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00:00:1415 days to the elections, the fierce battles within the blocs
00:00:18and the new campaign of the Eisenkots. Whoever is counting on
00:00:21Gadi being in politics for only four years and we will be able to fold him, whoever is counting on
00:00:25that, what? Doesn't know me well
00:00:27enough.
00:00:30Luxury watches and designer bags in cash, how much
00:00:33did we tell them, wait, wait, wait, wait, one day it
00:00:36came and it came. How did Kfar Saba become a corruption
00:00:40factory and an investigation here by News, which started the
00:00:43investigation. I must say that I personally, neither I
00:00:47nor my ten friends, were
00:00:48surprised.
00:01:17Hello to you. An annual trip of 15-year-old students
00:01:20ends today in disaster. One boy
00:01:23was killed. 23 were injured by an explosion
00:01:27whose cause is still being investigated even at this hour. The students of the
00:01:30Ort Ma'alot high school were hiking in the Ramim Ridge
00:01:34area in the north, war remnants
00:01:37scattered in the area were collected by one of them, and this
00:01:40is what apparently led to the disaster. Rubi Amshalag
00:01:44is there at the explosion site. Hello Rubi,
00:01:47you reported today for the first time that there is, there is a not
00:01:51small sign near this area where they were hiking
00:01:55from the KKL that prohibits, prohibits entry
00:01:57to the area.
00:02:01Yes, Tali, I assume we will hear many more versions regarding this sign
00:02:04that is located right here behind me, a sign from the KKL which is actually not a
00:02:08regulatory body, that prohibits entry to the area and says that it is
00:02:12because of the war results that one cannot enter here. On the other hand,
00:02:16the Ministry of Education approved this trip. I assume that about this
00:02:19division of sectors, responsibility, blame, whatever you want to call it,
00:02:23we will hear much more. A 14-year-old boy paid with his life for
00:02:27this matter, and about 20
00:02:30were injured, some seriously. You need to understand, Tali, we are only
00:02:34in an open area, it is not a hiking trail inside
00:02:37a reserve, it is impossible to clean and clear all
00:02:40these areas. Just a month ago, a group of
00:02:44foreign workers from Thailand were injured in Metula, in a very similar incident,
00:02:48they simply stepped on such an explosive device that was
00:02:51under the brush. During the war, we reported many
00:02:55times about those cluster bombs that Hezbollah fires here and about
00:02:58the long-term damage. An area that is simply contaminated
00:03:01as a result of the presence of those submunitions in the area, this
00:03:05is something that unfortunately will accompany us for many
00:03:08years to come, a danger in the open areas.
00:03:12This sign is not really something that can stop anyone, I don't know
00:03:15if this group came from here or not, you need
00:03:19to understand that the place where we are standing is a KKL scenic
00:03:23route that crosses the Naftali Mountains from the Yiftah area
00:03:27above Kiryat Shmona and to the Kfar Giladi area. This road with
00:03:30new asphalt, meaning that driving on the road itself is not dangerous, but when you
00:03:34go off to the side, these terrible surprises can be
00:03:38waiting for you everywhere, and from an initial IDF investigation
00:03:42it really is a cluster munition from the IDF, what caused
00:03:46the great damage is that those students apparently collected that
00:03:49bomb, I don't know if they knew and understood what it was,
00:03:52they stood in a close circle, passed it from hand to hand and then
00:03:56this terrible explosion happened, Rubi, thank you very much, and more.
00:04:00About what happened in the north in the report by Rubi Amshalag and Itzik
00:04:04Zoaretz.
00:04:06These are the difficult images seconds after the deadly explosion during
00:04:10a school trip on the Ramim Ridge in the Upper
00:04:13Galilee. I called Mada, Mada
00:04:15and the police, I don't like United Hatzalah.
00:04:19The scene was, children scattered everywhere,
00:04:23injured, I started to treat
00:04:26them.
00:04:30I had to take command because I was the only one there, we started to do CPR on
00:04:34one of the children there and I started
00:04:37to do first aid
00:04:41on the rabbi and on two
00:04:43children
00:04:45and on
00:04:48some teenagers who were
00:04:49there.
00:04:53It happened a few minutes before 3 PM, students from the Ort Ma'alot
00:04:57high school were hiking in the area. Park lookout
00:05:01near the Lebanese border. According to the initial investigation, one of
00:05:04the students noticed a small object that was lying on
00:05:08the ground, the size of a hand grenade, he picked it up,
00:05:11passed it to
00:05:20Israel Begun explosion
00:05:23in the north, it turns out that there was an incident of
00:05:27an unexploded ordnance explosion, currently all
00:05:29the circumstances are being investigated,
00:05:33we closed the scene, evacuated the injured to hospitals
00:05:36in the north, and currently we are investigating
00:05:40the incident. The explosion was deadly, one of the students, 15
00:05:43years old, was killed, 24 were injured, four of them
00:05:46seriously. Large forces of MDA police and IDF flocked
00:05:50to the scene and air force and MDA helicopters evacuated
00:05:53the injured to hospitals, I did a resilience
00:05:56round, I am a resilience medic in United Hatzalah,
00:06:00unequivocally this saves lives, to provide initial
00:06:03response on the ground in a real incident, this is something
00:06:07that prevents later, it actually reduces
00:06:10the chances of post-trauma. We met quite a few injured
00:06:14at the scene and actually arrived with large forces, ambulances,
00:06:17vehicles, helicopters,
00:06:20and actually started to perform some triage on the ground and evacuation of all
00:06:24the injured to different hospitals, it looked like
00:06:27a scene of a terror incident, an incident of
00:06:30fear, and it was really not pleasant to see all these sights,
00:06:33all the backpacks, all the
00:06:36injured, the IDF estimates that it is a cluster
00:06:40munition, one of dozens. We
00:07:14are
00:07:20here at a difficult event, unfortunately, of
00:07:22a trip, as you already wrote, which has a number
00:07:26of casualties, unfortunately, probably from an unexploded ordnance. I went
00:07:29inside and met some of the children, we are currently helping
00:07:33them to get out of the area and we are currently investigating the event with them. The Upper Galilee
00:07:36is a region where many people hike in recent years. The last three
00:07:40years it has been war. This connection is a tragic connection,
00:07:44as we see today. I embrace
00:07:47very much, embrace very much, on my behalf, on behalf of all the residents
00:07:50of the Galilee, my council, which is part of its region, the families,
00:07:53and we will continue to help in any way we can. Now it is being investigated how the
00:07:57submunition was located in the area where the students hiked, and if it was possible
00:08:01to detect it before the disaster. The police emphasize that the
00:08:04trip to the place received all the necessary approvals,
00:08:08a very difficult event in which children
00:08:11who went on a trip were injured unfortunately,
00:08:15probably, and I say the suspicion, according
00:08:17to the findings of the police sappers of Israel, which is the most
00:08:21professional body in the country, it seems that it is an unexploded
00:08:24ordnance as a result of the war, from the three
00:08:27years of war against Hezbollah. In the coming
00:08:30days,
00:08:33we will reduce trips or stop these trips to re-examine
00:08:36whether we are endangering the children, whether
00:08:40the State of Israel is endangering the children. And that it allows them to go
00:08:43out. Three years after the outbreak of the war, as more and more hikers
00:08:47return to the trails in the north. Today's disaster
00:08:50on the Ramim Ridge illustrates how much the danger still exists.
