:11:21mission and every project he undertakes. Yes, Matan, you also do
00:11:25quite a bit of reserve duty. Did you talk about it, about this challenge
00:11:29of managing a family? He also worked at Elbit, he also did things
00:11:32for Israeli society. Soon we will talk about his conversions for the sake of peace.
00:11:36Did you talk about it at home, about this price, about the challenge
00:11:40of being a good commander to soldiers, but also a father
00:11:43and a husband? Oh, of course,
00:11:47he was, since October 7th, he was,
00:11:50he served as a company commander. He always talked about this role as truly
00:11:55the role of his life. It was
00:11:59half, if not the main work he did in the last
00:12:02three months, in the last
00:12:05three years. And it clearly leads
00:12:09to social costs. It takes a lot, a lot
00:12:12from the family, from work in general, no need to talk about it. But he received
00:12:16a very, very strong support from his family, also the family
00:12:20especially from Alia and their four wonderful children,
00:12:23and also from our home barracks. I have another
00:12:27brother who is also a company commander in the reserves. I also
00:12:30did quite a bit of reserve duty, which is
00:12:33what it's all about. The picture of your brother,
00:12:36which cannot be ignored, there is one picture, you probably haven't seen it yet, of his daughter
00:12:40holding a teddy bear in this very complex
00:12:44place. How much do you understand and prepare
00:12:46for the fact that you need to be there? That picture
00:12:50is truly just... Clearly we are here for each other, and the children are our flesh
00:12:54and blood,
00:13:10and they are the beating heart of the family. The children
00:13:13and grandchildren, also of Harel and Alia's children,
00:13:17and all the other grandchildren, they are our
00:13:20driving force. We are here for them,
00:13:23also for Alia, his wife.
00:13:27Our first priority is that very, very hard,
00:13:30and receive the things that Harel wanted to pass on to them,
00:13:32whether in experiences or in education. Of course,
00:13:35they are our top priority. One word about his initiative. He enlisted to help the Shalva
00:13:39Band. He even ran in the New York Marathon to raise
00:13:43money for them. So not just a commander and a fighter,
00:13:46but also someone who cared deeply about Israeli society.
00:13:49Yes. The association is an association
00:13:52that accompanies, yes, it's an association that accompanies
00:13:56people with special needs, such as Down syndrome,
00:14:00and so on. Part of them
00:14:04has a project of fundraising
00:14:06for the New York Marathon, a fundraising project where
00:14:09every runner raises tens of thousands
00:14:13of shekels in order to run in the race.
00:14:16Harel did it, worked
00:14:19worked really hard to raise the money, we are talking about
00:14:22tens of thousands of shekels. And he did
00:14:31it, and during that time, during that time he had a reserve
00:14:34duty order, and he carried out the order, and the race
00:14:38was in November, and he was in the maneuver in Lebanon,
00:14:40which started on October 24, which means
00:14:44without training for the marathon, he still couldn't raise
00:14:48the, all his fundraising stopped because he was really
00:14:51invested in the maneuver in Lebanon.
00:14:54And in the end, he succeeded, and he is amazing. Matan, immediately
00:14:57after the maneuver, he flew to New York
00:15:01and did it successfully. Like a giant, amazing.
00:15:04You sound like a special family. We wish you from here that you will not
00:15:07know sorrow, and thank you also for the days
00:15:11you are doing and for what he did for the State of Israel. Thank
00:15:14you very much, thank you. Thank you, thank you.
00:15:17Now we have this announcement that was received in the last
00:15:20few minutes, that the police announced that the body found
00:15:24this morning in the Petah Tikva area is that of Eldar Dean,
00:15:27who has been missing for about three weeks. Two of his friends
00:15:31have been arrested and are suspected of murder. We will update
00:15:34with all the new details in this case. We are now going
00:15:37for a short break, and after that, why was
00:15:41the singer arrested who has been singing for years in front of the central
00:15:44bus station in Beersheba? And we also went to taste
00:15:48the new shawarma of Chef Asaf Granit in Jerusalem.
