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00:01:28Selichot for the last time
00:02:47in southern Lebanon, two IDF soldiers were lightly injured yesterday. This
00:02:51incident occurred when an explosive device exploded near engineering
00:02:54equipment in the Wadi Saluki area. The IDF
00:02:57retaliated by attacking several areas in southern
00:03:01Lebanon. And today, the eve of Yom Kippur, the security system Carmela is hosted by
00:03:05C. Yes. The two soldiers were
00:03:09lightly injured after an IDF engineering vehicle ran over a Hezbollah
00:03:12device in the security zone in southern Lebanon.
00:03:15The soldiers were evacuated. Their families
00:03:18were notified. The IDF says that the assessment is that
00:03:21the device was placed before the ceasefire came
00:03:25into effect. The IDF retaliated by attacking a series of
00:03:28Hezbollah infrastructures in several areas
00:03:32in southern Lebanon. This incident demonstrates again that the ceasefire has not
00:03:36turned southern Lebanon into a clean area from mines. Even if
00:03:39the device was placed before the agreement, the fact that it remained on the ground and harmed
00:03:43the force indicates the extent of Hezbollah's infrastructure
00:03:46that has not yet been located and
00:03:49dismantled. The struggle for the reality in southern Lebanon continues.
00:03:53Hezbollah is trying to maintain capabilities
00:03:56and presence. The Lebanese army is struggling to dismantle all the
00:04:00foolishness. The IDF is not willing to rely solely on the oversight
00:04:03mechanism. As long as tunnels, devices, observation
00:04:07posts, and weapons remain on the ground, forces
00:04:10will continue engineering and operational activities,
00:04:14with the risk that any local incident could lead to an expansion
00:04:17of the circle, a circle of attacks
00:04:19and escalation on the border. And yes,
00:04:22leading up to Yom Kippur, as the IDF
00:04:26said, it prepared and completed extensive operational systems
00:04:30for the weekend and Yom Kippur, after staff work
00:04:33that lasted about a month and began even
00:04:36before Rosh Hashanah, a discussion was held
00:04:39under the leadership of the Operations Division.
00:04:42This year, a stronger assessment was built than last
00:04:45year, with an emphasis on defense at the borders, within
00:04:48the cities. A military source tells us, we are prepared
00:04:51on all fronts, including against Iran, constant readiness
00:04:55to transition from a ceasefire to renewed fighting,
00:04:58in defense and offense.
00:05:01In the last hours before the start of Shabbat,
00:05:04the units and reserves were reorganized, war games
00:05:07were conducted against surprise scenarios.
00:05:11Ah, yes. The threat is not just
00:05:14from the specific alert, but
00:05:17from the understanding that both Hezbollah and other
00:05:20enemies, even though they are deterred,
00:05:23are engaged in reorganization, and the message is that there will be no
00:05:27more reliance on quiet or on the enemy's intentions. The IDF
00:05:30is prepared in advance even
00:05:33for a surprise scenario during the holiday, with reinforced
00:05:36forces, available reserves, and quick transition
00:05:40plans from defense
00:06:09remember here is that of Yedioth Ahronoth. There
00:06:12is a large picture here of masses at the Selichot service at the Western Wall on the night
00:06:34Yedioth Ahronoth, there is also a reference to a special
00:06:38project by Pdoya Shvia, Eliya
00:06:41Cohen and his wife, Nova survivor Zivud Cohen, Rabbi Yeshay
00:06:44Yingelman, who was injured in Gaza, and singer Noam Bitan
00:06:48and Rachel Shapira who write about the prayer poem that is close
00:06:52to their hearts, a project for this day, for Yom
00:06:56Kippur Eve. There is also a reference on the front
00:06:59page of Yedioth to the news that
00:07:02President Herzog expunged the criminal record of Elor
00:07:05Azaria. We will also talk about this later in the program,
00:07:09and there is also here a picture, the
00:07:12headline of the one who remained, a picture of three
00:07:16soldiers, three tank crewmen
00:07:19who were documented two weeks before October 7, 2023, yes,
00:07:22saluting above the graves of the brigade's
00:07:26soldiers who fell in the Yom Kippur War, of course, then,
00:07:29as part of the commemoration of 50 years to that
00:07:32war. Two of those soldiers,
00:07:35Itay Sadon, may his memory be blessed, and Ofir Berkovitz, may his memory
00:07:39be blessed, fell in the maneuver in Gaza.
00:07:43First Sergeant Gabriel,
00:07:46that is the name we can publish here,
00:07:49not his family name is not detailed in the headline
00:07:53of Yedioth. First Sergeant Gabriel is the only one who remained alive. His face
00:07:56is also blurred here in this chilling picture in Yedioth
00:08:00Ahronoth. More in Yedioth
00:08:03in the headline by Shay, the demand for pre-military academies for a year of service and for
00:08:07combat units, so reports Yossi
00:08:20in the headline to the column by Amos Harel under
00:08:24the headline of annulment of vows. Netanyahu
00:08:27claims he fulfilled his promises for a decisive victory, Harel
00:08:30writes here, but most of the public believes that Israel did not win on any
00:08:34front. Instead of fulfilling his commitment to investigate the October
00:08:377 failure, he fuels conspiracies, so writes
00:08:40Amos Harel here. In the headline of Haaretz
00:08:44this morning, ah, a headline, a report by
00:08:47Zvi Barel, that everyone fears confronting the Houthis, and they aspire
00:08:51to gain recognition as the rulers of Yemen.
00:08:54The Houthis, wearing dresses and
00:08:58writes here, surprised intelligence officials in Israel and the United States
00:09:02and all Middle Eastern countries last week
00:09:04when they swiftly captured the western coast of Yemen and an important
00:09:08port near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The Houthis not
00:09:11only inflicted a painful blow on Saudi Arabia,
00:09:15writes Zvi Barel here, but also joined a series of
00:09:18sub-state organizations that undermined the US
00:09:22doctrine of war on terror.
00:09:25Also in the headline of Haaretz this morning, a reference to an article by
00:09:28Noa Spiegel, about how the status of women in Israel has regressed
00:09:32years, but there is still a way to change direction. There is a
00:09:35picture here of a utility pole
00:09:38in a Haredi neighborhood, so it seems,
00:09:42on this utility pole there is a sign pasted: This sidewalk is reserved
00:09:46for men only. There is a reference here to Spiegel's
00:09:49article in the headline itself,
00:09:52and also in the headline of Haaretz about the anxiety of
00:09:55artificial intelligence that created a rare political consensus
00:09:59in the United States, but Trump doesn't care. Perhaps we can
00:10:02also refer to this
00:10:15in his speech at the UN. It seems that this was a speech that took place last
00:10:19year. Netanyahu went to the United States, the political
00:10:22drift. The Prime Minister, so Maariv writes, is expected to fly to New York
00:10:26on Wednesday morning for his speech at the main UN assembly on
00:10:30Thursday. Apparently, no meeting with the US President
00:10:33will take place, and this trip comes against the backdrop of
00:10:37European sanctions against the settlements and the stalemate in the American
00:10:41campaign against Iran.
00:10:43Also in the headline of Maariv this morning, about Israeli tourists
00:10:47on a giant cruise ship in Turkey. Authorities
00:10:50in Istanbul claimed that over 200 suspects
00:10:53in a prostitution ring were arrested.
00:10:59Also in the headline of Maariv, about the expunged criminal record of Elor
00:11:03Azaria. The President of the state made this decision
00:11:06yesterday. And also
00:11:09about Amichai, the 17-year-old who was run over
00:11:13and killed after a clash between a group of teenagers and a
00:11:16commercial vehicle driver who hit him while trying to flee the scene.
00:11:20A member of the rapid response team fired at him and lightly
00:11:22wounded him. The same
00:11:25driver
00:11:47Hayom, and here in the main headline, a large
00:11:50picture also from the Selichot service
00:11:54at the Western Wall. And the headline here talks about
00:11:57the American effect. Israel is considering complementary alliances.
00:12:01In the security system, a new strategy has been formulated: strengthening security
00:12:05and economic ties with India and Germany. The reason
00:12:08is President Trump's alignment with his partners in the Gulf against the
00:12:12Iranian axis. Also here in Israel Hayom, Lilach
00:12:16Shoval writes that Netanyahu is expected to go to the UN General Assembly after Yom
00:12:19Kippur. According to her, there is no plan for a meeting
00:12:37to this day. The first
00:12:40of them is Avinu Malkeinu, but this time performed
00:12:43by Miri Mesika. Here
00:12:47is Avinu
00:12:48Malkeinu.
00:12:53Hear
00:12:55our voices.
00:12:59Our Father,
00:13:00our King,
00:13:04we have sinned
00:13:05before You.
00:13:09Our Father,
00:13:09our King,
00:13:16have mercy
00:13:17on us.
