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00:00:52Six and almost five minutes here News on Reshet Bet, good morning
00:00:56listeners, good morning that starts right now.
00:01:00The sun rises in these minutes, a new day begins,
00:01:03Thursday, the 20th of Cheshvan, 5783, November 5,
00:01:072026. This morning, the morning diary of Reshet Bet with
00:01:11everything you need to know, as usual, from now until 8, also
00:01:14on your radio and also on television on Channel 11
00:01:18and of course also on the app on the Kan app. In short, however
00:01:21you want, we are with you, just if you are in the car, drive
00:01:25carefully. We will hear all the political updates
00:01:29this morning. When at the President's Residence, President
00:01:32Herzog will continue his round of consultations on who
00:01:36will receive the mandate to form the next government.
00:01:39It seems that it will be Gadi Eisenkot, the United Torah
00:01:43Judaism faction will temporarily disconnect
00:01:45or not from the Netanyahu bloc and will not recommend him today. What
00:01:49is the practical meaning of this? We will talk about it
00:01:51later. And in Shas, Aryeh Deri will remain at the head
00:01:54of the party. Surprise. We will also elaborate on
00:01:58the reactions in the Trump administration. And in the Republican party to
00:02:01their crushing defeat in Congress, Vice President Vance
00:02:05says that one of the reasons for the defeat is the war
00:02:08in Iran, President Trump in response justifies these
00:02:11things and also justifies the war. We will elaborate
00:02:15later. This morning, of course, with all the usual sections,
00:02:18culture, sports, everything until eight.
00:02:21Let's start.
00:02:30The consultations at the President's Residence will continue today towards
00:02:34entrusting the mandate to form the government. After yesterday, representatives
00:02:37of the factions came to present their recommendations,
00:02:41also today. The President will continue to ascertain which
00:02:43of the candidates can form a government, and he wants
00:02:47at all costs to prevent another round of elections. Our reporter Dikla
00:02:50Haroun reports on the expected day at the President's Residence
00:02:53and when we will know to whom the mandate will be entrusted. The
00:02:57round of consultations at the President's Residence is expected to continue today,
00:03:00after Herzog began yesterday meetings with representatives of four
00:03:03parties: Religious Zionism, Shas, Yisrael Beiteinu
00:03:07and Zehut. While representatives of Religious Zionism, Shas and Zehut
00:03:11recommended Netanyahu, representatives of Yisrael Beiteinu recommended,
00:03:14as expected, Eisenkot as a candidate to receive the mandate
00:03:18to form a government. Herzog said yesterday that he intends
00:03:21to hold incisive and sharp discussions with the representatives of the factions,
00:03:25to ask difficult questions and, if necessary, to hold additional rounds of
00:03:28consultations. In light of the assessment that representatives of the Arab
00:03:32parties will recommend Eisenkot to the President, the Prime Minister
00:03:35said yesterday that a government that depends on parties that support terrorism will
00:03:39not be able to deal with the challenge of extremist Islam that threatens from within
00:03:43and from without. This morning, representatives of the United Torah Judaism
00:03:46faction are expected to arrive at the President's Residence, followed by representatives of
00:03:50Otzma Yehudit, the Democrats, Ra'am, the Joint List, Yachad
00:03:53and Yisrael Beiteinu, and at the end of the day, members of the Likud faction,
00:03:57the largest faction according to the election results. At the end of the round,
00:04:01President Herzog is expected to announce who will be the candidate who will receive
00:04:05the mandate to form the government first from him.
00:04:08Yesterday, the chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Judge
00:04:11Solberg, submitted the official election results to President
00:04:14Herzog. Solberg said that even if the suspicions regarding foreign
00:04:18influence on the elections are confirmed, the extent of their influence is limited,
00:04:21and therefore it is not possible not to publish the election
00:04:24results. And against the backdrop of the growing tension with Iran
00:04:28and the readiness in the security establishment. The Chief of Staff
00:04:31Eyal Zamir emphasizes the readiness of the IDF for developments
00:04:35in the near and far arenas. Zamir warns
00:04:38against attempts by Hezbollah to return and establish itself in southern Lebanon,
00:04:41and he clarifies: We will respond forcefully to any such
00:04:45attempt. Here is Carmel Hamenashi's report. In a situation
00:04:48assessment held yesterday by the Chief of Staff in the Northern Command and its 91st
00:04:52Division, he says: Any attempt by the enemy to establish itself, strengthen itself
00:04:56or threaten the northern settlements will be met immediately
00:04:59and decisively. Zamir visited the Al-Hayam area alongside
00:05:03the commander of the Northern Command, the commander of the Ground Forces and the commander
00:05:07of Division 91. He met with brigade commanders, heard about
00:05:10the activity in the sector and about the defense concept designed to position IDF
00:05:14forces in front of the settlements and prevent threats to
00:05:17their residents. In his remarks, the Chief of Staff explicitly linked
00:05:20Hezbollah and Iran. During the war, Hezbollah
00:05:24once again proved that it is an Iranian proxy and not a Lebanese
00:05:27patriot. Its actions harmed the interests of the state of Lebanon
00:05:31and its citizens. According to him, the IDF is vigilant for developments
00:05:35in the near and far arenas and is ready to strike
00:05:37the enemy if it tries to harm us, as we have done
00:05:41in the past. The message from the north also relates to the possibility
00:05:44of a broader completion, preventing Hezbollah's strengthening alongside
00:05:48readiness for action if it tries to harm Israel. However,
00:05:52in the remarks issued from the visit, no change in the level of
00:05:55alert or a decision to launch
00:05:58a new operation was mentioned. Middle East expert Dr. Moshe Elad estimates that
00:06:02Lebanon is at a crossroads between the desire of the leadership
00:06:05in Beirut to strengthen the country's sovereignty and prevent
00:06:08another war, and Iran's efforts to maintain
00:06:12and preserve its influence through Hezbollah.
