Day 362 - Israelis shelter as Iran attacks, US vows support
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
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Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz, US bureau chief Jacob Magid and military correspondent Emanuel Fabian join host Jessica Steinberg on today's episode.
Horovitz, Magid and Fabian discuss Tuesday evening's Iranian attack on Israel, as Iran launched 181 missiles at Israel, sending millions of Israelis into sealed rooms and bomb shelters on the eve of the three-day Rosh Hashanah holiday.
Israel's Air Force, along with the US and Jordan, intercepted most of the projectiles, showing close coordination and alliance, said Magid. The US also vowed severe consequences for Iran, stressing the US-Israel coordination, without efforts to hold back Israel.
Fabian updates the latest in the front with Lebanon, including Tuesday's discovery that the IDF has been conducting small raids into Lebanon since last October, with special forces operating for a day or three to four days at a time, uncovering Hezbollah sites and tunnels, weapons depots, thwarting Hezbollah intentions to conduct another kind of October 7 attack.
Fabian comments that now the IDF has an entire division operating in Lebanon for a much larger scale operation but with similar goals, including the army's intention to demolish Hezbollah tunnels.
Horovitz remarks that Iran insisted on portraying the Tuesday night missile attack as a great success. He notes that Israel has changed course dramatically in the last two and a half weeks, beginning with the pager attack not yet officially claimed by Israel, and the elimination of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah and other leadership, all showing a different course by Israel and the expectation that Israel will hit back hard at Iran, with US support.
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Discussed articles include:
Iran fires 181 missiles at Israel; PM: They made a ‘big mistake’ and ‘will pay for it’
Shrapnel from Iranian missile kills Palestinian man near Jericho
US: We will help Israel exact ‘severe consequences’ from Iran for missile attack
Seven people killed in shooting, stabbing terror attack in Jaffa
IDF: Hezbollah was ready to invade en masse after Oct. 7; we covertly raided 1,000 sites
IDF says strike kills head of Hezbollah unit charged with smuggling arms from Iran
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IMAGE: Israelis take cover inside a bomb shelter at Ben Gurion airport as a siren alert is sounded in Tel Aviv, October 1, 2024 (Photo by Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. |
| 0:08.0 | It's Wednesday, October 2nd, and I'm Jessica Steinberg. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm speaking with Times of Israel founding editor David Horowitz, U.S. Bureau Chief Jacob |
| 0:16.9 | Magid, and military correspondent, Emmanuel Fabian. |
| 0:20.2 | Hi to all of you. |
| 0:22.7 | Hey, Jessica. Hey there. Hi. Hey there. We are recording this podcast late Tuesday night |
| 0:27.4 | after the various events of Tuesday evening. As Israel is preparing for the Jewish New Year, |
| 0:33.7 | Iran fired 180 ballistic missiles at Israel, thwarted by Israel's air defense and U.S. |
| 0:40.9 | Naval Destroyers. We'll talk about all of that. That reign of rockets came around the same time as a |
| 0:47.8 | Jaffa terror attack that killed six, as two terrorists shot and stabbed civilians coming off of the Tel Aviv Light Rail before |
| 0:57.7 | they were both shot. We will talk about those headlines and more after a quick break. |
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| 2:12.2 | So Israel was notified by the U.S. of Iran's intention to launch missiles at the country toward the evening |
| 2:20.1 | hours, so a few hours before Iran actually launched the attack at around 7.30 p.m. The Israeli military |
| 2:27.4 | issued guidelines to civilians in many areas of the country, mostly in the center, to remain |
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