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00:01:32Hello and good evening, the talks continue
00:01:48at this hour at the President's Residence as representatives of the party
00:01:52are currently submitting their recommendation and later
00:01:56this evening representatives are also expected to arrive. The Joint List
00:01:59announced this evening that it also recommends Gadi Eizenkot
00:02:02to form the government. In doing so, it joined Ra'am,
00:02:06the Democrats, Yisrael Beiteinu and Together.
00:02:09Jewish Power, Religious Zionism, Zehut
00:02:12and Shas, recommended Netanyahu. United Torah
00:02:15Judaism announced that it will not recommend any
00:02:18candidate. And while Israel is discussing the future
00:02:21of the government and the state,
00:02:24that this the world is watching and examining and also
00:02:26conveying messages, we. You hear from a Saudi official
00:02:34that as long as Netanyahu is in the picture, there is nothing
00:02:37to talk about. Yes, Tal, so indeed,
00:02:41a Saudi official who is involved
00:02:44in this matter tells me this evening that as long as Netanyahu is in power
00:02:47with the current government, normalization is simply
00:02:51not on the table, as that Saudi official tells me. As I said,
00:02:54the Saudis have not yet officially commented. Now I need to say the following.
00:02:58According to that Saudi official, Netanyahu only wants to cause problems
00:03:02from the kingdom, he doesn't want peace but escalation, he
00:03:06explains that the Saudis have no personal problem
00:03:09with Netanyahu, but his policy does not allow any
00:03:12progress in relations between the countries. Saudi Arabia wants peace, wants negotiations,
00:03:16wants the Israeli-Palestinian issue to be resolved on the basis of a two-state
00:03:19solution, but Netanyahu is not there, and Tal, regarding who might
00:03:23replace him, that Saudi official tells me, and this is also interesting,
00:03:26Saudi Arabia has no interest in the identity of the Prime Minister in Israel, this is an internal
00:03:30Israeli matter. What is important from our perspective is that whoever it may be, he
00:03:33will want to conduct negotiations and solve the problems that have been ongoing for 70 years with
00:03:37the Palestinians, and in this context we will say that as we have already published
00:03:40in the past, that Saudi official tells me that in Saudi Arabia they are finding it difficult to link
00:03:44normalization with Israel to the Palestinian issue and not to other issues,
00:03:48for example Israeli aid to Saudi Arabia in the current fighting
00:03:51against the Houthis in Yemen. Thank you very much, Roi, you are of course staying with us
00:03:55for more, and as I said, all this is happening as the talks continue
00:03:58at the President's Residence. Shahar Glick, our correspondent, we turn to you
00:04:02who is there this evening. Shahar, so far no
00:04:05surprises and the President continues to still examine the question
00:04:09of unity.
00:04:12That's right, Tal. So we actually have one last faction left. The Likud
00:04:16party will arrive here later this hour. Now representatives of
00:04:19are here, and the situation is clear: 46
00:04:23recommend Netanyahu, 67 recommend Eizenkot. We all know to whom
00:04:27the president is expected to entrust the mandate. He has a week to do it.
00:04:31It's likely he'll do it even sooner, but during this day, we hear President
00:04:34Herzog with his questions also trying to direct the people
00:04:38in front of him towards the government, and it's not hard to read between the lines what he
00:04:42wants. It seems the president wants unity, because what he highlights
00:04:45in the questions he asks the representatives is how problematic the situation
00:04:49is, how at the end the parties' declarations contradict each
00:04:53other, how challenging it will be for Lieberman to sit with the support
00:04:57of the Arab parties or for the ultra-Orthodox parties to sit with whom and so on.
00:05:00Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that after this stage, when the president gives the mandate, there are
00:05:0428 days for Gadi Eizenkot, and if he doesn't succeed, that is
00:05:07the stage where an extension is requested. At the President's Residence, they are considering, we know, not to give
00:05:11that extension. It is very likely that this is what will happen because Herzog does not want to continue
00:05:15to flounder in the current situation, he wants to push everyone as quickly as possible
00:05:18to a stable government. If Gadi succeeds, we will do it with him, if he does not
00:05:22succeed, we will try to really push for unity in this sense as
00:05:25quickly as possible. And in the meantime, the change bloc is preparing for what happens one
00:05:29step before that. Today, all the opposition factions are signing
00:05:32a demand to convene the Knesset to vote on a new Knesset Speaker
00:05:36as early as next week. So Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana says, I will not
00:05:40cling to the horns of the altar. The Likud is still. Whether to even put forward
00:05:43their own candidate against the candidate that the opposition parties will bring,
00:05:47or to let them do it alone and allegedly show the public
00:05:50outside their cooperation with the Arab parties. The Likud
00:05:54has not yet made a decision. Shahar, thank you very much. At this stage, you continue to update
00:05:58us on developments there this evening at the President's Residence, and more about
00:06:02the talks and recommendations at the President's residence in Shahar
00:06:05Glick's report. We recommended Ben
00:06:08Gantz. The recommendations phase is
00:06:14nearing its end, with the last remaining parties today. We are at war against
00:06:18Hamas, a criminal terrorist organization, an enemy,
00:06:21unequivocally. Do you see Hamas as a terrorist organization? Even before
00:06:25we became Ra'am, a political party that strives for integration
00:06:29and citizenship, we were an Islamic movement. You can't always
00:06:33put us to this test, the test of loyalty,
00:06:36the test of upholding the law, the dignity of people,
00:06:40life itself, the security
00:06:43of people, you can't. The President went one step further this time with piercing questions
00:06:47and challenged everyone who entered the room with twists and turns. All the debate about
00:06:51"we will die and not be drafted." This is a very deep issue. The count of the House
00:06:54of Israel, the brave ones went out to war. This is a sentence we did
00:06:58not say. And what do you say about it? I also know that there was a party
00:07:02that tried to raise it. From our lives and the length of our days, that the Torah
00:07:05revives us, and extends our days. All were forced
00:07:09to deal with their most difficult issues.
00:07:12That's right.
00:07:16In the South it was not possible to pass. 67 seats, this
00:07:20means a clear
00:07:22desire of the majority of the citizens of the State of Israel
00:07:26for a different government. Without any
00:07:29of the elements that today make up this government. It could be
00:07:32that many of the Arabs of Israel went out
00:07:36to vote in response to the behavior of your party and your
00:07:39leader? I think that is.
00:07:44And if there is a significant security campaign,
00:07:47Iran, Hamas, things like that, do you leave,
00:07:51do you stop your support, how will that be? We will make
00:07:54strategic decisions, the public did not choose
00:07:57us to bring Netanyahu and bring him back.
00:08:01Faction after faction, Knesset representatives entered, some of them only decided at the last
00:08:04minute on whom to recommend? The Joint List in 1,
00:08:06with all its components, decided
00:08:09to recommend. We came today
00:08:15to present to you our recommendation to task
00:08:18Gadi Eisenkot with forming the government. We
00:08:22will recommend Gadi Eisenkot for the position of Prime Minister
00:08:26of Israel. Mr. President, first of all, we
00:08:29recommend Benjamin
00:08:32Netanyahu, our Prime Minister, the leader of the national camp, for the premiership. We come
00:08:36with a decision to recommend Gadi Eisenkot
00:08:39to form the new
00:08:43government. Members of the Council of Torah Sages instructed us not to recommend
00:08:46a candidate for Prime Minister at this stage. The CEO of the Democratic
00:08:49Party tweeted criticism of Herzog's questions and claimed
00:08:53that he voted for the Likud. At the President's Residence they did not remain silent. I will only
00:08:57say that I understand that while we are sitting here,
00:09:01the CEO of your party tweeted that the President voted for Likud.
00:09:04Yesterday they accused him of being pro-Arab. Today he voted
00:09:08Likud. The President's role is to care for all the people
00:09:11of Israel. In his role as President, he said it here, to ask
00:09:14difficult questions and receive clear answers. At this hour, the last representatives
00:09:18of Yisrael Beitenu and the Likud party, the balance of power will be 67
00:09:22for Eisenkot against 46 for Netanyahu. The President has until Tuesday
00:09:25to officially announce whom he will entrust with the mandate, but with high probability he
00:09:29will entrust it to Eisenkot much earlier.