00:06:15According to him, the blows suffered by the organization weakened its ability
00:06:18to protect Iranian interests, but Tehran
00:06:21continues to see the Lebanese arena as a strategic
00:06:24asset. Elad warns that a renewed
00:06:28broad campaign against Iran could place Lebanon before a double
00:06:31danger. Further destruction due to fighting
00:06:34and the deepening of the internal crisis. According to his assessment,
00:06:38its ability to avoid being drawn into a campaign depends on the determination
00:06:41of the state institutions to stand against Iranian pressure
00:06:45and the support they will receive from the international
00:06:47community. During the visit, the Chief of Staff
00:06:51was also presented with the robotic combat team model of the
00:06:54769th Brigade and the 869th Collection Battalion. This
00:06:58model, which combines robotic means in front of
00:07:01and alongside the forces, is designed to improve operational
00:07:04effectiveness and strengthen the protection of
00:07:08the fighters. For three years, he says, the Northern Command
00:07:12has been fighting Hezbollah, harming it and denying it many
00:07:16capabilities. He added, if required,
00:07:19we will know how to deepen the achievement.
00:07:226:01. This morning here are the news on Reshet Bet. Now
00:07:25to the newspapers.
00:07:28Here are the news on Reshet Bet. Newspaper headlines.
00:07:32Let's start with Israel Hayom, Where are our relations headed? This is the headline of
00:07:36Israel Hayom, after the victory that is defined here as an anti-Israeli
00:07:39victory. This is after the elections in the United
00:07:43States, when the Democratic Party wins a majority in Congress,
00:07:46meaning also in the House of Representatives, also in the Senate, the Vice President of the United States says
00:07:50one of our priorities is to change relations with
00:07:53Israel, this is a huge drama in the midterm elections in the United
00:07:56States, a painful defeat for the Republicans and a heavy blow
00:08:00to the White House, the Democrats conquered the Senate and the House of Representatives
00:08:03and also won in red strongholds,
00:08:07days will tell if President Trump will be left alone in the tower in the battle for
00:08:11Israel's security? This is in Israel Hayom with this
00:08:15question. A political headline in Israel Hayom, new tunes
00:08:18in Shas. The deputy of the Council of Torah Sages says
00:08:22Netanyahu and Eisenkot in rotation. This is
00:08:25the proposal of the deputy of the Council of Torah Sages,
00:08:29a split is emerging in United Torah Judaism regarding their recommendation,
00:08:32thus in the second Haredi party. The assessment is strengthening that a unity government is not
00:08:36currently on the agenda, the mandate will be given to
00:08:39Eisenkot, this is the assessment in Israel. Today, let's move
00:08:43to Haaretz newspaper, the voters in the United States were tired of Trump,
00:08:46and the Democrats recorded a crushing victory in the elections for the
00:08:50House of Representatives and the Senate. Professor
00:08:53Yael Stern writes an article, its summary on the cover of the full
00:08:56article on page five, she writes, it's not over. If there is one
00:09:00lesson learned this week, it is that even in an era of extreme
00:09:03polarization, the public in the United States is capable of the political
00:09:07flexibility that characterized it since the state was founded. The unimaginable
00:09:10achievements in the most populous districts in the United States indicate
00:09:14seemingly a renewed connection of the public to
00:09:17the party, however, if the Democrats do not know
00:09:21how to take advantage of the opportunity, it is possible that the Republicans
00:09:24will return in 2028, in two years, presidential
00:09:28elections, thus in Haaretz. Mossad head
00:09:31Gofman transferred a department head in the organization from his position due to
00:09:35disagreements, this is the third in six months, this is
00:09:38a headline in Haaretz newspaper on the front page, a headline by journalist Michael.
00:09:42The helper is good.
00:09:45The Shabak reported that large sums of money passed through him in the elections, but he did not provide
00:09:49evidence for this. The service suspects that Ayman Odeh received foreign
00:09:52money. This is also a headline in the newspaper. Let's move to Maariv newspaper:
00:09:55The mandate is on its way to Eisenkot, this is the headline above
00:09:59the picture of President Herzog, who is the one who will decide, but as mentioned, this
00:10:02is an estimate, the mandate will go to Eisenkot. Today is the second round of consultations at the
00:10:06President's Residence. Ra'am recommends Eisenkot, who is expected to win
00:10:10a majority even without the support of the parties. Ben
00:10:13Caspit writes an article on page three, one sentence
00:10:16from the article appears here on the front page of Maariv, Zini, the head
00:10:20of the Shabak must be removed from his position and the sooner
00:10:24the better. The full article by Ben Caspit on page three
00:10:27in Maariv.
00:10:31In Yedioth Ahronoth, America lost is the main headline next to
00:10:34the picture of President Trump's defeat for
00:10:37the Republicans. We said the American
00:10:39President Trump supports
00:10:43his deputy's words that the campaign against Iran is one of
00:10:47the reasons, but he says it was worth it. President Trump says it
00:10:50was worth it, the war in Iran was worth the very
00:10:54tragic results. In diplomatic terms, which he sees in the midterm elections.
00:10:57Police and Shabak officials did not provide investigation materials. This
00:11:01is regarding the investigation that is underway regarding the suspicion
00:11:04of violations of election integrity and foreign influence.
00:11:07The Attorney General and the head of the Shabak met after the confrontation regarding
00:11:11the investigation of the Arabs and agreed on a calm, a calm between
00:11:15the Attorney General and the head
00:11:17of the Shabak. Ronen Bergman writes an article
00:11:21on page eight, the headline here on the front page of Yedioth Ahronoth.
00:11:25The State of Israel is in the midst of an attempted coup,
00:11:29so says Ronen Bergman, the full article on page
00:11:33eight in the Yated Ne'eman newspaper blue tsunami in the United States,
00:11:36a victory for the supporters of religious Zionism, this is the headline of the
00:11:40Haredi newspaper Yated Ne'eman,
00:11:44under the guidance of our rabbis and sages, may they live long, the
00:11:47Degel HaTorah party will not recommend any of the candidates to the
00:11:50President, this is the headline in Yated Ne'eman, according
00:11:54to which the other Haredi Knesset members
00:11:57in the United Torah Judaism party will not
00:12:00recommend anyone, not Netanyahu and not
00:12:03Eisenkot. In the Mevaser newspaper
00:12:06in France, the assembly of thousands
00:12:10in Paris for the sake of the World Torah Fund, Torah is eternal,
00:12:13only in this way will the people of Israel exist
00:12:16and continue to exist until the coming of the righteous redeemer.
00:12:19The rabbis continue their journeys
00:12:23for him.