00:13:25In our prayers.
00:13:31Our
00:13:32King.
00:13:36All
00:13:37the word.
00:13:40And a sword
00:13:45from us.
00:13:50Our King.
00:13:53Like this.
00:15:37Miri Mesika with her performance of Avinu
00:15:51and on the cover, a picture
00:15:54of victory, so says the headline. During
00:15:57738 days of captivity, Elkana Buchbut longed
00:16:00to have another child, and now, almost a year
00:16:04after his return, he and his wife Rivka have a daughter. A joint
00:16:07interview, he returns to his decision, so Maariv writes
00:16:11here, his decision to fast on Yom Kippur even in the tunnels
00:16:14in Gaza. She recalls the sad holidays without him, and both
00:16:18tell of the daily struggle with the memories and the
00:16:21challenges. Our true rebirth is to create
00:16:24life.
00:16:26A truly moving headline. Here are interviews with both Elkana
00:16:30and Rivka.
00:16:32Also pictures of both of them, both from the
00:16:36delivery room and from the return, and also
00:16:39a chilling picture of the Buchbut family, Yosef Haim
00:16:41Muhana in Hamas captivity.
00:16:44Uh, the beginning of Shirley
00:16:48Golan's article says that Elkana Buchbut
00:16:51has not yet recovered. The jeans he is wearing, he says, barely fit him
00:16:55three years ago, and now, almost a year after his return from captivity
00:16:59in Gaza, these jeans are still several sizes
00:17:01too big for him, even when he uses a belt.
00:17:05Buchbut has not returned to work yet. He doesn't know if or when that will happen,
00:17:09and yet he is happy. Less
00:17:11than a year after his return, his wife Rivka gave birth to their daughter Michelle,
00:17:15and fulfilled a double dream, the couple's dream of having
00:17:19more children, and the dream of their
00:17:22eldest son, Re'em David, to have a brother or sister.
00:17:25Their picture from the hospital, beautiful and excited, holding their daughter who was
00:17:29born to them, is undoubtedly a picture of victory,
00:17:32a picture of someone who won his life back
00:17:35after 738 days in
00:17:38Hamas captivity, the victory of his wife who did not give up the struggle
00:17:42for his return, and the victory of those who stood by her side and supported her during sleepless nights
00:17:45in efforts to bring her man back. A moving article about
00:17:49Elkana Buchbut and Rivka Buchbut
00:17:52who brought a daughter into the world,
00:18:07three, 53 years since the Yom Kippur War. We are soon
00:18:11commemorating three years since October 7, and there are many
00:18:15references to closures
00:18:18of such and other circles around these
00:18:21dates.
00:18:23On the cover of Yedioth's holiday supplement, "Courage and Valor," four recipients of the
00:18:27Medal of Valor and Courage from Israel's wars discuss courage,
00:18:31fear, command responsibility, and comradeship in arms from then
00:18:35until today. Here in the article,
00:18:38an interview with several
00:18:41fighters who received decorations
00:18:44from Israel's wars. Gadi
00:18:47Reffen, recipient of the Medal of Valor from the Six-Day War, who rescued
00:18:51wounded in the Dotan Valley. Moshe Levy, with the Medal of Valor
00:18:54from Yom Kippur, who charged with
00:18:57a grenade in his single hand on the way to the Budapest outpost.
00:19:00Moshe Kravitz, Medal of Courage from the First Lebanon War, who took command
00:19:04under fire. And Hanoch Dyuba, recipient of the Medal of Courage from the Second Lebanon War, who rescued
00:19:08paratroopers under anti-tank missiles.
00:19:12There are pictures here of the fighters
00:19:15and their testimonies, their descriptions of what happened there
00:19:19in the war.
00:19:22The events that led to them receiving the highest
00:19:25honors.
00:19:28In the shade, Moshe Lavi recounts here, "I released the
00:19:32safety and threw the grenade into the Egyptian position. The shrapnel also hit
00:19:35me, and I said, 'That's it, I did my part. I can die now in peace.' But
00:19:39suddenly I felt a desire to stay alive after all. I got up
00:19:42and started moving back towards my
00:19:45soldiers." Moshe Kravitz recounts,
00:19:49"Towards sunset, we reached the last position, and then I saw a fireball
00:19:53advancing towards me. I quickly went down into the turret,
00:19:56and the tank shook. It was an anti-tank missile. I climbed back
00:19:59up and saw that the commander's cupola was obliterated. If I hadn't
00:20:02gone down in time," he tells reporter Yoav Keren, "If I hadn't
00:20:06gone down in time, you would be talking to me now
00:20:28these days 80 years since Operation 11 Points, the
00:20:3211 points in the Negev. 80 years ago, on the eve of Yom Kippur,
00:20:35one of the largest operations in the history of the Yishuv
00:20:39period began, with the establishment of 11, 11 points
00:20:42in the Negev that secured the future
00:20:45of the South. Eight decades after the historic settlement on the land,
00:20:49and three years after the Black Shabbat, the kibbutz veterans explain
00:20:52why, despite the inconceivable cost, settlement on the border
00:20:55was the true shield of the state. There
00:20:59are interviews here with several of the kibbutz veterans
00:21:02in the Negev, including Shmuel
00:21:05Momos Bonim. Bonim,
00:21:08who is described here as being 97 years old, his eyesight has dimmed, but his mind
00:21:12is sharp and clear. "Look at the map," he instructs the reporter. "Do you
00:21:16see a kibbutz circled? Yes. Continue towards the Jordan River. Do you see
00:21:20Dir al-Balah also marked?" "I see." "Then listen carefully. Our platoon in the Palmach,"
00:21:23Shmuel recounts, "which was composed of members of Kibbutz Mishmar Hanegev
00:21:27and Shoval, was stationed in an outpost in 1949. Facing us was
00:21:31an Egyptian platoon, and between us were minefields. And now, on October
00:21:357, my grandson Amrik, a member of Kibbutz
00:21:38Re'im, fought all day against the terrorists who came from Gaza. So
00:21:42nothing has changed. Between Re'im and the outpost where I was stationed, there are less than 10
00:21:46kilometers. I dreamed that my son, my father Mari, would not be a soldier,
00:21:50and he passed away in the Yom
00:30:49of Knesset.
00:30:56Listen and listen carefully, Ben Alf.
00:31:00I'm leaving the cashier and I'm going to beat you up.
00:31:15It's just fun to go to work. I'm
00:31:18a father, I'm a father, father.
00:31:21Main cashier, new season, tomorrow after
00:31:25the news, on Kan 11 and on Kan Box. In the case
00:31:28of the disappearance of Fatma Rajabi from Silwan,
00:31:32during Shabbat, our reporter Haim Goldich with
00:31:35the details. A development on Friday night in the investigation of the murder of Fatma
00:31:39Rajabi, 61 years old, who has been missing since the beginning
00:31:41of the week. On Friday night, the police found the body of a woman. The scene
00:31:45in East Jerusalem. The body, believed to be that of Rajabi, was transferred
00:31:48for further identification to the Institute of Forensic Medicine. In addition, Jerusalem
00:31:52district police arrested a suspect in his 60s, a resident of East
00:31:55Jerusalem, on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Fatma. Her family confirmed
00:31:59during Shabbat that it was her body, and they called on the village
00:32:02not to carry out revenge actions but to wait for the conclusions of the police
00:32:05investigation. Rajabi had been missing since the beginning of the week, and hundreds of volunteers from United
00:32:09Hatzalah, the police, security forces, and family members went to search for her.
00:32:13During the week, searches focused on the area of...
00:32:45because they launched missiles, missiles and drones towards the Saudi capital,
00:32:49Riyadh, and towards Saudi oil facilities in the west of the country, and this
00:32:52after many Saudi citizens in several targets in the kingdom received alerts
00:32:56on their mobile devices on Friday night regarding missile
00:32:59launches. This is actually another escalation
00:33:03by the Houthis against Saudi Arabia, after they attacked for the first time
00:33:07in this round of escalation the holy city of Mecca. With
00:33:10the details regarding the current escalation in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, reporter
00:33:14Desk Ararim.
00:33:49The armed forces of Yemen carried out two quality attacks using a large number of ballistic
00:33:52missiles, cruise missiles and drones, as announced last
00:33:55night in a comprehensive statement by Yahya Saree, the military spokesperson for the Houthis,
00:33:59who added that these launches were directed at sensitive targets in the Saudi
00:34:03enemy capital and at a facility of the Aramco oil company
00:34:06in Yanbu, as Saree claimed. As mentioned, this
00:34:09was not the first attack against the kingdom recently, as on Friday
00:34:13night, residents of the capital.