00:15:51Short break, and we continue.
00:15:54With all my heart, we're going to have an amazing evening.
00:15:57My husband and I had a pothos in the bedroom.
00:16:01It died for some reason.
00:16:04As a therapy client, I'm not picky. I'm a Holocaust
00:16:07survivor. Bring me bread and I'll be fine.
00:19:38tests, DNA and all the forensic findings. And we will just mention
00:19:42that what remained of the body were bones. Two and a half weeks
00:19:45passed, but the weather and the
00:19:48yes, the weather and other conditions
00:19:52unfortunately led to this, and ultimately,
00:19:55as stated, it was his body. And now we are already talking
00:19:58about a murder case, not a missing person, and not as the police
00:20:02feared, that he had fled. A murder case for Eldar
00:20:05Dean, whose two main suspects are his two friends, Omri Perez,
00:20:09and Maxim Barberman. And if we go
00:20:12back, Karen, to explain how this case developed,
00:20:15then two and a half weeks ago, on July 18, Eldar
00:20:18Dean went out with his two friends, Maxim and Omri,
00:20:21to a park in Hod Hasharon, where, among other things, they took
00:20:25drugs and celebrated. At a certain point, they had
00:20:29an argument, and the two friends left Eldar, and he remained there
00:20:32alone. After some time, the friends returned
00:20:36and met Eldar again, and he, according to
00:20:39the police's understanding from the investigation, introduced them to another group.
00:20:42Then another fight developed, and after this fight between
00:20:46the groups, Omri, together with Maxim
00:20:50and Eldar, left the scene, drove
00:20:53Maxim's mother's car, and left him at the gas station
00:20:56in Petah Tikva. Perhaps we can see now on screen
00:21:00Eldar's last sighting at the gas station
00:21:04in Petah Tikva. The images we are seeing
00:21:07are of his mother, who, it must be said, did not stop
00:21:10saying, "I am worried about my son." And when the police
00:21:14said, at the time, that his life was not in danger,
00:21:17our hearts go out to the mother who received this news, even though
00:21:21she did not stop talking about it.
00:21:25Right, listen, I was at the scene today when his mother was there,
00:21:28and it was a very difficult and heartbreaking sight. They still
00:21:32didn't know if it was indeed his body, but let's remember
00:21:35something important, Karen, and you interrupted me at that
00:21:39moment, the gas station that Eldar arrived at. And now we are seeing
00:21:42him. Behind the gas station, his body was found, meaning
00:21:46at a distance of about less than 100 meters, 50 meters,
00:21:49an open area. That means they should have conducted the search
00:21:53and looked for him there. Hadass, elaborate on this,
00:21:56how was this search not conducted before? That's a good question,
00:21:59but we can also touch on this story and say, Karen,
00:22:03that this investigation started as a missing person investigation
00:22:07from the Dimona station, and ultimately, this investigation only
00:22:11yesterday, yesterday transferred to... Sharon,
00:22:14and as soon as it transferred to Sharon, this morning the body was already
00:22:17found. Throughout this entire
00:22:20period, each of the units investigated something else.
00:22:23The Dimona investigation, the Dimona station investigated his disappearance,
00:22:27and the Sharon station investigated this fight I told you about
00:22:31between the friends. A lot
00:22:34of question marks, and you will check this and report on it
00:22:38throughout this evening. Thank you very much for these details.
00:22:41You're welcome. In one transition, elections now. Almost a month
00:22:45remains until the closing of the lists for the next Knesset.
00:22:49After promos, trailers, and quite a few endless
00:22:52teasers, it must be said, today it finally happened.
00:22:56Anna Pines, you are at the launch party of the new
00:23:00party of Gila Darden and Yuli Edelstein,
00:23:03both former Likud. Hello, yes, so right here behind
00:23:07us, final preparations are still underway for this party
00:23:10that will be officially launched today. Yesterday, they already announced this press
00:23:14conference. From what we understand, they will start today
00:23:17already with the campaigns. This
00:23:21is what they promise, what is called.