00:12:25In Europe, well, these are the headlines at a glance,
00:12:29today's newspapers, now
00:12:32for culture,
00:12:35here is the news on Reshet Bet.
00:12:38Culture,
00:12:40culture with Alon Froker, good morning, Alon, hello Ran, here
00:17:31only there, and now we have the weather forecast, good morning, our forecaster, Sharon
00:17:35Wexler, hello and good morning. This week thus
00:17:38shows us in the best possible way that we are in autumn, we started
00:17:41the week with very warm days, a kind of heatwave, and now
00:17:45the temperatures are gradually dropping, with today we are
00:17:48still with normal temperatures for the season, in some places even below
00:17:52the seasonal average, with local showers possible
00:17:56here and there, nothing very dramatic in the north and on the coast, not
00:17:59very large amounts, at this stage I would not change plans
00:18:02for today, unless, you know, a few minutes of rain
00:18:06will ruin everything for you. So yes, it is possible, today we have
00:18:1022 degrees in the mountains, only 25 along the coastal
00:18:13plain, 26 in the lowlands, 26 also in the northern
00:18:16Negev, in Eilat 29 degrees. What awaits us
00:18:19tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, that's a completely different story. Tomorrow,
00:18:23and the day after tomorrow, we are really in winter, a winter system
00:18:27that affects us Friday, Saturday and a bit on Sunday,
00:18:30with the wettest day, as it currently seems, will be
00:18:34between Friday and Saturday, during Saturday, and... On
00:18:37Friday, there will be rain from time to time, possibly accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning. What
00:18:41is important to note is that it won't rain all the time on
00:18:45Friday, it will rain from time to time, and when it rains, it
00:18:48can be heavy. On Saturday, another drop in temperatures, it will be colder
00:18:52than usual for the season, the rains will be a bit more intense, they can reach as far as
00:18:56the northern Negev, and along the coastal plain, mainly from the
00:18:59afternoon hours, mainly the central and southern coastal plain, there is
00:19:03a risk of local floods, the winds will also strengthen on
00:19:06Saturday, on. Already local rain again in the north of the country
00:19:09and its center, as of today, this is at the level of
00:19:12local rains and not very strong.
00:19:15Sharon, thank you, rain, rain is good, just again, drive slowly if you are
00:19:19outside, and if you are inside, then let's talk about air conditioners,
00:19:23Israel is joining a global initiative to
00:19:26reduce the use of polluting refrigerants and switch
00:19:29to more environmentally friendly technologies,
00:19:32the hardest word for broadcasters, the move is expected to gradually change the
00:19:35air conditioning market in Israel in the coming decade. So
00:19:39what will the air conditioners of the future look like, and what does it mean for consumers
00:19:43from Michal Sarmani's details? Israel is joining an
00:19:46international initiative to reduce one of the most significant sources of greenhouse
00:19:50gas emissions, refrigerants in air conditioners
00:19:53and cooling systems. This comes exactly a decade after
00:19:57an international amendment was signed, according to which
00:20:00190 countries committed to gradually
00:20:02reduce 85% of the consumption of these gases by
00:20:062030. Dr. Naama Wald, Director
00:20:10of the Energy and Climate Change Division at the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
00:20:14We are here in Kigali, Rwanda, on a joint delegation of the Ministry of Environmental
00:20:17Protection, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Labor, together with representatives from all over the world,
00:20:21to promote the protection of the ozone layer and to promote the cessation of
00:20:24the use of greenhouse gases in the cooling and air conditioning world. This year, Israel
00:20:28brings important news. We recently completed the ratification of the Kigali
00:20:32Amendment, and we are officially joining the international effort to reduce
00:20:35the use of refrigerants that, paradoxically, warm the
00:20:39Earth. In a hot country like ours, where air conditioning and cooling are an essential
00:20:42part of daily life, this is a significant step, which requires
00:20:46the cooperation of the government with industry
00:20:50importers and all professionals. The move will have implications for the air conditioning
00:20:53and cooling market in Israel. Already in the coming years, the quantities allowed
00:20:57for use of the common refrigerants today will gradually
00:21:00decrease. At the same time, a transition to alternative
00:21:04gases and technologies will be required, whose environmental impact
00:21:08is low. Israeli legislation was completed about two months ago, deposited
00:21:11at the UN on October 5th, and will come into force
00:21:15within 90 days. Those planning to purchase a new air conditioning
00:21:18system, importers, installers, and building owners will need
00:21:22to prepare for the new changes that will make
00:21:25cooling and air conditioning in Israel more
00:21:28environmentally friendly.
00:21:36Now for the follow-up, here is the news. The family of fallen IDF soldier
00:21:40Kalkidan Mahari is forced to continue fighting for its right
00:21:43to live in Israel. After a legal battle, at the end of which
00:21:47the bereaved mother received Israeli citizenship, the state refuses
00:21:50to allow Kalkidan's brothers to remain in Israel permanently.
00:21:54The family now intends to appeal to the High Court of Justice following the rejection
00:21:57of the citizenship application. The details are in the report by Nofar Moshe Pardo.
00:22:01Kalkidan Mahari was a hero of Israel. He was among the first
00:22:04to respond to the battle when he enlisted in the reserves after the
00:22:07Hamas terror attack on October 7th. Kalkidan immigrated
00:22:10to Israel at the age of 17, and a year later he had already enlisted
00:22:14in the army. After that, he continued to reserve service
00:22:17and served hundreds of days in the war. He fell
00:22:20in battle while his mother and brother were in Ethiopia, not
00:22:24knowing at all that he was on the front in Gaza. For years
00:22:27before his fall in battle, Kalkidan fought to bring his
00:22:31family to Israel, a struggle that
00:22:33did not succeed, and so he fell in battle, after
00:22:37not seeing his mother Almaz for almost two years. His family,
00:22:40who came for the funeral, requested to receive citizenship, and after
00:22:44a long struggle of more than a year, and an appeal to the court, his
00:22:48mother Almaz received Israeli citizenship.
00:22:50But his brothers and sister were refused.
00:22:54In the last discussion on the matter in court, the state even demanded
00:22:57tissue testing to verify
00:23:00that Kalkidan's mother, may he rest in peace, is indeed
00:23:03also the mother of the siblings whose mother grew up in Ethiopia.