00:08:54The fire may have ceased, but there may still be unexploded
00:08:57ordnances that have not detonated. Today,
00:09:00one of them claimed the life of a 15-year-old boy who went out with his friends
00:09:03for a trip in the morning and did not return
00:09:07home. Yes, and that unexploded
00:09:11cluster munition, Roi Sharon. And also what the IDF estimates caused
00:09:14this accident. Yes, ah, Hezbollah fired a lot of munitions during
00:09:18the war, also rockets, cluster bombs, mortars, with all kinds
00:09:21of explosives that reached Israel and not all of them
00:09:24detonated. We saw this also with Iranian missiles, not always
00:09:27did the explosion detonate, and the working
00:09:30assumption now is that there are more such, because no one knew
00:09:34about this unexploded ordnance, they scanned the approved
00:09:38hiking trails, the Ministry of Education approved this route,
00:09:41now. It is issuing in the last hours an instruction
00:09:44that says do not deviate from the trails, because no
00:09:48one really checks under the fallen leaves
00:09:51if a bomb remained, this is not something on the scale we saw from
00:09:55Iranian missiles, it doesn't look like a mortar bomb with
00:09:58something that everyone knows what a bomb looks like and can be careful of, it's
00:10:02a small can, a type of grenade that is small, it doesn't
00:10:05look like a classic bomb
00:10:08in drawings, and whoever sees such metal, such
00:10:11iron. It is clear that you should not pick it up, it is hard to argue
00:10:15with a 15-year-old boy, in a corrected place, there should not be
00:10:18explosives in areas where people hike, but it is very difficult to sweep
00:10:22the area which is an open area. With
00:10:25a lot of vegetation, even animals incidentally can trigger such
00:10:29bombs, and it's very difficult, so what they did in the meantime
00:10:32is to approve the path, literally the route where people walk, and therefore
00:10:36the IDF recommends, do not deviate from the path, they deviated from the path, but it's also
00:10:39logical for hikers, to walk 30 meters to the right, 30
00:10:43meters to the left to sit in the shade,
00:10:45and this disaster, now the goal is to prevent the next
00:10:48disaster, with the working assumption in the IDF, there are more
00:10:52such unexploded ordnance in the area and it will take
00:10:55a long time until the nature and parks authorities, the IDF, the police,
00:10:58and local authorities can say
00:11:01that this area is clean, and therefore in the meantime it is recommended to increase
00:11:04caution and stay strictly on the trail. Yes, be very careful,
00:11:08thank you, Roi, and Orly El Kalal is at Rambam
00:11:11Hospital, Orly, an update on the condition of the injured who were evacuated
00:11:15there.
00:11:18Yes, that's right, Tali, four injured people arrived at Rambam
00:11:21Hospital in Haifa, a man about 60 years old, the guide for
00:11:25the trip, who was seriously injured, is still in the operating
00:11:28room, he is the only one who arrived at the operating room, the three teenagers suffered
00:11:32moderate to light injuries, one of them is hospitalized in the intensive
00:11:36care unit at the children's hospital here at Rambam
00:11:39Hospital in Haifa, to the other hospitals, six injured people
00:11:43arrived at Galilee Ben Harieh, one seriously, the others moderately and lightly,
00:11:46and 13 injured people arrived at Ziv Hospital in Safed,
00:11:50one seriously, the others moderately and lightly. Another
00:11:53thing, following Roi's words, from the sappers'
00:11:56investigation, according to the findings on the ground and according to
00:12:00the testimonies taken so far from what they managed to take from
00:12:04those who were on the ground and also in the hospitals, because the children are still traumatized
00:12:08and it's a bit difficult to get more
00:12:10information from them. They walked a certain distance with
00:12:14that cluster bomb, they didn't pick it up there and then it
00:12:17exploded. One of the students carried it with him
00:12:20in his hand, not even in his bag, and one of the children says
00:12:24here. In the hospital, I simply heard a huge boom, a huge explosion,
00:12:28we were thrown backward, and then when I woke up, I suddenly saw that I had
00:12:32blood on my legs and on my hands, this is the testimony of
00:12:35one of them who is here and who also tells the medical
00:12:38staff and also the family members, but
00:12:41currently the investigation is of course by the sappers, and even now
00:12:44it is clear to them that there was a journey of that
00:12:47explosive, that item, the explosive
00:12:51cluster bomb for a certain distance, and then when they were
00:12:54in some kind of... that cluster bomb
00:12:56exploded. Orly, thank you for this
00:13:00update. The students of the school in the north, the parents
00:13:04and teachers are still struggling to comprehend this disaster that happened
00:13:07during the annual trip. The testimonies from the scene and the hospital
00:13:11in the report by our correspondent Uri
00:13:12Salam.
00:13:1550 students from the Ort Ma'alot Tarsihha high school prepared their backpacks
00:13:19with food and water this morning, checked and saw that the weather was pleasant and set
00:13:22out excitedly for the annual trip with their friends.
00:13:25And then in one moment the trip turned into
00:13:27a disaster.
00:13:31The trip took place on the Ramim Ridge near the Lebanese border. During the walk
00:13:35on the trail, an unexploded ordnance exploded near the students, leading to the death of
00:13:39one of them, only 15 years old. More than 20
00:13:42other students were injured, two of them seriously. School
00:13:46bags, bottles and shoes were found scattered at the side
00:13:49of the road. We called him, at first there was no reception, you don't
00:13:53know if he was injured. Injured and if he was there or not there
00:13:57and after a few minutes we managed, he called us back, we spoke to him, he
00:14:00was not physically injured, he was nearby, heard
00:14:04the explosion, the explosion, ran away the moment it exploded and saw
00:14:07probably things that a child is not supposed to see and he disconnected very
00:14:11quickly because he wanted to give the phone to other children so they could call
00:14:15and update their parents that they
00:14:16are fine.
00:14:21Alongside the medical teams and the police, parents rushed to the scene. They searched
00:14:25for answers, every new piece of information that was discovered raised the level
00:14:29of stress. Whoever fired that rocket wanted exactly these trips, he wanted
00:14:32to harm us, he wanted to remove us from our homes. We personally, as a
00:14:36family, suffered two direct missile hits inside the house, we are residents
00:14:39of Shtula who moved to the north, this incident is a continuation of Hezbollah's
00:14:43war, this unexploded ordnance did not get here by itself. The reports that began to arrive
00:14:47reminded of the war routine they knew in recent years.
00:14:50We have been talking for three years about bringing life back to the north, about children returning
00:14:54to school. About families returning home, about hikers returning to the trails,
00:14:58but returning to routine is not just a decision to open a road as we saw, it
00:15:02is not just a school that comes to hike on a hiking trail, one must
00:15:05ensure that the area is indeed safe.
00:15:09Later, relatives and friends arrived at the hospitals where the injured
00:15:13students were evacuated. We received from the event in the north two
00:15:16helicopters with four injured, three
00:15:19teenagers and one injured adult, all are defined
00:15:23as moderately injured. All will undergo the necessary
00:15:26CT scans and we will continue to treat them according to the type
00:15:30of injuries that we will diagnose. Six
00:15:33injured from the event in the northern pole arrived at the Galilee Medical Center
00:15:41in the last hour. Two are in serious condition, one was rushed to the operating room, his condition is stable
00:15:45but the surgery is not yet finished. Three others
00:15:48are in moderate condition and will require surgery later tonight and two
00:15:51are in light condition. They will probably spend the upcoming
00:15:55night close to their children's beds in the ward and at home. Over time they
00:15:59will begin to pick up the pieces and understand what exactly happened
00:16:02there.
00:16:05We are going to you in the meantime.
00:16:11Yes, look, there are quite a few parents who are worried, if we see
00:16:14that there is a route here that received the approval of the Ministry of Education, IDF approval, yet
00:16:18we saw that there was a KKL sign that prohibits, so something here
00:16:22didn't work properly, and the parents are worried and they have no one to receive, there is no one
00:16:26who is currently taking responsibility, we are waiting for the statement of the Minister
00:16:29of Education Kish, currently I understand that there are heads of local authorities, I saw the head of the
00:16:33Yokneam municipality now announcing that he prohibits the students in his
00:16:37authority from going on trips in the border
00:16:40area and asks all teachers to give instructions
00:16:43to students on how to behave when they see
00:16:46unexploded ordnance and that is a question whether it really happened
00:16:49and someone did it before, was this route, which might have
00:16:53been suspected of having unexploded ordnance, did someone brief the staff, did the lead
00:16:56of the trip undergo any briefing, who was with them
00:17:00there? We know that one of the injured, the teacher for the trip, explained that he was
00:17:03there nearby, these are questions that we still don't know the answer
00:17:07to. Look, in the end there are very very clear CEO circulars,
00:17:10even at the level of how much water each student can take on a trip
00:17:14and how much is needed, and these CEO circulars were really written
00:17:18in blood because unfortunately there were accidents
00:17:21on trips in the past, drowned
00:17:24in a water source, and then they forced there to be a lifeguard on every trip, if not they
00:17:28don't go into the water, so we need to do some soul-searching here without a doubt,
00:17:32there was an initial approval here, we understand, how it passed, the
00:17:35police will have to investigate, also with.
00:17:37The head of the yeshiva, of course, also with the trip coordinator, although on the face of it it seems
00:17:41that everyone here acted properly, and yet there was a very very great
00:17:45disaster here, currently the Ministry of Education also needs to take care of the children, we know that they
00:17:48are there in one of the kibbutzim in Yiftah, if I'm not mistaken, these
00:17:52are the second circle, they are suffering from trauma, they need
00:17:55resilience treatment, they saw their friend who was killed, their teachers and staff,
00:17:59and their friends were injured, they need to be treated
00:18:02first of all and also of course the injured in the
00:18:06hospital. Students, after all, aged 14-15
00:18:09who undoubtedly experienced a very very very severe
00:18:13trauma and there are still many many questions that have no answer, so following what
00:18:17you are saying, let's bring in our correspondent Haim Golditch.