00:09:31Yes, so after the round of recommendations today, Herzog is expected to entrust the mandate
00:09:35to Eisenkot. Our correspondent Yaara Shapira, hello Yaara, and you also join
00:09:39this report that this purchase will happen earlier
00:09:43than usual. Yes, Herzog is expected to expedite the entrustment of the mandate to Eisenkot,
00:09:46he can, he has until Wednesday, he can,
00:09:50theoretically, if there is no need for further deliberation, to entrust the mandate
00:09:53even earlier, and indeed given the majority of recommenders for
00:09:56Eisenkot, the President is expected to entrust him with the mandate as early as the beginning
00:10:00of next week, probably even before the swearing-in of the Knesset. Counter-intuitively,
00:10:04this is bad for the change bloc. This is bad for the change bloc,
00:10:08because from the moment the mandate is given, the days are already counting
00:10:11and in the meantime they have not yet. Replaced the Knesset Speaker, so they cannot take
00:10:15action. The moment Gadi Eisenkot's
00:10:18mandate expires, they will have to lose control
00:10:21of the Arrangements Committee that sets the Knesset's agenda. Therefore,
00:10:25if they want to utilize every day for parliamentary activity, they would actually
00:10:29be happy with 28 (days), assuming there's no extension of another
00:10:324 days, and the president is seriously considering not extending it in order to pressure
00:10:36the parties to reach compromises, so it's not certain they are happy
00:10:39about this advancement, but that is how it appears it will be done
00:10:43at the President's Residence. Yaara, thank you very much. Shas party was one
00:10:46of those who recommended Netanyahu. Daniel Grosby, hello
00:10:50Daniel, you are bringing the first statement from Aryeh Deri regarding the composition
00:10:54of the government. For the first time after the defeat in the elections, as I said,
00:10:57from 11 seats to six, Aryeh Deri says today in an interview
00:11:01with Yodeh Aler in a Haredi news program called
00:11:04Zirat HaHadashot (The News Arena), he says there that Shas recommended
00:11:08Netanyahu so that, pay attention, he will head a broad
00:11:11government. This is a way of saying in other words, a unity
00:11:15government of some kind or something close to it. Let's hear
00:11:18what he said.
00:11:20You know, as someone who really maintained the religious bloc, you continue on that
00:11:24path. We will maintain the religious bloc for the honor of the Torah and also to preserve
00:11:28tradition. What the Council of Torah Sages instructed us, they instructed
00:11:31our representatives, to recommend Netanyahu
00:11:35to head a broad government. Yes,
00:11:38and if we pay attention to whom this is directed, at the end, as I said, this is a nice line,
00:11:42people usually listen to it on kosher phones, very popular
00:11:46in the ultra-Orthodox public, and this is an attempt again to authorize. We saw the Yahadut
00:11:49HaTorah distancing itself from Netanyahu, also Deri, who again remained with
00:11:53Netanyahu still, but nevertheless says there might be an option here for something
00:11:57more than that, this is intended for ultra-Orthodox ears,
00:12:00and as I said, this brings this angle that perhaps this is the direction
00:12:03they are going. Thank you, Daniel, and Raka, the battle over recruitment,
00:12:06Liel Keiser, hello Liel, you are reporting that in the coming
00:12:10days, a significant measure to prevent
00:12:13funding for draft evaders will come into effect. That's right,
00:12:17Tali, actually hundreds of Haredi Yeshivas, organizations
00:12:21that group Haredi Yeshivas, will lose in the coming days,
00:12:24within a week or two, the tax benefits they enjoy
00:12:27worth tens of millions of shekels. Let's remember, the move actually started
00:12:31about four months ago. The Tax Authority approached
00:12:34about a thousand Haredi organizations, those that enjoy
00:12:38tax benefits that allow those who donate to them to receive
00:12:41tax exemption, which naturally leads to an increase in donations to them
00:12:44and requires them to declare whether draft evaders study in them, based
00:12:48on the assumption that an entity that subsidizes draft evaders cannot enjoy
00:12:52tax benefits from the State of Israel when it is ostensibly trying with the other hand.
00:12:55To incentivize enlistment, the Tax Authority approaches about a thousand Haredi
00:12:58yeshivas, but according to the information we have received throughout those
00:13:02four months and until the deadline three
00:13:05weeks ago, more than almost 70% of these
00:13:09yeshivas, about 650 yeshivas, simply refrained from responding to the Tax
00:13:13Authority's request. The assumption is that they are not just ignoring
00:13:17the Tax Authority, but it is clear to them that if they submit their student lists
00:13:21to the Tax Authority, it will be clear that there are many draft dodgers among them, people
00:13:24who have not regulated their status with the State
00:13:28of Israel, and therefore these yeshivas, these organizations
00:13:31are expected to have their tax benefits revoked
00:13:35in the coming days. The implication is tens of millions of shekels a year.
00:13:38We saw the Haredi parties fight very hard against this
00:13:42issue. You know, alongside other measures and things, this sanction
00:13:45bothered them greatly because it is worth a lot of money, and as we
00:13:49are reporting this evening, hundreds of yeshivas will lose this benefit
00:13:52in the coming days. 650 yeshivas.
00:13:57Thank you very much, Liel, thank you. And more on the negotiations to form
00:14:00the government, and those calling for a unity government in Yaara
00:14:04Shapira's report. My esteemed colleagues,
00:14:07please. The mandate has not yet been given to Eisenkot to form
00:14:11a government, but in the political system, it is already estimated that this is the likely
00:14:14direction, and they are acting accordingly. The Likud is calling on Eisenkot to turn
00:14:18to negotiations with them instead. I think the government should be
00:14:21a broad national government, with as many participants as possible at the helm. to the possibility
00:14:34of forming a minority government, among other things using the argument
00:14:37that the representatives of the Arab public were elected due to Sarah's
00:14:41intervention. We ask
00:14:43the President to also now take care of Israeli
00:14:47democracy and allow the Shin Bet and the police to allow
00:14:50them to investigate this matter to its conclusion. And in any case, it will not be
00:14:54easy to form a government in this way. Lieberman said
00:14:58he would not allow it, and even in the Joint List, they will not necessarily
00:15:01agree on a shared path. We do not see him as someone
00:15:05who can advance the political project that we
00:15:09are interested in advancing. We see that there is a distance between us, we
00:15:12say, he knows he is distant from us, we know that we
00:15:15are distant from him and his policy. Is
00:15:19that it? We have a promise to the voters, and therefore
00:15:22in the meantime, they are focusing on a possible project: replacing the Knesset
00:15:26Speaker. The current Speaker, Ohana, announced in the meantime
00:15:30that the customary time for electing a Knesset Speaker is the time of forming
00:15:33the government, with the exception that a letter bearing
00:15:36the signatures of at least 61 Knesset members is submitted.
00:15:40We will do everything to ensure that these are Ohana's
00:15:43last days as Knesset Speaker
00:15:46of Israel. Just as it was not clear that we would all recommend the same
00:15:50candidate, and behold, 67 recommend
00:15:53Eisenkot. By Monday, there will be one agreed-upon
00:15:56candidate for the change bloc and a new Knesset
00:16:00Speaker. And the change bloc is already working on that. If everything goes
00:16:03as planned, Ohana can start packing his bags.
00:16:09And after the recommendations, what will be the next step for the Arab parties? Hello,
00:16:13Nasreen Ibrahim Abu Gosh. So what are the plans? That's a big
00:16:17question. And now is the real test for the Arab
00:16:20parties with 19 mandates after they recommended
00:16:23Eisenkot, so where to now? Will they receive
00:16:26some kind of compensation after they voted for Eisenkot? Let's start
00:16:30with the Joint List, which has already set boundaries
00:16:33for cooperation. They know they are
00:16:36not entering the coalition, but indeed they
00:16:39will provide some strength and will
00:16:43strengthen the government from afar. From my questions
00:16:46to party officials, I asked them about
00:16:50compensation, with all the meetings that took place
00:16:53before, and they didn't answer, they kept silent,
00:16:56probably there is some compensation that will all be revealed
00:16:59after if Eisenkot succeeds in forming an alternative
00:17:03government. If we talk about Ra'am, then of course Mansour Abbas always chooses
00:17:06a completely different approach. He is so eager
00:17:10for Eisenkot to hurry and form a government without
00:17:14even coalition conditions, and then
00:17:17everything will work out. So currently, the big question is,
00:17:21where to now? We also saw today Mansour Abbas dealing
00:17:25with a question he has dealt with not for the first time, and not
00:17:28only him. And still they cannot answer
00:17:32yes or no to the question that interests all of Israeli society, one cannot ignore
00:17:36it, why is there no... clear answer about
00:17:39Hamas. This question, I asked the
00:17:42senior officials in the Arab parties, they feel
00:17:45that this is always the question that the media constantly
00:17:49brings up as a condition
00:17:52for their entry into politics or for loyalty. They always feel
00:17:56that we are on trial.
