Day 572 - IDF commanders who sacrificed themselves to save recruits

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🗓️ 30 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.

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode on Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror.

Since February, the IDF has begun releasing a series of probes into the disasters on and leading up to the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre of some 1,200 and 250 hostages taken to Gaza.

Today, we look at the recent reports on the battles at the Zikim IDF base -- notable for the bravery of its commanders in saving their recruits -- and two smaller communities, Nir Yitzhak and Ein Hashlosha.

Despite being vastly outnumbered, Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak’s well-armed civil defense squad fought off dozens of Hamas-led terrorists, largely preventing them from rampaging through the community on October 7.
This is in stark opposition to what happened at Ein Hashlosha, another community in the Gaza Envelope. Fabian fills us in.

Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates.

For further reading:

Commanders battled terrorists, saving 100 rookies at Zikim training base on Oct. 7

Outgunned, outnumbered Ein Hashlosha security team failed to resist Oct. 7 onslaught

Nir Yitzhak security team resisted terrorists on Oct. 7, preventing murderous rampage

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IMAGE: Cpt. Or Moses was killed on the Zikim base on October 7, 2023. (IDF)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing.
0:08.4	Today is Wednesday, April 30th, day 572 of the war.
0:13.8	Amanda Borchelle, Dan here with our military reporter, Emmanuel Fabian, on this Yom-Hazikaron,
0:19.7	Israel's Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terror.
0:24.2	Hi, Manny.
0:24.7	Thank you for joining me today.
0:26.4	Hi, Amanda.
0:27.3	We are going to probe into the IDF reports on the disasters leading up to and on October
0:34.7	7th that led to the killing of 1,200, mostly civilians, and the hostage taking of some 250.
0:43.3	We have done several podcasts on these IDF probes already, so please check out previous episodes.
0:51.3	But today we are going to concentrate on the Zikim IDF base, and we're also going to talk
0:56.9	about two communities in the Gaza envelope, which are near Yitzchak and Aen Hasloshah. So please
1:04.2	join us after the break.
1:18.6	A child, a soldier, a farmer, a grandparent. In Our Those We Have Lost Project, the Times of Israel tells the stories of individuals slain in Hamas's brutal attack on October 7, 2023, with
1:26.0	1,100 individual entries covering almost every single person killed by
1:31.6	Hamas are Those We Have Lost Project paints a picture of each of their lives and the ongoing
1:37.9	ripple effects of their deaths. The Those We Have Lost Project works to ensure that despite the massive scale of the loss, no one is forgotten.
1:47.9	A teacher.
1:48.8	A tourist.
1:49.9	A farmer.
1:50.6	A grandfather.
1:51.4	A soldier.
	...

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