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🗓️ 27 April 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.
Legal correspondent Jeremy Sharon and environmental reporter Sue Surkes join host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode.
Following Israel's procedural victory at the International Criminal Court, in which the Jewish state argued it could challenge the court's jurisdiction to try Israeli citizens for war crimes, Sharon examines the basis for the jurisdiction reasoning and what it could mean going forward regarding the arrest warrants issued last year for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant.
Sharon also discusses the potential for a constitutional crisis following the allegations made in writing to the High Court by Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar against Netanyahu. Now that Bar has backed up his initial claims with documentation and evidence in his affidavit to the High Court, Sharon says it will be far harder for the court to avoid ruling on the substantive issues of the case, potentially bringing the government and judiciary into direct conflict.
A highly unusual shark attack in which an Israeli man was mauled to death brought visitors to the beach where it happened, reports Surkes, despite police attempts to keep people away. Surkes discusses the environmental changes that have affected shark behavior along the Israeli coast.
Surkes also discusses her visit to the southern city of Ofakim and the neighborhood that was most heavily attacked on October 7, 2023, and how the small city has reacted, with community efforts to draw together in healing and unity.
This conversation can also be viewed here:
Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing live blog for more updates.
For further reading:
ICC Appeals Chamber rules lower court must hear Israel’s challenge to jurisdiction
Bar’s allegations against Netanyahu have raised the risk of a constitutional crisis
Diver missing, feared dead, after rare shark attack off the coast of Hadera
Seasonal fish mortality draws sharks to central beach, alarming bathers
A scarred Ofakim neighborhood grows into a community after October 7
Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves and video edited by Thomas Girsch.
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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.
Legal correspondent Jeremy Sharon and environmental reporter Sue Surkes join host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode.
Following Israel's procedural victory at the International Criminal Court, in which the Jewish state argued it could challenge the court's jurisdiction to try Israeli citizens for war crimes, Sharon examines the basis for the jurisdiction reasoning and what it could mean going forward regarding the arrest warrants issued last year for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant.
Sharon also discusses the potential for a constitutional crisis following the allegations made in writing to the High Court by Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar against Netanyahu. Now that Bar has backed up his initial claims with documentation and evidence in his affidavit to the High Court, Sharon says it will be far harder for the court to avoid ruling on the substantive issues of the case, potentially bringing the government and judiciary into direct conflict.
A highly unusual shark attack in which an Israeli man was mauled to death brought visitors to the beach where it happened, reports Surkes, despite police attempts to keep people away. Surkes discusses the environmental changes that have affected shark behavior along the Israeli coast.
Surkes also discusses her visit to the southern city of Ofakim and the neighborhood that was most heavily attacked on October 7, 2023, and how the small city has reacted, with community efforts to draw together in healing and unity.
This conversation can also be viewed here:
Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing live blog for more updates.
For further reading:
ICC Appeals Chamber rules lower court must hear Israel’s challenge to jurisdiction
Bar’s allegations against Netanyahu have raised the risk of a constitutional crisis
Diver missing, feared dead, after rare shark attack off the coast of Hadera
Seasonal fish mortality draws sharks to central beach, alarming bathers
A scarred Ofakim neighborhood grows into a community after October 7
Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves and video edited by Thomas Girsch.
IMAGE: Israelis on the beach in Hadera on April 26, 2025, where a man was attacked and killed by a shark during Passover (Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
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0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the Times of Visual's Daily Briefing. It is Sunday, April 27th, and I'm Jessica Steinberg. |
0:12.7 | I'm speaking today with legal correspondent Jeremy Sharon and environmental reporter Sue Cirx. |
0:18.2 | Hi to you both. Good morning. Hey, Jessica. Good morning. Hi there. Good morning. |
0:23.3 | It is day 569 of the war. A soldier and a border police officer were killed in Gaza on Friday afternoon |
0:31.3 | as the IDF continues to ramp up their offensive. Meanwhile, at the weekly Saturday night anti-government rally, |
0:40.2 | an action bet she called for a non-violent revolt. And today, the High Court ordered the |
0:46.4 | government to explain the shortfall of conscription orders for Haredi Yeshiva students. |
0:52.3 | We will talk about the latest with the International Criminal Court, the ICC, |
0:57.6 | where there was a procedural victory for Israel, |
1:02.1 | as well as the risk of a constitutional crisis in Israel. |
1:06.5 | Jeremy will take us up to date on that. |
1:09.5 | We'll also look at the very rare shark attack that took |
1:12.4 | place off the coast of Khadera and what life is like in the southern city of Ofakim since October 7th, |
1:19.2 | 2023. That will be with Sue. So stay with us. We'll be back in a moment. |
1:29.2 | This month on Wondering Jews with Mikhail and Noam, |
1:33.3 | award-winning author Dara Horn joins hosts Mikhail Bitton and Noam Weisman |
1:37.8 | to explore one of the most provocative questions in Jewish life today. |
1:42.2 | Has decades of Holocaust education truly helped fight anti-Semitism? |
1:47.9 | Or has it backfired? |
1:49.9 | Together they unpack the unintended consequences of how the Holocaust has been taught, |
1:55.0 | how a story about Jews and anti-Semitism gradually became a universal tale of tolerance, often leaving the |
2:02.1 | specifically Jewish dimension behind. |
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