00:34:45And this is done by managing the current campaign according to its
00:34:49approach as a country responsible for the region's security and the blood
00:34:52of the Yemeni people. This was explained last night by
00:34:55Saudi analyst Mubarak Al-Ati in a television
00:34:59interview, why Saudi Arabia is not responding more harshly against
00:35:02the Houthis, which perhaps also answers the question of how Saudi Arabia reached
00:35:05such a situation with the Houthis. In parallel with the launches towards Saudi
00:35:09territory, the fighting continues between the military forces in Yemen supported
00:35:12by Saudi Arabia and the Houthis. With the media identified as anti-Houthi,
00:35:47If Turkey or Pakistan are involved in the attack on Yemen, then we
00:35:50will deal with them with an iron fist, just as we are disciplining Saudi Arabia
00:35:53today, we will also discipline them, just as we disciplined America
00:35:57and Britain, so we will discipline every country that is involved in aggression against
00:36:00Yemen," warned last night in an interview with an Iraqi television channel, one
00:36:04of the senior officials of the Houthi political bureau, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, while hinting
00:36:08at the Mecca alliance, the strategic defense agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan
00:36:11and Turkey. These words from the Houthi official come despite reports in the
00:36:15Turkish media that Turkey and Pakistan are expected, as part of the
00:36:18Mecca agreement, to focus on protecting energy infrastructure,
00:36:22strategic facilities, and important population and government centers
00:36:25in Saudi Arabia, but not on carrying out operations
00:36:32in Yemen. And more importantly, more and more important targets in the kingdom are being attacked by
00:36:36the Iranian axis. It remains alone after, for now,
00:36:39and the emphasis is on for now, the strategic defense agreement with Turkey and Pakistan has not
00:36:43materialized, and neither have the good relations with the United States. This situation
00:36:47could, in one situation or another, lead Saudi Arabia to draw closer to those who have already
00:36:51fought the Houthi threat, in particular, and the direct axis
00:36:54in general, and that is the State of Israel.
00:36:58Europe raises its alert level against Russia, from Poland to
00:37:01the Baltic states, through France and Germany, more
00:37:04and more countries are preparing for the possibility that the war
00:37:07in Ukraine will spill over into NATO territory.
00:37:11Yoav Zehavi reports. Europe
00:37:13has recently raised its alert level against Russia. Just
00:37:17yesterday, Poland scrambled fighter jets and put its air defense systems
00:37:20and radar on alert following another wave of Russian
00:37:24attacks in Ukraine. In the end, there was no penetration
00:37:27into its territory, but Warsaw fears that this is exactly the scenario
00:37:31that Russia might try to test. Prime Minister
00:37:34Donald Tusk warned last week of the possibility that Russian
00:37:37drones or missiles would penetrate NATO territory, perhaps
00:37:41even cause damage, and then Moscow would claim it was an accident
00:37:45to see if the alliance would really respond, and in Europe, they are already
00:37:48translating this fear into increased
00:37:50military.
00:37:58German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said over the weekend,
00:38:02Germany heard the wake-up call and we are responding,
00:38:05we are stepping up a gear to be able to deter
00:38:08and defend. In the Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia
00:38:11and Estonia are strengthening air defense, and in France, President
00:38:15Macron ordered to tighten the defense of critical infrastructure against drones
00:38:18and cyber attacks, and at a meeting of NATO leaders
00:38:21in Copenhagen over the weekend, Danish Defense Minister, Jappe Broos,
00:38:25already used much harsher language.
00:38:57the war effort and carry out a quiet mobilization of additional
00:39:01troops. In Moscow, of course, they present the picture exactly
00:39:04the opposite. Putin accused Europe and NATO of escalation over the weekend.
00:39:18NATO is inflating and expanding, said the Russian president, and is already penetrating
00:39:21other regions of the world. Some European leaders openly declare that they
00:39:25are preparing for war with Russia. Let's say, there is currently no indication
00:39:29that a conventional Russian attack on one of the NATO countries is imminent,
00:39:32but the message emerging from recent days is clear,
00:39:36Europe is no longer willing to assume that the war with Russia
00:39:39will remain only within the borders
00:39:53is preparing for a possible escalation against Russia. I want to ask you how much?
00:39:57In your opinion, is this a real warning?
00:40:00So, are we combining all the warnings we
00:40:04are now hearing from European heads of state with
00:40:07the visit of John Ratcliffe, the head of the CIA,
00:40:10who visited Moscow on a rather
00:40:14unusual visit about three weeks ago,
00:40:16and there were all sorts of hints as to why he
00:40:20was traveling. One of the hints was that no reasons were actually given
00:40:23for it. Another hint was that he was traveling to warn
00:40:27and perhaps deter Putin from some kind of
00:40:30action, perhaps some miscalculation, perhaps some step he is about
00:40:34to take. And since in the last few days
00:40:38there have been such warnings
00:40:41from several sources, it is likely that some
00:40:44intelligence, quality intelligence, is circulating, indicating
00:40:48that Russia is indeed about to act, only it is likely
00:40:51that they do not yet know where, but
00:40:54it fits very well with the spirit of what we hear
00:40:57from the heads of intelligence services all over the world.
00:41:01The assessment so far was that Russia might
00:41:03try to take this step, perhaps advance this move
00:41:07during 2027, but when I
00:41:11hear that the Prime Minister of Finland, for example,
00:41:14warns his citizens and tells them
00:41:17to prepare for any possible scenario, then it
00:41:21sounds like it could happen before then.
00:41:25Let's remind, let's remind of course that Finland also holds a common border with Russia, they are really close neighbors,
00:41:29but look, we also heard in Yoav Zehavi's report, the Prime Minister of Poland
00:41:33estimated that an attack could happen in the coming
00:41:36months, and French President Macron said that this warning
00:41:40is well-founded, and the Prime Minister of the Netherlands said that the warning
00:41:43should be taken very seriously, there are even reports that Germany has started preparing hospitals
00:41:47in the country for the possibility of war, and the question arises first
00:41:50of all, after more than four years since the war
00:41:54between Russia and Ukraine began, what happened now that leads
00:41:57to this assessment in Europe, that leads
00:42:00to the fact that there are assessments for a war, perhaps broader, perhaps
00:42:04more limited, so first of all, Putin
00:42:07from his perspective is not in a good place. This morning again
00:42:11Ukrainian drones are landing in the heart of Moscow
00:42:14and setting fire to one of the largest refineries
00:42:18located in the Russian capital,
00:42:21and if we look at the battlefields in Ukraine, then
00:42:24Russia lost more territory this month than it managed
00:42:28to conquer, although it is about negligible amounts
00:42:31and 9 kilometers here and there, but
00:42:34still it seems that her forces are really
00:42:37in distress, and again according to the heads of intelligence
00:42:40and European army chiefs, Russia is losing every day,
00:42:44every day about a thousand soldiers killed and wounded, uh, think about
00:42:48it, that's 30 thousand soldiers a month at least, so
00:42:51with that money it really seems that in Ukraine
00:42:55there is great frustration, they are not succeeding in advancing there, certainly not
00:42:58succeeding in achieving the war goals as Putin described
00:43:01and defined them at the beginning
00:43:04of 2022, uh, so is it
00:43:07really when in the background there is... the international
00:43:10alliance crisis following the war
00:43:14in Iran and when there is some doubt that
00:43:17its alliance is a real alliance, since
00:43:20the connection between the United States and Europe is becoming more and more tense, if
00:43:24not cold, yes, among other things due to the war
00:43:27in Iran, but I think about what you are saying, there might be an attempt to perhaps
00:43:31transfer this war from the battlefield where he is less
00:43:35successful to European capitals which Russia first and foremost sees
00:43:39as weak capitals, countries that
00:43:42fail to create deterrence, and an attempt perhaps
00:43:46to test this alliance, yes, yes, see how
00:43:49you will cope, how you will cope with some relatively small kinetic action,
00:43:53it's not an invasion of 200 thousand Russian soldiers, they don't
00:43:56currently have that many soldiers they can deploy, but
00:44:00for example, from Makadaban,
00:44:04when Russia won't take responsibility for it, maybe special
00:44:07forces that also won't identify themselves as happened in Crimea
00:44:10in 2014. They didn't identify themselves as Russian soldiers, so
00:44:14will you really deploy all your forces because of an action
00:44:18that is questionable whether it's yours or not? That's very interesting what you're saying, because
00:44:21the Russian Foreign Minister, Lavrov, he warned this week that Europe will face
00:44:25war if NATO allies try to attack Moscow,
00:44:28and the question is whether they really fear an attack or if this is
00:44:31some kind of preparation of the ground for a Russian attack,
00:44:35maybe the excuses that will come after, maybe the background they are saying, here we
00:44:38were just trying to defend. First
00:44:40of all, it's much easier and more pleasant for Russia
00:44:44to sell this version of reality when it's fighting not only against
00:44:48Ukraine but against all of NATO, yes, since it's
00:44:51a strong alliance and on the surface, and then you can excuse the Russian
00:44:55distress because we're fighting against much larger forces, there's nothing
00:44:58to do.