00:23:06Esti, Kalkidan's half-sister, tells about the struggle
00:23:10the family has been waging since his fall, and now they are asking
00:23:14us for a DNA test or to enlist
00:23:17in the army and serve in the army.
00:23:20And to die for this country, as in our case, then we are connected and that's
00:23:24great and good, but when we ask for citizenship, something
00:23:28that is so basic and so,
00:23:30there is no room for confusion at all. This
00:23:34is a humanitarian question, this is a question of a soldier
00:23:38who was under the responsibility of the state, fell,
00:23:41and along with that there is his family that needs
00:23:44to be taken care of. It is important to say that this is not the first case of a fallen IDF soldier whose family
00:23:48asks to receive status in Israel, in the
00:23:51vast majority of cases, the state decided to grant status, even
00:23:55when there is no connection to Judaism, as in the case
00:23:58of Sidra Green, between migrant workers
00:24:01from the Philippines, whose father was deported from Israel, but
00:24:05received status after his son's death. After appealing to the
00:24:08District Court, Kalkidan's family will appeal to the Supreme
00:24:12Court, hoping to receive justice
00:24:15and relief there. Attorney Michal Promerantz from the Legal Aid
00:24:19Department of the Ministry of Justice has been accompanying the bereaved
00:24:21family since the beginning of the struggle. This is a completely
00:24:25arbitrary conduct, because there was another soldier
00:24:28who was killed, and his brother was also in Ethiopia, and they
00:24:31gave him permanent residency. So it is really not clear why the situation
00:24:35of Kena and Mesfin is different. Kalkidan died defending the
00:24:39country he loved so much, and it is hard to grasp or
00:24:42believe that the state is now forcing his family
00:24:46to fight for the right to live here in Israel as ordinary citizens.
00:24:50The follow-up by Nofar Moshe Pardo, and it is a follow-up
00:24:54that will continue now. Almost
00:24:566:29, this morning's headlines.
00:25:14This morning, consultations continued at the President's Residence ahead of entrusting the mandate
00:25:18to form the government. Ra'am announced that it would recommend Gadi
00:25:21Eisenkot, while United Torah Judaism decided not to recommend any
00:25:25candidate. Following the decisions for the Yisrael
00:25:28Beiteinu party led by Eisenkot, there is now a majority of recommenders, and it seems that he
00:25:32will be the first to receive from President Herzog the mandate to form
00:25:35the government. In parallel, Prime Minister Netanyahu published yesterday
00:25:39a filmed statement, his first since the elections,
00:25:42and called for the formation of a broad
00:25:45national government under his leadership. This is
00:25:48how it sounded. Extremism, this is the challenge that is tearing apart
00:25:52countries in Europe today, this is the challenge that also
00:25:55threatens us, and I ask a simple question: Who can deal with
00:25:58this challenge? Who will certainly not be able to deal with the threat
00:26:02of extremist Islam? This is a government that depends on extremist
00:26:05Islam, on these Islamist parties that deny the very
00:26:09existence of a Jewish state. But there is
00:26:12a government that can deal with this challenge,
00:26:15a broad national government led by the Likud under my leadership,
00:26:19that will include all components of the national bloc and all the Zionist
00:26:23parties that wish to join. And in the United States, following the crushing
00:26:27defeat of the Republican Party in the midterm elections, criticism
00:26:30of President Trump and the war in Iran is growing. The President's
00:26:34critics claim that the war in which the United States acted alongside Israel
00:26:37took a heavy political price from the Republicans, and there are also
00:26:41those who point an accusing finger at Israel and its involvement
00:26:45in the campaign. Trump was asked if in retrospect the war in Iran was
00:26:48worth the price? This is his answer.
00:26:52It's largely true because it drove the
00:26:55gasoline.
00:27:09I think that's largely true, meaning the explanation
00:27:12that the war in Iran brought one of the reasons for the defeat because it
00:27:16boosted gasoline prices, says Trump, and it seems that this is the main
00:27:20reason. The price, not the war, the price. So they ask him, do you
00:27:23feel it was worth it? And Trump turns, I definitely do, yes, yes, it's
00:27:27good, there was no choice, we can't let Iran have nuclear
00:27:30weapons, so. US President Trump,
00:27:34who in American slang is now becoming a lame
00:27:37duck, because he has two more years in the presidency
00:27:40and the Congress has changed
00:27:43significantly and it is an adversarial Congress, also
00:27:47towards him to some extent, also towards Israel, we will talk about that
00:27:51later, so these are the
00:27:51morning headlines.
00:27:58And now back to us, to governance or rather
00:28:01to the lack of governance.
00:28:06In recent nights and days, real shooting battles. The mayor announced that the deterioration has reached
00:28:10its peak. He is pleading for a national enforcement operation and says the
00:28:14mayor that when the shooting started, the police disappeared.
00:28:17There is an impression that the police station is empty. Hello, our correspondent
00:28:21in the south, Saab Fuzailov. Hello. Yes, towards the formation
00:28:25of one government or another, the current Minister of National
00:28:29Security wants to be Minister of Defense. So here's what's happening.
00:28:32In a small area, in a small city,
00:28:35that is still under his control
00:28:38within the borders of Israel. A very harsh letter
00:28:41from the mayor of Rahat to the inspector, he accuses
00:28:44the police of disappearing during shooting incidents, and there
00:28:48is an impression, he says, that the large police station in the city is simply empty,
00:28:52to that extent. He wrote to the inspector that the shooting incidents in recent
00:28:55days in the city are increasing, reached a negative
00:28:58peak, there is use of military weapons and automatic
00:29:02weapons. I will remind you, Mags, machine guns and a lot of
00:29:06M-16s, incidents and massive shooting
00:29:09that have not been seen before in the city,
00:29:12and the incidents are happening for many hours, both day and
00:29:16night, these are escalations that have not been seen before,
00:29:19despite the very great violence
00:29:23in the Bedouin sector, the mayor of
00:29:26asks, pleads or cries out to declare a
00:29:30national enforcement operation to restore.