00:18:00And that's the question, actually, if you answer that Hamas
00:18:03is an organization and you say it's an organization, then you are marked with a V
00:18:07and. The Joint List and also Ra'am, I don't think they
00:18:10are afraid or hesitant to answer that question, but they refrain because they
00:18:14know that the media and also politicians pose this question
00:18:17specifically even after the elections and after
00:18:20the high voter turnout in the Arab
00:18:24society as an obstacle for the Arab parties,
00:18:28and here they say no, if this question is also posed
00:18:31to Jewish parties, in one way or another,
00:18:35understanding. In the parties and with their
00:18:39representatives, that this is a question that the Israeli public
00:18:43asks itself, a question of whether indeed one can trust
00:18:46the Arab parties on a question that lies at the core
00:18:49of the concerns of the Israeli Jewish public? I
00:18:53think that what we see from the Arab
00:18:56parties, without them even answering that question, because
00:18:59it is Israeli law that Hamas is a terrorist organization and it is not a question
00:19:03at all, and the Arab parties are politicians who respect
00:19:07the laws in Israel. Next
00:19:10week they will even swear allegiance to the State of Israel, so
00:19:14I don't think that question should be asked at all,
00:19:17as long as it is also a law enacted within the State
00:19:21of Israel, but unequivocally it is a complex
00:19:24question, I everyone knows that the Israeli public
00:19:27expects or awaits an answer
00:19:31from the Arab parties, but as long as the media poses it
00:19:34to the parties. Thank you very much,
00:19:39the routine multi-arena situation assessment discussion
00:19:42that was supposed to take place was canceled. Gili Cohen, we
00:19:45turn to you, Gili, with the details on
00:19:47this matter.
00:19:50Yes, Tali, hello. This story of the discussion, the multi-arena
00:19:53situation assessment discussion that takes place every week
00:19:57under the Prime Minister's authority, perhaps indicates what is happening
00:20:00behind the scenes, and we will bring the details as we
00:20:03know them. Uh, yesterday this discussion was supposed to take place, uh,
00:20:07a routine discussion. It was postponed, postponed to today, and today
00:20:10the participants of the discussion received a notification that it was canceled.
00:20:13No reason was given, except that this is a discussion that happens almost every
00:20:17week, and relates to a variety
00:20:20of sectors. Certainly at this time, when there is still
00:20:24a state of alert regarding the Iranian issue,
00:20:27and we are after the midterm elections in the United
00:20:30States, this has implications, even the cancellation
00:20:33of this discussion. As mentioned, no reason was given.
00:20:37At least from what I know, to the participants of the discussion
00:20:40who are raising all kinds of questions as to why this discussion
00:20:44was postponed? So let's say or canceled, at least for now, let's say
00:20:48that we contacted the Prime Minister's office regarding.
00:20:50Why the discussion was canceled? So far no
00:20:53response has been received from the Prime Minister's office on this
00:20:56matter. Gili, thank you very much. In the United States, the counting
00:21:00of votes in the midterm elections is still ongoing,
00:21:02and the Democrats estimate that by its end, their power
00:21:05in Congress will grow even more. In the meantime, both sides can only
00:21:09agree on one thing. The war in Iran is
00:21:12the cause of the United States' statements. And relations with
00:21:15Israel are a political burden. Our correspondent in Washington, Nathan
00:21:19Guttman. The situation after the elections
00:21:22looks less optimistic
00:21:24for Israel.
00:21:27Perhaps to recover from the blow his party suffered in the elections,
00:21:31President Trump flees to his favorite place, the renovation work at the White
00:21:35House.
00:21:42The renovations are progressing well, but Trump struggled to advance his agenda
00:21:45in the next two years.
00:21:48close to an extinction level.
00:25:34The bottom line for the Israeli government is not simple, it will face
00:25:37a strange coalition of Republicans in key positions who want
00:25:41to block the war and see relations with Israel as a burden,
00:25:44and Democrats in Congress who think Israel is morally flawed and therefore
00:25:48should be distanced from.
00:25:52It seems Israel needs to strategically re-evaluate in so many
00:25:55areas. Nathan Guttman, we continue with you. Good evening, Nathan. In the Trump
00:25:59administration, there is already talk of resignations and dismissals. The failure in the elections,
00:26:03but President Trump rushes, meaning the pressure is mounting, but he
00:26:07rushes.
00:26:10Yes, Tali, meanwhile Trump stands behind his administration officials, but
00:26:13in Washington there is a growing recognition that the war
00:26:16in Iran is a political burden and it is what caused
00:26:20the Republicans' failure, and therefore there is a lot of buzz
00:26:23on the Republican side. At the White House they are aware that there are pressures
00:26:27on President Trump to fire Secretary of Defense Pete Gastat, who
00:26:31is identified more than anyone with the failure of the campaign against Iran, which has been going on
00:26:35for nine months and there is no end in sight. Trump meanwhile stands
00:26:38behind Gastat. There is also talk of senior generals involved
00:26:42in managing the war being fired or replaced in their
00:26:46positions. And there is also a second side, those who want to distance themselves from their desires,
00:26:50especially those who consider themselves possible candidates
00:26:52in 2028. We saw Vice President Jay Dines actually
00:26:56saying in the most public way, the policy of this administration does
00:27:00not represent me. And there is also talk that Marco Rubio
00:27:03may resign sometime soon just to distance
00:27:07himself from the war and this administration towards
00:27:10a future run. Amidst all this political buzz, one also needs
00:27:14to prepare for war. President Trump promised to end it soon,
00:27:17the moment of decision is approaching, an agreement or war,
00:27:21and the fact that war is not popular and not politically
00:27:24profitable, will certainly be part of his considerations. Nathan,
00:27:27thank you very much, and all this situation does not do
00:27:31well for the world's stock markets, the stock market for stocks declined this evening with sharp
00:27:35price drops. We return to you on this matter, Liel. Yes, Nathan
00:27:38said, you know that the war is not good politically for Trump, first
00:27:42of all, also not good economically, and against this background, we also see
00:27:45sharp declines in the US stock market today, with concerns about rising interest rates
00:27:49there due to rising fuel prices and as a result, among other things,
00:27:53due to this issue, very, very sharp price drops in the Tel Aviv stock
00:27:56market today. Tel Aviv 35 drops
00:27:59by 3% and seven tenths. Tel Aviv 125
00:28:02dropped by almost 3 and a half percent, and in general,
00:28:06when we look at what has been happening here in the last ten days since election
00:28:09day, we see that both leading indices of our stock market,
00:28:13each of them has fallen by more than 9%, which is a dramatic
00:28:17plunge in 10 days,
00:28:20profits of months that simply were erased
00:28:23in one fell swoop of a perfect storm, if you will, on the one hand, political
00:28:26instability here with us and an understanding that it might be that we
00:28:29are again. A release of election rounds or the formation of
00:28:33an unstable government, also that statement by President
00:28:37Trump that passed here in the stream of events, but a dramatic statement
00:28:41for our economy, and the fog around it has not yet cleared, what is the meaning
00:28:44of that statement by Trump, that he is stopping security aid
00:28:48to Israel, mix that with what is happening in the United States, and behold
00:28:51the investors in Tel Aviv are getting
00:28:55a good example of the possibilities
00:28:59inherent in this political chaos. Absolutely, Liel, thank you very much again.
00:29:02Thank you. In the name of Europe, fighter jets were scrambled,
00:29:06airports were closed and thousands were removed from flights.
00:29:09All because of false reports of bombs on commercial
00:29:13aircraft, and what looks like a coordinated and malicious wave.
00:29:16Who is behind the method that paralyzes fleets
00:29:20of aircraft with the push of a button and how much does it cost
00:29:22the global aviation industry? Itamar Weissman with
00:29:26the details. A simple, dry email notification
00:29:29brings an entire continent to a halt. The flights that took off for Rome today completed their flight
00:29:32at a military base in Normandy, escorted by fighter jets, and the reason was not
00:29:36an attempted hijacking or a suspicious suitcase, but fear of a ticking bomb.
00:29:40Allegedly.
00:29:42In the air, anonymous alerts
00:29:48were sent to airline companies, airports, and local police about bombs
00:29:52located in the luggage compartments of planes.