00:18:20Haim is in Ma'alot Tarshiha this evening, where
00:18:23the residents are undoubtedly still
00:18:25stunned.
00:18:28Yes, Talia, we are here at the Ort Ma'alot Tarshiha
00:18:31high school, here behind me parents of students, social
00:18:35workers and workers are currently gathering. From the municipality, the educational
00:18:39teams, they are embracing the rest of the school students, a very
00:18:43large high school, there are many students here, only 50 students
00:18:46went on this trip, and there are many more students, some of them siblings, who know
00:18:49the students, so now they are focusing on embracing them,
00:18:52investigating the event, making contact with all the families, making sure everyone is present, everyone
00:18:56receives treatment, medical and also psychological, the
00:18:59school does say that this event, this
00:19:03trip, was approved by the Ministry of Education, as we heard, the Ministry of Education approved
00:19:06it in a completely organized manner, indeed this tragedy
00:19:09happened on an approved and planned trip,
00:19:12and here they are trying to ease the blow that fell upon them, accompanying
00:19:16the students and perhaps later they will give their
00:19:20response to everything that happened. Haim, thank you very much, we will of course
00:19:24continue to follow and update on this
00:19:27matter. Now
00:19:28to the elections.
00:19:3215 days until the opening of the polls. The statement of
00:19:36President Herzog. That he will act in every way to prevent
00:19:40repeat elections worries the heads of the change bloc who continue to bicker
00:19:44among themselves in the Netanyahu bloc after the attacks from the Likud
00:19:47and Religious Zionism, Vinter today tries to fight
00:19:50back. Our political correspondent
00:19:52reports how many eyebrows were raised simultaneously when President
00:19:56Herzog issued this statement today: I will do everything to ensure
00:20:00that Israel has a stable government, but I will say
00:20:03more than that, I will really and truly do
00:20:06everything I can so that there are no repeat
00:20:10elections. In case of a stalemate, will you try to promote a unity
00:20:13government? I don't want to get into that now. Opposition
00:20:17Leader Lapid rushed to write: "I very much hope that President Herzog will
00:20:20not try to push for another fake unity government in which Netanyahu
00:20:24will once again trample his partners." I also call on the other parties in the camp
00:20:28to declare in advance that they will not be part of such a government. And the jab
00:20:31at the partners is quite clear, especially as the background is the continued
00:20:35mutual suspicion. Also, they demanded to be prime minister.
00:20:38Who? who will pay the fine for going to
00:20:41Arab parties if they are not the prime minister, surely they demanded it. Liberman tried today
00:20:45to respond to this claim. There were no
00:20:48Arab or Haredi parties. And I tell you that the other parties
00:20:52of the ministers' bloc, we will bring a clear majority,
00:20:55especially now this tension somewhat injects motivation
00:20:59and adrenaline into the ministers' bloc, and the motivation
00:21:03in the bloc was fueled last night, among other things, by attacks by party leaders on
00:21:07Bennett, who joked that Netanyahu could be a minister
00:21:10in his government. I have no problem with Netanyahu being a minister
00:21:13in our government. Whoever was in office
00:21:17is not fit to serve in office.
00:21:22While in the other bloc there is unity at least on one issue,
00:21:26the attacks on Ofer Winter. I say to Ofer and I say mainly to the people
00:21:29who surround him because unfortunately I don't see him listening. Don't be the rebirth
00:21:33of 20-26. Don't
00:21:35take responsibility that the left will rise on your backs, we will get a Palestinian
00:21:39state, we will get a judicial dictatorship, we will get a severe blow to the Jewish identity of
00:21:43the State of Israel, don't take the responsibility, you will be remembered for
00:21:46eternity. After a few days of demands of this kind, today.
00:21:53I'm not offended, it's not personal, I just think he's harming the entire bloc, he's harming the right,
00:21:57I don't understand him. In yesterday's News poll, Winter passed the
00:22:00electoral threshold, albeit just barely, so it's unclear whether
00:22:04the attacks from the right are breaking him or actually gaining
00:22:08him public prominence.
00:22:10So, we're going to you, is Herzog indeed preparing the ground
00:22:13for efforts to form a unity government? Look, sources in the
00:22:17change bloc claim that Herzog is preparing the ground for
00:22:20the possibility that if there really isn't a clear
00:22:24decision at the polls, he will call Netanyahu and the Eisenkots
00:22:28to form a joint government. There were meetings of party
00:22:31leaders with President Herzog during the election period, they heard from him
00:22:34mainly requests to moderate the discourse, some
00:22:37of them interpret this as a call for unity the day
00:22:40after, from the President's office they tell us he will do
00:22:44everything to prevent repeat elections, there are a variety of options
00:22:47on the table, that's all they want to tell us officially,
00:22:51what are the options? So one of them is undoubtedly a unity
00:22:54government, another option is using a pardon for Netanyahu
00:22:58as a political tool, ah, an attempt to make Netanyahu withdraw
00:23:02from the political arena in this way, this is something that President Herzog
00:23:06tried to promote in the past, but Netanyahu didn't answer the phone
00:23:09as they say, ah, but maybe something will change after
00:23:13we reach the end of another election campaign without a decision, it could be
00:23:16that this changes something in the campaign that Netanyahu can also use, in any case, Herzog.
00:23:20keeps the public statement that he will do everything to prevent repeat
00:23:24elections, he doesn't want to elaborate, but the change bloc
00:23:27understood what they understood. Okay, so let's add Shahar Glick to this topic,
00:23:31hello Shahar, what do you say, is there a possibility for a unity
00:23:34government? Look, in the end, in politics, everything is a matter of alternatives. The question is what
00:23:38are the alternatives? And if we really reach this deadlock, they won't be able to form
00:23:41a government with the help of the Arabs, Netanyahu won't be able to form a government with the help
00:23:44of the Haredim, and we are on our way to repeat elections, and the options are either
00:23:48repeat elections or this, then... It's possible that suddenly election promises
00:23:51will change. I remind you, Bennett already did this. He said that to prevent repeat
00:23:55elections he is saving Israel and breaking his non-core
00:23:59election promises. And therefore this can happen. I think there is some possibility for this
00:24:02because indeed this field of, I think, from Smotrich
00:24:06to Yair Golan, there is more or less an agreement that they are not persona non grata,
00:24:10you can see them or at least up to Gadizenkot, this is something possible.
00:24:13The main debate will be who stands first. And in this sense, Gadi
00:24:17Eisenkot learned a lot from Benny Gantz's mistakes. In the past, he won't
00:24:20let Netanyahu, as they say, trick him even if suddenly one of them is
00:24:24first, it won't be with such large holes in this agreement, but I
00:24:28think everything will rise and fall on this, in the end each of them will want to be first
00:24:32and I find it difficult to see anyone of them giving up without at least some
00:24:36equivalent that is worth being prime minister. In any case, let's get to the elections
00:24:39first. Yes, thank you very much, thank you Yaara. In another
00:24:4315 days, the debate in the Haredi street also reaches the
00:24:46polls, unlike other election campaigns, this time the results will be a bit
00:24:50less obvious when the modern Haredi
00:24:54enters the picture, who in normal times is considered second-class, but during
00:24:57elections is courted by the leaders of the United Torah Judaism party.
00:25:01Daniel Grobais with the campaign that tries to pursue
00:25:04the margins of the
00:25:05sector.
00:25:14United Torah Judaism has a rigid and loyal electorate.
00:25:17Hundreds of thousands of people who will vote.
00:25:35This phrase, which calls for always acting according to the instructions of the rabbis and rebbes,
00:25:39also translates into voting at the polls. But alongside
00:25:42the stable majority, there is another segment, the modern Haredi
00:25:46public.
00:25:53Doesn't do that, he lives in two
00:25:56worlds, and that's
00:25:58forbidden, to create a new stream within the Haredi
00:26:02world, that's it. It's difficult to define
00:26:06precisely who a modern Haredi is. Many of them are present on social
00:26:10networks, study at universities, even enlist
00:26:13in the IDF and are characterized by an open approach to the world outside the boundaries
00:26:16of the community. This way of life often clashes with
00:26:20the approach of the veteran Haredi parties. What do they want
00:26:24with us? To integrate into the general
00:26:27public, and that's not comfortable, that's not
00:26:30right.