00:29:34He demands the physical presence of senior police officers in the city,
00:29:37a mission-oriented command, technological monitoring means,
00:29:41drones, an observation balloon and even a police
00:29:44helicopter. He accuses that during
00:29:47the night, after hours of
00:29:50shooting, two days ago, no
00:29:53reinforcement forces were sent, to the point that, as mentioned, it seems that the largest
00:29:57station in the city is empty, uh, and he says, there is no will
00:30:01to deal with... the problem from the police side.
00:30:04When the police want to deal with public order disturbances, they know
00:30:07very well how to do it, but for some reason, when they are required
00:30:11to do it in the city of Rahat, to stop shooting
00:30:14that lasts for hours and hours, they disappeared
00:30:17from the area and allowed the lawbreakers to run wild
00:30:20as they pleased. This is not helplessness,
00:30:23says the mayor, but absolute indifference
00:30:27to these things, uh, the mayor
00:30:30attaches videos and audio files that were recorded
00:30:34during last night to document
00:30:38the recent shooting, hoping that seeing with eyes and hearing with ears will help
00:30:41to understand the situation, to such an extent that
00:30:45we have reached this point. Thank you very much,
00:30:48Saf, and with us is Abu Mediam, former mayor
00:30:52of Rahat. Hello to you, good
00:30:55morning. You are also a senior member of Ra'am, we will talk about politics later, but first
00:30:59about your city, about Rahat. We see a video.
00:31:02We hear the sounds of gunfire. I want to ask you as a resident,
00:31:06what is it like to live in Rahat?
00:31:10As a resident who lost his son at the beginning of
00:31:13the year. Who until now, his son's murder has not been solved.
00:31:16As a resident, the shooting
00:31:20reached his house last week and also
00:31:23לרכב שלי
00:31:26I tell you that we live
00:31:29in chaos. We really
00:31:33Rahat life is very
00:31:36difficult in the public space, there is
00:31:39no security even though there is police and I disagree with the mayor
00:31:42the police indeed takes action and indeed. Set up
00:31:45roadblocks in my neighborhood, she has until
00:31:49now set up for example
00:31:52concrete roadblocks, she checks at night
00:31:56but the police is a small police force
00:31:59the ratio in Israel for every thousand
00:32:02policemen there is in Tel Aviv, we always hear
00:32:06that Rahat is like Tel Aviv, in Tel Aviv there are
00:32:093000 policemen and 2000 volunteers
00:32:12in our station 85 thousand.
00:32:16residents, there are less than 100, we are short
00:32:19about 150 policemen. What's the explanation? How do you explain this
00:32:22shortage? This shortage is not recruiting
00:32:25and also not recruiting or not wanting
00:32:27to enlist? No, they actually want to enlist
00:32:30from our society and they don't accept, they don't accept our
00:32:34young people, why? Why don't they accept? They don't accept,
00:32:38they say, we are checking your family. What is a family? All
00:32:41the family, your radius, yours,
00:32:45your brothers, your cousins, if they have a record, and then
00:32:48they are thrown out, and then all the Jewish youth come to volunteer
00:32:52here, or go to work here, and they pass, no one, but
00:32:55it should be an interest, it should be an interest of the police that the station will be
00:32:59large, that crime will go down, what can't be that the police don't
00:33:03want this, that's how it is, that's how it really is, if they
00:33:06have a will, they should at least build a station, the station
00:33:1050% of it is caravans without any additional construction,
00:33:14got a fever and wanted to issue a demolition order for the buildings
00:33:18to stop any construction, there is no budget at all, there was a budget
00:33:21and they stole it, and they took it, Ben Gvir
00:33:25and Maya Golan, took it to another place. There is
00:33:29no intention to empower the police, we are short about 150
00:33:33policemen, we are a territory
00:33:36in terms of land, we are the size of Tel
00:33:39Aviv, in terms of radius, it's impossible
00:33:42to control the events, it's a city.
00:33:4560% of it are children and under the age
00:33:48of 18 and Noah, the situation in Rahat is out of control
00:33:51in my opinion. Yes, many cases, uh,
00:33:54this is
00:33:57what is called conflicts that cannot be silenced
00:34:01in a month, there is always shooting, there are
00:34:04drones, there are explosions, but what about the society?
00:34:08The society, you know, society cannot within
00:34:11itself cope, fight.
00:34:15To remove these criminals from it? It's impossible,
00:34:19it's impossible to take the law into your own hands, we need
00:34:22to join hands between police and community, we
00:34:26are joining hands, we are helping with all our
00:34:29means and cooperating to solve every incident
00:34:33and incident, but on the one hand,
00:34:37a police force that has small manpower
00:34:40and a large radius, and does not have the means and tools, besides
00:34:44that. Also the indifference, people got used to it, unfortunately,
00:34:48we are at 10, 11
00:34:50murdered per year, and it's not
00:34:53over yet, yes, the sorrow you know this, we mentioned,
00:34:57you, to our great sorrow and tragedy, you know this, as you told
00:35:01about, your flesh, Mukhtar,
00:35:04your son, was murdered at the beginning of this year, he was shot
00:35:07to death, in his car, until now
00:35:10you say no, there is no rest, they haven't found the
00:35:13murderers. I tell you, I went, I begged the police
00:35:17several times to take my family's version, they didn't. I
00:35:20gave them 50 videos from all directions, no
00:35:24progress, they solve murder cases
00:35:27only if they catch them red-handed or if there was a camera that filmed,
00:35:31but to invest, they are not capable of investing,
00:35:35therefore we lose almost every
00:35:38month a young person, in my
00:35:41neighborhood, besides my son, a month ago, a young person, my neighbor.
00:35:45And yesterday, also in the neighborhood next door, it's impossible
00:35:49to continue living like this in the public space
00:35:53in Rahat, it's so dangerous, it's so
00:35:56dangerous, and therefore many people went out to
00:35:59vote to change this situation. We hear that Sarah
00:36:03Modi'i would support racism, you
00:36:05as mentioned, you Abu Ma'adiam, a senior member of the
00:36:08Ra'am party. What is the intention
00:36:12of relying on Ra'am, that Ra'am will enter? Any direction
00:36:15for a government that you know of?
