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00:00:00He drove a relatively short distance
00:00:03and at least the understanding right now is that he escaped
00:00:06on foot, escaped on foot from the area. There
00:00:09is currently an attempt to close
00:00:12a circle. We can say that forces have been scrambled,
00:00:16including Air Force vehicles, including
00:00:19aircraft of the "Zik" type, which can
00:00:23also provide a view from above and also
00:00:26carry out an attack with precise ammunition in this situation.
00:00:30And there are also reinforcement platoons being scrambled
00:00:33right now to the Binyamin area, to the Nof Tzuf area, as part of the pursuit
00:00:37and roadblocks. There are also fighters from the Duvdevan
00:00:40unit. A lot of forces are currently being scrambled
00:00:43to the scene of the attack to close the circle as quickly as possible
00:00:47on the terrorist. And yes, if
00:00:49at first there were attempts to understand whether it was a cell
00:00:53or a single terrorist, then currently the understanding, also
00:00:57based on footage of the terrorist's
00:01:00car, is that it was one terrorist who, as mentioned,
00:01:04got out of the car, shot, entered, fled,
00:01:07and currently they are trying to understand
00:01:18you reported, it is indeed one attacker,
00:01:20in a critical condition,
00:01:23in the current stage, being evacuated
00:01:26to Beilinson Hospital by Magen David Adom teams
00:01:30exclusively. Uh, searches are still being carried out
00:01:34in the area where the injured
00:01:36person was found, shot.
00:01:39We hope, as we
00:01:43see that, Eli, we're talking about one injured person, one casualty
00:01:47in the attack, in the incident. Yes, at the current stage we are reporting one casualty,
00:01:50as I said, in critical condition being evacuated at the
00:01:54current stage to Beilinson Hospital
00:01:57in Petah Tikva. You know, tell us about
00:02:00the scene, where was the injured person when he
00:02:03was shot? We are again saying with
00:02:07great caution, the injured person was shot
00:02:10most likely in his car, uh, we, uh, he was in his
00:02:13car, we still, this is at least the
00:02:17initial report we received, we will of course wait
00:02:21for reports from the additional security forces that are there, but
00:02:24the initial report received at the center was
00:02:28an injured person or a casualty, more precisely.
00:02:30In very serious condition, when we arrived he was already in
00:02:33critical condition.
00:02:35Uh, and as mentioned, we evacuated him to Beilinson
00:02:39Hospital in Petah Tikva. We are talking about an incident
00:02:42that happened in the last hour, how quickly
00:02:46did you manage to get to the injured person from the moment
00:02:49you were reported about the shooting?
00:02:52We deploy systematically
00:02:55and optimally throughout the country, mainly because of Yom
00:02:59Kippur. Also in Judea and Samaria and also
00:03:02in other places on the northern border and in all
00:03:05communities there is a very very wide deployment,
00:03:08a very very heightened alert
00:03:12due to the holiday, but we are definitely also alert
00:03:15to situations of popular terrorism
00:03:18that could occur at any moment, not only because
00:03:21of other cautionary developments, and therefore
00:03:25they understood the forces, we established a situation room together with the Israel Police
00:03:28and other bodies.
00:03:33Of course, to beef up all our
00:03:57us what's happening there now? Uh, currently,
00:04:00broadly speaking, uh, the injured person
00:04:04has been evacuated. Uh,
00:04:07currently there is no information about where
00:04:10the terrorist
00:04:13is. Uh, in the care of
00:04:16the army, we have one injured person, critical, suffering from penetrating
00:04:20wounds, evacuated
00:04:23to the hospital.
00:04:25How quickly did you get to the scene? Seven
00:04:29minutes from the moment the call came out until I was
00:04:32there. And around when you see
00:04:35the unfolding events, uh, do you understand that there's only one injured person or does it
00:04:39seem like there might be something bigger there? In the initial
00:04:43stage, we didn't know how many injured people there were because there was a lot of chaos and mess
00:04:47around.
00:04:48Uh,
00:04:52as soon as we started to get clearer
00:04:56information, we understood that one person was injured.
00:05:00And a few more trauma
00:05:01victims.
00:05:05Is there something more complex, more difficult when you arrive, you
00:05:09are with United Hatzalah, like all emergency forces.
00:05:12Required for many types of scenes, a terror
00:05:15attack scene, uh, certainly, this is one of the
00:05:18more difficult scenes that you, uh, arrive at?
00:05:22Uh, yes, very naturally,
00:05:25it's not a normal scene
00:05:28that we deal with every day, uh, a complex
00:05:32scene, a scene that also has danger because we still don't have
00:05:35the terrorist caught and
00:05:38uh, nonetheless we need to arrive to provide. Yehuda
00:06:08that it is, according to everyone's estimates, one terrorist.
00:06:12And at least we also have details about the location of the attack.
00:06:16That terrorist arrived in his car, a car
00:06:20whose picture we have already seen of a red
00:06:23Mitsubishi Lancer. He stood
00:06:27outside the car, and opened fire at
00:06:31that spring near Nof Tzuf. There were
00:06:34Israelis there who were bathing in the water. After he
00:06:38carried out the shooting, he fled on foot from the
00:06:42place. This contradicts the previous
00:06:45information that was available immediately after the attack, that he fled
00:06:48on foot towards the nearby Palestinian village
00:06:52of Deir Nidham. Currently there is a cordon
00:06:55that has begun on several Palestinian villages,
00:06:59villages that are located near
00:07:02Deir Nidham, Ein Sinia, and Atara.
00:07:06Currently these places are being cordoned off. There are also
00:07:09roadblocks. But the terrorist who fled
00:07:12on foot has a relatively
00:07:15short amount of time until someone might
00:07:19choose to hide him in their home.
00:07:23And therefore there is a race against time. They will eventually get to him,
00:07:26but the sooner they get to him, the sooner
00:07:29they can prevent him from carrying out
00:07:33additional attacks. He is a terrorist who carried out an attack and he is
00:07:37armed, so they need to get to him as quickly as possible. So a lot of
00:07:40forces, including Duvdevan unit fighters,
00:07:43are currently being scrambled to the scene of the attack and also
00:07:47to the nearby villages. Itay, when a cordon is imposed, and we are
00:07:50talking about imposing a cordon on several
00:07:53villages, is this something that can last for several hours,
00:07:57maybe even longer? Yes, high, but yes, of course,
00:08:00in the past terrorists who managed
00:08:03to disappear for long days, but eventually they get
00:08:06to him. Eventually they get to everyone. Eventually in Judea and Samaria
00:08:10there are also informants who are relatively
00:08:13good. There is activity, there is almost full freedom of action
00:08:17for the security forces, unlike
00:08:19what we have seen in the past, even inside the Palestinian refugee
00:08:23camps, the strongholds of terrorism in recent
00:08:26years, today the IDF operates there almost
00:08:28freely, both in Jenin and in the two camps in the Tulkarem
00:08:32area, and in fact this area
00:08:35in Binyamin which is under the security responsibility of
00:08:38the IDF, it is likely that they will get to him sooner or later, but they want
00:08:42to get to him as soon as possible to
00:08:45actually prevent him from carrying out another
00:08:49attack. So as we said, the terrorist fled
00:08:52on foot from the scene of the attack, and when he fled on foot, that means
00:08:56he is relatively in the area itself. Just to put
00:09:00an asterisk, as long as no one is helping him and no one is taking him to another place,
00:09:03in another car, currently the main challenge is
00:09:07to get there before he receives assistance from someone local
00:09:10who decides to hide him in their home. So currently there are
00:09:13also cordons and roadblocks. We will see
00:09:17in the coming hours despite our holy Yom Kippur, Itay, besides
00:09:21the possibility that someone may have assisted the terrorist at some
00:09:24stage, we are only talking about one attacker who is currently being
00:09:28hunted. Correct, correct, it is,
00:09:31it is one terrorist,
00:09:35yes, one terrorist who carried out this attack, the shooting attack, the shooting
00:09:38attack, and Magen David Adom will correct us further,
00:09:42that the injured person, in his 30s, was evacuated
00:09:46in very serious condition to the hospital. They restored
00:09:49the pulse of the injured person at the scene and evacuated
00:09:53him, as the CEO of Magen David
00:09:57Adom, Eli Bin, told us,
00:10:00he is being evacuated to Beilinson Hospital
00:10:03in Petah Tikva, while the forces also manage to arrive,
00:10:07the rescue forces, the emergency forces,
00:10:10manage to arrive. Within minutes
00:10:14at the scene, and evacuate
00:10:16the injured person,
00:10:19they are now reporting to us from Magen David Adom that they saw him
00:10:22in the car, the ...