00:26:42The big challenge for United Torah Judaism is to convince those
00:26:45swing voters, for whom voting according to the rabbis' instructions is not
00:26:49self-evident, that the "Gimmel" ballot in the polls
00:26:52also represents them. If the Torah
00:26:55represents those who study and those who went
00:26:58into the world of action to the same extent, that's a preliminary question.
00:27:07United Torah Judaism is starting to target in the final stretch of the
00:27:10election campaign this segment of the
00:27:12population,
00:27:15and recently also to hold parlor meetings where
00:27:18Knesset members engage in dialogue with that audience. The problem in the sector
00:27:22is a problem that the great rabbis of Israel see it and I am trying to translate
00:27:25it into my language not because I am afraid
00:27:29of anyone. The main point of contention that keeps coming up is
00:27:32the educational institutions that belong to the Haredi parties
00:27:35and the veteran establishment. Attempts to establish Haredi state
00:27:39education under state sponsorship are usually
00:27:42met with opposition from the Haredi leadership.
00:27:46What happened in the state-religious schools are the institutions
00:27:49that opened during the previous mayor's term. What is happening today in the state-religious schools, no
00:27:53new frameworks are opening. If there
00:27:56is a need for another class due to registration, I give them another class, but we have not opened any
00:27:59new framework.
00:28:02United Torah Judaism chairman Yaakov Asher claims that state Haredi
00:28:06education is a red line, but intermediate
00:28:09solutions can be found. When I come and say to the rabbis,
00:28:13there are some who think that it should be done this way and that way and so on, I tell
00:28:16you, the state wants this thing, if these are things
00:28:20from the state-religious schools or things of this kind, it's a red line, it's
00:28:23taboo, what to do? The solution is to create schools like
00:28:27the state-religious schools, at exactly the same level, and there's no problem doing that,
00:28:30and they do it and I promise you.
00:28:35Also in the Hasidic part of United Torah Judaism, the new designated
00:28:38Knesset member from the Belz Hasidic dynasty, Elyakim Stark, conveyed
00:28:42similar messages in a meeting on Thursday with such a community in the city
00:28:45of Beitar Illit. I believe that every Someone sitting here has
00:28:49something against being screwed over, that he feels ignored,
00:28:53that he was taken for granted, that he is suffering, that he suffered
00:28:56from the establishment, and instead of getting stuck and going with what we were told
00:29:00for 70 years that it's impossible,
00:29:02everything that this group shows that it is possible, and that gives me
00:29:06a lot of inspiration, that yes, it is possible to change
00:29:09things that have not been touched for 70, 80 years. And so,
00:29:13the part that is sometimes seen as the black sheep of the Haredi
00:29:16public, in normal times, gets
00:29:19center stage before the elections. Will these statements
00:29:22also have an impact afterward? A big doubt, but the very discourse
00:29:26indicates the internal and far-reaching
00:29:29shifts in the sector.
00:29:32So. We want to ask now if Israel is heading for another round of elections
00:29:35or if a last-minute surprise is expected. It's not really possible
00:29:39to answer these questions, but the history teaches
00:29:43that nothing is certain until the real results. Yes, Tali,
00:29:46let's go back to the moment this deadlock began. 2019 elections.
00:29:49The polls signaled a sure victory for the Netanyahu
00:29:53bloc with a large and broad coalition, but then two
00:29:56surprises arrived together. The first, on election day, contrary
00:30:00to all predictions, Bennett did not pass the electoral threshold, and then Lieberman announced
00:30:04that he was leaving the bloc, and Israel found itself in a dead end
00:30:07that no one predicted. Repeated elections. A year
00:30:11later, in the third round of elections, everyone estimated, just like now, that we
00:30:15were heading for a stalemate in the bloc picture, that there was no way out
00:30:18of the crisis. There, the surprise came after the elections, with the Corona
00:30:21crisis and the rotation agreement with Gantz, which brought us an unprecedented
00:30:25unity government. In the next round of elections in 2021,
00:30:28Ra'am rose above the electoral threshold, unlike anything
00:30:31previously. Then, Naftali Bennett crossed the lines and, contrary
00:30:35to his promises, formed a government with Lapid and Abbas. In the elections
00:30:39after that in 2022, Meretz
00:30:41fell below the electoral threshold, contrary to predictions, and made the
00:30:45Netanyahu coalition large and stable. The last decade
00:30:48teaches us that in almost all election campaigns there were surprises,
00:30:51in the results, in the decisions afterward, or sometimes both.
00:30:54What's going to happen this time? The polls predict a stalemate, but
00:30:58nothing is certain yet. There are many parties that can suddenly fall
00:31:02below the electoral threshold, or parties that will surprise us
00:31:05and pass without us even thinking enough about them, and of course,
00:31:09the question is what the politicians will do after election night, how many
00:31:12party leaders might suddenly join the other side. Can
00:31:16they really promise us that there will be no defectors from the parties
00:31:19who will move from side to side to complete a government? After all
00:31:23the lines have already been crossed, one can say that this election campaign is predictable
00:31:26in advance, but the interesting part will come on the day after, starting
00:31:29on October 28th. No doubt, Shahar, thank
00:31:32you very much. Lebanese security forces found
00:31:36about 500 kilograms of explosives on their way to Hezbollah
00:31:39strongholds. In the country, they believe that the terrorist organization wants to renew
00:31:43political assassinations. Or are its eyes set on another
00:31:46round against Israel, or both? Our Arab affairs correspondent, Liran
00:31:50Aharoni, with the details.
00:31:53A new security affair involving the terrorist organization Hezbollah
00:31:57has been occupying Lebanon in recent days. Local
00:32:00media reported that at least 500 kilograms of explosives
00:32:04were found inside a truck that was stopped for inspection at a checkpoint of the local
00:32:07internal security mechanism. According to the reports, two people who were in the truck are Hezbollah activists
00:32:11and that the shipment came from one of Hezbollah's strongholds in eastern Lebanon.
00:32:18"Mr. President, rest assured that
00:32:22our government will not tolerate anyone who imagines
00:32:25meddling with the security, safety and stability of the country.
00:32:29It will also deal firmly with any
00:32:33weapons outside the legal framework, whether in terms of possession,
00:32:36transport or use." A Lebanese politician from the camp
00:32:39that opposes Hezbollah told our correspondent Roy Kais today that the terrorist organization
00:32:43is putting pressure on the authorities to quash the affair. According to the same source,
00:32:47the camp that opposes Hezbollah is exerting counter-pressure on the authorities
00:32:50in the country, in order to expand the investigation to understand if there is a larger
00:32:54plan by
00:32:55Hezbollah.
00:33:01"Its foundation is a group of women, as happened in 2005
00:33:03and 2006. Today, the scene returns to 2005
00:33:07and 2006." The fear among
00:33:10opponents of Hezbollah is a renewal of political assassinations within Lebanon, because
00:33:14through them.
00:33:41"before everyone, and in plain sight."
00:34:19"Is Hezbollah helping a stage that resembles the stage that was before 2000? This is part of it. Is Hezbollah going
00:34:22to a place that resembles the stage that was before March 2nd, 15 months
00:34:26ago, when the FBI and others came? You can put all
00:34:29the theories." This involves Hezbollah's attempts to renew
00:34:33political assassinations within Lebanon or to arm itself for another round against
00:34:36Israel. There are attempts by Hezbollah to strengthen itself militarily
00:34:39and politically after the blows it suffered in the last three
00:34:42years, while at the same time the disturbing question arises: how many trucks and shipments
00:34:46of explosives for Hezbollah were not
00:34:48seized?
00:34:50And from Lebanon to Saudi Arabia, where following the Houthi attacks,
00:34:53the authorities suspended airport operations in the capital.
00:34:57Roy Kais, our correspondent for the Arab world, we go to Roy. At the same time, it seems
00:35:00that Saudi Crown Prince Bin Salman is personally
00:35:03taking increased precautionary measures.