00:23:24Time will tell if this will indeed happen.
00:23:27There are a few more names that are already, as they say,
00:23:31being discussed for joining
00:23:32the new party. Nothing
00:23:36has been officially announced yet. Former Beit Shemesh Mayor
00:23:39Aliza Bloch is one of these names, as is Colonel (res.)
00:23:43Hezi Nahama, and even Orens Maja. Some of the names
00:23:47that came up in the context of the new party. It is still unclear
00:23:58if in the future they will unite with parties with a very similar
00:24:00platform, like Gantz's
00:24:03or Troper and Handel's. But the press conference
00:24:06will begin immediately, and we will update here,
00:24:10try to understand what is behind this move. Shahr Glick, you are
00:24:13joining us now. Is this what we needed, another right-wing
00:24:17party? Because the messages Anna spoke about are quite similar
00:24:21to yesterday's launch party of Hili Troper and Yoaz.
00:24:24What is expected to happen in the end? Everyone will unite into one bloc,
00:24:28join the Likud, or not the Likud? How do you see
00:24:31it?
00:24:34Look, the assumption is that in the 33 days remaining
00:24:37until the closing of the lists, things will still change.
00:24:41Meaning, it's clear that all these parties in this space between
00:24:45the blocs are currently a starting point for future
00:24:48negotiations on alliances either within this space, or with
00:24:52different parties in the various blocs. And therefore, there is indeed
00:24:55a difference in this matter between the parties. Meaning, yesterday,
00:24:58Troper and Handel announced their party. It's completely clear
00:25:02that they are a party that identifies more with the opposition bloc
00:25:06than with the coalition. They are willing to complete 61
00:25:09seats. They make it clear that Netanyahu should not be prime minister.
00:25:12Meaning, from this point of view, they are between the blocs, but with
00:25:16a very clear leaning towards the opposition. In contrast,
00:25:20Arden and Edelstein, who are forming their party tonight, are flirting
00:25:23with the coalition. They want to be part of the national
00:25:27camp. The discourse will be about a broad unity government
00:25:30and a Zionist government, etc., but they are much more with
00:25:34the right, flirting with the national camp. They do want to neutralize
00:25:38the Haredi parties. They do talk about the space between the blocs,
00:25:41but really, it should be remembered that they, and also Benny
00:25:44Gantz and Dedi Simhi, all these players, this is only the first
00:25:48stage. There are another 33
00:25:50days, which is an eternity in terms of politics, and they may
00:25:54yet unite with each other, or indeed with other parties. Thank you very
00:25:57much, Shahar Glick. Yaara Shapira, now we have your take on this,
00:26:01and also one question, Ayelet Shaked, does that mean
00:26:05no place? Both she and Moshe Kahlon
00:26:08are being offered, and the answer is that they currently do not
00:26:12want to enter. Look, Moshe Kahlon is being offered, and the answer
00:26:15is that he doesn't want to enter. In Ayelet Shaked's case,
00:26:19she didn't want this specific merger, and also
00:26:22they weren't very keen on her from the other side.
00:26:26In any case, both of them currently find themselves outside all these
00:26:30political alignments. Now, look, if we count, there's Gantz
00:26:33and Dedi Simhi, assuming Dedi Simhi stays with Gantz,
00:26:37there's here doubt about Ofer Winter, if he might
00:26:41run. There's Arden and Edelstein, there's
00:26:45Hili Troper and Yoaz Hendel,
00:26:48a lot of parties that are seemingly in the middle
00:26:51between the blocs. There's no chance, absolutely zero,
00:26:54that all of them will pass the electoral threshold.
00:26:57Uh, and therefore, I think that in the meantime, something
00:27:01in these announcements is intended as a prerequisite
00:27:04for negotiations that we will see closer to the closing of the lists.