00:10:30They took him out of the car and immediately began to provide him with medical
00:10:33treatment and resuscitation, and as mentioned, he got
00:10:37into an ambulance and was evacuated to Beilinson Hospital
00:10:40in Petah Tikva. Still, as mentioned, they are fighting
00:10:43for his life, trying to stabilize
00:10:46his condition. And again, the manhunt, as
00:10:50we mentioned earlier, the manhunt for the terrorist continues, along with
00:10:54the cordons that the IDF is carrying out on Palestinian
00:10:58villages in this area, cordons that can
00:11:02last anywhere from several hours to even longer
00:11:06periods of time, and all this, Itay, amidst
00:11:09the already high state of alert that the security
00:11:12forces had ahead of Yom
00:11:15Kippur. Right, there is an alert
00:11:18and also warnings that have been in place in recent years
00:11:21almost every Yom Kippur before the holidays.
00:11:25Terror, meaning it's not something that should be unusual or
00:11:28different. Do you remember the previous Yom Kippur,
00:11:32we also dealt with something else that bothered us, which was
00:11:35the global flotilla of solidarity to the Gaza Strip. In recent
00:11:39years, despite Yom Kippur and despite the holy day,
00:11:42our enemies try to find
00:11:45things for us to deal with, security matters, and also
00:11:48attacks. We saw it just about 40 minutes ago.
00:11:52Last year it was a flotilla to Gaza in the midst
00:11:55of the holy day, when Navy Seal Unit 13
00:11:59had to carry out boardings at sea on Yom Kippur, meaning the holidays
00:12:03are also a trigger for our enemies, for
00:12:06terrorists, for terror organizations, in order
00:12:08to harm us spiritually as well, not just physically,
00:12:12and that is exactly their goal ahead of Yom
00:12:16Kippur this year. This is also why they
00:12:19perhaps went to the spring, at least currently
00:12:22according to the MDA update, that injured person, the man, around 30,
00:12:26was in his car outside the spring near
00:12:30ah, actually Nof Tzuf. They took him out of there and he
00:12:33is currently being treated on the way to the
00:12:35hospital. His pulse has returned,
00:12:39which is the important thing. We hope that he will indeed
00:12:43recover from this truly severe injury. We wish him a
00:13:11with my wife, who is also a paramedic, we saw
00:13:14a man in his 30s, shot in all
00:13:17parts of his body, sitting in a car.
00:13:21Uh, we took him out, together with
00:13:24IDF forces who were at the scene, and began to perform advanced
00:13:27resuscitation on him. You said you arrived there with your wife
00:13:31who is also a paramedic. Were you on duty or were you
00:13:34No, we were at home in the middle of caring for the children. You were
00:13:37at home, absolutely. And my wife also went out for the evacuation right now with
00:13:41the community ambulance, while efforts were being made for resuscitation together with another
00:13:44doctor and the community ambulance team.
00:13:47This, I assume, also has some complexity because
00:13:51it is Yom Kippur, uh, the eve of Yom Kippur.
00:13:56Absolutely, also an emotional complexity. We
00:13:59the name Yom Kippur reminds us of too many bad things,
00:14:03and we want Yom Kippur to be a good day of forgiveness, atonement
00:14:07and repentance, a white day, a good day,
00:14:10unfortunately, our enemies choose to carry out attacks precisely on these
00:14:13important days. Yes.
00:14:16Uh, and this, and this is the situation we are reporting
00:14:20and reporting about an injured person, in very
00:14:23serious condition, uh, that 30-year-old man
00:14:27who is being evacuated from the scene to Beilinson
00:14:30Hospital, when you arrive at
00:14:33that point, when you arrive at the scene, you give him the
00:14:36initial treatment,
00:14:39you actually performed resuscitation on him there to restore
00:14:43his pulse as well. We performed advanced resuscitation procedures on him, which included
00:14:47ventilation, advanced, and we connected
00:14:50him to blood products that we received from the army, what is called
00:14:54plasma. Because
00:14:57he suffered from very severe bleeding and with multiple
00:15:32did you approach the other people who were there?
00:15:35Uh, to be honest, I didn't immediately interact with the rest
00:15:38of the people. I was more with the injured person until the moment
00:15:42of evacuation. And due to the complexity of the scene and because the
00:15:46terrorist has not yet been caught, ideally for us, once
00:15:49we finished, we left the scene so as not to expose ourselves, God forbid,
00:16:17Yes. So we already have two emergency services personnel, both from Magen David Adom and United
00:16:20Hatzalah, and both report that he was most likely injured while he was in the car, maybe he
00:16:24had just come out of the spring. We, this picture will certainly
00:16:27become clear later. I remind you again, Carmela, this is a developing
00:16:30event happening right now. Yes,
00:16:33the event is unfolding and the main thing that the security forces are doing.
00:16:50The security forces are on their way
00:16:53to the village or the village is part
00:16:56of a routine. The main thing is indeed
00:16:59that the security forces have been operating so
00:17:03intensively in recent weeks
00:17:06and months. In fact,
00:17:16of those
00:17:20of the Shin Bet, of the IDF, of the police who fail
00:17:23to reach those terrorists beforehand. There is no doubt
00:17:26that either they are on their way to the terrorist and his
00:17:30family, or they will reach him. They reach all those
00:17:33terrorists and those attackers. There is
00:17:36no. Here, this is not a question. The question
00:17:39is, how much do they need to detect, to thwart first, if they had
00:17:43any warnings, there was any suspicion, or
00:17:47if this is indeed a lone terrorist who drove
00:17:50his car, planned on the eve of Yom Kippur, to carry out an attack.
00:17:54Right, but it's clear that this is someone who planned it in advance,
00:17:58who went out with a weapon in his hand and took advantage of
00:18:00an opportunity, looked for an opportunity. And it's a pity that he knew
00:18:04that people come to this spring to bathe on the eve of Yom Kippur, yes. On the eve of
00:18:07Yom Kippur, he knew they were coming to bathe, yes, or
00:18:11he planned to go to a place where there is
00:18:14a group of people
00:18:17and attack. This is their
00:18:20usual modus operandi, but the real concern
00:18:23is indeed that if a terrorist opens
00:18:27fire at
00:18:29that group
00:18:33and continues, the question is where does he continue to, and if it will be possible to stop
00:18:37him before, God forbid, he will try
00:18:41to carry out another attack.
00:18:44As you say, as you say, he is currently
00:18:47roaming around, most likely with near certainty,
00:18:51currently roaming around armed on the roads there
00:18:54in the area?
00:18:56The current picture, yes, is a camel against those who need to stop him
00:19:00when you have a weapon. The concern is that
00:19:03caution is greater, but there is no
00:19:07way he won't be caught, but again, the goal of
00:19:10the Shin Bet is to stop those attackers
00:19:14beforehand. Carmela, what we are seeing on the screen now, that red
00:19:18car in which the terrorist is presumably roaming,
00:19:21was roaming. Maybe we don't know where it is now, but these are images
00:19:25that were filmed from the scene of
00:19:27the attack, and he is roaming there currently armed.
00:19:31Yes, you know, I'm thinking about how the Shin Bet, and Shin Bet personnel always
00:19:34say this, that we can thwart dozens
00:19:37of attacks, dozens of attacks with intensive, prolonged
00:19:41and brave work, but a single terrorist who is very
00:19:44difficult, it could be that no one had any indication at all that he would go out for
00:19:47this event, we couldn't stop him, and then an attack occurred,
00:19:51or is it, wait, Carmela, paramedic David
00:19:55Trachtenberg joins us, please stay with me, hello to you,
00:19:58hello, you're talking to Liat and also to Carmela, hello Liat,
00:20:02hello Carmela, good afternoon, a difficult, difficult
00:20:06day. You are also the one who arrived at the scene? I was
00:20:09the first medical force to arrive at the scene, uh, me
00:20:13and my wife, both paramedics, we left the house,
00:20:16we saw a man in his 30s, sitting in a car with multiple
00:20:20gunshot wounds, with the help of the soldiers who were at the scene, we took him out, laid him down and began
00:20:24to perform advanced resuscitation on him. You
00:20:27say you left the house, meaning you, you live in Nof Tzuf? We live
00:20:31in Nof Tzuf, yes, we are both on-call in the community team here, I work
00:20:34for MDA. How did you get the alert?
00:20:41A general alert of hearing gunshots, at first it wasn't clear at all that there were
00:20:45casualties. You heard the sounds at home?
00:20:48No, so you just went out? You went there on foot, did you drive there? No,
00:20:52we drove, we drove in the car. What can you tell us as a resident of Nof
00:20:55Tzuf about, about this experience? The eve of Yom Kippur, not just
00:20:59as a paramedic, but also as a person who lives in this place, and Nof Tzuf has unfortunately
00:21:02experienced severe attacks.