00:35:07Yes, Tali, so after the deadly attack on Saturday and the attack
00:35:11that followed yesterday, Riyadh is simply not taking
00:35:14any chances. They have suspended operations at the capital's airport
00:35:17until at least this coming Saturday, partly
00:35:21due to the fact that there are probably significant damages that need to be repaired
00:35:24before reopening, but no less because the exchange
00:35:28of information between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in Yemen continues
00:35:31all the time, and in the current situation, this strategic facility is simply
00:35:35not safe. What else the Saudis are doing in the last day
00:35:38in an unusual and even quite official way, is that they are publishing
00:35:42footage from the security cameras of the airport
00:35:45that show the moment of the deadly impact in the passenger hall
00:35:48on Saturday, at a time when there were also Muslim
00:35:51pilgrims there. The Saudis are doing this to gather support
00:35:55from outside for their campaign against the Houthis, something they haven't achieved
00:35:59as they expected. If we're already talking about not taking risks, then
00:36:03the one who isn't taking risks these days is the Saudi Crown Prince,
00:36:06Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of the kingdom,
00:36:10who, according to the Wall Street Journal, is moving between palaces surrounded by very
00:36:14heavy security. Palaces that are equipped
00:36:17with bunkers, and it is also claimed that his security detail, Bin
00:36:20Salman's, is carefully screened against the backdrop of the increasing attacks by
00:36:24the Houthis against the kingdom. In this context, it's interesting to see
00:36:28that all the Houthi leaders in the last day are trying
00:36:31to encourage elements within Saudi Arabia, including within the royal family,
00:36:35to stage a coup against Bin Salman. He even says, "We are willing to help
00:36:39you with this." A coup is not something we're likely to see
00:36:43in the near future, but there's no doubt that these are very difficult days
00:36:46for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Absolutely.
00:36:50Thank you very much, Roi. Abnormal concentrations of a carcinogenic
00:36:53substance were found in the area around the refinery complex,
00:36:57leading to the closure of two schools in Kiryat
00:37:01Ata. Damage repair work caused by the Iranian missiles
00:37:04at the refineries was stopped on instructions to the public. In a report by
00:37:08our correspondent Michal Wasserman. Two schools
00:37:11in Kiryat Ata were closed today due to high concentrations
00:37:15of benzene. The social high school Kiryat Ata, located
00:37:18within the industrial zone, and the Razim school, where
00:37:22special education students study, located in the same
00:37:25area. Yesterday at 11:15 p.m., we
00:37:29received a message that there would be no classes at Sapir
00:37:33school, a special education school, and that we should deal with it.
00:37:36Already last Wednesday, abnormal concentrations
00:37:39were measured in the industrial zone in Kiryat Ata and at another
00:37:42monitoring station in the Checkpost area. I generally feel
00:37:46that there is a lot of air pollution. When I'm little, it's hard for me to breathe. There
00:37:50is a general difficulty here. When I train, I train a lot. I
00:37:53run a lot, so yes, I feel the air pollution. It's very hard to breathe here.
00:37:57Yesterday evening, benzene concentrations exceeded the daily permitted standard
00:38:01by more than three times, and therefore, an hour and a quarter before
00:38:04midnight, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Environmental Protection announced
00:38:08the cancellation of classes today and an instruction for those working within a kilometer
00:38:12radius of the refinery complex not to spend time outside
00:38:15without need. The exceedance was yesterday
00:38:18and it was the day before yesterday and it was also before, but the Clean Air Law
00:38:22allows for seven exceedances at each monitoring station. The Ministry of Environmental
00:38:26Protection instructed the refineries to stop maintenance
00:38:29work that was being done to repair the damage
00:38:32from the war. What happened in recent
00:38:35days is a very strong red light for the regulatory
00:38:38bodies, for the Ministry of Environmental Protection,
00:38:42for the Ministry of Energy, for the Ministry of Interior, for government officials, friends,
00:38:45promote the plan of Government Resolution
00:38:4812:31, to evacuate the refineries
00:38:51from here. The health of the residents is more important
00:38:54than anything. From Bazan Group.
00:38:57Planned maintenance work began last Thursday
00:39:01at the Gadiv factory. At the beginning of the work, high benzene concentrations
00:39:04were measured at several monitoring points and the work was stopped
00:39:08to locate the source of the exceedances. The resumption of work was carried
00:39:12out after completing the required actions and in coordination with the relevant
00:39:15authorities. Environmental organizations say today that this is a continuous
00:39:18negligence that must stop.
00:39:22Instead of evacuating the polluting refineries, they are evacuating Israeli
00:39:25children from schools and asking the public
00:39:28in Kiryat Ata and Haifa to close their windows
00:39:31and stay indoors. In fact, every day hundreds of thousands of residents of Haifa Bay
00:39:35pay with their health for the continuous failure
00:39:38of the government, which drags its feet in implementing the decision to evacuate
00:39:42the petrochemical industry from the bay. According
00:39:45to the data, during the day there was a decrease in benzene concentrations, but
00:39:48this event once again raises the question that has been bothering the residents in the area
00:39:52for decades: who guarantees that the air they breathe
00:39:56is safe, and who is responsible for the repeated
00:39:59exceedances? This is infuriating, no less
00:40:02infuriating. I feel there's no transparency,
00:40:05I feel we don't know what's happening with our children. However, I discover
00:40:09this morning that last Wednesday there was already an exceedance of
00:40:1269% in the level
00:40:15of benzene
00:40:17in the area. No one disclosed it, no one said anything, the school continued to operate
00:40:21as usual until yesterday. Yesterday they had an activity
00:40:24day, a field day, they were in the yard.
00:40:27And this is what our children breathed.
00:40:31They breathe pollution and schools are closed instead of closing polluting
00:40:34factories. A bribery case involving
00:40:37millions was exposed today in the Kfar Saba municipality. A covert investigation
00:40:41that lasted a year raised suspicions that the mayor's wife
00:40:44received bribes in exchange for rigging tenders.
00:40:48At the home of the mayor and his wife, watches, jewelry
00:40:51and luxury cars were seized. Hadas Grinberg with the details.
00:40:55Yes, this morning, exactly at five
00:40:59o'clock, investigators from Unit 433 arrived at the office of Mayor
00:41:02Rafi Saar. A new public corruption case of large
00:41:06scale was exposed today by Lahav 433, in which the Mayor
00:41:09of Kfar Saba, his wife, the CEO of the Kfar Saba
00:41:13Economic Company, public figures and businessmen were arrested, a total
00:41:16of 17 detainees. How many times did we tell them, wait, wait, wait,
00:41:20wait, one day it will come, and it has come. That's
00:41:24how a citizen documented this morning the raid by the investigators
00:41:27on the municipality. Here are the investigators, and they
00:41:31will soon enter the Mayor's office. Wow,
00:41:34drama. Today we seized hundreds of thousands of shekels,
00:41:37cars, luxury bags, luxury watches
00:41:40that we managed to seize at the homes of the suspects, a car
00:41:44whose value is commensurate with the offense,
00:41:48related to those tenders that were sold, which are
00:41:51worth millions. This is a covert investigation that began about a year and a half
00:41:54ago, during which it emerged that tenders in the municipality operated through
00:41:58bribery in almost every possible field. Tenders that were rigged
00:42:01for associates, businessmen, some of whom were criminals. In return
00:42:05for this, the mayor's wife received cash
00:42:08in bundles. We understand.
00:42:11Interested parties in the local
00:42:13authority
00:42:16use their connections with the mayor's wife
00:42:19and bribe her, pay money,
00:42:22in order to exert her influence on the mayor, and also on
00:42:26the CEO of the economic company of that city. This is how the
00:42:29system worked: businessmen contacted the mayor's wife, she worked
00:42:33to ensure they won tenders, and when they encountered difficulties and had to conceal
00:42:37a flawed tender, the projects were transferred to the economic company. There was
00:42:40coordination with the CEO of the economic company who knew who to approve.
00:42:44In addition, the economic company placed obstacles in front of those
00:42:48who applied for tenders and whom they did not want to win. There is
00:42:51truly a violation of public interests within
00:42:54the city. Instead of giving the tender to someone
00:42:58who deserves to do it, they give it to whoever pays
00:43:01money. The rigged tenders involved everything: projects for renovating educational institutions,
00:43:05entertainment complexes, urban renewal and more, with criminals, according
00:43:09to suspicion, who previously supported the mayor in his election, being part of the rigged
00:43:13tenders. Sometimes they threatened those who applied for tenders
00:43:16and also put pressure on the mayor and his wife to win
00:43:20tenders. As anyone who was in the discussion now could hear
00:43:24the police representatives fully admit that they have
00:43:27no evidence whatsoever that he received even one shekel
00:43:30directly into his pocket. They have
00:43:33suspicions that money passed through his wife, they have suspicions that his wife
00:43:37approached him, they have suspicions that
00:43:44he didn't receive a single shekel from anyone. This is the second
00:43:48time in the last decade that a mayor
00:43:51has been arrested on such serious suspicions. So
00:43:54indeed, this is a difficult day for all of us here in the city. However, I
00:43:58must say that personally, neither I nor my fellow council members
00:44:02were surprised. The extent of the bribe is estimated
00:44:04at millions. This is the footage from this morning from the mayor's house, where
00:44:08hundreds of thousands of shekels were seized,
00:44:10as well as valuable items, including his wife's Tesla and Audi
00:44:13cars, and also watches and bags.