00:29:55because this is affecting europe that there could be a
00:31:45russian angle. we need to keep in mind though that Iranian
00:31:49hybrid warfare is just as active in certain pockets
00:31:53of Europe as well. there have been plenty of Iranian cyber
00:31:56campaigns around aviation and hacking incidents
00:31:59related to to aviation entities, and so we're looking as
00:32:02well at that. this is new normality,
00:32:05unfortunately, but what to do? we just need to
00:32:08understand the reality, not to be afraid, and this is
00:32:12exactly what Russia wants. It seems that the hackers who are currently disrupting flights
00:32:46in Europe never intended to blow up the plane, but rather to prove that one email can
00:32:49disrupt an entire continent, cost millions, and make airlines
00:32:53helpless against what appears to be new digital
00:32:57terror. Remember Netanyahu's statement about
00:33:01sanctions-circumventing crypto economics? That statement
00:33:05has probably been left behind, but the fear of sanctions from the world
00:33:08is still tangible. This danger is particularly troubling after the midterm
00:33:12elections. The United States now has legislative bodies much less
00:33:16friendly to Israel. Shaul Amsterdamski with everything that needs
00:33:19to be taken into account. Forget the elections for a moment. In a country
00:33:23where things happen at such a crazy pace, it's quite amazing that this clip
00:33:26was aired only two weeks ago. One needs to understand that there can be sanctions,
00:33:30and for banking sanctions, you need to organize an circumventing economy,
00:33:33and you know what it is? You know what these cryptocurrencies are that circumvent
00:33:36it, and I'm saying this about that too. A second before the elections, Prime Minister Netanyahu warned
00:33:40of a wave of sanctions on Israeli banks, and the truth
00:33:44is that this is a serious threat, especially to the Israeli economy,
00:33:47so much so that we thought it would be worth dwelling on it for another moment. Forget for a second all
00:33:51the circumventing economy and crypto, we've talked about that enough. Let's talk for a second
00:33:55about the sanctions themselves, because this is a big enough and tangible
00:33:59threat that will affect all our lives here. So one always comes up,
00:34:02let's break it down: who wants to impose these sanctions? Why specifically on
00:34:06banks? And what will it do to us? Give me a minute. This threat of sanctions
00:34:09is, in my opinion, not a sufficient threat.
00:34:13This is about '. There is someone who has their eyes on this ball. The Jewish
00:34:17People Policy Institute tracks all these sanctions
00:34:21and has done a complete mapping. According to this mapping,
00:34:23there are 131 sanctions on Israel from
00:34:2657 countries or entities. Some of them are academic, some
00:34:30on specific Israelis, but really not only. The one leading this effort right now is
00:34:34Britain. In mid-October, a sanctions regime against companies and contractors
00:34:37and financial bodies that finance
00:34:41construction in settlements came into effect there. The trigger: a government decision to build 1200 housing
00:34:45units in the E1 area, an area that connects Jerusalem to Ma'ale
00:34:48Adumim, an area that has been in international political dispute
00:34:52for decades. Currently, another 11 Western countries
00:34:55are partners in the sanctions circle, from Canada to Sweden. They
00:34:58mainly boycott products that come from settlements, but
00:35:01Britain is trying to expand this, both the circle of countries
00:35:05and the sanctions. It is trying to make it so that it will simply be
00:35:08forbidden to do business with Israeli banks,
00:35:12and here lies the real big danger: banks. They are like the human
00:35:16organ system of every modern economy; without them, there are no loans, no
00:35:19businesses, no salaries, no construction, not even in settlements. If
00:35:22Britain and other countries declare Israeli banks as outcast, that
00:35:26means that foreign banks will not be able to work with them, because then they
00:35:30themselves will be exposed to sanctions. An Israeli pharmaceutical factory that wants
00:35:33to continue selling its drugs to Germany will not be able to, because
00:35:37the German bank will not be willing to transfer the payment. An importer wants
00:35:40butter from Holland? The supplier does not work with a bank under sanctions, so there is no
00:35:44butter. This is already especially dangerous, because Britain and the European Union are not just
00:35:48countries, they are our main trading partners.
00:35:51Banking sanctions from them could
00:35:55have a very heavy price. Remember the settlers whose accounts Bank Leumi
00:35:58froze in 2024? So
00:36:00that, just for the whole economy. Already today, Israeli
00:36:04academia and culture are boycotted. Recently, Israelis
00:36:07who flew to Holland said that at the airport, they rummaged through their
00:36:10bags to see if they had brought products from the settlements,
00:36:14and come on. That a few
00:36:22years ago, one of her whiskies won the title of the best in the world, she lost
00:36:25half of her customers because of Israel.
00:36:28And this is happening now, before the big wave. To get
00:36:31an illustration of what a big wave of sanctions looks like, just
00:36:34look at Russia, a superpower that for years
00:36:38prepared for war, prepared for sanctions, and yet, in 2022, the West
00:36:41froze about 300 billion dollars of Russia's foreign currency reserves that it had set aside.
00:36:45Yes, the Russian automotive industry almost completely collapsed by two
00:36:49thirds. One of the Russian car manufacturers continued to produce
00:36:52cars, but without airbags, there were no parts.
00:36:55And Iran, when the sanctions returned in 2018,
00:36:59its oil exports shrank to a tenth, and inflation jumped
00:37:02from 10% a year to more than 50. And still, both
00:37:06survive. How? Mainly because they have oil, and oil
00:37:10can be sold on the black market through all sorts of sanction-bypassing routes.
00:37:13Israel doesn't have that. We mostly have high-tech,
00:37:16and high-tech, well, you can't smuggle it in suitcases. But wait, because that's nothing
00:37:20compared to the grand finale, when the United
00:37:23States decides to impose sanctions on banks in Israel.
00:37:26The United States. It's the real deal in the end. The deep partnership we have
00:37:30with it is one of our most strategic assets, but also
00:37:33one of our biggest vulnerabilities. Remember during the war
00:37:37there was a moment when they didn't transfer ammunition to us and then we were in trouble? So sanctions are
00:37:41exactly the same thing, just 100 times worse. Public opinion in the United States towards
00:37:44Israel has changed a lot.
00:37:47Look, there are many Democratic elected officials
00:37:50who have already proposed imposing sanctions on Israel. Understood in the field
00:37:54of armaments and academia, which is bad in itself. Now, after
00:37:58the midterm elections, an American president can still fend off sanctions if the
00:38:01House of Representatives decides to impose them. But in 2028, after the presidential
00:38:05elections, a Democratic president will be elected, and if the sentiment
00:38:08against Israel remains as it is, then for the first time we
00:38:12might discover that our American friends have imposed
00:38:15sanctions on Israeli
00:38:16banks.
00:38:22Emanuel, a possible Democratic candidate for president in the United States,
00:38:26has already sharpened his stance. He is in favor of sanctions
00:38:30on Israeli banks as well, due to the financing of construction in settlements. And if such a thing
00:38:33happens, the engine of our economy, high-tech, will collapse. The big
00:38:37American companies operating in Israel and employing tens of thousands of workers,
00:38:40from Google to Nvidia, will not be able to continue doing so, because it will not even be possible
00:38:44to transfer salaries to their employees. There will be no exits, no
00:38:48tax payments to the state, our standard of living will plummet. On
00:38:51the way, you can say goodbye to online shopping, goodbye to trips
00:38:55abroad. Okay, after we've scared you. None
00:38:58of this is going to happen just like that tomorrow morning. Britain
00:39:01is indeed making progress. Trump could have stopped it, he chose not to. Never mind.
00:39:05Until the presidential elections in the United States, we have another two years. Forget about
00:39:09crypto and blockchain, that's nonsense. The Bank of Israel itself said
00:39:12that none of that really knows how to deal with financial
00:39:16sanctions. There's no way to prepare for sanctions,
00:39:19we need to prevent sanctions, which means
00:39:22that the Israeli government needs to convey a very clear message to the world, especially
00:39:26to the Americans, by the way. We are a sovereign country,
00:39:29but we also want to be part of the global game. How
00:39:33do you dance this delicate tango? I don't know, I'm just
00:39:36a journalist, but I do know who is supposed
00:39:39to know, and here I come to the elections that just happened. The party
00:39:43leaders are now racking their brains trying to form a government, and it will be difficult, maybe
00:39:46even very difficult, maybe it won't even succeed. I don't know. What I do
00:39:50know is that these elected officials just asked for our
00:39:54vote because they claim to know how to lead this country. Better,
00:39:57so let them do it. Dealing with sanctions must be part of
00:40:01their plans, because at least for now, this is the biggest threat to the Israeli economy
00:40:05in the short term, and in my personal opinion at least, the composition of
00:40:08the government will have an impact on the height of the wave,
00:40:12for better or worse, whether we like it or not. The Americans have already
00:40:15warned that if certain people are in the next
00:40:18government, it will be very difficult for them to stop these sanctions. Now,
00:40:22we are a sovereign country, we can decide whatever we want,
00:40:26we decide for ourselves. Americans, but every
00:40:29decision has a price. This hourglass is ticking. We have
00:40:32two years, at most, to defuse this bomb. It's time
00:40:36to start.
00:40:46And next, the Kan News edition. Welcome
00:40:49to Midburn, a glimpse into the biggest event in Israel that leaves
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00:40:55month also for flights. Here's how to make your next
00:40:59vacation cheaper. And also football news, Cristiano
00:41:03Ronaldo announced his retirement from the Portuguese national team.