00:21:05It's not simple, because Nof Tzuf is not really in the depth
00:21:09of the territory, and also the systems don't
00:21:11treat it as a very threatened community. But unfortunately, we have experienced here
00:21:15in the last decade very severe attacks, also
00:21:18the severe attack on the Salomon family about 10 years ago, also a very severe
00:21:22arson that happened here about a bit more
00:21:25than a decade ago. Uh, the sense of security, all in all, is
00:21:29high. The army is doing a very, very good job here,
00:21:33and it's hard to accept on a day like this, on the eve of Yom Kippur,
00:21:36which is supposed to be such an elevated and special
00:21:40day, to receive such difficult news.
00:21:43David, you know, when you went down there, you
00:21:47say there was an injured person sitting in the car and there were other
00:21:50people in the area, right? There were, there were bathers there, it's a spring
00:21:53that was built in memory of Ben. Uh, it's Lieutenant
00:21:57Colonel Ben Basat who was killed in the war, a very beautiful
00:22:01spring that was renovated in his memory, there are usually bathers there on
00:22:04Fridays and Saturdays, and all year round, many,
00:22:07many bathers, people were very , very scared, there were many
00:22:11bathers there, teenagers, families, young people,
00:22:14uh, they were extremely scared, uh, not
00:22:18a simple experience, yes, and I
00:22:32out of the spring and was in the car on his way to somewhere, something like that, or
00:22:36he arrived or he left, it's not entirely clear, yes, but he was prepared with
00:22:39the car positioned on the road, and apparently
00:22:42the terrorist was the first
00:23:20It's really very difficult. We want
00:23:23to live our lives in routine, in security, in a normal
00:23:27and safe way, and all the time we receive
00:23:30reminders that our neighbors don't want us
00:23:33here. Did you have alerts? Did you receive
00:23:36alerts from the army before Yom Kippur and the Tishrei holidays? No,
00:23:40no, no, there aren't. As David said before,
00:23:44all in all, thank God, the sector here is all
00:23:47quiet thanks to a lot of hard work.
00:23:50Daily and good work of the
00:23:53security forces.
00:23:55But unfortunately, they always try.
00:23:59Ephraim, I understand that among the bathers in the spring
00:24:02at the time of the attack were also people from Nof Tzuf
00:24:05itself, from the community. Yes, correct. Did you manage to talk
00:24:23What happened, that's, that's not my job, we trust the security forces
00:24:27to handle the incident as
00:24:53Briefly, there is a spring here, people came to bathe on the eve of Yom
00:24:56Kippur, a terrorist arrives
00:25:00at the scene, sees one of the people who is just arriving at the spring, opens fire
00:25:02at him, severely injures him.
00:25:06Miraculously, a soldier arrives at the area, begins to return fire,
00:25:09the terrorist flees. Currently, the searches, all the security forces are in the area, the injured person is here
00:25:13in serious condition, being transported to the hospital. Here
00:25:16the IDF, police, Shin Bet, Border Police, everyone is here.
00:25:20We strengthen their hands, of course, the council's forces are securing the nearby communities, they are
00:25:23treating the civilians who are here. This is a
00:25:27difficult event. He is also dealing with it. What are you receiving
00:25:30right now? What do you know from the security forces? That he is currently
00:25:34roaming armed in this area. We are in an event, I won't elaborate. We are
00:25:37in an event. The terrorist has not been caught. He is still in the area. They will do everything
00:26:08before you the severe attack in Nof
00:26:11Tzuf on the Salomon family less than
00:26:1410 years ago. Correct. July 21,
00:26:172017, around 9:30 PM on a Friday evening,
00:26:21a terrorist entered the family's home.
00:26:24And murdered Elad, Chaya, and Yossi there.
00:26:27Right. Yossi Salomon and his two children, Chaya
00:26:30and Elad.
00:26:33Yes, throughout the years we have unfortunately
00:26:36experienced many attacks, as
00:26:40I said at the beginning of my words,
00:26:43the Arabs around us never stop trying
00:26:47to harm us,
00:26:50and to destroy us. You remember that difficult event
00:26:53as if it was yesterday, really, that traumatic?
00:26:57Certainly, very much. Can you take us back
00:27:00there for a moment?
00:27:05Ultimately, when you know someone who was murdered
00:27:08in an attack, you don't forget it. But we also don't
00:27:11forget that we live here, that the entire Land of
00:27:15Israel is ours, and no one will succeed in driving us
00:27:19out of here. We are strong, as the head of the council said before me, we are
00:27:23strong, we remember why we are here. If we are not
00:27:27in Nof Tzuf, then we will not be in Tel Aviv and we will not be anywhere. We are
00:27:30here because the Land of Israel
00:27:32is ours. The security forces will protect us. We
00:27:36pray to God to seal
00:27:39us all with a good sealing, and that we will hear, God
00:27:42willing, many good news. And you named a neighborhood after
00:27:46Elad, Chaya, and Ach,
00:27:49tell us something about the neighborhood? This
00:27:52neighborhood, already started
00:27:56with 30 housing units,
00:27:59and in recent months he...
00:28:02About the permanent construction, uh,
00:28:05of thousands of housing units, this is part of our
00:28:09answer to these things. They try to harm us,
00:28:11they try to push us away, and we will only
00:28:15grow stronger from this, we will flourish from this, and we will enlarge
00:28:18the community and strengthen it even more. The neighborhood is called Neve
00:28:22Ach, after Elad, Chaya and Yossi Salomon,
00:28:25who were murdered on July 17, 2017 during
00:28:29the Friday night meal. Ephraim, I.
00:28:43We know about a large group of bathers this morning
00:28:46at the spring near Nof Tzuf, who came to bathe before
00:28:50Yom Kippur, and Israel told us here. Gans, head of the Binyamin Council,
00:28:53a young man, about 30 years old, came exactly to immerse himself.
00:28:56He was still in his car, and then a terrorist passed by
00:28:59and shot him, it seems. The terrorist, it seems, was also
00:29:03shooting from a red car. A soldier arrived there
00:29:05by chance or not by chance, we still don't know.
00:29:09He started shooting at the terrorist. The terrorist fled in the car,
00:29:13still armed, according to our current estimates, and currently
00:29:17security forces are after him, and this is what is happening on the ground now.
00:29:20This is an ongoing incident. They still
00:29:24God forbid he will attack again. He knows he is
00:29:27being pursued. Maybe he will only try to escape. Carmela, you are still
00:29:37the terrorist, they are trying to find out, acted alone
00:29:40or as part of a cell. Were there lookouts waiting for him?
00:29:44A getaway car? The immediate fear is that he is still armed
00:29:47and may try to attack again until
00:29:50he is caught. The security establishment fears, also, the effect
00:29:54of imitation and contagion in the additional sectors in Judea
00:29:57and Samaria, especially on Yom Kippur.
00:30:00Meanwhile, the IDF has blocked the area, started area
00:30:04searches, and at the scene aerial assets
00:30:07from the air force were deployed, reinforcement companies that were
00:30:10on standby, forces from the Duvdevan unit, are trying
00:30:13to track the escape route of that
00:30:16terrorist to prevent him from reaching settlements or carrying out another attack
00:30:20during
00:30:22his escape. According to reports and what
00:30:26we heard, a soldier who was in the area opened fire
00:30:30at the terrorist, but he...
00:30:51mainly those who came
00:30:54to the spring on the eve of Yom Kippur. A severe
00:30:57attack near Na'aleh
00:31:00Tzof in Binyamin.
00:31:03An armed terrorist arrives at the spring,
00:31:06near Highway 465, shoots
00:31:09at a vehicle that was parked there, a man about
00:31:1330 years old who was in the car.
00:31:17His brother performed first aid
00:31:20and evacuated
00:31:36that the security forces suspect that we
00:31:39know who the terrorist is by identity. We will not yet give his name
00:31:42and details, but we know it's a person. The terrorist is likely
00:31:46from the village of Bido, in his 30s. We still need
00:31:49to confirm this with the security establishment, but currently, a pursuit is underway towards
00:31:53the village of Dir Nizam. The understanding is
00:31:56that he left the car near the spring and fled on foot.
00:32:00We just received official information that, as the head of the council said,
00:32:04shots were fired back and we know he fled
00:32:07armed, and right now that is the main effort of the security
00:32:11establishment around the village of Dir Nizam and towards Ramallah to establish
00:32:15roadblocks to ensure he doesn't escape. There are also aerial assets
00:32:18conducting the pursuit, and physical roadblocks
00:32:22on the ground. The assessment is that he will be caught soon.
00:32:26There's not much room to escape. This pursuit started
00:32:30very quickly, and he also fled on
00:32:32foot, so the assessment is
00:32:36that he will be caught soon. The only concern, of course, is
00:32:39that there won't be an attack during or shooting during his
00:32:43fight, which is why right now
00:32:45this sector is stretched to its limit, and residents are
00:33:04Kippur throughout the country, with you Orly Halaklai. Hello Orly.