00:27:07Everyone who sees themselves as a group, announces
00:27:11the formation of a party. In about a month,
00:27:14when we get closer to the closing of the lists, all these people will talk among themselves
00:27:17and see how perhaps all of them together can pass the electoral
00:27:21threshold. Another name that returns to our lives, perhaps
00:27:24we will put a question mark, and perhaps the answer is
00:27:28Yair Rettinger. Eli Yishai is back.
00:27:32Eli Yishai has a report on Channel 12 that he is
00:27:35in talks with a party called
00:27:39the Haredi Public. This is the party that challenges
00:27:42United Torah Judaism and Shas, a party of
00:27:46independent Haredim. Now, it's not the only party, there are
00:27:50other such parties, or some intentions to form
00:27:53independent Haredi parties. We have already seen one or two,
00:27:57or even. What's interesting about this party of Moti
00:28:01Leitner, whoever saw the campaign
00:28:04on the buses, "The Haredi Public," is that this
00:28:08connection is supposed to create here
00:28:11a kind of Sephardic Ashkenazi connection, something
00:28:15we haven't really seen before. Does it have a chance
00:28:18in terms of the electoral threshold? I don't really
00:28:22know, but nevertheless, what's interesting here
00:28:26is that Eli Yishai already made moves after he left
00:28:29Shas. He already made moves
00:28:33for an independent party together with us.
00:28:36He allied with Ben Gvir at the time, or with Otzma Yehudit.
00:28:40But here, it seems to me that in the past there was
00:28:43a very tough war against him from Shas. What are
00:28:47you doing against the will of Maran and Rabbi Ovadia,
00:28:50etc.? Here, it seems to me that a line has been crossed.
00:28:54There is perhaps more courage or a barrier has been broken
00:28:57for those independent elements in the Haredi public to come
00:29:01and say, "We are going alone." Do you see this happening,
00:29:05a new Haredi party without a spiritual rabbi or a spiritual
00:29:09leader who tells them to vote and put the ballot in the box?
00:29:12Does it have a chance? Because Eli Yishai proved that he already
00:29:15did it. He did it at the time with Rabbi Mazuz, with "Yachad Ha'Am Itanu" (Together with Our People). He already crossed. what a barrier and again I say here
00:29:19it seems to me that something has changed in the public the ultra-Orthodox community, that
00:29:22monopoly of Shas, it seems to me, has weakened a little, and those
00:29:25independent factors are now daring more. Will this end
00:29:28in a party or in a reservation in another party? It's impossible to know at this
00:29:31stage, it will be interesting, a benign dragging, thank you
00:29:35very much, to both of you, we will still remain in politics, we are going to the launch
00:29:39party, you could call it that, Gila Gamliel
00:29:41and Yuli Edelstein, Anna Pines, we are returning to you, something is starting to happen
00:29:45there, and Major (res.) Bin Shatok,
00:29:48may their memory be blessed, who fell in combat
00:29:52in Lebanon, we pray for the recovery
00:29:55of the wounded, for the safety and success of IDF soldiers
00:29:58and security forces on all fronts. May
00:30:01their memory be
00:30:04blessed.
00:30:06This is one of the hardest days of my life, but also one
00:30:10of the most important and significant days
00:30:12of my life. It is hard for me, because this evening I
00:30:16am leaving the political home where I grew up for more than 30
00:30:19years. A home where I grew, a home where
00:30:23I had the privilege of serving the State of Israel as a Member of Knesset,
00:30:26as a minister or as an ambassador.