00:41:20Two years have passed since the Assad regime fell in Syria. Since then,
00:41:23IDF soldiers have been sitting in a security zone beyond
00:41:26the fence. On the ground, protests against Israel are starting
00:41:30and it seems no one is asking the strategic questions. Head of the
00:41:33Arab World desk, Roee Kais, and our correspondent in the North, Rubi
00:41:37Hammer, in a special annual project. to the fall of the Syrian dictator.
00:41:40לנפילת הרודן הסורי.
00:41:54Not, Ruby. Welcome to the Golan Heights. How nice, with you again. How
00:41:57wonderful, it's quiet here. But beneath the surface,
00:42:01it's bubbling. Absolutely, look, in a few weeks, Ruby, we will
00:42:04mark exactly two years since one of the most dramatic events that happened in the region,
00:42:08right across the border, the fall of the Assad regime after the civil
00:42:11war and the rise to power of the Islamist
00:42:14regime of Ahmed Asher al-Jolani, which led to IDF forces
00:42:18entering southern Syria right across the border here. The IDF
00:42:21today sits in nine outposts beyond the fence, from the Syrian
00:42:25Hermon to the Hamat Gader area right here on the other side. And it must
00:42:29be said that this deployment of IDF forces in southern Syria
00:42:32since the fall of Assad is in fact part of the Israeli security
00:42:36concept after the October sitting, meaning the desire
00:42:39to prevent, at all costs, any attempt
00:42:42at an incursion from Syrian territory into where we are. For about two
00:42:46years, soldiers from Division 210 have been building a new engineering barrier on the border between
00:42:50Israel and Syria, extending for about 70 kilometers. There is no
00:42:53barrier that will prevent infiltration; this barrier
00:42:56will delay and give us the time
00:42:58to react.
00:43:02You know, Roy, this security concept of sitting across the border works
00:43:06in Gaza and also in Lebanon, except here.
00:43:10Unlike other places, first of all, IDF observations control
00:43:13deep into Syrian territory, and the big problem is
00:43:16that IDF forces are inside the villages, clashing with
00:43:20the civilian population, and this is something that is constantly on the rise. Right, and you're
00:43:24mainly talking about the Asturonian population, but there's also another component, another side to the event,
00:43:27which is the Druze population, those who are in Jabal al-Druze
00:43:31and also in other areas of southern Syria, and in fact there
00:43:34they actually see this presence of the IDF as even a
00:43:38blessed thing, a kind of protection.
00:43:56Firstly, it will be a big blow to Suweida, which is allied with Israel under the covenant of
00:43:58blood and life. And we hope
00:44:04sacred alliance continues. Any Israeli
00:44:07withdrawal in the current and upcoming phase. A few
00:44:23months ago, the terrorists of
00:44:26the Haira went on a horrific rampage in Suwayda,
00:44:30the IDF attacked terrorists. The problematic framing in the Middle
00:44:33East, we, by our actions and mainly by our statements, are painting
00:44:37an entire population as collaborators. We need to ask
00:44:40ourselves why we framed this as help for our Druze brothers and not
00:44:44as foiling a terror threat against the State of
00:44:46Israel.
00:44:50Ruby, let's take a quick step back in time, because I remember
00:44:53that when the civil war was present, the IDF had
00:44:57what was called the Good Neighbor policy, which was
00:45:00responsible for humanitarian aid to people living
00:45:03across the border here in southern Syria, which also created a kind
00:45:07of revolution in their perception of Israel.
00:45:19And today it's hard to call what we're seeing good neighborliness, to our great
00:45:22regret. The Good Neighbor operation was essentially designed to maintain
00:45:26border security during a period of chaos. It was another divisional
00:45:29tool to maintain the security of the Golan Heights. Connections were
00:45:32formed that, without going into details, even today
00:45:36actually allow for some sort of dialogue with elements on the other
00:45:40side. And the IDF's activity today within Syrian territory, is that not something that undermines
00:45:44these achievements? Absolutely, in the end there is tactical
00:45:47activity with increasing civilian friction,
00:45:50more friction than we have today than in Gaza
00:45:53and Lebanon. The question needs to be asked whether it is
00:45:57serving a strategic policy that, in my understanding, is the removal
00:46:00of Turkey, or whether it is actually fueling hatred
00:46:03and anger in the Syrian street, serving its
00:46:06purpose and bringing Turkey closer to us.
00:46:10Yes, so thanks to good neighborliness, we turned from an enemy to a friend, but it seems there's
00:46:14again a change in trend. IDF forces are operating within the villages themselves,
00:46:17often causing damage to livelihoods, to agriculture,
00:46:21images that don't really reach
00:46:24us, but images of friction
00:46:27and clashes are coming out from there that resemble an intifada,
00:46:29absolutely.
00:46:36Her field was filled with trees.
00:46:41In half an hour, it was gone, because the Israeli occupation
00:46:44tanks entered it. Today, a young man from the village of Jamla
00:46:48was martyred by occupation bullets. He is one of the [unclear]. The
00:47:24in the south practically does not serve
00:47:27Israel and alienates Syria.
00:47:30Syria, which practically stood against
00:47:33Iran, offered a service to the region by expelling
00:47:36Iranian militias from Syria. Therefore, the Israeli
00:47:39presence practically in the south of the country will not
00:47:43provide, meaning, guarantee Israel's security in the long
00:47:46term. It will only lead to provoking
00:47:49the Syrians and will not encourage the Syrians.
00:48:02Ruby, and in fact, the situation created here across the border is that there is a population
00:48:06that is both poor and resentful, and also more brainwashed
00:48:10due to the increasing friction with IDF forces in southern Syria.
00:48:14And this provides fertile ground for those who were expelled from Israel
00:48:17two years ago, Iran and Hezbollah, to recruit
00:48:20people from here in order to carry out possibly terror activities
00:48:24against IDF forces? It doesn't take much for that, and it actually seems that Israel
00:48:28is getting bogged down in the Syrian mud there, and now try to withdraw
00:48:32the forces. You know, in the Middle East, that will be perceived as weakness, absolutely.
00:48:35There have already been several incidents where our forces' activity has been met
00:48:39with fire from terrorists on the other side. One must understand, in Syria,
00:48:43every house has weapons. Every person held a weapon to protect his
00:48:46home, absolutely. The direction right now is a negative
00:48:50direction against us. Right now, whoever is here
00:48:53are our fighters. 101 paratroopers
00:48:56are here. Israel needs to try to strive, in my understanding,
00:49:00for a security agreement. On the other side, there is
00:49:03a leader with very questionable people behind him. We do
00:49:07need to protect our border very strongly, but
00:49:11on the other hand, the diplomatic channel must happen. The prices
00:49:14we pay every day that we delay are greater, because the price of
00:49:18the gate in the international market has risen. It is much stronger
00:49:21today than before.
00:49:22and a half.
00:49:30The Golan Heights is full of such souvenirs from the Yom Kippur War. In fact, a war
00:49:33in which the term "conception" was coined. And we are here to try and check if
00:49:37we are not falling again into some kind of mental stagnation. Right. We need to ask
00:49:41questions, for example, why do we even need to sit in Syria? Where is this going? Until
00:49:45when, what is the goal? How do we not get entangled again
00:49:48in an 18-year occupation like in Lebanon? Many, many questions.
00:49:52Yes. I don't think we can provide the answers here, but at least
00:49:55we are raising this issue, so that it doesn't disappear again into some kind of conception.
00:50:11Imagine you wake up in the morning and discover that you don't have
00:50:14access to your money in the bank. That's what
00:50:17happened to millions of customers in Paraguay. One of the largest
00:50:20banks in the country collapsed.
00:51:22but did not meet capital requirements. All branches were closed, digital
00:51:26activity was frozen. Three million customers, almost half
00:51:30of the country's population, discovered they could not withdraw their savings.
00:51:47But as the details of the collapse become clear, it also becomes clear why
00:51:50this is directed specifically at the president. Peña held shares until last year
00:51:54in a group connected to the bank's owners. Upon taking office, he also
00:51:58appointed one of the bank's senior officials as the governor of the central bank,
00:52:01the person supposed to oversee the banking system. Now the governor... And so, within
00:53:35a few days, the collapse of one
00:53:46bank also led to the downfall of the country's president. But even after
00:53:50Peña's resignation, the crisis is far from over. Millions of citizens
00:53:53are still waiting for their savings, and the big question is who will take
00:53:57responsibility for the collapse that shook all of Paraguay.
00:53:59About
00:54:0320 Jewish families.
00:54:08In houses secretly purchased and located on state lands, after no Jews had lived there since
00:54:12the Oslo Accords, the IDF was surprised by the move and claims that the entry
00:54:16into the homes was done without prior coordination and without approval.
