Day 514 - Freed hostage Eli Sharabi is all business with PM
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 3 March 2025
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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.
Zman Yisrael founding editor Biranit Goren joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's Daily Briefing.
Early this morning, a terror attack was carried out in Haifa's bus station, killing one man and injuring four others before the terrorist was neutralized by security forces. Goren discusses some of the known details of the attack, noting that it bore some resemblance to the terror attacks of the second intifada, targeting public transportation and carried out by lone attackers.
Freed hostage Eli Sharabi spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this morning, as he heads to the US to push on the hostage negotiations with US President Donald Trump. Goren notes that Sharabi, despite recently returning from captivity in skeletal condition to hear that his entire family was killed on October 7, appears to be a person of great emotional strength, focused on getting the remaining hostages home and telling the prime minister that in their conversation.
She also discusses the Best Documentary win at the Oscars on Sunday night, when the Palestinian-Israeli film "No Other Land" took home the Academy Award. Goren notes that the film's win wasn't a surprise, and takes Culture Minister Miki Zohar to task for calling the film's win "a sad moment" for the film industry, saying that public funding should be for Israeli films about any subject, regardless of politics.
Please see today's ongoing live blog for more updates.
For further reading:
Man stabbed to death in suspected terror attack at Haifa bus terminal
Netanyahu apologizes to recently released hostage Eli Sharabi: ‘Sorry that it took us so long’
Freed hostage Eli Sharabi to meet Trump this week, brother says
‘No Other Land,’ about Israel razing Palestinian village, wins best documentary Oscar
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing. It's Monday, March 3rd, and I'm Jessica Steinberg. I'm speaking today with Zman |
| 0:16.7 | Israel founding editor, Biranit Goren. Hi, Biranit. Hi, Jessica. It is day 514 of the war. This morning, |
| 0:25.4 | a 70-year-old man was killed in a Haifa terror attack with three others seriously injured and one |
| 0:31.4 | moderately wounded. The terrorist and Israeli citizen was killed on the scene. Meanwhile, in the country's center, |
| 0:39.1 | thousands gathered this morning to pay their respects to slain hostage Izik Elgarat. They accompanied |
| 0:45.4 | his body and held flags as the coffin was driven from the country's center to burial in |
| 0:51.5 | Kibbutz near Oz, where Yitzik Elgarat lived and from where he was taken |
| 0:56.0 | captive on October 7th. We'll also talk about a meeting this morning between recently released |
| 1:01.8 | hostage Eli Sharabi and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Sharabi joins other recently |
| 1:08.0 | released hostages on a trip to Washington, D.C., where they plan to push for the second phase of the hostage deal. |
| 1:16.0 | We'll talk about all of that and some other subjects in just a moment. |
| 1:25.9 | Some moments in history continue to spark debate through the ages, and few are as controversial as the 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel by the Irgun. |
| 1:37.6 | This month, on unpacking Israeli history, host Noam Weissman takes you inside this gripping story. Was it an act of terrorism or a strategic |
| 1:48.1 | move in the fight for Jewish sovereignty? Why did the Irgun target the British headquarters, |
| 1:53.8 | and how did this event change the course of history? Listen to this special two-part series |
| 1:59.5 | on unpacking Israeli history, where, through historical |
| 2:03.5 | context, first-hand accounts, and deep analysis, Noam unpacks the complexities of British |
| 2:09.3 | rule in Mandate Palestine, the Jewish paramilitary response, the political fallout, and the |
| 2:15.1 | lasting debate of the moral and strategic implications of the attack. |
| 2:19.6 | Listen to unpacking Israeli history now, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 2:28.8 | All right, so, Bira, let's start with the Haifa terror attack, which really details are just coming out. |
| 2:40.3 | Now, what are you hearing and what are you thinking? |
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