00:36:18First of all, I stood in the
00:36:21last elections several times
00:36:24in Ra'am, I am not a senior member, I am a member of Ra'am. I know
00:36:28what is happening there, I was already calling
00:36:31first of all, first of all to refute all
00:36:35the lies of Gini, the head of the Shin Bet, and of
00:36:38Netanyahu, that there is something
00:36:41wrong with the elections that took place, we
00:36:44went and voted in masses, because we believe
00:36:48that change is needed, and therefore I
00:36:51believe that Ra'am proves time and again
00:36:55that it speaks in the name of God.
00:37:04There is nothing that disqualifies Ra'am, the right wing once
00:37:07winked at it, but it went with
00:37:10Bennett and Lapid in the government of change
00:37:14and proved that it is loyal to the coalition
00:37:17and there was even a rebellion within within the party of
00:37:20Mazangen because the party decided to go
00:37:24with the coalition and now what will happen in your opinion?
00:37:28In my estimation, first of all we
00:37:31will have the chairman of the faction and the chairman of the party
00:37:35will suggest to the president to give to Eisenkot
00:37:38to form the government and we think
00:37:42that there is no problem at all
00:37:44to rely on the Ra'am party because
00:37:47it almost accepted every condition that
00:37:51Eisenkot said before
00:37:54the elections. Do you also speak with the Likud? No, no, no, no, not with me and they won't talk to us
00:37:57and we don't want to talk to them.
00:38:01We are with the majority in Israel who want a different
00:38:05government. We are with the majority of the country that says
00:38:23citizens will continue today, demanding from the party
00:38:26representatives. who come to President Herzog, they ask them, demand
00:38:30from them to recommend a unity government, and this move is led
00:38:33by the Fourth Quarter movement, we are with you Hala Ringel, CEO
00:38:37of the Fourth Quarter, hello Hala, good morning, Ran, how many came
00:38:41yesterday? No, the truth is that we are starting
00:38:44today, from this morning, I understand, Wednesday, Thursday, so, so we
00:38:48actually changed it to Thursday, because we said we and mainly
00:38:51mainly in the evening hours, that's where the main
00:38:54mass will be, of people. That in the evening
00:39:10we will reach many hundreds of people who will come and tell them that in the face of
00:39:13the many challenges this is the leadership and the right thing to do now and you
00:39:17also say even if it requires breaking promises.
00:39:20I think we all understand that when we look
00:39:24at all the promises that were made no government will be formed here if not... already some promise,
00:39:27and therefore
00:39:30the issue is not the promises, but the issue is the challenges, I listened to the headlines this morning
00:39:33that you read, and just from a few headlines this morning that you read, we
00:39:37understand what enormous challenges face the government of Israel, facing the state
00:39:40of Israel, and there is no choice but to think
00:39:43what government will be formed here that can cope with these
00:39:47challenges, so why is a unity government the only
00:39:49solution? Look, we have
00:39:53enormous challenges in our foreign policy, we see what is happening now in the midterm
00:39:56elections in the United States, we don't know what will happen in two
00:39:59years in the elections, sorry for interrupting you, the challenges, we all know the challenges
00:40:03from inside and outside, the question is about the solution, why
00:40:06unity and not a different type of government? That's exactly
00:40:10the point, once you understand the challenges you realize that you need to make complex
00:40:14and difficult moves here, both internally for different citizens,
00:40:18and we have enormous challenges externally as well. Once you have a broad government
00:40:21that includes a majority of Israelis who come and say we know
00:40:25how to balance each other in our views. We have an Israeli majority
00:40:29here, both internally, look, internally, the citizens look and say, I
00:40:33see difficult decisions being made here, I see my
00:40:36representatives, I can trust them, and the same goes for outwards, when they
00:40:40look outwards at Israel and say, okay, we see a government that has
00:40:43balances, we can start slowly giving more confidence
00:40:47in this government, we have no choice, this is what will create
00:40:51stability here in the face of enormous challenges that will constantly shake us, but we also saw
00:40:54some types of unity that also
00:40:58included racism as part of the government, but after that they left, meaning it's
00:41:02not exactly something, how shall we put it delicately, that improved the situation.
00:41:05No, look, I think this: first of all,
00:41:08we are, I am the first to know that we are currently in a bad
00:41:12situation, all the choices facing us right now for forming
00:41:15a government are not good choices. I think that the way governments
00:41:19were formed, not all of them were unity governments, by
00:41:22the way, and this is also related to Benjamin Netanyahu's call yesterday
00:41:26for a national government led by. those who will join it, that's not a unity
00:41:29government, rather a government that is essentially there, that's the government
00:41:32where Benjamin Netanyahu is, with his natural partners, where there are issues
00:41:36that cannot be agreed upon, which are related to Israel's major challenges.
00:41:40And therefore, the start is with a government that includes
00:41:43the two major parties, they set the basic lines, they set the
00:41:47conditions, and then whoever wants to come, and you say that the majority of the public wants
00:41:50that, look, because we saw
00:41:53in the elections, you know, in the end every party, every party
00:41:56that raised the banner of unity, either didn't
00:41:59even make it to election day, or didn't pass the electoral threshold,
00:42:03right, and therefore the answer is, I think the public doesn't want that, and for that I have
00:42:07two things to say, unfortunately I say that the public doesn't want that,
00:42:11let's say, I also understand how we got to this situation, I have two things to say, now it's
00:42:15no longer a matter of desire, that's the first thing, it's a matter of no
00:42:18choice, meaning I don't understand what are the alternatives, what kind of government will be formed
00:42:22here, and I don't understand how we can allow ourselves to go to another election
00:42:25in our situation, that's A' and B', I think that sometimes,
00:42:29the question is whether we have politicians or leaders at our head, if
00:42:33they are leaders, they don't always do what the public wants, but rather do what
00:42:37is right for the country, that's what. The Fourth
00:42:50Meretz chairwoman, currently president of the Zulat Institute. Hello Zehava, good
00:42:54morning. Ran, so why not unity? Unity
00:42:57is a paralysis government. With whom exactly to make unity? With those who sat
00:43:01here for the last four years, starting with the Prime
00:43:04Minister and his Knesset members and ministers
00:43:08who promoted a regime change here. Who promoted a racist
00:43:11policy here, who are actually responsible
00:43:14for the range of October 7th, for the biggest failure in the history
00:43:18of the State of Israel, with them exactly they want to make unity. Now,
00:43:21unity, Ran, it must be said, is a beautifying
00:43:24word that comes to cover a concept
00:43:28called racism, because there is an option, there are
00:43:3167 mandates that voted for change compared to
00:43:34the 53 who some of them today want
00:43:36unity. There is a very clear decision. For the Israeli
00:43:40public, but what? Who asks for unity actually
00:43:44asks to say let's not make a government with Arabs, let's call a spade a spade.