00:54:19The details in Haim Goldich's report.
00:54:3232 years after the end of the Jewish presence in Jericho.
00:54:39Yesterday, in a special operation by the Nachala settlement movement, more than 10 Jewish families moved
00:54:43into eight houses purchased on the outskirts of the city. Fix a mezuzah,
00:54:46amen. We said, listen, there's going to be something,
00:54:50a place where they need you, come live. We said,
00:54:54okay, we're available, let's hear it. We're not promising anything, you know, if it's in
00:54:58Antarctica, we won't come. There was a secret operation here
00:55:01that actually lasted several months of preparation.
00:55:05towards entry and implementation of sales transactions
00:55:09that were carried out here secretly. We, the families, actually
00:55:12didn't know about it in advance. We were told, do you want to be part of something
00:55:15big in settlement? We said yes. They said, be ready, we'll update you a day
00:55:19and a half before. They told us, we'll send you that morning where?
00:55:23And that morning they told us, we're entering Jericho. That's it. The IDF claimed to be completely surprised
00:55:27by the move and that they were still checking the status of the land, but in practice, the road
00:55:31and the area are secured by three IDF platoons that were diverted to the area.
00:55:35It's happening in coordination, we, uh, entered here
00:55:38with the council's backing, and in coordination. I feel, I
00:55:41saw the army and as far as I'm concerned, the army is protecting me. I think things are happening
00:55:45well. The army is the sovereign in the area, and by virtue of that, it
00:55:48secures all Jews in Judea and Samaria.
00:55:51We made this purchase ourselves,
00:55:55and I think the army is happy with what
00:55:58we are doing. We have a lot of armed escorts here, like a lot of people
00:56:02with weapons, long, short. The army is constantly
00:56:06patrolling here. Uh, there's no sense of fear at all. Also, we're
00:56:08in Petricho, we're not in the heart of Arab neighbors. There's more
00:56:12space here, and there's a safe feeling
00:56:16right now. The way to the new neighborhood is done in convoys that leave every
00:56:19few hours from the settlement of Mitzpe Yericho, through firing zones and gates that were installed
00:56:23in the place and are opened in various strange ways by the activists.
00:56:27The physical way here right now is a bit
00:56:30stressful. I drove here myself and it was like descents.
00:56:36Steep, I had butterflies in my stomach, but as for
00:56:39the surrounding population, I don't feel them. I'm here with the kids,
00:56:43I'm calm. The houses are located
00:56:46in the Ein al-Duyuk neighborhood, which sits mostly in Area C on Israeli
00:56:49state lands, and in recent years, the adjacent Hasmonean Palaces Farm
00:56:53began to encroach on the area. After the IDF and the Civil Administration demolished several illegal
00:56:57structures in the neighborhood and some of the residents left, the activists managed to buy
00:57:00eight houses through a circular transaction. We're talking about eight houses that were discovered.
00:57:05We are inside Jericho, these are eight houses scattered more or less, some
00:57:08are close, some are further away. Uh, we are
00:57:11about 20 families here right now occupying the houses. We actually bought
00:57:15the houses, uh, with money,
00:57:19and therefore they are ours. We were shocked, listen,
00:57:22we entered, we were shocked that it was a vacation
00:57:25home. It's also exciting to see. Today I went out, I'm in Beit
00:57:29Doron and I went out to the other houses to see, to experience,
00:57:33and it's really exciting. In some of the houses you can really see the city of Jericho
00:57:37and in some of the houses there are orchards,
00:57:38swimming pools.
00:57:42Exciting and special, but the legal situation is still unclear because
00:57:46buying an illegal house, even if it sits on state land, still
00:57:49requires confirmation of the legality of the place. The IDF currently
00:57:53does not know how to deal with the situation, and in practice, IDF forces are securing the passage
00:57:56of convoys that also pass through Area A and between inhabited Palestinian
00:58:00homes in Jericho. A day has passed so far without
00:58:03unusual incidents. Both the Palestinians and the IDF are trying to understand the magnitude of the event,
00:58:07and the activists promise that this is only the beginning. We, in the end,
00:58:11we are here until, God willing, permanent families arrive and we will move on to the next
00:58:14missions, whether it will be Nablus, whether it will be.
00:58:21What would the State of Israel look like in 2026
00:58:25without Iron Dome? In the Saturday news, they will mark 20 years
00:58:29since the development of this Israeli system. Peleg Natanel sat down for a conversation with
00:58:32the original developers of Iron Dome and with those who continue
00:58:36to develop it today at Rafael. Here's an excerpt
00:58:39from the report we will broadcast in the Saturday news.
00:58:42The Iron Dome system tonight intercepted for the first time a Grad
00:58:46rocket fired from Gaza towards
00:58:48the city of Ashkelon.
00:58:51This is a day and a moment that will not be forgotten. We don't know it's going to happen
00:58:55in advance. The whole team very much believed that it was
00:58:58possible to do this. The world did not believe, because in the history of
00:59:02defense industries, a missile world in such a short
00:59:05time, with such a small budget, with such a cheap interception cost. No one
00:59:08believed that there was even potential to achieve the
00:59:12achievement that then seemed
00:59:13imaginary.
00:59:16And it happened on a day when we had a team
00:59:20building evening. We were at karting, and I suddenly
00:59:23get a call from a friend who has a soldier
00:59:26friend in one of the batteries and he
00:59:29said: One-zero for Iron
00:59:31Dome.
00:59:35That's how we found out, a few seconds really after the first
00:59:39interception, there was a very big celebration and very great
00:59:42excitement.
00:59:48Behind this success of Rafael are the engineers of Iron
00:59:52Dome. This week we met the founding generation, who have been there
00:59:55since the first development, with the younger generation who are continuing
00:59:59Where are we going? The foundations
01:00:02were laid 15 years ago, and since then
01:00:06I really think what this system is doing today, if they had asked the company
01:00:1015 years ago, it would have seemed imaginary to them, and I think with the same
01:00:13logic, our mission, of this generation, is
01:00:17to take this system and try to advance it another 15 years
01:00:21forward and stretch its boundaries to places that, if in the past
01:00:24what is now imaginary, then in the future it will also seem imaginary
01:00:28to those who are sitting
01:00:29here now.
01:00:32What happens when violence comes closest to home?
01:00:36Residents of a building in Holon claim that one of the neighboring families
01:00:40is making their lives miserable, from causing damage to the building to serious
01:00:43threats. Even security cameras did not stop
01:00:46the serious actions. The documentation
01:00:50and testimonies of the residents in Lori Sela's report.
01:00:52You left me outside the door a state summons from a few... this is not a state
01:00:55summons. Curses, harassment, and threats
01:00:59of murder. The lives of the residents of this building in Holon have become a daily
01:01:02nightmare. We are experiencing a continuous
01:01:05nightmare for almost a year,
01:01:08soon. By one family that is imposing complete
01:01:12terror on an entire neighborhood. Three of the families claim that the fourth is
01:01:15solely responsible. For what? For what not? From throwing a cup of coffee at
01:01:19a neighbor going down the stairs?
01:01:23To claims of serious harassment and threats of rape. Your mother?
01:01:26שלך?
01:01:30But the cameras didn't stop them, on the contrary. Here you can see
01:01:33young people and teenagers, some of them masked, coming out of the door and making
01:01:36obscene gestures at the camera. And that's the gentle part.
01:01:40Later, whoever came out of the apartment went straight to the lens, to make sure they were seen
01:01:43very well and made throat-slitting gestures with their hands.
01:01:47When the father of the family walked up the path to the building, he suddenly got fed up and broke
01:01:51one of
01:01:51the cameras.
01:01:57In another incident, the same young man went down the stairs with an iron crowbar and hit
01:02:00his neighbors' electricity cabinet, an elderly and sick couple,
01:02:04and even damaged it and cut cables.
01:02:07Very, very explicit and direct
01:02:09threats of death. No problem, I'll kill you, tell
01:02:13them in the message that you are rabbis. After your
01:02:16friend died today. We experienced sexual harassment from
01:02:20one of the family members there who actually
01:02:24decided to pull out his penis and say "come take it, come
01:02:27take it."
01:02:32This week, another confrontation occurred when animal rights activists protested
01:02:35outside the building following videos and claims that he abused cats
01:02:39and that his wife sprayed K-300 on their dog. We're not moving
01:02:43from here, you're playing innocent, I didn't understand
01:02:46the water. You're only a hero to the helpless. He was arrested,
01:02:49but the court decided there was no reasonable suspicion of abuse and the suspicion of threats
01:02:53and possession of weapons was not at a high level and released him under restrictive
01:02:57conditions. Even right when we were at the scene itself, he was
01:03:00caught kicking his neighbors'
01:03:01garden fence.