00:30:29And unfortunately, I can no longer call it home,
00:30:33because the Likud representatives no longer represent
00:30:37the Likud voters whom I love so
00:30:39much. But this is also a day of mission
00:30:43for me, because I could have stayed in the safe place,
00:30:46I had the option to continue on the public path
00:30:49I knew, but there are moments when a person must
00:30:53choose between their personal future and the future
00:30:56of their country. I chose the State
00:31:00of Israel. I am not leaving the home where
00:31:03I grew up. I am going out to ensure there will be
00:31:06a party that can fulfill them. I grew up
00:31:10in Ashkelon in a religious Zionist home. I was educated in the Bnei Akiva
00:31:13Netiv Meir yeshiva in Jerusalem. All my life
00:31:17I have been a right-winger, I have never wavered. I believe
00:31:21in the Land of Israel, I believe in settlement, I believe
00:31:24in governance, and I
00:31:25am against it.
00:31:31Gamliel needs to remember his ultimate goal. Ultimately, Gila Gamliel wants to succeed
00:31:34Netanyahu as the leader
00:31:37of the national camp, let's call it
00:31:40that. He sees
00:31:43this party as a way to do it
00:31:46and to land from above in a round. Therefore, the first
00:31:50thing he needs is to say, I am a right-winger, I
00:31:52am a right-winger, I am not in the Likud because 1 2
00:31:563. Afterwards, if, for example, he grants the
00:32:00government to Netanyahu's government, that would be a bad way
00:32:03to return. Yes, they will forgive him. Thank you Yaara Shapira. We are with this story
00:32:07in the hot summer days, the big vacation, families go out to enjoy
00:32:10themselves and encounter the queue-skip certificate that has become
00:32:13very common in recent years. This is what former Deputy Minister
00:32:17Abir Kara wrote about this issue: "Over a million exemptions
00:32:20were distributed in a reckless manner. What should have been
00:32:23for exceptional cases became a nuisance due to the negligence of the National
00:32:27Insurance Institute and foolish Members of Knesset. A thriving
00:32:30market for counterfeits has emerged." Joining us now is Abir
00:32:33Kara. Hello Keren, good afternoon. What
00:32:37is the problem with the queue-skip? There is no problem with
00:32:40a queue-skip, but a queue-skip is a benefit that they wanted to give
00:32:44to people only in exceptional and rare cases. In 2013,
00:32:47they passed it into law for the first time. Until 2013, by the way, people
00:32:51managed in the supermarket without a queue-skip. They knew how to get past each other without any
00:32:54problem. In 2013, when the law passed, Keren,
00:32:58only those who had a 50% disability certificate
00:33:01with mobility were eligible to receive the exemption. But over the years, they
00:33:05expanded this exemption more and more. We reached a situation
00:33:08where today there are more than a million exemptions, including
00:33:12counterfeits. This means that there is no meaning to the queue-skip. Everyone
00:33:15has a queue-skip. Now I ask myself, and you see people going
00:33:19to amusement parks, people going to parks, people going to all sorts
00:33:22of places. What is your right as a citizen who is here in this country?
00:33:26When you stand in line, the whole point of a line is that you will stand
00:33:30there all that time and wait so that you can receive the service
00:33:33at your time. Now, Keren, you need to understand, around this event there is
00:33:37an industry of counterfeits. More than 80% of these tickets are completely
00:33:41fake. You can now type on the internet, go in and search.
00:33:45For 399 shekels, you get the right to cut in front of everyone.
00:33:48And then we see people who pay a lot of money to go
00:33:52to amusement parks, stand in line, and are passed by all
00:33:55sorts of ruffians who could have, I'll tell you why I say
00:33:59ruffians, it's true, it's not everyone, it's true that there are people for whom this
00:34:03entitlement is perhaps important, all these things are true, but what
00:34:06happened now is that most of the people standing
00:34:09in line, it's longer than the regular line, and that's
00:34:13thanks to the people standing there, and therefore.