00:45:00Against many, yes, yes, yes, that's exactly what they are trying to claim
00:45:04again since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, they keep repeating it, but there is
00:45:08a difference between mere rhetoric and actually
00:45:12trying to harm in one way or another
00:45:15one of the capitals because we hear again
00:45:17from Britain some suggestions to citizens to perhaps
00:45:21buy canned goods and therefore prepare
00:45:25themselves for such a period of distress. Where is Britain and where
00:45:28is Russia? Yes, these are not countries, this is amazing on
00:45:32the background, it's really incomprehensible, but I think, but again, I'm just connecting
00:45:35here between two arenas, yes,
00:45:39the Ukrainian-Russian one, uh,
00:45:41the European countries, when they see what happened here on October
00:45:457th, they are not willing to take a risk, so even if it's a false
00:45:48alarm, and even if nothing happens in the end, we don't know, how
00:45:52much these preparations, and we see more military deployments, for example,
00:45:55on the border of Poland and Lithuania
00:45:58and Russia, and we see more forces, European forces,
00:46:01yes, that are accumulating at the borders, so are
00:46:04the Europeans perhaps also hoping, perhaps in their hearts, that
00:46:08these extensive preparations, these expansions, perhaps deter
00:46:11the Russians from taking this step, just as Radcliffe perhaps tried
00:46:15to influence Putin? So that's very interesting what you're saying, because I thought about it, you know, if we
00:46:19borrow from concepts familiar to us, especially in these days here
00:46:22in Israel, could it be that Europe is trapped in a misconception? Could it be
00:46:26that the leaders, we also saw what happened in the war in Iran,
00:46:30where we saw European leaders not willing to stand by
00:46:33Trump in the fighting, could it be that European leaders are not ready for a confrontation with
00:46:37a country with an unpredictable leader like Putin, or are you saying that so far they are perhaps
00:46:41taking precautionary measures, precautionary measures to be
00:46:44ready for any scenario? How do you see this? Well, look, first
00:46:47of all, uh, when, uh, Trump started
00:46:50a war against Iran, he didn't. He didn't include Europeans and didn't invite
00:46:54them and didn't form a coalition with them, yes, like Bush did
00:46:58in 2003 with a coalition of the willing, like what happened
00:47:01in '91, and when they know that they can be
00:47:05attacked by the Russians, then their consideration, in my opinion, was
00:47:09very clear. This is a war that is currently not our
00:47:11war. Iranians are certainly not our
00:47:15allies, but they are not attacking us right now, yes, and we were
00:47:19not part of this plan, this is not our war. Meaning,
00:47:22yes, but here, Europe is already experiencing a huge
00:47:26war in its vicinity, right in the heart of Europe, and these
00:47:29assessments that in 2027 the war
00:47:32will indeed reach more countries, it already existed when the war
00:47:36in Iran broke out, so from their perspective, they are focused on another war with Putin,
00:47:39and we also
00:47:42feel some frustration from them with Trump when he starts
00:47:46a war in Iran, okay, but what about this war, what about Putin
00:47:49who, even if he weakens, even if he loses.
00:47:54He still has unprecedented ballistic capabilities, they are working in war mode in four
00:47:58shifts in factories that produce these missiles, they continue
00:48:02to stand on their feet even four years after that, exactly, and yes, certainly,
00:48:05so yes, the economy is in trouble and there are problems and all that,
00:48:09but that doesn't prevent an authoritarian leader from still continuing
00:48:13to send soldiers to the battlefield and also to provoke
00:48:15the Europeans, which is what he has been doing all year, yes, so we will remind that just a few
00:48:19days ago, A.
00:48:37This happens all the time and Europe is confused, it really doesn't know
00:48:40how to act, but if it really is attacked, if we are talking now
00:48:44about an escalation, then it is possible that indeed as long as Trump
00:48:48is thinking about what to do against Iran, how to act against Iran,
00:48:51Europe will no longer have the luxury, so it
00:48:54will have to
00:48:56recalculate its path and perhaps get
00:58:48Children on holiday will play
00:58:52tag between the house and
00:58:55the fields. You'll see, you'll
00:58:59see how good it will be
00:59:02next year,
00:59:05next year. You'll see, you'll
00:59:09see how good it will be
00:59:12next year,
00:59:14next year.
00:59:19Red grapes will ripen by
00:59:23evening and will be served chilled
00:59:26to the table. Red
00:59:30winds will sweep violently
00:59:32along the way. Old newspapers
00:59:35in the clouds. You'll see, you'll
00:59:39see how good it will be
00:59:42next year,
00:59:45next year. You'll see, you'll
00:59:49see how good it will be,
00:59:52next year,
00:59:54next year.
00:59:59Next year, we'll hold hands,
01:00:03in front of the light, I live on
01:00:06a branch, a white
01:00:09branch, will spread its wings,
01:00:13and the sun will rise within.
01:00:18You'll see, you'll see, how
01:00:21good it will be, next
01:00:24year, next year,
01:00:27you'll see, you'll see, how
01:00:30good it will be, next
01:00:33year, next year,
01:00:37next year.
01:02:31We are with you with all the news and updates. We are
01:02:34marking these days 53 years since the Yom
01:02:37Kippur War and very soon, if not, three years since the October
01:02:417th disaster. Already now, the memorial events for the massacre are divided
01:02:45into two. The national memorial ceremony for the families of the fallen
01:02:48and murdered, which is expected to take place on October 7th in Yarkon
01:02:51Park. The state ceremony will be on the national
01:02:54memorial day on the 24th of Tishrei on Mount Herzl. Almost three
01:02:58years after that day, there are army investigations and various other
01:03:02details that have been exposed about the failures that led to the massacre, but
01:03:06still no state inquiry committee or any other,
01:03:09still no orderly investigation of what happened here,
01:03:12who is responsible and how, what was known
01:03:15and what was not? The concept of soul-searching seems very
01:03:19far away. The meeting was last Friday between Shelly Mishal
01:03:23Yogev, the mother of Libby Cohen Maguri, may her memory be a blessing,
01:03:27who was murdered on October 7th in Nova, and
01:03:30former Military Intelligence Chief Aharon Haliva, was particularly difficult and reminded once
01:03:34again how many whose hearts are bleeding are still waiting
01:03:37for answers, still want to be looked in the eye and given
01:03:41a response to the sorrow and rage they feel due to the immense
01:03:44loss. The mother of the murdered young woman scolded the former
01:03:48head of Aman who lived near her for not coming to talk to her. Haliva
01:03:52replied that she should have contacted him. The former
01:03:55head of Aman indeed retired from the IDF and wrote that he bears
01:03:58command responsibility. In the October meeting, but it seems
01:04:02that the open wounds and the fact that an inquiry committee has not yet been established leaves too
01:04:05many family members with the pain, with the question marks, and
01:04:09all of us with a sense of loss regarding the day the earth
01:04:12shook here and it became clear that once again we were caught unprepared due to a
01:04:16mistaken conception. Morning
01:04:25in southern Lebanon, two IDF soldiers were lightly wounded yesterday. The incident occurred
01:04:29when an explosive device exploded near engineering equipment in the Wadi
01:04:32Saluki area. The IDF attacked in response in several areas
01:04:35in southern Lebanon, and Carmela, today is the eve of Yom Kippur, the security
01:04:39system is on alert level C. Yes,
01:04:43alert level C, and as mentioned, two IDF
01:04:45soldiers were lightly wounded, notifications were sent to the families, an explosive
01:04:48device, most likely the device was placed even before
01:04:51the ceasefire came into effect. The IDF is attacking
01:04:55a series of Hezbollah infrastructures in several areas
01:04:59in southern Lebanon. An event that illustrates that the ceasefire
01:05:02did not turn southern Lebanon into an area free of threats, even if
01:05:06the device was placed before the agreement, the fact that it remained in the area
01:05:10and harmed a force indicates the extent of Hezbollah infrastructure
01:05:14that has not yet been located or dismantled. The IDF
01:05:17seeks to establish a clear equation: any harm to forces, even
01:05:20from old infrastructure, will be met with an attack. By doing so, it sends
01:05:24a message to Hezbollah or to the state of Lebanon that responsibility
01:05:28for today's incident is not over with the date
01:05:31when the device was placed, and yes,
01:05:34leading up to Yom Kippur, the IDF completed a very broad
01:05:37operational deployment leading up to the weekend and Yom
01:05:40Kippur, after staff work that lasted
01:05:44about a month, even before Rosh Hashanah, a discussion
01:05:47was held headed by the head of the Operations Directorate. A military
01:05:50source tells us that this year a stronger assessment was built than that of
01:05:54last year, with an emphasis on defense
01:05:57on the borders and within the mountains. Significant forces were added
01:06:00to the existing force structure in the Strip, in Lebanon, in Syria,
01:06:04in Judea and Samaria, and also units that are in training
01:06:08were placed on alert, and the forces that will operate in any
01:06:12scenario were defined in advance. We are prepared in all sectors,
01:06:15also against Iran, constant readiness to move from ceasefire
01:06:19to renewed fighting. The IDF has tools for immediate
01:06:23activation. In the last 24 hours,
01:06:26units and reserves were reorganized,
01:06:29war games were conducted during the week against a surprise
01:06:32scenario, Jewish reinforcement was received,
01:06:34and we just need to hope that this
01:06:49on Wednesday for the United States to deliver a speech at the UN. Afterwards, he will fly
01:06:52back. As of now, no meeting with Trump
01:06:56is planned for Netanyahu, reports our political correspondent Gili Cohen.