01:03:07He, for his part, claims that all the incidents occurred during a period of psychotic attack
01:03:11for which he was hospitalized. And anyway, Sapir and her family are the ones
01:03:15who caused him harm and damaged the memory of his son who died in a traffic accident. My son
01:03:18on the floor? Look at that, look at that, it's also
01:03:21them. They claim I'm the criminal and I'm scary.
01:03:25Look at the hole they made here. I paid for everything I did in life, brother, 30
01:03:29years. 12 years I've been on a path, brother, they want to bring me back to the
01:03:33path, they'll get it, they'll
01:03:35get it.
01:03:39My father's, and it says rapist and fat. The argument we agreed
01:03:43to again escalated into curses and high tones. What's your
01:03:46name? Don't come near, from behind, what's your name? What's your name? You said
01:03:50you'd kill my cat. And mom, I didn't
01:03:52say that.
01:03:55The children.
01:04:00The police received a dismissive attitude, like in this conversation with the acting commander
01:04:03of the Holon station. The station is not
01:04:06obligated to tell you what's happening, and I don't work
01:04:10that question for you, and you are confused. If you
01:04:13continue to harass, eventually eventually
01:04:17you, you are complaining about everyone, you want me to
01:04:21give him so the apartment is empty there, what do you want? Calls to the
01:04:24100 emergency line that we are being attacked
01:04:27and the police are not arriving. We understand that if nothing
01:04:31extreme is done now, the next murder
01:04:34will be at this address. The police stated in response, contrary to what is claimed,
01:04:37the Israel Police is acting decisively and continuously, and indictments have been filed
01:04:41in the ongoing conflict between the neighbors. Since the beginning of the conflict, dozens of investigation
01:04:45files have been opened due to mutual complaints of violence, threats, and violation of
01:04:49court orders. Alongside enforcement actions, station commanders in the district
01:04:52held meetings and conversations with family members, with the aim of responding
01:04:55to their requests and conveying that they must act according to
01:04:57the law.
01:05:00Something else now. Every year it happens: thousands of
01:05:04people disconnect from daily life, flock
01:05:07in convoys to the desert and build a temporary
01:05:10city of colorful exhibits, parties
01:05:13and tents, in the middle of nowhere. It comes to life for one
01:05:17week and disappears as if it never was. Midburn
01:05:202026 is taking place right now, and Itamar Meiri
01:05:24got a rare glimpse into Behind the scenes of an event
01:05:27that most of us don't really know. A report by Roni
01:05:31Efrati. When did you arrive
01:05:34here? In the morning. Six in the morning and the gates
01:05:37open when? Two. Two. Yes. So until
01:05:40then. Until then, buildings here. They pass the
01:05:44time. There are cars here, there are
01:05:47loudspeakers. What's
01:05:49the problem?
01:05:54Early morning at the foot of Har Tzin, as
01:05:57far as possible from any settlement in the country. Soon thousands
01:06:01and wait patiently
01:06:04for the moment when the unique desert city
01:06:08comes to life. Now the gates of the city, the gates of the city,
01:06:11the gates of the city, the craziest city in the world. From the moment
01:06:15you enter, everything that happens from now on is without
01:06:18money. People will dress you, feed you, entertain you,
01:06:22pamper you, take care of you. Everyone in the city
01:06:26wants to give you something. Where do you want to take me?
01:06:30Uh, let's go see the effigy, come on,
01:06:32effigy, you see him trying there at height.
01:06:36The Midburn people, the Burners, are kind
01:06:39and welcoming. They only have one request,
01:06:42don't call their city a festival. Everything you see
01:06:46here, people brought from home. What we call self-reliance,
01:06:50food, water, shelter, refuge, everything
01:06:54you need to survive in the desert. You're basically saying, there's no responsible adult here to take care of you,
01:06:58there's no suggestion box here. Whatever you want to happen,
01:07:01do it. You want something to happen, lead, initiate, take
01:07:05responsibility. Uh, we landed here almost a month ago,
01:07:08three weeks ago. You've been here almost a month and you were home, I was home for a
01:07:12night or two, there's no production I think that can
01:07:15buy with money what volunteers come and give
01:07:19from the passion of their hearts. Midburn is like a kind
01:07:22of alternative reality. Alternative reality. That's important
01:07:26these days, huh? Yes, we live in a complex reality. Here we
01:07:30come at such a moment, we need to be in some alternative reality, even utopian you could
01:07:34say. Iran is the chairman of the
01:07:38Midburn committee on the ground. He is the mayor in every sense
01:07:41of the word. What is needed?
01:07:45I'll tell them, okay, put it down for now, put it down.
01:07:49I was looking for renewal in my life. I'm
01:07:52a former religious person, and I found things here that were very
01:07:56strong for me in that they allowed me to bring out sides of myself that I
01:08:00didn't know. Hi, hello, how are you? Because in normal
01:08:03reality I was more involved in things
01:08:07of life, you know, work, business, such things,
01:08:11family, children. Suddenly here you go back to being a child, you can
01:08:14play, you can be foolish, ancient
01:08:18heart, fatigue after weeks of
01:08:22preparation, you won't see it on their faces, everyone is smiling, excited,
01:08:25like children. I came from the United States specially, I come every year, uh,
01:08:29you came specially from America, I came from America. You were
01:08:33in Burning Man, I was in Burning Man too, yes, we have nothing to be ashamed of, I understand, here
01:08:36there is a magic of people,
01:08:39that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world.
01:08:43We left the city for the Playa. The Playa is basically 800
01:08:46dunams of art gallery. Note,
01:08:50the largest art gallery. Art
01:08:53installations. Pirate ship. They brought their hearts, in the middle of the desert,
01:08:56they do live performances of many
01:08:58artists. Oh, there's a cold
01:09:02apple here. They put apples here with
01:09:05ice packs. You will walk here in the sun,
01:09:09you will be tired and weary, you will look for shade.
01:09:12Knowledge and you will have a cold apple here then, and then they ask
01:09:16you what your sin is. Here it is allowed
01:09:19to eat from the tree of knowledge, I understand here it's even necessary, we all eat from the tree of knowledge
01:09:23actually.
01:09:26We'll see a very special project
01:09:30here now of people who are really not so sane
01:09:32who built a desert in the middle of the desert. What
01:09:36would you most want people to know about Midburn that they don't know, that they
01:09:40think differently? I think they think it's a festival
01:09:43of naked men and women in the desert, and you're the proof that it's
01:09:46not.
01:09:51Bank operations, dream balance check, meaning withdrawal,
01:09:55fear deposit, love transfer, self-worth clarification,
01:09:59it's all nonsense, but nonsense,
01:10:02beautiful nonsense. Soon the police force will gather
01:10:06and declare that as far as they are concerned, the city can be opened
01:10:09to its exiled residents in real life. So hello and welcome
01:10:13to the wisdom of bourekas. Until then, there's time
01:10:17for the movie. The truth is, we're exhausted. Anyone
01:10:20who tells you otherwise is a liar. We've been in the field for four
01:10:24days, we're tired to death, but look
01:10:27at this thing, do you have something like this here on Channel 11? You
01:10:31don't, this is our home, but look how beautiful it is, come see the
01:10:34boulevard, would you find something like this
01:10:37in the desert, sir? You liked it, I just want
01:10:40you to see the most important sign.
01:10:49Dali Shapira, I am the owner and CEO of
01:10:53the studio, I deal with all the operations and logistics,
01:10:56and a mother of three children, and married to this handsome man
01:10:59here, Tali and Yaniv run a studio and a school
01:11:03for goldsmithing in Tel Aviv. A few years ago they discovered the family
01:11:07of Burners and fell in love. We wanted this for many years, a long time,
01:11:10we dreamed, we dreamed about it, we said let's start. So first of all you need to get tickets
01:11:14from somewhere, if you don't have tickets, if you don't volunteer somewhere, you can't
01:11:18get this ticket. We volunteered for the fire team. What is the fire
01:11:21team? They burn the effigy, so we need to protect
01:11:24people from jumping into the fire, and that's how we got
01:11:27into Midburn. For Tal and Yaniv, Midburn has special
01:11:31significance this year. This year we need
01:11:33to make the skin canopy. The skin canopy is a canopy that 24 years ago
01:11:37Tali and I got married, I built her a surprise canopy in the shape of a Star
01:11:41of David, so this year we are making this canopy. We are returning it to people,
01:11:44we announced that we are putting up a canopy, and whoever wants a home and whoever wants to come
01:11:48has a schedule, and there are about 14 couples already registered, everyone
01:11:52is going to do their renewals, their wedding, their commitment,
01:11:55their fun.