00:44:17This is a young woman, with no criminal record,
00:44:20she has a company that does projects for us. The only thing I regret, not the only one,
00:44:24but the significant one, is that this arrest took place at her home before
00:44:28her minor daughters left for school. That is, all this
00:44:32could have been done after they left for school. Police representatives
00:44:35today referred to the mayor in court and said, the mayor was
00:44:39aware of the money and of his wife's
00:44:42involvement and awareness of her offenses. The bribery offenses were committed
00:44:45together with his wife, the police said, she played a central
00:44:49role, exploited her position as the mayor's wife to advance personal
00:44:53interests and receive bribery money. She worked to advance
00:44:56processes, in return she received a lot of money, and committed
00:45:00criminal acts for years. Mayors
00:45:04are investigated very many times, it's a very, very dangerous
00:45:07and problematic profession, it often ends in. Many
00:45:12fewer cases reach the courtrooms.
00:45:15The arrest of the mayor and his wife was extended today for eight
00:45:18days. The investigation is, as mentioned, only
00:45:21at its beginning. Hadas, and I, each bring
00:45:25the mayor's version and more new details from the investigation.
00:45:28Hadas. That's right, hello Tali. So Mayor
00:45:32Rafi Saar says today in his interrogation, we can see
00:45:35the things now on the screen: I
00:45:38didn't receive money from anyone. So the interrogator asks him,
00:45:42so where did the hundreds of thousands of shekels found in your house come from? And the mayor
00:45:46answers, that's my wife's, I don't know the source of the money,
00:45:50the money is hers, I am not involved in any
00:45:53improper incident. We are also publishing
00:45:56Tali for the first time, in continuation of what we saw in the report,
00:45:59the money and bundles of cash were not only found at home, they also hid them
00:46:03in their cars and also in the homes of
00:46:07relatives. In addition to this, during the wiretaps
00:46:10carried out on them in the last year and a half, they are heard
00:46:13on the wire, talking about money, about the bribe, also
00:46:16counting money, some of the involved
00:46:20parties we mentioned, in addition, the mayor and his wife are heard on wiretaps
00:46:24worried that they will be caught. One can say, Tali,
00:46:27that signs indicating the exposure of this affair were already present several months ago. The mayor
00:46:31and his wife landed at Ben Gurion Airport and were caught with 24 thousand
00:46:35shekels in cash, an investigation conducted by the Tax
00:46:38Authority. At this stage, the mayor's wife is not cooperating
00:46:41with the investigation, and he, for his part, his defense
00:46:44line shifts the money trail from him
00:46:47to her. Hadas, thank you very much.
00:46:51This arrest of the mayor of Kfar Saba comes two years after
00:46:54a comprehensive investigation by our correspondent Oren Aharoni. Hello Oren,
00:46:58a comprehensive investigation into what's happening in the Kfar
00:47:00Saba municipality. Yes, Tali, two years ago
00:47:04we received information regarding the Kfar Saba municipality and the economic
00:47:08company about all sorts of strange things happening
00:47:11behind the scenes, and we actually went to investigate, and this
00:47:14is actually the basis of the investigation
00:47:17and the arrests today of the mayor, his wife, and the director of the economic
00:47:20company. We discovered
00:47:23that it manages millions of shekels without transparency
00:47:27with a non-existent board of directors, problematic
00:47:30tenders, problematic projects, problematic
00:47:34money transfers, and staffing positions with many
00:47:37question marks. When we asked to understand who actually supervises
00:47:41this, who approves these things, who sees
00:47:45these things, who then checks and sees where money went
00:47:48and didn't, we didn't get answers. We actually discovered
00:47:51a place that is completely unsupervised, run by someone
00:47:55who is only accountable to the mayor, that there isn't really a board of directors
00:47:58that meets and supervises all the decisions, and this is a lot
00:48:01of money, money of Kfar Saba residents, money
00:48:05that goes to unknown places, whose suspicions
00:48:08we see today, where it's going, and we're trying
00:48:12to check, trying to get answers, not really getting
00:48:15them. Here's a clip from the report we broadcast back then. I want
00:48:18to convene a board meeting, I have a lot of questions, about this technical question we will address it.
00:48:23There's a tender that looks like it was rigged
00:48:26for a specific person to win a new position. There are works that we don't
00:48:30know about, there's no company budget, no work plan.
00:48:34Eisge. Oren, what's
00:48:36up?
00:48:39How are you? Do you know Hava
00:48:42Levi, board member? Friends, you're
00:48:45first of all bursting in here in the middle of the day. No,
00:48:48nothing close, because you're not answering if you want to.
00:49:23After a gag order was imposed on the investigation of the incident, the British
00:49:26Prime Minister clarified today that the attempted attack on the British Air Force
00:49:29base two weeks ago was carried out by the Iranian
00:49:33Revolutionary Guard. Dov Giller, our correspondent
00:49:36in Europe, good evening Dov. What led him to speak
00:49:39to the media and what does Britain intend to do
00:49:42about it?
00:49:45Good questions. I want to take you back to September 27th, when
00:49:49this affair exploded, and we still don't know exactly what happened there. Five were arrested,
00:49:52then released. There were three commercial vehicles
00:49:56that may have tried to attack the British
00:49:59Air Force base in Fairford because of the American bombers
00:50:03stationed there, from which they launched bombings
00:50:06in Iran. To this day, it's not clear what happened there. What is happening is that British
00:50:09Prime Minister Andy Burnham came out today
00:50:13to the media in the British Parliament and said: We are almost completely
00:50:17sure that it was the Revolutionary Guard and that it was directed from Iran.
00:50:21Sanctions are also being imposed on two, two senior officials, one in the Revolutionary
00:50:24Guard, and one who tries to harm opponents
00:50:28of the regime around the world, who are probably connected to this
00:50:31issue. But it's not entirely clear what exactly happened there.
00:50:34The Americans did evacuate their B1 bombers to the United States a week ago
00:50:38due to fears that the Iranians would attack with explosive charges inside the base.
00:50:41It's not clear that this is what was going to happen. In any case,
00:50:45they summoned the Iranian ambassador, reprimanded him,
00:50:48imposed sanctions, but nothing substantial against a country that just
00:50:52tried to attack you on your territory. There are still diplomatic relations,
00:50:55there are still routines that this ambassador goes to.
00:50:58Uh, what is true, the Iranians were behind the attempted attacks
00:51:02on the Jewish community, arson, attempted attacks, and that was a few
00:51:06months ago, and two more that were discovered now who tried to attack the synagogue
00:51:09in Manchester, and they still haven't taken significant
00:51:12action against the state of Iran that sends its terror
00:51:16into Britain. Let's hear the Prime Minister, Burnham, talk about this issue today
00:51:20in Parliament.
00:51:22honorable friend, the home secretary will update the house regarding the incident at Raf
00:51:26Fairford, but I can confirm our assessment that it
00:51:30is highly likely to have been coordinated in
00:51:34Iran, almost certainly directed by
00:51:37Iran's Islamic revolutionary guard. We will
00:51:41not tolerate these threats on our soil, we will crack
00:51:44down on Iran's use of criminal networks, using our full range of
00:51:48powers to target them and their funding streams, and we
00:51:51will bring...
00:52:05a pro-Palestinian attack from the crowd. The disappointment of
00:52:08Israelis after the decision in their favorite destination
01:00:47Enough.
01:06:51Augmented reality glasses first appeared a few years ago and didn't really
01:06:54manage to penetrate the market and our daily lives, but now
01:06:58there are those who strive to bring them into operating rooms.
01:07:02This, of course, holds great promise for improving accuracy in complex surgeries
01:07:06and also a challenge. How do we ensure that they can be trusted
01:07:09as an aid in the holiest of holies
01:07:12of medicine? Tonight in Madman with Nov Reuveni from Bat
01:07:16for the future with the surgeons who are developing platforms
01:07:19for the surgery platforms of
01:07:21tomorrow.
01:07:26This is seemingly another routine morning in the operating room wing of the
01:07:30Sheba Hospital, but today we will get a glimpse into
01:07:33the future.