00:33:08Hello Elias, and that's exactly what everyone was afraid
00:33:11of. And the Israel Police with thousands of officers.
00:33:17They have been deployed since Rosh Hashanah, long
00:33:20before, everywhere there are sites or
00:33:24crowds, also on the border
00:33:26where there are Border Police fighters and central
00:33:30traffic routes. The traffic department's goal is, of course, to maintain order
00:33:34and public safety, to allow
00:33:37worship for
00:33:40worshippers in the synagogue. This time, it seems. Probably in the synagogue
00:33:43much more armed on Yom Kippur Eve as well, they
00:33:47also asked anyone who has a licensed weapon to carry
00:33:51it, another pair of eyes, another person who can
00:33:55provide a response if, God forbid, there is an unusual incident. Let's hear from
00:34:05with augmented forces throughout the country. Police officers, Border Police fighters,
00:34:08volunteers, and standby squads are ready for any scenario.
00:34:12The emphasis is on crowded places and, of course, on the roads
00:34:15towards Yom Kippur, also in areas where there are synagogues. I call
00:34:19on the general public to be vigilant and report, even during
00:34:23Yom Kippur, any unusual incident. Israel Police officers are
00:34:27here to protect and ensure the well-being
00:34:37Lead that there are roadblocks, breathing checkpoints,
00:34:40as the police call them. Inspection
00:34:43checkpoints, and this will happen in the area too.
00:34:47Also in the Shlomi area, also in the Nahariya area,
00:34:50also in Acre, also in the Hadera area, there will be checkpoints,
00:34:53breathing checkpoints, inspection checkpoints of the police
00:34:56to prevent anyone from trying to come and disrupt the peace of Yom
00:35:00Kippur and drive recklessly, someone who is not supposed to be
00:35:03in the area, also in Haifa, also in many
00:35:07cities in the country, the police are setting up breathing checkpoints to
00:35:11prevent any development and any friction that could.
00:35:31the report in the Emirates that says Ben
00:35:33Zayed himself did not warn about October 7th in his conversation with
00:35:36Netanyahu. Yes, let's put in order what happened
00:35:40in the last day. So actually what happened yesterday
00:35:43around 12 o'clock, about an hour before,
00:35:47is that a report was published in a newspaper,
00:35:50a newspaper owned by the Emirates, a newspaper affiliated with
00:35:53the Emirates, in which there is actually a quote
00:35:57from a senior, a senior Emirati official, anonymously,
00:36:00who actually responds
00:36:03to the publication that the publication in Israel, that
00:36:07the President of the UAE Mohammed bin Zayed gave a specific
00:36:10and explicit warning to Prime Minister Netanyahu before October 7th about
00:36:14an impending Hamas attack. In fact,
00:36:17this Emirati official clarifies what
00:36:20the Emirates officially said, in the same
00:36:24statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about a week
00:36:28and a half ago. The Emirati official says in response
00:36:31to the query from The National, that in fact the Emirates
00:36:35discusses security issues through the relevant bodies,
00:36:38and such details, meaning the details described in the
00:36:42aforementioned publication, are not discussed in conversations between
00:36:45two leaders. Now, let's recall
00:36:47that in the publication of the Emirati Foreign Ministry, an official
00:36:51statement was issued which said that the Emirates does not respond
00:36:55to any kind of
00:36:57assumptions or unverified information, something in that
00:37:00vein, regarding conversations or the content of conversations between leaders.
00:37:04It was stated that sensitive information, when needed,
00:37:07is transferred through the relevant bodies. So here, in fact,
00:37:11the Emiratis, anonymously, it must be said, this
00:37:15is not an official Emirati statement, are going
00:37:18up another decibel, in fact,
00:37:21saying that information, as described, was not conveyed in a conversation
00:37:25between the leaders, without them specifically referring to the conversation.
00:37:28It's important to say this also in this
00:37:30publication, but I assume that the storm will continue
00:37:34to rage even after this publication,
00:37:37this report from the Emirates. Roi, thank
00:39:20just yesterday after Shabbat. President Herzog
00:39:24and essentially erased the criminal
00:39:36with him yesterday. Indeed. Describe his
00:39:40reaction. Well, of course
00:39:44he was happy. I just want
00:39:46to note that this request was submitted two years ago,
00:39:49after a previous request to President
00:39:53Rivlin was rejected, so
00:39:56the process was very long, very protracted. Who submitted the pardon
00:39:59request? Elor. Elor?
00:40:02Yes. How old is he today?
00:40:06Look, I estimate he's in his
00:40:08thirties. And what does he request in the pardon? How does he
00:40:12explain the request? The reasoning
00:40:16relies mainly on personal circumstances, the passage of time.
00:40:1910 years have passed since the incident. He was not convicted
00:40:23of a criminal offense, not before, not after, personal circumstances.
00:40:28Family situation, medical condition of family
00:40:30members, uh, mainly personal
00:40:42Elor's family during that period, you say circumstances related to family
00:40:46members? Yes, the father became ill
00:40:49as a result of the pressure he was under, he had
00:40:52a brother of the father who passed away,
00:40:55this whole incident didn't do them any good.
00:40:58Yes, so you're saying that in fact the request was submitted by Elor
00:41:02two years ago already and was rejected by President
00:41:05Rivlin? It was submitted in this round two
00:41:08years ago, it was submitted previously, there was a first
00:41:12request that was rejected, to President Rivlin, and do you
00:41:16know for what reason it was rejected at the time?
00:41:19The generic reasons that also appear
00:41:23in the military prosecutor's response to the current request,
00:41:27he expressed remorse, that this was a serious
00:41:30incident. He did not express remorse?
00:41:34No.
00:41:37I'm trying to understand, Ilan, the military prosecution responded. Your pardon
00:41:41request, which you submitted now to President Herzog, we submitted it, Elor
00:41:44submitted it. Yes, Elor submitted a pardon request. The military prosecution
00:41:48responded to this request. They opposed it. They opposed
00:41:52it, and consequently, the Chief of Staff opposed it, and the Minister of Defense thought
00:41:55otherwise. So wait, let's shed some light on
00:41:59the affair. Elor submits a pardon request for the second time, this time to President Isaac
00:42:03Herzog. The Chief Military Prosecution opposes it because it says he did not
00:42:06express remorse for his actions, among other things. Yes. For what
00:42:10additional reasons? For example, the severity of the incident.
00:42:14These were the claims of the military prosecution? Correct. And then
00:42:17the Chief of Staff opposed it, or the Chief of Staff did not present a position? The Chief of Staff presented
00:42:21a position on behalf of the military prosecution's position. And President
00:42:24Herzog received all this information?
00:42:27Correct. There is a structured process, you need to understand.
00:42:30Okay, when a pardon request is submitted, there are a number
00:42:34of bodies that need to respond. The relevant
00:42:37bodies in this case.
00:42:41The military, uh, the Chief of Staff,
00:42:45uh, the Ministry of Justice, uh, the supervising minister,
00:42:48and ultimately, the one who decides
00:42:50is the President.
00:42:54So ultimately, who, the final
00:42:56approval, came from the military echelon, from the Minister of Defense,
00:43:00Yoav Gallant, and he submitted his approval to Herzog, and then, yes,
00:43:04indeed, he supported
00:43:17at family events, wedding, circumcisions.
00:43:20Yes, he, all these years, thought
00:43:23he was being wronged, even today he thinks he was
00:43:27wronged. What does that mean? Can you
00:43:30elaborate?
00:43:33It started with the statement of the Minister of Defense, and then Moshe
00:43:36Bogie Ya'alon said, he immediately ran.
00:43:51The whole army aligned with the statement of the Minister
00:43:54of Defense. For about a year,
00:43:58the senior commanders were not in actual contact with him.
00:44:00ממשי
00:44:03Ah, yes. And he feels, he
00:44:06feels, but beyond the media reactions. To this
00:44:10day, he feels he shouldn't have been punished?
00:44:13I don't want to get into legal definitions, to punish or not
00:44:16to punish. The entire process
00:44:19that took place concerning him was
00:44:23flawed. It was flawed.
00:44:25Correct. Even though he was eventually convicted.
00:44:28Convicted, but in the sentencing , the court criticized
00:44:32the statement of the Minister
00:44:35of Defense, regarding the timing at which it
00:44:37was made.
00:44:40And explain to us what the meaning of the word "pardon" is in this context?
00:44:44In this case, the meaning is very simple, his criminal record
00:44:47was erased. We need to understand that when there is a criminal record, there are two
00:44:50stages. The first stage is the expiration
00:44:53of the record, when most
00:44:55let's call them bodies cannot
00:44:59claim that a person has a criminal
00:45:01record, and then when there is an erasure, then government
00:45:05authorities such as the police, the Ministry
00:45:08of Interior, the Ministry of Internal Security,
00:45:12and so on,
00:45:14for them, the person is clean. Yes.