01:11:57Shaylee,
01:12:01come help
01:12:02me.
01:12:06Shaylee is the youngest creator at Midburn
01:12:0920-26, and this is going to be your first Midburn. Not sixth,
01:12:13how many sixths? Sixth already. Whoever thinks this is not a place
01:12:16for children, I've been in Midburn since first grade,
01:12:19growing up in Midburn and raising children in Midburn
01:12:23is raising them into a dream. It's not just that you meet
01:12:27a 15-year-old girl who does something uncharacteristic
01:12:31for her age. What, what attracted you to Midburn? It's like a parallel universe.
01:12:34Midburn is like, there's the routine and there's everything and there's
01:12:38the everyday, and then you come to Midburn and it's a magical
01:12:41and beautiful fairyland. That you can, that everything is there and everything there
01:12:44is different. She worked on her installation for many months with
01:12:47her mother and she has an important message to convey through it.
01:12:51The installation is called The Marionette. This installation actually talks about
01:12:55society's desire to control everyone, that everyone dresses the same and talks
01:12:59the same and behaves the same and likes the same things. There are people with
01:13:02differences, and instead of imprisoning them in a cage and putting some
01:13:06kind of label on them, let them blossom and be
01:13:09free.
01:13:13May it go well, may everyone arrive safe and sound,
01:13:16return safe and sound to their homes, and come on, let's have
01:13:20success.
01:13:24We started.
01:13:28A year of anticipation and preparations has come to an end. The thousands
01:13:32who gathered on the dilapidated access road are entering
01:13:35at their own pace through the city gates. How long did it take you to get to the gate? I'm curious
01:13:39two hours, two hours, yes, but
01:13:42that's okay, we always love it and we accept it, everyone is accepted here,
01:13:45but from the moment the city opens, television
01:13:48cameras are received a little less enthusiastically. Camp
01:13:52Baobab, the veteran, kindly agreed to host
01:13:55us on one condition: no nudity here. Ah, that's an
01:13:58important issue, very important, because why?
01:14:02Do they get confused? No, because there
01:14:05are areas, there are areas where they know,
01:14:08for nudity and sexuality, and other places
01:14:11are,
01:14:14this is the king of the desert, you just sit like this, and I take
01:14:18a trip in the Playa, take people on a trip in a wheelchair,
01:14:21and people have no problem.
01:14:29A lawyer for insurance companies in retirement, he's already counting
01:14:3212 years of Midburn. From birth
01:14:35we are educated, always give, because you
01:14:39will receive, even if you give this, give because
01:14:42you will receive, but no, give because
01:14:45you give.
01:14:51Why didn't you want to come? Because I'm completely open.
01:14:55And I don't do drugs at all, so I thought it would be
01:14:58very problematic. I wasn't aware of all the amazing
01:15:02art here and all the amazing people
01:15:05here, and the crazy giving here of people and the good
01:15:09will.
01:15:13This is our first day, but let's see, it's fun so far, they're loving
01:15:17it. I'm with him, he's 10 months old, and with the older one
01:15:20who is three, and she's flying here, she's
01:15:24like already. How many installations, the most interesting
01:15:27installation is the microphone, yes, and the microphone here is amazing, great
01:15:30installation. A moment before the sun disappeared, we met the
01:15:33young artist and her marionette of freedom.
01:15:37There were challenges, we had to dig a pit and we forgot tools, and then
01:15:41we had to lift a bucket of 20 kilos of concrete into the pit
01:15:44into the base. This installation really talks about a style of
01:15:47freedom, about freedom that many people need to know is
01:15:51possible and that it doesn't have to be.
01:15:55To only follow the current. What do you love about the desert? Uh, I
01:15:59love everything, really everything. I loved
01:16:00the camps.
01:16:03I love the installations and the
01:16:05music.
01:16:14When darkness falls, the Playa area turns into a display of lights
01:16:17and colors. An artistic amusement park in the heart
01:16:21of the desert. What a different experience. It's something I've never
01:16:24experienced. Connecting to the atmosphere of togetherness, connecting
01:16:28to loving the world, frames of love.
01:16:32To see it happen, it's incredibly moving. Yesterday
01:16:35I cried, it was a moment when all our musicians went up
01:16:38and played, it was wow. What camp are you from? We
01:16:42are Mofet, Mofet, trade
01:16:44in human beings, we trade in human beings, you can rent human beings for fifteen minutes, half
01:16:48an hour, and where did this idea to trade in human beings come from? This wonderful woman,
01:16:52bathrooms in Koh Phangan, a meeting took place.
01:16:57Are you ready to propose under your chuppah? We
01:17:00are ready.
01:17:03It's so moving, because people feel it, the
01:17:06commitment, the giving, the love, the
01:17:10acceptance. It's some kind of symbol, of love, freedom,
01:17:14home.
01:17:17A one-time city that appears for a week and disappears as if
01:17:21it never was, a place where lawyers, managers, can.
01:17:25Shed the outer layer and be whatever they want, before
01:17:28they return to real life and start the countdown
01:17:32until the desert city comes back to life.
01:17:5016 cyclists were killed this year, four
01:17:53of them on the road. On intercity roads, double
01:17:57the number from last year. One of them is our dear friend Rabbi Mai Itzik
01:18:00Barashi, may his memory be a blessing. How did the healthiest
01:18:04and most environmentally friendly hobby become so deadly? Is
01:18:07there a way to improve the situation? Here's an excerpt from Amir
01:18:10Geer's report that will be broadcast tomorrow on Friday
01:18:13News.
01:18:20First of all, I won't lie, I won't tell you that even with
01:18:24all the hours I ride on the road, it doesn't cross
01:18:28my mind 10 times during a workout. Why did I win
01:18:31this at all? What am I even doing here? It's dangerous, I have three
01:18:35children at home, every time he gets on the road, 10 years are taken from my life, unequivocally,
01:18:38but in the end, this is our sport, and that's part
01:18:42of it. How is the Israeli driver very
01:18:46impatient. Uh, yes, it's
01:18:49hard, it feels like people, people's
01:18:53time is more important than our lives, and that's, that's
01:18:56hard.
01:18:59This is the group that rode on the fateful Saturday, September
01:19:029th, with director Itzik Barashi,
01:19:05our dear friend and colleague at the Broadcasting Corporation.
01:19:09At this station, on Road 44 near the Nesharim
01:19:12interchange, they took their last riding
01:19:15break.
01:19:17It's not easy, you suddenly realize it could have been
01:19:21you, like we feel like I escaped
01:19:24death. We left here, it wasn't four
01:19:27or five minutes, 200 meters,
01:19:30our world was destroyed. That feeling of
01:19:34loss in an instant,
01:19:36that feeling that suddenly someone came
01:19:39and turned off the light.
01:19:46It's here he is not
01:19:5010 meters in the air.
01:19:53I didn't want to see it, I didn't see it, I couldn't
01:19:56see it.
01:20:04It's unbelievable. Bicycle
01:20:07תאונות
01:20:15accidents that end in injury, we don't
01:20:18remember, but the injured continue to bear forever
01:20:22the heavy price.
01:20:23Not
01:20:27easy, uh, not least
01:20:29that this is
01:20:32me. Uh, not
01:20:35warm enough yet, need to bring
01:20:50They were injured just like me, I received rehabilitation, they are still in the process
01:20:53of rehabilitation, and the only thing I can do is
01:20:57go back to the track in order
01:21:00to erase this
01:21:02thing.
01:21:11The Israeli aviation industry is far from full recovery, it
01:21:14is already facing another upheaval. Arkia, the third largest
01:21:18of the Israeli companies, is about to be
01:21:21sold. So who will buy it and how will it affect us,
01:21:24the passengers? Noam Goldberg and Noam with all
01:21:27the details.
01:21:30Yes, Tali, Arkia has been facing quite a few challenges in the past
01:21:34year. On the one hand, dozens of new routes, both to the United States and
01:21:37to the East. It has tripled its market share at Ben Gurion Airport and launched
01:21:41a series of glamorous campaigns, and on the other hand, it has suffered
01:21:44huge losses due to the wars with Iran and also the rising
01:21:48prices of jet fuel. Arkia, which is a private company, is held
01:21:51by the Nakash brothers who also hold the Eilat port. They have been trying
01:21:55for at least two years to put the company up for sale and haven't really
01:21:58succeeded. The employees, on the other hand, are angry about the move, both for fear
01:22:02of dilution of their shares and for fear of layoffs
01:25:29of recommendations at the President's office has ended. Shahar Glick, we're coming
01:25:32back to you with the updates from this hour,
01:25:35Shahar. Yes, Tali, just now
01:25:39the Likud party is finishing its declaration after it
01:25:42recommended to the President of the State.