01:07:36Dr. Eyal Mor is now preparing for a complex surgery to remove a large
01:07:40and dangerous cancerous tumor, deep inside the abdominal cavity of a young
01:07:44patient. This time, in addition to the routine surgical tools, he will also use
01:07:47a completely different tool, Apple's augmented reality
01:07:51glasses.
01:07:54One of the things we see in these complex surgeries is
01:07:57that the tumor actually distorts the normal anatomy,
01:08:01meaning it creates a great challenge for the surgeon
01:08:05to identify which organs we want to preserve
01:08:08and which areas we actually want to remove, and therefore you need
01:08:12to enlist all possible tools to be as
01:08:15accurate as possible. As accurate as possible, exactly. This is exactly the purpose of
01:08:19this technology, to help us in these very delicate stages. Apple's
01:08:22glasses, which did not achieve great success in the market,
01:08:26are now being harnessed for the benefit of this complex
01:08:29mission. Today, what we see, we look at a CT scan on a 2D
01:08:32display, and our brain actually translates it into 3D.
01:08:36Uh, these glasses actually allow
01:08:39us to see the tumor and the anatomical structures
01:08:42in 3D, just like in reality. And today, one of the studies we are examining
01:08:46and developing is a system that will allow us to project the model even during
01:08:50surgery, to provide the surgeon with as much information as possible
01:08:53and as much accuracy regarding where those structures that we want
01:08:57to preserve are located.
01:09:00To an outsider, it may seem amusing, but when looking
01:09:03through the glasses, a whole world unfolds, an additional
01:09:07and deeper layer of imaging over the physical
01:09:10space. This is the patient's imaging and here we. We can see the tumor
01:09:13itself and we can examine it from all angles and see exactly
01:09:17where this thing is located. The system they are developing here allows taking
01:09:21advanced imaging a few steps further,
01:09:24placing them in space, examining them from all directions and also
01:09:28projecting them directly onto the patient's body during
01:09:31surgery. You can see here the important
01:09:35blood vessels, we see the tumor behind the peritoneum
01:09:38and above the kidney, and at this stage I can already see. And what
01:09:43I need to be careful of, what I am saving, what I will try not
01:09:47to harm, and what, and where the
01:09:50tumor is actually located, during the surgery, I will. What you see here
01:09:54is happening as part of a research led by Dr. Mor
01:09:57in Sheba, at this stage, the surgical procedures themselves
01:10:00are not yet performed while he is wearing the glasses,
01:10:04for that, several more steps need to be taken, if that
01:10:07is, according to him, this is undoubtedly the goal. This is very similar to what was
01:10:10once when we used to drive. We used to use a map or we used to
01:10:14stop someone on the street to ask how we
01:10:17how we actually get to the destination we need to reach.
01:10:21And today we already have applications like Waze and Google Maps, and surgeons
01:10:24also need to. The turn of the surgeons has come, this is
01:10:28a fixed situation where we
01:10:31know very, very well how to take the imaging, the CT, the
01:10:35MRI, the ultrasound, to create very, very good, very, very
01:10:39beautiful 3D images, but their clinical use is limited.
01:10:42We enter the operating room and our computerized
01:10:453D plans we leave
01:10:49on the wall on A4 sheets that are often printed in black
01:10:53and white, we constantly need to disengage from the surgical
01:10:56field to go back and look at these A4
01:10:59sheets hanging on the wall.
01:11:03In another department of Sheba Hospital, which focuses on oral,
01:11:07jaw and throat surgeries, they are also working on an innovative
01:11:10development that will bring augmented reality glasses into operating
01:11:14rooms and help bridge one of the significant
01:11:17gaps that surgeons currently face. We are developing a system
01:11:21that will be able to give us all the patient's imaging information
01:11:25in real time, all the time, without detaching
01:11:28from it. This is the surgeon's field of vision in real time, together with the
01:11:31glasses, where in layers, you can also see the patient
01:11:35himself through the glasses and also his imaging on him. You can see
01:11:38the eye sockets, you can see the nasal cavity, you can see the base
01:11:42of the skull and also the areas where there is
01:11:45a plan to perform a jaw osteotomy, meaning I have the ability
01:11:49to understand and navigate in space optimally, which was not available until
01:11:52today. The potential is, of course, enormous and significant, but it also
01:11:56presents a challenge. To introduce such technology into the holiest of
01:11:59holies of the hospital, it is essential to ensure that its
01:12:03accuracy can be fully trusted. To that end, research
01:12:06and development efforts continue at full speed, in this case,
01:12:10hope that this will change the surgical world. Once
01:12:13we can be precise and once we, as surgeons, receive
01:12:17real-time feedback, it's a completely
01:12:19different experience. The glasses themselves are, of course, just the platform for
01:12:23advanced developments that try to meet the diverse needs of
01:12:26various medical fields. One of them recently
01:12:29received unprecedented FDA approval.
01:12:33Beat vision vision pro. The system developed by Stryker
01:12:37is the first ever to receive official approval for use
01:12:40with Apple's Vision Pro
01:12:42glasses. The approval is limited to hip arthroscopy surgery
01:12:46during which a small camera is inserted
01:12:49into the joint. If until now the surgeon had to avert his gaze
01:12:52from the patient to the screens to see.
01:13:55This developed into an alert system
01:13:57that will help us navigate exactly as Waze
01:14:01alerts us to all sorts of traffic jams, so here
01:14:05too we will have alerts for areas that are important and we want
01:14:08on the roadside, right? This is exactly the direction of
01:14:12that model or that application.
01:14:14The
01:14:17introduction of new technologies into operating rooms is a complex process
01:14:21that requires strict control and research, and it will probably take more time
01:14:25until we see more and more surgeons using such glasses
01:14:28during their work,
01:14:31והעתיד בתקווה יבאי איתו ניתוחים בטוחים
01:14:35and more precise surgeries.
01:14:48Amazing, there's room for optimism, at least in this
01:14:51field. Federal agents raided the home
01:14:54this morning of a Democratic Congresswoman known
01:14:57for her criticism of the Trump administration and her fierce opposition
01:15:01to Israel. This move, happening just weeks before the midterm
01:15:04elections in the United States, is stirring up a storm in the American
01:15:07political system. Nathan Goodman, our Washington
01:15:10correspondent. What's the reason, Nathan, for this
01:15:13raid? Tali, this raid on a Congresswoman's
01:15:17home is an unusual step, especially since we are
01:15:20just three weeks before the midterm elections in which the Congresswoman,
01:15:24Ilhan Omar, is running and seeking
01:15:27re-election. Federal agents arrived at her home
01:15:30in Washington, the home where she resides when she is in Congress
01:15:34early in the morning, raided the house and confiscated documents
01:15:37and various items. In a short statement by
01:15:40the authorities, it was reported that Ilhan Omar is suspected of violating
01:15:44US immigration laws. Let's remember Ilhan Omar, a member of Congress,
01:15:48a Democratic progressive
01:15:51congresswoman. She is an immigrant from Somalia. She arrived as a child with. And according
01:15:55to allegations by the administration and by
01:15:59officials, she entered or moved to
01:16:03permanent residency illegally. There was also a rumor that was spread over the years
01:16:07that she married her brother to stay in the United
01:16:10States. The Trump administration has been trying for a long time
01:16:13to find reasons to deport Ilhan Omar or
01:16:17to find criminal proceedings against her, because she is
01:16:20a very harsh critic of the administration. She is also a very
01:16:23harsh critic of Israel. She calls for an end to aid to Israel, accuses
01:16:27Israel of genocide, and was herself previously recorded
01:16:30making anti-Semitic statements. All these things are not related to the current
01:16:34raid, it's more related to the administration's struggle against her. The administration
01:16:38says we have evidence that can indicate that she allegedly
01:16:41violated immigration laws. Ilhan Omar herself said
01:16:45that this is political persecution and that there is no basis
01:16:48for the accusations. Thank you very much, Nathan.
01:16:51Ukrainian attacks against Russian computing centers
01:16:55in recent days have led not only to disruptions for Russian citizens, but
01:16:59to a real blow to Putin's bot army,
01:17:03and a significant decrease in hate speech on social networks.
01:17:07Dov Giller's report. Not only
01:17:09energy facilities, three huge computing centers in Russia have been hit
01:17:13in recent days by Ukrainian forces. Data centers belonging
01:17:16to the computer giant Yandex, the Russian equivalent of Google, three
01:17:20of the largest in the country. The activity of the data centers is completely
01:17:23disrupted, the infrastructure resources.
01:17:55reached Yandex data centers, it
01:17:59suddenly became a little easier to breathe on
01:18:02many social media platforms. A lot of
01:18:05people noticed it.