00:45:18And he has no criminal record. What did he do during the years, Attorney Katz?
00:45:21He opened a business, a pastry shop
00:45:24in Ramle, and made a living, and it
00:45:28haunted him, it haunted him when he went into debt, he said he would not return. Your impression is it haunted
00:45:31him, people looked at him maybe some of them? I think
00:45:35most people supported him. They supported him. Right.
00:45:39They provided support.
00:45:52tells us about the process. Elor Azaria submitted his first pardon request to President
00:45:55Rivlin, which was rejected because he did not express remorse. He submitted it again
00:45:59to President Herzog. The Chief Military Prosecution opposed it
00:46:02for the reasons that he did not express remorse. The Chief of Staff also joined
00:46:06the opposition. But ultimately, the Minister of Defense supported the pardon request.
00:46:12President Herzog accepted it. This is about a criminal record,
00:46:15this is not a person who is in prison and whose sentence is being shortened. This is
00:46:27after another. A short while ago, IDF forces eliminated
00:46:30a terrorist who tried to carry out a ramming attack
00:46:34against IDF forces, operating in the Jenin
00:46:37area in the Menashe Brigade. No casualties.
00:46:42This is a statement from the IDF spokesperson. The IDF continues
00:46:46to pursue the terrorist who carried out the attack
00:46:49near Neve
00:46:52Tzuf, as we
00:46:55reported, and the army continues to block
00:46:59roads in the area, launching area searches, surrounding
00:47:02the nearby village, aerial
00:47:05assets from the air force, reinforcement companies, on standby,
00:47:08and special forces continue to track
00:47:12the terrorist's escape route, and to prevent
00:47:15him from reaching settlements and carrying out another attack, and as mentioned,
00:47:19uh, another attack.
00:47:23Another attack,
00:47:25IDF forces eliminated a terrorist who tried to carry out a ramming attack against
00:47:29IDF forces in the Jenin area, in the Menashe
00:47:32Brigade, no casualties to our forces, as
00:47:35we said, such incidents are contagious,
00:47:38and create the fear
00:47:41of a chain of attacks of this kind, meanwhile the alert level there
00:47:57that Elor Azaria expressed remorse as part of
00:48:00the process, this is the response of the President's spokesperson, and if a
00:48:03more structured response comes later with more details, we will of course read
00:48:07it here on air. This is President
00:48:10Herzog's response now. Good, we are of course continuing
00:48:13to update and follow the pursuit of the terrorist near Binyamin
00:48:17constantly, and now we are
00:48:31Kippur Eve seems to open with such an attack in Neve Tzuf. How
00:48:35do you, as an Israeli, deeply rooted, a patriot,
00:48:38how do you experience such an entry into Yom Kippur? It's so symbolic in the State
00:48:42of Israel,
00:48:44that on such a holy day for all the people of Israel, our enemies
00:48:47have no God. And they
00:48:50look for these points, these
00:48:52approaches among the people of Israel to harm and hurt
00:48:56more. We live it, breathe it all
00:48:59these years. I am not
00:49:55a passage where everything was almost collapsing
00:49:58and... Is this on the Golan Heights? On the Golan Heights, of course, in the Valley
00:50:02of Tears, and I went forward, and he was always
00:50:05worried, Yanush, Yanush, and said, "Don't get too
00:50:09involved," all sorts of things, but I behaved as
00:50:12I behaved. And then when I told
00:50:16him, "I ask you to help me with artillery," because there was also
00:50:19terrible artillery fire, he said, "I'll do everything to help you."
00:50:22And suddenly he got into an argument, you suddenly don't
00:50:26understand where that came from.
00:50:29That's it, of course I need
00:54:51pay attention to a special interview with Hila Cohen-Elazar, daughter
00:54:54of the Chief of Staff of the Yom Kippur War, Major General David Elazar,
00:54:58may his memory be a blessing, who this year we commemorate 50 years
00:55:01since his passing at the age of 50 in very tragic circumstances after that.
00:55:09She will tell us about life with her father, about those difficult weeks when he
00:55:13actually testified before the Agranat Commission, and we will
00:55:17also tell you about some prayers that were written in the last
00:55:20three years. We will return to you immediately after
01:00:17Good afternoon, it's 1:00 now. We have a news update.
01:00:21We're starting with the attack in Neve Tzuf
01:00:24in Binyamin. Itai Blumenthal, our correspondent for military
01:00:27and security affairs, will join us shortly with the results of this severe
01:00:31attack, in which a man about 30 years old was seriously
01:00:34injured. The manhunt for the terrorist continues. We first want to see
01:00:38the first moments of the
01:00:41attack. There's a color here.
01:00:43צבע,
01:01:24a little less than two hours ago. A Palestinian terrorist
01:01:27arrived in a red Mitsubishi Outlander.
01:01:31He stops near the Ein Raya spring, in the
01:01:35Neve Tzuf area, and as soon as he gets out of the car, he opens fire
01:01:38at the Israeli bathers and also
01:01:41those who were in the parking lot, to carry out a shooting
01:01:45using an M type weapon. It seems
01:01:48that it was a standard weapon, and as a result of this shooting,
01:01:52from the attack, there is an Israeli citizen who was injured,
01:01:55a resident of Samaria. Many
01:01:58IDF forces are currently carrying out extensive searches, they
01:02:02also imposed a curfew and closure on the nearby
01:02:05villages. It must be said that both air support and many
01:02:09IDF soldiers, including the Duvdevan
01:02:12unit, were dispatched to the scene, part of the siege after the terrorist
01:02:16who is still on the run. He fled
01:02:19on foot from the scene, we see that there is an
01:02:23attack happening hours before Yom Kippur,
01:02:26just about half an hour ago, another attempted attack.
01:02:30In the Samaria area near Jenin, when
01:02:33a Palestinian vehicle tried to hit two IDF soldiers
01:02:36who were standing at a checkpoint near Jenin, the soldiers opened
01:02:40fire, one of the terrorists
01:02:43was eliminated, the second was arrested by IDF
01:02:46forces, and back to the attack in the Neve
01:02:49Tzuf area, the chase is still ongoing. The security
01:02:52establishment knows the identity of the terrorist, he fled
01:02:56on foot, and we are currently mainly trying. When
01:03:00will the siege close, because in the end there is a terrorist here
01:03:04who carried out a shooting, he has a very high motivation, he
01:03:07is armed, and at least for now he
01:03:10is on the run from security forces. Yes, Itay, and just
01:03:14as we speak, we receive
01:03:16an update that the injured person
01:03:20from the attack has been pronounced dead. He was evacuated to Beilinson Hospital
01:03:24in Petah Tikva, and the doctors were forced to pronounce him dead after
01:03:27prolonged resuscitation
01:03:31efforts. Efforts that began even at the scene when he was injured
01:03:34as a result of the terrorists' shooting.
01:03:37So we, unfortunately, report one murdered
01:03:41in the attack near Nof Tzuf
01:03:44in Binyamin in this incident, as the hunt
01:03:48for the terrorist is still ongoing. Yes,
01:03:51the siege is still ongoing, so it's possible that there is already
01:03:55a terrorist who carried out an attack, an attack in which
01:03:58an Israeli citizen was murdered.
01:04:01There is another person who suffered from anxiety at the same
01:04:05scene. We saw the footage right at the beginning
01:04:08of the news flash, which really reminds us of events we saw
01:04:11three years ago, shootings and citizens
01:04:14asking where the army is as they try to hide,
01:04:18unbelievable images. This
01:04:20is the reality this morning in one of the springs in Judea
01:04:24and Samaria near Nof Tzuf, truly very difficult images and the results
01:04:28are also difficult, an Israeli was murdered
01:04:31this morning in a shooting attack. Yes, while the
01:04:34Chief of Staff, Major General Zamir, is conducting
01:04:37an assessment after the attack.
01:04:41And instructing to reinforce forces for the continuation of the manhunt for
01:04:45the terrorist. Of course,
01:04:48as we talked about earlier, the forces are already stretched.
01:04:52So to what extent can we really reinforce the forces in the area? That's also
01:04:55a question that arises. Of course, the situation
01:04:59is absolutely
01:05:33this severe attack in Ma'ayan Anar or Ein Bin
01:05:37Ba, uh, near the settlement of Nabi Tzuf, Binyamin,
01:05:41about two hours ago,
01:05:43the victim of the attack, a resident of the settlement of Eli Zahav in Samaria, arrived
01:05:47at the scene to mourn before Yom Kippur. Unfortunately, after
01:05:50extensive resuscitation efforts, after they managed to bring back his pulse at Dlinchon Hospital
01:05:53in Petah Tikva, he was pronounced dead. Uh,
01:05:57the family and residents of Samaria are accompanying the... family right now
01:06:00in these difficult moments,
01:06:03on the eve of Yom Kippur, with tragic news. The pursuit of
01:06:07the terrorist who carried out the attack continues, even as we speak,
01:06:11with the general understanding that his identity is known, most likely to the IDF.