01:07:00Prime Minister Netanyahu will depart later this week for the United
01:07:03States to address the UN General Assembly in New York this
01:07:07coming Thursday, and this trip has been shortened. Initially,
01:07:10Netanyahu was supposed to depart on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, but he will eventually
01:07:14depart later, so he will actually
01:07:17be in the United States in New York for only a few hours
01:07:20to deliver his speech at the UN General Assembly and then, afterwards,
01:07:24he is expected to return to Israel. Uh, Netanyahu
01:07:27wanted to meet with US President Donald Trump.
01:07:31His office tried to arrange such a meeting
01:07:33on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, but it did not
01:07:37succeed and such a meeting will not happen.
01:07:41Trump is expected to meet with Erdogan
01:07:44and other officials, and in the United States they said that he will not
01:07:48meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu. Perhaps this
01:07:51is what led to the shortening of the visit itself. There was another
01:07:55development in the Prime Minister's circle. They also
01:07:59wanted to make a visit to Texas, to meet officials in the American
01:08:02high-tech scene.
01:08:05That also will not happen in the end,
01:08:08and Prime Minister Netanyahu's visit to the UN
01:08:11General Assembly will be for only a few hours
01:08:15in New York, and he is expected to depart on
01:08:18Wednesday and return to Israel, according to what
01:08:22is known now, on Friday before the holiday
01:08:25begins. Gili, thank you. President Herzog
01:08:29accepted Elor Azaria's request and expunged his criminal record, also
01:08:32due to personal and family circumstances. However, while
01:08:36the President's Residence claimed that the Chief of Staff did not express a position, the army said that
01:08:39they opposed the move, which was done contrary to their advice.
01:08:43The report by our legal affairs commentator, Tamar Almog.
01:08:47About 10 years after then-soldier Elor Azaria shot and killed
01:08:50a neutralized terrorist, President Isaac Herzog announced last night
01:08:54that he is accepting Azaria's request and expunging his criminal
01:08:57record. The decision, as stated in the President's announcement, is in the spirit
01:09:01of these days, and in the spirit of rectification,
01:09:05reconciliation and a desire to move forward. In the President's
01:09:09reasoning, the significant period of time since the incident
01:09:12and the fact that Azaria served the sentence imposed on him were also mentioned, but also
01:09:16personal and family circumstances, including health issues. The President's
01:09:20announcement also stated that in his appeal to him, Azaria
01:09:23explicitly emphasized that he respects the values of the IDF and that they are dear
01:09:27to him, and that as a father of two young children, he wishes
01:09:31to educate them in light of these values. In Azaria's appeal, it was stated
01:09:34on behalf of the President's Residence, he expressed regret, among other things, for
01:09:37the severe consequences of the incident. The IDF only
01:09:41a few months ago expressed opposition to Azaria's request to expunge
01:09:44his criminal record, mainly because he did not express remorse. Now,
01:09:48as mentioned, the President's Residence noted that yes,
01:09:51Azaria expressed remorse for
01:10:13brief response to the President's announcement yesterday regarding the expungement of Elor
01:10:17Azaria's criminal record? I welcome
01:10:20the President's announcement, naturally. I think
01:10:23the time has really come to take
01:10:26this action. I don't understand the position
01:10:30that the IDF is trying to insist on, such
01:10:33stubbornness 10 years later,
01:10:36especially when the Minister of Defense expressed support for the President's
01:10:40action. They say he didn't express remorse, he didn't took responsibility for his actions, but you
01:10:44just reported that even in his appeal
01:10:47to the president, this condition of the IDF was met,
01:10:50and therefore the IDF's objection, I don't know, of the coordinator or someone else
01:10:54in the IDF seems appropriate to me. The expected
01:10:57prime minister will fly this week to the United States to address the UN General Assembly,
01:11:01as we heard a short while ago, this trip is expected to be short, he is not
01:11:05expected to meet President Trump, Netanyahu's critics are talking about
01:11:08a certain cooling in relations between the two. No, that's funny.
01:11:12Anyone who checks the history of prime ministers' visits
01:11:16to the UN General Assembly knows that usually a prime minister, when he travels to the General
01:11:20Assembly, he travels to the General Assembly and he doesn't meet the president of the United States, he doesn't need
01:11:24the opportunity of the General Assembly to meet the president of the United States, he meets
01:11:27him many, many times, I think that Netanyahu is the world
01:11:31leader who met Trump perhaps the most
01:11:34times in this term, I don't think anyone who has
01:11:38such a number of meetings with President Trump,
01:11:50so again I say, I don't think the president of Turkey met Trump even half
01:11:53the number of times that Netanyahu met Trump, and therefore
01:11:56when Netanyahu needs to meet Trump, he makes a Jewish trip
01:12:00and meets Trump not on the sidelines of the General Assembly, he doesn't need a photo with
01:12:04the president of the United States on the sidelines of the General Assembly in a hasty meeting, all
01:12:08his meetings with the president of the United States are usually thorough meetings, by the way, after
01:12:11these meetings, also various dramatic things
01:12:14happened here in the Middle East, including two
01:12:18wars with Iran, the second of which we conducted really
01:12:22together with US forces and planned it together,
01:12:25and therefore I think that anyone who climbs this
01:12:29tree, it is advisable for him to see the reality clearly, Netanyahu
01:12:33is one of the world's leaders closest
01:12:36to President Trump, this does not mean, this does not mean
01:12:39that Netanyahu does not know how to insist on Israeli interests.
01:12:42And even with Trump, when it is necessary, this is what is required of the Israeli
01:12:46Prime Minister, whoever does not know how to insist with
01:12:49the President of the United States on the Israeli interest, should not run
01:12:52for Prime Minister, this is part of the qualities.
01:12:57And for the elections, but I have to ask you, there are reports, these are not
01:13:01reports, we already saw President Trump shortening his weekend at Camp
01:13:04David and returning to the White House, the White House did not explain
01:13:08the change, and the American State Department issued a new travel warning
01:13:12for citizens in the Middle East due to the Houthi attacks
01:13:14in Saudi Arabia, is there any reason for us to be
01:13:18worried or on alert in the near
01:13:20future? We as citizens do not
01:13:23need. The steps of the President of the United States, also
01:13:26in relation to us? First of all, I do not need to serve as a replacement for
01:13:30the White House spokesman, there are spokesmen for the White
01:13:33House, and she will know
01:13:35how to explain.
01:13:37of the president on his schedule, we hear about readiness
01:13:41in all arenas, also about
01:13:44preparation that happens every year, but perhaps more this year towards Yom Kippur.
01:13:47The readiness, the readiness is always present, we are
01:13:50actually in the midst of daily activities of
01:13:54the IDF on several fronts, this is the reality in which we
01:13:57live, the IDF does this so that in the end, it
01:14:01will meet our enemies, and will not allow them to strengthen,
01:14:05and they will not attack us by surprise, as it
01:14:08happened on October 7th, the entire security doctrine of the State
01:14:11of Israel changed, became an activist security
01:14:14policy that creates security zones, attacks
01:14:18our enemy before he
01:14:22us, and this policy will continue. The IDF is ready for every
01:14:26scenario and all our security forces,
01:14:29and in case of escalation on one front or another, we will know what
01:14:32in attack, and our enemies know this
01:14:36very well. As a member of the cabinet, I want to ask you
01:14:39if Israel's situation today in September 2026 is
01:14:43better than Israel's on October 6, 2023?
01:14:47Unequivocally yes, I think this is one of the great
01:14:50achievements of this war of the last three
01:14:53years, the entire Middle East. Let's see, in every briefing
01:14:57we received as cabinet members and before that as a member
01:15:00of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, we were told that Iran could
01:15:04gallop to a nuclear weapon very quickly given a decision
01:15:07and that technologically they are very advanced to solve the last
01:15:11bottleneck they had, we were informed that
01:15:14Iran is on its way to possessing by the end of next year, 27,
01:15:1810,000 ballistic missiles. Today we are in a completely different situation, the Iranian
01:15:22nuclear program has been thrown back years.
