Day 528 - What happens to security if the PM fires the Shin Bet head?
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 17 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.
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed on Monday to have twice attacked an American aircraft carrier group within 24 hours, calling it retaliation for deadly US strikes. How is Israel preparing for any retaliation as well?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar for an urgent meeting in his office yesterday evening and informed him that the cabinet would vote for his dismissal later in the week. The role of Shin Bet chief is one of the most important for Israel’s security. Fabian weighs in on how the upcoming dismissal could potentially shake the country’s deterrence or security standing and we hear who may be in the running to replace Bar.
The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday detailed the identities of six Palestinian terror operatives it said were killed in airstrikes in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya on Saturday, including a terrorist who participated in the October 7, 2023, onslaught. According to Palestinian media, the strikes killed nine, including journalists. What is the IDF saying about these allegations?
Israeli soldiers shot dead two suspects who crossed into Israel from Jordan near the northern town of Beit She’an shortly after midnight between Thursday and Friday. The two suspects were part of a group of at least eight who were trying to cross into Israel together. We hear what we know about the group's intentions in entering Israel.
Amid the unrest in Syria, Israeli fighter jets on Thursday struck a residential building that the military said served as a Damascus headquarters for Palestinian Islamic Jihad to plan and carry out terror activities. Fabian delves into the IDF's current approach to nipping Palestinian terror groups in the bud in tumultuous Syria.
The IDF has taken a platoon of reservists out of the Gaza Strip after a video posted to social media showed the troops opening fire during the reading of the Book of Esther. Yesterday, the reservists were sentenced. Does the punishment fit the crime?
Please see today's ongoing liveblog for more updates.
For further reading:
Houthis claim 2 attacks on USS Truman; US strikes said to target seized Israel-linked ship
Air Force on high alert for resumption of Houthi missile, drone attacks on Israel
Netanyahu says he’ll fire Shin Bet chief Bar; AG says he can’t before legal review
IDF: Oct. 7 terrorist and others ‘operating under guise of journalists’ killed in Gaza
IDF troops shoot dead two suspects trying to cross into Israel from Jordan
IDF strikes alleged Islamic Jihad nerve center in Damascus, said to be leader’s house
IDF removes reservists from Gaza over video of them shooting during Purim scroll reading
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IMAGE: Illustrative: Ronen Bar, chief of Israel's domestic Shin Bet security agency, attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool photo via AP)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. |
| 0:06.6 | Today is Monday, March 17th, day 528 of the war. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Mendo Borchelle Dan here with our military reporter Emmanuel Fabian. |
| 0:14.9 | Hi, many. Thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:16.9 | Hi, Amanda. |
| 0:17.5 | Hi. |
| 0:18.3 | All eyes are again on Yemen's Iran-backed, Houthi rebels, who have this morning claimed |
| 0:24.0 | responsibility for a second attack on an American aircraft carrier, the second in 24 hours. |
| 0:31.4 | They're calling it a retaliation for U.S. strikes. |
| 0:34.1 | So we'll hear how Israel is readying for a possible escalation. |
| 0:39.9 | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday his intention to dismiss |
| 0:44.6 | Shinbet chief Ronen Barr, bringing to ahead months of growing disagreements between the two |
| 0:51.9 | men. So, Manny will weigh in on the security side of the |
| 0:56.8 | disagreement and who may be, Barr's replacement. We'll also learn what is happening on the ground |
| 1:03.1 | in the Gaza Strip as airstrikes continue and will check in on Israel's other borders. All this |
| 1:09.5 | and more when we're back. |
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