01:06:15The understanding is that he is a resident of the village of Biddu, not far from there,
01:06:18also not far from the residence of the victim
01:06:22of the attack, and he is 37 years old, fled
01:06:25on foot, towards the village of Deir
01:06:29Nizam. What we understand
01:06:33from the investigation is that the terrorist arrived at the scene,
01:06:36most likely uh, by car, got
01:06:40out of the car and carried out a shooting towards
01:06:43the people who were there near the spring. The understanding is
01:06:47that the victim was at that
01:06:50very moment in the car or outside the car
01:06:53at the entrance to the spring, and unfortunately was severely
01:06:57injured. What they said in the Binyamin Regional Council, uh. Forces
01:07:00managed to return fire towards the terrorist, some soldier
01:07:04who was there. We haven't received these details in an organized manner from the IDF, but
01:07:08the terrorist fled on foot towards the village of Deir Mizem
01:07:10and since then a pursuit is underway
01:07:14after him, after he is caught in the coming hours, but he is still armed and that
01:07:17is what causes great tension. You are talking about a soldier
01:07:21who is shooting at the terrorist at the scene. Do we know if he was injured
01:07:25in it? That's what it is, he was not injured. That's what
01:07:28was claimed. At least by the Binyamin Regional
01:07:31Council. Currently, the head of the council, that's what he
01:07:34claimed, he said it on air, but we
01:07:38have not confirmed this claim from the IDF. In any case, we know that the terrorist
01:07:41fled on foot
01:07:44towards the village and from there roadblocks also towards
01:07:48Ramallah ah, in an attempt to prevent
01:07:51him of course
01:07:54from escaping. Yes, Haim, I want you to stay with us, I want us to see again the
01:07:57footage from the moments when the attack
01:08:00happened at the spring near Nof Tzuf,
01:08:04those difficult moments, here there is
01:08:07a military
01:08:09force.
01:08:12Yes,
01:08:33Yonatan, these are difficult moments. Where is this
01:08:36happening? Very difficult moments. We are on the eve of Yom Kippur. We see people
01:08:39hiding right under the spring. Probably
01:08:46the entrance area, where the cars are parked, and not really in the water
01:08:48itself, and they are hiding right under the pool
01:08:52asking if there is an army, if there is an army, and we hear the shooting taking place
01:08:55there, probably by the terrorist, and maybe also by whoever returned fire,
01:08:59if that information is correct.
01:09:02Uh, uh, moments that also truly remind
01:09:04us of difficult
01:09:06uh, uh, other attacks and recent events in recent years, but
01:09:09really, a great miracle. But
01:09:13a difficult outcome, one person murdered
01:09:16in this attack, a very difficult outcome, Haim, and we see
01:09:20that alongside this incident, alongside this attack, another
01:09:23attempted attack, an attempt to harm IDF
01:09:27forces in northern Samaria. What is happening in the other
01:09:30incident? We are talking about another incident a short
01:09:33while ago near the settlement of Jenin, which was re-established in northern Samaria,
01:09:37exposed and disengaged, even in the very
01:09:40recent period, at a checkpoint.
01:10:03arrested by the forces. There are no casualties to our forces in this incident, but truly
01:10:06within an hour, both an attack and another attempted attack in northern
01:10:10Samaria, which... If we saw the increased alertness that
01:10:14was raised in the IDF and throughout
01:10:17the country before the holidays, before Yom Kippur, before the High Holy Days, then now
01:10:21we understand the results very quickly, we see
01:10:24it on the ground, both an attack and an attempted attack,
01:10:28within one hour, unfortunately, a difficult outcome on the eve of Yom
01:10:31Kippur. Haim, we know
01:10:34that the Chief of Staff arrived at the scene, also the commander
01:10:37of the command, like situation assessments. Do we
01:10:40know if because of the two?
01:10:52Is there an assessment in the IDF that there might be additional attempts during Yom Kippur?
01:10:55Uh, of course there is such an assessment and there are reinforced forces in all sectors,
01:10:59not only in Judea and Samaria, but of course in Judea and Samaria, also
01:11:03reinforcement companies, also special units that were approved
01:11:06for readiness, also everyone
01:11:08who carries a weapon is requested to pray for it and there is.
01:11:12Readiness to perhaps close some routes and places
01:11:15that are at risk, as every Yom Kippur, but of course this year there
01:11:18is very, very high readiness. The Chief of Staff did not arrive at the scene, the Central Command
01:11:22is now at the scene together with the commander of Judea and Samaria, but yes, a situation assessment is being held
01:11:26together with the Chief of Staff
01:11:30readiness, even though it is very
01:11:33מאוד לסי, אבל כן כמובן לסגור את המעגל על המחבל שביצע את
01:11:37הפיגוע ולהבין אם היה עוד סייענים או מישהו שניסה
01:11:41לעזור לו לבצע אותו. שכאמור בכל הקשור למחבל שביצע את
01:11:44הפיגוע הרצחני בסמוך לנו צוף
01:11:48בבינימין, אה, כל הערכות, שמדובר
01:11:51במחבל בודד, שלא יהיה איתו עוד איזשהו
01:11:54מחבל ברכב, כרגע זה
01:11:57המידע, אבל לא בדוק, לא לא ברור, כמובן מישהו סיפק לו את
01:12:00הנשק, אם זה איזשהי יוזמה כללית, מאורגנת,
01:12:03this attack he came alone, but
01:12:07that too is still being investigated, he has not yet been caught and it is still too early
01:12:11to determine. Yes, we see. Now a picture of the commander of the command
01:12:15who is at the scene, Avi
01:12:18Balut, together with the commander of the Judea and Samaria division,
01:12:22Brigadier General Kobi Eller, they are actually also with
01:12:25police forces. There is a combination of forces
01:12:29in dealing with this scene.
01:12:33Again, I say, we saw on the screen
01:12:37just now a picture from the scene of the commander of the Central
01:12:40Command, Avi Balut. The commander of the Judea
01:12:43and Samaria Division, Kobi Eller, they are at the point
01:12:47in the area, in the area of the attack scene in Nof
01:12:49Tzuf, together also with police forces. There is
01:12:53some combination of forces.
01:12:56of the operations being carried out there, both by the IDF and
01:12:59by the police. Yes, it's a combination
01:13:03and there's also an attempt to end this pursuit, also to ensure that no additional
01:13:07shooting occurs during this pursuit towards
01:13:10the forces. A complex pursuit
01:13:14and of course residents who want to reach after this road
01:13:18is still preferred not to travel on it and it is closed
01:13:21to traffic uh, from this point of view, in terms
01:13:25of the fear that another
01:13:35thank you. Now to another matter,
01:13:39the journalist Gideon Kutz, 78 years old, has passed away.
01:13:43Kutz was for four decades, the correspondent
01:13:47of Kol Israel in Paris and one of the most identifiable voices of
01:13:50public broadcasting, in the French
01:13:53and European arena. Throughout his long career, Kutz covered
01:13:57some of the key events that shaped Europe and the world, including
01:14:01the fall of the Berlin Wall and the revolutions in Eastern
01:14:04Europe, the Yugoslav wars and Chechnya, the peace process
01:14:07in the Middle East, the Arab Spring, terrorist attacks in Europe,
01:14:11the crisis in Ukraine and the nuclear talks with Iran. Professor
01:14:15Kutz was also a researcher and historian of the history of Hebrew
01:14:18and Jewish journalism in Europe. He is survived by his wife,
01:14:21journalist and photographer Yaffa Eron Kutz. May
01:14:25his memory be a blessing. Now
01:14:29for the weather forecast. Tomorrow, Monday, Yom
01:14:32Kippur, a slight warming mainly in the cities and inland
01:14:35areas. On Tuesday, temperatures will drop, and on
01:14:39Wednesday, a further slight cooling.
01:14:42These are the times for the beginning of Yom Kippur and its end.
01:14:45In Jerusalem, the fast begins at 5:58 PM.
01:14:49The fast ends at 7:13 PM. In Tel Aviv, the fast begins
01:14:52at 6:22 PM. It ends at...
01:14:56In Haifa, the fast begins at 6:09 PM.
01:14:59It ends at 7:04 PM. And in Beersheba, the fast begins
01:15:03at 6:21 PM. The fast ends at
01:15:067:15 PM.