01:15:25The Iranian ballistic missile industry is destroyed, they only have the
01:15:29stock they had left. We are
01:15:31in place. But look, ten, therefore, if we look at the goals
01:15:35of the war as they were set, Israel did not meet the goals we talked
01:15:39about, which we heard about, Hamas is in Gaza, we hear reports
01:15:42that the terrorist organization is recovering, strengthening, producing
01:15:46weapons and there are already security officials who say, now,
01:15:49that turning a blind eye, in light of what we, in light of what
01:15:53is happening, right now. Will cost Israel dearly,
01:15:57so is it possible that the goals
01:15:59that were talked about were not relevant or how can we bridge
01:16:03this gap between what was talked about as war and what we see
01:16:06on the ground? Let's look at each sector, we talked about the Iranian
01:16:10sector and it is the main one because in fact Iran acted
01:16:14to destroy the State of Israel and instead it was severely hit and thrown back
01:16:17years and this is the most dramatic change that happened here in the Middle
01:16:21East if the State of Israel had not acted in.
01:16:25These two campaigns against Iran, we would be in a completely different place today with a threat
01:16:28to the very existence of the State of Israel. Let's look at the northern
01:16:32sector and Hezbollah, every scenario
01:16:35described three years ago in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee
01:16:39and in the cabinet talked about Hezbollah having one of the largest
01:16:42missile potentials in the world, and any war with
01:16:45Hezbollah means thousands of casualties and high-rise buildings
01:16:49falling in Tel Aviv. Where is Hezbollah today?
01:16:52Nasrallah was eliminated, his replacement was eliminated. All Hezbollah's command
01:16:56from the 20 people who were there three years ago, only one survived, and
01:16:59I hope he won't survive for too long. More than
01:17:0380% of Hezbollah's missile potential
01:17:06no longer exists. No one today describes a war with Hezbollah in the same way
01:17:10it was described. We all as Israelis are happy to hear
01:17:13about these achievements, but still, let's talk for a moment about what's happening
01:17:17there now. Let's talk about Gaza, we are
01:17:20in 60% of the Gaza Strip
01:17:23creating security for our communities, we
01:17:27separated the continuous stretch that existed between Egypt and Hamas, which allowed
01:17:30Hamas to smuggle from Egyptian territory, today we
01:17:34control the Philadelphi Corridor, in Rafah,
01:17:38and Hamas is essentially confined to
01:17:4140% of the territory, you can
01:17:45learn about Hamas's strategic situation even from its symbolic agreement
01:17:48to disarm, not that we believe in this step, we know that Hamas
01:17:52intends to cheat, but Hamas is in.
01:18:02because it is in a very, very bad situation, and you know what surprises
01:18:06me the most? That those who criticize the government for not yet finishing
01:18:09the job, and they are right, we have not yet finished the job, we need to remove
01:18:13Hamas from power in Gaza and we really need to disarm
01:18:17it, but these are the same people who for
01:18:20two or three years always preached to us and said, there is
01:18:24no choice but to accept Hamas's conditions for
01:18:27a ceasefire in Gaza to release captives, these conditions
01:18:30were a complete abandonment of the Gaza Strip, allowing Hamas
01:18:34to remain in power and essentially Hamas's control. Again, on our
01:18:38southern border and Hamas's control over the Rafah crossing, there were still
01:18:42goals and objectives that the Prime Minister talked about, and now we are not
01:18:46we are not finished yet, we have not reached the state of the Messianic
01:18:49era where all our enemies have been definitively
01:18:53defeated, we have changed the Middle East, we have dramatically improved, do you see a situation where Israel
01:18:56returns to fighting in Gaza, do you see, do you see such a situation?
01:19:00First of all, Israel is fighting in Gaza on a daily basis, you, like me,
01:19:04probably watch the news, it's getting more intense, but I.
01:19:07There are assassinations in Gaza every day, we are
01:19:11eliminating very senior Hamas commanders, including those who were recently
01:19:14appointed, we captured one of Hamas's leaders
01:19:17in Gaza who is currently in Israeli hands
01:19:19in an operation, straight out of a movie that happened just
01:19:23a few weeks ago, there are always Israeli operations
01:19:27in Gaza, and in the end we are currently giving a chance
01:19:30to the American initiative, despite the fact that it is clear to us that Hamas does not
01:19:34really intend to disarm, I think in the end. There
01:19:37will be no choice, and we will have to complete this task
01:19:41in Gaza as well, but in the end when you look at the security
01:19:45situation of the State of Israel three years
01:19:48ago and today, you see that it is a world of difference with huge changes
01:19:52that have been made here in the Middle East and have improved our
01:19:56situation hundreds of times over. From this point of view, we are currently in the period between
01:20:00Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the period of repentance, the State
01:20:03of Israel has learned lessons after the terrible massacre in Aviv.
01:20:19So I really want to come back to the question of introspection that has not
01:20:22been done since October 7th, and I want to go back with you
01:20:26to the meeting we mentioned earlier this morning here on the program, a chance
01:20:29meeting on a running track with Shani, Shani
01:20:33Cohen, the mother of the late Yogev, who was murdered
01:20:37on October 7th in Nova. She ran into
01:20:40בנובה, היא נתקלה בראש המן לשעבר ארון
01:20:43חליבה, שניהם לבושים בגדי ספורט על
01:20:46מסלול במקרה, בוא תקשיב בבקשה איתי למפגש
01:20:50emotional encounter, you knew I was looking for
01:20:53you. I say that Shaked will come. Where
01:20:56are you? Where
01:20:58were you? I will turn to you.
01:21:02My daughter is a senior. I understand the change of the
01:21:05one who will turn to you.
01:21:37a bereaved mother with the former head of military intelligence on October
01:21:417th, and you see, we it's really hard to stand
01:21:44against her, against these emotions and these feelings, but still, if
01:21:48we also look three years after the massacre, still no state
01:21:52or national inquiry commission has been established, and I want to ask you as a minister
01:21:55in the Israeli government on the eve of Yom
01:21:58Kippur, what do you think this government should introspect about? First
01:22:01of all, I said that this government has in many
01:22:05ways introspected in these
01:22:07years, and under the leadership of the Prime Minister, it has completely changed the
01:22:11security doctrine of the State of Israel,
01:22:14and we see the results and we talked about them in our conversation,
01:22:17of the entire change of our security concept,
01:22:21which, by the way, was a security concept that existed here for decades, which said
01:22:25we do not attack first, unless there is absolute
01:22:28knowledge that they will attack us, we
01:22:31strengthen when our enemy strengthens, but we do not act against
01:22:35strengthening, but only act against an attack. Today
01:22:38the security concept of the State of Israel is completely different,
01:22:42today we are attacking Mr. Elkin, but let's
01:22:46move on to the part about introspection, we really need to wrap this up, so if you
01:22:49can, but this is the main
01:22:52introspection, the act of repentance, both personal
01:22:55and national, in this case, it's a kind of national act of repentance, it
01:22:59is intertwined with changing the most fundamental perceptions,
01:23:03and this is what the State of Israel has done and the results
01:23:05speak for themselves. This is first and foremost
01:23:09the first thing. Regarding an inquiry commission, it is clear that an inquiry
01:23:13commission is needed, there is no dispute about that. They tried to lead
01:23:16a process in the Knesset for an inquiry commission that was built on
01:23:20the American model such that both sides,
01:23:24both the coalition and the opposition, were partners, yes, what was defined as the national
01:23:27inquiry commission in terms of forming an inquiry commission so that neither side would
01:23:31feel that some political bias one way or another
01:23:34could taint the results. Unfortunately, this process did not end because
01:23:38the Knesset dispersed before the law was approved. I hope that in the next
01:23:42Knesset very quickly a format will be found
01:23:46that will ultimately complete this process, everyone
01:23:49wants there to be a real investigation
01:23:52and many questions will be asked, because there are really many questions, what
01:23:55happened there, but the roots of the problem are
01:23:59strategic roots, and they required a change in
01:24:03our security concept,
01:24:34as I waited at the very end of the conversation, and I understand
01:24:37that, that there is some delusion, that maybe there is
01:24:41an answer, and that maybe there will be an investigation
01:24:45and a committee, but it's just not, it's not happening, it
01:24:49hasn't happened for three years.
