Day 399 - Knesset tightens coalition after Gallant ousted
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
The Times of Israel
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🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
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.
Political correspondent Sam Sokol and reporter Sue Surkes join host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode.
Sokol discusses this week's surprise dismissal of former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, it's effect on the Likud party and the government coalition as well as the prime minister's continued efforts to appease his ultra-Orthodox coalition partners, regarding the draft evasion bill.
Surkes talks about her visit down south to several Gaza border communities that are trying to rebuild their homes and structures and replace equipment but are hampered by the holdup in compensation funds from the government.
Sokol looks at a series of government bills aimed at fighting terror, including deporting terrorists' relatives, cutting welfare benefits for convicted terrorists and firing teachers who identify with terror.
Surkes talks about climate confab COP29 beginning next week with the Israeli delegation attending under heightened security efforts.
For news updates, please check out The Times of Israel’s ongoing live blog.
Discussed articles include:
Likud clamps down on dissent over Haredi draft bills after Gallant pushed out
In new coalition deal with Likud, Sa’ar relinquishes right to oppose Haredi draft bills
MKs push bill to create new intelligence oversight body under Netanyahu
Despite constitutional concerns, Knesset passes law on deporting terrorists’ relatives
Lawmakers advance bills cutting welfare benefits for convicted terrorists
Knesset passes law allowing government to fire teachers it asserts identify with terror
Buzzed but never drunk: Research shows Oriental hornets defy alcohol’s effects
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IMAGE: A plenum session on the appointment of Israel Katz as Defense Minister and Gideon Sa'ar as Foreign Minister at the assembly hall of the Knesset on November 8, 2024. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing. It is Friday, November 8th, and I'm Jessica |
| 0:10.0 | Steinberg. I'm speaking today with political correspondent Sam Sokol and environmental reporter |
| 0:15.7 | Sue Sierks. Hi to both of you. Morning. Hi there. It is day 399 of the war. |
| 0:23.2 | Israel Defense Forces are readying a rescue mission to Amsterdam, led by the Homefront Command, |
| 0:29.5 | following violent attacks on Israeli sacrophans Thursday night in Amsterdam. |
| 0:34.9 | There are currently 10 injured and two people still missing. This was taking |
| 0:39.6 | place as rocket warning sirens sounded in communities across northern Israel. We'll discuss |
| 0:46.0 | the latest in the Knesset this week with the very unexpected firing of Defense Minister |
| 0:50.8 | Yoav Gallant, the Kharedi ultra-Orthodox Draft Bill, as well as what is |
| 0:56.2 | happening with the rehabilitation of the communities in the South more than a year after the attacks |
| 1:01.8 | of October 7th, and what is happening on Israel's environmental front. Stay with us as we get to |
| 1:08.6 | all those headlines. |
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| 2:07.0 | Okay, Sam, let's start with you. |
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