01:15:09And before the end, here's what awaits you in the Kan News broadcast on
01:15:13Monday, after Yom Kippur.
01:15:55I was recently at the Carmel Market and someone shouted at me,
01:15:59"Ziona!"
01:25:46of sergeant. I received the rank of corporal. Who awarded me the rank?
01:25:50David Elazar, commander of the Armor Corps. I went
01:25:53to officer courses, after the officer courses, after a month
01:25:56I was dismissed, and it was written in my certificate, it still
01:26:00exists today, "Lack of command and leadership ability, not
01:26:04suitable to be an officer in the IDF."
01:26:06And then I arrive, Dadu is furious because
01:26:10they dismissed seven of us, and I arrive at his office and stand
01:26:13at attention in his office in the Armor Corps, and he
01:26:17asks me questions, "Give an order to this," he remembered the moment
01:26:21you were there. "Give an order to this, give an order to this, give an order," and suddenly he
01:26:25hits the table. "What are you doing
01:26:27here anyway?" And then I tell him, "Commander, I
01:26:31am dismissed." "You will hear
01:26:34from me again." The story behind it all is that I met him after
01:26:38that through Rabin and he, he went to Rabin when he
01:26:41was Deputy Chief of Staff, and said to him, "I have no officers."
01:26:45He says, "Send good people." "You have no officers?" He says, "What
01:26:48do you want? I sent an excellent trainee, his name
01:26:52is Kahalani." And they also
01:26:54dismissed him. So he says, "So what are you asking me?"
01:26:58Rabin, they both told me the story, "I'm asking
01:27:01that Avigdor Kahalani go to the armored officers' course,
01:27:05to the second part, meaning to the completion." Rabin
01:27:08says to him, "You're breaking all my leadership in the army. How can I make such
01:27:12a decision?" "I'll manage for one."
01:27:15Again, they asked me, I said, "My
01:27:18foot will not step there." And then they send me to the armored
01:27:22officers' course by your father's decision. Rabin
01:27:26says, "I couldn't argue with Dadu. He told me, 'I'm
01:27:29asking you to let Kahalani go to the officers' course,
01:27:33to the armored officers' course.'" And Dadu makes the decision,
01:27:36and I finish with the highest grade
01:27:39in the armored course, without
01:31:04who was indeed the musical director of many
01:31:07singers, Nurit Galron and he also worked with
01:31:10the band Tammuz. Hila, I return with you for a moment
01:31:14to your father and the outbreak of the Yom
01:31:17Kippur War, because just the day before you were not at
01:31:21home, right? You went to visit a friend who is also relatively famous.
01:31:24Who did you go to visit? Orit Mofaz in Tivon. I met
01:31:28her, who today is the wife of Shaul Mofaz. But you
01:31:31went. And when do you find out that a war broke out? I remind
01:31:35you, your father was the Chief of Staff and there was tension during that period. And I was supposed
01:31:38to enlist, I went before I enlisted. I was supposed
01:31:41to enlist on the 9th and I also enlisted on October 9th.
01:31:45Okay, and I went for a weekend to Tivon, which was one of the places
01:31:49I loved most that we lived in. And suddenly my mother
01:31:52calls on Saturday already, of course, and she tells me, "Come
01:31:55home quickly because a war is starting."
01:31:58I felt like the sky had fallen on me,
01:32:01really. He was not home, of course.
01:32:04Did you see him during the war? No, I enlisted.
01:32:08I packed combat rations, I was in basic training.
01:32:10Afterwards, I arrived at the unit, but for a long time
01:32:14I was scooping up dirt with a 15. And I only
01:32:18kept hearing about wounded and killed, and also my
01:32:21friends, and it was terribly difficult. I want to take you back
01:32:24to the moment when your father says the famous
01:32:27phrase during the war. We will see it now on the screen of Kan 11
01:32:31and also hear it. On the radio, and here he is full
01:32:35of optimism and hope in this section, right? It was a press
01:32:38conference, and he answers questions from journalists, in the midst of
01:32:41terrible surprise? Let's watch
01:32:44this clip of Dad's. Here it is: This generation of
01:32:48'73, it surpasses the generation of
01:32:52'67, which surpassed the generation of '58, which surpassed
01:32:56the generation of '48.
01:32:59This new generation is a generation of fighters. That you,
01:33:03long after the war, will write their legends. Do
01:33:07you predict a short or a longer war? I only repeat
01:33:11one thing now, that
01:33:14we will continue to attack and we will continue to pursue and
01:33:17we will break their bones. I don't want to commit yet to how
01:33:21long it will take us. Here he is, as I said, very, very
01:33:25optimistic. And then the Agranat Commission comes. He is not optimistic, he
01:33:29is strong. He is not optimistic, and that was in B.
01:33:35And then he heard, and he also told us, "I didn't care what the media would think
01:33:38about it. It was important to me that every
01:33:42soldier also
01:33:45heard it and gained strength from it." And then he really heard
01:33:49from the captives and from the wounded how much it strengthened them to hear
01:33:53it. When he arrives at the
01:33:56Agranat Commission in the end, the commission that sealed
01:33:59his fate, does he at some point
01:34:03understand that it might not end well for him?
01:34:06No, not at all, and he's not even preoccupied with it.
01:34:10He's so entirely preoccupied with rebuilding the army now. I want
01:34:13to understand, he's rebuilding the army, and in parallel he's appearing before
01:34:17a state commission of inquiry and he tells
01:34:20me that some of them are from the Stone Age, that they have no idea what's
01:34:24going on. From the questions, he understands, he feels that they don't understand what they are asking, and also
01:34:28they are only investigating up to the
01:34:31containment stage, because that's what interests them. The surprise. They
01:34:35only focused on containment up to the eighth and a month and
01:34:39not after that. He managed the war from A to
01:34:41Z. Therefore, they did not deal with the matter at all. To protect
01:34:53the government and those around them. And your father
01:34:57feels this? He told them to postpone the commission, to let him first
01:35:01rebuild the army. They didn't let him, and only... he needed
01:35:04a chief of staff in the army after such an event, he needed to rebuild the army while simultaneously going
01:35:08and testifying. He only at the very end says to himself,
01:35:11suddenly he feels a little uncomfortable, and then he says: Do
01:35:15I need a lawyer? So they tell him:
01:35:18We are all his defenders. Of.
01:35:22Yes, and then, Ayla?
01:35:26And then he receives a message from Golda Meir? Yes, yes,
01:35:30to come to him, to come to her. And when he receives the message
01:35:34from Golda, when the conclusions are published and she receives them
01:35:37first, he understands that it will end badly, he understands
01:35:40that it's, that it's not good, yes, ah, Hanoch
01:35:44Bartov opened the book exactly
01:35:46with him describing it. We have it here, he
01:35:50describes himself how he had that difficult day, that difficult
01:35:53day actually. He tells Hanoch Bartov how difficult the day was,
01:35:57and he also tells in the story that he
01:36:00took a moment after Golda spoke to him, that she was hurting.
01:36:04This event hurt her deeply. I understand that he also loved Golda, yes.
01:36:08Yes, he tells there that he needed to calm down
01:36:11from these conclusions, as you say Avigdor, they did it to him.
01:36:15You, you testify as a fighter and he entered the King David Hotel there for a moment to
01:36:19calm down, and he came from there to write something. He
01:36:22couldn't write anything. He looks at the Old
01:36:25City and all the memories come back and everything he
01:36:29did until then, from the War
01:36:31of Independence, everything came before
01:36:47to. And in the end, he, he
01:36:50was forced to leave the position, and he lived another three years,
01:36:54and then he passed away very young, at 50. How were
01:36:57those three years for you as his daughter who loves him? Three and not
01:37:01two, or am I confused?
01:37:04'74 were
01:37:08the conclusions of the committee and in '76 he died. I meant
01:37:11three years after the war, yes. Right, right. So,
01:37:15exactly 50 years old. How was life after that
01:37:18for you as his
01:39:09Halevi? Yes. When?
01:39:14before October
01:39:24every Chief of Staff, even before him,
01:39:27it seems that my father is truly an inspiration for Chiefs of Staff
01:39:31too, and they, at least the recent ones, called
01:39:34the family and wanted to come to us and wanted
01:39:38to sit with us, and Hertzi did the same. You're saying that many
01:39:41Chiefs of Staff, whenever they were appointed, wanted to sit with Dad's
01:39:45family? What are you saying? Yes.
01:39:48And, ah, Hertzi went above and beyond and invited us
01:39:52to the Kirya to show us exactly where the government meetings
01:39:55were held during the war.