00:43:48So you also sent a letter, you are in a group of people
00:43:51who will detail this letter and the signatories, you sent a letter to the heads of the
00:43:54change bloc to form a coalition with the Arab citizens' parties.
00:43:57Correct. Close to 90 former ministers and
00:44:00Knesset members, starting from the Likud, today's Likud
00:44:04as you could call it, Kadima, Jewish
00:44:08Arab center parties, from all sides, uh, we wrote
00:44:12a letter to the representatives of the change bloc, mainly to Eisenkot, he has
00:44:15an option to form a government, it is a real option to form,
00:44:18I think, I think yes, I think yes, look at what we are facing,
00:44:22I think yes, he has an option to form a government with public representatives,
00:44:26representatives of the Arab public, 20% a fifth of the country's
00:44:29citizens, they have no political representation in Israeli
00:44:33governments, we have seen for years, we see how their
00:44:37streets are bleeding from crime, they suffer from neglect.
00:44:41And therefore, they went out in droves to vote and indeed received a great achievement, 19
00:44:44mandates. But Zehava Galon is not worried now, after October
00:44:477th, that people who refuse to define
00:44:51Hamas as a terrorist organization will sit in an Israeli
00:44:55coalition. Look, for me, Hamas is a terrorist organization. I'll tell you what worries me.
00:44:59What worries me is the racism against
00:45:02an entire public, against an entire public that lives here
00:45:05with us, with a boot on its neck, and we need to stop that, and I want to
00:45:08tell you. Especially regarding this issue, that indeed, again
00:45:12and again, Arab Knesset members fail to condemn
00:45:15Hamas as a terrorist organization, they fail, they don't want to, but they don't do it, doesn't that worry you?
00:45:19I think that we need to stop. For me,
00:45:23Hamas is a terrorist organization. Not for you, that's clear. The question is why not for them? I want
00:45:27to say this: I don't tell Arab public representatives what they need
00:45:30to say. I would be happy if they would say that Hamas is a terrorist
00:45:33organization, but I don't tell them what to say, and also Eisenkot set four conditions, and that's
00:45:37one of them. And if I understand correctly. So Ra'am people
00:45:40and Mansour Abbas are willing to accept Eisenkot's four conditions. Do you understand
00:45:44or know? From what I gather. I haven't spoken to him personally
00:45:48about it. But I want to tell you something beyond that. Look what's happening here. You ask
00:45:52why they don't condemn Hamas. Rightly so, you ask. But I'm looking at what's
00:45:55happening in parallel. And I see the steps that
00:45:59Prime Minister Netanyahu is taking to essentially create his January
00:46:026th in the Israeli version. He incites against
00:46:06the Arab public and its leaders. He uses the head
00:46:09of the Shin Bet to essentially harm
00:46:13or cast doubt on Arab
00:46:16leaders, the desire to investigate Ra'am, the Joint List,
00:46:19yes, the arrest of Waleed Taha until yesterday, things said about
00:46:23Knesset members Odeh and nothing without evidence, this thing is really disturbing,
00:46:27and I, of course, they need to fire the chairman, the head of the Shin Bet,
00:46:31Ghasin, I think that when the government is formed, as part
00:46:34of cleaning house, Ghasin is the first one who needs to go, because he doesn't behave as someone
00:46:38responsible for an institution, look.
00:46:40The Shin Bet is a state institution, he heads a state body, he uses this state
00:46:44body, now that's why I think, uh, that we
00:46:47need, uh, in my opinion, the public in Israel, those
00:46:5167 need to form a government, it takes
00:46:55courage, it takes, so I want to ask you in conclusion, you say a government with Arab parties, so really
00:46:58in conclusion, if such a scenario does not include representatives of the Arab public,
00:47:02is a government with representatives of the Haredi public also an option
00:47:05for you? Look, I don't rule out representatives of United
00:47:09Torah Judaism, I don't rule out, I think that in such a difficult
00:47:13situation, compromises will have to be made, compromises will
00:47:16have to be made on the issue of enlistment? Uh, I think
00:47:19that an enlistment law will have to be legislated, of course they will have to reach an agreement.
00:47:52Thank you
00:47:52very much.
00:47:58We'll stay with politics. Yoav Krakovsky, our political commentator,
00:48:01hello, hello Ran, good morning. Let's talk about
00:48:04Deri. The Council of Torah Sages of
00:48:07Shas, what holds him by the hand, by the hair, just stay
00:48:10and he wants to leave so much. They are holding him and again he is doing
00:48:14this, again he is doing this. Aryeh Deri,
00:48:18there is a political failure and he is doing a "hold me back" event. So
00:48:21in Shas, and this needs to be said, there are no primaries and no
00:48:25members, there are rabbis and a council of sages, and Deri is what
00:48:28he actually did after the resounding failure of
00:48:32these elections, a cut in half from 11
00:48:35to six mandates, to the smallest party in the Knesset,
00:48:39Deri essentially demanded renewed trust from the rabbis, and this
00:48:42is why throughout the last few days, first of all he secluded
00:48:46himself in his home, refused to speak with
00:48:49rabbis, spread the rumor that his goal was
00:48:53to resign from the Shas leadership and certainly not
00:48:56to be a Knesset member in the next Knesset, and this thing
00:49:00even escalated yesterday. What he did yesterday was essentially
00:49:03campaign. He resigns, he resigns exactly the opposite,
00:49:07Ran, of what happened in 1999, after
00:49:0917 mandates in the 99 elections, when he
00:49:13held the conference, he does not resign, and two weeks later he actually
00:49:16did resign and was dismissed. So Deri essentially
00:49:20made this move. Forced the rabbis to convene
00:49:24the Council of Torah Sages without his participation,
00:49:27who issued a kind of letter of confidence
00:49:30in the chairman of Shas, very long, in which
00:49:33they detail his actions for the world of
00:49:37Torah, for the Torah scholars,
00:49:40and in one of the paragraphs it is explicitly stated
00:49:43that the Council of Torah Sages forbids him with a severe
00:49:47prohibition from resigning from the party's leadership,
00:49:50and therefore Deri is not resigning. Not from the party's leadership,
00:49:54but the question is if he will be a Knesset member, and Deri, at least
00:49:58at this stage, is not resigning because he is waiting for a scenario
00:50:01that perhaps Benjamin Netanyahu can still form
00:50:04a government, as long as Netanyahu has a slim
00:50:08chance of forming a government, Deri
00:50:10is there. If Netanyahu does not form a government and perhaps
00:50:14another government is formed, it is very possible that he will also resign from the Knesset,
00:50:18perhaps even a more significant resignation. At this stage, as
00:50:21long as there is a chance, he is
00:50:25there, yes, despite the pressures
00:50:28to keep him in politics, are the Haredim making a move?