00:34:15I want to ask you, what about enforcement? A well-ordered country needs
00:34:19enforcement for this story. How do we reach numbers of a million exemptions
00:34:22and such a counterfeiting industry? Where is the country? You see me every
00:34:26evening, apparently, when I bring all sorts of stories about fraud and scams
00:34:29and trickery. Unfortunately, there is no police, no
00:34:33enforcement. The State of Israel has shirked its responsibility for law
00:34:36and order, and this is indeed part of the rules of these things. When we
00:34:40look at the disabled parking permits, Keren, a disabled parking permit from
00:34:432019. In 2019,
00:34:49we know that real disabled people, like my mother, who is 100% disabled, when she
00:34:52looks for parking today, she can't find any, because everyone was given one, and
00:34:55athletes were given a disabled parking permit. Now, how were these given? There was
00:34:58a lot of fraud. A ring was caught in 2024. We
00:35:02know there was fraud in this matter. We know that doctors in some cases received
00:35:06and issued 10,500 disabled parking permits in one day, in one day.
00:35:10Today everyone has a disabled parking permit, everyone parks on the sidewalks. There is
00:35:13no police, you know what, and we, the ordinary citizen who wants
00:35:17to cross the street, if you live in Tel Aviv, you know, when you want to cross
00:35:21the street, there is no sidewalk free. Today all the cars are disabled cars. So
00:35:24this thing is impossible, it requires fundamental and immediate treatment.
00:35:28We need to bring this issue back to proportion. I know it's not simple, there are
00:35:32many forces on the other side who will say, all the comments can be
00:35:36correct, it can be true, there are people who are entitled, true, but this
00:35:39is only in exceptional and rare cases, and not the wildness and neglect
00:35:43that exists today, not from the National Insurance Institute, not from the Ministry
00:35:47of Transportation. We need to bring this issue back to proportion. And beyond that,
00:35:51there are also those who truly need the queue-skip or the disabled parking permit, and they
00:35:54are ultimately harmed when these are given to people who are not entitled
00:35:58to them, in the counterfeiting
00:36:01industry. Listen, Abir, you do so much, even
00:36:04against the lawyers who prey on small businesses and make
00:36:07money, even in bureaucracy,
00:36:10so how is it that someone like you still doesn't have a political home? Explain
00:36:14to us. No, first of all, my political home is you, the citizens who are watching me now
00:36:18and then in the studio. I work hard to make this place
00:36:21a paradise. This is my life's mission. The Knesset is not an end in
00:36:25itself, it is a means to make changes.
00:36:27And to make this place a paradise. I have been negotiating in recent days.
00:36:31I have presented a series of reforms that I think if we don't implement
00:36:35them in the government, I'm talking about huge reforms in the cost
00:36:38of living and lowering prices, then we, you
00:36:42will have to wait a little longer patiently. I hope it will be closed in the coming
00:36:45days. We will tie up the loose ends from all directions, we will ensure that this country
00:36:49can be turned into a paradise already in the first hundred days of the next government,
00:36:53God willing, God willing. Abir
00:40:18people why they vote for whom they
00:40:20vote.
00:40:27Is there a party today that you feel addresses your
00:40:30views? None.
00:40:32Who?
00:40:41The change seems to me to be that it's clear to me that I will vote.
00:40:59We are back with this case. The murder of the boy Imano Zalka by
00:41:03a group of teenagers shook an entire country. So how is it that one
00:41:06of the defendants in the case may return to the school he
00:41:10attended? Joining us now is Yarus Zalka, Imano's
00:41:13sister, may his memory be blessed. Hello,
00:41:17hello Keren, good afternoon. What was your family's
00:41:20first feeling when you heard about the decision to allow
00:41:24the defendant to return to school as if nothing had happened?
00:41:28I think it's a disgrace and it endangers all
00:41:32the students who are going to meet those
00:41:34murderers if they really return to
00:41:38school. Where does it stand
00:41:40now?
00:41:43Currently, it is still in process, but we have the
00:41:46hearing on the 19th of August, and I hope
00:41:49that the final decisions
00:41:52will be made there. But in my opinion, this is
00:41:55very annoying and it's infuriating and painful
00:41:59that such a situation would even exist. If you send them back to
00:42:03school, what does that mean? It means that it was okay to participate in such an event
00:42:06and you are sent back to school. Where do they learn about
00:42:10responsibility and that there is a law that needs to be respected? Where is the punishment
00:42:13here, they are basically sent back to school? The court
00:42:16seems to try to emphasize rehabilitation considerations and the presumption
00:42:19of innocence when it comes to minors. What do you have
00:42:23to say to the judges and the system that makes the
00:42:25decisions?