01:18:37and extreme right-wing parties and also from the left, which is usually pro-Palestine, both
01:18:41these and those started to suffer a significant decrease in their activity, some
01:18:45institutes are talking about a decrease of even
01:18:470.2% of their total activity, which is pretty
01:18:51crazy. But there are those who didn't need the burning of Yandex data centers
01:18:55to feel the Russian involvement in all the political processes that the
01:18:58world has undergone in the last decade. For example, the former British Prime Minister Andy
01:19:02Burnham who was interested in his secret services about one particular thing with
01:19:06his entry into office.
01:19:22The kingdom decided to leave the European Union, so let's assume that most
01:19:25voters reached their conclusions independently only. What about those
01:19:29whose minds Russia played with to weaken the European Union,
01:19:33and led to the result that Britain is paying a price for to this very day.
01:20:08Today, the European Union continued to impose sanctions on Russia, no less
01:20:11than 1600 people and companies related to Russia's arms industry,
01:20:14with an emphasis on those involved in the production of drones. But beyond the war
01:20:18of Russia's color, if the phenomenon of declining hate speech and
01:20:21incitement on the web continues, as well as a decrease in voter turnout for extreme left-wing
01:20:25and extreme right-wing parties. In Europe, they are expected to welcome these images
01:20:29coming from Yandex centers in Russia and say "burn
01:20:32by them," Dov Giller
01:20:33from Berlin.
01:20:36The new flight route of Arkia to Tokyo was supposed to be
01:20:39the refreshing innovation of the summer for Israeli passengers, but just
01:20:43before the first takeoff, the airline announced that Japan is not
01:20:47cooperating at the moment. Ofir Alpern with the disappointed
01:20:50passengers.
01:20:55This was one of the biggest news of the summer for Israeli travelers.
01:20:58In early June, Arkia announced the opening of a direct route to Tokyo for the first
01:21:02time in its history. Two flights a week, tickets starting from about $1500.
01:21:06New competition for El Al, which was
01:21:09the only one to operate the route. We set out today with
01:21:13direct flights to Tokyo with an Israeli company
01:21:16at a very attractive price. I think we pretty much broke the monopoly on
01:21:20this very popular route. And the demand certainly exists. Last
01:21:24year, more than 93,000 Israelis
01:21:27visited Japan, a jump of more than 50% in one
01:21:30year. However, now, less than two weeks before the inaugural
01:21:32flight, the plans are changing. Arkia
01:21:36announced that as of now, approvals for operating
01:21:39their direct route to Tokyo have not yet been received.
01:21:43The authorities in Japan did not approve
01:21:46operating the route using wet-leased aircraft.
01:21:49A wet lease is essentially a flight operated
01:21:53by a foreign aircraft and by a foreign crew with
01:21:56Israeli representation in Arkia's case. My wife and
01:22:00I have been dreaming for a long time about this
01:22:03trip. Uh, finally we had the opportunity
01:22:06both financially and
01:22:10in terms of time, we found these processes very, very precisely,
01:22:14very, very calculated,
01:22:17so there was quite a lot of thought and preparations
01:22:20for this. And now the passengers who have already booked direct flights
01:22:23to Tokyo are forced to choose between several alternatives offered to them.
01:22:27They offered to change to another destination of
01:22:31Arkia, they offered another option to fly
01:22:34via a connecting flight, essentially a stopover
01:22:37in between and then arriving in Tokyo
01:22:41later, and cancellation with a full refund, of course. We bought it through
01:22:44El Al, we thought of flying through
01:22:47Bangkok and from there buying
01:22:50a connecting flight to Tokyo,
01:22:54but in the end, we gave
01:22:57up on the idea, we canceled the ticket
01:23:00and switched to Arkia so we would have a direct flight.
01:23:04We'll have to shorten it or maybe add some beach days.
01:23:11These flights. Arkia emphasizes that they are not giving up on
01:23:13the Tokyo route, and they are currently trying
01:23:17to get approval to operate it using the company's own aircraft, but
01:23:21even this option presents a significant challenge. As
01:23:24of now, Arkia does not have
01:23:27self-operated aircraft that can fly directly from Israel
01:23:31to Tokyo. The aircraft are narrow-body aircraft that cannot
01:23:35cover such long distances of 11, 12, 13
01:23:38hours. The truth is that it's very disappointing. I read
01:23:42a bit about the wet leasing
01:23:45part, other companies also use it when starting a new route to a new
01:23:48destination, so it's not to judge it harshly, but it is
01:23:52disappointing, especially since we are quite close
01:23:55to leaving for our trip and with many, many
01:23:58preparations. Arkia has been selling tickets to Tokyo for four months now,
01:24:02and only now, just before takeoff, passengers discover
01:24:05that approvals have not yet been received, and this is not an isolated incident. El Al
01:24:09also recently had to cancel the new route to Hanoi due to lack
01:24:12of approvals. Two companies, two routes promised to passengers that
01:24:16did not materialize.
01:24:19Jerry Seinfeld. The comedian says Israel is already used
01:24:22to pro-Palestinian attacks against it, but this time he had a witty
01:24:26response up his sleeve. During a performance
01:24:29in Chicago, he told a protester who interrupted him, "I
01:24:32will donate all the money you paid for the ticket to Israel," Tamar
01:24:35Ushankov, with the incident that continues the love story of
01:24:39Seinfeld
01:24:40and Israelis.
01:24:49In the performance of the king.
01:37:31has halved. Huge queues are expected. Pass it to me, I'll
01:37:35send it to you guys in the group. How can we know if it's real?
01:37:39Oh, good question. Luckily, Omri Barak is here and he'll explain to us how
01:37:43to be careful. They want to influence public opinion with false
01:37:47information. Is the message trying to provoke an extreme reaction?
01:37:50Think about it, who has an interest in publishing the story? Maybe it's an attempt at undue
01:37:54influence? Unfortunately, it's very easy to distort
01:37:57the truth. Always check before sharing.
01:38:00On October 27th, your choice
01:38:03matters.
01:38:08With this, we conclude all updates all the time on the website and in the Kan
01:38:11News app. Up next, News at Night with Sharon Dudovitch
01:38:15from. After us, the premiere episode of Double. on the money, the new reality show of
01:38:19here with Gam Rodberg, continue watching.
01:38:22to warn.
01:38:30Israel, the nation of startups, ideas that changed the world started
01:38:33here, in the living room, in the yard, in mom's kitchen. Almost every
01:38:37meeting of friends in the country ends with the sentence, "Wow, this could be a great
01:38:41business."
01:38:44But born. To reality there is a great distance, so how
01:38:48easy is it really to turn a small investment into big money?
01:38:51Sell, sell, sell. To meet with so many city heads within
01:38:55the time frame, insane. This is exactly what our contestants
01:38:59are about to discover in "Double the Money." Do you want to take an ice
01:39:02bath? Wow, wow, wow, thrills. Every week, our couples
01:39:06will receive an initial sum, which they will need to double in any way
01:39:09they choose. Each of you receives a thousand shekels.
01:39:124, 16,
01:39:1532, which you will need to double to earn
01:39:1964,
01:39:21at least. We have three hours of selling. Hello,
01:39:24coconut, street content, event production. Singing
01:39:28in the mall, anything goes, you're a pair of men, we're a pair of men, help
01:39:31us. From week to week, the sum will grow, the pressure will rise,
01:39:34and the couples will set off again with bigger ideas, bolder
01:39:38and much more surprising. What are you? A commercial
01:39:42video, and you pay 3000 shekels, we are at 12,
01:39:46I'm really on the phone. They will do anything to double the
01:39:50money and stay in the game. We are going through this
01:39:53doubling, and let's go, we are in the world. On the way, they will discover that the distance between
01:39:56success.
01:40:07That all they have in this crazy journey is each other, they need to change business, but you have a good venture,
01:40:10you want to give up on it, but your goal in the end is to bring money, I just pray
01:40:14that there is someone else who is worse than me. At the end of the season, the couple that earns
01:40:18the largest amount will come out of the grand
01:40:21finale with a quarter of a million shekels in cash, so
01:40:25who will double the money? Let's begin.
01:40:37Come on, darling, good luck. Good luck, Dudu. Oh.
01:40:41Cool. Are we first?
01:40:44Yes, I'm Shayan Tzadgi, 42 years old, lives
01:40:48in Emek Hefer. I'm Dudu Bodbul, 40 years old, originally
01:40:51from Ramla. I didn't say I'm from Ramla, I have to say this, listen, they caused me
01:40:55problems, no, I'm not first of all.