00:50:32I want to talk to you about United Torah Judaism, when Netanyahu's
00:50:35list of recommenders, you can subtract from it the seven
00:50:38Knesset members of United Torah Judaism, they will not recommend Netanyahu, nor
00:50:42Eisenkot, but can it be said that United Torah Judaism is disconnecting from Netanyahu's
00:50:46bloc? No, I think it's still too early
00:50:49to determine that, what the Haredim are essentially doing. They
00:50:52are trying to restore the crown to its former glory, if
00:50:56we want the slogan of Shas. In the 80s
00:50:59and 90s, the Haredim were a bargaining chip, they managed to work with
00:51:03this side of politics and also with the other side, with the right, with the left,
00:51:07also with, in this case, also with coalitions
00:51:10that are not necessarily identified with Benjamin Netanyahu,
00:51:14the last time Haredim were in a coalition other than one led
00:51:18by Netanyahu was under Ehud Olmert
00:51:20in Kadima,
00:51:22so they basically only joined coalitions that Netanyahu
00:51:26formed, and they essentially lost the ability
00:51:29to negotiate to try to create
00:51:32to improve the card they have from the elections, and what they are doing now
00:51:35is trying to bring it back to the past.
00:51:39I don't think United Torah Judaism will join any coalition
00:51:42led by Gadi Eisenkot. Maybe they will support from outside. I doubt
00:51:46that too. I think what they are doing here is some kind of political game, but
00:51:50in the end their voters are right-wing voters, they
00:51:54voted for G' and some of
00:51:57the voters who were lost from G' went
00:52:00towards Ben Gvir and also to
00:52:03the Likud. It is possible that this is a trick they
00:52:07are trying to elicit statements
00:52:09and concessions from Eisenkot just to go back to Netanyahu later, and this
00:52:13will actually help Netanyahu too, because look, Eisenkot conceded, so I also
00:52:17did, exactly, and all that, and if we go to elections at all, then look,
00:52:20Eisenkot already sold out his principles along with the entire bloc,
00:52:24so why are you actually running to him? This actually serves this side
00:52:28of Netanyahu, simply to fold Eisenkot
00:52:31against them. Yoav Krakovsky.
00:52:55at seven and we return to the main hour, this morning, here
00:52:59news on Reshet Bet. Come back to us very
00:53:02soon.
00:53:12What was with these zeros who are filming
00:53:14me?
00:53:17What's with the diaper afterwards? Who will take me to campaigns
00:53:19like this?
00:53:23Stop, I told you to stop
00:53:25playing?
00:53:39Looking back, we grew up in a completely
00:53:41crazy situation, not a day went by without being shot at, everyone from the age of
00:53:4516 got a weapon, beatings,
00:53:47deaths,
00:53:50what are you willing to do not to give up friendships? I'm even
00:53:54willing to die.
00:53:57That's how I lived, that only if there's war there's
00:53:59meaning.
00:54:02I lost my childhood at this age.
00:54:06Our children are growing up with a national mission. The greatest mission of
00:54:10a person in this world is for their children to be happy. Would
00:54:13you raise your children there? Children of
00:54:16Hebron, Saturday night after a meeting
00:54:20on Kan 11 and Kan
00:54:21Box.
00:54:25How crazy. Wow, we're narrowing down,
00:54:29we're almost at the end. I'm not ready for anything now
00:54:31home. The semi-finals begin.
00:54:35Now enter Anime with us a ticket
00:54:37to the final, we're going to build an application, we don't
00:54:41have enough people, the networks, we're going to the final or
00:54:45we're eliminated a second before it,
00:54:47extremely intense, arrange a meeting for
00:54:50me today, no one will take this
00:54:54from us, the pair with the lowest amount
00:54:57will leave us already now,
00:55:01prepare for surprises, double the money, final week.
00:55:05Monday after the news on Kan 11 and Kan
00:55:09Box. I don't understand what I'm seeing. A lack
00:55:13of understanding of what's really happening. It's really a combination of
00:55:16the perception. This truth must
00:55:20come out.
00:55:25One of them just cocks the gun and opens fire at our
00:55:29walls.
00:55:32They are the head, they are to blame. There are many.
00:55:41I haven't seen anything like this, I haven't heard such
00:55:43stories.
00:55:50I very much hope that the Israeli public knows how to believe
00:55:53the truth and will not follow the lie.
00:55:57True time, soon,
00:56:00on Kan 11 and Kan
00:56:02Box.
00:56:15Good morning to you, it's 7:00 and we have the news update. At the President's
00:56:19Residence in Jerusalem, the round of consultations with representatives
00:56:23of the factions elected to the Knesset will resume today ahead of entrusting the task of forming
00:56:26the government. This is the second day of talks. Yaara Shapira, our correspondent, good
00:56:29morning. What awaits us later today? Hello Roni.
00:56:33Yesterday, representatives of
00:56:35Shas and Religious Zionism arrived at the President's Residence and recommended Benjamin Netanyahu to form the government,
00:56:39and representatives of Yisrael Beiteinu who recommended Gadi Eisenkot
00:56:42to form the government, and last came Feiglin who recommended Netanyahu,
00:56:46but his party's CEO said that he does not rule out anyone, not even
00:56:49from the other side. This day will be the really interesting
00:56:53day in the consultations with the President. First will come the United Torah Judaism
00:56:56faction at 8:05 in the morning already.