00:42:29I think this discourse of trying
00:42:32to rehabilitate young people and minors
00:42:35is strange and in my opinion it's something that shouldn't even be approved
00:42:39in this country. In a country that is proper, when can rehabilitation
00:42:42happen? Before these cases. But when,
00:42:45when there is already a murder and after that there is nothing to rehabilitate, especially, especially
00:42:49when it comes to people who don't regret the murder, so what exactly do they want
00:42:52to rehabilitate? And more than that, I will say, why does the system
00:42:55always think about rehabilitating the murderers and criminals and doesn't think
00:42:59about you, how we rehabilitate the victims of the crime, and how
00:43:02we rehabilitate those young children who are really
00:43:06going to sit with them. Why doesn't the system
00:43:08think about them? There is a feeling that as we move
00:43:12away a bit from the event, from the murder of Yemanu, then phenomena
00:43:16that shook and rattled the country
00:43:19and everyone understood that something else needed to happen
00:43:23are starting to be normalized. And now time passes and it's inconceivable to hear that these children will not go
00:43:26to school for criminals but will return to class
00:43:30alongside other normative children.
00:43:33I'll tell you what that term "school for criminals" even means. Someone committed
00:43:36murder. Their place is in prison. Period. Now. More
00:43:40than that, I think that at this stage, every parent,
00:43:44every sibling, every teenager who wants to live in safety,
00:43:47their place is to come to the court in Lod for the hearings
00:43:50that are taking place, because the case of Amin needs to be the turning point
00:43:54in Israel, where we say, enough with all this delicate and soft talk
00:43:58about young criminals and trying to rehabilitate them. We need to start teaching them
00:44:01to take responsibility for their actions. Youth who participated
00:44:05in a lynching and murder, their place is in prison. And if here we
00:44:09start releasing them to school as if they did nothing, then it means it will be
00:44:12okay to murder, it will be okay to participate in acts of violence, because the system
00:44:16supports it. Currently, this is the reality, the system
00:44:20and among them the police, and among them the prosecution, and among them the court
00:44:23system, all of them are very lenient, very accommodating, mainly
00:44:26to rehabilitate, rehabilitate, but we are no longer in that reality. I'll tell you,
00:44:30Keren, I don't know if you saw, there was another case last week about
00:44:33a number of teenagers who attacked a bus driver, broke four
00:44:37of his teeth, there was another serious incident.
00:44:40In Jerusalem. How do you as a family truly manage
00:44:44to cope? I know you are holding a Torah scroll dedication
00:44:47event in Imano's memory.
00:44:51Correct. Our coping is very, very
00:44:54complex. I haven't returned yet to the life that was, we also won't
00:44:58return. But alongside that, we are very
00:45:02believing people and very connected to tradition. And there is also
00:45:06the dedication of the Torah scroll, as you mentioned, which started as an initiative from the branch where he was.
00:45:10There, uh, and it's really happening on Thursday, so I invite
00:45:13everyone to come to the procession, uh, to come
00:45:16to this event, because doing good deeds is who he was, but
00:45:20also the aspect of doing things for the elevation of his soul, that is also something that
00:45:24plays a part in this whole struggle, and indeed the dedication of the Torah scroll
00:45:27will take place next Thursday. We are talking and we see a picture of him
00:45:31with his kind eyes and shy
00:45:34smile. Yarus, thank you for what you are doing as a family to raise
00:45:38the flag against violence among teenagers. It's very important. Thank
00:45:42you for this conversation.