01:24:51We are on the eve of, not only on the eve of Yom Kippur,
01:24:54on the eve of the additional October 7th that is coming
01:24:58to us, there is no change. How much does it
01:25:01worry you that an inquiry commission has not yet been established? It worries
01:25:05me greatly. How can it be that the biggest,
01:25:08the most terrible thing that we went through
01:25:12as a country, as a people, as a society,
01:25:16uh, did not receive
01:25:18the. The investigation of the
01:25:22sources of this day, of this
01:25:25thing, so that it does not happen again,
01:25:29because they constantly threaten us like a dangling sword over
01:25:32our heads about the next October 7th, for example, that it could happen
01:25:36in the Eilat and Arava region, I live in Eilat, I constantly see
01:25:40this fear coming back again and again,
01:25:44if only I knew that someone in my country seriously
01:25:47and responsibly and necessarily investigated it. And changed
01:25:51everything that needs changing so that I can sit here and feel
01:25:54safe and protected, I would be calm, but I am not, because it did not
01:25:58happen. Do you think that after the elections an inquiry
01:26:01commission will be established? I pray so
01:26:04much, and I am so lost as to what to do if this
01:26:08continues to drag on, if it does not receive the required
01:26:12and appropriate attention. Is there anything you would like to say in this regard
01:26:16to decision-makers, to members of the government?
01:26:21I would like to say that we must bravely face
01:26:24the truth and all the people, especially those
01:26:28who were harmed, which is simply thousands, because
01:26:31for 1200 murdered people there are so many more
01:26:35family members, first, second, and third circles of
01:26:39friends,
01:26:40and we must simply
01:26:44answer and give us justice and
01:26:47the truth and the knowledge. Not a
01:26:50feeling, the knowledge,
01:26:53that this is truly our land, that we have no
01:26:56other land, and that our land, both
01:26:59in the future and now will protect us, and will not
01:27:02check what my political affiliation is
01:27:06right before it sends rescue to me, if
01:27:10not not rescue, you know, if I suddenly stopped in a queue or
01:27:13not, rescue if something like what happened on October
01:27:167th happened, it can't be that it took two years for all the hostages
01:27:20to return home.
01:27:23Natalia, I want to ask you, we are almost three years
01:27:26after. Yes. First of all, if these days before
01:27:30the anniversary, we are approaching the date, are they particularly
01:27:33difficult for you? Or do you say, I experience
01:27:36the loss, this void all the time. It's particularly
01:27:39difficult.
01:28:20And it is known that in mourning
01:28:23and in coping with it there are days that are
01:28:27more prone to disaster in terms
01:28:29of the ability to contain it.
01:28:33Which is the day of death and it's a birthday
01:28:36and it's all sorts of other days related to that
01:28:40moment so yes and I am, all
01:28:44in all, only three years
01:28:48in this status of a mother who lost her child, I don't
01:28:52have that much experience, I don't know how
01:28:55it happens and how it feels in another 20 years and my intuition
01:28:58tells me that even in another 20 years all those who lost them will have hard days.
01:29:02There will always be difficult days to overcome. Yes, you
01:29:05know your son Keshet became
01:29:09a symbol, his picture appears on the poster of the movie "We Will
01:29:13Dance Again" which won an Emmy Award, a young,
01:29:17blond, handsome, full of life. Do you
01:29:20feel that your efforts around his commemoration
01:29:23help perhaps a little, not fully, with
01:29:26coping with the great void?
01:29:30Ah, absolutely.
01:29:32I started my work
01:29:36actually
01:29:38the day after Keshet's
01:29:40shloshim (30-day mourning period), I was invited
01:29:44to a delegation of the Foreign Ministry to Mexico
01:29:47and Miami, with families of hostages, to call
01:29:50for the return of the hostages and to talk about what happened
01:29:53and to tell it in English and Spanish,
01:29:57and it was a very intense week, and when it ended I realized
01:30:01that I had received a gift. The gift was
01:30:05to talk about Keshet, to talk about who he was,
01:30:08to talk about what happened to us, to talk about how we
01:30:11cope, and since then I simply
01:30:14knew that talking about Keshet every time and telling
01:30:18about him and spreading the light of who he was and what a
01:30:21person, strengthens me, gives
01:30:25meaning and...
01:30:27And purpose to all this, so
01:30:30my son is not... in his body, but every
01:30:34time I stand in any format
01:30:37and tell about him, I continue to keep
01:30:40him alive and he is still here with us, and that is what I essentially
01:30:43do and that is what gives me the strength to cope
01:30:47and a little, a little healing for my
01:31:20ride ended in tragedy yesterday. Itzik Barashi, 54,
01:31:24our friend and colleague in the news division of Kan
01:31:2711, was killed after being hit by a car on Road
01:31:3044, near the Nesharim interchange, Opher Halphon's
01:31:34report. Itzik Barashi from Jerusalem went out yesterday morning
01:31:38for a bike ride with his friends, as he used to do
01:31:41regularly on weekends.
01:31:44During the ride, on Road 44 near the Nesharim interchange, he
01:31:48was hit by a car, Magen David Adom teams who were called to the scene provided
01:31:52him with medical treatment, and evacuated him to Hadassah
01:31:55Hospital. Here is Ahmed Hassanan, an emergency medical paramedic
01:31:59with Magen David Adom. A serious traffic accident scene where a man
01:32:02around 50 years old was found unconscious with his bicycle crushed next to him. He was found with
01:32:06a significant head injury. Uh, we immediately began resuscitation efforts
01:32:10and administered medication and bandaging, and evacuated him by MDA's intensive
01:32:13care ambulance to the hospital in serious condition. Unfortunately, Itzik
01:32:17was pronounced dead shortly after he was brought to the hospital.
01:32:21The police are investigating the circumstances of the accident and the sequence of events
01:32:24that led to the fatal injury. The driver of the vehicle,
01:32:27a resident of the center in his 40s, was taken for
01:32:30questioning, and at the end of it.
01:32:40A beloved and professional man who loved his work and
01:32:44the place that was much more than a workplace for him. Yesterday he
01:32:47was supposed to direct the program with Sharon Wexler and Uri Levi
01:32:51in the afternoon, a program he never arrived at. This morning
01:32:55we received the difficult news. Itzik Barashi was killed in a bicycle
01:32:59accident, cycling was his life's passion, it must be said, and for us,
01:33:02it's hard, it's hard to recover, every Saturday
01:33:05I used to chat here with Itzik during
01:33:08the broadcast about the route he rode in the morning, about the weather
01:33:12that accompanied him and his friends, and about the experiences from that ride.
01:33:15Itzik was a wonderful, kind-hearted guy who was always a pleasure
01:33:19to talk to, and of course, an excellent
01:33:21professional. Whenever needed, for any news event
01:33:25that required him to come to the studio and help the system,
01:33:28Itzik was there, always committed, always ready, and always
01:33:32with... his friends and colleagues. Here is Tamar Gur Arie, a director
01:33:35in the news division of Kan 11 and a close friend of
01:33:39Itzik. Every time I saw he was with me on shift, I knew it would be fun.
01:33:42He was always happy with him. Funny,
01:33:46and he's the kind of person you meet and they just become a part
01:33:49of you, he touched so many people,
01:33:53and there's no doubt that work won't
01:33:55be, won't be the same without him, and our family
01:33:59really lost a brother. Yesterday, that Saturday
01:34:03ride, which was such a regular part of his life, ended
01:34:06in tragedy. Itzik, 54, left behind
01:34:09a family, friends and colleagues, and many
01:34:13people who are struggling to cope
01:37:46first evening of Selichot for the year, tens of thousands
01:37:49of visitors flocked to the Western Wall. Our correspondent Chaim
01:37:52Golditch with the details
01:37:53and the readiness.
01:38:01Tens of thousands of worshipers and visitors flocked last night to the Western Wall and the streets of
01:38:05Jerusalem under heavy security by the Israel Police for the traditional
01:38:08"Hatarat Nedarim" (Annulment of Vows) prayer and the last Selichot for the year on the eve of Yom
01:38:12Kippur.
01:38:19Jerusalem District police officers, along with Border Police officers and other security forces, were deployed
01:38:23in the city's streets and the alleyways of the Old City, which were crowded
01:38:26with visitors, and this deployment will continue leading up to Yom Kippur and the Sukkot
01:38:29holiday thereafter, in order to thwart any attempt to disrupt the holidays
01:38:33and harm areas or people. At the same time, these assessments in Jerusalem, also
01:38:37in Judea and Samaria, the IDF is reinforcing forces in order to maintain order during
01:38:40the holidays and to ensure that the holidays pass peacefully, unlike in recent years, parallel
01:38:44to the increase. The alert level will rise throughout the country, both
01:38:48in the IDF and in the police. In Jerusalem, a month of Selichot (penitential prayers) is concluded
01:38:51with systems of over a million visitors who came to the Western Wall and the Old
01:38:55City during all the last 40 days. This is
01:38:58one of the years in which the most people visited the Western Wall, survivors of captivity,
01:39:02politicians, celebrities and citizens from all parts
01:39:14so there is no doubt that in the next two days, today and tomorrow, the weather
01:39:18plays a central role. So the good news is
01:39:22this. First of all, we are not expecting a heatwave, which is already something
01:39:25positive, already positive. Also, we are not expecting any
01:39:29too cold weather, so what we are expecting today are
01:39:32normal temperatures for the season, I want to remind you that even the normal for the season at this
01:39:36time is not cold, even the normal for the season is
01:39:39warm, but what is pleasing is that the days are already shorter,
01:39:43and already in the early afternoon hours, you start to feel the
01:39:47change in the weather, so the heat stress in general
01:39:51is not very heavy, so let's see what the temperatures are, today
01:39:54in Jerusalem 29 degrees, exactly.