01:39:58And we had, and he wanted us to come with the children
01:40:02and grandchildren. Why did he want to? Because he wanted to get to know us, because he said
01:40:05that Dad was an inspiration
01:40:08for him. And it was also very important
01:40:11for him to tell us that the inspiration is also that he
01:40:15thinks to himself how they are preparing differently
01:40:18this time and are really ready. But if
01:40:21it happens, and it's inevitable, there can always be a situation
01:40:25that we don't foresee. So he hopes
01:40:29that, ah, that the army will be able to cope
01:40:32and that they will have strength, just as indeed the army
01:40:36in '73. Now it's something else. It's hard to compare. It's
01:40:40a completely different event and in a completely different
01:40:53describing the person who was Chief of Staff on October
01:40:567th. He invites Dado's family two weeks
01:40:59before, two weeks before October 7th, and tells
01:41:03you that he wants to meet you and learn
01:41:06and draw inspiration. How can that surprise of the ... not only how can it
01:41:10not happen again, but also how to act if it happens. He
01:41:13published a daily order and he published it
01:41:16with my father's daily order, ah,
01:41:19alongside his daily
01:45:08journalist Gideon Coe.
01:45:10Passed away.
01:45:15Okay, we'll talk about
01:45:47before October 7th, called "Prayer
01:45:49as a Cry." "Prayer to Invisible Forces," a selection of prayers
01:45:53written during the Iron Swords War. The truth is we planned
01:45:56to have a long conversation with you, but unfortunately there was an attack,
01:46:00and its coverage took up a large part of the program. But we're not giving up
01:46:04on you because it's your birthday. So today we'll give you a sample
01:46:07from the book and you'll come back to us on Simchat Torah eve. Which is
01:46:11the day before the difficult event, and then we
01:46:14will elaborate.
01:46:18word about the book, Yoel. The book is, it's
01:46:20actually articles and prayers,
01:46:24about 100 of the prayers that were written since
01:46:27October 7th, since the Black Shabbat. I
01:46:31started collecting this immediately after, already on Sunday,
01:46:34October 8th.
01:46:37And hundreds of prayers were written.
01:46:40And the book, published by Idra, contains
01:46:44articles by researchers
01:46:46and a collection of prayers, and also within the articles there are
01:46:50prayers. I think this topic is fascinating. I
01:46:53highlight it in my opening remarks that prayer
01:46:57is, as you said, prayers to unseen
01:47:00forces. That is, one must distinguish who one is actually
01:47:04addressing. And the second
01:47:07thing is that every prayer written there is... a historical
01:47:10document. Who wrote these prayers? You
01:47:13won't believe it, it could be rabbis,
01:47:17kibbutz members from the Hashomer Hatzair. I'll give
01:47:20you an example, Benny Talmi, whose two parents were members of
01:47:24Knesset for Mapam, wrote
01:47:27a prayer, and he also wrote a prayer book. Really
01:47:31wrote,
01:47:34rabbis, teachers, but many soldiers,
01:47:37also commanders wrote, okay. Women wrote, I'll stop
01:47:41you for a moment, Yoel, because today we will focus on one
01:47:44prayer that really connects with Yom
01:47:47Kippur. It really connects with
01:48:00specialist at Leumit and Shaare Zedek and a reserve doctor. I'll
01:48:04read a moment the beginning of the prayer you wrote, which is so
01:48:08beautiful and really describes this
01:48:11tradition of the priest in the Temple: he arrived
01:48:14in the south, turned his face north. They brought him
01:48:17olive robes and he wore them. He entered
01:48:20to retrieve the weapon and the magazines. They brought him
01:48:23a combat vest and he wore it. This aligns completely with Ishay
01:48:26Ribo's song, "Seder Ha'Avodah." Why did you choose
01:48:30this topic specifically, Haggai?
01:48:33First of all, it's advanced, that in fact
01:48:37the words are. Truly, first of all, when I wrote it, I didn't write it with
01:48:56any literary thought
01:48:59or anything like that, but simply from the heart, what I felt
01:49:03connected with me. Do you remember a difficult
01:49:06moment in the war?
01:49:10Yes, as a doctor, I had situations treating
01:49:14wounded, and also, unfortunately,
01:49:15deceased.
01:49:18And...
01:49:21I was also a reservist doctor, I was a reservist
01:49:25fighter and an officer in Golani. I also know
01:49:29the reality of a fighter who is basically preparing
01:49:32for battle. Haggai, I want to manage to read the prayer, okay? Our time has been
01:49:36cut short unfortunately due to the news events. I want to read to all of you
01:49:39the prayer of Dr. Haggai Stern and we will pair it with
01:49:43Ishay Ribo's song, "Seder Ha'avoda" and you will be able to see how
01:49:47the stories of the Temple from 2000 years ago connect
01:49:51to the stories of the fighters. On October 7th
01:49:54and afterwards, he arrived in the south, turned his face
01:49:57north. They brought him olive robes and he wore them.
01:50:01He went in to retrieve the weapon and the magazines. They brought him a combat
01:50:04vest and he wore it. He would pray a short prayer
01:50:08and would not prolong his prayer. Behold,
01:50:11with the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces, Your
01:50:13people's envoys, who are going to war today against their enemies,
01:50:17strengthen and empower us. Fight our battle, wage
01:50:21our war. He entered the place
01:50:24he entered, and fought in the place he fought.
01:50:27And he would count, October
01:50:307th, 2, 1, fire.
01:50:34They brought him his own clothes and he wore them, and they
01:50:37escorted him home, and it was a good day
01:50:41for his loved ones when he returned safely from
01:50:44the battle. He entered the place he entered
01:50:47and stood in the place
01:50:49he stood. One.
01:50:58He came from where he came and went to where
01:51:02he went.
01:51:04He removed his ordinary clothes, put on white
01:51:07clothes.
01:51:09And he would say, "Lord, forgive
01:51:13the sins, iniquities, and transgressions
01:51:16that I have committed before You, I
01:51:19and my household."
01:51:23And if a person could remember their
01:51:25flaws, their shortcomings, all
01:51:29the transgressions, all
01:51:32the iniquities,
01:51:35surely he would count them, one, one
01:51:38and one, one and two,
01:51:41one and three, one and four, one
01:51:45and five.
01:51:47He would immediately despair, because he couldn't get out, and this is how
01:51:51you write, Haggai, at the end of your prayer, following October
01:51:547th: "Fortunate is the nation that is not like this,"
01:51:58"Fortunate is the nation whose protectors are these,"
01:52:01"May it be Your will that this year
01:52:04that comes upon us and upon all Your people Israel,
01:52:07wherever they may be, be a year of light, a year
01:52:10of blessing, a year of salvation, a year
01:52:14of comfort, a year of redemption for captives, a year
01:52:17of healing for Your people's wounded, a year
01:52:20of favor, a year of peace."
01:52:30About this parallel between the High Priest and the fighters who enter
01:52:34battle, actually both he and he are public
01:52:36representatives. And both have a family
01:52:40and the people of Israel waiting for them to return
01:52:42safely. And we also pray, God willing,
01:52:46that all our public representatives today will return safely, in good health,
01:53:48world, a man who...
01:53:52was a journalist who was a legend and perhaps one
01:53:56of the bravest journalists I knew and worked
01:53:59with. I'll tell you just one
01:54:03story. A quite typical one. One day
01:54:07in the afternoon, an hour or two before the international
01:54:10hour, Gideon calls and he's on
01:54:14the phone. "Listen, I'm in Damascus
01:54:16now. Uh, and it seems to me that it's worth it for us to try
01:54:20on the way, yes, a jump."
01:54:35It was typical because he would make those phone calls shortly
01:54:38before the program from various destinations, from Iran
01:54:41for example, from Chad,
01:54:44and these are just a few examples, and he of course covered
01:54:47every possible arena and every
01:54:51possible war. The last one was of course the war
01:55:02before we say goodbye? Let's hear Gideon in a special
01:55:06report he brought last night in the diary of Gideon Kuts after he sat
01:55:10in Tehran, where he filmed these pictures during
01:55:12the week. It started with great hope
01:55:16on Thursday, the eve of the elections. Tehran is preparing for the great
01:55:19change whose buds have been felt for several
01:55:22weeks. In the hotel, we are sitting with two
01:55:25of the senior advisors of the candidate who seems to be winning, Mir Hossein
01:55:29Mousavi, both of whom are currently in detention. They are drowning in
01:55:33plans for a better future. We
01:55:41must part in memory of Gideon
02:00:16Hello everyone and good afternoon. It's two o'clock now, and we have a news
02:00:19update. First, to the shooting attack at the spring
02:00:22near Nof Tzuf in Binyamin. At Beilinson Hospital
02:00:25in Petah Tikva, the death of the injured man in the attack was pronounced. A resident
02:00:29of Samaria, about 30 years old. The search for the terrorist continues.
02:00:33These were the first moments of the attack, as documented by the bathers
02:00:36at the spring. Is there
02:00:38color here?