00:45:45Thank you Keren. Betar Jerusalem football legend Shimon
00:45:48Chernocha passed away yesterday, he was one of the club's
00:45:51symbols, and even appeared in one of the popular skits of
00:45:55HaGashash HaHiver. Within
00:45:58my authority as a judge of the Magistrate's Court for peace
00:46:01and within the framework of the Defamation Law from the year Tarmach to the year Hartekh,
00:46:05I hereby acquit the defendant, Mr. Shimon Kahal, of all, of all
00:46:09charges, because...
00:55:13Brauli, who for nine years has been entertaining travelers outside
00:55:16the train station in Beer Sheva.
00:55:20Because we have no other country,
00:55:23let's make peace between us, protect our
00:55:26soldiers,
00:55:30the faith,
00:55:33and now, pay attention to what happened.
00:55:51Joining
00:55:53us now is the singer Ben Brauli. Hello, good afternoon. Tell me, how does it happen that a singer who just wants
00:55:57to do good for travelers outside the train station finds himself in a confrontation with
00:56:00a police officer and is even expelled from Beer Sheva for 15 days? What happened?
00:56:06The officer came up behind me, tried
00:56:09to snatch the phone from
00:56:12my hand and tried to pull me.
00:56:15I told him that I have a court
00:56:19order and he has no right to tell me where and where
00:56:21to go, so while he was trying to pull
00:56:25me, I ignored him, so he chased
00:56:28me, and I told him, don't touch me, I have a court
00:56:32order, you have no right to touch me.
00:56:36You actually have a court order to sing outside
00:56:39the train station, but why do you even need an order? Who is bothered that you are singing
00:56:43outside
00:56:44the station?
00:56:48First of all, it doesn't bother anyone on my part, but we reached
00:56:51this situation in 2017
00:56:55they gave me tickets, 30 tickets of 700 shekels every
00:56:59day, so at the end of the month I went to court and sued
00:57:03the municipality. That you
00:57:11are disturbing the public who wants to enter the station, why did they give you
00:57:15tickets? They told me it was against
00:57:18the law to sing in the street. Well, I haven't
00:57:22heard that, even though people sing in the street all over the world, that's your job.
00:57:26That it's against the law, Ben, you earn your living from it. My livelihood and my
00:57:30work. Yes, you think the inspectors called
00:57:34the police?
00:57:36I know the inspectors called the police, they told me they would
00:57:40call the police, I'm not moving. Why, why does it bother
00:57:43them, try to think.
00:57:49I think it bothers them because, first of all, they're bored.
00:57:52They're studying there in accounting.
00:57:55They're doing their
00:57:57job.
00:58:00Yes, and they want to listen, I guess they want to listen to Omer
00:58:04Adam, I'm not Omer Adam. You think it's Ben Brauli,
00:58:08the musical style that bothers
00:58:12them? It could be the musical style, it could be because
00:58:15they don't think I should be
00:58:17there. Because of my skin color? I'm not
00:58:21exactly sure why? Because of your skin color? You think that
00:58:25bothers them?
00:58:28Yes, why do I say that? There are other people who come
00:58:31that it doesn't bother them, they come, smoke cigarettes,
00:58:35throw trash, curse,
00:58:38shout, but they don't bother them. Tell me,
00:58:42Ben, are you planning to go back to singing outside the train
00:58:44station?
00:58:47Yes, I am planning, but before I plan to get there, I
00:58:51plan to sue them, to sue the garbage cans,
00:58:54to sue the police officer and also to sue the municipality, because the
00:58:57court issued an order and they did not respect it, in fact the
00:59:01court allows you to sing
01:00:39Good evening and great peace in the IDF, they are still investigating the
01:00:42circumstances of the explosion of the device, Israel is attacking Lebanon
01:00:45again today, a lot. Both in Israel and in the United States,
01:00:49Midani suffers a severe humiliation when he is removed in disgrace
01:00:53from an event where he tried to give a speech unsuccessfully, Dedi Shimhi will be here
01:00:57who ran with Gantz together with parties.