01:39:57The average temperature, normal for the season, Tel Aviv
01:40:01with 30 degrees, Safed 28 degrees, Katzrin
01:40:0433, in the Shfela 30, in the northern
01:40:08Negev 32 and in Eilat only 36
01:40:11degrees, so today, yes, a slight increase in temperatures, but this
01:40:15leads us overall to normal average temperatures for the season,
01:40:18tomorrow almost the same weather as we have today, maybe a one degree
01:40:22increase in cities, not dramatic at all,
01:40:26after that too. Also on Wednesday a slight decrease
01:40:29in temperatures, but what is most important for us is really today
01:40:32and tomorrow, and today and tomorrow
01:40:45know, it sounds like the parallel events, but exactly three years ago,
01:40:49we were very busy here
01:40:53with internal disputes over the issue of prayers on Yom Kippur
01:40:55in the public sphere. In Tel Aviv, and then came
01:40:59that terrible day, October 7th.
01:41:02After it, there was a feeling of a very big change and a strong
01:41:05feeling of unity and that now things must look
01:41:09different, and I want to ask you, from a three-year
01:41:12perspective, do you think that we have indeed
01:41:16learned something? First of all, one thing, and I
01:41:20remember myself this morning at this hour three
01:41:23years ago, being interviewed on one of the main media outlets.
01:41:28And being asked about the separation, about the distance,
01:41:31and then I said one thing, my experience tells me that this is not
01:41:35accurate. My experience tells me, I travel
01:41:38around the country, I see the connection that exists between
01:41:41people, we are much more connected than
01:41:45we show, you can see these things
01:41:48then and even more so, even today.
01:41:51Look at the many thousands, in every
01:41:55corner of the country, we are. connected
01:41:58to ourselves and connected to our heritage much
01:42:02more than we let on when we show something
01:42:05else. Correct. So we were in a terrible
01:42:09period, that Yom Kippur, the end of Yom Kippur
01:42:12hurt me, I am from Tel Aviv, and to hear
01:42:16that it would not be possible to pray the Neilah prayer
01:42:19at Dizengoff Square hurt me very much, and yet
01:42:22the reality is that we are connected.
01:42:26We received a terrible blow three years ago
01:42:29on that day, but after it
01:42:32we, unfortunately, sometimes still continue
01:42:36to quarrel and deal with the person
01:42:39rather than the issue. There is a feeling that things have somewhat returned to their previous state
01:42:42after that period of, you know, a feeling
01:42:45that something has to change, must change, right?
01:42:48Right, we returned too quickly to all the disputes, to all
01:42:52the quarrels, and I always emphasize that we
01:42:55are, unfortunately, experts. In talking about each other,
01:42:59we forget to talk to each other. Sometimes we do
01:43:02manage to do that, and these 40 days
01:43:06of the millions at the Western Wall, of
01:43:09the thousands and tens of thousands who meet
01:43:13at different ages. I come to Eilat,
01:43:16to a Selichot evening, and you see there a lesson before
01:43:20Selichot, beyond a synagogue where there is no room to move,
01:43:24they also broadcast it on YouTube to the whole public.
01:43:27And their public at that time, they show me over 200
01:43:31people not with us in Eilat, so we
01:43:35are not so far from each other, it's just that
01:43:38we need to show it more, we need to broadcast it among us
01:43:41more, to talk differently, and I
01:43:45am optimistic, I just hope that we won't make those
01:43:48mistakes and won't repeat them again. I really want to ask you
01:43:52in this context, Yom Kippur is a time of introspection,
01:43:55and do you think, do you believe
01:43:58that the leadership in Israel did introspect after the massacre, examined
01:44:02the conduct that led to this disaster, because the investigation committee has not been established
01:44:05yet?
01:44:09There are some, and there are some. There are those who
01:44:12try, and there are those who do, and there are those who do less. I
01:44:16think one simple thing: we need to remember, we haven't
01:44:20finished yet, the event is by no means behind us,
01:44:23we are still in a war, it also hasn't ended,
01:44:27our forces are in Syria,
01:44:30in Lebanon, in Gaza, still
01:44:33reservists, who are called up everywhere
01:44:36and anywhere, but I will also tell you one thing, Thursday
01:44:40morning I was at the Mevo'ot
01:44:43HaNegev high school in Kibbutz Shuval, and after I hugged the 12th
01:44:47grade, I spoke. A girl approached
01:44:50me, the daughter of Yossi Sharabi,
01:44:54who was murdered in Be'eri, and she
01:44:56herself survived, she can't even define how,
01:45:00and for her, it happened just now, not yesterday, not
01:45:04last week, not three years ago, for her, it happened
01:45:07now. That is to say, we are still, maybe
01:45:11indeed because of the war and because of the disputes, because
01:45:15of the quarrels, and too much politics
01:45:18that we are all engaged in, maybe because of that we are not yet
01:45:22able to recover, we are still not able to reach the right
01:45:26situation that we must reach already.
01:45:29So I want to hope, according to the law,
01:45:32there are elections, I really want to hope, and again, I am not
01:45:36talking, I am not not, the truth is that precisely in this context I
01:45:39to say, you talked earlier about 40 days, in less than 40 days, Israeli
01:45:43citizens will go to the polls, we are already seeing a very heated
01:45:47election campaign, and I want to ask you what you tell the leaders of the parties
01:45:50in this campaign season, if you happened to see, for example, a video of the Religious Zionist
01:45:54party that shows the heads of the legal system, the Supreme Court president, the legal
01:45:58advisor to the government, being dragged by police officers in the streets, a video that was of course made
01:46:01with AI, I want to hope again,
01:46:05I'm gritting my teeth for these
01:46:09upcoming election days. And I'm holding myself and want
01:46:12to hope that I will manage somehow to get through it
01:46:15and that people will talk.
01:46:18Our Sages were wise, wise, wise, may their memory
01:46:21be a blessing, these are our Sages, and they said: Who is honored? He who honors
01:46:25others. I want to hope that we will succeed,
01:46:29nevertheless, each one will not say what is wrong with the other, each one will not
01:46:33say that so-and-so is not okay, but that each one will say what I
01:46:36believe should be done, what I believe because... on the other
01:46:40hand, I believe it can be fixed. I want
01:46:42to hope, on the contrary, we are on the eve of Yom Kippur, this is
01:46:46the time when I hope that this call, you know,
01:46:49let's try a little bit, because negative campaigns,
01:46:53we saw where they led us in the last 15
01:46:56years, so certainly in the last 10
01:47:00years with the repeated campaigns, so maybe
01:47:03let's start a little more positive campaigns, where people will present
01:47:07the good in them, present the thing. The people are
01:47:10there, the people are much more in places that seek
01:47:14the good, and after we get through these
01:47:17elections, I want to hope and wish, regardless
01:47:20of what the results will be, that we all
01:47:24know how to calm things down, and we all know
01:47:27how to focus on the right thing,
01:47:29on the benefit, on the proper building
01:47:33of all of us, because we are there, the people are there,
01:47:37so if the people are in the right place, they deserve
01:47:40that everyone, all the leaders of the parties, treat them
01:47:44in the right way, so that they give us, you know
01:47:47what I wished for this year, a calm year
01:47:50for a bit, forgive me for saying this to a news channel, but
01:47:54may it be good for you, Amen, Amen, I join this wish so
01:47:57much, a beautiful, calm and peaceful and different one, beautiful,
01:48:01calm and different, right, that there will be a year
01:48:04that will put music a little more in place to get all
01:48:08the headlines. We must say, if only,
01:56:21the report that Prime Minister Netanyahu was warned by UAE President
01:56:25Bin Zayed before the October 7th massacre. In an interview
01:56:29with the Emirati newspaper The National, the senior official, who was interviewed
01:56:32anonymously, explained that the UAE discusses security matters with
01:56:36other countries through the relevant bodies and does not discuss
01:56:39such details at the leadership level. The senior official's
01:56:43remarks sharpen the official response of the UAE at the beginning
01:56:46of the month, which did not explicitly deny the conversation between
01:56:50Netanyahu and the President of the United
01:56:52Arab Emirates.
01:56:54President Isaac Herzog announced that he has decided to delete the criminal
01:56:58record of Elor Azaria.